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- Comment on It's a real challenge 3 days ago:
Exactly. Nobody can author, own, or “steal” a joke, a proverb, a riddle, a folk tale, a nursery rhyme, graffiti… Memes are just the digital equivalent of such cultural artefacts.
- Comment on It's a real challenge 3 days ago:
Nice! I’ll… save this meme.
- Comment on It's a real challenge 3 days ago:
Sorry for this slightly random remark, but fuck whoever unironically came up with concept of “stealing” memes.
- Comment on >:( rejected vibes 3 weeks ago:
John Cage - 4’33’’ megamix
- Comment on A Song of Ice and Fire - first editions of each book 3 weeks ago:
Here’s an another uncomfortable statistic: most of ASOIAF was published before 9/11.
Personally I gave up after AFFC, which I read around a decade ago. The quality of writing had plummeted, and it was increasingly obvious the series is going to take way too long to be finished.
The guy should just give up, relive himself of the duty and the audiences of the frustration, and spend his remaining years peacefully writing Dunk and Egg stories.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 17 comments
- Comment on Habits of Insects 5 weeks ago:
I believed it at first too, perhaps we even saw the same headline…
- Comment on Habits of Insects 5 weeks ago:
I’ve already seen this exact same claim these days, so now I decided to try and find out what’s happening exactly.
www.dw.com/en/indiadropsevolution/a-65804720
Apparently, it happened last year, not just now, as you said, and I’m sure I’ve already seem someone else (maybe on Lemmy, maybe on reddit) also describe it as a very recent event.
However I can’t find absolutely anything else regarding the topic. So I tried googling in Hindi instead, with the help of some machine translation.
aajtak.in/…/pythagoras-theorem-has-vedic-has-root…
This is the only piece of news I’ve managed to find, again not very recent, and not nearly as dramatic as the DW article makes it out to be. Some official has described the Pythagorean theorem as ‘fake news’ because that same theorem had already been developed in India before Pythagoras, i.e. the point is that the name is a misnomer. They say nothing about removing the theorem.
The reduction of teaching of the periodic table and evolution that DW mentions is also explained in the PDF that the article links as mere reorganisation of the topics due to the circumstances (difficulties in teaching during corona). They don’t suggest actual removal of the topics. (The PDF is an official explanation from the Indian “National Council of Educational Research and Training”.)
I’m getting the impression DW is just fearmongering. Ideally there should be some article with exact and complete quotes in Hindi. I know that media freedom in India is not great (esp. considering the situation with Wikipedia), and it’s probably not easy to get to the bottom of it, but this story looks very suspicious.
- Comment on Habits of Insects 5 weeks ago:
Isnt the dog the first thing people think of when seeing “doge”?
It used to be so, but in recent several years Doge has lived and pretty much been defined in public consciousness by the cryptocurrency, which Musk has openly endorsed/memed.
- Comment on anon working as behaviour interventionist 1 month ago:
I won’t deny that there are elements of a mildly conservative worldview in the post (mentioning the necessity of a “stable male figure”), but you go way overboard with your interpretation. If the post really was in line with such ideas, I wouldn’t have posted it here.
- Comment on anon working as behaviour interventionist 1 month ago:
It’s from boards.4chan.org/r9k/thread/79241078, it does seem real, apparently he’s been sporadically posting about his job for some time.
- Submitted 1 month ago to greentext@sh.itjust.works | 25 comments
- Comment on Man Resigns on First Day After Indian Boss Expects Overtime Without Pay: Work-life Balance is 'Western Behaviour' - News18 2 months ago:
Are you ok?
- Comment on i need it, soz 2 months ago:
I mean all of that is true, but, speaking as someone from Croatia - we don’t follow safety standards and regulations here anyway even with native workers, the quality of the bridge would definitely not be any better had Croats built it, and I doubt there even is the adequate workforce and know-how within Croatia that would be needed for such a massive and complex job. I would unironically expect the deadlines to be breached by several years. We also aren’t a rich country by European standards, so the price was probably a crucial factor.
In case you’re worrying about general Chinese influence on Croatian politics, that’s not really a problem, our govt is strongly pro-EU (for better and for worse), as well as much of the population.
- Comment on i need it, soz 2 months ago:
What the hell is “sus” about that?
- Comment on Whale 2 months ago:
- Comment on Whale 2 months ago:
Hmm, “1200-600 CE”?
…seattleartmuseum.org/…/whale-effigy-charm/
Looks like it should be 1200-1600 CE (or AD).
- Comment on Cucumber 🥒 3 months ago:
Imagine yourself being confused and baffled by something, and asking “Really?”. The intonation is rising, as is usual in questions. Imagine yourself hearing someone say something you are completely confident is absurdly false or a lie, and you want to suggest to the person that they’re wrong and you know the truth, by sarcastically asking “Really?”. The intonation is falling, closer to ordinary statements of fact.
OOP is using the full stop at the end of his “questons” to suggest the second, sarcastic intonation.
- Comment on Anon is obsessed with Family Guy 3 months ago:
8 hours of work, 8 hours of sleep, 48 hours of Family Guy
- Comment on Too many looks. 3 months ago:
I don’t know why the dinosaur memes have been on the rise recently, but I like it.
- Comment on "no" 4 months ago:
Not really. Just trying to put things into chronology in my mind. I also don’t remember when The Matrix was supposed to take place :/
- Comment on "no" 4 months ago:
huh, I expected the original would be all the way back from the 00’s
- Comment on German Dinosaurs 5 months ago:
Here’s half an hour of reconstructed dinosaur sounds.
An ongoing study utilizing the most recent scientific data on dinosaur vocalizations. Sounds are produced by myself and digitally workshopped from modern non-syrinx based avian reptiles. Using skull and olfactory cavity proportions, one can attempt to recreate the flow of sound, frequency, and volume of each animal. Much study is required for each particular species, and often several phases are trashed due to general unlikelihood. The final results are based on acute representations of what sounds would be most comfortable and base-line for each animal. Video also includes other reptiles, even though they are much more difficult to produce accurately.
- Comment on Stay Mad 5 months ago:
At this point I doubt tankies should be much of a concern. What are they, 1-2% of the potential Dem voter base? I’m worrying more about the indecisive ones who have seen the performances in the debate.
- Comment on Every song has that one comment 8 months ago:
Tbh if there’s a musician that deserves this sort of comments, Eno is definitely one of the best candidates.
- Comment on Kids these days are too soft. Can't even roll with these guys. 8 months ago:
This has to have some weird ass allegorical meaning.
- Comment on tikatalik 8 months ago:
:(
- Comment on tikatalik 8 months ago:
Maybe the artist just screwed it up, but there’s a snake species that really does have eyes positioned like that, on top of its head. Arabian sand boa:
- Comment on Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar 8 months ago:
Ehhhh, if you have expertise in ANY field outside of like programming, you can easily test various models and see that they produce crap. That doesn’t require you to understand how LLMs work exactly.
- Comment on Pierogi were good though 8 months ago:
It can vary from place to place…
