Thor Christopher Arisland

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[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.”

-Rudyard Kipling

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@GimleK løvetann på norsk. Samme som på fransk og engelsk.

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@ShitpostRock2 Is Mike from Mikes RPG a woman? I haven't seen any announcements or face reveals of whoever that guy is.

And I refuse to accept anyone else to get the claim of having the best BG1 and 2 guides.

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sometimes I think about how Thomas More's Utopia involved slavery.

I get the impression that it's a function of Utopian thinking to be so bereft of any real imagination that the vision inevitably remains a near-sighted enumeration of immediate desires.

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I enjoy musicals, but can't really force myself into enjoying opera. For some time I've listened to songs from operettas such as H.M.S. Pinafore, and now recently I found out about the 1983 film version of The Pirates of Penzance.

Absolutely worth a watch.

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@Mericamemed

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@3RenChengHu I could really go for some fries now.

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@CountDankulaTV @AkkadSecretary I saw some of these videos a few years ago.

His "Because I got High" video came out when I was young and kids in high school nicknamed me "afroman" once or twice because of my thick, curly hair.

It's interesting to see who crashes and who just happens to be a normal guy.

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The Afroman Trial.

-Cops raid Afromans house for bullshit reasons.
-Steal money, break his door, fuck his house up.
-No criminality found whatsoever, no charges at all pressed on Afroman.
-Afroman spends the next 3 years making songs that make fun of all the officers involved by name, even using footage of the raid from his own CCTV cameras.
-Songs had titles like "Randy Walters is a son of a bitch" and "Lick Em Low Lisa" accusing one of the officers of being a lesbian and sleeping with the other officers wives.
-During the raid one officer looked like he was about to eat some lemon pound cake sitting on Afromans counter, Afroman made a whole album calling the officer fat.
-The cops get mad and file a lawsuit for defamation.
-Afroman turns up to court in a whole American flag suit.
-Officers performatively mald and cry while listening to the songs really trying to oversell how badly the songs upset them.
-One officer was suing because Afroman made a whole song about him saying he was fucking the officers wife. When the officer was asked if Afroman was really fucking his wife, he said "I don't know". Nuking his own case and establishing that there is a non-zero chance that Afroman might actually be fucking his wife.
-As his only witness for the trial, Afroman brought a deputies EX FUCKING WIFE.
-The jury ruled completely in favour of Afroman.

This entire thing has been a great win for free speech and absolutely fucking hilarious.

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@NoahRevoy Yes, all though I would add drawing, musical and visual arts as part of that training.

Being able to draw a picture is part of that practical experience, much like music is incredibly efficient in teaching through rote and rhyme.

We all knew this until a few decades ago.

[Gimle Kulturförening @GimleK]

Gimle önskar er alla en trevlig helg med Ida Linneas vackra version av Ack Värmland du sköna på nyckelharpa!

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Du gamla, du fria.

Nå blir jeg nok uglesett av mine landsmenn, men jeg bor i Sverige nå, og så har jeg noen svenske aner på farssiden.

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”Svensk kultur är färglös och tråkig” 🙃

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@RealDonKeith To expand on the metaphor.

Real vanilla is a rare and expensive flavor, but it was bastardized through the invention of synthetic vanillin, which is made from the waste products of paper production and petrochemicals.

I think there might be a lesson there somewhere.

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It's also worth noting that the song "Daisy Bell" has a very special meaning.

It's the first song to be sung by a computer, which was referenced by Stanley Kubrick in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Here it's used in another tech demo to show what was groundbreaking at the time.

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Every now and then I'm reminded of "Disregard This Play" (also known as "Bingo").

It's a film that came out on demo CDs in the 90s to advertise what is now known as Autodesk Maya.

Why this hasn't resurfaced as a viral video seems odd to me.

#Vimeo https://t.co/oBlD7nCrTi

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I feel like the cortical homunculus and the mercator projection are linked somehow.

Something about mapping distortions.

It's not orthographic, that's for sure.

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@politicalmath Spotify won't work. Too many choices, it's far too easy to jump from song to song. Decision fatigue, lack of constraints and all that.

Right now, CDs and Vinyl are very cheap second hand. It can be a good idea to start collecting a curated library of music in physical format.

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I've noticed a type of error I make when I try to write down a sentence, and then start revising it mid-sentence.

This usually ends up in a "frankensentence" of incompatible parts, and while there doesn't seem to be a good word for it, anacoluthon comes close.

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@kenzietuff in Minnesota, the Norwegian diaspora still wear bunad. Whenever I search for recipes and videos on how to make Norwegian traditional food like lefse and kromkaker, half of the results seem to be from Minnesotans trying to keep their traditions alive.

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@michaelmalice Sounds like the zoological analog to the turbo encabulator.