dojan
@dojan@lemmy.world
Software developer by day, insomniac by night.
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 2 months ago:
I trust Doctor Pepper more than Phil.
- Comment on Weekly c/guildwars2 Question Post - Week 37, 2024 3 months ago:
Wait preorder tools? For Janthir Wilds? I must’ve missed that that was a thing.
- Comment on Is Elder Scrolls 6 doomed to fail? I can't see how it will work 3 months ago:
It wasn’t well balanced but it was a good RPG experience. Oblivion had a bunch of elements stripped out, but it was still an RPG, the wonky alphabetical voice acting aside. Skyrim felt like a cookie-cutter action adventure game, all the roleplay had flown out the window.
- Comment on Is Elder Scrolls 6 doomed to fail? I can't see how it will work 3 months ago:
First is financially successful, it generated some decent profits for the stockholders.
This is the only sort of success they care about. Anything else is secondary. These companies gladly burn bridges with their communities so long as they believe it’ll benefit their bottom-line.
- Comment on Well THAT'S super helpful! 🤦 3 months ago:
I don’t think she should be earning so much, but varannandagsutdelning does actually make sense with how few letters get sent (even though I’d also prefer daily delivery). But crazy that stamp prices have also basically doubled.
I think the main issue I have is that this also applies to time critical post, and thus post can arrive too late.
But just like with so many other public service things and agencies, Sweden is determined to make a paper profit. Vinstkrav. Would be cool if SJ for example was allowed to sell their train tickets for cheaper prices, but nope, they need to make at least 10% profit or something around that.
When it comes to essential infrastructure it makes no sense to me that they need to operate on a profit.
- Comment on Well THAT'S super helpful! 🤦 3 months ago:
SEK.
- Comment on Well THAT'S super helpful! 🤦 3 months ago:
That’s PostNord for you. Reminder that the CEO earns ~700k a month for doing helpful things like… introducing every other day delivery of post. Hmmm.
- Comment on I feel like a flashbang went off in my head, so the only question that I can think of is, "What now?" (Details in body.) 3 months ago:
Is your kid in therapy? Because going by what you’ve said, your partner has been sick and depressed for 40% of your kid’s entire lifespan. That’s bound to take a toll.
- Comment on I feel like a flashbang went off in my head, so the only question that I can think of is, "What now?" (Details in body.) 3 months ago:
Frame it as part of the treatment for MS.
Solid idea. Though, I feel like this is phrased a bit strangely, because it makes it sound like this is duplicitous. A part of the treatment for any chronic condition would be how to cope with and emotionally process living with it. This is part of the treatment for MS.
- Comment on I grew up in the era of Photoshop and people would post fake nudes. Why is it now a big deal that AI is doing it? Kinda like the Taylor Swift thing on twitter. 4 months ago:
I mean, inpainting isn’t particularly hard to make use of. There are also tools specifically for the purpose of generating “deepfake” nudes. The barrier for entry is much, much lower.
- Comment on Day 2 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 5 months ago:
Ah. I’ve had a lot of fun in Sea of Thieves. It was hella fun on launch, albeit quite unfortunately lacking in content. I’ve heard it’s gotten much better since, basically a different game altogether now.
- Comment on I'm bringing chili 5 months ago:
I’ve learned nothing since I got my first phone and that bad boi didn’t even have a clock.
- Comment on Anon gets calls from scammers 5 months ago:
The problem with using dehumanising language like this is that it means that someone’s humanity, in your eyes, is contingent on your approval.
It says more about you as a person than it does about the people you criticise.
- Comment on Life By You devs spent “a month in purgatory” prior to closure, says laid-off designer, despite their sim-like exceeding Paradox's expectations 5 months ago:
What!
- Comment on A future sci-fi writers never could've imagined 5 months ago:
I’m sure this could be negated with flowy clothing that contains adversarial patterns. At least for a while.
- Comment on What would happen if everyone moved there money from traditional private banks to credit unions/ coop banks 5 months ago:
Do you need complex investment options in your bank? I’m sure some banks offer that here, but there are also dedicated services specifically for gambling on the stock market.
- Comment on Ikea’s CEO has solved the Swedish retailer’s global ‘unhappy worker’ crisis by raising salaries, introducing flexible working and subsidizing childcare 6 months ago:
I dunno. Kids making mods is one thing, a corporation exploiting that for profit is something different.
Sure, Gmod and what have you definitely had sales because of mods, meaning an indirect profit, so one could question that too. When it comes to Roblox they’re directly profiting off of the labour of children in a very predatory manner.
