Nangijala
@Nangijala@feddit.dk
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 1 week ago:
I love how we all just keep adding to the clusterfuck that is the German language. ❤️
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 1 week ago:
I still cannot get over the fact that Tolkien based Middle Earth and several characters in Lord of the Rings on friggin Djursland in Denmark. I live an hour away from the real life Helms Deep, Isengard and so on. There’s even a local myth in the area that directly inspired the characters of Aragorn and Eowyn who were split onto two characters. The original myth was about a chief’s daughter who had to reclaim her dead father’s legendary sword and thereby set him free from the curse that kept him and his men trapped as ghosts. I forget if their Graves were on Helm Island or if it was somewhere else. It’s just really cool and super random. Apparently there are official Tolkien tours. I don’t have to go to New Zealand to experience middle earth xD I have the original lame version at home.
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 1 week ago:
Not that it matters but I would take India or Bharat over Hindustan any day. I get that it’d be in line with naming conventions in the area, but it just sounds so silly. XD
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 1 week ago:
In Denmark we refer to the UK as England. If it’s more official we call them Storbritannien but no one calls them that in everyday speech. It’s just England.
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 1 week ago:
Clearly he meant Tyskland!
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 1 week ago:
Same with Denmark = Danmark
I know. It’s a shocking difference. We call you guys Holland for some reason, though and every non-european I’ve ever met keeps thinking we are the same country. I was asked to say something in Dutch once and just looked blankly at the person.
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 1 week ago:
Oh for sure. I do have to admit, though, that I very much enjoy when Americans use umlauts in inappropriate ways. And as a Dane I have feel special joy when they replace their o’s with ø in an attempt to make words look hardcore, cool and Nordic.
That, my friend, is endlessly entertaining to me and will never not be funny.
I remember that one album by Twenty One Pilots where literally every o was replaced with and ø on the cover and I was friggin crying and hyperventilating the first time I saw it. I haven’t listened to any of the songs. They may go really hard and be masterpieces, but to me I can never take that album seriously. They really thought that ø is just a cooler looking o and not its own letter with a very distinct sound that, in the context of English would make every word sound like it’s being spoken by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 1 week ago:
Oh yeah? This symbol = ß that looks deceptively like a mangled B is the double S in German.
Don’t get me started on their states. My favourite is Mecklenburg-Vorpommern because it sounds like a curse word you’d yell out in pain after stepping on a Lego.
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 1 week ago:
I have another mindblowing fact for you: in Germany, the v is an f and the w is a v.
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 5 weeks ago:
Lol. For me I just get impatient with AI. Most of the time the things I tried to use it for, it either couldn’t do, did poorly or did wrong. It was simply easier for me to do the shit myself instead of burning the planet by doing 50 prompts to get one useful result.
I tried it, learned about the environmental costs and then I stopped using it. The only thing its good for is for super basic bitch translations like that one time I didn’t know what a particular mathematical formular was like in English and I couldn’t find an answer after searching manually for awhile.
That’s the only time AI was helpful to me.
And honestly, I just don’t trust that is can help me with what I need it for 99% of the time because it just makes shit up constantly. I can’t justify using this tool when the only useful result I ever gave me was the correct way to say a mathematical formulae in English. That is just too fucking weak. I am much better at looking for answers myself, writing and drawing things than any AI will ever be because I know what the fuck I want and I can make it myself while the AI has no idea what it’s doing and only looks good to people who has zero reading comprehension nor visual literacy.
Like, I think AI music can be pretty good but I’m also a musical retard and I have no idea how to listen to music like a real musician, so to me it sounds good, but to someone who knows what they are doing, I’m sure AI music sounds like ass.
That’s me with AI writing and artwork.
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 1 month ago:
Or maybe I’m just aware that there is a world outside of the US where people can’t afford smart fridges in the future no matter how much the market pushes them and that there are unions that will seek to regulate them running ads nonstop if it comes to it.
I have no doubt that people with money will most likely buy these things in the future if they are made with the costumer in mind instead of advertisers, but the poor people and the landlords who house them won’t install smart fridges in their apartments anytime soon.
Maybe you’re the one who hasn’t paid attention or been around for that long.
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 1 month ago:
We can agree to disagree on this one. I simply do not believe all fridges will be fixed with screens that shows ads nonstop. That is very unrealistic. It will be an option that people can choose, but oldfashioned fridges will always be available for people who prefer or can’t afford the ones with screens. There are no words to be marked here. This is how the real world works. What you’re describing is a dystopian fiction where every country is the same and no regulations exist and everyone was access to the same luxuries. That isn’t the real world.
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 2 months ago:
At the end og the day, it’s all about money and most people can’t afford fridges like this. Screenless fridges won’t disappear over night either. In the same way that most people who own fridges don’t have those fancy ones that vomits ice cubes at the press of a button. It’s kinda cool, but too expensive and impractical for most people. People who can afford smart fridges and think it’s a worth while expense will buy them, but I don’t believe for a second that that is the majority of people. Not by a long shot.
