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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They are liberals with paper thin corporate-friendly politics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That user who suggested we 'help' is either malicious or ignorant. Because help doesn't mean we release the reserves of money we've stolen from the Afghans. It means invade them again, whether she means it or not.

The best thing we can do now is let the Afghans be sovereign and no longer interfere (which won't happen). You can expect nothing good socially from there, as the Americans helped the Taliban defeat local progressive and secular forces in the 70s. All we can hope for is for them to eventually stand up on their own two feet.

Anyone who whines about the plight of Afghan women is either doing propaganda or is misled. Afghan women have children too btw - children that are starving - have Biden release the reserves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Feels like a geopolitical issue more than a religious issue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The downvotes are probably because you seem to 'ignore' the US role in arming the Taliban.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The soviets didn't even like them iirc. Very sad situation all round.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They weren't good because they were reds. They weren't even really RU/SU-aligned. They were good because they were progressive and also happened to be neutral in terms of foreign affairs. But they learnt that the US funded the taliban and that's why the reds were invited in. The US got word. And disaster ensued.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Rebuilding translates to funding the lavish lifestyles of our puppets. Very colonial.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Fight your own fights.

Agree with all but this. We did start it. And we'll learn no lessons.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sadly Bill Clinton and Tony Blair backed Putin initially. It's not totally the people's fault.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The lemmydotworld admins are preemptively defederating from far left hexbear. Defederation is supposed to be the last resort. The ironic thing is, only a few weeks ago we had redditors calling Lemmy devs tankies and telling people not to come here lol. And now we're losing potential users because of paranoia from lemmydotworld admins.

Clowns everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, I did. Wow, I'm happy to know that it works. The double notifications are wierd and a touch annoying, (something for devs to fix).

I'm happy it's worked. But so long as I'm replying to you I suppose I don't need to tag you.

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Entwives (www.explainxkcd.com)
 

Title text: No, we actually do have a woman who's basically part of our fellowship. She lives in Rivendell, you wouldn't know her.

 

The actor – now 35-years-old – said via LadBible: “I was told in no uncertain terms by Alan Rickman, ‘don’t step on my fucking cloak’. I sort of giggled, the Death Eaters and I looked at each other [like] ‘is he joking?’ It quickly became apparent that he was definitely not joking.

“The next take, the director was very keen for me to walk as close as I can to Alan, and we got about half way down the Great Hall before [mimes getting choked around the neck]. You have to bear in mind that his cloak was attached around his neck. [I] nearly killed the poor man. Then he turned around again and gave me a look that you never ever want to see.”

“Very luckily, the next take someone else stepped on his cloak, so that kind of took the heat away from me.


The upcoming television reboot of the fantasy franchise was confirmed by HBO earlier this year, and will be the first-ever series based on the iconic books.

 

Link: archive.org/...

Are you guys doing the same?

I tend to rewatch the movies around Christmas personally tbh.

:)

 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/1462625

Very curious to know about it 😎 Do not be shy, just share it (no judgement).

(reposted because I got brigaded earlier by new athiest neckbeards.)

Ambient World does more of those atmospheric music and ambience videos if you like these.

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I saw this other guy asking how you'd download protected drive only view documents. So that reminded me of that other annoying characteristic of PDFs. They're 'protected'.

How do you deal with PDFs that are inherently uncustomisable and have fixed formatting? I appreciate the KO Reader and other readers can do reflowable text, but I'd prefer not to and epubs/txt/any customisable format would be better.

Any good methods of PDF to text/epub out there?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2083957

The wizarding family of Potters descends from the twelfth-century wizard Linfred of Stinchcombe, ...whose nickname, ‘the Potterer’, became corrupted in time to ‘Potter’... His reputation as a well-meaning eccentric served Linfred well, for behind closed doors he was able to continue the series of experiments that laid the foundation of the Potter family’s fortune ...as the originator of a number of remedies ...including Skele-gro and Pepperup Potion. His sales of such cures to fellow witches and wizards enabled him to leave a significant pile of gold to each of his seven children upon his death.

So that's how the Potter family initially get their wealth. Fanfiction writers often attribute it to 'Sleekeazy’s Hair Potion' which is also fact but more recent.

Linfred’s eldest son, Hardwin, married a beautiful young witch by the name of Iolanthe Peverell, who came from the village of Godric’s Hollow. She was the granddaughter of Ignotus Peverell.

Incidentally or otherwise knowing Rowling, Stinchcombe happens to lie 'west of Dursley'.

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The wizarding family of Potters descends from the twelfth-century wizard Linfred of Stinchcombe, ...whose nickname, ‘the Potterer’, became corrupted in time to ‘Potter’... His reputation as a well-meaning eccentric served Linfred well, for behind closed doors he was able to continue the series of experiments that laid the foundation of the Potter family’s fortune ...as the originator of a number of remedies ...including Skele-gro and Pepperup Potion. His sales of such cures to fellow witches and wizards enabled him to leave a significant pile of gold to each of his seven children upon his death.

So that's how the Potter family initially get their wealth. Fanfiction writers often attribute it to 'Sleekeazy’s Hair Potion' which is also fact but more recent.

Linfred’s eldest son, Hardwin, married a beautiful young witch by the name of Iolanthe Peverell, who came from the village of Godric’s Hollow. She was the granddaughter of Ignotus Peverell.

Incidentally or otherwise knowing Rowling, Stinchcombe happens to lie 'west of Dursley'.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1882319

This is a fan made audiobook and is as described. The immersive soundscape experience involves background sounds, chatter, music and more. It's genuinely a great piece of work especially for an enthusiast's effort.

It may be removed by youtube soon, so here is an alternative link: https://castbox.fm/channel/Harry-Potter-|-Immersive-Soundscape-id5488497

Dive into Harry’s second year at Hogwarts with an immersive soundscape audio experience of the story by J.K Rowling - for those who like the movies, games and books, and want a little of both!