Neither scenario is fantastic I suppose, but only the latter is actively encouraging and building systems to exploit people.
- Comment on Felonies, gotta catch 'em all 6 months ago:
This whole thing says more about the quality of candidates than the system, though. The fact that I can say “he’s demented” and you don’t know who I’m referring to shows that the political establishment has its collective head up its ass.
Yeah. Like they should be enjoying retirement at this age, not running a bloody country.
- Comment on Felonies, gotta catch 'em all 6 months ago:
Convicted felons can’t vote, but they can run for office.
- Comment on Miracle cures 6 months ago:
Does turmeric need to be a miraculous panacea? Isn’t it enough that it’s delicious?
- Comment on We constantly have spit in our mouth 100% of the time but if we were made to drink any amount of our spit it'd be disgusting. Why? 6 months ago:
I love furries and their sexpositivity.
- Comment on It's amazing so many people are able to use English as a second language. 6 months ago:
Aha! See, my first thought was that maybe it had something to do with pickpockets being present!
- Comment on It's amazing so many people are able to use English as a second language. 6 months ago:
Aye! Flodhäst in Swedish, and カバ (河馬, 河 river, 馬 horse) in Japanese.
- Comment on It's amazing so many people are able to use English as a second language. 6 months ago:
Thank you for sharing! I had not heard of this before. I particularly enjoyed this bit
Farang khi nok (Thai: ฝรั่งขี้นก, lit. ‘bird-droppings Farang’), also used in Lao, is slang commonly used as an insult to a person of white race, equivalent to white trash, as khi means feces and nok means bird, referring to the white color of bird-droppings
That’s so colourful. I love it.
It also made me think of the fictional race in Star Trek, the Ferengi. At least according to Wikipedia that is precisely the origin of the name!
- Comment on It's amazing so many people are able to use English as a second language. 6 months ago:
Is tori ever used like plaza, like the Swedish word “torg?” The way I read tori in my head makes it sound almost homophonous with torg, hence why I ask.
- Comment on It's amazing so many people are able to use English as a second language. 6 months ago:
蚤の市
Yep! nomi no ichi. Nomi (蚤) means flea, and ichi (市) means market, no (の) is a possessive particle making it “flea’s market” or “market of flea”
- Comment on It's amazing so many people are able to use English as a second language. 6 months ago:
This is true, I don’t know which word came first. I’d wager a guess that 蚤の市 predates フリーマーケット, but it’s really just a stab in the dark on the basis that English loanwords feel more modern, and it feels unlikely that a calque would be created after a loanword has been widely adopted.
- Comment on It's amazing so many people are able to use English as a second language. 6 months ago:
I started talking to a dude from Brazil a couple of months ago, and was blown away just by how different Brazilian Portuguese is from Portuguese, even just phonetically. I should’ve probably mentioned that I really only speak English, Swedish, and Japanese, so any other examples are ones that I’ve dug up in lexicons and the like.
I can totally see different words being used between Brazilian Portuguese and Portugal-Portuguese.
- Comment on It's amazing so many people are able to use English as a second language. 6 months ago:
What I think is interesting about the word flea market is that it’s a calque in pretty much all languages.
The Swedish word is “loppis”, which is a cutesy colloquial term for “loppmarknad.” Loppa, meaning flea, and marknad meaning market.
Flohmarkt in German also means lit. “flea market.”
Marche aux puces is French, where “puce” means flea, I think this might be the origin of the term.
Japanese has the casual term フリマ (fleama), short for フリーマーケット, which is just the English term “flea market”, there’s also the term 蚤の市, just meaning “market of fleas.”I believe Portuguese calls it a “thieves’ market”, but Spanish, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Dutch, and Mandarin all use their own native words for “flea market”; mercado de pulgas, mercato delle pulci, Блошиный рынок, Bit Pazarı, Vlooienmarkt, 跳蚤市场.
For all of the concepts and such that are identical across cultures, few things have universal names. Typically they enter the language as loanwords as well (e.g. karaoke, from Japanese ‘空オケ’, hollow orchestra), so the term “flea market” stands out to me. I’m sure there are lots of other similar things I’m not aware of though.
- Comment on Every damn day 6 months ago:
Oooh right, that makes sense. My job has no issues with this actually. If you end up moving somewhere (outside of the Nordics, presumably) they need to be notified for tax and insurance reasons, but if you travel abroad and bring your work with you they genuinely don’t care so long as you can get your job done. Heck it even happens quite often.