Thanks, Blaze.
Appreciate. ^^

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I think when they said that, the implication was that there was no need for such. I.e. it interrupted the flow of the story and didn’t add anything useful, other than perhaps pandering to a certain crowd.

Seems kind of weirdly unnecessary to start with “Lemmy” instead of just going with TMBG, but whatevs. Subscribed to John & John.

Umm… whoah

Insulation and decoration.

Pardon the late reply, but what would the walls themselves be made of? They almost look like layered cardboard there. Or maybe sheet metal.

Love you @Rolando@lemmy.world, but I spazzed out recently after a full year of pressing too hard for a ‘post per day,’ and I feel like I dishonored everyone here when I melted down recently. (I’m super-embarrassed)

So I appreciate the mention, but regardless of how I embarrassed the community, I can’t aim for one scholarly post per day, anymore. I just can’t. Sorry about that, matey.

Now I do plan to keep on posting as the mood seeks me, but I just CAN’T keep the community popular like this, all on my own. Even just a little bit of help would go far.

Ugh, sorry for all the bitching and moaning. :S

A couple of the big comics communities also churn out a good chunk of content every day… if you like comics. “ArtPorn” and “SuperbOwl” also come to mind. I recommend you keep searching @Lanusensei87@lemmy.world, because you may find some great content sources that you weren’t previously thinking about.

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Late reply, but in English media articles, it’s still fairly common for me to see references to what people said on Reddit. AFAIK there are also still entertainment sites (“Caveman Circus” being one) that still regularly harvest expert or semi-expert takes found on Reddit in order to construct ‘best of’ articles.

Though-- perhaps that activity is down somewhat, as you suggest.

Standing at the evolutionary intersection of humans and great apes, Homo naledi was not thought to be capable of such complex acts of cognition.

There may be insufficient evidence at this time for these particular peoples, but the possibility at least for funerary practices doesn’t seem outlandish.

For example, this branch of Homo existed around the same time anatomically-modern humans first came in to their own, and evidently had brains structured the way ours are, albeit smaller in size. They’re also much, much too recent to be described as an “intersection of humans and great apes.” Rather, they were a parallel type of human and *also* part of the set of great apes, which includes modern humans, of course.

SOURCE: Just a layperson!

Unfortunately for us fans, it looks like Callery Kearns may have retired. Maybe you know something more?

The only influence German has now is the odd loanword, like Weltschmerz and Schadenfreude.

Hahahahaha! XD

Good luck, bro. (you’re gonna NEED it)

These are really well done for the most part. Very light-hearted, but rather devious: (Just for Laughs Gags)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyGz1AYQMhM&list=PLEB4EBCDDCF605225

I’d be interested in learning, because German is the biggest contributor to modern English along with French. Of course the split happened long, long ago, but still…

It would have to be a couple years though, after I (knock on wood) am done getting to about B2/C1 on French.

Good points. I remember that one can buy powdered tomato and a whole bunch of other useful powdered items on Amazon, etc. One can also buy that certain seasoning that makes movie-theatre popcorn taste so good.

chicken powder separately

Unfortunately, the ones around here aren’t all that great. Going by a ramen packet right now, it looks like this “Maruchan” version probably has more spices and dehydrated veggies than the straight chicken powder. Also, methinks the OXO cubes would be pretty hard to sprinkle over popcorn(!)

That said, there’s all kinds of great popcorn toppings (store bought and homemade), so I don’t suspect it’s a big problem.

No no…we had it fixed for centuries

I really don’t understand you there.

No, in fact the very founding of the USA was arguably done primarily so that the ruling class could disregard the respectful boundaries that the English imposed to avoid strife with Native Americans and other colonial powers, which incidentally tended to curb our exploiting the land willy-nilly as we’ve shamelessly done since. It also locked out women and slave voters, preserving a classist system.

Since then there’s been various periods of little / negligible useful social policies, as well as periods in which the ultra-wealthy and common capitalists were UNCHECKED in their ability to thoroughly exploit people and form monopolies, etc etc. Seriously, if the Roosevelts hadn’t come along, those things might have progressed scarily unchecked.

So, no-- I certainly don’t see evidence that our form of democracy was ‘fixed for centuries.’ No, the fact is it’s been a shaky, wild, perilous ride from the day one.

…the 1964 presidential campaign, as that’s the markings of the first ever attack ad.

Maybe in terms of TV, but TV is just a natural extension of media, and media in the States has been used since… at least the early 1800’s? to completely slag-off or outright attack enemy candidates. Indeed, it’s been a perfect blood-bath of disinformation at times, which doesn’t even address all the nasty, vile tricks used to disenfranchise, or outright turn away undesirable voters at the polls. Which yes-- includes outright violence against undesirable voters across centuries in the States.

So, yeah… that all happened.

Altho I DO agree with you that somewhere between 50-70yrs back, the USA has been outright under attack by right-wingers, paving the way for fascism. Basically attacking most of the progress made under FDR and even Republican presidents like Ike.

Plus, guys at this level / age / injury history rarely seem able to acknowledge that they’re not worth what they once were, and that it could be a really bad idea for a team to overpay them. No doubt part of that involves their agents spurring them on.

The reason the Sixers did it is mainly because they’re getting desperate to make a good run with Embiid.

@Phegan@Phegan@lemmy.world

Bullshit, “good sir.”

Trump was the #1 client on Epstein’s list, correct me if I’m wrong.

You can be “sick of old men” all you like OP, but are you “sick of democracy, eager to embrace dictatorship?”

So what was inside besides lettuce?

I make these wraps sometimes, but I’ll have to try a version with salad mix, and without noodles.