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Skwirl posted:Tolkien invented the word "dwarves." "Dwarf" both as a mythological creature and a term for humans of smaller stature existed previously, but it was always pluralized as "dwarfs" before Tolkien.
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Yeah well if Tolkein was so clever, why is he dead?
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He died as jrr tolkein and came back as grr martin.
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OwlFancier posted:He died as jrr tolkein and came back as grr martin. Gonna need a Hindu wise man to explain the karmic implications of this.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Gonna need a Hindu wise man to explain the karmic implications of this. Obviously Tolkien lived a selfish and unworthy life.
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Mar 14, 2021 08:23
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Garrand posted:I was going to bring that up but he's actually since apologized for that and said he was wrong This person was recently revealed to be a paid shill for a Dem PAC, and everything he tweets reveals pretty transparently what the current DNC line of thought is. I guess once Cuomo passed a certain threshold of accusers, party leaders decided it was time to back off the misinformation and to start weakly calling for him to be held accountable.
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Poor Miserable Gurgi posted:This person was recently revealed to be a paid shill for a Dem PAC, and everything he tweets reveals pretty transparently what the current DNC line of thought is. I guess once Cuomo passed a certain threshold of accusers, party leaders decided it was time to back off the misinformation and to start weakly calling for him to be held accountable. I think both Senators from New York, including the one that's currently top ranking Senator, saying he should resign might have something to do with it.
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Len posted:This was a legitimate fight between my ex and I. She honestly thought wolves was spelled and pronounced woofs and correcting her was "calling me stupid, and I'm not the stupid one you are" and then she just got real emotionally abusive Did you show her a dictionary?
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Obviously Tolkien lived a selfish and unworthy life. It's spelled "selvish" now thanks to Tolkien.
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Len posted:Can't wait for his Mars base that's not following Earth laws and has indentured servants. It's going to be peak efficiency It'll probably be a mercy to have no sense of smell there.
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Cleretic posted:They either need to be playing BrooklynDad Defiant much more or much less. Either he needs side-hustles and interests that aren't milquetoast political takes, or he needs to be paid enough to put some goddamn effort into it. His stupid twitter profile picture makes me want to throw up a little bit each time I see it.
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I'm lucky enough I've never heard of Brooklyn dad before he questioned the integrity of phoebe bridges for smashing a guitar
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Sunswipe posted:Did you show her a dictionary? That poo poo doesn't work with people like that. I had a classmate who said the book was "Allison in Wonderland." Not Alice. We had class in a school library, so I could literally turn around and find more than one copy of it. She refused to believe it, then said "And the movie is definitely Allison." And it was before I could just pull out a phone and google it to show her.
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Sunswipe posted:Did you show her a dictionary? This is usually a great way to calm angry irrational people down.
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https://twitter.com/NickAdamsinUSA/status/1370928630621159424 He looks like Mitch McConnell. Edit: This is coordinated! https://twitter.com/ACTBrigitte/status/1370907542293975041 SimonChris has a new favorite as of 09:35 on Mar 14, 2021 |
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The Saddest Rhino posted:I'm lucky enough I've never heard of Brooklyn dad before he questioned the integrity of phoebe bridges for smashing a guitar Oh wait, he's one of those fuckers. I'm not saying those people are first against the wall when the revolution comes, because that list is getting a bit too long, but they're definitely in the first couple groups.
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Inceltown posted:It's spelled "selvish" now thanks to Tolkien. He's spelt "Tolkn" now thanks to Twitter.
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SimonChris posted:https://twitter.com/NickAdamsinUSA/status/1370928630621159424 when I think of the spitting image of health I think of an overweight old guy who for some reason seems to stand leaning 10degrees forward
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God, he looks worse in those pictures then anytime he was president, with the exception of how much larger then Biden he looked in that debate screen shot. That said he does look much skinnier, but sudden weightloss is bad for other reasons.
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https://twitter.com/AphexTwin/status/1370911429298126848 I really REALLY loving hate this NFT bullshit! gently caress sake!
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Manuel Calavera posted:https://twitter.com/AphexTwin/status/1370911429298126848 I completely agree, but I can't fault artists selling a gif or whatever to morons for a large amount of money. Though it should be banned because of the environmental implications alone.
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Ratjaculation posted:when I think of the spitting image of health I think of an overweight old guy who for some reason seems to stand leaning 10degrees forward I wonder if he's been coached to stand like that to try and make him look less fat. Don't ask the trumps have problems standing like normal people?
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Roblo posted:I completely agree, but I can't fault artists selling a gif or whatever to morons for a large amount of money.
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NFTs were created to combat the narrative that individual choices don’t matter when 100 companies create 70% of world’s emissions
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Stunt_enby posted:you can, because the "environmental implications" come directly from somebody, say, Waxen Pith, generating one, requiring the hashing that creates said emissions. i can guarantee you Wet Tip Hen Ax did not need to generate this NFT out of some pressing need to pay bills or buy food. Very true. I hadn't really considered your last point
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Data Graham posted:I grew up surrounded by these people and it has always driven me insane Running a D&D campaign one of the players is a Druid and has a pair of dire wolves as companions because of things that happened. He'll often magically summon eight otherwise regular wolves during combat -- we call the summoned ones "woofs" because it's funny and also keeps them distinct. I'd just by default assume that anyone calling wolves "woofs" was just loving around until I found out otherwise. Skwirl posted:Tolkien invented the word "dwarves." "Dwarf" both as a mythological creature and a term for humans of smaller stature existed previously, but it was always pluralized as "dwarfs" before Tolkien. This is from 1828, for instance
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Midnight Voyager posted:That poo poo doesn't work with people like that. I had a classmate who said the book was "Allison in Wonderland." Not Alice. We had class in a school library, so I could literally turn around and find more than one copy of it. She refused to believe it, then said "And the movie is definitely Allison." And it was before I could just pull out a phone and google it to show her. I once found a top loading dryer for sale and she threw a full can of four loko at me.
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Len posted:I once found a top loading dryer for sale and she threw a full can of four loko at me. That's a net win for you, my friend.
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Manuel Calavera posted:https://twitter.com/AphexTwin/status/1370911429298126848 Offsetting the current ongoing carbon cost of the etherium network would consume the entire annual carbon capture of a freshly planted forest the literally size of Puerto Rico, or an existing forest 1/3 that size. The cost of this single NFT is already up to one year's growth of 10 10-year-old hardwoods. So good luck with that.
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This is just regional.
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Drawlin a pichur
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warsh I dunno what an nft is, but aphex twin has never thought very hard about the poo poo he says publicly
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hawowanlawow posted:warsh Honestly I don't entirely understand it either but essentially it's selling a "unique" coded digital thing that's marked as unique using blockchain. It's basically baseball cards but dumber because selling/buying one uses as much energy as a family will use in a year or maybe a decade and unlike baseball cards you can't even burn them for fuel. Also the thing being sold isn't even necessarily any different than anything else other than being attached to this unique blockchain thing, so like it can just literally be hello.jpg or tribute.avi or whatever.
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hawowanlawow posted:warsh warsh is such a weird regionalism, my dad said it but his family wasn't from anywhere it's common.
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