Dojan

@Dojan@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This debate always makes me think of Toni’s reaction to “closing the toilet lid when you flush.”

  I didn’t know that people left the lid up. Feels a bit like not closing the door of a fridge after you’re done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HAPPY 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This felt like a Warframe message, somehow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HAPPY 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, it’s because I only ever bump into them at like 3 in the morning when I’m conking out from drowsiness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HAPPY 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I aimed for the stars but landed in a ditch. I’m Ditch Wolf.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HAPPY 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I always thought you were American.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HAPPY 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How’d you get this photo of me?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In a lot of ways it’s been like this for a long time. I recall back in 2007 when Vista was breaking everything, I installed Ubuntu and was shocked that there were zero driver issues. Even the fucking printer worked. Printers never work!

  It’s only gotten better since.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is how democracy works, too. It only works so long as people have time to engage with it properly.

  People not having time is by design.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Interestingly, Linux also runs old Windows games better than modern Windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to reduce the crime rate to 0⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You have hundreds of thousands of immigrants not getting jobs because they dont learn the language and they are content with getting money from the tax paying population. They dont want to have a shitty job, and rather live on wellfare, which makes perfect sense from their point of view. I would do the same.

  Yeah see, I don’t agree on this. I grew up in poverty here in Sweden. For reference, I was born in Stockholm in the 90s, lived in Södermalm for quite a while. Not exactly an easy place to live on subsistence minimum, but things have changed for the worse since then - I don’t blame migration for this either. Our housing problem isn’t a problem of scarcity, it’s a problem of greed.

  I grew up with a single parent, with a very rocky employment record. Living on welfare is complete ass, and sometimes you won’t get it even if it’s entirely necessary. I know a bloke who lived out in the middle of nowhere. Rent was cheap, but he had no public transit access. Ended up on hard times, and struggled finding a job. He owned an old Volvo that the social services deemed worth 15k, and so at one point they decided that he should sell his only means of transport to any potential place of employment. Thus his only option was to do that, and move somewhere more expensive putting him in a worse economic situation.

  Living on welfare is stressful. It doesn’t matter if it’s from socialen or försäkringskassan. It’s fickle, and it’s demeaning. You’re looked down upon as if you’re a leech in a system that exists to help people in your position. A system we all pay into to help people in that position. Including people who are in that position. You don’t stop paying taxes just because you’re on welfare, that’s coming out of your bottom-line as well.

  If you’d rather live on welfare than work a shitty job, do it. You see this sort of argument all the time, but it really isn’t as fun or relaxing as you think it is.

  That’s not to say that there aren’t people like this, it just has nothing to do with migration. It’s a case of the bourgeoisie shitting on the working class and pointing at migrants as the problem. Go back far enough in time, before we had a visible migrant minority, and this stupid talking point was still being made.

  You are not going to agree with me on this, but at least realize not liking immigration doesnt have to be “i dont like your skin color”. Thats a dumb argument. Its about so much more than that.

  Again, you clearly didn’t read what I said, because the continuation of “it’s not even just ‘ew brown people’” was…

  because people were like this about the Finns as well.

  The implication you’ve missed here is that the Finnish immigrants were white, and xenophobes found ways to be arses about them anyway. Those same xenophobes would todaWe have an opportunity to be open and welcoming to people, y point at Finns as “the good kind” of immigrant, because of a “cultural overlap” or whatever. If you shrunk the world down to just a single village, the xenophobes would bemoan the people on the other side of it.

  Sweden has a long tradition of human rights, women rights, and seeing people as equal.

  No, we don’t. We dabbled with eugenics on the native population in the 40s. Women got a general right to vote in 1919, which is only about 100 years ago. Married women were myndigförklarade first 1921. Abortion wasn’t made legal until 1975. Fags like me were considered mentally ill until 1979. That wasn’t even 50 years ago. Our most recent overturn of a eugenics law was in 2013, so in a couple of years it’ll be old enough to get a driver’s license.

  I’m not praising Islam. I don’t think religious dogma should have a spot in modern society. One of my exes fled to Sweden because of persecution. He was captured by the regime in his home country, and tortured. His back is covered in scars.

  The religious extremism and zealotry isn’t a reflection of the culture at large, just how Trump and the insane far-right in the U.S. isn’t a representation of the average populace. It’s corruption. The perspective of the Middle East and Africa as some kind of undeveloped, brutish, uncultured backwaters are based in European imperialism and white supremacy. It’s just not historically true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to reduce the crime rate to 0⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, I even said “it’s not even just ‘ew brown people’”, so I’m not sure what you’re arguing over.

  without having a job, income, and you dont have to learn the language

  …and that’s the fault of the migrant? We have some flawed social programmes. I won’t argue that SFI isn’t rubbish. I’ve dated two Iranians, SFI is very poorly structured and needs more work done to function well. Students can excel there, absolutely, but it’s not exactly set up in a way to make this happen.

  I’m not sure why exactly you list job and income, the two tend to be intrinsically linked.

  Oh and here is some money too so you can stay at home.

  This also means that the state has a constant check on your finances, and you report monthly to Försäkringskassan/Socialen. It’s not exactly a fun experience, and nothing you flaunt, you’ll never get rich or live large on this money.

  Also, you’re aware that you as a Swedish citizen have the ability to do this too, right? Just get rid of all your assets, quit your job, and when you’re living below subsistence minimum go grovel at your local socialtjänst.

  And here is an apartment.

  Again, as a Swede you have the ability to get this, too, you just need to become homeless first. Give it a shot, if you think the experience is so great. There are social programmes for this, and there are requirements for people that end up in these places.

