From my end, it looks like PugJesus accidentally combined the standard Lemmy-style format link with a browser URL that wasn’t the actual community, but a deleted comment. *shrug*

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In case anyone (like me) was having trouble clicking that as a hotlink, the URL destination of that should be:

https://piefed.social/c/historyruins

JK Rowling

No, Joanne!

I.e., I understand she greatly prefers (absolutely detests) being addressed that way. :D

Mark Evanier’s new book The Essential Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz: The Greatest Comic Strip of All Time is coming out in ~2 weeks.

He’s also going to be appearing at the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, California, and will evidently be signing copies at various places.

More info here:
https://www.newsfromme.com/2025/09/19/today-on-newsfromme-com/

Evidently the needles of some conifer species are quite nutritious, while others are notably toxic (like hemlock).

Hope they got the right one! (then again, maybe Finnish trolls have more resistant constitutions than us)

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Very good. Added.

Now let’s see you go to work! :D

No, I mean…
Foof
I’m European-based, for better or ze wurst.

Like-- what do we HAVE across these matters, eh?

Ah, excellent.

I love it!
However, many of those shows seem to be set in SE Asia, which is generally not the specific theatre we envision when we think of The Dark Ages, right?

I don’t know that I would personally make so many specific conclusions or necessarily group individuals together like that, but… as individual points I’ve no doubt that they do accurately describe various types of thinking and character.

I would also tend to think that if that whole package of characteristics does indeed describe lots of people in academia who happened to want to teach, then they’d either have to work to become better human beings, or get sort of ‘locked-in’ to being shitty, unpopular professors. Which could of course greatly impact their career upsides. *shrug*

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Apparently I was not qualified to have ideas because I’m not a professional scientist, so it’s guaranteed that my theories are trash right out the gate.

I sometimes get the sense that so much of the harshness of such replies come from active students in academia, not so much from professors and TA’s, etc. Probably multiple reasons for that, but one of them might be that they’re smack in the middle of a ‘this is the right way to learn and do things!’ process and mindset.

Whereas most teachers would probably be much more inclined to say something like “okay, let’s break those ideas down, shall we?” But already being teachers, they’re probably plenty occupied with such, and not as much of a regular online presence. Or something like that, haha…

Well, I… guess that answers the question.

Thank you for answering!

(hmm, where does the word “answer” come from, anyway?)
(it seems so odd across common English)

Je crains que ce soit un service payant, monsieur.

…

Interesting. You sound old as hell (like myself), but someone who took a different path.

I tended to do ‘forums’ while you got the good ol’ newsgroups, it sounds like?

Oh wow, thank you so much for that, FP. Golly.

Okay, I’ll… need to get some of that stuff at other places, since my local ‘super’ doesn’t stock them. Right-then, to work!

When Asia and India start getting as round as Americans I’ll reconsider the evidence of toxic rice.

Hahaha. A nicely asshole reply to an asshole complaint. Bien joué, monsieur.

Enchanté!

I’ve known ‘FP’ for some time now, but I don’t believed we’ve had the pleasure, mssr.

Oh dear. :S

Appreciate your opinions (which I’ll need to research), and especially enjoyed the following:

Watermelons have a high water content but are not causal in drownings, but avoid eating watermelons while actively drowning… same thing

😂

(oh my, that’s a good one)

Glad you picked up the reference there, compañito. XD

P.S.: “Naw Jawn, are there really that many girls named <Johnny> in NYC?”
–Bennett Cerf, on “What’s my Line?”