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JohnnyEnzyme

@ JohnnyEnzyme @piefed.social

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Founder of European Graphic Novels, Aug '23 on Lemm.ee.

"Man rests from one labor by doing another." That also works for managing chronic pain, as I've discovered...

  • ‘A lot of fear’: the families bearing brunt of Sweden’s immigration crackdown

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  • There is a legit problem with organized crime and gang affiliations with predominantly immigrant leadership that recruit children for hits and are difficult to bring down.

    Ah yes, thanks, I do recall reading about that, but wasn't sure if that was in Sweden or other Nordic nation. (or all of them to some extent, perhaps?)

    As for the rest; it's remarkable (and very sad) how SWE seems to be sharing that broken approach to immigrants, as with USA. Just that it's not as completely insane there, at this point.

  • Why can people see who upvotes and who downvoted post on Lemmy?

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  • Weekly thread - how is everyone doing with their communities?

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  • I had some earlier little misfires with using scheduled posts, but these days they've been a real life-saver to me, allowing me to prepare small groups of posts in advance, and not worrying so much that some of them are only 'quickies,' i.e. just a fun image with limited info and optional personal thoughts.

    Given that, and given that Sergio has very helpfully made my life easier by "Tintin Tuesdays," at this point I'm starting to get some resources together to make a FreeWebGames community. I'm thinking it might be launched somewhere such as Lemmy.World, just to see how well that might go to cross both instances and software. I'm not absolutely 100% that I'll launch the project in the end, but I'm not seeing any big problems at present.

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  • As someone who enjoys the technique side of MMA, I like to watch the occasional sumo match. Seeing smaller guys win through good tactics is cool, but I also like how the sport is (far as I know) a lot less wearing on the body and brain than stuff like MMA, boxing, American football, etc.

  • ‘A lot of fear’: the families bearing brunt of Sweden’s immigration crackdown

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  • Wait, there's an actual NAZI party in Sweden? oO

  • Gary LaRocca - Reclamation

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  • That would make a boss design for a large kite, much of it being transparent plastic, except for the painted areas.

  • ‘A lot of fear’: the families bearing brunt of Sweden’s immigration crackdown

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  • If immigration is down in recent years, what then is the point of all this? Just for right-wingers to make political hay?

  • King Crimson - Lizard

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  • That's a really sweet, moderistic reinterpretation of illuminated letters. Could almost have become a popular modern style, I'm thinking.

    The one thing that does bother me a bit is the empty space in lower left. I definitely would have played around with the proportions there.

  • Marina Orchestra - Night Life

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  • Holy fluffen-frankers... you just won the Internet, my man!

  • Cold outside, mushroom soup inside

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  • Oh-ho, Dream WeaselI believe you can get me through the night...Ooh-ooh, Dream WeaselI believe we can reach the morning light...

    Haha...

  • [L'appel du Blork] Racontez-nous vos aventures ludiques de la semaine ! 🎮🎲👾

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  • Haha, qu'est-ce que tu as ? J'adore les jeux.

  • [L'appel du Blork] Racontez-nous vos aventures ludiques de la semaine ! 🎮🎲👾

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  • Thread on /r/BuyFromEU about how to improve Lemmy

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  • Advocatus diaboli:

    "If there's something worth stealing, I steal!"--Picasso

    In this case, yeah... there's still plenty of good design and features to lift from Reddit, and why not? Also, in terms of the FV as whole (i.e., not just Lemmy), I'd love to persuade more of Reddit's better users to migrate, especially the more they realise that they're not much more than a "$" sign to spez and the investors, anyway.

    Pretty crazy how we saw such naked greed and contempt from them back in Summer '23, and yet the bias of recency (or whatever it has) has largely normalised it out of existence for both the Reddit and the FV side. Like... bloody hell, mate...

  • The Lord of the Rings spinoff the world needs right now isn’t Rings of Power or Hunt for Gollum—it’s a feature-length version of the Scouring of the Shire.

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  • Thanks for the extensive reply! Yeah, I'm one of those weirdos who loved the Silmarillion, even as a teenager. I guess I've read it about 4x over the years, and I generally found it way more rational and absorbing than something like Le Morte d'Arthur.

    Trying to cover the whole book seems insane to me, but as mentioned above, I feel like major stories and chapters could very easily be turned in to some kind of effective adaptation. They more or less stand alone, compared to the brutal, endless slog of the overall elves against Morgoth arcs.

    The time seems (and has seemed) really ripe for such stories to be told, that I hope the Estate can move forward in some useful way upon such stuff. That said, I can very much understand their unhappiness with Jackson's TLotR movies, which were good, but way too 'Hollywood' for my taste across various scenes. I actually enjoyed the 'making of' mini-movies in the deluxe set far more than the movies themselves...

  • The Lord of the Rings spinoff the world needs right now isn’t Rings of Power or Hunt for Gollum—it’s a feature-length version of the Scouring of the Shire.

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  • Okay, I see, but... is there some reason they wouldn't be open to the idea of doing Silmarillion stories?

  • Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is?

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  • languages that lack a set of rules to correctly pronounce every word ever are mental illnesses.

    Yeah, I don't know enough about French grammar and pronunciation rules, but I think part of the problem comes from them trying to maintain a written language that got left in the dust by the spoken language ages ago. So instead of updating the written one, they chose to 'preserve history' and add a landslide of little rules explaining separate cases, not just for pronunciation, but in a hugely systemic way. Native French-speakers have actually complained to me about that occasionally.

    I could give you any Spanish word you don’t know and you wouldn’t miss pronounce it.

    I love that about Castellano, just that some regions speed it up so much that I can barely catch it.

  • Mulan (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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  • My god, that is ridiculously awesome.

    Destroyer of the Internet! (at least for today)

  • Gorilla Zoe - Summer Of The Flying Suacer

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  • Gorilla-head Jones is my mentor in life.

    This is perfect.

  • Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is?

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  • Well.. I mean... what later become "English" branched off from its West-Germanic roots, long ago, and never did become "High German." So theoretically, as an English-speaker, I have great familiarity with modern French, and we share the same basic sentence-structure as with modern German. Some of that is actually true. In practice, I could not be more of a complete dumbass upon those languages.

    TBC, I can speak Castellano and Français like someone with heat-stroke, and I can vaguely understand Dutch and German.

  • Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is?

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  • Like learning Norwegian (bokmål) while living on the west coast.

    In all honesty, I'd be absolutely terrified of trying to learn a Nordic language, which is absolutely NOT due to the lovely Nordic people I've met across the years.

    It's a "me" problem, and case-closed, please.