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The most likeable character in Lyev Tolstoy's famous work War and Peaace well sorry it's Anatole Kuragin
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Science needs to develop smaller apples so we can have caramel apples that aren’t so big you regret getting one before you’ve finished it.
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Oct 26, 2023 04:00
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:The most likeable character in Lyev Tolstoy's famous work War and Peaace As an aside, while I’ve read War and Peace, and a bunch of Dostoyevsky and Pushkin (translated, in English), I’ve never heard anyone say the name Anatole out loud. How is it pronounced? I’ve wondered for years, but I’m too embarrassed to admit that my kiwi English parses it as “Anna-toll” because I know that’s gotta be wrong.
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Oct 26, 2023 10:09
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I’m pretty sure it’s Anna-toll-ee
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Oct 26, 2023 10:13
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Shithouse Dave posted:As an aside, while I’ve read War and Peace, and a bunch of Dostoyevsky and Pushkin (translated, in English), I’ve never heard anyone say the name Anatole out loud. How is it pronounced? I’ve wondered for years, but I’m too embarrassed to admit that my kiwi English parses it as “Anna-toll” because I know that’s gotta be wrong. It's close enough to that. Just hold your mouth puckered up in a kiss face to sound french. His actual name is Anatoliy, but it's a big thing in original-language War and Peace that while all the narration is in russian, lots of the dialogue is in french. It was a thing at the time for fancy folks to be raised with french to the point that they needed translators to talk to their servants. That's why he calls his paramour Natalie instead of Natalya or Natasha.
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Oct 26, 2023 10:34
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Outside of like, a DWI or other situation where your intoxication may pose a danger to others, drug tests are an invasion of privacy and shouldn't be allowed. They shouldn't be required for employment or taking part in sports.
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Oct 26, 2023 13:24
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Gripweed posted:Outside of like, a DWI or other situation where your intoxication may pose a danger to others, drug tests are an invasion of privacy and shouldn't be allowed. They shouldn't be required for employment or taking part in sports. They shouldn't just be allowed, it should be considered a crime to even ask, barring specific safety related positions as you mentioned. It's really hosed up how much privacy we give up in this way and how normal that feels.
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Oct 26, 2023 13:51
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Let me introduce to a little something called THE PARRIOT ACT
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Oct 26, 2023 15:25
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Gripweed posted:Science needs to develop smaller apples so we can have caramel apples that aren’t so big you regret getting one before you’ve finished it. This is a pet peeve of mine. Apples are too loving big these days. I just want a snack, not a meal. Apples are bigger than my fist. Ain't no one got time for that poo poo.
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Oct 26, 2023 18:56
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I'll eat like four giant apples in a day if left to my own devices. Fruit barely counts as food same with vegetables
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Oct 26, 2023 19:02
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I enjoy apples, whatever the size.
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Oct 26, 2023 19:14
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The philosophical question of whether or not humans have free will is deeply uninteresting to me. I am going to act the same way whether I truly have agency or not, so why should I bother worrying about it?
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Oct 26, 2023 22:58
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Yngwie Mangosteen posted:They shouldn't just be allowed, it should be considered a crime to even ask, barring specific safety related positions as you mentioned. It's really hosed up how much privacy we give up in this way and how normal that feels. My thought is you should have to play through a couple levels of Hotline Miami before your giant crane/ forklift/car/popcorn machine turns on to prove your reflexes are in good working order and that would be more effective at safety than drug tests.
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Oct 26, 2023 23:38
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thetoughestbean posted:The philosophical question of whether or not humans have free will is deeply uninteresting to me. I am going to act the same way whether I truly have agency or not, so why should I bother worrying about it? If you wanna do philosophy, go back to first principles, end up at nihilism. The question is not if you have free will, it's whether you or anyone or anything else even exist, and how would you define "exist" anyway. doverhog has a new favorite as of 00:15 on Oct 27, 2023 |
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Oct 27, 2023 00:10
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Nihilism is a joke
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Oct 27, 2023 00:22
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Yes, that's how you arrive at absurdism.
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Oct 27, 2023 00:33
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Gripweed posted:Outside of like, a DWI or other situation where your intoxication may pose a danger to others, drug tests are an invasion of privacy and shouldn't be allowed. They shouldn't be required for employment or taking part in sports. So sports with roided up monsters destroying each other until their hearts explode? Surprised this isn't already a thing lol.
