huf [he/him]

Ansar Allah: stop the genocide
US: i cant heeeeear you
Ansar Allah: stop the genocide!
US: louder!
Ansar Allah: stop the genocide you monster!
US: do you want me to eat this cake? yes?
Ansar Allah: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

having a job improved my mental health compared to not having one and worrying about money.

well, yes, none of the dnd setting people think like medieval people at all.

but i take exception to this idiocy:

fundamentally incompatible with the European fantasy typified by Lord of the Rings, in which no fellowship can alter the fact that Sam is by birth a servant, Frodo a gentleman, Strider a king, and Gandalf a wizard.

has this person read the lord of the rings? sam becomes a land-owning gentleman at the end of the novel. he actually makes it out of his class.

to be fair, he’s the only one in the entire god damned book. there arent even many speaking roles for named commoners in there. sam, the gaffer, ted sandyman, farmer maggot, butterbur, gamling, ioreth. that’s about it. the vast majority of these are in the shire portions of the book.

edit: i forgot beregond and his son! but he may be a minor noble who has lost their land but kept the memory, or he may be a commoner of ithilien of numenorean descent. i dunno.

i’d say both.

i’ve had factory printed DVDs die while stored at room temperature in the dark (case). they just developed holes.

how did these people not know that hard drives die??? CDs die. DVDs die. the only way to keep your data is to copy it periodically, and this has always been true.

ffs, fucking DNA survives because life keeps copying it all the time.

i’ve always wondered how much this english court ruling influenced the founding fathers of the US to rebel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_v_Stewart

a lot, apparently. this article’s been expanded since i last looked at it, lol.

oh yeah, the brits just signed those treaties as a temporary measure while they did other stuff, they would’ve come back eventually, kicked the treaties over and taken the land.

but the US elite couldnt wait that long. they wanted the land NOW.

didnt the nascent US elite already have the “west” (beyond the 13 colonies) carved up for real estate speculation even before the revolution broke out?

so, uh. it must die or die? that’s the choice?

people above 60 and people below 59.

only that one year should you be allowed to use social media.

and that vision is … more austerity? more collapse for the poor and more champaign for the rich? fucking AI?

yes, that part is for cooking

i assure you, we who grew up with celsius absolutely know the dire difference between 38 and 43. 38 is death, 43 is the crimson realms where even souls wither.

all this “which one is better for x” is nonsense, you develop a feel for whichever you grew up with. it’s just that the math is less stupid with metric. that’s all.

Chinese In Africa

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C I A

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OH NO!

i dont understand why it’s a problem when another nation helps to get one or the other of the two excellent american candidates elected.

they’re not trying to elect a foreigner after all.

by that logic, everything is fine, Xi speaks english so china is subordinate to the US. why’s the US panicking?

they were basically right, no? the US barely got scratched in ww2 and emerged as the world power. if anything, the nazis were good for the US.

standard spellings will always privilege one dialect over the others. usually the dialect of the ruling elite.

the only way out of this is to not reform the spelling. letting it rot will eventually get you to something like english spelling, which is often so far from the pronunciation that it’s just equally bad for everyone. and STILL standard english spelling privileges the prestige dialects, just not as much as a more recent, more phonetic orthography.

from some other article on this:

“Britain’s chief rabbi criticised the government’s decision to suspend some arms export licences to Israel […] He said the move would bolster unfounded claims that Israel was in breach of international humanitarian law.”

uhhhhh?