ValiantDust

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[–] ValiantDust@feddit.de 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

You know how to can get turned off of eggs if you get the egg ick.

I don't think I do know actually. But here's an attempt at answering this question anyway:

And bonus, anybody know why that happens?

We are usually very quick at relating sickness or even discomfort to the food we ate at the time or slightly before. This is a very valuable trait to avoid food that is unhealthy or even poisonous. But it's only based on correlation, so it can turn us off food that is not actually causing the sickness but we just happened to eat at the time.

[–] ValiantDust@feddit.de 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

a lot of the stigma surrounding sex work in the modern day (that doesn't just boil down to misogyny/gender norms/religion) is based on the fact that selling intimate aspects of one's self places a set value on something that many see as sacred

The fact that most of the times the stigma only clings to the person selling and not the person buying makes me think that this is actually a negligible part of the stigma.

[–] ValiantDust@feddit.de 28 points 2 weeks ago

Are you telling me your fairytale wedding does not include doves hacking out the eyes of your stepsister or your stepmother dancing to her death in shoes of red hot iron? Boooring.

[–] ValiantDust@feddit.de 5 points 2 weeks ago

No, MareOfNights, I also find that weird.

[–] ValiantDust@feddit.de 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Start with praise and honest opinion.

So which is it?

Seriously though, I hate it when people throw in some praise completely unrelated to the thing we are talking about at the moment in an attempt to soften the criticism. It just seems really transparent and fake to me. Praise people for things when they are doing them, not as sugarcoating for your criticism. That just devalues the praise and your criticism. But maybe that's just my stereotypical German directness.

[–] ValiantDust@feddit.de 7 points 2 weeks ago

I'm sure he would have believed he could.

[–] ValiantDust@feddit.de 30 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

the bill's language and topic caused confusion; a member proposed that it be referred to the Finance Committee, but the Speaker accepted another member's recommendation to refer the bill to the Committee on Swamplands, where the bill could "find a deserved grave".

An assemblyman handed him the bill, offering to introduce him to the genius who wrote it. He declined, saying that he already met as many crazy people as he cared to.

I hope medicine in 1897 was up to the treatment of these burns.

[–] ValiantDust@feddit.de 3 points 2 weeks ago

This is the way

[–] ValiantDust@feddit.de 19 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

That's why I use LaTeX. (I also use Arch btw.)

[–] ValiantDust@feddit.de 22 points 3 weeks ago

To be fair though, there are way more cows than crocodiles, snakes, sharks or deadly spiders in the UK.

[–] ValiantDust@feddit.de 9 points 3 weeks ago

Adding to what the other comments have already said: Don't bring an unleashed dog on a cow pasture. You'd think that's common sense, but apparently it's a bit of a meme in Austria and Switzerland that every few months some German get's trampled by cows because their totally friendly dog ran towards the cows and they felt threatened.

[–] ValiantDust@feddit.de 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

Legendary you say? Relatively unknown outside of Germany (and other German speaking countries) you say?

Let me introduce you to Dschinghis Khan by Dschingis Khan

(99 Luftballons, which was mentioned here before, is arguably the bigger hit that really everyone knows. But I couldn't resist throwing this out there. It was a huge hit and is still known.)

 

Wenn meine Sprachkenntnisse und meine aktuelle Konzentrationsfähigkeit es zulassen, konsumiere ich Medien eigentlich am liebsten in Originalsprache. Vor allem Bücher von englischsprachigen Autor:innen lese ich eigentlich gerne auf Englisch. Bisher hab ich sie mir dann meistens gekauft. Bei deutschen Büchern bin ich mittlerweile fast komplett zum Ausleihen, meistens in EBook-Form, übergegangen und würde das für Englisch auch gerne tun. Das Angebot an englischsprachigen Büchern und EBooks ist in meiner Bibliothek und auch bei anderen, bei denen ich geschaut hab, allerdings eher... dürftig. Hat jemand einen Tipp?

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by ValiantDust@feddit.de to c/discworld@lemmy.ml
 

Among the many things I love about the Discworld novels are the descriptions of people. Terry Pratchett often manages with a few sentences to paint a picture that is often a bit funny, sometimes slightly weird but always hits the nail right on the head.

