ExLisper
@ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
- Comment on That Damn Smile 8 hours ago:
Fun fact: In medieval Spain, because of the constant wars between Christian and Muslim kingdoms a lot of land count not have been used for farming. Big chunks of land would pass from one side to another, people would have to move and abandon their crops. This lead to rise of big sheep herding industry - sheep could be moved out of the way of incoming army. But the hot climate forced people to move the sheep into to mountains during summers. This migrations - summers in mountains and winters in warmer southern regions - created high quality product - merino wool. To protect growing wool industry special laws were enacted that created protected herding routes that in many places can be seen to this day:
To celebrate this heritage there’s a “herding day” held in Madrid when sheep and goats from the mountains of Leon pass through the capital on their way to the winter grazing sites:
- Comment on 🏭🏭🏭 11 hours ago:
They look like typical happy family from Poland.
- Comment on Anon is 23 3 days ago:
Even in places where HVAC is big like Spain you can’t get a technician to look at it during summer. In smaller towns everything is difficult. Young people don’t want to do those jobs and older guys have so much work you have to chase them to get anything done. My family had to wait over a year for painter.
- Comment on Anon is 23 3 days ago:
Right now in Poland people with a degree struggle to get by working shit government and corpo jobs while people after trade schools buy summer homes and drive new cars. In Spain were I live they don’t make as much money but they sure as hell don’t have to worry about work. I’m trying to find someone to do some reforms and people simply ignore you. They have so much work they simply don’t care if you will hire them or not. And a lot of those jobs a not back-breaking. AC technicians have shitload of work now and will only have more.
- Comment on Anon is 23 4 days ago:
What’s wrong with trade-schools?
- Comment on Anon is 23 4 days ago:
Yeah, same as self driving trucks. Been 15 years away for 15 years now.
- Comment on Those of us who don't use ChatGPT will get this one ;) 5 days ago:
I believe the refined oils are extracted using solvents. This is how Aceite de Orujo (Pomace Oil?) is made for example.
- Comment on Why is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves? 5 days ago:
It’s just my opinion but I don’t think she’s not a very good speaker and she’s not good at confronting people. In the hearings I’ve seen she’s usually very soft, can’t drive her message through and is unconvincing. Her nice, soft persona works great at local level where what she actually stands for matters more than theatrics but I don’t think that would be effective in a presidential debate.
- Comment on Why is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves? 5 days ago:
I really think that Mamdani’s communication game is a vital lesson to learn for the dems.
The problem is dems don’t want to learn anything. They just want to play the role of controlled opposition, not actually do anything. If they win they will have to come up with excuses why they can’t do anything. A long as they are losing they just have to keep promising that they will fix things and keep asking for donations. Mamdani makes it all more difficult for them.
- Comment on But boy could he play it 5 days ago:
Maybe he was whistling? And the “music mode” was kind of autotune/synthesizer voice.
- Comment on Those of us who don't use ChatGPT will get this one ;) 5 days ago:
Olive oil has a high breakdown temp as far as I know and is fine for cooking.
- Comment on Civic duty 5 days ago:
It’s not like cops would ever lie to close the case or prosecutors would frame someone to get a conviction. Never in my life have I heard about something like that happening.
- Comment on Civic duty 5 days ago:
Like bigos.
- Comment on Civic duty 5 days ago:
It’s because no one believes this is actually someones breakfast before jury duty. It’s a joke. It doesn’t matter if the image is real or not.
- Comment on Those of us who don't use ChatGPT will get this one ;) 5 days ago:
For anyone interested, this mean it’s shit olive oil. Good olive oil is obtained directly from olives using only mechanical methods. It then passes taste test to determine if it’s only “virgin” or “extra virgin” (better, pure taste). Bad olive oil is extracted using chemical processes. This is not edible and normally was used in lamps but you can refine it in other industrial processes, add some virgin oil for taste and sell it. This is the bad kind. Don’t buy that shit.
- Comment on Why is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves? 6 days ago:
I also don’t think AOC would do well under the degree of pressure the office will apply.
I don’t even think she would do well under the pressure of the presidential campaign.
Of course, I also think she’d function better as a candidate for NY Governor. Building a hard base of DSA-aligned Democrats inside New York and advancing progressive policy at the state level
100% agree. Ideally they would the couple of strong contenders for presidency and bunch of AOCs advancing things at a local level. The fact that people propose AOC for presidents shows how bad the state of the party is.
- Comment on Why is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves? 6 days ago:
She’s fine.
