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im curious about peoples usage of drafts. i have 29 rn and that feels like a lot but...
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whoever bought the domain spidersge.org and had it go to a simple html page with nothing except the text of the famous spiders georg post:
Thank you. You are doing good work. Hope you have a wonderful day
This is why you see so many many many "we can't vote our way out of this" posts online. They know that sentiment will depress turnout. Turnout that will get the people paying them kicked out of power.
Vote
Hungarian voters were smart on an individual level, throwing their support behind Magyar over how they might have traditionally voted, but there was an institutional element to it as well: it took most of the other parties dropping out of contention in order to clear the decks and avoid vote-splitting, which was a brave and principled thing for them to do.
To put this in American terms: They teamed up to elect Mitt Romney to defeat Donald Trump, something our left would never do.
We couldn't get people to team up to elect Harris, who was better than Romney would have been.
The problem isn't "the left" but the centrists.
It wasn't the centrists screaming "Holocaust Harris" at the anti-Trump candidate. Particularly galling, as Harris "earned" this epithet for the crime of not endorsing the mass murder of Jews.
Kamala Harris was the single most left-wing candidate ever ran by a major party. No exceptions. The American strasserite movement ratfucked her without hesitation or restraint.
Speaking as a Leftist; we can't fix our problems if we refuse to recognize what they are.
leftists love nothing more than adopting KKK rhetoric. horseshoe continues to be a circle.
adding this:
replace the word “Israel” here with “Jews” and it is precisely how Jew hatred functions, how it has always functioned, and how it has fueled itself for centuries of destruction and death.
blaming everything on Israel is not about “criticism,” this is classic antisemitism.
unsurprisingly, look who’s joined in on this:
Not only is all this stuff painfully obvious Judenhass. But, as a Spaniard, it is also deeply frustrating to see what has happened be used as a weapon in this international ordeal. Because it exonerates the ratfuck who sits in the Moroccan throne and his corrupt billionaire prime minister from being the true culprits of what has happened in Ceuta.
Morocco is an antidemocratic regime currently and illegally occupying a chunk of land the size of New fuckin Zealand. And every time they don't get what they want from Spain (anything from who gets to host the next world cup final, to us having commercial deals with Algeria) they orchestra migrant avalanches to destabilize us.
They weaponize the desperation of tens of thousands migrants from all over Africa to hassle my homeland into accepting whatever this week's greedy or invasive plan is. The international community should be talking about Rabat the way they talk about Moscow, but instead all that matters is finding an angle that lets you call Jews slurs.
¡ARRIBA ESPAÑA Y SAHARA LIBRE, COJONES!
Left-wing antisemites embracing fucking replacement theory – the most horrifically racist, anti-progressive conspiracy theory out there – in their eagerness to find things to blame the Jews Israel for, is... actually, it is mind-boggling, even for a jaded cynicist.
It's also dishearteningly lazy and ignorant.
Massively simplified, Morocco and Algeria are rivals for control of Western Sahara, which used to be a Spanish colony (look it up).
Also simplified, Morocco has a long habit of using migration as a coercive tactic against Spain, made possible because Spain has enclaves in Northern Africa with land borders to Morocco, Ceuta and Melilla, here's a map:
Map showing the locations of Ceuta and Melilla relative to Morocco and Spain, source: Encyclopedia Britannica
Many analysts believe this weekend's Ceuta crisis was a Moroccan retaliation for the Spanish Prime Minister meeting with Algeria's head of state, which Morocco fears signals a Spanish normalisation of relations with Algeria, something Morocco isn't happy about (for clarity: when I say "Morocco," I mean the authoritarian monarchy ruling Morocco, also something to look up).
Anyway, just as in the 2021 Ceuta crisis (yet another thing you can look up), Morocco has immediately agreed to readmit the migrants who crossed into Ceuta. To anyone familiar with how difficult it normally is for EU countries to repatriate Moroccan citizens, that speaks for itself.
So why, why do you have to reach for the mother of all racist conspiracy theories, when just a little basic awareness of the regional politics gives you so many more plausible explanations?
Is it just because it's also antisemitic?
idk if this is an usamerican thing or not but it always blows my mind as a small european country resident that yall have many names and types of apples???? what do you mean its not just red yellow or green??? why is it so complicated??? who is granny smith????
