lokalhorst
@lokalhorst@feddit.org
- Comment on I believe him, mine tried to wink right back at me once. 1 day ago:
I was crying throwing up laughing for like an hour nobody believes him
- Comment on go watch Twin Peaks 2 days ago:
Watching with a friend every other week at the moment. So far we are at S02E08. The first season was a wild ride and we always tried to get together what happened in the last 2 episodes, know we are slowly diving in. It’s definitely a show that is not easy to watch if you don’t binge.
- Comment on The price of soda in 2017 4 days ago:
This comparison is so ridiculous that in the end I decided not to argue against it. I can’t believe some people.
- Comment on How do people easily find out that I'm an easy to pick up on? 6 days ago:
Look at Mr. Testosterone here. I bet you punch yourself in the face to make your jaw line look more defined.
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 1 week ago:
- Comment on success 1 week ago:
I thought this was a linkedIn post at first
- Comment on Wow. okay. Didn't need to go that hard. 1 week ago:
Wenn du mit anpackst ist wie wenn zwei loslassen
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Already fighting a cow and then I’ll go to the copper mines. We will see what happens.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
This looks a bit complex but great!
- Comment on I left Reddit for Lemmy. My story. 1 week ago:
One of the worst memes I have seen in a longer time. I get the joke though.
- Comment on Hydro-homie 1 week ago:
I can see a bit of a nipple. Dear US Americans, please imagine a black bar censoring it and then be ashamed for the next 3 hours for you have seen the work of the devil.
- Comment on Are there any technology-oriented content creators that are still good? 1 week ago:
- Comment on AI Slop 1 week ago:
This is absolutely new to me and I just invested 5 minutes into researching this and watched some videos. I know I shouldn’t but I really laughed out loud after watching the different eras Bombardino Crocodilo lived in. This is hilarious and gives me strong skibidi toilet vibes.
But yeah, monetizing this shit and sell school bags for children? Fuck that.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
US Americans are kind of obsessed with DNA genealogy. The results are mostly insignificant, they can’t tell you anything about the “nation” you are coming from. But it’s fascinating for them to imagine they are 10% Welsh and 20% German.
- Comment on Ciao 2 weeks ago:
I just don’t want to be confronted with sex at random times a day. There is enough random horniness in my life.
- Comment on Absolutely 2 weeks ago:
Subsidies :)
- Comment on How do you people read books? 2 weeks ago:
I swear, it get’s easier after the first chapter. I know, it’s a very historical section, I think the typical descriptive background a political book like this needs to introduce before it can formulate its thesis. After the broad global overview the book focuses more on US political history and then it gets interesting when it finally addresses the checks and balances. For me as a European, I learned a lot of new things and it made my view on the US clearer. From the first chapter I only remember the peruanian (?) president was a Japanese guy, lol.
- Comment on How do you people read books? 2 weeks ago:
I wanted to read more, so I started using bookwyrm at the start of this year. My SO and I set up a challenge - 12 books this year. It works and I am now at 8/12. I read fiction but also a lot of political literature.
Through some exciting fiction books you just read through - it’s run, you get sucked into it and want to know what happens in the next chapter. Finding those is generally luck and really depends on your taste. The last book I read through this was was Lying on the Couch by Irvin D. Yalom. He is a famous psychologist that writes fiction, it’s pretty easy to read but also has its depths. If you’re interested in psychoanalysis, it’s nice literature, I have read about 5 books from him.
Now, the “hard books” are different. There are different kind of hard books, some are very well written, others need a lot of background knowledge, others are just plain boring.
An important aspect for those books for me is, what is my motivation to read them? Do I think they are classics you need to have read, do I think the topic sounds interesting, or is it already part of a field I am familiar with?
In the latter case I will suck it in no matter what, at the moment I am reading a book about life in the early modern period in the holy Roman Empire.
I have another one from Herfried Münkler, a German political scientist which us particularly hard to read because you need so much background knowledge. I read it page by page, but only if I feel like it. There is no sense in forcing myself, I will experience the typical “reading but not understanding”. I often read 1-2 pages because the content is so dense, and enjoy if I understood a topic. To give another example for the more international audiences, I read How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt. It is from the first Trump presidency so a bit outdated, but it was a really exciting read, I learned a lot about the US political system. I read through it within 2-3 weeks.
Now regarding the classics you need to read: Fuck that. There is so much classic literature that might be important, but it’s just too boring or annoying to read. There are a lot of exceptions, but they are hard to find. The last one I read and was really happy about (also because it’s short) is The Stranger from Albert Camus.
Okay, but here my absolute advice for serious reading: Never force yourself to read through a book you don’t like. I am a bit of a perfectionist person myself and it was really hard to put a book away, but oh boy, reading is so much fun since I am doing it! I have about 7 books I started and I read them in parallel. One of then I haven’t touched in 5 months and maybe I will never read it. Another one just takes time like the Münkler one and I will read through 3 others in the meantime. But fuck this “I need to finish a book I started”, sentiment.