Absolutely. She’s a capable politician and party member. I just don’t think she deserved to get the kind of attention she’s getting. For example many people talk about presidency and I think she’s not even close to this level. There’s simply no one else out there.
- Comment on Why is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves? 6 days ago:
Exactly. I would say Mamdani is “European kind of left” and he’s also really good at delivering his message. I totally get why he’s so popular. OAC is only OK but he really doesn’t have a lot of competition in Congress.
- Comment on Why is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves? 6 days ago:
I think it’s at least partially because everyone else sucks so bad. He’s not a great speaker but she gets a lot of coverage from left-wing influencers because there’s no one else to promote. She also positions herself just far enough on the left to get their support but she’s also close enough to the center to still get coverage in the mainstream media. So she’s the face of progressive movent and gets attacked by Fox a lot. So he’s everywhere even though she’s kind of bland in my opinion. Compared with European left at least.
- Comment on When Stephen Colbert had The Colbert Report did the right ever realize he was doing a parody of them? 6 days ago:
Colbert wasn’t chosen because the president had a thick skin and thought being roasted would be funny.
Of course not. He was chosen because the press thought he was funny and Bush wasn’t a manchild like Trump and showed up even though he was going to be roasted. Before Trump presidents worried about looking weak.
- Comment on When Stephen Colbert had The Colbert Report did the right ever realize he was doing a parody of them? 1 week ago:
Back then presidents had thicker skin. The job of the WHCD entertainer was to make fun of the sitting president to show what freedom of speech is all about. The job of the president was to take it and smile. He wasn’t invited because they thought he supports Bush. He was invited because they thought he was funny.
- Comment on I built a free game where you try to beat a couch at timing the market. Over 80k plays later, the couch usually wins. 1 week ago:
I won. Does that mean I should start betting on stocks? Ok.
- Comment on Hey looky! I'm on a list a just learned about three minutes ago! 1 week ago:
So did anyone figure out who was added to the list and why? I saw an account with total of 12 comments and no posts on it. The comments didn’t say anything remotely political. It bans both “Conservative” and “Communist” communities. It just looks like it was trying to ban politics as a whole and maybe used some silly bot detection algorithm to flag users?
- Comment on Badge of Honor 1 week ago:
There are posts saying it was discontinued a year ago: jlai.lu/post/22505617
So he came back? Apparently that was the message he posted a year ago:
This project has been discontinued and the repo archived. I am done with Lemmy, the Fediverse as a whole, and have no desire to continue developing for the platform or (especially) the demographic thereof.
So many red flags. People really need to check what they are hosting.
- Comment on Badge of Honor 1 week ago:
github.com/asimons04/Tesseract - so it’s gone? This is so weird. Was the dev building this as his personal UI or something and just decided to put his blocklist in the code? Because if not what was he expecting? It was obvious people will find out and just stop using it. Not a specific group of users will stop using it but everyone. So what’s the point?
- Comment on Prang mantas 1 week ago:
There’s usually some interesting story behind bad movies. I had no idea bout Halo movie but this makes sense.
I never saw Avatar. Not my type of a movie.
I really miss the late 90’s/00 sci fi movies. Gattaca, Children of Men, The Fountain, Primer, Timecrimes… It’s really hard to find movies like that now. For more than a decade now most sci fi is either marvel or star wars. The Platform was a nice exception but I can’t really think of anything else.
- Comment on I wish our politicians were this interesting 1 week ago:
It was a local politician from a small town (population 33k). He was 28 and the video was from 5 years earlier. Looks like he had some humiliation fetish and someone leaked some private videos. I think that if it was anything else it would be clear case of discrimination and bullying but eating feces is not taboo because it’s a not a common kink, it’s taboo because it’s fucking disgusting.
- Comment on Prang mantas 1 week ago:
I loved the idea of aliens refugees coming to earth but I didn’t really like the movie that much. From what I remember in the end there was just a lot or shooting and running which was disappointing. Around 2009 I was used to less action packed and more thoughtful science fiction like “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”, “Moon” or “Never Let Me Go”.
- Comment on Prang mantas 1 week ago:
The Prawns have been systematically reduced to second-class citizens there
Some sort of apartheid In South Africa? The crazy shit science fiction writers come up with, right?
- Comment on It's becoming widely accepted that it's not safe to put pictures of your children on social media... (cont. in post) 1 week ago:
This seems very accurate. It’s more about perceived “freedom” and not about some actual benefits. “We’ll have guns because we can!” while thousands die needlessly in shootings and “people need to be anonymous on social media” while massive disinformation campaigns destroy actual freedoms. The analogy is made even better by the fact that both are supposed to protect people from tyranny while in reality neither does.
