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- Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 1 day ago:
Really? Two days later, you make a top level comment that ends in “sigh” without checking how the discussion developed meanwhile? …sigh…
- Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 1 day ago:
I looked that up because of this post; prices seem to be back to normal.
- Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 1 day ago:
According to this he wasn’t exaggerating. Tricks, pranks, theft and vandalism used to be the default; candy (and organised parties) was introduced to placate the rowdies.
- Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 1 day ago:
It used to!
That’s the impression I’m getting overall. From the presumably USian comments - for those that got Halloween via the US, it probably never was.
The video tells an amazing story (starts about 6min in, ends at about 16min in). Apparently Halloween as it was in the 19th century was a mix of traditions from different cultures, partly even the result of culture clash. And the introduction of candy was aimed at placating the little rowdies, invented by ladies that remind me of the temperance movement.
In light of that we should celebrated those kids that still cling to the old, rebellious ways!
Seriously though, most cultures have traditions of at least one day per year where mischief is allowed, and I like it.
Bonus, from the video:
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- Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 2 days ago:
In some ways money is actually better than candy.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
I’m not sure I’m catching your drift. What sort of verification? And how does verification (whatever type) “turn into propaganda”?
- Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 2 days ago:
The necktie cutting as I know it is a Karneval thing, specifically the Thursday before Karneval, called Weiberfasnacht (“Wives’/women’s carnival”).
Shit, you’re right (same in Cologne). But I seem to remember something similar from Walpurgisnacht; women being in control, somewhat.
- Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 2 days ago:
That makes sense actually. I guess I got lucky to get visited by very friendly kids despite having no decorations at all. There didn’t seem to be many about anyhow.
- Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 2 days ago:
they came back
Yeah this was part of my question, thanks for confirming. OTOH which adult would refuse to give out candy if they knew that’s the consequence. Maybe it was a gamble.
- Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 2 days ago:
Oh, I thought it was the kids that are supposed to trick the adults?
- Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 2 days ago:
You turned it around. Nice. OTOH I love to make kids happy. OTOH I knew the single group that came to my house last night and I know they’re plenty capable of mischief and I wish we still had traditions that really allow for that.
- Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 2 days ago:
Sounds like something you’d do at Walpurgisnacht. I remember women actually carrying scissors to cut off men’s … neckties or other parts of clothing.
I miss the mischief.
The way you describe it, Southern Germany or Austria or Switzerland?
- Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 2 days ago:
Thanks for an honest answer. I suspect most commenters here are larping.
- Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 2 days ago:
I thought that. Kids would have to a) come prepared for tricks (eggs, TP…) and b) not be recognizable. And I guess it also required that sweets/treats were more precious and less ubiquitous than they are today.
I think most traditional feasts used to have some sort of good/bad dualism built in, but over time the bad part got removed.
- Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 2 days ago:
So how does that work, what does the ritual demand then? Do kids do it immediately or do they circle back later? Do they come prepared for that outcome? And why would any adult ever answer like that if they know that’s what’s going to happen? Or is it enough to not open the door? Or to say I have no treats? Do you have personal experience of such outcomes?
- Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 2 days ago:
But is it ever happening this way?
Do people really answer “trick” when asked?
Or rather anything from “no treat, sorry” to “fuck off you lousy brats”?
How does the ritual continue then? What do the kids answer?
And then, do they vandalize that person’s property, usually, or are there other types of tricks?
Do they do it immediately, or do they circle back later, secretly? - Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 2 days ago:
Older generations did
So what’s the ritual? You come to the house, say trick or treat, I’m guessing the adult never answers “trick” but rather fuck off or no treat. What then? Do the kids immediately start wrecking?
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- Comment on If you live in a city, you'll probably end up memorizing the meanings of arbitrary numbers. 3 days ago:
I didn’t think that through; what I really meant: replace ALL numbers and letters with nothing. Even if you had years to memorize everything before that change, I don’t think you’d fare well. As you seem to have pointed out in your second-to-last paragraph.
BTW the metro in Mexico City uses (Aztec, Mayan?) symbols for their routes (in addition to numbers iirc) because many people can’t read. Same with many preschool games: instead of trying to teach numbers/letters/counting prematurely, they just use colors or animals instead.
And when you think that through, letters and numbers aren’t all that different from “take a left at that big oak”.
- Comment on If you live in a city, you'll probably end up memorizing the meanings of arbitrary numbers. 3 days ago:
Thought experiment: take that whole situation you just described and replace all letters and numbers with meaningless alien symbols. Does it still work?
- Comment on What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading 3 days ago:
I’m just glad people are waking up to how fiercely controlling Google is even in its “free” and “open” source endeavors.
- Comment on What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading 4 days ago:
Ask Cory Doctorow, he has good answers well beyond that one term he coined.
- Comment on What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading 4 days ago:
It’s really a pet peeve of mine, that term. So typical for what Google/Alphabet is doing to control the narrative around what’s “secure” and what isn’t.
- Comment on Has anyone here ever doubted if your parents were your "real" parents? Is it normal to have these weird thoughts? 5 days ago:
Yes, it’s normal.
Seriously, books have been written about this. Stories I mean, but probably also some sort of analysis.
- Comment on Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn’t worried about Elon Musk’s Grokipedia: ‘Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now’ 5 days ago:
Just listened to someone attempt a Freudian analysis on the X that he seems so obsessed with. It was trite.
- Comment on Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn’t worried about Elon Musk’s Grokipedia: ‘Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now’ 5 days ago:
‘Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now’
Or ever create anything (he’s just stealing other people’s creations)
- Comment on EU AI Act Demands Informed, Disclosure-Aware Patent Strategies 5 days ago:
G O O D
AI simply needs regulation. Not sure this is the best there is, but just acknowledging that is a step forward.
I also read today that some leaders are pushing for sovereignty, i.e. being independent of US tech and developing their own.
On the downside, they want to fully embrace that shit for “preemptive data storage”. Also many go with Palantir regardless, I don’t understand how that goes together with the call for sovereignty.
- Comment on Poland Signs Palantir, Anduril Deals Amid Record Army Spending 5 days ago:
Question:
Does buying arms from the USA essentially necessitate using Palantir or related products?
- Comment on Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations? 1 week ago:
There’s an animated and a live action series. Which would you recommend more?
- Comment on The handhold opening of a kitchen cutting board allows you to turn it into a melee weapon. 1 week ago:
In winter, mostly preschool aged kids use these to slide down a snowy hill:
liukuri
Used as you describe they’re just as dangerous.
