I’m always careful with loud noises, and yet… I’ve had tinnitus ever since I can remember. There’s always been this high pitched whine whenever I’m in dead silence, and it’s always been the case. I used to think I could hear the electricity running through the walls or something.

Remember that the Salvation Army behaves differently depending on the nation they’re in. The US Salvation Army has different policies to the British one, which has different policies to the Australian one.

Technically libraries don’t give away books for free, they lend them out but they also pay for them. There’s a reason publishers are more than happy to sell books to libraries, but hate Internet Archive, and that’s because a library can only lend out however many copies of the book they have at a time, but Internet Archive lent out hundreds of generated copies.

I don’t see a dog shaped target.

Where are you living where you can get a good console for $400?

I was under the impression that Slytherin was about ambition, not just cunning. You have to not only be cunning, but also be ambitious enough to want to use that cunning to get one over on everyone else. Even Horace Slughorn used his cunning to further his own position, and he was considered the ‘best’ Slytherin in the book, so that’s their best foot forward!

Oh well, could be worse, you could be in Hufflepuff, which consists almost entirely of the ‘boring’ students. The rejects, the terminally useless, the basic bitches.

Ah, Real Cheese brand cheese flavored product.

Some people can’t hold objects with any dexterity due to disabilities etc. So they use straws.

You’re not quite there yet. It still says ‘real cheese’.

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The thing is, back in the day, you couldn’t just look up ferns on the internet, you actually had to go looking for information on ferns specifically, and it’s very likely that after a lot of really annoying visits to various libraries looking through botany textbooks, an author (or a group of authors) decided they were going to collate everything they found about ferns and stick it in one collection.

So when someone else comes along and goes “I need to know something about a very specific fern”, the librarian can go “You want that 8 volume encyclopedia on ferns over there” because they know that it has every single fern on the planet in there, and you don’t need to spend 8 hours looking through every botany textbook and making the room smell like cheap coffee.

What I’m saying is it was probably done out of spite, not genuine interest.

What would I even SAY to goth baddies?

“Hey do you like tabletop? I do, I like playing Barbarians because it makes me feel strong”

The trick is to find a game that has a mounted turret with infinite ammo and then tape the button down. The Warthog in Halo, or the Street Sweeper in Mercenaries (with the infinite ammo cheat on).

Assuming they’re a teenager, you trusted your parents not to search through your stuff a lot more than most. Parents aren’t going to give you any lectures or punish you for having a PS5 controller in your room.

According to the Prose Edda, Odin decides exactly which people are going to die in battle that day, and then brings them all to Valhalla… Which contradicts other accounts somewhat. Then again a lot of old Norse mythology has been so polluted by Christianity that who knows what was originally Norse and what was changed later?

In some accounts, you don’t even need to die in battle. Odin just thinks “I need that guy on my team” and takes you.

Valhalla isn’t a reward though, it’s a hell for those that don’t enjoy battle. Here’s what happens in Valhalla:

• You equip your armor and weapons
• You walk out into the courtyard
• You kill eachother
• You are resurrected
• You go to dinner
• You equip your armor and weapons
• You walk out into the courtyard
• You kill eachother

etc. etc.

It is NOT a reward. Valhalla is not heaven, it is a place that Odin puts his very specific chosen warriors that died a violent death in battle. Whether you go to Valhalla doesn’t depend on you being either a good or bad person, only how you died. Odin himself will even actively intervene and make sure you lose your fight and die in battle, just because he wants you as one of his Einherjar.

Valhalla being portrayed as this big reward for good people is a bastardised version brought in by Christians.

I’ll listen to it, it doesn’t mean I’ll like it. If you can tell me what you like about it, maybe I’ll also like it.

British summer is nice if you have air conditoning, otherwise it’s hell. British winter is nice for exactly 24hrs if it ever snows. You know that first 24hrs when it’s deathly silent at night because the snow is deadening all the sounds, and when you get up in the morning and the snow is still fluffy? That’s when British Winter is good. The rest of the time, the snow melts but not enough so it just turns to ice, you’re slipping everywhere, it’s freezing cold and extremely wet so you’re just completely soaked at all times.

Autumn and Spring don’t exist. You have Cold, Hot and Overcast.

Definitely 2.

The only thing Twitter has over something like Bluesky is the fact that Bluesky is so milquetoast and nice that you don’t really get any of the drama you get on Twitter. Like, I never see comic fans going “Black Bolt would DESTROY Saitama in a fight!” and anime fans going “Nu uh! ONE PUNCH!” on Bluesky.

Same with Lemmy tbh. Lemmy is 80% politics, 5% memes about politics, 5% memes about Lemmy being better than Reddit, and 10% Linux.