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 2 months ago:
In the same vein, there are many things that were in fact fads that have since faded into obscurity because they didn’t make people’s lives easier and/or weren’t affordable for most os us. The smart home was one thing that was all the rage at some point back in the 2010s and they are probably still something that more affluent people invest in, but the rest of us, who can’t really afford it, don’t have smart homes.
I can totally see a revised version of the smart fridge becoming popular longterm if they are designed to be useful and making people’s lives easier. However, the current designs of smart fridges are not helpful nor useful. They are a shallow gimmick and that is why they will not last unless manufacturers stop designing them for advertisement and start designing them to make people’s lives easier.
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 2 months ago:
I’m comparing smart fridges to 3D and VR because that is the proper comparison. All three are tech gimmicks that are too expensive and annoying to implement into daily life and that is why I believe smart fridges are a fad that won’t last/spread. Especially not in these times where people don’t have any money.
Using video games, the internet and gay sex as example of why smart fridges will become popular is both baffling and goofy to me, but maybe that was the point? If not, I’m not following your logic at all. Can you elaborate on where you see a link?
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 2 months ago:
Only if people buy those things. I doubt the majority of people wants to pay extra for fridges with screens in them.
I think this shit is a fad that will go away in the same way 3D and VR did despite everyone promising this was the future. It’s too expensive, too impractical and won’t hold up once the novelty wears off.
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 2 months ago:
I have seen a video about this shit also being implemented in cars. You can drive down the highway, with your GPS on and a pop up ad appears out of the blue, blocking the screen, not really allowing you to get rid of it before you remove your attention from the road to the screen, trying to figure out what button to push to get rid of the ad.
And the fact that people pay extra for cars and fridges to show them ads is just so friggin stupid. If people buy these products after knowing that they pay extra to be bombarded with ads, its 100% on them.
But in the case of the car, I do feel that shit should be illegal. It’s so fucking dangerous and irresponsible from the manufacturer to implement a “feature” that can cost lives.
- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 3 months ago:
I’m glad you’re looking into seeing a therapist. It can’t be fun to feel like this. I also feel that some replies in this post are not helping your current state of mind at all.
I can tell you that I have had my own experience with an existential crisis and I found my way through it. I think most people go through some existential crisis at some point in their lives, and sometimes it can really help to have the right support and realize you aren’t alone. 🤗
I also hope you find a way to unplug from the news spiral and maybe even from the internet for awhile. Maybe go on a few walks in nature as well? I have found that it helped me a ton to just put on my shoes and a jacket and start walking when my mind became overwhelmed with the nonstop negativity online. Seeing the seasons change in front of your eyes has a profound healing effect on the mind. Everything slows down a bit and all the things that took up so much importance in your mind start to melt away. Seeing all the mushrooms currently sprouting up from the forest floor and hearing the chirp of a new bird i havent noticed before makes me so friggin excited to be alive. I want that for you as well.
We were never meant to carry the world on our shoulders, my friend. I wish you the absolute best and hope you find your way through. Hugs. ❤️
- Comment on Saw this on another instance and knew it belongs here. 4 months ago:
It’s effective outrage marketing. I didn’t know about this company until people began sharing their Billboards around. It’s not the first time I have seen these either.
There’s an article/blog post on their website where they share their process behind the campaign and how and why they did what they did. It’s very interesting from a marketing perspective, even if I personally think outrage marketing is in bad taste.
- Comment on Reddit lost it 4 months ago:
Backwards mindset to say that censorship will never bring good.
You okay with child porn too? How about all the naughty words that we aren’t supposed to say? Or encouragement of violence toward others? That shouldn’t be censored and removed?
And honestly, I find it disturbing to say that if people want to kill themselves, they should just do it. Most suicidal people are stuck in a very dark place mentally that they CAN get put of if they get the right amount of help. Suicide isn’t always the correct solution. In most cases it, in fact, isn’t. It can be a desperate stress induced decision in response to a very difficult period in time for someone. Something where they seek relief in the moment, vut later are grateful they either didn’t go through with it or were saved. Have been in that dark pit myself and I’m so happy I didn’t go through with it even though I wanted it all to end for years.
There indeed are areas where censorship goes overboard and that is something we will have to discuss and adjusted together in society forever as times passes. But censorship isn’t an all bad thing. It is absolutely insane to think that censorship of any kind online is bad. I don’t think you actually agree with your own statement, if you think really deeply about it. Unless of course, you have no morals or care for the safety and wellbeing of others.
