Maedhros
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Like the top comment says, like a Walking dead episode.
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https://mirror.fro.wtf/reddit/post/3203545
CNN Journalist in Kabul told to step aside because she's a woman. Proceeded to google her (Clarissa Ward), she seems to be a pretty ballsy lady.
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Made a pretty simple, yet very tasty chicken dish.
I pan-fried a chicken breast, and while it rested I made a dressing consisting of garlic, lemon juice and zest, with honey and olive oil. I then cut a spring onion into small pieces, and pan-fried them for 1-2mins in oil. Then mixed it in with the rest, and also added parsley.
Afterwards, I made delicate slices of the breast, and did a rustic sort of plating with lots of the green below and on top, and over that; lots and lots of parmesan.
As long as you get the right balance between lemon and honey, and don't mess up the chicken, it's a very simple, light and easy to make dish. I had some small potatoes on the side, but they weren't really necessary.
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In recent years I got the feeling football is becoming more popular in the US than it is in Canada? No source.
Football is a very simple game, not as "tactically sophisticated" as American football - but it's reasonably complex in that there's no limitations on how "optimal" you can play (like all team sports I guess). Tactics play a big role, but it's more about the continous chaos of influencing and adapting. Both as a player, and as a team. Personally I dislike watching it, it's not a very tv friendly sport unless you follow a team (or happen to find a really tense and entertaining match). It's the most fun sport to play yourself though. I love that you don't have to be very olympian to be good at it.
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I don't think I detest any film more than I do the first Suicide Squad. So much money, and so little to show for it. Insultingly bad in so many ways.
This one was better, but it wasn't quite as enjoyable as I'd hoped. Maybe I'm a negative nancy but I felt like many of the jokes were missing the mark, the music was forgettable, and I never cared much about any of the characters. For this type of film to work it needs to be really funny, and it just....wasn't. They also criminally underused Peter Capaldi, one of the funniest angry men in film/tv if you give him the chance. I'll give it a 6/10 overall, and that's being kind.
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Jakob Ingebrigtsen wins the 1500 metres, beating Cheruiyot for the first time in his career. His father went to school with mine, and is quite the character. He coaches three of his sons who all have notable achievements in the running world.
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I can easily see this falling into "young adult" territory, but I hope not. Robert Jordan was one of the few post-Tolkien fantasy writers of his time who managed to create a somewhat "believeable" fantasy world. For all its flaws, it's pretty similar to A Song of Ice and Fire in the sense that even very minor characters feel fleshed out, and with their own special motivations.
Happy about Rosamund Pike as Moiraine, she's a very good actor. Daniel Henney seems like he completely lacks the gravitas to play Lan though.
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Pretty insane finals in 400 metres hurdles. The top 3 finishers all beat the previous world record. Norway usully fares much, much better at the winter olympics (obviously), but this was pretty neat!
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September 2nd, 2022. Lord of the Rings on Prime.
As a Silmarillion-nerd, loving that they're gonna adapt some of that book. (The Two Trees of Valinor in the background attest to that). Rumours say the two first episodes will be prologue of sorts that will set up the rest of the show. My guess is they want to show why Galadriel (and co) left the "Gods", and why there is division between the houses of the elves (relevant to the forging of the rings of power), as well as the raising of Numenor/Atlantis - since the rest of the show will take place in the Second Age.
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1 hour ago, Skarpen said:
Norway have a slang for some obscure forum nick? Weird.
Mine comes from:
Which is in Sweden and Sweden is not Norway. I think I have to clarify to not be accused of not reading links I post
Google also found some landmarks bearing the name in Norway, but search for skarpen slang meaning didn't return anything.
It's just a way of giving nicknames over here. You take the adjective (in this case skarp/sharp) and add an en/one ending to the word to attribute it to someone in particular, as a situational nickname. Won't work in a written text, but it's relatively common when just talking.
No matter the adjective you can just add an "en" ending to it and it works as a nickname. When you think someone said something clever you call him "Skarpen". Though it's more often used ironically.
(I get that you probably didn't know this, but I still think it's a funny coincidence).
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It's ok to be wrong, or make mistakes on the internet. Stubborness isn't a virtue. According to bible law, it's even punisheable by lapidation!
(Also, I still think it's pretty funny that "skarpen" is slang for "sharp one" in my country).
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4 hours ago, kanisatha said:
The reason is that instead of being organizations that simply fight for their members' rights, unions have become fronts for one political party at the expense of all other parties. So naturally people who identify with those other parties are not going to be supportive of an organization whose purpose is to serve the electoral interests of one specific party (oftentimes even at the expense of their own members' preferences and interests). If unions became truly non-partisan, non-ideological organizations that exclusively fight for their members' workplace rights and nothing else, then they would absolutely be a whole lot more popular.
One could say that being political is a way to fight for your members, especially if you're in an important sector like healthcare or education where so much improvement is needed. I don't see why a "video game developer union" should be political though.
On that note...haha: https://kotaku.com/activision-blizzard-hires-union-busting-firm-as-workers-1847386654
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2 hours ago, Skarpen said:
Being a product of patriarchy I'm probably not capable of understanding on my own, so I would need some progressive explain to me how is that ok:
In the same vein, how is this allowed: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57549653 (Transwoman in the olympics).
South Park predicted this:
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I'll never understand why workers in the US don't want.....worker rights. These protests won't amount to anything in the long run unless they actually unionize. There is way too much exploitation of people going around in the video game industry, and elsewhere.
https://kotaku.com/inside-blizzard-developers-infamous-bill-cosby-suite-1847378762
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5 hours ago, KP the meanie zucchini said:
On behalf of Norway, we'll help too. Vengeance for Harald! (Also we want the Hebrides, Isle of Man, Orkney Islands and the Shetland Isles back).
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3 hours ago, Malcador said:
Blizzard's got an interesting office culture - https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/activision-blizzard-sued-by-california-over-frat-boy-culture
Heh, does put Afrasiabi, Kaplan and maybe even Metzen and Morhaime's departures in a light.
Quite sickening to read about that suicide.
Afrasiabi's departure seems connected with this for sure at least, with the way he silently dissappeared recently.
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2 hours ago, Hurlsnot said:
This is not new. Young people have always had a naivete about what is right and wrong. Distrust of authority and government and thinking critically about society come with age.
That's a silly generalisation. Distrust of authority and government is definitely a thing for young people too. Looking at world history, young people have often been at the forefront of societal change through their...critical thinking.
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12 hours ago, majestic said:
Nah, that was Gandalf on his own in the book. The film has Frodo figuring it out.
Merry kind of triggers it though by asking the right question, which makes Gandalf realise what the password is.
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5 hours ago, Raithe said:
Sidenote. I'm actually a bit annoyed that they made them into comic reliefs (like with Gimli). Many don't know that in the books Merry is very bright. He knows about Bilbo's ring before Frodo does, and he cleverly orchestrates Frodo's escape from the Shire. He's definitely the most "street smart" and worldly of the Hobbits.
(sorry for off-topic)
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My impression of Tegnell is that he's more stubborn than people on internet forums. Likewise many Swedes and their defense of him.
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The race to succeed them is on, I guess.