I was on one of their megathreads, and it had 900 comments to a 100 up voted post. 95 percent was text. They comment always. The pig stuff are probably a fraction of what they post.
They are being genocided despite his reference to you. The goal of the occupier is the destruction of a group of people, either by having them interned indefinitely, by forcing them to leave (again) or simply butchering them.
https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1713900853818523840
Genocide historian Segal says the intent is there.
Very Macron-like of him.
Canada had paedophile and state-run genocide camps masquerading as schools for Indiginous children well into the 70s!!! This is clearly an extension of that mindset. The Canadian government is sick.
This looks good, I just found an old (3 year old post - I didn't even know Lemmy was around back then!) and commented on it. There were also funnily two other recent comments (one from 2 months ago and another 3 months old).
Also a great hack to lower your personal rate of inflation.
Great to know, thanks!
That's cool. My peice had to said, because the rightwing types were benefitting from the silence or disagreement of people like myself who want no more intervention.
That user who suggested we 'help' is either malicious or ignorant. Because help doesn't mean we release the reserves of money we've stolen from the Afghans. It means invade them again, whether she means it or not.
The best thing we can do now is let the Afghans be sovereign and no longer interfere (which won't happen). You can expect nothing good socially from there, as the Americans helped the Taliban defeat local progressive and secular forces in the 70s. All we can hope for is for them to eventually stand up on their own two feet.
Anyone who whines about the plight of Afghan women is either doing propaganda or is misled. Afghan women have children too btw - children that are starving - have Biden release the reserves.
They weren't good because they were reds. They weren't even really RU/SU-aligned. They were good because they were progressive and also happened to be neutral in terms of foreign affairs. But they learnt that the US funded the taliban and that's why the reds were invited in. The US got word. And disaster ensued.
Those needless military casualties are equally on the hands of our elite and their shares in arms companies.
And think of the Afghan people themselves. They don't know peace because of us.
Sadly Bill Clinton and Tony Blair backed Putin initially. It's not totally the people's fault.
The Lord of the Rings: A Musical Tale review – the greatest show on Middle-earth | (The Guardian) archive.ph
A formidable cast journey through folk via Bollywood to pop – not to mention mountain treks and orc attacks – in a compressed revival of the 2007 musical
First seen in the UK in 2007 at London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane – a 1996-seat theatre – the show is revived at the 220-capacity Watermill. This means that Simon Kenny’s design and Anjali Mehra’s choreography are a theatrical equivalent of stunts designed to find how many people can fit in a Mini.
...During the long sections inside the tiny theatre, they cram in battles, orc attacks, treks across land, over mountains or through caves and lavish production numbers involving 20 actors or musicians (several performers also play instruments).
...speech and score sometimes feel more competitive than complementary.
The songs, though, move with enjoyable eclecticism through folk via Bollywood to pop, echoing the musical backgrounds of the Indian/Finnish/Anglo-American compositional team of AR Rahman, Värttinä, and Ch
Science Fiction and Fantasy: Tolkien Forever | (WSJ) Archive.is
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“The Battle of Maldon, together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth,” edited by Peter Grybauskas. “The Battle” is a fragment of poetry from the end of the first millennium that Tolkien translated from Old English.
...the history of Middle-Earth that Tolkien was working on at the same time, “The History of the Hobbit” includes five different “phases” of the book’s creation, many, many plot notes, and a scheme that shows original word choices along with Tolkien’s final text—which was sometimes penned in on top of rubbed-out pencil.
“Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century: The Meaning of Middle-Earth Today” by Nick Groom. This fascinating book explores “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” from their genesis through all the different major adaptations of the Tolkien “legendarium.”
The reader will learn a great deal about the licensing of Middle-Earth, a realm I thought I already knew fairly well. There were plans for a “Lord of the Rings” film starring the Beatles,
Account migration when one is a Mod?
So, what happens if you're modding a few communities and you want to change instances?
Do you add mod roles to the new account on that instance? Would people keep the old account, and would they keep the mod status on the old account too?
Just wondering, since I'm considering moving to keep Lemmy sustainable as well as because of preemptive concerns at my own instance's implementation of implicit, untransparent policies.
There's no way Tolkien was speaking English here
Tolkien explains why the Fellowship didn't fly the Eagles to Mordor
Or: 'Shut up!'
Entwives
Title text: No, we actually do have a woman who's basically part of our fellowship. She lives in Rivendell, you wouldn't know her.
Your best PDF to epub or text software methods?
I saw this other guy asking how you'd download protected drive only view documents. So that reminded me of that other annoying characteristic of PDFs. They're 'protected'.
