ChristerMLB
@ChristerMLB@piefed.social
- Comment on What did you call me? 3 days ago:
You are right, in fact it’s still possible to study datafag, I stand corrected: https://uit.no/utdanning/program/795103/informatikk_datafag_-_bachelor
With regards to “sluttfag”, I couldn’t find anything real, but Google’s AI summary says “Et sluttfag er et fag på videregående skole som blir avsluttet med en standpunktkarakter det gjeldende skoleåret” - so it’s the final year of a subject that gives you a grade on your high-school diploma… according to a language model :l
- Comment on What did you call me? 4 days ago:
I have never heard anyone call computer science “datafag”, it’s usually called “informatikk” (like “informatics” which you can also say in English), and “slutt” just means end or stop, I have never heard anyone use it to refer to graduating.
- Comment on What did you call me? 4 days ago:
yep, or “field of study”, so if you study in Norway, students who study the same might arrange a “fagfest” together, and a skilled worker is often known as a “fagarbeider”
- Comment on *Eyeroll* 1 week ago:
Well, FDR was a man of snappy quotes, executive overreach, and of throwing a lot of things at the wall and seeing what sticks. Maybe that’s it :\
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg leaves stranded boat passengers to die in middle of the Pacific. 4 weeks ago:
“Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook and Instagram owner Meta Platforms, was not onboard at the time, a spokesperson told Forbes.”
- Comment on Languages 4 weeks ago:
Where is this and how would you pronounce the “g”?
Also, you made me think about a story about a shop in a southern Norwegian city, where the owner put up a sign around lunch time: “e æ a å eder” (I am off to eat), the shop owner across the street saw it and made his own sign saying “e æ a e å” (I am off as well (lit. I am off I also))
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 5 weeks ago:
sure, yeah, I would say that if our problem becomes that there’s too little work to be done, we solve this by having a shorter work week, not by inventing work
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 5 weeks ago:
I’d say that self-checkouts are fundamentally a good thing, just like other forms of increased productivity are a good thing – but in today’s society they can both lead to unemployment and lower wages. That is unnecessary.
As for this measure… I’d be prepared for the store owners to increase prices by 10% and blame the policy.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 5 weeks ago:
Yep, this is one of the reasons we need a tax on wealth. If you’re wealthy enough you can also just borrow against your stocks at very low interest rates.
- Comment on What does "Woke" mean to you? 1 month ago:
sure, yeah, and I’m sure they didn’t invent “Social Justice Warrior” either, or “Politically Correct” before that
- Comment on What does "Woke" mean to you? 1 month ago:
“Woke” is the latest term used by American Republican strategists to paint the left as self-righteous, superficial and condescending. It’s taken over for “Social Justice Warrior”
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 4 months ago:
I guess ideally we should have an open standard for software “storefronts” that should allow for multiple stores to be plugged into the same app.
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke" 4 months ago:
could you give me some examples of that common usage?
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke" 4 months ago:
it does involve some judgement against said preachiness, I guess I see that
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke" 4 months ago:
Given the state of the world, and the anti-elitist sentiment going around, the fact that there aren’t genuinely leftist parties getting 70+ percent of the vote in a lot of countries, is a fucking wonder.
Part of the reason for that, is the academization of the left. One of the problems that has brought with it, is a nitpicky focus on the correct use of language.
If we are to succeed, the vast majority of leftist will necessarily have to be people without the right university degrees, or who do not hang out in the kinds of circles where they get socialized into acceptable language.
Going all fire and brimstone because someone uses a bad word, often quite innocently, is an effective way to come off as self-righteous and preachy. Acting like that is the most important part of politics, is a good way to come off as superficial.
There’s a reason why conservative strategists grab on to this and amplify it – because they know that this kills the left. The left does not work if it is not broad and populist.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t all try to be considerate or strategic with how we use language - but save the fire and brimstone for the elites and the material issues.
The fact that you believe that there’s a middle ground where the definition isn’t an attack on minorities
What I believe is that this is what the word means to a lot of people. We might want to change that, but right now you’re doing it wrong
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke" 4 months ago:
Alternatively, as I wrote: in some places, the word “woke” has taken on the role of terms like “social justice warrior” and “political correctness” - i.e. in describing a self-righteous, superficial, performative and preachy kind of style - and he wants to distance himself from that style.
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke" 4 months ago:
yep, it’s great to have a progressive message, but a progressive message is not an easy-button - you still have to do the hard work of making good art
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke" 4 months ago:
because you are now playing into the toxic norms that already exist’
how? I don’t get it.
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke" 4 months ago:
LOL no, “woke” is anything that acknowledges LGBT+ individuals exist
…so the guy who directed a game where you can have a medieval gay romance, does not acknowledge that LGBT+ individuals exist?
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke" 4 months ago:
So what should be the word we use for “media that depicts positive social ideologies?” Apparently “woke” includes the definition “while being super preachy about it.”
For a lot of people it does, yeah. I don’t know if the best solution is to run away from the word, though – like you say, it’s good to have a word for this stuff, and a different word is just as susceptible to being tainted by conservative strategists.
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke" 4 months ago:
sry
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke" 4 months ago:
In a lot of places, not just far-right assholes, the word “woke” has taken on the role of terms like “social justice warrior” and “political correctness” - i.e. in describing a self-righteous, superficial, performative and preachy kind of style.
Yes, that is not what the word “originally” meant, yes it is partially the result of right wing propaganda, yes “political correctness” and “sjw” have similar issues, but it is still a real thing.
What the man seems to me to be trying to say is that their goal was to do a medieval gay romance in a way that was not preachy or superficial – is that not good?
- Comment on Despite Apocalyptic Warnings, California Fast Food Wage Hike Didn’t Kill Jobs 4 months ago:
raising wages is what allows people to handle inflation - suppressing wages to fight inflation is ass backwards, even if wage growth created some inflation
- Comment on The way this egg peels in infuriating 5 months ago:
Why are you writing in Polish?
- Comment on How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy? 5 months ago:
thanks, this is clever
- Comment on How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy? 5 months ago:
ah, but I was just wondering what it means
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 5 months ago:
saving this. It’s a good question. I’ve heard plenty of thoughts on how it should work on a small scale, but nothing about the larger scale.
- Comment on How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy? 5 months ago:
this sounds promising, but how do you tax one thing against another?
- Comment on How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy? 5 months ago:
I guess you tax assets more and salaries less - and work internationally to make tax avoidance harder and less profitable by taxing capital flows and by cracking down on tax havens.
Unless you can get a political consensus on it, I don’t think an inheritance tax will be very effective. Tax planners will find a way to transfer the wealth before it gets inherited, helped by certain kinds of politicians whenever they have power.
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 5 months ago:
stock android on a fairphone 4 - I do use Syncthing for syncing, though
my Raspberry Pis are all resting atm, but I really should set one up with pihole and syncthing again…