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- Comment on nostalgia 1 week ago:
Wouldn’t even call it a pun, as someone pointed out already. I’m going to sacrifice the joke in the name of explaining it.
brief Arabic cultural lesson for those who care
You have your Good Morning (≈Morning of Peace, صباح الخير) in English. In Arabic we have more variations. The standard reply to this first one is Morning of Light (صباح النور). Basically wishing each other a good day by describing what makes it good. There’s a couple but these first two in this order is the standard (and secular *) greeting. * you’ll see why that is even worth pointing out in a second Then you have more abstract ones that imply a good day by referring to something (commonly a pleasant smelling flower), like Morning of Roses (صباح الورد) or Morning of (a specific type of) Jasmine (صباح الفل). All of these have a musical quality to them in a way I can’t write out. You’ll get older relatives sending you standardized photos with these greetings in groups or just to text you to invite you for lunch (or to fix their phone). Here’s the google images result for Good Morning (≈Morning of Peace): Image I’ve highlighted the religious stuff in red and the roses with blue, to see how common they are. The religious stuff is mostly variations with Islamic Duas (prayers asking for something - in the case of all of these it’s basically “asking” God to give the recipient good health / a good day / a pleasant path in life - it’s really just a “good luck” phrased in the only way a religious society can express it. FWIW I’m (mostly) not from a Muslim family so I get secular or Christian versions of these. Often the photos I get are flowers, traditional breakfast food, coffee, a nice breakfast table set in a shaded garden. And often there’s very few pixels. Sometimes an aunt will just take a photo of her coffee and that’s basically a greeting. But it’s usually garbled old jpegs from 2007. Critical subtext: these are literally forwards from grandma. Well-meaning, but eventually obnoxious, especially back when phones had 8GB of storage.
This meme says Morning of Strawberries (صباح الفراولة) which is both clunky (Arabic’s got a poetic quality and these two words put together just intuitively do not work that way. It has the meter of a punchline if that makes sense) and silly, but with the textured elephant and the 13x12 resolution as you can probably guess it’s just a surreal meme.
But now you know why it’s a surreal meme.
Come back next week for the much less wholesome next episode of Arabic forwards from Arabic grandma: videos alleging the Jews invented homosexuality, cancer, and sex - Comment on facebook ai 1 week ago:
Well, eating > restaurants > a list with potential promoted entries.
I really don’t think the intention of integrating this “intelligence” into Facebook is explicitly to make us dumber. I think the only real purpose is to supercharge marketing. Eroding the mental capacity of functional human beings is just a happy little accident.
- Comment on Taliban leader bans Wi-Fi in an Afghan province to 'prevent immorality' 3 weeks ago:
I love my city (Beirut) it is full of trams (Kia Picanto 2013 base model w/ automatic transmission)
- Comment on The facists are right! 3 weeks ago:
I have a special bottle of cognac for Kissinger and I was abroad for work when he returned whence he came. I haven’t opened it yet given how shit the situation everywhere is, but maybe celebrating small wins is vital even when important stuff is happening.
- Comment on "Rizz", "cooking" and "based" are going to be stereotypical old people words one day 4 weeks ago:
I personally think cooking will have serious staying power.
- Comment on sorry guys i slept in 4 weeks ago:
I was taken aback when I heard someone I expected better from use “matrix”, although it was used in a “some people call it x” context and not the regular one dripping with… let’s call it baggage.
Outhouse Perilous is an absolutely spectacular username.
- Comment on He really said this, look it up! 5 weeks ago:
This is the translation they forced me to memorize at gunpoint at Liberal Arts University of Woke:
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 1 month ago:
Oh I’ve been looking for something like this for a long time. I wonder how this integrates into something like Jellyfin if I want to host my own personal music streaming for myself.
- Comment on Good Guy Humpback 1 month ago:
I did notice the same title since they were near each other on my front page. But it does look like you’re posting this uncritically, even with the context. It looks less like you’re showing us something relevant but tasteless to gawk at the state of mainstream online “content” and more like you want to laugh at “annoying fat bitches maaaaan” (who are actually doing their friend a favor seeing what the OOP is going for).
Childish misogyny is endemic on most online platforms now, none of us here want to see this shit. It’s not people being dumb.
- Comment on Good Guy Humpback 1 month ago:
I’ve posted bad memes in comments I don’t like before to provide context.
You could have gone with something like “oh this is much better than the rancid original: rancidoriginal.png”
- Comment on We are all asking the same question 2 months ago:
You’re telling me this woman born in 1868 hillbilly country didn’t get married in such a short wedding dress?
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 2 months ago:
I saw this news and I guess it’s good that privacy is being discussed somewhat soberly over there in the wake of this investment decision.
Personally I have recently been exiting out of the UK, a much more invasive country, so Switzerland for now does seem like an improvement for me. Norway is further out geographically and has less Mullvad servers, would seem like the less favorable option for me unless the proposed laws actually pass.
Frankly I’m scrambling after the UK’s ID thing.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 2 months ago:
Huh. I’m also “moving” soon. Any reason for Norway over Switzerland?
- Comment on This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service 2 months ago:
Everything I learn about this project is so cool. I can’t go through the docs right now, but I’m assuming it can prioritize things like emergency communication over sensor data.
There’s no public nodes in a 200+ km radius around me on that site someone linked, so something tells me I’ll have to do a lot of guerilla solar panel installation if I want to anonymously set up something.
