Enkrod
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- Comment on Anon learns about astronomy 1 day ago:
You’re from the US?
- Comment on Anon learns about astronomy 1 day ago:
Yeah, no bad writer, great writing. I never realized how immensely quotable and eloquent short excerpts of his works are, until I looked up those specific quotes.
If the sculptured maps and pictures in that pre-human city had told truly, these cryptic violet mountains could not be much less than 300 miles away; yet none the less sharply did their dim elfin essence jut above that remote and snowy rim, like the serrated edge of a monstrous alien planet about to rise into unaccustomed heavens. Their height, then, must have been tremendous beyond all known comparison—carrying them up into tenuous atmospheric strata peopled by such gaseous wraiths as rash flyers have barely lived to whisper of after unexplainable falls. Looking at them, I thought nervously of certain sculptured hints of what the great bygone river had washed down into the city from their accursed slopes—and wondered how much sense and how much folly had lain in the fears of those Old Ones who carved them so reticently.
The language is just… sublime, his vocabulary is such a vast vessel that I - as a non-native speaker - am happy enough to understand when read but will likely never be able to command myself.
- Comment on Anon learns about astronomy 2 days ago:
If you look at Polaris
still the Pole Star leers down from the same place in the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey. Sometimes, when it is cloudy, I can sleep.
you might see The Colour Out of Space,
The colour, […] was almost impossible to describe; and it was only by analogy that they called it colour at all.
and hear The Music of Erich Zann.
Louder and louder, wilder and wilder, mounted the shrieking and whining of that desperate viol. The player was dripping with an uncanny perspiration and twisted like a monkey, always looking frantically at the curtained window. In his frenzied strains I could almost see shadowy satyrs and Bacchanals dancing and whirling insanely through seething abysses of clouds and smoke and lightning. And then I thought I heard a shriller, steadier note that was not from the viol; a calm, deliberate, purposeful, mocking note from far away in the west.
- Comment on Just Two Of The UK's Planned Al Datacenters Will Emit More Carbon Than ExxonMobil 6 days ago:
Ahh, the wonders of
✨🎶Capitalism🎶✨
- Comment on Bunnies are metal 2 weeks ago:
Parasite avoidance is a factor, but mostly in the inhibition of cannibalism.
Cats are far from apex predators. They are prey to birds of prey, canids and even bigger mustellids like badgers and wolverines. But birds, like the eurasian eagle-owl and canids like coyotes are their main concern.
And we can clearly see the prey behavior deeply ingrained in our very cautious, flighty friends.
- Comment on German joke 3 weeks ago:
It’s a thing with germans, not a german thing.
- Comment on German joke 3 weeks ago:
Yes! That’s a WAY better example than Otto.
- Comment on German joke 3 weeks ago:
German humor is super self-deprecating. I think it’s more that we don’t need german peculiarities explained to us. We know we’re weird already.
- Comment on German joke 3 weeks ago:
Not that it makes sense in German XD
- Comment on German joke 3 weeks ago:
Hohoho… somebody wants to start a new war. Never ever insult german bread.
- Comment on German joke 3 weeks ago:
Tintin, Lucky Luke and Spirou et Fantasio will always remain some of my favorite funny comics.
Only Asterix is better.For non-funny comics though, everything Alan Moore reigns supreme.
- Comment on German joke 3 weeks ago:
That’s a common occurrence and since “you don’t explain jokes” sometimes in a group one person says something, one other person starts laughing uncontrollably and all the others just look on confused and will never get an explanation. It’s often a test of who pays attention, who you are on the same wavelength with and who has the wit to register the joke.
People getting each others jokes, while others don’t, is quite often the basis for lifelong friendships.
- Comment on German joke 3 weeks ago:
No, it’s perfect self-deprecating german humor. I love this silly joke.
- Comment on German joke 3 weeks ago:
Honestly I very much enjoy German humor, but I do understand why people don’t always get it, because it comes in two distinct styles with (imho) vastly different qualities:
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Just plain silly (see: Otto Waalkes), can be good but it is often with such a heavy handed punchline that it just doesn’t feel funny anymore. This is the only time people recognize that a German tried to be funny and it often lands flat for people with a more refined sense of humor.
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Irony and sarcasm, dark and extremely, extremely, sometimes unbearably dry. People who did not grow up with it will often not recognize that a joke has been made at all, because Germans are the kings of straight-face-delivery. This is where german humor hides its refinement and wit and since it’s often undetectable, people imagine we’re just not funny. But if you catch it, this shit is HILARIOUS.
