My first thought was a cannon that shoots basketballs. Not sure why there’s a coffin attached though

(Like in LEGO Star Wars in the bonus city thingy at the end of the game)

Using “nuclear” as an example of how to correctly pronounce a different word is a bold choice

I don’t see any issues as long as you carted away all of the material that you excavated. You could even build up the land to make it taller and harder to flood.

But unless you did it without burning any fossil fuels, then the additional greenhouse gases would cause more ice to melt. And you’d run the risk of fucking up ocean currents and weather systems which, again, could worsen global heating…

On second thoughts, maybe hold off on that plan for now

Yep, I just love having the Internet restricted for me! /s

Thanks a lot for the in-depth answer :)

I really don’t get the hate for the Library. It’s one of my favourite levels in CE. The Flood are a creepy and scary new enemy (on the first play-through at least…) who back you into a corner and attack relentlessly. You’re left fighting for your life with no way to retreat or charge past. It’s one of the rare times in the whole series where you’re forced to play defensively.

It’s also the level that introduces rocket launcher flood, wtf is up with them? So unfair that the enemies get such a good weapon!

Perfect answer, thank you. I was specifically asking about names from a shared language.

I like to remind myself of the quote about anti-Semites (which applies more broadly to fascists in general, and more broadly still to some on the political right): they don’t believe what they are saying because words and truth aren’t important them. As long as the right people are being protected and the wrong people are being hurt, that’s all that’s important.

Never believe that anti‐Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti‐Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert.

From Jean-Paul Sartre, Anti-Semite and Jew (emphasis mine) https://antilogicalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/anti-semite-and-jew.pdf

16 words, wtf

People with a poop fetish right now 🤤

Don’t leave us in suspense, did you feed the fish or not?

It’s required by law in Ireland that you wake up every 30minutes to pray and curse England. You might as well check your emails since you’re awake anyway

Literally as soon as I was finished with my tantrum, I started thinking of ways to fix it.

I think it’s a really good example of a principal that a lot of us can struggle with - sometimes you just have to feel your emotions and let them rule you for a minute in order to deal with them. (although I wouldn’t usually recommend this for anger of course.) But we often try to bottle up our sadness or frustration or even our joy, instead of feeling them and letting them pass by us. It’s much quicker and easier to process some emotions by letting them happen.

In this specific situation, I should have a) stopped sooner; or b) found something to destroy that didn’t matter. But, I still did feel a lot better for having it out of my system even if it was silly to damage my work

Thanks for the solidarity, I will do my best

Yep, that would be nice

I’m in a similar situation - I badly hurt my best friend from school and we stopped talking. This was over a decade ago. I know from mutual friends that she’s moved away, she’s happy and has children now. Although I really regret how I acted, I think it’s best to just leave it in the past. No need to dredge up old pain for her just so I can feel better for apologising.

Idk if that’s the right answer, but it’s what I’ve chosen.

Excellent! Glad to see them go.

For the wording of the new ban – you are not banning politics, you are banning party politics. For example, stories about better distribution of food is political but acceptable. Stories about Labour winning an election is party politics and unacceptable (even though the assumed readers of Lemmy would find it to be positive).

I think I’ve understood correctly and I hope that helps. That’s the wording we use where I volunteer and it works well for us.

Very detailed, and that explains a lot, thank you.

It’s ok, we have hamlets here too. I live in one!

That’s different from anything I’ve seen in the UK. Every house seems to be surrounded with lawns and so spread out, and yet you still need whatever that giant building with the green roof and car park is. Presumably a shop? Why’d you need such a big building for so few people? And why are all the houses detached with no terraces? Very strange…

(All of that was rhetorical, I’m sure it makes sense if that’s what you’re used to. And having more room to spread out and less history to deal with)