Narration, voices and edit by me. Music by John Williams, Jeremy Soule, J Scott Rakozy, Chuck E. Myers, Peter Murray and special thanks to Brigid Kaelin for her amazing musical saw orchestra! You can find her channel here - / @brigidkaelin

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1920660

Jim Kay's illustration is a cornucopia of Diagon Alley places in a row. The details are abundant and it now features as our community's banner.

The site I extracted it from allows you to look at the details closely - and has a related challenge:

Unlock activities by finding these items. When you have found them all, you will receive a magical certificate.

A red dragon with a book and quill

A sea-faring unicorn

A witch and a Golden Snitch

A potted sunflower

An elephant and castle

A white cat on a roof

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1883631

I found a rare cool resource in the form of a comment from the old place about the various accents of the characters of Harry Potter, in the films. This is not my post or comment. Credit to Travy911


Harry (Daniel Radcliffe): Contemporary RP accent

Ron (Rupert Grint): Speaks with more of a Cockney accent in the earlier movies but transitions into a less posh sounding contemporary RP accent than Radcliffe and Watson. Grint has commented himself on how surprised he is by how Cockney he sounds in the earlier films.

Hermione (Emma Watson): Contemporary to classic RP. Watson sounds the most posh out of the trio.

Most of the cast speak with contemporary or classic RP. Many of the older actors especially would use classic RP as that would have been the go-to accent in the earlier days of British film industry. The following exceptions are below however.

From the remaining Weasleys, Ginny (Bonnie Wright) has a contemporary RP accent. Percy (Chris Rankin) has what approaches classic RP which would reflect the character's social climbing ambitions. Mark Williams, Julie Walters, James Phelps, Oliver Phelps (Arthur, Molly, Fred and George) are all from the West Midlands which has its own distinct accent(s). This can be heard very faintly in their accents with Williams probably having the strongest accent. But Brummie (Birmingham accent, Birmingham the biggest city in the West Midlands) and Black Country accents (the surrounding area) can be much stronger. Domhnall Gleeson (Bill) is Irish but adopts a sort of Cockney-ish accent in the few lines he has as Bill.

Seamus (Devon Murray) and Luna (Evanna Lynch) have Irish accents. Murray and Lynch both grew up close to Dublin but Murray's accent is closer to a working class Dublin accent. Lynch's accent is more faint, neutral sounding and difficult to place in an exact region, heard in a lot of young Irish people. Rhys Ifans (Xenophilius) is Welsh but adopts a similarly neutral Irish accent. Xenophilius and Luna's nationality is never confirmed in the books.

Brendan Gleeson (Moody) is Irish and uses his natural Dublin accent in the role. Moody's nationality is never given in the books so not sure where you got Scottish from.

Richard Harris (Dumbledore in the first two movies) uses his natural Irish accent. Harris was a classically trained actor and spent much of his adulthood in Britain so it is mostly a soft Irish accent with the tiniest English lilt. Michael Gambon (Dumbledore in the later films) has a more pronounced English accent but has an Irish lilt to certain words to honour Harris' portrayal. Gambon was born in Ireland but primarily raised in England.

Katie Leung (Cho) and Sean Biggerstaff (Oliver Wood) are both from Glasgow and have typical Glaswegian accents. Katie Leung's accent is less strong and she acknowleded her Glasgow accent is stronger when around family on James and Oliver Phelps' podcast. Cho and Oliver's nationalities are never confirmed in the books.

Maggie Smith (McGonagall) is English but adopts a Scottish accent for the role, more like an Edinburgh accent. McGonagall was always implied to be Scottish in the books and Rowling confirmed she was from Caithness which is in rural northern Scotland. The Edinburgh accent is considered the "posh" accent in Scotland so makes sense that McGonagall might speak with this accent so she's more understood by students.

Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid) is Scottish but adopts a West Country accent for role of Hagrid, which makes sense as Rowling writes his dialogue in a West Country accent.

Matthew Lewis (Neville) maintains his strong Northern Yorkshire accent in the role.

Shefali Chowdhury (Parvati) is from Birmingham and has the accent. Afshan Azad (Padma) who is from Manchester and has a Manchester accent confirmed in a YouTube video that she was asked to adopt Chowdhury's Birmingham accent for Padma as she states she's quite good at accents.

David Tennant is Scottish but like many of his famous roles has adopted a contemporary RP English accent as Barty Crouch Jr. Fiona Shaw (Petunia) is Irish but mostly has a classic RP accent as Petunia. Her Irish accent is more pronounced in the deleted Deathly Hallows scene where she acknowledges death of her sister. Shirley Henderson (Myrtle) and Kelly Macdonald (Helena Ravenclaw) are also Scottish but adopt RP English accents for their roles. Ian Hart (Quirrel) has a Liverpool accent but sounds more RP in the movie.

The international cast featured in Goblet of Fire are all cast appropriately based on their nationalities in the book and have the natural accents that go with it. Clémence de Poesy (Fleur) is French and Stanislav Ivaneski (Viktor Krum) is Bulgarian like their characters. Frances de la Tour (Madame Maxime) is English but with French ancestry and seems to adopt a decent French accent. Predrag Bjelac (Karkarofff) is Czech-Serbian. Karkaroff's nationality is never confirmed in the books but his name is Slavic in origin, which is the language group both Czech and Serbian belong too (although Slavic is large language family so someone with more knowledge could probably talk more about this).

Lee Ingleby (Stan Shunpike) has a strong Cockney accent in role, as Rowling wrote Stan's dialogue in this accent. Nick Moran (Scabior) also has a Cockney accent as Scabior.

Hopefully that covers all the accents! 😁


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