huf [he/him]

an added complication is that there are tons of eg americans with slavic last names that also dont know (nor care) how it’s pronounced in the original, they have their own american pronunciations now. like steven baczek, who pronounces it like “basic”.

what are you gonna do, tell people they’re mispronouncing their own name?

i’m with you mostly but expecting foreigners to pronounce the palatalized consonants is a bridge too far

i dont think boromir ever said that though, this is from that mess made by that B-horror director

has this person ever heard of the sausage industry?

• die hard ended at 3
• highlander ended at 4 (and there is no 2)

i dont really know why human activity should be special. it’s evolved creatures doing weird shit, producing (temporarily?) undigestible stuff. there’s no rule saying you cant have the production outside your body, it’s just customary to use organs.

we’re living through a similar period but with plastics :)

the brain’s actually trying to understand what things are made of, and it’s guessing at that based on the light that enteres the eye.

this is why when you pick up a thing outside and take it inside, it doesnt change color (edge cases exist), even though the light that reflects off of it into your eye absolutely changes a lot.

realistically, nobody uses all the units.

eg, decimeters are practically unheard of.

anyway, start measuring things around you. like your fingers, your hand, your ceiling height, that sort of thing. and then remember what those measurements feel/look like. that’ll give you something to compare other things to. you can do the same thing with volume measurements and so on.

for example, i found that one of the knuckles on one of my fingers is exactly 4cm long, so i always have that with me.

milk comes in 1L boxes, for example, so pretty much everyone knows what a liter is.

sugar and flour come in 1kg bags and that’s roughly 1 liter too

the germans had already lost by the winter of 1941. barbarossa had no strategic path to victory except to win it all during that one summer and fall and collapse the SU. when that didnt happen, they were fucked.

they kept the war going cos they were fascists, but they had no chance of winning. they had no conception of how to achieve victory (beyond trying the same thing they did in 1941 but with a worse army, while the soviets had a better army). they had already lost, they just refused to admit it for years.

Sulla maybe? He too was a figurehead for the most reactionary faction of roman elites

it’s that, yeah, but also i think destroying russia has become a quasi-religious thing for the respectable liberals of europe. remember, these are the people who are still salty over istanbul. they’ll still be calling crimea ukrainian 500 years from now.

no, the next guy would have 7 bandera tattoos on his face and would be unable to finish a sentence without calling for the extermination of someone.

the one after him would be the moderate.

i guess some people like being under pressure? i dunno

how are they corrupt? they’re meant to serve the bourgeoisie and that’s what they’re doing. there’s no corruption here.

eh, it’s not from israel so it’ll probably be fine

yeah, i guess if your chief problem is getting rid of water because it’s flooding all over the place, maybe you wont have much infrastructure for retaining water so you have some for a drought.

that’s also an incredibly rainy region. i know we’ve got climate change and weird weather patterns, but… people manage to survive in sicily, how can belgium run out of water?

is this the UK? how can you run out of water in the UK? HOW? where are you putting all the rain that falls? into the ocean?

if it’s not the UK, disregard everything i’ve just said.