Dicska
@Dicska@lemmy.world
- Comment on ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants 6 hours ago:
I’m slowly starting to believe that a US started world war can only be prevented by a US started US civil war.
- Comment on Yale Posting It's Ls 2 days ago:
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 4 days ago:
True, my bad for a poor word choice. I guess ‘people’ would have been more appropriate. But I guess the rest holds.
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 4 days ago:
Some executioner style villain
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 4 days ago:
Or Németország in Hungarian. And Hungary is Magyarország in Hungarian. Ország just means country, so they’re just “German country” and “Hungarian country”, literally.
Most slavic countries also call Germany Německo or the like.
This happens when there’s no fast global media when you meet a new nation, and you can’t copy someone else’s homework to come up with a name for them. Or when you copy someone else’s homework, instead of actually asking a member of that nation.
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 4 days ago:
AFAIK French has something similar. I might be wrong, but similarly to the Holland/Netherlands (Nederlanden) story, it was named after one of the tribes in Germany (alamanni, “all men”), before the great unification.
- Comment on If God truly is ‘all-powerful’ and ‘omnipotent,’ then Jesus dying wasn’t the only way to ‘save us.’” 1 week ago:
I’m sure my reasoning would bounce off just one question later, but my next question would be that if god knows everything then why does he test people’s faith? He doesn’t need to, since he knows already whether you have faith or not. Also, are hundreds of million years old dinosaur bones really the most brilliant way of testing someone’s faith?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
On the one hand, his posts contain a non-negligible number of “boomer” style memes (could be stuff like wife bad, targeted at minorities, vegans, whatever - not necessarily actual examples, just trying to define “boomer” humour), and some of them end up getting downvoted into negatives.
On the other hand, he’s bringing content to Lemmy regularly. I’m not saying that’s enough on its own, but I can complain all day about niche communities being dead/empty, and then I don’t post shit. He does. More people should do that.
Just do it right, though.
- Comment on The hard work of calling out anyone who doesn't fully agree with him. 2 weeks ago:
Now that all the corn is gone… should we just all mark every single post as NSFW? I guess it’s fine, since it’s been the case with Mickey7 for a while.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I suspected it was rage bait, starting with the British isles being coloured green, despite the existence of the word ‘toe’ there.
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- Comment on How customer service jobs be 4 weeks ago:
I could only find the “original”, without the bottom text. The one with the comment is just as blurry. Image
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 4 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t sleep with a bra, either. It’s just an unnecessary layer, preventing my skin from breathing properly. The straps would also be just in the way. I’m a cis male, though.
- Comment on xkcd #3174: Bridge Clearance 5 weeks ago:
Nah, you’re looking at the underside of a 46 billion light years tall bride.
- Comment on The British Empire 1 month ago:
Nononono, you don’t get it: looking at the past 4+ governments, I think they want to increase the birth rate of the right people.
I was so naïve back when had I thought the Labour would be any different from the Tories…
- Comment on Freaky ass bird 1 month ago:
All I see is a zerg overlord.
- Comment on Pioneer species 1 month ago:
Huh, I never heard of whackaroo before (neither did my keyboard app)!
It’s a non-English one, and we “break” the “road” (also path) when we cut a path in the forest.
- Comment on Even though I dislike Reddit... 1 month ago:
I think the main cause is the time aspect. Like the lemming above, I’m missing the old Reddit. The bottom half of the picture is the (somewhat) new reddit. But yeah, I’m aware it hasn’t changed overnight only 1-2 years ago.
- Comment on Pioneer species 1 month ago:
Weirdly, pioneer is ‘roadbreaker’ in my language (as in, making way, like ice breakers do). This would be just a literal name for us.
- Comment on Good job! 1 month ago:
I’m not trying to get you to keep using it (I should have stopped using it myself, as well), but if you insist using it for another month, you might as well just delete the app right now, and just visiting (the owl’s website name).com with the uBlock Origin extension.
I’ve been using it that way from the start, and never installed the app. Zero push notifications, and as opposed to push notifications, you can actually filter your emails if you want to keep certain type of messages for some reason. It’s still not the best, but certainly less annoying.
What made me decide to stop (at two years, also ~2 months from now) is the constant of unnecessary inflation of sections to keep you grinding, always moving the goal line. Well, and the obvious AI solutions, clearly meaning they booted a lot of people for cheap labour. And for gutting the discussions. Especially that: I used to learn more from the discussions/comments than the actual sections.
But apart from obsession, there’s really no difference between still using it for another X days and quitting right now (says me, wanting to make it a nice and round 730 days). Yes, you might be able to learn a few extra words, and AT BEST one new thing about grammar, but the difference is just negligible, and you might have actually learned more from some other source during those X days, instead - with fewer of the aforementioned annoyances.
- Comment on Good job! 1 month ago:
Is that some kind of confirmational yes? I know that the boring, general yes would be ‘tak’. Or how does this thing work?
- Comment on Twinkle twinkle little star 2 months ago:
I might be utterly prude, but the shininess of the exact same clothing has literally zero effect on my hotness meter. I don’t even understand why it would.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 2 months ago:
Thanks for the tip, I should give it a try. I’m not sure I still have the energy to invest months until I start to understand stuff while sucking and losing all the time, but I will get there eventually.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 2 months ago:
Not too surprisingly, you can add League of Legends (another Riot games title) to the list. While I’m not a fan of kernel level anticheat, I do love most of these games, and it’s really frustrating how I don’t see any change in the future. After more than a year of struggling, I finally managed to get my Mint working (turns out my old mobo was faulty), but it looks like I will still have to keep Windows for basically all multiplayer titles I play.
- Comment on Show your pride 2 months ago:
That is the very definition of colour. The part of the electromagnetic spectrum that we can see. The rest of the scale includes infrared, gamma or X-ray. If you want, you can call them invisible colours - or you can call green superhighultraviolet.
- Comment on Space is beautiful 2 months ago:
Meh, amateurs. Being cringy as a kid at times is pretty much inevitable. That’s when you learn your ways.
You can watch me being cringy as an adult for decades.
- Comment on mercy merci 2 months ago:
- Comment on mercy merci 2 months ago:
You have to jump this high to be let inside
- Comment on How will YOU choose 2 months ago:
Hell. I will need it tomorrow when I wake up after 4 hours of sleep.
- Comment on If proton decay isn't true 2 months ago:
You don’t need to, I can tell you what’s inside.
Iron.