'whats your favorite apple' 'red' 'no i mean like what type' '??????' actual conversatiom i've had with a mutual from usa
THIRTY TWO??????
Listen that doesn’t even account for all the weird shit local farmers are getting up to.
May I present the best apple:
the world is so big and beautiful
@wordfather I'm happy to tell you there are HUNDREDS of apple cultivars, actually. Some are extremely local, others are now called "heritage" cultivars (meaning they fell out of demand and are now only grown by individuals or as preservation), and some are nationwide, like Gala and Granny Smith. If memory serves me, we even still have daughter trees from an apple tree planted by Thomas Jefferson. Rather hilariously everyone who tries to eat its fruit goes "EW this is awful!!! They ATE this?!" and has to be told that no, apples in Jefferson's time were actually mostly grown for hard cider. Jefferson's cultivar is optimized for getting drunk.
Which brings me to why we have so many: they're good for different things. Granny Smith is often considered "the apple pie apple" because it's hard and tart, so it holds up to the oven and also doesn't quickly turn into sweet-on-sweet-on-sweet. Galas are widely considered "eating apples" now (means they're the ones you just grab off the counter and eat, rather than preparing them), but when I was a kid, McIntosh held that crown and I'm kind of sad they've gone out of fashion. Golden Delicious are notorious for being awful to cook with because they're too soft and fall apart quickly. I guess if you were doing something that doesn't need structural integrity they'd be okay, but they're also kind of bland.
Red Delicious used to be very good, when I was a kid. They were "the lunchbox apple." Unfortunately over the last 20 years growers have selected for redder and redder and redder and forgotten the delicious part, and what we've ended up with is insanely red and...not much else. Tasteless. Kind of mealy. Red Delicious tastes like when you finally get to go outside after school or work and it turns out the weather looks beautiful but feels sucky. You finally get your teeth through that stupidly thick skin and are greeted by the day after your birthday. If Red Delicious was a person its personality would be The Stanley Parable. It minmaxed its entire identity with max on RED and min on literally everything else. They are offensive simply by virtue of how inoffensive they are. They are an apple designed by committee. If I was the president of the United States and I wanted to tell another world leader I hated their guts without starting an international incident I would have them for dinner with an apple-heavy menu that used only Red Delicious. Capitalism ruined a perfectly good apple.
And finally, I would like to share with you a classic Pennsylvania dessert, which I am aware sounds utterly bizarre but it's actually really good: baked apples and cheddar cheese.
(People in the notes are probably going to be like "this would be better with XYZ cheese" and they're probably right. Applewood-smoked Gouda and apples is amazing. But that's not the classic version.)
Take your apple and put it with the stem facing up and the blossom end facing down and take the stem out. Cut it in slices about half as thick as your finger. You can core it first if you want to be fancy, but I always just trim the little seed bits out of the rounds after I've cut them.
Lay these on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Sprinkle some cinnamon and brown sugar. (If you don't have brown sugar in your country, which is a devastating turn of events I've heard does happen, white sugar will do. It's just not as good.) Lay a slice of cheddar over each apple round.
Now if you were in the US I'd say "bake at 350 for six to eight minutes or until the cheese is melted but not brown," but you are not in the US. DuckDuckGo tells me this is about 175 for you.
Wait a minute or two so you don't burn yourself on melted cheese. Nom.
I'm also a small European country resident (Sweden) and I'm confused by OP's assumption that this obsession with apples is unique to the US.
Sweden has somewhere around 300 apple varieties, although only maybe 30 of them are commonly grown. Most people I know have *very* strong opinions about which type is the best for which purpose (or just which type is superior, period). We share the fascination as well as many of the varieties with Denmark and Norway.
But our apples don't always store well, and our growing season is short, so many of them are only available in stores part of the year. Grocery stores also have the standard imported varieties, like Granny Smith, Golden and Red Delicious and Royal Gala. They're not the ones people here wax poetic about, though.
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I suspect this was meant as a visual pun because this server is rated for 733 watts, almost exactly one metric horsepower
if it wasn’t for some kind of brain disease, we would all have forgotten this punchline. everyone say thank you some kind of brain disease
Every time Sean Astin makes a statement on whether or not Sam and Frodo were indeed gay for each other in lord of the rings he’s always like “well we have to acknowledge that attitudes around sexuality have changed dramatically over the past several decades and since authorial intent is only up to speculation, the story is open to multiple readings, some of which might have different significances for different groups of people also they kiss on the lips because I said so”
at the rose city comic con panel this month a fan asked them (sean and elijah) if sam and frodo were in love and they said
Sean: .....yes. absolutely
Elijah: 100 percent.
