Technically it’s not how it happened in the book IIRC. Nobody was throwing corpses into that well. Just stones. And it wasn’t in the hall of Mazarbul. It was in some guards’ room near the gate.
Their entry into Moria, bothering the nice guy guarding it, was enough to wake the Balrog.
This is really, really sad. It’s also sad for the Orcs, BTW - they expected a real battle in their lives. Frustration all around.
I’m thinking of going stoic and dropping anything Android, but this would require setting up an emulator working good enough for WhatsApp, Google Authenticator, MS Authenticator and probably something else.
3 shites dropped.
That Americans are actually not Americans, but illegal aliens from Europe?..
OK, I haven’t been in the US.
They didn’t live too long. Parasites in garum, parasites in water, epidemics, wars.
The fact that harm from lead they even noticed is remarkable, considering how many other things there were to fear. A very subtle civilization.
Cast iron is, of course, the best. But cooking in that takes more time and energy.
Guess it didn’t work out too well for them since they had their bank accounts frozen (possibly assets seized)
There’s that funny, but sad thing about laws and how not to break them - a lot of it in daily life depends on instinct, like “how not to make your Windows 98 installation hang”. And those instincts, the aesthetics of what you should and shouldn’t do, are very different between USA and Russia.
Fraud aside.
and then proceeded to speak ill of Russia (including they don’t speak English there)
LOL. What did they expect, “traditional values” are usually less demanding in terms of knowing foreign languages.
I mean, there was some farmer guy on YouTube who actually managed to move to Russia, create a business and all, who also learned Russian on a good level, but that fact alone (learning a new language on a fluent level being an adult) shows him to be a very unusual person. And I don’t remember any “traditional values” being among his reasons.
to escape the “far leftist” and “lgbtq ideology” here in Canada
The stronger your country and civilization group are, the harder it is to see past internal discourse towards outside reality.
So I’m not surprised that Americans and Europeans might often see their daily news as the absolute truth and be hostile to people trying to tell them otherwise. As with, for example, demonized Iran (not that theocracy is good, it’s just that in foreign policy it’s a better country that Russia, Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia, China, …).
For such people the internal discourse is that Russia is somehow related to their political views. While in reality it’s anything but “traditional” in the American sense.
He’ll have lots of competition here. Won’t be anything as big.
It’s Russia, the whole idea of a howto guide to dealing with bureaucracy that works is, ahem, contradictory to its essence.
Most of them are going to give up before getting here. Sadly. It would be interesting to watch.
I say that as a Russian (EDIT: citizen), let them do it. The squeal they’ll raise when they realize what they’ve gotten into is going to make life here interesting in a good way for some time.
The problem is folks seeking justice for slights that aren’t so heinous and the whole drawing the line thing.
The problem of there being no justice to seek for would be worse. And attractiveness of using legal systems is in them being actually useful for victims.
The solution is making “black lives matter” more before they are taken, so that people of color would have bigger economic and social power.
That’s how these things work, humans are ultimately apes, this doesn’t happen very consciously.
Legal systems exist to make simpler, faster, cheaper, better what you’d do anyway.
So everything inside them doesn’t matter if they don’t work.
It’s like some kind of gold standard, where paper money is guaranteed with gold, while laws are guaranteed with violence. If you are willing to go to court, but are not willing to use whatever means you have, then eventually the courts will just confirm the abuse.
Anyway, about personally important things, there are many people thinking that any part of historical Armenia can be legally in a Turkic state. Imagine that. Fuck them and their idea of law.
Now with that said, it is not your place to obtain whatever you may think is “justice”. We have no need or want for vigilantism, all that creates is more opportunities for mistakes to happen and innocents hurt.
Yes it is your place. If the law doesn’t account for that and unjustly puts you behind bars, the problem is with the law.
What it definitely does is prevent you from verifying vote results and specific votes. While people selling votes will (in our day) just make a photo and send it to their buyer.
If by “other things” you mean violence against those voting “wrong” - yes, that’s a problem. When you invent a way to have a verified anonymous vote, let me know.
My comment is a specific application, and your comment is “no u wrong”.
To allow easier falsifications.
The users right now may fall into a false sense of privacy when voting because the votes are hidden from Lemmy users.
Why would you even want anonymous votes but not anonymous comments?
The former is as good\bad as the latter.
I know they were already technically public. I think they should be shown.
It works the way that the happy tentacle owner and Balrog and Orcs were working together to exterminate Balin’s expedition.