tourist
@tourist@lemmy.world
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 1 day ago:
You have to retroactively do what I did and cripple your attention span to a point where if you see any piece of text longer than a few sentences, your brain just automatically skips past it
- Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects 2 weeks ago:
“Broadcast English”
Interesting term
I’ve always noticed that In movies and TV shows, North American accents mostly sound “normal”. But when I talk to Americans/Canadians in person or online over voice chat, I cannot pinpoint the accents, it just sounds “American” to me.
I almost never hear the
“I’m walkin here”
“Folks won’t take kindly to you around these parts”
“I pahked my cah at the Hahvahd yahd”
“I’m sorey aboot that”
I’m totally down, I just need to, like, check my schedule?
etc.
kinds of exaggerated accents
everyone sounds like someone from CNN to me and then they say they’re from Arkansas or something
- Comment on devastated 2 weeks ago:
I wanted to see my recommendations :{
Not rooted, or flashing a custom ROM, so I can’t delete the play store.
Also, my bank app wasn’t installing properly from Aurora. I don’t remember what the exact issue was, but it was too much of a hassle to figure out (or change banks)
But that second profile idea is smart
I should have done that
- Comment on devastated 2 weeks ago:
organic recommendations:
apps for which I already have F-Droid equivalents installed
sponsored recommendations:
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- Comment on Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names. 2 weeks ago:
Interesting thought
I don’t think the other nations are too bothered by it in most cases.
The country that comes to mind first is Germany. They call it Deutschland. I never looked into why we as English speakers call it “Germany”. I just do it because everyone else does.
I haven’t heard of Germans getting upset about it. If they were legitimately offended, I’d start calling it Deutschland, no problem.
The real issues come in when there’s a historical context. Like, if the name contains a slur for the people in that nation. Or if you mix up the names of neighbouring Balkan countries.
- Comment on Choose wisely! 3 weeks ago:
Depending on how serious you are:
Choose weed instead
Or the crisis line. You probably already know where to find it. Help is available. You do not have to suffer alone. I love you homie.
- Comment on A Drunk Raccoon Passed Out in the Bathroom of a Virginia Liquor Store 3 weeks ago:
man, imagine getting blackout the first time and it ends up in the NYT
so fucked up what they did to this homie
- Comment on Give the people what they want ... Hairy Baals 3 weeks ago:
News crew pronounced it that way on purpose with a straight face.
Pure dedication. How many takes did they need for that?
- Comment on girlfriend 3 weeks ago:
You’re not wrong, although I feel like the implication in this context was slightly more antagonistic.
i.e. “It’s only a matter of time before she leaves your sorry ass”
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
He’s not accusing televangelist fraudsters, war criminals, or deceptive, charismatic, powerful world leaders that threaten religious freedom.
Isn’t that him and his entire social circle?
if you asked a random person off the street:
hi which one of these people do you think is most likely the Antichrist:
- Greta Thunberg (Climate Activist)
- Eliezer Yudkowsky (AI researcher)
- Peter Thiel (Chairman of Palantir)
I’m going to guess most people will pick option 3.
I didn’t even know who Eliezer was, I just skimmed his Wikipedia page.
I’m an atheist, but hearing about a billionaire defense contractor who goes on rants about the antichrist makes me think “hmm maybe this dude is the Antichrist”.
It just reminds me too much of those super anti-paedophilia guys who make anti-paedophilia their entire personality and then turn out to have terabytes of CSAM on their laptop.
- Comment on What are they hoping to find there? 🤔 4 weeks ago:
I had a colleague from overseas looking to visit Soweto
I said something to the effect of “Brother why would you do that, don’t you have a family?”
But apparently there are legitimate tour programmes that go in there now. Super safe for visitors. I had no clue.
I mean, you still basically get robbed by the tour company, but if you’re used to dollars or euros, you probably won’t even notice.
- Comment on Take a guess 🤣 4 weeks ago:
I like this one because you can append prefixes and suffixes to it
Fat ass in the tall grass
Asshole in the grasshole
etc.
