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Ah, but “the clip” is prolly referring to basically the climax of the episode, if it’s the clip where the Doctor takes him to the Musée d’Orsay.

But you miss all the buildup of the episode, and personally I think Doctor Who is very good at it. They show Van Gogh’s desperation and loneliness in the episode. And then to have that sort of fantastical acceptance from the entire world.

There’s a lot of that sort of story in Doctor Who, I greatly recommend. As far as scifi goes, Dr Who is whimsical and emotional and doesn’t really care about tiny details of tech and lore as opposed to Star Trek which is like very methodical and logical and clinical.

In Doctor Who emotions are the hero in like at least half the stories. This wasn’t even one of them, just a random monster story basically.

Yeah reminder that Van Gogh didn’t sell but one of his own paintings during his lifetime for sure. Although he did sell a lot of other people’s paintings when he was 15 and worked in an art gallery.

I can’t find a specific clip but if people have seen Doctor Who Van Gogh episode, where he’s just treated like garbage and a shit painter.

I think on QI they also mentioned once he was just like a teacher in the UK at one point. There’s good jokes as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o2TBmLARlA

It’s not exactly the same for some of those abandoned cash-grabs I guess, but the point is we can’t really know, so I definitely agree with you that we shouldn’t just delete them.

Sorry I write on mobile, rarely proofread and it was probably a massive brainfart because I changed to take that screenshot.

I read this in my replied and 100% thought you were being sarcastic about some other comment I’ve made.

My pleasure, languages are infinitely intriguing.

Like one similar difference you can consider is the differences between languages which use logographic script and language which use phonographic script.

Just like how English struggles with standards of how to pronounce weird names, Chinese would struggle to write it down. As in if I wrote book and all my characters have weird names which don’t mean anything but are just weird nouns…

Just like English (and other languages) has to sort of invent or agree on how to pronounce a thing (“gif” vs “jif” anyone?), logographic scripts have to agree how to write it.

I take your point, but… well there are certain things.

For one the vowels are fucked because of the great vowel change.

I’ve never really had an issue with spelling English words like “necessary” (one of the most misspelled words), “diarrhoea” or things like that, because my brain sort of stores them the way I used to read them in Finnish before I started thinking in English. Whereas I do sometimes have trouble when people spell words out, because even to this day, the fact that the vowels are essentially in cipher (the most simple cipher possible but still technically a cipher) causing my brain to sometimes brainfart.

I don’t have trouble writing things people are spelling out, but out of those two things that’s the one I more have trouble with.

When you take an English word like geography and look at the IPA guide for it, it doesn’t even resemble the word most times; geography = /dʒiˈɒɡɹəfi

Whereas Finnish words end up looking like themselves because the language is just said as it’s written. Which I think won’t make sense even as an idea to most English speakers lol, not having a thing called “pronunciation”.

hevonen (horse) = [ˈheʋonen], hernekeitto (pea soup) = [ˈherneˌkːei̯tːo], tule! (come) [ˈtuˌle]

As in if you take 3 native English speakers and 3 native Finnish speaker and give them all a list of, say, random words/names from other languages.

The English speakers will sort of try to guess the pronunciations based on their understanding of any given languages. Ie they’ll be more or less guesses, but maybe sometimes will be more or less correct. You’ll get 3 completely different pronunciations for each word.

The Finns on the other hand, will butcher every single pronunciation unless it happens to coincide with how Finnish reads things, but they’ll all butcher the names in the exact same way.

That’s a very anglocentric take on how things are things are “supposed” to be spelled.

As someone who was not born speaking English but now does, I maintain English is the weird one.

A healthy diet is a balanced one

That’s why you can’t say things like “x is healthier than y” when comparing something that isn’t like eating lead

I would definitely say Americans shouldn’t be peeling the pith away, but then I don’t really think anyone should.

What seeds?

But if I have subpar mandarins and there’s the occasional one i usually just swallow it with the juices.

Peels can be used for drinks.

Can we agree that it’s healthier to eat both?

As in not remove the pith? Yes, we agree.

As if it mattered where you were. You were trying to go “uhm, aktually”, but it’s incorrect info, so I corrected it.

For most people, the actual fruit is the healthier choice. Eating what is essentially pure fiber without even any nutrients (they’re all in the fruit itself mostly) wouldn’t really be the “more healthy” choice for anyone.

You’ve just heard a parent say “actually that’s the healthiest part” when you were a kid and didn’t like eating it, but it’s more folk wisdom because moms don’t like cleaning little bits of pith from the floor than anything that relies on actual nutritional science.

You’re welcome.

That’s rather simplistic.

If you need fiber and usually eat too many sugars, then yeah, maybe.

If on the other hand you’re malnourished and have scurvy, the actual fruit would be the “most healthy.”

I’m really not, and that’s why it’s hilarious. You know, if it weren’t so serious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_disinformation

Too bad you guys don’t have better education.

This feels like having a boxing match with a 12-year old; really unsporting.

How many people do you know who’ve lost family/friends in the meatgrinder Putin is putting them into? And you’re too much of a coward to do anything about it, actually going out of your way to perpetuate the status quo.

Eww.

Oh yeah, Americans who spew Russian propaganda purposefully and constantly talk of “the West” and have issues with their grammar and English expressions are “born&bred” Americans?

