Nangijala
@Nangijala@feddit.dk
- Comment on Be nice 4 days ago:
Ngl, the thought of ever getting to own my own home is still so far out of my reach that I just don’t think about it as a possibility most of the time.
- Comment on Be nice 4 days ago:
My rent
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 4 days ago:
Sure! If you tell me a little bit about your tastes and interests I’ll probably be able to throw something at you that you may or may not have seen before, but probably do like!
What are some of your favourite movies, games, books etc? What are some of your hobbies and interests? What subject(s) lights a flame in you and makes you passionate? Could be anything from entertainment, to career to lifestyle etc. I don’t need much more than the broad strokes and only share what you’re comfortable with, of course. Then I’ll look through my letterboxd and see what I can find. Haven’t watched every movie ever - far from it, but have watched quite a lot of films and know random shit about many films I have never seen as well. Some genres I’m more well versed in than others, but can probably still point you in some kind of direction that will work for you. 😊
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 4 days ago:
Most areas where I excell are largely useless to the general public, but if ever you’re in need for a you-tailored list of movie recommendations, hit me up. I have a pretty good track record of recommending movies to people.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 4 days ago:
I work in a completely different field, but you last paragraph mostly sounds to me like a typical young person entering the job market. There is this false sense og confidence, pride and know it all when graduating. I’ve just seen it a few too many times and I remember how confident and skilled I thought I was when I got out. At the same time, there’s some anxiety and fear of doing a bad job and admitting fault may make you seem weak or unskilled and you want to impress the mentors and blah blah blah.
It is a bit funny to remember how I thought I was going to be helpful to colleagues who were way more experienced than me and then years later I’m being talked at by soon to be graduates who are trying to be helpful by sharing tips with me that I already do on the daily or don’t do because I learned years ago they don’t work. And when I try to give them advice or instructions it’s like they just space out and hear what they think I mean and then do something completely different from what I ask of them, haha. I can’t be mad at it, because it’s just a part of learning and growing into your career. I think it would be a mistake to think that a newly graduated person in any field will be able to hit the ground running without any hiccups.
Maybe I’m just a bit of a softie when it comes to young people, but I just remember how eager I was when I was in their shoes and how incorrect my assumptions were when it came to what my elders expected of me. It all came gradually as I learned how to be a professional and how to solve tasks and find my rhythm. I imagine new generations on the market can’t be much different from myself in that regard. 😊
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 4 days ago:
Don’t worry, my fair tech-literate maiden. I, a tech-dyslexic, am here to bring down the collective IQ and make the chamber echo less. You can thank me later, for adding some much needed intellectual diversity to the mix.
- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 4 days ago:
I’m too lazy xD
- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 4 days ago:
Would have said Danny DeVito, but we all know he would be the perfect James Bond.
- Comment on And nothing of value was lost 5 days ago:
You are missing the point. It’s not about being mean or not mean. It is about acknowledging that bad people are still people. Doesn’t change the fact that they suck and deserve punishment for the crimes they commit. But pretending like they aren’t human is how you become like them. That is all.
- Comment on And nothing of value was lost 5 days ago:
You were essentially arguing that we should not show empathy to people like the guy who died because they wouldn’t show empathy toward us. That is the path to fascism.
Violence does not defeat fascism. Empathy does. Violence is effective at toppling dictators, but if that is all you do, then a new dictator will just take his place. Empathy is what stops the chain of Violence everytime. That is when strong men and women say no to Violence and yes to a better system that treats everybody with human dignity and rights. Even those whom we don’t emotionally feel deserve it. A criminal who has committed a terrible crime should be locked up and not be around the public, but while he or she is in prison, he or she must still be treated as a human because they are one. If we start making exceptions we lose our humanity and take away theirs. Then we have death penalties which sometimes results in wrong convictions and wrongful executions. Emotionally, I can feel that the death penalty is justice, but that is just emotions. In reality, it is one step toward a aystem that stops seeing people as people and that shit trickles down.
Also, having empathy for someone doesn’t mean you have sympathy for them. Acknowledging that someone is a human doesn’t mean you bow down to their world view.
- Comment on And nothing of value was lost 5 days ago:
All that was said was that they are still human. Even if we dislike them. That is all. I find it interesting how defensive people are being about acknowledging that a terrible person is still a person.
