I am a dwarf and I’m digging a hole

Diggy diggy hole

Digging a hole.

Saw these guys open for Eluveitie a couple years ago without being too familiar with them. I had always assumed there were two vocalists, but no, that’s one person making all those sounds. Fucking impressive.

Mine autocorrects “the” to “ther” sometimes. Not even a damn word.

Maaaaybe an Alfa, but I’m not buying a damn Fiat.

Beer is arguably the foundation of human society. Grain (and the harvesting of it) is a building block of civilization, and beer is inextricably linked to that.

Nobody should be surprised. The Nazi’s ideas of eugenics were born in America. In 1939 the second-largest Nazi party was in America. A lot of Americans at the time thought we should be fighting for the other side.

I wish nothing but pain for this fuckhead. May he develop dementia and circle the drain for years, living in a puddle of his own mess, then die alone and sobbing the day before he would get the power to dissolve the trust.

There was a dude in Seattle who went by Phoenix Jones. He fashioned himself a masked vigilante, roaming the streets saving people from muggings and assaults.

Turns out he was mostly just picking fights with drunk frat guys. And we’re pretty sure he was dealing drugs and using the superhero facade to beat up his competition.

If the US leaves that alliance and then starts surreptitiously sending drone parts to Russia, it’ll get dicey.

If the AfD forms a coalition government with the normal conservatives and Germany decides to turn inwards and keep Deutsche money für die Deutscher, it’ll get dicey.

If Macron finally completes his heel turn and appoints Marine le Pen to interior secretary…

If Italy keeps going the way they’ve been going…

If the Finnish right decides that joining NATO was a mistake that let too many minorities in…

If the rest of Africa goes along with the Sahel nations and starts funneling their resources into the Russian war machine…

If Modhi lets Russia open more factories in India…

If China decides that they’re cool with sharing power on the global scale and fully buys in on the BRICS bloc…

Russia looks weak right now because the invasion has been such and embarrassment, but that can change surprisingly quickly. The global shift towards authoritarianism is coming hand-in-hand with a shift away from US/Eurocentric hegemony.

I didn’t think it was terrible. Set pieces were beautiful, acting was good, cinematography/framing was excellent. Pacing was a bit off, and there were some major plot points that kinda took me out of the immersion.

Yup. My partner’s dad speaks Spanish, German and English. As he gets older, he’s increasingly unsure which one he’s speaking.

I’m a native English speaker, speak ok German, and only a bit of Spanish. Communication is kinda tough.

Same. If somebody speaks to me in Spanish, half the time I react by speaking German.

I make sure to trim my hair and beard before I go through airport security. If I’m at all my normal disheveled self they hassle me.

Yup. The other day I was on the toilet and saw a really interesting article. It said “45 minute read” so I saved it instead of starting.

There are steps in between. I think the next one will be company towns. Massive company buys a giant plot of land in the middle of nowhere. Builds a whole business complex there. Offices, manufacturing plant, shipping/ receiving infrastructure, etc. Then they build track housing around it, build a company-run grocery store, a private school completely funded by the business, etc. Invite in a bunch of familiar national chain restaurants, but make sure they’re all franchised, so they’re owned and operated by the company.

Then they recruit. They offer half decent wages. Nothing great, but they sell it to people by offering to pay for moving costs and massive discounts on company-owned houses.

These houses are brand new and waycheaper than a condo in the city! [pre-fab, low-cost bullshit that looks good but disintegrates in a couple years]

Come meet the neighbors! They also work for us, so you’ve got a lot in common! Built-in new friend group! [your boss also loves a block away and pays attention to your social life]

Your kids can go to school for free! [where we teach them to be good wage slaves for the next generation]

Soon, there will be an entire town 100% owned and run by the company. Wages will stagnate, prices will skyrocket. Workers will get in debt, all owed to the company. People will start to realize, but what the fuck are they gonna do? Company owns their mortgage, which is now under water. They’ve lost contact with all their old friends, because they live three hours outside the city and have had to work every Saturday for months.

Viola. Entire areas of wage slaves.

*defenestrated

Well don’t tell me it’s got a damn plot twist. Defeats the point.

Colloquially it’s used as “like the Alps” as much as “of the Alps.”

Cirith Ungol, Wind Rose, Numenor.

So fucking glad I got to see these guys before Alexei passed. His combo of amazing guitar riffs and brutal vocals set the standard for death metal that everyone had been trying to live up to for decades.