JohnnyEnzyme
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- Comment on While everyone laughs that trump shit himself im almost certain the guy has an embarrassment kink. 2 days ago:
Hence my 1st sentence, 2nd para. Anyway, I did try to directly explain the mechanisms, but of course that’s just one person’s POV. Cheers.
- Comment on While everyone laughs that trump shit himself im almost certain the guy has an embarrassment kink. 3 days ago:
From what I understand, he’s been like this the vast bulk of his life. For example, back at Wharton he was evidently a dreadful student, but Fred’s money was enough to prop up his degree, anyway. In that situation I think most people would otherwise have been somewhat or very much humiliated by crashing out like that, but for him, it was one in a long series of situations, feeling empowered by exceptionalism, considering himself ‘special’ for being able to break the common rules with impunity, and do whatever he wanted. Just look at the beauty pageant shenanigans and countless other examples to see situations where embarrassment just doesn’t seem to register with him. All part of the elitist mindset of ‘rules and norms are for other people; they don’t apply to me.’
For decent people, I’m sure it makes perfect sense to otherwise interpret much of that as an embarrassment kink, but (again) I think it’s more a case of it largely not registering with people like that. Also kind of goes hand in hand with being a professional bullshit artist– as in, they can do the worst things right in front of you, with the confidence of being able to persuade you that you didn’t actually see what you just witnessed. And its not just being a good BS artist at that point; it’s also a case of being backed by real wealth, power, influence, and underlying threats, persuading loads of people to keep showing him the knee even years ago. And that gets normalized over time…
- Comment on While everyone laughs that trump shit himself im almost certain the guy has an embarrassment kink. 3 days ago:
Maybe, but I tend to think it more typical of pathological narcissists to be only vaguely aware of such things. There is no shame; there is no self-examination, but there might be a more practical sense of ‘this might possibly hurt my position or self-interests.’
- Comment on There isn't a person on earth that doesn't look cooler with sunglasses on. 3 days ago:
I set out to find some counter-examples, but couldn’t really find any. So here’s my Q…..
Why is OP’s assertion true? What is it about having ‘void eyes’ that routinely triggers other peoples’ ‘cool flag?’
- Comment on I worked some prison and jails. They always put this big heavy green thing on you if your on suicide or solitary watch. My question is if Epstein was on watch then how did he suicide? 3 days ago:
…on the night he died.
The night he was garroted?
- Comment on Some rich person could cause a lot of chaos by bailing everyone out of jail that they can 5 days ago:
What if it sorta-kinda already happened, with the people in question furthermore being employed in federal immigration services?
- Comment on what do I need to look for when buying running and pull up gloves? 1 week ago:
I’m no kind of expert, but I love my Bontrager (or other brand) fingerless riding gloves. I originally got them for cycling, but they’re so light and effective that I wear them year-round, pretty much. Unlike cotton (etc), they wick up moisture nicely.
https://www.google.com/search?udm=2&q=%22Bontrager%22+fingerless+riding+gloves
That said, yeah– when it gets much below 0°F, I’d say ditch the dang’ol riding gloves, lol.
- Comment on 430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Found 1 week ago:
Tool-use is seen today across a range of animal species, so it’s not hard to conceive of it being pretty ancient indeed in Earth history. Probably many millions of years old, in fact.
Also interesting here is that the 430k date means that the tools predated Sapiens, and was therefore down to a small handful of earlier human species.
- Comment on The Lord of the Rings spinoff the world needs right now isn’t Rings of Power or the Hunt for Gollum—it’s a film-length version of the Scouring of the Shire. 1 week ago:
Thanks for the extensive reply! Yeah, I’m one of those weirdos who loved the Silmarillion, even as a teenager. I guess I’ve read it about 4x over the years, and I generally found it way more rational and absorbing than something like Le Morte d’Arthur.
Trying to cover the whole book seems insane to me, but as mentioned above, I feel like major stories and chapters could very easily be turned in to some kind of effective adaptation. They more or less stand alone, compared to the brutal, endless slog of the overall elves against Morgoth arcs.
The time seems (and has seemed) really ripe for such stories to be told, that I hope the Estate can move forward in some useful way upon such stuff. That said, I can very much understand their unhappiness with Jackson’s TLotR movies, which were good, but way too ‘Hollywood’ for my taste across various scenes. I actually enjoyed the ‘making of’ mini-movies in the deluxe set far more than the movies themselves…
- Comment on The Lord of the Rings spinoff the world needs right now isn’t Rings of Power or the Hunt for Gollum—it’s a film-length version of the Scouring of the Shire. 1 week ago:
Okay, I see, but… is there some reason they wouldn’t be open to the idea of doing Silmarillion stories?
- Comment on Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is? 1 week ago:
languages that lack a set of rules to correctly pronounce every word ever are mental illnesses.
Yeah, I don’t know enough about French grammar and pronunciation rules, but I think part of the problem comes from them trying to maintain a written language that got left in the dust by the spoken language ages ago. So instead of updating the written one, they chose to ‘preserve history’ and add a landslide of little rules explaining separate cases, not just for pronunciation, but in a hugely systemic way. Native French-speakers have actually complained to me about that occasionally.
I could give you any Spanish word you don’t know and you wouldn’t miss pronounce it.
I love that about Castellano, just that some regions speed it up so much that I can barely catch it.