If we stop acknowledging a bad person as a being a person, we have become what we hate. Its got nothing to do with caring or not caring about a kkk member dying. All we have reacted to was the claim that the guy wasn’t a human. That is the dangerous part.
- Comment on And nothing of value was lost 5 days ago:
So we should just give up and become them, is what you’re saying. That works well for two minutes and then you replace the problem with a new one. Russia is a good example of that, lol.
- Comment on And nothing of value was lost 5 days ago:
The only one talking about community service is you, I fear. Can’t give credit for anything that wasn’t said.
- Comment on And nothing of value was lost 5 days ago:
The point isn’t whether or not it is okay to fight nazis. The commenter only states that the guy who died is still a human even if we don’t like him.
That is a fact. If we start dehumanizing people we don’t like, we open ourselves up to becoming monsters no matter how justified we feel we are.
I struggle with this myself. I have a deep-seated disgust toward narcissists and emotionally, I do not consider them human beings. Rationally, I know that they are and that if I continue to refuse to accept that they are one of the countless aspects of humanity, I open myself up to my own narcissistic aspects, where I see an entire subsection of humanity as lesser than me, as pests instead of human beings with a severe personality disorder that most likely came from repeated childhood neglect and abuse.
It is okay to feel strong negative emotions toward people we don’t like, but we cannot allow ourselves to dehumanizing them because that is how we become monsters ourselves.
Empathy is hard because it isn’t always the easiest or most comfortable path. It can feel downright injust at times, but that is all emotions talking. The more we think about it, truly reflect on it, the more we will understand that choosing empathy over emotional outbursts, will serve us and society far better in the long run. But it is fucking difficult.
- Comment on And nothing of value was lost 5 days ago:
It’s literally the one message every old European used to preach to us younger generations back in the day. I remember how important it was to them to make us understand that the minute we start dehumanizing people we don’t like, we are repeating the cycle.
It is why movies like Der Untergang exists. We have to understand that the most despicable people who ever lived were still human beings and much closer to ourselves than we like to think.
I have carried with me, my whole life the knowledge that I am fallible and I am capable of evil no matter how good of a person I think I am. To a lesser extent, every time I have thought I was too clever to fall for x, y and z, that’s when I have fallen right into it. “I would never end up in an abusive relationship. I have too much self respect for that” 🤡 “I’m far too strong to become the doormat in this and that friendship” 🤡 “I’ll never fall for fake information online. I’m too observant” 🤡
I could never trust myself to believe I would be too smart, kind or principled to not fall into a destructive and abusive pattern of behavior if the circumstances are twisted just right. I think more people would benefit if they reminded themselves of their imperfections and got off their high horses. On Lemmy alone I have encountered far too many holier than thou types who are super duper anti fascist but ironically act exactly like fascists, but to them it doesn’t count because they are “on the right side of history”.
Am I sad that some nazi KKK guy died? No. But he was human. Most likely a very terrible human, but still human.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 weeks ago:
Just me not catching my phone autocorrecting cars to Cara for some reason. I’ll fix it, 2 sec.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 weeks ago:
The mere thought of my boyfriend having to bike 90km to work on the highway is equal parts funny and terrifying, lol.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 weeks ago:
We rarely eat red meat in our household, but we do have a car. They fucked our local public transportation system so badly we ended up not having a choice 🤷♀️
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 weeks ago:
Just came from another discussion about Cara killing the same number of people as guns do in Chicago, so by that logic: cars are good for the environment too.
- Comment on Breaking: Netflix has made another minor change for their subscribers. 3 weeks ago:
I mean, you can just buy dvds. They are cheap af. If you know where to look you can also find bluray discs for cheap. My boyfriend and I sometimes go to websites for used dvds and blurays and they don’t cost 30 to 40 euros there.
You can also go to the library and borrow dvd and bluray movies. It’s free and you can discover some films you would have otherwise never seen. I do that a lot and my boyfriend and I enjoy this setup. It is a lot cheaper and nicer than having subscriptions to two or three shitty streaming services that are filled with trash and none of them have the movies we want to watch. Fuck that shit. Physical media all the way. It is so easy and cheap to go back to physical if you really want it. It is probably cheaper than subscribing to services where you basically pay for air and own nothing.
