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…fair enough, missed that

If we start now, we can probably switch the pronunciations of Aristotle and chipotle within a generation.

Chip-ot-el

Is lemmy.world particularly right-wing? It seemed mostly shitty liberal from what I’d noticed, thought admittedly I don’t actually pay much attention to people’s instances

Look at the tiles and imagine the grout lines are an infinite grid of 1 ohm resistors. I wonder what the resistance is between two points a knight’s move apart…dammit I’ve been standing here for hours again

The US Civil War eclipsed both in the number of casualties

I never read the books, so I don’t know, but the cartoon was fantastic

There was a cartoon

Literally the entire rest of the sentence is the problematic part. “We don’t take kindly to you”, it doesn’t matter if they say “y’all”, “you all”, “you people”, “your kind”, take your pick, it’s not the problem with the sentence

Nope, “y’all” is still not the problematic part

Might I ask what sort of drugs?

I’m spitballing, but my guess would be the water crystals damage the fibres, softening them

That’s a very good question, and one that I don’t know the answer to. I would guess no, as the point of the Istari losing their memories was to make them more like the people they were sent to save; itz’s not something about being embodied that made them lose their bodyless memories, it was part of their mission. The balrogs had no such mission

Iirc the books themselves didn’t say, but Tolkien’s letters say something to the effect of the Istari only having vague memories of their time as Maia, with the exception of things that they were explicitly meant to remember, e.g. Olórin’s memories of being sent back after his physical death while fighting Durin’s Bane.

They know that they are, in our parlance, embodied angels or minor gods, but they don’t remember a ton of where they came from

“G’day cunts” goes over either extremely well or extremely poorly, with no in-between

What do you mean backfires?

Pfft, seems perfectly cromulent to me.

Everybody knows Ohio is bad.

Oh, you meant the slang term

While not exactly a bouncer, I like Quassel

If it pays the bills