At least the syfy miniseries dared to adapt Children of Dune.

I actually like it. We finally get an Irulan with agency and see Alia as a full character. And Leto 2 getting sandy.

Not sure how I feel about the Baron narrating in rhyming couplets though. Maybe just a tad too strange, even for Dune.

German must have its own share of disappointing terms.

Pferd comes to mind as an example. I really expected something more metal like horzdraken or comical like hoofenstreider. But no, just a boring Roman loan word.

Don’t you get it? You cocksucker! I work for Dick Jones! Dick Jones! He’s the Number Two Guy at OCP. OCP runs the cops.

It’s obvious in HN because of the wide range of obscure topics (eg installing scaffolding on old British smoke stacks) that occasionally arise to the front page, all the ones on that topic are quickly flagged to oblivion.

You don’t have to be a genius to see the pattern 🤷‍♀️

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Truer now than when Henry Ford said it like a hundred years go.

The SEC exists to shelter Self Regulating Organizations from any threats of democratic governance or law enforcement. Oh ya and to keep up the legalese charade that there literally is no such thing as counterfeit stock (because the Secret Service has purview over counterfeiting for some strange reason)

Fuck the stock market 🖕

Every time

If “ish bin ein Berliner” translates as “I am a jelly donut” (favorite anecdote of mein lehrer)

Then does “ich bin ein amerikaner” translate as “I am a loaf of sliced bread”?

Edit: thanks fam 🤙

Amerikaner is a cookie but not a chocolate chip cookie, never ever would have guessed 🤣

The second book, Claw of the Conciliator, is the hardest slog with the most confusing ending (but is ultimately rewarding when it ‘clicks’).

However the third book, Sword of the Lictor, is the best in the series. So many of the best moments are in this book, as well as some of the most famous quotes.

For me, the masquerade ball at the Archon’s palace is the “buckle up” moment for the rest of the story.

For a real trip, restart book 1 immediately after finishing book 4: there is so much you will see know that you know what to look for.

Also matey, the audible audiobooks are amazing 😎

Delivering this feature goes against everything I know to be right and true and I will sooner lay you into this barren earth than entertain your folly for a moment longer!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ

Kampfradler. I read War-Roader -> Roadwarrior but Google translate says Combat Cyclists… So… Battlerider? Sweet👌

Is it that battleriders are taking the streets away from drivers? and that since only drivers carry the taxburden then battleriders don’t deserve their own rideways?

They are a boomer because their “cure” (give them no roads!) just feeds the “disease” (they took muh roads!)?

This looked way way easier to decode when I first scrolled past it 😂

the traffic light coalition

a road in dustbowl conditions, the whole east has that problem

lots of German flags and judging by the colour an AfD one

Damn, thanks for bringing the context! Never heard of a traffic light coalition before, TIL

Thanks for clarifying! I went and looked up umweltshutz and I tell you hwat “worlds protection” is a fuck of a lot cooler than “environmentalism”

How did I do?

Four years later in mecklenburg-vorpommern

Panel 1. spring: travelers must go

Panel 2. summer: where travelers?

Panel 3. fall: knifemen must go

panel 4. where knifemen?

Is it a joke about immigration critics? That they fucked around and now they’re finding out?

Sage advice. In the meeting I will assume positive intent, like he’s protecting me from mummy’s curse.

Ya I will figure it out, it’s just another clown lording over an imaginary fief.

Can’t wait for code review lol.

Thanks! I always enjoy trying to decode German memes with what I recall from school and some guessing.

This is the first one I thought I actually understood haha.

How did I do?

Fresh mountainbarn milk

Chug the carton

Not barn drink

Yeah really fun premise slathered in boring characters.

If I recall it devolved into some CW-flavor bullshit revolving around the girl, who is her real father, why is she special. Blah blah blah.

Allow me to complete the trifecta with Uncleftish Beholding 👌

Today we wield both kind of uncleftish doings in weapons, and kernelish splitting gives us heat and bernstoneness. We hope to do likewise with togethermelting, which would yield an unhemmed wellspring of work for mankindish goodgain.

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