I’ve thought about it on and off over the past two years, more of a private network for family and friends than anything, for emergencies and so on. The real, big problem is that I could be accused of espionage and thrown into jail forever if I do this. So I don’t think I’ll see anyone putting any nodes up for the foreseeable future. At least not public nodes.
- Comment on EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google 2 months ago:
Some other commenter mentioned that this is brought up in issues tracker in the repo. Sorry, I didn’t actually check for it.
I’m not in the EU, I didn’t dig into it. FWIW I am also moving my own connections to exit from Switzerland sooner or later.
- Comment on EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google 2 months ago:
I do feel like that’s a precarious state to leave this in, especially if they’re developing the backend for it.
Is there even enough momentum for a SKG-style wave of coverage? It would need to be justified properly by citing things like the Tea app data leak, to make a strong case (to political pencil pushers) for the danger of tying personal information to profiles or even to platforms. Otherwise the only thing they’ll see is “gamers want to make porn accessible to children”.
I don’t know. This whole situation boils my blood because I really care about online anonymity, and this is kind of nightmare scenario shit for me. I’m not even in the UK or EU.
- Comment on EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google 2 months ago:
Apparently this is illegal to implement as of right now, but it’s not helping the feeling of technological doomerism I get whenever I think about this whole identity verification situation.
- Comment on Nintendo can disable your Switch 2 for piracy in the U.S., but not in Europe, as confirmed by its EULA 2 months ago:
The best/worst part is that I was worried about battery life, and then I realized that I only have so much time as an adult and it doesn’t matter as much, for most games I’d want to play on it anyway.
A power bank for the exceptions. Not perfect but it’s okay.
- Comment on Do you still remember? 2 months ago:
Kia Pride. First generation. Falling apart, basically a soda can with wheels. Clutch so atrocious that I basically had to relearn how to drive during those fifteen minutes. Allegedly someone I knew got one that didn’t even have a gas pedal, just a relatively high idle.
Only the finest public property here in Lebanon.
- Comment on title 2 months ago:
I remember a small wave of this style of meta meme in around 2012ish, all about seeing who can break the format of whatever was popular at the time in the most meta way possible. The joke always being that we can understand these weird image arrangements even after tearing out half of their content.
This one is just as satisfying as those were when they were still a novelty.
- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 2 months ago:
I can still view these, but it’s much much harder for me.
I don’t know why parallel isn’t the default.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
At the risk of coming off as too gatekeep-y, Arabic is structurally so different from English and French (the other two languages I know). It has a reputation for being difficult for a reason.
Despite it being my native language I’ll occasionally still think of an idea phrased primarily in English, and contorting it into Arabic is very clunky (despite Arabic being much more loosey goosey with word order, in general, you can figure out how to tie up an idea as you go - this applies more to MSA, dialects usually sway more towards a small number of forms).
While strictly more rigid, you might be better off at least grasping the basics of MSA first before jumping into a specific dialect. It is antithetical to how I think about languages (go learn the specific prescriptive form of Arabic instead of the most commonly spoken popularly developed one) but it might be easier to learn that way.
(I’m thinking of it like learning piano (or MIDI?) as a baseline for music and more instruments vs learning guitar first and having an understanding of notes and scales that is very closely associated to the relational positioning of these notes on these strings.)
Or maybe it might not be easier that way. I didn’t learn Arabic as an adult with a background in western languages, fuck if I know what the pedagogically optimal way to learn Arabic is. Arabic is hard, dude. Doesn’t help that half of all Arabic media is (I say this as an Arab) embarrassing mindless drivel.
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 2 months ago:
The oil industry is famously completely independent from government subsidy. Especially when it comes to setting urban development policy and planning transportation systems, these have no bearing at all oil demand and they also cost nothing.
- Comment on Grok praises Hitler, gives credit to Musk for removing “woke filters” 2 months ago:
That model is over a terabyte, I don’t know why I thought it was lightweight. Not that any reporting on machine learning has been particularly good, but this isn’t what I expected at all.
What can even run it?
- Comment on Nexus Mods to Enforce Digital ID Age Checks Under UK and EU Laws 2 months ago:
It’s as simple as getting the EU site and privacy policy when you connect from an EU IP. These systems are typically not as rigid as you might expect and the only friction might be around things like payment processing or things like that.
I get relatively uncensored internet access through UK/Ireland servers. This law and this type of law completely terrifies me.
- Comment on Nexus Mods to Enforce Digital ID Age Checks Under UK and EU Laws 2 months ago:
As someone who VPNs into the EU specifically for the privacy laws, this is troubling. I do wonder what my next move should be. I’d hate to lose my Steam account in particular.
- Comment on Why God Made Me a Veganivore 🥩🔥 Unlike Weaklings Who Settle for Unfrefined Plants 2 months ago:
Too many people here don’t understand that memes and shitposts are not the same thing.
Decent enough shitpost.
- Comment on Born into crisis, gen Z is saving for retirement like no other generation 2 months ago:
The reward for playing the game in a way to protect yourself, as always, is the rules changing to fuck you over anyway.
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 2 months ago:
To be fair, I do this at work and while I get funny looks I do get complicated ideas across better when I can provide visual aid.
Frankly I need to improve my MS Paint skills. I need to get my mouse handwriting up to at least 70% of the Khan Academy guy’s level.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy attempting to radicalise people to enforce class wars? 3 months ago:
Is the resident Lemmy population becoming too easy to troll?
Hello lemmings are you all left wing because you are CIA and racist?
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