- Comment on Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is? 2 weeks ago:
Well.. I mean… what later become “English” branched off from its West-Germanic roots, long ago, and never did become “High German.” So theoretically, as an English-speaker, I have great familiarity with modern French, and we share the same basic sentence-structure as with modern German. Some of that is actually true. In practice, I could not be more of a complete dumbass upon those other languages.
TBC, I can speak Castellano and Français like someone with heat-stroke, and I can vaguely understand Dutch and German.
- Comment on Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is? 2 weeks ago:
Like learning Norwegian (bokmål) while living on the west coast.
In all honesty, I’d be absolutely terrified of trying to learn a Nordic language, which is absolutely NOT due to the lovely Nordic people I’ve met across the years.
It’s a “me” problem, and case-closed, please.
- Comment on Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate - Leiden Medievalists Blog 2 weeks ago:
Nou, bedankt!
‘stop having fun’ as another commenter’s meme here is saying.
Haha, a bit of truth balanced by a bit of cynicism, one supposes..? XD
Shit, I need to get off my arse…
https://piefed.social/c/eurographicnovels?tag=dutch - Comment on Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate - Leiden Medievalists Blog 2 weeks ago:
Thanks! But haha, that’s it? That’s the main critique?
- Comment on Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate - Leiden Medievalists Blog 2 weeks ago:
TL;DR?
- Comment on Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is? 2 weeks ago:
a lot of swallowed and mumbled consonants
This has been my experience learning French. The written language and the spoken one are pretty wildly out of tune, with up to ~5 letters at the ends of some words either not pronounced at all, or heavily swallowed.
The pronunciation of Castellano (i.e. a sister language) was vastly easier for me.
- Comment on Oldest cave painting could rewrite origins of human creativity 2 weeks ago:
The find also strengthens the argument that our species, Homo sapiens, had reached the wider Australia–New Guinea landmass, known as Sahul, by around 15,000 years earlier than some researchers argue.
57Kyrs ago there were SIX human species living at the time. Do they know for sure it was indeed Sapiens who made this..?
- Comment on Wait... Is Chewbacca a Spacesquatch? 2 weeks ago:
Sasquatch is an exiled Wookie.
Sasquatch might also be based on a collective memory / folklore of a 10ft tall great ape that actually existed early in Sapiens’ history:
- Comment on The Lord of the Rings spinoff the world needs right now isn’t Rings of Power or the Hunt for Gollum—it’s a film-length version of the Scouring of the Shire. 2 weeks ago:
A Netflix mini-series, perhaps?
Also, did they wind up adapting the major stories out of the Silmarillion, such as Beren & Luthien and Turin’s tragedy, etc? Those would seem to be the best candidates to me, following on the Jackson movies.
Instead they did… a forging of the rings series, I think?
- Comment on YSK Tips for a Winter Storm 2 weeks ago:
avoid cotton fabrics
Why?
If walking, keep your feet underneath your center of gravity
In fact, do the ‘penguin shuffle’ whenever in doubt!
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 2 weeks ago:
Assholes & idiots are gonna asshole & idiot, but this time around, I reckon some of them will fall off the wagon. We’ll see…
- Comment on If trump is really implicated in Epsteins pedo-ring what is your theory as to why this wasn't leaked by an opposition leader? 2 weeks ago:
Bullshit.
Hilary Clinton divorced Bill
*Hillary. And that never happened.
Your whole “both parties equally complicit” is such a load of horseshit, too. Russian asset much..?
- Comment on YSK: You can use uBlock Origin to filter Lemmy posts based on certain words 3 weeks ago:
The advantage with filtering keywords, Snot, is that you don’t have to waste any time at all curating communities.
- Comment on YSK: You can use uBlock Origin to filter Lemmy posts based on certain words 3 weeks ago:
Sorry, I can only upvote you with head-thumping enthusiasm.
- Comment on Why do your own farts smell so bad in the shower? 4 weeks ago:
explosive diarrhea
My lady, I’m afraid you’ve got more problems than even YOU suppose. Whew, laddie!
- Comment on Why do your own farts smell so bad in the shower? 4 weeks ago:
In which case, I hope for your sake that you don’t have or take care of a pet dog. You know, so as to avoid their butt-Olympics and pure love of… excrement.
- Comment on Even if you're living in a hot country, cold showers are disagreeable. 4 weeks ago:
I guess I’m one of those weirdos in a cold climate who likes finishing off my hot showers with cold water for a couple more minutes. I find it super-refreshing, and can almost relate to the ‘polar bear’ crowd, who seemingly like to finish their saunas off by jumping in to icy water.
I said “almost,” right?
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 4 weeks ago:
No one is even hinting at changing that for the future.
That’s not really true, though. AOC, Sanders and others have been ceaselessly vocal about these matters, directly influencing change. And unless there’s systemic, nationwide fraud at the voting booths in November (I mean, much more than the usual), then the so-called “GOP” currently in charge is going to be in deep trouble from that point on. At least going by precedent and current rules, which of course might be somehow subverted by the Orangies, such as a declaration of martial law, etc.
No one in a nation of pussies will stop him.
The people manning the actual equipment are still military lifers, far as I know. From what I understand, it’s those types of folks who’ve historically prevented global nuclear war every time there was a chance of it happening.
- Comment on We used to have TV repairmen who would come if dad couldn't fix it with the tube from the grocery store kiosk. Weird. 4 weeks ago:
I remember those, but for tape deck heads, not TV’s.
Anyway, Scirocco came with the very likely correct analysis, if you can see the other comments in this chain.