Sean: dont tell rosie
Rosie: "This is my husband Sam, and that's his husband, Frodo. Frodo is my husband-in-law. I'm not into him, he's he's a bit too 'elfy' for my taste, but Sam likes him, and that's fine with me. As far as I know, Frodo can't give Sam children, but Frodo looks after ours all the same, so I don't mind sharing Sam if it means another pair of eyes on the wee ones. In all honesty, our family tree is right simple compared to some hobbits. Yes, I'm referrin' to you Lobelia, over there pretendin' you ain't eavesdroppin'. Still bitter you ain't got either of my boys or their house, eh?"
Tbh it's canon that Frodo invited Sam and Rosie to move in to Bag End after their wedding and they all lived there for a couple of years until Frodo went to Valinor, so yeah. Running with it.
And once Rosie dies, Sam says his goodbyes and disappears after him.
what’s funny is people assuming that rosie would somehow be too dim or naive to KNOW that sam loved frodo, instead of looking at a guy who would loyally follow a beloved friend to hell and then help carry him home again, and not be like ‘oh i can’t not fuck that.’
Polyamory, specifically polyandry, would be an interesting solution to the oddball population of the Shire.
The Shire is excellent farming country, with consistently good weather, and only one tough winter in living memory; hobbits like to produce large families; they’re resistant to disease, rarely violent, and encounter few dangers. It is usual for hobbits to produce many children, so that (for example) Bilbo and Frodo are unusual in both being only children, with no siblings, and not having children of their own. All of this should point to a population that increases every generation if not doubling outright. Young people (and their ideologies!) should rapidly outnumber the old with an ever-increasing effect and impact on society. However, the Shire has a surprisingly stable history; it never seems to increase or decrease greatly in population, and the bell curve of age seems… demographically balanced? There certainly isn’t a conflict from rising young bloods challenging the middle-aged reactionaries; there’s no unemployment; there are no housing crises or waves of emigration, or even a tendency for young people leaving home to marry. Meanwhile, not only does the Shire not suffer from internal pressures, but it remains obscure and hardly noticed in global politics.
What makes sense here is that adult hobbits form a loose group. Four parents in a polycule, between them all, may produce four children. All four parents claim to have four children. An outsider would assume this meant the adults had eight children.
Hobbits therefore are not especially fertile or fecund. They simply have large families. Much of their interest in genealogy is due to the complex relationships of blood-kin, hearth-kin, love-kin and pledge-kin, who must all be carefully tracked and measured - not just because you need to make sure that you don’t climb into bed with an un-permitted degree of blood-kin, but to track family alliances and carefully quantify the precise level of thoughtfulness to put into the proper present to gift your father’s lover’s lover (too much implies a degree of intimacy that might upset the polycule.)
Thus, while a hobbit matron may tell a startled dwarf that she has seven sons, she might only have borne five of them herself, and have one hearth-son by her wife, and a pledge-son of her first husband’s. There are between three and four fathers involved at various stages of production, from conception to pledge-duty, but there is debate about the precise number of fathers, as one child was festival-conceived and therefore provisionally pledged to the Brandybucks until more distinctive paternal traits should materialise. It’s expected that four of the sons will be uninterested in women, and their contribution to family life will be in raising hearth-children and pledge-duty. However, this level of detail is normally negotiated later in conversation, as a mutual overture of friendship. So she’s just clear and simple: yes, certainly, she has seven sons. Yes, they’re all hers. Yes, that’s fairly normal - yes, hobbits like big families. How big? That’s really hard to say! Well, about thirteen hobbits live in her house… er, she has forty-three nieces and nephews. Yes! She has nine siblings, that’s correct, but some of them are still babies themselves..
In this way, a bewildered dwarf might assume that hobbits are absurdly fertile, producing an average of seven children per couple, at an absurd pace.
When in fact, with about half of hobbits never bearing biological children, the population of hobbits is pretty much always the same.
