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Currant Affairs
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What skill did you learn that was not worth the effort?byCurrant Affairs@piefed.socialEnglish
9 daysI love the flowing feeling too, and it’s noticeably faster, but unfortunately mine looks crap
- Photography@lemmy.world•I like some times to make photos from political manifestations. This is from Oslo, probably 2013, protest in support of russian political activists group Pussy Riot, outside of Russian embassy.byCurrant Affairs@piefed.socialEnglish10 days
Oh I remember hearing about them, yes “pussy riot” is a generalised feminist protest group in Russia. Women’s rights and gay rights, probably other stuff as well.
And “free pussy riot” must mean “release members of pussy riot who are locked up” - but at first I thought it was like “free the nipple” or “free pussy here if you riot!”
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What skill did you learn that was not worth the effort?byCurrant Affairs@piefed.socialEnglish
10 daysRecently there was a thread where a lot of people were expressing their hatred of handwriting, so according to them that was a waste of my time (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ I do even write much neater in normal script compared to handwriting.
Other than that nothing stands out, so either I’m unskilled or super focused
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Suppose the last movie you saw and the last videogame you played had a crossover. What would that world look like?byCurrant Affairs@piefed.socialEnglish
12 daysWhat a great question. Lastly movie i watched was Tolkien - a biopic focusing on his experience as an orphan, his schooling, his university, and his experience in the battle of the somme.
Last video game I played was The Life and Suffering of Prince Jerian, a text-based choose-your-own-adventure RPG chronicling the course of a character’s life.
They work together very well. It would be a choose-your-own-adventure as Tolkien.
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are some signs that you need new friends?byCurrant Affairs@piefed.socialEnglish
13 daysWhen you’re watching “Friends” and think that the characters are actually friends.
They’re a polycule.

- 13 days
I realise I have read nowhere near enough books to answer this definitively.
I’d say war and peace is actually the stand out, but then I know other Russian authors like dostoevsky did similar books. War and place’s u illness is that tolstoy writes like a kid who doesn’t realise that curtailment/limitation is a core facets of book writing - he tries and succeeds in writing the lives of many people over the course of many years; it’s big. You see it and go “oh that’s it? I could read that, actually.” But when you sit down to read it, you’re hit eith another big Ness- it’s detail. Tolstoy is in no rush to get the story off it’s feet. He wants you feel everything and note every detail. Live through the soiree, the mundanity, and the trauma as well as the glory at the end of the book. That’s war and peace.
At the moment I’m reading Chaucer’s Canterbury tales and even though it’s one of the very oldest “classics” of English literature, (beaten out by beowulf and maybe something else) I think people still “sleep upon it.” There’s something really special about how sequenced and ordered it is, and the novel is a scherezade (a story is told within a story being told within a story). Also portrays medieval culture through the lens of medieval contempories, and it’s surprisingly close to the stereotype - there’s lots of crude and physical humour, adultery and the threat of physical reprisal for all manner of things. Great - maybe even essential -for learning how to effectively write medieval settings.
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•[AskLemmy Meta]: Should bot posts be banned in AskLemmy.world?byCurrant Affairs@piefed.socialEnglish
13 daysLink to the bot post?
Also, i upvoted. Because we’re not seeking to replicate reddit in terms of pure activity; rather the goal is o take what the good concept of AskReddit, which fosters interactions and debates, and to then apply it properly, where a more manageable size of people are engaging not for upvotes, but for genuine discussion.
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Which public figure most closely shares your views?byCurrant Affairs@piefed.socialEnglish
16 daysIs he not on Instagram?
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Which public figure most closely shares your views?byCurrant Affairs@piefed.socialEnglish
17 daysHoping the best for your dog and for you
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Which public figure most closely shares your views?byCurrant Affairs@piefed.socialEnglish
17 daysRon Swanson is the greatest libertarian thinker ever… so staunch to his ideals, and, since he is not a fascist, he’s open to other people’s political ideas and we see him change his stances on things. I didn’t like parks and rec that much but i loved him.
It doesn’t even have to be about politics - this can be lifestyle, philosophy, or movie critique. Maybe a different celebrity for each different thing you’re particularly opinionated on.
I’m fond of Anthony Bourdain’s views on cooking, for instance, and on how to learn cookery. But he’s a bit of a rascal when it comes to how he treats others.
I like C.S Lewis’s views on life, faith, and epistemology.
As for politicians, well, I doubt any politician alive today accurately shares my views. But i could composite from a few; for instance i found it sensible that Jeremy corbyn (UK ex-leader of Labour) wanted to nationalise many things asap no matter the shock to the economy - buying them back presumably becomes harder the more time that passes.
- 19 days
As a British person I do basically have two accents I primarily use.
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Id bet on an evolutionary time line cats were the catalyst for human civilization. Like so cute that it united us all in suppressing our predatory instincts.byCurrant Affairs@piefed.socialEnglish
22 daysI don’t think predators get the urge to eat other predators.
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The only version of Spiderman I've ever seen drive a car is the Disney Jr version, who isn't supposed to be old enough to drivebyCurrant Affairs@piefed.socialEnglish
22 daysIt had a shit ton of practical stunts
Including semen webbing? 😏
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The only version of Spiderman I've ever seen drive a car is the Disney Jr version, who isn't supposed to be old enough to drivebyCurrant Affairs@piefed.socialEnglish
23 daysIf this is in the latest movie, he’s old enough to drive by then because it’s actually three years after high school, right?
No spoilers please





All of What a Fool Believes
He came from somewhere back in her long ago,
The sentimental fool don’t see-
Tryin’ hard to recreate,
What had yet to be created. Once in her life
She musters a smile,
For his nostalgic tale.
Never coming near what he wanted to say
Only to realize:
It never really was.
She~ had a place in his life,
He~ never made her think twice…
As he rises to her apology
Anybody else would surely know
He’s watching her go
But what a fool believes~, he sees~
No-wise-man-has-the-power(!) to reason away, [if love can come, and love can go-]
What seems~ to be~ [-why can’t love return, oh no]
Is always better than nothing
And nothing at all~… keeps sending him…
Somewhere back in her long ago.
Where he can still believe there’s a place in her life,
Someday, somewhere… she will return.
She~ had a place in his life,
He~ never made her think twice…
As he rises to her apology
Anybody else would surely know
He’s watching her go…
But what a fool believes~, he sees~
No-wise-man-has-the-power(!) to reason away, [I believe she’s never gone away]
What seems~ to be~ [no, nah nah]
Is always better than nothing
And nothing at all~… keeps sending him…