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- Comment on Syrian passports include a photo of Souq al-Hamidiyah, a famous historic marketplace in Damascus. Apparently, the image was taken from the internet without removing the photographer’s watermark, “Was… 3 weeks ago:
Depending on the state of the Syrian justice system someone is either going to cash out or “donate” the image to avoid pissing off the government.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The amount of dinosaurs in oil is less then negligeble at best. Oil is the result of huge mats of dead plankton getting trapped below the seafloor and then pressure-cooked into crude oil. We’re talking millions of tons of dead plants and animals accumulating as sediment in (geologically) short timeframes, more than would have ever been possible to produce with the biomass of dinosaurs.
- Comment on Utopia 🌈 1 month ago:
The internet has become so much less angry in the last few days since I rigorously block everyone arguing in bad faith, reich-wingers and lemmy.ml
- Comment on Carenheit 1 month ago:
I can tell you, that as a native German speaker, deeply submerged in English media and programming languages, sometimes I don’t remember the German word and just insert English words into my sentences and everybody above the age of 45 gets extremely angry about that, while everyone below that age will just blink, nod and then go along.
It’s a really weird level of Zweisprachigkeit when you suddenly start to mix words.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 2 months ago:
Holy shit 🤣
My son Jake, who’s 25, eats mayo. He’s a practical young man who works in computers and adores macaroni salad. He’s a good son. I also have a daughter. She was a women’s and gender studies major in college. Naturally, she loathes mayonnaise.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 2 months ago:
“So you don’t believe
In any natural remedies?” - Comment on Zebra!! 2 months ago:
All humans are stripey, it’s just that the lines are usually invisible.
- Comment on Examples of roles where actors from Star Trek give better performances than they did on Star Trek? 2 months ago:
Damn, nearly did not recognize Keating, his performance in that gif gives heavy David Tennant to me.
- Comment on Examples of roles where actors from Star Trek give better performances than they did on Star Trek? 2 months ago:
I honestly enjoyed him more in Dredd (where he had to do more with less) than in Star Trek.
- Comment on Lifeguards 3 months ago:
Yes, meme… but!
I know a lifeguard and while he’s generally an okay-ish human being, he is really not a guy you want to give authority to. You know the type, okay-ish people who become the. fucking. worst. as soon as they get their hands on the smallest amount of authority.
- Comment on The body of a contortionist while performing a trick. This X-ray also shows that a significant part of the spine does not bend. 3 months ago:
Dude it looks like a Halloween Rubber Ducky tipped onto its front… ofc I am.
- Comment on Hasan Piker, Cenk Uygur Denied Entry to UK Over Palestine Support 3 months ago:
It certainly isn’t left enough, under certain conditions I might agree that it is center-right but it absolutely isn’t right-wing or far-right
- Comment on You definitely won't regret doubling the mass of our atmosphere! 3 months ago:
Human fusion technology currently only works with heavy hydrogen isotopes (deuterium and tritium in neutronic fusion). Fusion of normal hydrogen requires pressures and temperatures we’re unable to control at the moment.
Aneutronic fusion is currently explored in fusing hydrogen and bor, this results in clean helium-4 and no neutron radiation, meaning it leaves no radioactive waste. But it needs temperatures FAR exceeding the core of the sun and it’s self-cooling via Bremsstrahlung, so it’s nowhere near a working technology.
- Comment on Hasan Piker, Cenk Uygur Denied Entry to UK Over Palestine Support 3 months ago:
“Labour is far right”, you heard it here first folks.
Sure, they’re not left enough by any definition, but far right and not even close to not being far right?
- Comment on Anyone get this? 3 months ago:
My friend group was in our late teens. Then this one girl brought her new boyfriend… early thirties, soldier, fit, cool.
I had this instant dislike, his words were… too smooth, his jokes were funny, but cruel. He radiated a kind of coolness like uranium radiates. Everybody was all over him, the lads wanted to be like him, the lasses wanted him. I could not bring myself to like him and got accused of being jealous.
He broke up some lifelong friendships and budding relationships. He ended up getting two of the girls pregnant and went to prison because one of them was underage at the time.
- Comment on Fingies 4 months ago:
They… they don’t though. It’s similar, but not identical… you know, like Fingerprints…
