Founder of European Graphic Novels, Aug '23 on Lemm.ee. Still going strong, now on PieFed. :D

I prefer to lean friendly & understanding, yet as someone dealing with a terminal disease, I’ll admit that irritability can happen fast. Eh, nous faisons ce que nous pouvons. 🙄

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  • Sounds sadly unsurprising, social media’s toxic disruptive effects, as well as the influence of the far-right.

    I started to write something about patriarchy right here, and it got longer and longer, so I’m going to keep developing it and post it to !askhistorians@piefed.social in a bit. But in very brief, I believe that patriarchy is part of a late-stage power grab that arose out of early agriculture and civilisation. Patriarchy isn’t our natural state, and for sure deserves pushback. This relates to the fact that the whole idea of ‘TradWives’ is largely nonsense, directly related to the invention of a rich male-dominated hierarchy. I might sound like a kook with all that, but my working conclusions are heavily based on science and history, and I’ll try to fully explain in that coming post. Cheers.









  • Kinda reminds me of modern TEVA sandals for men-- for whatever reason, there’s this useless extra margin around my walking-sandal, which might be as much as ".5 extra all around. It winds up making my shoe footprint that much larger than my actual foot, which sorta makes me feel like I’m wearing boats for shoes, at times.

    It’s also caused me to trip on things and almost fall down, a couple times. Because of that useless extra margin.

    Funnily enough, I was in a bit of a bind at one point, needed to buy whatever a local store happened to have, and wound up going with a pair of KEEN womens’ shoe-sandals. Those things are awesome IMO. They conform exactingly to my foot, and I actually feel more athletic and foot-safe, just wearing them.

    Based on what I’m seeing of these golden slippers (particularly the strap), kid Tut’s actual feet might have been almost half the size of the actual shoe, lol.



  • Wow, that’s a lot more interesting explanation than I was expecting. oO

    So you’re Norwegian, is it? English your 2nd language?

    By comparison, I definitely don’t mind official French resisting too many loanwords and slang, if only as an A2 French-learner, but… actually that stuff’s probably a joke to most French-speaking non-academics, I suppose.


    Okay, trying to sign up now as you’ve got me curious. Looks like the Membership button from the PieFed side works differently now, so we’ll see what happens…



  • Pre-Germany by a matter of many, many centuries, but I take your point. Also, specifically from an Anglo-Saxon, West Germanic fork that is considerably different from other forks, for example High German as I understand it. Also, English has also been a heavily Norman-French influenced language for almost a full millenium.

    So bottom line, one might say that English is an olde French-West Germanic language with a load of influences from Latin, etc, that morphed over time just like most major languages do.

    What really is the point in trying to artificially curate it, @vegafjord@slrpnk.net?


  • Americans aren’t overweight because of the “ultra-processed” portion of our high-calorie high-salt diet. Americans are overweight because our diet is high-calorie and high-salt!

    Oh, I’d argue strongly that the former is also a factor. For one thing, the whole idea of calories in-calories out is a highly flawed concept that whiffs a lot on how the body actually processes foods. Things like resistant starches and slow-digesting grains are key in absorbing food in a consistent manner that avoids glycogen spikes and delivers a smoother energy experience that helps cut down cravings and vicious junk-food circles, so to speak.

    Also, the more processed a food is, typically the less vitamins, minerals, fibre, phytochemicals and so forth it contains, all things the body needs and even craves. And there’s a natural tendency to eat when one feels a lack of something, which can be some or all of those things above.