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Oct 27, 2023 00:44
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Panfilo posted:So sports with roided up monsters destroying each other until their hearts explode? Surprised this isn't already a thing lol. I think they were talking about cashiers being drug tested but ok lol
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Oct 27, 2023 01:14
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doverhog posted:If you wanna do philosophy, go back to first principles, end up at nihilism. The question is not if you have free will, it's whether you or anyone or anything else even exist, and how would you define "exist" anyway. Well, I think, so I’m pretty sure I am
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Oct 27, 2023 01:15
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alexandriao posted:I think they were talking about cashiers being drug tested but ok lol They included, "or taking part in sports" as part of their statement.
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Oct 27, 2023 01:17
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alexandriao posted:I think they were talking about cashiers being drug tested but ok lol No, I was talking about that too.
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Oct 27, 2023 01:32
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Steroids should be mandatory for most sports.
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Oct 27, 2023 01:33
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thetoughestbean posted:Well, I think, so I’m pretty sure I am No, it just means "something is". You, "I", cannot be inferred.
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Oct 27, 2023 01:36
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Gaius Marius posted:Steroids should be mandatory for most sports. Related, tour de france announced their next route
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Oct 27, 2023 02:04
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The Haunting (1999) is an example of the movie being better than the book.
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Oct 27, 2023 03:44
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Panfilo posted:So sports with roided up monsters destroying each other until their hearts explode? Surprised this isn't already a thing lol. It is.
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Oct 27, 2023 10:03
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Whoever came up with the word "lisp" was a real piece of poo poo for sticking an S in the middle.
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Oct 28, 2023 17:42
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Should have been more considerate and referred to it as a lithp.
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Oct 29, 2023 00:59
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All vampires in fiction should me masters of martial arts. They live forever, they know people are going to try to kill them with sticks, it’s simply unrealistic that a vampire would even half heartedly take lessons to learn how to effortlessly disarm anyone who tries to stake them. Even just weekly lessons, after several decades will add up to pretty impressive skills.
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Oct 30, 2023 01:40
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Gripweed posted:All vampires in fiction should me masters of martial arts. They live forever, they know people are going to try to kill them with sticks, it’s simply unrealistic that a vampire would even half heartedly take lessons to learn how to effortlessly disarm anyone who tries to stake them. Even just weekly lessons, after several decades will add up to pretty impressive skills. This is only tangentially related, but one of my favorite moments in Kim Newman's Anno Dracula features Professor Moriarty, now a vampire, elated that he can just go gently caress off somewhere for a few centuries and really immerse himself in math.
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Oct 30, 2023 02:06
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Gripweed posted:All vampires in fiction should me masters of martial arts. They live forever, they know people are going to try to kill them with sticks, it’s simply unrealistic that a vampire would even half heartedly take lessons to learn how to effortlessly disarm anyone who tries to stake them. Even just weekly lessons, after several decades will add up to pretty impressive skills. I feel like the only evening classes are for children though so it's basically a Kramer but vampire situation.
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Oct 30, 2023 02:30
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Vampires are also famously hedonistic, they’re too busy sucking and loving to study martial arts
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Oct 30, 2023 03:12
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They don't need martial arts when they can turn into fog and seep through the door away from danger
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Oct 30, 2023 06:39
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a vampire cannot enter a dojo until first invited
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Oct 30, 2023 09:56
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Runa posted:a vampire cannot enter a dojo until first invited 
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Oct 30, 2023 09:57
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Most vampires are lazy as gently caress good luck peeling them off the couch to set aside an evening of Fortnite and cheetos to do actual work lol.
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Oct 30, 2023 18:03
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Panfilo posted:Most vampires are lazy as gently caress good luck peeling them off the couch to set aside an evening of Fortnite and cheetos to do actual work lol. That's not what your parents meant when they said you were a bloodsucking parasite.
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Oct 30, 2023 19:04
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Panfilo posted:Most vampires are lazy as gently caress good luck peeling them off the couch to set aside an evening of Fortnite and cheetos to do actual work lol. That seems more like a lich, tbh
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Oct 30, 2023 19:57
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Take 5 candy bars are garbage and this All Hallow’s Eve I’m glad to report that my household will not be handing them out
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The rebranding to Reese's was a mistake. The OG was goated tho
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