Tl:dr, hobbit population works perfectly well, both internally and in the perceptions of outsiders, if the majority of the Shire is gay, they’re all polyamorous, and they all firmly claim to be parents of high numbers of children. Of course Frodo fathered Sam’s kids - he named them! They were pledge-kin but not hearth-kin, as Frodo needed a lot of quiet and stability in the home.
No outsider ever parses hobbit genealogy well enough to understand this except for Gandalf, who never explains anything either.
are you kidding? Gandalf would WEAPONIZE his knowledge of Hobbit genealogy against outsiders
Since “pledge” kinships are multidimensional and can occur in different directions, hobbits can form - and formalise - family bonds simply because they choose to. Gandalf doesn’t tell anyone that the formation of Thorin’s Company, the Fellowship of the Ring, and Belladonna Took’s Accidental Troop of Mercenaries* are legal formations of pledge-siblings, a hobbit family structure usually claimed to increase social class and prestige (as high numbers of pledge-kin confer distinction on a hobbit, being a sort of popularity vote/endorsement that adds greatly to their social power. Incidentally, this is partly why Bilbo was both controversial and successful in his pledge-claim of Frodo; outsiders mistook his “bachelor” status as someone living outside of heteronormativity, while the Shire was bewildered and increasingly annoyed by his rejection of pledge and hearth commitments. By rights Bilbo had too few pledge-kin, and too little parenting experience, to claim rights to an orphan, especially one from Brandybuck hearth; but conversely, his social status was high enough that his belated bid for his very first pledge-son couldn’t reasonably be denied by anybody.)
In short, all of the hobbits enjoyed achieving even larger families on their adventures, legally and without argument or debate. It’s free real estate. If nobody else is going to sibling these losers, we will. (The condensation of so many entanglements at once also legally made Pippin his own father-in-law.)
Gandalf never explained.
* see the post about the Old Took’s “enchanted diamond cufflinks” that obeyed the wearer’s commands; which were probably, given the general state of things, two lost silmarils recovered by his Remarkable Daughters and gifted to him because things stay small and safe in the shire
@elodieunderglass wouldn't that make pippin both denethor's pledge-son-in-law, and (as pledge-brother to the king) probably outrank him?
Only through Boromir while Boromir was alive! Pippin’s familial claim through Boromir technically dissolved on Boromir’s death, as Denethor hadn’t been privy to it, and those bonds rarely stretch to a stranger when the person in the middle has died before introducing them; although Pippin, who was well-brought-up, perfectly and politely rectified the problem at once by simply swearing himself as Denethor’s pledge-son. but through his blood-cousinship to Frodo, who was older than Boromir, his status as the Took double-primarc (don’t ask) and the proximity-enhanced status-doubling effects of having a five-way cousin in Merry, Pippin was demonstrably higher status as a pledge-sibling and was also his own father-in-law and approved of himself. As such, he would have significantly raised Boromir’s social status and marital prospects in the Shire.
Inheritance follows parent-child pledge as the primary consideration, with matrilineal descent as the secondary. Pippin would have been bewildered to gradually understand that Denethor held his two sons in such odd and different standing :-/ hobbits don’t recognise kingship so it would’ve been very upsetting and disappointing to Pippin to understand how Denethor stood in position of sworn-father to a whole city of people without even being slightly fair to his younger hearth-son. Aragorn is demonstrably much better dad-material and therefore had Pippin’s vote. Pippin, by virtue of being an excellent father-in-law to a spectacularly promising young son-in-law, also considered himself a better candidate for king of Gondor than Denethor, by outranking him in Dad Competence - but was too busy by the time he realized this to point this out .
Ironically, the events in which Pippin realized this made Faramir his own hearth-son - so Pippin won in the end and took a great interest in ceremonially approving of Eowyn. Gandalf never explained
I will buy that for a dollar, yup.
It crossed my dash again! The Hobbit Polyamory Post!
Midsummer Greetings from Sweden, slightly belatedly (Midsummer's Eve was yesterday).
Besides dancing, there's also eating and drinking with friends and fam.
Midsummer Greetings from Sweden, slightly belatedly (Midsummer's Eve was yesterday).
Besides dancing, there's also eating and drinking with friends and fam.
Do other countries not tailgate? I mean I know pickup trucks aren't a thing everywhere, but they're not a necessity, even if you'd think you need a tailgate to actually tailgate. Ya don't. Just brews and brats and buds.