Hmm… I wonder, which is more common? A “born&bred red-blooded American who’s devoted to Putin and Russia” … OR… a lying Russian? Hmm. Being a Finnish person, we have some history with Russia, and I can tell you for a fact that lying Russians are more commonplace than Americans who are fanatically devoted to Russia and say things like “reality has a well known Russian propaganda bias”.

It’s genuinely hilarious how you don’t realise how fucking see-through you are. It’s like watching a toddler play kitchen and then make you eat their “food”. It’s hilariously cute, but in a very stupid way. So you play along while allowing them their silliness. I’m not debating you, I’m playing with you.

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“Russian propaganda doesn’t exist. But reality has a well known Russian propaganda bias. Although Russian propaganda doesn’t exist. And definitely not on the internet. And definitely not on Lemmy. I’m a born&bred American btw, trust me comrades. Don’t vote, by the way. Also, did you know that Ukraine is filled with Nazis and thus we should thank glorious Putin for his courageous leadership in his special military operation. Btw Russian propaganda doesn’t exist. And I’m American. Спаси Бог.”

Less than a third of a page. ~150 words. “Essay.” Russian reading skills have really gone down since Tolstoy, apparently.

Thanks for that comment though, it exemplifies why people should stay away from lemmy.ml.

“Oh my government disappears people, attacks civilians, hospitals, destroys cultural heritage, rapes, and forcefully relocates children? I’mma pretend I didn’t see that.”

That’s so inhumane and disgusting it turns my stomach.

Yeah, they are public. They’ll see you’ve never admitted to them. You just constantly claim you have, while being utterly scared and shaking in your pink panties afraid of just saying “yes, Russia commits horrific war crimes and Putin should be held responsible for all his crimes”.

They’ll also see that I’m in the Finnish reserves and you’re a child who can’t do anything except keep hitting the floor, crying, screaming “Nazi nazi nazi” because I have military training and you do not, and you’re jealous, so you keep reiterating “you must be a nazi because of a cross THAT IS UBIQUITOUS in military insignia which I’m gonna keep having an itkupotkuraivari and pretend is a nazi symbol”.

I remember you ran from the thread were in last time as well, and not a single time have you answered the question. Just like Davel, you pathetically think you can actually get away with “I’ve already answered that several times” when everyone can see you haven’t.

Are you excited about your upcoming military service, kiddo? You get to suck fascist Russian military cock and be blown up to millions of pieces by Ukrainian drones. <3

https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/1daqi53/the_most_graphicclearenemy_visible_combat_footage/

I love watching videos of orcs blowing up. None of those lives matter, because Russia is a totalitarian shithole breaking international laws. Fuck fascists like Putin, who you let penetrate you and fucking love it. Blyat!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Courage_(Russia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_“For_Life_Saving” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSB_Border_Service_of_Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Kaliningrad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirov_Oblast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perm_Krai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borisovka,_Borisovsky_District,_Belgorod_Oblast

Goddamn Russia is SUCH A NAZI place according to your logic. Why is that?

You still can’t say “fuck Putin I hope he dies”. I can, just like I can say “I hope all Nazis die”. Guess you just “can’t even imagine fighting Russians and Nazis”.

Literally every word out of your mouth is an admission. You’re a nationalist, that’s why you keep avoiding admitting Russian war crimes. I criticise Finland all the time. Unlike you, I don’t have a preferred flavour of injustice. You’re just a coward who doesn’t dare to speak up against the injustice in your country because you’re literally shaking in your little panties that you’ll be picked up from the street and vanished. You know, since your country does that shit regularly.

Hey, look at how fucking NAZI Russia is;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Courage_(Russia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_"For_Life_Saving" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSB_Border_Service_of_Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Kaliningrad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirov_Oblast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perm_Krai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borisovka,_Borisovsky_District,_Belgorod_Oblast

All those fucking Nazi symbols in your military and localities. Why is Russia so fucking Nazi, man, do explain? You know, since me and my family have actually fought Nazis, unlike you. You’re so sore and angry you can’t even answer a simple yes or no question; did Russia illegally invade Ukraine and still commits horrific war crimes there? (The point here is to show to people just how desperately people like you avoid answering shit like that and just how ubiquitous cowardly Russian Putin lovers are on Lemmy, especially .ml hexgrad etc)

He banned me as much as he could, let’s put it that way.

Because I called him out for larping a “born&bred red-blooded American” as he’s very clearly Russian.

He, like you, can’t actually answer a simple yes or no question. Did Russia break international law with it’s war of aggression invading the sovereign state of Ukraine, and is still there to this day, committing horrific war crimes? Y/N?

Oh that was you? That was like a week ago, guess it really stuck in your mind. Remember how everyone laughed and downvoted you, because it’s ridiculous to call a Finnish AUK-cross an “iron cross”. The cross is ubiquitous in military history and insignia. I dare you to name a military which doesn’t use it.

Using your logic the highest military award in Russia is a Nazi award.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_St._George

“You’re trying to deflect my childish attempts at avoiding answering any criticism of Russia because I’m afraid my Internet use is monitored and they’ll kill me if I dare admit to all the war crimes Russia has committed”

See I can say: “Fuck nazi scum AND Fuck Putin and scum who listen to him and perpetrate the war crimes.”

You can’t even imagine fighting against Nazism AND Russia.

My family has done both for roughly 100 years. Unlike yours.

I’m trained to do both (as in we have actually good education, unlike Russia) and I’m in the reserves, whereas you’ve only seen military weapons in movies and your wet dreams.

Wet dreams in which you dream of committing war crimes in Ukraine with your comrades.