  For example, regular immigrants don’t just get an apartment. Asylum seekers might get a place to live while their application is processed, and once that’s been approved they’ll either be assigned a place to live, or get assistance finding a place to live. A lot of this is done on a case-by-case basis, they might for example already have family already established here.

  And now we are building mosques.

  And what is the problem here? We have freedom of religion here in Sweden, for better and for worse.

  Mosques are financed through private financing, generally a tithe collected from the members, grants from the state (which again, if you’re in a religious group you can apply for this too), and private backing from other third-party actors.

  The mosques don’t broadcast adhan either, and I don’t think that’s something that would gain any general approval here so I don’t see it happening.

  Crime is typically a social problem. Sure, some people are twisted and those that don’t have the contacts required to end up as successful tech-bro CEOs will go about abusing others in a less socially-approved manner, but it’s not a problem inherent to migration.

  It takes time to build functioning social programmes, and ours are never allowed to grow into anything functional when our government keeps flip-flopping between the milquetoast left government with the Ayn Rand party making the calls while the nazis set the budget, and the yee-haw capitalist nazi coalition dismantling everything every four years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to reduce the crime rate to 0⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh nooo, little miss Ayn Rand fangirl hasn’t been working in politics. Her mandate lasted nearly twenty fucking years, she had plenty of time as a politician.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When they named the planet Uranus they probably didn't know it was full of methane.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I know this one.

  There was a decent amount of debate over the name for Uranus. There was already a naming tradition present, and some argued it should be broken. I think one suggestion was like “George’s Star”, thank fuck that didn’t stick.

  Eventually it was settled on being named after the Greek sky deity Ouranos, which is the father of Kronos (Saturn in Latin), who is the father of Zeus (Jupiter in Latin), who is the father of Ares (Mars), who is the spouse-brother of Aphrodite (Venus), and sibling to Hermes (Mercury).

  Old astronomers had big old hardons for Greco-Roman mythology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to reduce the crime rate to 0⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This holds true here in Sweden too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to reduce the crime rate to 0⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Xenophobia knows no bounds. It’s not even just “ew brown people” because people were like this about the Finns as well. It’s just stupidity, and stupidity is everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. The cognitive dissonance is massive and depressing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics”⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything catering to the queer community will automatically be political on account of a lot of people still working to kill us.

  I don’t even see how AI is going to be applicable in Grindr. Such a weird decision.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’ll own that.

  The reason people can’t afford a system is because NVidia is screwing with the market in the name of AI. Before that they were doing the same in the name of crypto. They’re one of the big companies manipulating politics in their favour, against the better interest of the general populace. They’re standing alongside the companies that are pushing for mass-surveillance, they’re pushing for people to lose their jobs, and for all the other nefarious ways AI is being applied.

  But at least we can ignore our culpability and blame a computer when it decides to bomb a bus of brown school kids on the other side of the planet now, I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Aye, this is premium pricing, not necessarily premium quality. The biggest hassle I have with my PC comes from NVidia and their bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we deprogramming empathy in the US?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The idea that the president used to act as a role model is so bizarre to me as a Swede. We’ve had prominent political figures that have had very good reputations, but I can’t imagine anyone considering a politician as a role model. They’re just people that, hopefully, are doing their job. Wanting to emulate a politician, like a prime minister, or a president, just feels scarily like hero worship. Very culty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t pay for this shit. It’s another case of “you’ll own nothing and stop fucking complaining, peasant.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bruh... 🫩⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are dozens of us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is all on the assumption it’ll work and be useful. The track record so far is underwhelming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Makes sense. Upscaling and video interpolation instead of optimisation. Image generation instead of artists. Now this instead of actual testing.

  The 💩💩💩 gaming industry is going to somehow get even worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I asked the guy at the register for SCIZES SUCIT and got banned from the store. 😤

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I do speak from the stance of a professional developer. In what fantasy world are you residing in where a small-scale indie studio has the ability to burn nearly $10 million a year on staff alone?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I think if you removed like…

  • The theft and plagiarism
  • The privacy infringements
  • The government bribes
  • The massive energy costs that are leaving people at a risk for blackouts
  • The environmental destruction in the areas the datacentres operate
  • The complete disregard for the health of the people living around the datacentres
  • The constant lying in an attempt to pump up stocks and grab as much money as possible before nuking the economy
  • The creepy-ass plans to institute an authoritarian techno-dystopia
  • Whatever else I’ve missed on the list

  I’d be a lot more positive about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re working within such constraints you’re not an indie developer and thus not eligible for indie game awards anyway.

  Regardless of that, prompting for AI textures is more work than just popping on a placeholder asset anyway. You’re not saving time, particularly not if you don’t have a good way to manage what is and isn’t placeholder thus have to hunt down all the AI generated placeholders before you hit production.

  It’s a waste of time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because there is no way to ethically use the AI we have today. I’m not saying that machine learning itself is unethical; I really enjoy machine learning, been plodding around with it for almost a decade at this point. The problem is that when you use the AI systems on the market, you’re directly supporting corporations that mean you harm.

  The argument that it was just used for placeholder assets doesn’t really hold, because it was used at all. You could just as easily have thrown something together in paint and used that as a placeholder. When designing levels you put them together with basic building blocks, you don’t need half-arsed AI generated textures for this. Using AI generated textures and whatnot increases the risk of it ending up in-game.

  How can you justify charging for this?

  Image

  The corporations pushing this tech are looking to strip you of rights, they are bribing government officials, they are ruining the local environment of wherever they put up their datacentres, they’re increasing the risk of blackouts right in a season where more people need electricity to stay warm and healthy. They steal, they infringe on copyrights, they invade your privacy.

  Like, they’re actually just plain evil. Using their stuff means you’re supporting evil one way or another. It doesn’t make you evil, but it makes you complicit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we produce so much porn?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You naughty little scamp you.