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Which hobby is considered a cult or has cult-like tendencies?
  • Yeah seriously. It's pretty severely missed the point of this thread.

    Ironic that it looks like someone came through and downvotes every answer in this thread other than this one, considering. It'd be pretty great if the mods banned whoever that was.

  • Which hobby is considered a cult or has cult-like tendencies?
  • Oh damn. I came here to answer this too, but was definitely not expecting someone else already to have said it.

    I do HEMA, which has a healthy overlap with the SCA, but from what I've heard, the SCA has a pretty rigid structure and hierarchy with ranks and titles. I've heard about people winning bouts in SCA fencing against someone who is supposedly ranked higher than them, and getting shunned because of it. That's not healthy.

  • Which hobby is considered a cult or has cult-like tendencies?
  • Huh? How? There's no leadership structure to it to provide that cultish vibe, it's mostly just individuals are small groups of friends doing their thing together.

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  • You lost me here, sorry. I don’t speak musik neither in english or french

    Ah, sorry. These two examples on MuseScore should be possible to play back so you can hear the difference.

    This one is how the sheet music on French Wikipedia displays it.

    And this one is more familiar to me.

    Butter is beaten

    I don't know much about the making of cheese, butter, or cream. But the word that comes to my mind for butter is "churned". The tool used is a "butter churn", en francais, une baratte. But the French Wikipedia page for this talks about "le barattage", so I think it's a separate step from battrement? (battage? battement? idk)

    idk, I don't know enough about milk products to have this conversation in English, let alone French.

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    That seems to be what I've seen from my experience, anyway.

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    And the reason, I think, is simple. Product names are usually nouns, not verbs. So when I see "treat", I think of "a treat", not the act of treating something.

    It should be "UTI test + treatment".

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  • Whipped would be a better translation in this context. Took me a fair bit of searching to figure that out, because I normally associate whipped with cream, not cheese. Apparently some cheese can be whipped though.

    The French Wikipedia has sheet music showing the rhythm of the song. And interestingly, it shows straight quavers. In English, I'd normally sing it with a swung rhythm, alternating crotchets and quavers.

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    Recycled copper
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    Apparently calling for the use of force to defend your country from invaders is "advocating violence". Also: being anti-American in general is against the rules

    All from in this thread in !world@lemmy.world about a chant at a British music festival where an artist said "death, death to the IDF".

    After other users were quoting that chant in the comments and had comments removed and banned, the hero of our story, @theacharnian@lemmy.ca (appearing as "acargitz") pointed out that under international law, fighting an occupying force is legitimate. But apparently not under world news rules, as their removed comments and the many explanations from mods make clear in the thread.

    Equally against the rules is the call for the eradication of an organisation or business, even without an explicit call to violence against individual members of the business.

    In the same thread: user @DeathToTheIDF@lemmings.world had comments removed for being anti-American "(again)", though I couldn't see the first time. It's not even clear to me how the removed comments were anti-American.

    Bonus points for the "DC Comics" removal reason. Though this seems to be incompetence, rather than malice.

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