- Comment on I didn't verify the headline. 1 month ago:
SHIT BRO LOOK OUT
A GANG OF LINUX KERNEL CONTRIBUTORS ARE APPROACHING YOUR HOUSE
THEY’RE HAULING AN IMPROVISED MRI SCANNER
- Comment on The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing" 1 month ago:
The Economist has a tendency to put out articles seemingly designed to make conservatives bust nuts through their trousers at mach 4
Is Lucifer’s Poison Ivy destroying the fabric of civilization as we know it?
- Comment on A brain transplant is one of those rare cases where you’d rather be the donor than the recipient. 1 month ago:
fecal transplants
wait
does this mean “eat shit” counts as unsolicited medical advice
- Comment on New Year? In this economy? 1 month ago:
you make a good point
where do I sign
I have a really bad credit score
- Comment on New Year? In this economy? 1 month ago:
idk I’m not sure
tbf I took a quick glance through some other years and they all had major tragedies
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 1 month ago:
Also, doesn’t this shit just waste like a fuckton of taxpayer money?
- Comment on GET THAT BREAD 1 month ago:
- Comment on I like to fit a full portion of hot garbage in there too 1 month ago:
Or in a more immature reading, cialis
- Comment on Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition - Reveal Trailer 2 months ago:
imagine if by dumb luck, since the re-releases are so violently frequent, both games converge into a state where the mods are compatible with each other
Or the games just straight up bleed into one another
Preston Garvey shows up at the throat of the world to mark another settlement on your map
Feral ghouls no longer groan but instead start talking about their cousins taking arrows in the sweetroll
- Comment on Holy moly 2 months ago:
Ive watched better call Saul and breaking bad, so I bet I can translate this:
The masculine grandma robbed the sex couch
- Comment on The fact that users are encouraged to include text descriptions with media content makes it perfect training data for AI. 2 months ago:
Also, the alt texts vary in descriptiveness for that exact purpose. They’re meant to be useful for humans, not for training data.
What would a blind person rather have as the alt text:
(there are no photos here, for the blind people listening)
A cute Alsatian puppy looking into the camera with a dog toy in its mouth
A 14 week old black/brown dog sitting on a tiled floor with a synthetic-rubber cuboid-cylindrical-shaped, blue-green-gradient chew toy in its mouth with its eyes and noises poised at a 30° angle towards the photographer’s origin. Each tile on the floor is approximately 1.47m^2 and are a pearlescent shade of off-white. There is an unidentifiable black speck on the first tile in the top left quadrant of the image. The cameraman’s fat finger is covering 1.97% of the bottom right quadrant. Focal length is set to 100mm. Exposure settings appear to be increased. The dog’s genitals are not visible.
- Comment on some days i cant even 2 months ago:
leafblowers suck
they literally do the opposite u idot 😤😡
- Comment on Is there any way of trying Battlefield 6 without buying it or paying £17 for a 1 month EA Play Pro subscription? 2 months ago:
Call me cheap
homie that game is $70
You’re not cheap, you’re literally trying not to get robbed
You can buy a few dozen really good indie games for a fraction of that price
That urge to buy and play it ASAP is marketing doing its job.
Easier said than done, but if you really hate EA, your only choice is to eat the FOMO.
Otherwise, you’re feeding the beast.
Disclaimer: I’m high
- Comment on JP Morgan staff told they must share biometric data to access headquarters 2 months ago:
i take this to mean “shit on the fingerprint scanner”
- Comment on The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein 2 months ago:
No one ever addresses the basketball careers in this saga
Bravo Onion
- Comment on If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.? 2 months ago:
Kick me in the brain stem if I’m on the wrong track, but I feel like it’s by design
In general,
Everyone hates public officials taking bribes
Everyone hates streaming services raising their subscription fees
Everyone hates advertisements
Everyone hates big pharma charging $1000 for a cancer treatment pill that costs 0.1c to manufacture
The throughline is obvious, but I feel most people just take a neutral or dismissive (and sometimes aggressive) stance if you bring it up.
It’s that cognitive dissonance that feels engineered.
I don’t know how to fix that. Admittedly, I still need to do more reading.
- Comment on New phonetic alphabet just dropped 2 months ago:
X for Xorg
- Comment on nostalgia 2 months ago:
there is more than one photo
I meant to imply this using the word “story”. I’m shit at communication, sorry :(
This is part of what I specifically found amusing:
spoiler
I wasn’t even thinking about the pre-folding aspect. I like logistics stuff, so that’s cool to learn. Thanks!