 

As an example, these descriptions of the witches in Lords and Ladies:

"The first one - let us call her the leader - flies sitting bolt upright, in defiance of air resistance, and seems to be winning. She has features that would generally be described as striking, or even handsome, but she couldn't be called beautiful, at least by anyone who didn't want their nose to grow by three feet."

"The second is dumpy and bandy-legged with a face like an apple that's been left for too long and an expression of near-terminal good nature. She is playing a banjo and, until a better word comes to mind, singing. It is a song about a hedgehog."

"The third, and definitely the last, broomstick rider is also the youngest. Unlike the other two, who dress like ravens, she wears bright, cheerful clothes which don't suit her now and probably didn't even suit her ten years ago. She travels with an air of vague good-natured hopefulness. There are flowers in her hair but they're wilting slightly, just like her."

 

I also found this one in my collection of quotes, but I can't find out where it is from. Does anyone know? I think it might be my favourite.

"Many people could say things in a cutting way, Nanny knew. But Granny Weatherwax could listen in a cutting way. She could make something sound stupid just by hearing it."

 

Do you have more examples?

 

Da ja gerade Gewittersaison ist, liest man öfter wieder die Empfehlung, dass man – sofern man nicht in einem Auto oder Gebäude Schutz suchen kann – eine möglichst tief gelegene, freie Fläche aufsuchen soll, in die Hocke gehen, die Füße eng nebeneinander stellen und die Arme um die Knie legen soll.
In der Realität habe ich das aber noch nie jemanden machen sehen. Abstand von Bäumen halten die meisten noch, aber darüber hinaus überwiegt "wird schon nicht ausgerechnet hier einschlagen". Ich schließe mich da selbst mit ein.
Seid ihr da weniger nachlässig und haltet auch an die Empfehlungen?

 

Are you going to binge watch the whole thing? Savour every episode? Read the webcomic again to compare every last detail?

I'll probably do my usual approach – plan to stretch it out and then end up binging it anyway.

Ngl this post is partly to create some activity and thus visibility, so that maybe we can gather enough people to have discussion threads. I'd love that.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by ValiantDust@feddit.de to c/weibsvolk@feddit.de
 

Der Artikel ist auf Englisch, ich hoffe, das ist okay hier. Wenn nicht, gerne beschweren.

Man ahnt es oft schon, aber hier mal konkrete Zahlen aus dem Datensatz im Artikel: Nur 26.8% der Filmrollen in den letzten 20 Jahren waren mit Frauen besetzt, obwohl Frauen ja grob die Hälfte der Menschheit ausmachen. Wenn eine Frau Regie führt, sind die Zahlen zumindest ein bisschen besser. Im Artikel ist es noch nach Genres aufgeschlüsselt, find ich ganz interessant zu sehen.

Ich wollte eigentlich einen anderen Post crossposten, aber hab nicht rausgefunden, wie. Also hier der Link zum Post: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1196383 (edit: okay, hab's rausgefunden, aber find das Ergebnis sehr unpraktisch)

 

Lemmy ist gefühlt eine noch männlichere Bubble als Reddit. Schon auf Reddit war die männliche Perspektive oft stark überrepräsentiert und wenn Frauen ihre Sichtweise ergänzt haben, ist es oft in den Massen an Kommentaren verloren gegangen, zumindest auf allgemeinen Subs. Deswegen hab ich das Weibsvolk-Sub auch immer so geschätzt.

Dass die Nutzerbubble hier noch ein bisschen technikaffiner und damit rein statistisch auch noch männlicher ist, ist wenig überraschend. Technikaffin bin ich auch, aber ich fühle mich manchmal ein bisschen alleine hier. Viele Memes sind offensichtlich aus männlicher Sicht und in Diskussionen gehen Kommentare, die, wenn nötig, die weibliche Perspektive ergänzen, zwar nicht so leicht unter, aber oft fehlen sie komplett. Gestern hab ich ein Meme gesehen, bei dem unterschiedliche Typen von Leuten zu irgendeinem Thema dargestellt waren und alle Platzhalter waren Männer. Gibt es eine Art Bechdel-Test für Memes?

Bin sonst eigentlich recht zufrieden hier, aber in so Momenten vermisse ich mein übriges Weibsvolk, deshalb dachte ich, ich poste meine Gedanken dazu mal hier und bringe hier vielleicht ein kleines bisschen Leben rein. Geht es euch auch manchmal so ähnlich?

Edit: Fehlerkorrektur

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