antonim

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

So, uh, what is the difference?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

At this point I doubt tankies should be much of a concern. What are they, 1-2% of the potential Dem voter base? I'd sooner worry about the indecisive ones who have seen the performances in the debate.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Tbh if there's a musician that deserves this sort of comments, Eno is definitely one of the best candidates.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This has to have some weird ass allegorical meaning.

EDIT: So apparently this is a picture from a "Stammbuch" ("friendship book") by some Ludwig Hetzer, from 1620. The scan of the book can be found here: http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/purl/bsz475519329 (at 12 recto; has lots of other fascinatingly weird drawings and miniature paintings).

The lower part of the page seems to be a dedication from a friend in Latin (seems to be referring to a birthday?), and above might be the text (probably a proverb) that explans the image but it's in Greek and I can barely decipher cursive Greek, much less figure out the meaning. The first word seems to be θεος (god), the last might be διχαζει (divide?).

Tbh just going off my intuition and the themes in other pictures in the book... the woman is poking the man with a stick with a heart-shaped ending, which could symbolise love/sexuality/marriage. So it could be like a caricature/"warning" showing a wife controlling her husband, literally pushing him around through emotional influence.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

This reminds me of the anti-wind-energy arguments about the turbines killing many birds...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (7 children)

there's only seven stories in the world

There isn't. That's a completely nonsensical statement, no serious scholar of litearture/film/etc. would claim something of the sort. While there have been attempts to analyse the "basic" stories and narrative structures (Propp's model of fairy tales, Greimas' actantial model, Campbell's well-known hero's journey), they're all far from universally applicable or satisfying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It can vary from place to place...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

tunes

That's an element of a musical piece (or song, etc.), not a piece in itself.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Just eat everything so you don't have to put it back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

OP's gif literally talks about 'world news', that's why I focused on that sub. The division between 'news' (=American news) and 'world news' (=non-American) has been established on reddit probably like a decade ago because American news indeed used to overwhelm the rest; today there's not much of a point to complain or act surprised about this "system", considering that almost everyone is used to it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I dunno. As a Euro, I think World news (on Lemmy) is more or less fine as it is. The most important events in the world will be covered in English, and the texts will be formed in an appropriate way - as I've said previously it can be difficult to grasp the specific national context for many events, and a good news article will compensate. E. g. if a country has chosen a new president, a foreigner first has to learn if the country has a presidential or parliamentary system, or the info won't be understood properly.

I guess one could pick out the articles in their native language with more context, or add some context themselves?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Good question, though this was my first comment in the chain, I personally wasn't complaining (yet).

To be honest, I've just checked the "Top Day" sorting of /c/[email protected], and the news are all about non-USA topics. So in hindsight I guess OP was just doing the usual "lol self-centred Americans" dunking. It is a fact that American news have pushed out the other countries' news from the default news sub on reddit and here (or more likely the system was just replicated on Lemmy by default during the migration), so it's a sort of folklore reaction... :D

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