- Comment on Or in 2025. Looking at you, Florida. 4 months ago:
Haven’t seen it, but I’ll put it on my watch list! 👍
- Comment on Or in 2025. Looking at you, Florida. 4 months ago:
I think Togo won in the end, because Balto and his sled team basically became freak show animals and later live museum exhibits, chained and starving, like they weren’t living creatures at all. They were later rescued and ended their days as zoo animals. After Balto died he was stuffed and put in a museum.
Meanwhile Togo and his team went on tours, were given gold medals, continuing their lives as sled dogs and Togo got to retire in a nice kennel where he was bred and lived well until he was euthanized at the age of 16 due to health complications.
Don’t feel bad for Togo. He may have been largely forgotten to history, but he sure as shit won the life lottery compared to Balto.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Yeah. There seem to be a lot of people like him in politics these days. They will drop their bombs on our lives and we will have to clean up their messes afterwards. I guess this is what happens when humans become too comfortable 😅
I knew (and still know) fuck all about British politics so most of what I know about UKIP came from the lolcow corner of the internet, where we were all just eating our popcorn while watching the shitshow. All I know is that before Sargon joined UKIP it seemed to be talked about as an actual serious political party and after Sargon joined, it became a total clownshow in media.
Glad to hear that to those who are savvy in British politics, farage was seen as a clown already. Still too bad that he succeeded in screwing over the UK and then placed out when the consequences came his way. I’m sure it’ll be the same with trump, if he lives long enough until next election, lol.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
He wasn’t even alone. Count Dankula also joined, and later left because he found the party to be unserious and cringe. He made a video about it at one point. I don’t agree with Dankula about every opinion he has, but I do find him to be smarter and more level-headed than most of his peers.
Sargon of Akkad went from being a youtuber who was a bit full of himself, to getting a minor god complex once he joined UKIP and spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to impress the infamous internet troll Mister Metokur, which is a whole saga in its own right. It was fucking hilarious to follow in real time.
Meanwhile, the press did what the press does and dug up all kinds of stupid shit that sargon had been saying over the years and, well, he quickly became a liability.
I had been pretty pissed with Sargon since the Candid scandal that most people seem to have forgotten since, so I was just enjoying the show, watching this dumbass making an utter fool of himself. I think a lot of UKIP’s bad press and failure as a party can be traced back to Sargon because when he joined the party, they were still somewhat seen as a respectable party that you could take seriously even if you disagreed with their politics. After sargon, they were seen as a clown show and I also think Farage left the party shortly after - unless I’m misremembering. It’s been awhile.
I don’t watch reality TV because I have the internet and it’s lolcows. The fact that these politicians allowed sargon of akkad into their party without doing a proper background check is fucking insane 🤣 they allowed him and Dankula in their party to catch the attention and support of their followers and they paid dearly for that, lol. In ignorant theory, it seems like a good idea to try and utilize influencers to further your party’s cause and reach a younger crowd - potentially - but back then, politicians did not understand internet culture nor how fucking insane it is. Overall, politicians seem a tiny bit more aware today, but they are still not getting it. That mixing brain dead entertainers with your cause could possibly backfire. Especially if your party appeals to the more reckless among us in society.
Of course, there could be many more factors as to why Farage decided to leave UKIP and for the party kinda falling apart at the seams other than just Sargon, but it is incredible how fast shit hit the fan after thel let Sargon join their party. Everybody who knew about Sargon knew that this was gonna end badly and we were all there for it. Rightwingers as well as leftwingers. Joined in harmony, laughing at the circus.
Somehow still more entertaining than when Kanye West hired Nick Fuentes and Milo Yiannopoulos as his campaign managers.
At some point you can’t do anything but laugh.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Same guy who thought it’d be a good idea to have Sargon of Akkad join UKIP.
It used to feel weird when my niche internet obsessions started bleeding into the real world, but nowadays it’s become so common that I barely react when some obscure internet drama that I think is funny, suddenly blooms into real world politics and I’m just sat here like “oh… again, huh?”
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 4 months ago:
I’ll never know, but I trust your judgement xD
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 4 months ago:
My brain immediately skipped to that episode of Friends where Monica learns that Chandler got advice from Joey about licking the alphabet.
- Comment on makes more sense than this shit 4 months ago:
I was the weasel all along.
- Comment on The least problematic early black metal band 4 months ago:
Stupid question, but what genre is space? :b
Also, I don’t mind getting more bands and artists to listen to so feel free to share if you want :D
- Comment on makes more sense than this shit 4 months ago:
Indeed. You literally never know these days. The astrology stuff is so fucky to me. I remember when people began getting serious about it and it completely ruined horoscopes for me as some fun, stupid past time shit to do once in awhile. It made me feel gross, like I was lumping myself in with a bunch of nutty people when I was just trying to have a bit of fun, you know.
You can have a convo with someone nowadays and think both of you are just joking and then you realize, no, I’m actually talking to an anti-vaxxer right now. 🤣 shit like that has happened to me more than once with all kinds of random topics I thought were common sense shit.