How do you deal with PDFs that are inherently uncustomisable and have fixed formatting? I appreciate the KO Reader and other readers can do reflowable text, but I'd prefer not to and epubs/txt/any customisable format would be better.
Any good methods of PDF to text/epub out there?
LoTR: Movie Narrative Chart
Reporting a literal shit posting bot.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1924090
I want to report a bot/troll here for you to purge him. He’s messaged a gif of a woman shitting to me. No doubt he’s done this to others too.
His handle is kungfu @sh.itjust.works
I hope you purge the troll, and ideally block his ip if that's possible.
Where can I report a troll from your instance here?
Is there any way to contact admins here?
I want to report a bot/troll here for you to purge him. He's messaged a gif of a woman shitting to me. No doubt he's done this to others too.
Tolkien disliked Shakespeare (somewhat), but the Bard still shaped Middle-earth
Ignoring the legacy of William Shakespeare is difficult for any English writer, let alone "Lord of the Rings" author J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Tolkien disliked Shakespeare so much that he once expressed regret at referring to one of Middle-earth’s races as Elves. While elves “is a word in ancestry and original meaning suitable enough,” he wrote to a friend in 1954, “the disastrous debasement of this word, in which Shakespeare played an unforgivable part, has really overloaded it with regrettable tones, which are too much to overcome.” Although he does not specify any plays, Tolkien must have had A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Merry Wives of Windsor in mind. Both present elves as whimsical, lighthearted creatures who live in enchanted woods — a far cry from noble beings inhabiting the dark and dangerous forests of Middle-earth.
Ironically, the greatest influence Shakespeare had on The Lord of the Rings resulted from Tolkien wanting to rewrite a plot line he felt Shakespeare mishandled. In addition to the poorly worded prophecy concerning Macduff, Macbeth is also promised that he “shall never vanquished be un
Reading "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" - Immersive Soundscape Experience
This is a fan made audiobook and is as described. The immersive soundscape experience involves background sounds, chatter, music and more. It's genuinely a great peice of work especially for an enthusiast's effort. It may be removed by youtube soon, so here is an alternative link: https://castbox.fm/channel/Harry-Potter-|-Immersive-Soundscape-id5488497
Dive into Harry’s second year at Hogwarts with an immersive soundscape audio experience of the story by J.K Rowling - for those who like the movies, games and books, and want a little of both!
Narration, voices and edit by me. Music by John Williams, Jeremy Soule, J Scott Rakozy, Chuck E. Myers, Peter Murray and special thanks to Brigid Kaelin for her amazing musical saw orchestra! You can find her channel here - / @brigidkaelin
Highly Anticipated Movie Piracy Lawsuit Settled On The Eve of Trial * TorrentFreak & other news: 70% of Russian Gamers Are Pirates Following Western Publisher Exodus; A Prague Court Orders File-...
Strike 3 Holdings and an alleged BitTorrent pirate were scheduled to appear before a jury this week. True to form, that didn't happen.
Strike 3 Holdings and an alleged BitTorrent pirate were scheduled to appear before a jury this week. True to form, that didn't happen.
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These types of lawsuits rarely make it to a full trial and this case did nothing to upend the status quo. The adult entertainment company and defendant reached a confidential settlement at the eleventh hour, but with both parties reportedly happy with the outcome, who takes the moral victory remains unclear.
Over the past several years, adult entertainment company Strike 3 Holdings has filed thousands of copyright cases in U.S. federal courts... Strike 3 previously informed the court that it repeatedly found an IP address, assigned to the defendant, sharing pirated movies. This was backed up by technical evidence as well as other expert testimony.
Strike 3 sees the outcome as “historic”, in part due to the permanent injunction agreed as part of the settlement deal. ...This injunction, which has yet to be signed by the Florida court,
Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined (Twilight #5) - Stephenie Meyer
Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined is a young adult vampire-romance novel by Stephenie Meyer. The story is a gender-swapped retelling of the first book in the Twilight series, and introduces Beau Swan and Edythe Cullen in place of Bella and Edward.
[Torrent link](base64: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
Superb Kitty - Nathan the Beach Cat (on YT)
Just saw this video, and opened at the channel thumbnail image fully.
Nathan is a girl cat.
I was on Libby the other day I found multiple versions of Middlemarch, a Victorian classic novel.
I'm posting here because I was surprised that these older audiobooks are available to stream. Of course, only people with the library can access them. But they must have already been part of the physical CD catalogue. I'm assuming they're on CDs because they're old and sound quality is definitely not modern.
So perhaps staff uploaded them to their cloud service.