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Or if you're using for purely notes, OneNote is like, right there. In your system tray. For free.

I'd also add to the discussion that the reason why Norway (and I think Iceland too) eat it as "tradition" isn't because it's some sacred animal or traditional or something, it's because up until very recently both countries were dirt poor and neither country is particularly great when it comes to arable land that you can grow veggies or animals on. Whale is a physically big source of red meat that lives not that far off the coast, and has tons of other uses besides food too. They're also small countries so using them as a food source isn't that damaging (hell I'm pretty sure out of the entire Norwegian fishing industry the whaling part is probably the least environmentally destructive part of it)

Also grilled whale is like, really nice. It's like if tuna was a red meat.

Because the entire point was that the character in question is genderless and this was the early 80s and also French so more modern gender neutral terms didn't exist yet, and "let's just smash the two gendered endings together" was his attempt at one (I'm guessing emperoratrix comes from a literal translation from French, where a female emperor is an imperatrice, and -trice is -trix in english, so imperatorice -> emperoratrix) The book also uses s/he as a pronoun instead of they.

I mean hey, it's much more gender neutral than just defaulting to the masculine like say Le Guin did in left hand of darkness

Whaling still uses harpoons, just more modern and sophisticated ones. It's more akin to hunting than fishing.

I get it's probably because people just aren't used to the idea of eating whale, but it's odd you're being downvoted when like that's kinda the stance I think a lot of environmentalists have here in Norway, though I think the comparison is more to like venison than cows, because venison's hunted but cows are raised. In the grand scheme of things, the beef industry does way more damage and has more ethical concerns than the strictly regulated whaling industry and we should be focusing our attention on that. I could be completely off though - I ain't from Oslo and whale is regularly available on the supermarket shelves in the season so I'm obviously somewhat biased here. I know a lot of people have ethical concerns but like, I don't get it. Pigs are smarter than a whale, but people aren't upset at pork chops.

Also idk how reliable it is because obviously it's a biased source, but according to the fishing industry pound for pound whale's actually way better for the environment than any farmed red meat because you're, y'know, not raising it.

Fine fine, then Emperoress instead. It's what the actual English translation of The Incal uses

English should absolutely do this you'd end up with some really cool words. Also because Jodorowsky was absolutely right - emperoratrix is a fucking kickass title

Nah we just have regular old crypto shill people instead

I would also add that Kafka did very much publish stuff when he was alive; he wasn't a tortured genius writing in secret, he was like, writing short stories for the newspaper. He published a novella of his weird random ramblings on things. He was probably kinda known as the bug guy before he died.

Also like, some of his longer posthumously published books are very obviously not finished. I'd wager Kafka's statement is less a tortured artist thing and more of a "this book straight up doesn't have an ending why would you publish it" or "please don't my editor is probably going to try and finish it" thing. Should you publish an author's clearly unfinished work is a completely different question with different arguments

...who gave Raskinolov a Lemmy account?

On one hand yeah they're stupid annoying

On the other hand, I'm pretty sure for like Mormons and JWs where they're sending over like kids barely out of highschool for missionary work in another country that's the entire point. They're not there to convert anyone, they're there to instil a sense of fear into these kids by showing them that everyone who isn't apart of their church hates them even though they're only trying to 'help'. Being rude to them just proves their church's point.

Or: actually the fastest way to get put on their blacklist is to be really genuinely nice (but still firm) to the missionaries because you're proving them wrong about how mean and horrible the outside world is

They also feel fuzzy! Mmmmm TV fuzz...

They're just so fussy - like for example growing up we had to use floor lamps everywhere in our house because whoever before us wired up the overhead lights used a really low max wattage so we were stuck with a pissy lumen output

Now with LEDs? I can stuff 1k lumen bulbs into a 40 watt socket with no problem! I can finally fucking see things now without needing like five extra lights! And I don't need to worry about heat! (As much).

Idk if this is true for the US but where I live in Scandinavia red is a common house colour because historically it was a cheap colour you could get from mixing red ochre and oil, so red barns aren't uncommon. Then again the US midwest does have a lot of Scandinavian immigrants so it might've bled over culturally because there's lot of farms up there?

A bootable Linux USB is legit a nice thing to have in your bag - it being Hannah Montana is just the icing on the cake. I've got one in my handbag (not HM though). No GNU license card but does creative commons count?

...it's more of a conversation starter than an actually useful thing but, y'know. Hannah Montana Linux. Useful for pranks if anything

Dodoco goes on the bag, not in it silly

They also do the vocals! Smh how could you forget Hatsune Miku?

I feel the worst examples is when you try to engage with the Linux people trying to explain why you can't use it and they're just in complete denial

I like Linux, but I can't use it because I very frequently use CAD programmes like fusion 360 which run exclusively on windows. Mention that and you'll spammed with "what about FreeCAD?" From people who either have never used freeCAD and are just grabbing the first Google result for "fusion 360 FOSS alternatives" or are in complete denial over how goddamn shit freeCAD is like I'm sorry that is not a functional alternative.

If you don't like it as a ceral, you could try making biscuits out of it? Rolled oats biscuits are pretty good. I know I'm risking my Australian citizenship here but you could try doing an Anzac biscuit like thing to it. Super simple biscuit that lasts forever that just needs rolled oats, golden syrup, bicarb, coconut, and some flour.

Alternatively you could make a muesli bar and eat that. I know they're not that healthy but when you're making it yourself you can like control that sort of thing

(I personally eat muesli with yoghurt so there's a bit of body to the entire thing, but that's already been suggested)

In Norwegian marshmallow is just marshmallow, but if something has marshmallow bits or marshmallow like properties (like say the white stuff in a bag of Haribos) it's called "skum", which means foam