madjo

@madjo@feddit.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨surely your hobby can't be that expensive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  pretty sure they walked in dirt, and not concrete roads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨surely your hobby can't be that expensive⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For walking/running you need proper shoes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨surely your hobby can't be that expensive⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a hole in the bucket, dear henry, dear henry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where do you all get your (indie) gaming news from?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  aftermath.site is a great news source.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Education is important. ⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It has been a bit windy…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Education is important. ⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that that floating plastic island?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon lives on a budget⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even ironic racists are racist. There’s no middle ground to be found there.

  Same with ironic nazis just being nazis.

  No middle ground! None.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actual theft ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The word “zo” has a lot of different meanings. In this case it’s said at the end of a (difficult or long) task as filler word.

  Like “zo, dat is klaar” (that’s (finally) done now), or “zo en dan nu tv kijken” (and now (finally) time to watch tv)
  It doesn’t mean “so” in that case. It’s more similar to “hè hè” in that case. An expression of weariness and/or tiredness. And that’s why I translated it to “finally”. “Now this task is finished, I can finally relax with a beer”.

  I hope this clears things up for you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actual theft ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the literal translation, yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actual theft ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dutch beer brand Amstel had a long running commercial campaign that featured 3 friends enjoying their beer.
  After that campaign ended, competitor Bavaria hired two of three actors and made a commercial with them that looked like them making an Amstel commercial but then ending with Bavaria’s tag line “Zo, nu eerst een Bavaria” (And now finally a Bavaria).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just thankful that the community isn’t one to make it a nazi bar, even if business daddy wants it to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s how I got permabanned on Twitter, before the musk set in.

  Frontex was trying to use pride month to boost their image, just weeks after footage came out of them pushing leaky migrant boats back into sea. They said something like “bullying is never the answer”, to which I responded “No, but pushing people back to drown at sea is, right?”
  That was apparently “hate speech”, and I got permabanned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have the image downloaded, and Imgur’s mods removed it, so I doubt it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically a drawing of a goblin girl in a bikini, and there’s a few accounts whose names start with “ElbowDeepInA…” (it started with “ElbowDeepInAHorse”)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6🤷‍♀️7⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  All fax no printer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly the punch didn’t knock any sense in him as Bart Sibrel still believe space is fake, none of the moon landings happened and the earth is flat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Earlier this week a user posted “kill Nazis” and got a warning from Imgur saying that imgur is an inclusive platform, welcome to everyone. (which apparently includes Nazis?)
  That’s what kicked this off (again).

  There was already some upset feelings in the community because at the beginning of the week one of the “Elbow Deep In A” accounts got suspended over a “Gone Mild” drawing of a goblin girl. So it didn’t take much for the community to be really upset with “business daddy”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're going backwards⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It used to be the cheaper option compared to hotels. Because it used to be people renting out a spare room.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6🤷‍♀️7⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  no cap fr fr

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It will be great, they said...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The Uncanny Valley hit me in the face directly, when I opened the image. That tie pattern makes no sense, the ring on his finger is at least 4 sizes too small, and the image makes very little sense either, like what would this have looked like originally without the badly shopped in text if it hadn’t been AI slop. Like what part of that sign is that dude on the left staring at? What is the other dude pointing out?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am such a good boi⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh boy this is triggering some PTSD for me…
  story time…

  on Uni I had two internships for IT, both arranged via school, and both went disastrous.

  The first one, I had communicated many times with the company about the date we were going to start (upto 1 week before we were due to begin), and about the assignment and everything. And the person who was going to be our guide had assured me (and a fellow student) that all was arranged, and not to worry about anything. We arrive at the company on a Monday morning, and that guide told us: “oh is that today? Sorry, I thought you were going to start next week. But no matter, you’re here now.” And when we asked to meet the team we were going to work with, he said: “Oh yeah, about that project… that was finished last week.”
  Wait, what?!
  “But we’ll find something suitable for you guys, lets find you a workspace”.
  We were dumped in some closet with at that time already ancient PCs. And we reported all this to school, with barely any response from them, they just told us to keep asking for news about the assignment, which we did. And we kept them abreast of everything, and wrote reports that they requested.
  Eventually we got something to do, I was tasked with figuring out some CRM system (that barely ran on my prehistoric PC), and my fellow student had some other task. After 6 months of doing this, and some odd jobs within the company, we had to present our results to the school. During that presentation, our professor had the audacity to say that we didn’t show enough initiative. To this day I do not know what we could’ve done more than we did. It was that bad, that my fellow student dropped out completely and went to work for a kitchen factory in town.

  The second one, I had found a communication company in the listings, that was close to where I lived, so that was perfect. I had to create a complete Content Management System in ASP (not even .net yet), including a forum and a back-end so that they could close off parts to certain customers. It was a fun time, and I made my reports as requested, and I always asked for feedback from school about my reports, if they were up to snuff. I got some valuable feedback from my guide at the company, but the professor (a different one this time, at my request) said that my reports were perfectly fine, he never had any comments on it.
  I worked my butt off, and the communications company loved what I managed to produce in 6 months by myself. (basically a copy of PHPBB but written from the ground up in ASP, with several features that didn’t even exist for PHPBB yet, it worked perfectly. And they used it for many years after I left)
  Then came presentation time, and this time there were 2 professors grading my work. And that second professor told me that my reports were completely insufficient (“why didn’t you ask for feedback?” “I did” “Well, clearly not emphatic enough”), and that as far as school was concerned I had failed my internship. And the only way to save it was to redo all the reports. My guide at the company said that he thought it was absolute bullshit, but even he couldn’t budge the school. In the end I had no choice but to rewrite all the reports, all the documentations, and do the presentation all over again.
  This and some personal stuff caused a deep depression within me.
  Good supervision would’ve helped, but I never got any.

  Fucking HIO at Avans Hogeschool Breda. You sucked!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I fall for it every year. Every. Year.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How does he know what earlobe meat tastes like?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to answer someone who accuses you of being a bot because they don't like what you have to say?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bleep blorp

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨car producers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had heard that they had merged, but that was apparently bad info.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨car producers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile Renault, also a Stellantis brand, has made 2 Car of the Years back to back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wrote the Dutch mnemonic not the actual Dutch word for multiplication etc.

  “Antwoord” is “answer” in Dutch and Afrikaans

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rush hour traffic in Utrecht, Netherlands⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Leave Liberia out of this :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rush hour traffic in Utrecht, Netherlands⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My experience when wearing a bike helmet in NL is that car drivers seem to take more risks with my safety, they drive closer to me than I normally experience, and I feel less safe than when I’m not wearing a helmet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Libraries are cool⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Best option is to just buy the book and not read it! That’s the best option for the publishers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Meneer Van Dale Wacht Op Antwoord (Exponents, multiplication, division, root, addition, subtraction in Dutch).