- Comment on modern day LinkedIn be like 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Is Buying a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS Pre-Installed Dangerous? 4 weeks ago:
Yes there is a possibility the seller has tampered with the phone, but it is small. I would just reflash it though just to be sure. It’s absolutely fine buying a used device!
- Comment on Interesting 4 weeks ago:
Wdym??
- Comment on Bit harsh? 5 weeks ago:
On the surface the DNA tests seem to be useful but if you look deeper into it, you will see that they are absolutely unscientific. It is just that the companies behind them, that are interested in getting your DNA, are just very good at marketing. In the US there is a very widespread trend of wanting to know your ancestry. Your modern history starts in the late 18th century, Europe seems to be so old and diverse, and I absolutely get the fascination. In fact, I am a hobby genealogist myself. I have researched almost 1,000 ancestors (not direct, also brothers and sisters). Some lines go as far as 1680, many are dead end around 1800, others are still waiting to be researched. For these results I have looked through thousands of church book pages, I visited smaller and bigger archives, I traveled through the country and paid money for census copies; as my approach is to have a primary source for each and every life event a person had. Similar to your motivation it started out in an interest of where I come from. But I soon noticed that beyond my greats grandparents the people become really irrelevant and I feel not connection to them. For my identity, it doesn’t really matter where these people came from. However, I use them to dig into the historical contexts they lived in. You get to know a lot about small villages and unimportant events in history you would have never heard of before. This is what actually fascinates me, similar to how some welsh myths or whatever fascinate you. But let’s get back to the DNA tests - why do I call them bullshit? Because they mostly are. It’s not the molecular biology that is not far enough, it is the reference DNA these tests are using. It is possible to identity your ancestry on a continental level with these tests. In rare cases it might be even possible to say something like “eastern European”, but most of the time this will be insignificant. Most importantly though, reading that you are 15% welsh is just bullshit. Even if had the reference DNA of these populations - what are these populations even? What is an ethnicity? If you look at European history from the middle ages to the modern age, you will see that it is almost impossible to make out an “ethnicity”. Just look at how the European population changed between 1618 and 1648 during the 30 year war, or how the Holy Roman Empire changed it borders throughout the centuries. In modern historic research, scientists are much more careful with the term “ethnicity”, as the populations that are talked about were mostly made up in the 18th and 19the century during the development of national states in Europe.
I really, really recommend to read this blog article about DNA genealogy and what you can expect from it, to get an idea of how useful the results are you are getting. It’s a very comprehensive summary of what is wrong with DNA testing in the US.
- Comment on Bit harsh? 5 weeks ago:
Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely respect following your interests for whatever reason. It’s nice you found something that inspires you! It’s just that as a European it’s kind of a stereotype that US Americans try to find their roots via DNA genealogy tests to find out they are 15% Irish and claim they have a deep connection to Guiness beer. These tests are mostly bullshit, but somehow it’s kind of a trend in the US for whatever reason. Again, I appreciate people being enthusiastic things, sorry if I came over too harsh.
- Comment on Bit harsh? 5 weeks ago:
Interesting choice! Why did you decide to learn welsh? Don’t tell me you made a DNA ancestry test and want to follow your heritage…
- Comment on Portlandia was spot on 5 weeks ago:
I hate to tell you, but actually you had to spam the B button.
- Comment on KeePassXC on Android caches its database 5 weeks ago:
You are talking about KeepassDX, not XC, right? I have the same setup, but I have not noticed this problem yet.
- Comment on Where did the conspiracy theory that America was behind 9/11? Was there any evidence to back up these claims (real evidence)? 5 weeks ago:
Me too. They just had a great way of narrating and all the Egypt stuff was interesting. In hindsight you can see however what kind of unscientific trash Zeitgeist was.
- Comment on How has Apple tricked so many people into believing that they "just need to get another Apple product"? 1 month ago:
I think there are many reasons, some of them are:
- Apple has a very straightforward design that is instantlyrecognizable. People love that, it’s the same people who want to have a "great unboxing experience"
- They combine hardware and software - it is not Apple vs Android but Apple vs Samsung, Motorola, Sony and whatever; on the mobile and desktop market there is so much crappy hardware. Apple users just buy the BigMac they already know, even if there are much better burgers around
- you always never get pure Android, it is bloated by phone manufactures. You have the Samsung app store and the xiaomi app security checker and other bloat.
- Apple knows marketing very well, they tricked their customers into thinking apple cares about privacy. If you only have the Google surveillance mother ship as an alternative, they rather choose the product that promises to care about their data
- Windows is a huge pile of crap. It is such a frustrating and bad OS that has annoyed people for decades. Yes there is Linux, but it usually does not come preinstalled
- apple users join a cult when they buy Apple products. It is very important for people to “be different” or to "be smarter"
- by paying a higher price, people have the feeling of buying “premium” (which by itself is a marketing word)
I could go on and on and on. I have never used an apple product in my life and am a Linux FOSS enthusiast by the way. But I think it is pretty east to understand.
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 1 month ago:
But I guess you could get your money back?
- Comment on Hello, Lemmy! 1 month ago:
Bad shitpost