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 4 weeks ago:
That’s totally fair. I’m not an English speaker myself, but some of the English I have learned have been through corrections from friendly souls around the internet so I wanted to pay it forward. I’m not judging or attacking you as I don’t expect anyone to be perfect in any language. Not even their own. Just wanted to help out 🤗
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 4 weeks ago:
I feel like a tourist on a safari trip with this whole saga. A colleague of mine told me about this situation and now I can’t look away.
When all is said and done, I definitely think it would be a good idea to have game libraries both physical and digital where people can play old games as they stop being profitable to developers.
I have vague memory of there already being such consumer made game libraries for old Gameboy titles back in the 2000s but those sites were taken down. It would be great to have some sort of system in place because this licensing bullshit is exactly why I ended up completely leaving streaming as a whole (for movies and shows) and went back to physical media in january/February of this year. I borrow dvds at the library now. It is fucking fantastic. I had forgotten how much I missed going looking for movies I’d like to see in places like Moby Disc and Blockbuster. It’s so comfy and when you find a movie you’ve never heard of before and you bring it home and it’s really good, it just feels so special.
I think games should have that too. I stopped playing games in 2015 because I just saw no end to having to fork out money all the time to keep up with the tech and getting new titles and gradually seeing how it was more and more an online thing instead of a physical thing so I just stopped. Didn’t like the direction games were taking. Seems like it is reaching a breaking point finally.
Libraries are so important for culture.
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 4 weeks ago:
*lukewarm.
Sorry, I’m not in this fight, but my inner grammar-nazi just couldn’t help herself.
- Comment on Let people enjoy things 🙄 4 weeks ago:
All is forgiven. Most people are practically the living dead before their first cup of coffee.
- Comment on Let people enjoy things 🙄 4 weeks ago:
It was very obviously sarcasm.
I thought that bringing up him being held at gun point by drunk child soldiers in Africa and forced to speak a language you hate was pretty obviously the opposite of boring.
I was making fun of the meme.
- Comment on Let people enjoy things 🙄 4 weeks ago:
This is so true. For example, Werner Herzog hates the French language, despite speaking it fluently. He once had to regrettably speak French when he was held at gun point by drunk child soldiers in Africa.
Pretty uninteresting guy, I’d say.
- Comment on Cow eggs 4 weeks ago:
No, but that’s pretty funny.
- Comment on Cow eggs 4 weeks ago:
They also use a handicapped B for the double S = ß Tsk tsk. Silly Germans, but yes, one must not throw stones in their little glass houses. My native tongue, Danish, is also very nonsensical in differnet ways, but don’t tell the Swedish that I told you that.
- Comment on Cow eggs 4 weeks ago:
Don’t tell them that I told you, but Germans are illiterate. They also V sounds like F and stuff.
- Comment on Cow eggs 4 weeks ago:
I was recently reminded how stupid ChatGPT is. I was translating some slang from Danish into English that I couldn’t really find a satisfactory solution for myself. ChatGPT full on hallucinate every single fucking prompt for these slang translations nad I ended up turning to one of my colleagues instead and ask him how he would translate the slang instead and he immediately came up with a very funny and accurate translation that fit the context so much better.
The hallucinations that chaptgpt came up with were not just incorrect, it also started going into made up explanations of the history of this slang word and how it is used normally in Danish speech and how it is a compliment. In reality the slangword was a word I had made up, that fit with the context I was using it for, is NOT a compliment and is very much not something people have a history of saying in normal Danish speech. It’s something that if you say it, most people will get what you mean, but it isn’t something people say.
But thank you chatgpt for your creative writing session. It was a very disappointing experience.
Generally whenever anything related to translations to Danish when using American tech has always been absolutely fucking terrible. Everything is, of course, seen through the lense of American contexts so when you’re Danish and using shit like Word, you always have to remember how the program thinks in English even if it’s supposedly installed in Danish.
Google docs are especially terrible at this.
Chat GPT is next level terrible if you move even an inch away from clinical, Danish. I can’t imagine how chatgpt would handle Southern Jut or any type of Danish dialect, really.
And when you’re me, trying to translate a story that uses dialects, slang, fictional slang, broken Danish and normal Danish, you just have to accept that chatgpt is largely useless for anything other than translating at basic bitch level.
In a way that makes me feel comforted. All that fancy tech and they still aren’t anywhere close to human.