CuriousRefugee

No, no, it was originally "Taking God's name in vein," as saying the name of God out loud would allow Him into your blood. If you say the name of God, you allow him to inhabit your blood, gain your power, and become even more mighty. The ancient Hebrews feared God gaining too much power, as He would be able to destroy the world. Then Christians figured out that if they took Communion and instead drank the blood of Christ, they could reverse the Hebrew God's power and slowly increase their own until they could ascend to the heavens and do battle with the Almighty, empowered by His blood in their veins, rather than weakened by taking His name in vein. In this seventeen-part essay, I will describe how we can defeat God by

Mark Twain was a writer in the late 1800s in America who wrote some real novels, but also is mainly known for his humorous and satirical writing. He's exaggerating here for comedic effect, not trying to be serious. So it's probably a combination of the older language and the fact that he's trying to be funny.

One of my favorite passages from Mark Twain's "The Awful German Language":

There are ten parts of speech, and they are all troublesome. An average sentence, in a German newspaper, is a sublime and impressive curiosity; it occupies a quarter of a column; it contains all the ten parts of speech -- not in regular order, but mixed; it is built mainly of compound words constructed by the writer on the spot, and not to be found in any dictionary -- six or seven words compacted into one, without joint or seam -- that is, without hyphens; it treats of fourteen or fifteen different subjects, each inclosed in a parenthesis of its own, with here and there extra parentheses which reinclose three or four of the minor parentheses, making pens within pens: finally, all the parentheses and reparentheses are massed together between a couple of king-parentheses, one of which is placed in the first line of the majestic sentence and the other in the middle of the last line of it -- after which comes the VERB, and you find out for the first time what the man has been talking about; and after the verb -- merely by way of ornament, as far as I can make out -- the writer shovels in "haben sind gewesen gehabt haben geworden sein," or words to that effect, and the monument is finished. I suppose that this closing hurrah is in the nature of the flourish to a man's signature -- not necessary, but pretty. German books are easy enough to read when you hold them before the looking-glass or stand on your head -- so as to reverse the construction -- but I think that to learn to read and understand a German newspaper is a thing which must always remain an impossibility to a foreigner.

Interesting! Do you have a different word for the French " l'omelette", made with beaten eggs?

What the fuck did you just fucking say about Nicole, you little removed? Ill have you know she graduated top of her class in the Navy Seals, and shes been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and she has over 300 confirmed kills. She is trained in gorilla warfare and shes the top sniper in the entire Polish armed forces. You are nothing to her but just another target. She will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to her over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak she is contacting her secret network of spies across Poland and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. Youre fucking dead, kid. She can be anywhere, anytime, and she can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and thats just with her bare hands. Not only is she extensively trained in unarmed combat, but she has access to the entire arsenal of the Polish Marine Corps and she will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little clever comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldnt, you didn't, and now youre paying the price, you goddamn idiot. She will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.

Handmade puzzles, i.e., puzzles crafted intentionally by a real person almost never require guessing. However, a lot of "extreme" difficulty puzzles (or similar difficulty terms) in apps, newspapers, puzzle books, etc. are not handmade by a real person, but computer generated. There's probably a logic chain that's like 15 steps long that humans couldn't reasonably follow, but a guess is likely faster and more enjoyable.

Someone else recommended Cracking the Cryptic on YouTube, which is a great source - the daily puzzles are nice because you can follow along in the video if you're stuck, but they also have lots of apps with Sudokus that never require guessing. Another good source is Logic Masters Germany, which has lots of handmade Sudoku and other puzzles: https://logic-masters.de/

What counts as an "older game?" Surely not... thinks about the games I played last week ...Tie Fighter or Dune 2?

Oh hey, it's Sam Reich's dad!

I'm often skeptical of the idea of intersectionality. Trying to lump people who are black, queer, atheist, immigrants, feminists, etc. in one big group and have them fight for each other's rights isn't going to work super well, and any division can just detail the whole effort.

But the T in LGBT has been there since the very early days of the gay rights movement. Trans people were not just there at Stonewall, they were the crux of the riots, for fuck's sake! I grew up when people were literally trying to erase gay people from existence - the whole "is it a choice vs. are you born gay?" debate, which was both insulting and not important (oh, if it's a choice, then it's fine for you to oppress someone?) was erasure. Gay-erasure was a thing, everyone. Bi-erasure has been a thing for ages! Now I see the same thing happening to trans folks, and it's like a bunch of people are either forgetting it or willfully ignoring history.

It's not even just about what this comic is saying, i.e., if you let them come for people who are trans, then soon they'll come for you. Even if I knew 100% gay marriage was not under threat AT ALL, I'd still support the trans community, because it's not a tit-for-tat when someone's existence is at stake! Sure, we need to convince the public, sure it's hard and sure, there are some small (VERY small in terms of numbers) issues like trans athletes and regretful transitioners that maybe need some working through or compromises, just as gay marriage had to start with civil unions before the public accepted "marriage." But it's worth fighting for!

Okay, rant over, especially with me knowing Lemmy is fine with trans folks, y'all are good peeps, I just felt angry about this today.

I do want to highlight the dangers of just using translation, because I read this recipe and thought: Aligot doesn't have cheese?!? That's like half the dish! How do they get that cheese stretch with just cream?

To be fair to you, the site you linked does have a link on the words "fresh volume" in the recipe, which goes into more detail about the cheese. So with that info as well, I could probably work it out.

But just in text format, one of the most critical ingredients is missing. So I understand OP's need for French recipes written in English, as sometimes translations just don't work. I don't have a good recipe site, so I'd love the same thing.

Side note: Aligot is delicious, although I've only ever had it with hot spiced wine at a Christmas market, so not sure about other applications.

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My DAUGHTER shoots electricity from her fingers whenever anyone compliments her!