Off the back of a quick search: The Foxborough stadium there and the largest stadium in Scotland, Celtic Park, have about the same seating capacity, about 65,000.
The Foxborough stadium normally has 20,000 parking spaces.
Celtic Park has 800, with another 600 nearby.
You might not need tailgates, but you do need to be parking there.
I forgot, somehow, how much of America is paved (and mostly empty most of the time), especially near stadiums. Thanks for doing the research!
How on earth do they fill Celtic Park, then?? Shuttle buses?
I'd guess regular public transit buses or train. There's several bus routes and a subway line, since Celtic Stadium is inside Glasgow.
Boston Stadium in Foxborough seems to be far outside Boston, and only serviced by private shuttle bus.
I suppose tailgating isn't a thing where you don't need to drive to the arena, and can more easily hang out at a pub or a sports bar and then just hop on the bus.
things english speakers know, but don’t know we know.
WOAH WHAT?
That is profound. I noticed this by accident when asked about adjectives by a Japanese student. She translated something from Japanese like “Brown big cat” and I corrected her. When she asked me why, I bluescreened.
What the fuck, English isn’t even my first language and yet I picked up on that. How the fuck. What the fuck.
Reasoning: It Just Sounds Right
Oooh, don’t like that. Nope, I do not even like that a little bit. That’s parting the veil and looking at some forbidden fucking knowledge there.
How did I even learn this language wtf
I had to read “brown big cat” like three times before my brain stopped interpreting it as “big brown cat”
I’m kinda reading “brown big cat” as “brown (big cat)”, that is, a “big cat” - like a tiger or lion or other felid of similar size - that happens to be brown. “Big brown cat”, on the other hand, sounds more like a brown cat that’s just a bit bigger than a regular housecat - like a bobcat or a maine coon cat or something like that.
yeah, a brown big cat is almost certainly a puma. a big brown cat is probably a maine coon.
yeah, if you put the adjectives out of order you wind up implying a compound noun, which is presumably why we have this rule; we stripped out so much inflection over the centuries word order now dictates a huge amount of our grammar
Just looked up why we do this and one of the first lines in this article is, “Adjectives are where the elves of language both cheat and illumine reality.” so I know it’s a good article.
Things this article has taught me:
This same order of adjectives more or less applies to languages around the world. “It’s possible that these elements of universal grammar clarify our thought in some way,” says Barbara Partee, a professor emeritus of linguistics and philosophy at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Yet when the human race tacitly decided that shape words go before color words go before origin words, it left no record of its rationale.
One theory is that the more specific term always falls closer to the noun. But that doesn’t explain everything in adjective order.
Another theory is that as you get closer to the noun, you encounter adjectives that denote more innate properties. In general, nouns pick out the type of thing we’re talking about, and adjectives describe it,” Partee told me. She observes that the modifiers most likely to sit right next to nouns are the ones most inclined to serve as nouns in different contexts: Rubber duck. Stone wall.
Rules are made to be broken. Switching up the order of adjectives allows you to redistribute emphasis. (If you wish to buy the black small purse, not the gray one, for instance, you can communicate your priorities by placing color before size). Scrambling the order of adjectives also helps authors achieve a sense of spontaneity, of improvising as they go. Wolfe discovers such a rhythm, a feeling-his-way quality, when he discusses his childhood recollection of “brown tired autumn earth” and a “flat moist plug of apple tobacco.”
Brain scans have discovered that your brain has to work harder to read adjectives in the “wrong” order.
TL;DR: No one knows why we do this adjective thing but it’s pretty hardwired in.
@deadcatwithaflamethrower Linguistics tidbit.
Since it’s never credited, this is from Mark Forsyth’s The Elements of Eloquence, and just one reason why I think it’s required reading for anyone interested in prosecraft. Every page is this useful.
Every year he forgot
The entire Discworld fandom on the 25th of May.
you have this superpower! BUT you have this side-effect
is it worth it?
yes!!
the side effect is bad but ITS WORTH IT
meh it's okay
the side effect makes it unusable/not worth it
Results/option I didn't think of
Angels, demons and everything in between. 😇😈
New official Good Omens 3 photos just dropped
I have feelings about #6, and thoughts about #9 and #10 (card games have a special meaning in Good Omens). Also, new faces in #4 and #7?
