whaleross
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- Comment on What are the most confusing false friends from your language to another that are spelt exactly the same? 2 days ago:
The Scandinavian languages are very similar and we can usually understand each other pretty well just using our native tongues, though there are some funny traps and false friends. Norwegians are entertained that in Sweden we drink “bärs” (beer), because it sounds exactly like “baesj” (shit). And are astounded that we can “pula” with almost anything, as in “tinker/fiddle around” in Swedish and “fucking” in Norwegian. Oh yeah, a Norwegian ex gf found it hilarious that we have “rågkusar” (a type of rye bread) in the stores, as “kusa” in norwegian mean “cunt”. Also in Swedish a common slang word for shoes is “dojor/dojer”, which on the west coast of norway is very similar to “daejer” that means tits. So don’t go in a shoe store asking for a nice pair of “dojer” unless you know exactly what you are doing.
On a sidenote, I must give credit to the best Swedish word I know; “Skamsköljning”. Literally “shame-rinsing”. As in remembering something stupid you did and the feeling of shame washing over you. In Norwegian it is probably “pule-svejs”, fuck-haircut. The funny hair you have after a good banging.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I get banned left and right for making fun of nazis and reminding people that every day is punch a nazi day.
The nazis are such fragile snowflakes they can’t take some banter and the mods are so afraid that someone is offended that they take the side of weeping self identifying nazis that are backing murder en masse, which is apparently all okay because it’s just opinions.
- Comment on They mods dont want you to know. 4 weeks ago:
I hear FidoNet whispering in modem noises.
- Comment on Plastic hinges on modern headphones 4 weeks ago:
I have a pair of AKG 240 of the same age if not a bit older that have seen plenty of other headphones come and go. Not the best headphones in any other categories but damn the most reliable and durable of studio cans ever built.
- Comment on What do you think of Paramount merging with Warner Bros. Discovery to create a new media company? 5 weeks ago:
I think that the top tier actors that are making statements on social media or when accepting their awards should put their money where their mouth is and work with smaller independent companies that can make this an opportunity to grow.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 5 weeks ago:
Qobuz, Tidal or Deezer, dude. All of them actually pay the artists for their streams. I’ve used two first and both of them are great for music.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 5 weeks ago:
Can a reasonable person believe regardless of evidence in ghosts, in deities and gods, in folklore, in aliens, in superstition, in the importance of themselves, in their culture or nation, in their position in society and their gender roles, in mums cooking being better, in bad luck treating them unfairly, in the importance of their habits and rituals, in sticking to how they’ve always done it, in any number of irrational things that they hold close to heart?
I’d say apparently they can. People are not logic processors. People are people.
- Comment on Westerners, what's your impression on the Chinese Diaspora? And what does the people around your area of residence think of the Chinese Diaspora? 1 month ago:
Sweden. It is common with Chinese students here in the universities. I don’t think anybody thinks much anything of them. They are just people.
- Comment on Is Reddit banning posts with "join-lemmy.org"? 1 month ago:
Here you go ziply.pk/5Tcege
- Comment on Why was Rock 'n' Roll seen as the grooviest shit in the 50s when it's just averagely groovy (ie. unremarkable) today? 1 month ago:
Because of normalisation. The more you experience anything, the less spectacular it becomes.
Teenage kicks in particular needs something that is amped up from what was before. Hence evolution of music and culture has always been driven by youth.
- Comment on Is there a word, perhaps as 40-letter compound word in German, that explains this annoying social phenomenon? 1 month ago:
I can make up a compound word in Swedish for you. Osannolikhetsförlägenhet. Osannolik means improbable. Förlägenhet here means an embarrassing situation. So the word would mean something along improbability-embarrassment-situation.
- Comment on If donald j trump was replaced with a body double some time in the last 15 years, would you even care? 1 month ago:
That is some Temu garbage body double.
- Comment on If someone tells you "you support socialism, yet you use products of capitalism", what would you say? 2 months ago:
Ask them why they drive on public roads.
- Comment on if portals are invented, will I be able to eat out myself? 2 months ago:
If magic fantasy tech is real can I magic fantasy?
- Comment on I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs held by transgender people, and engaging in transphobia? 2 months ago:
No, but you are attempting to critique it as if it was.
- Comment on I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs held by transgender people, and engaging in transphobia? 2 months ago:
Being transgender is not an ideology, dude.
- Comment on What should I do with 2 old machines (Mac Mini and HP Pavilion g7)? 3 months ago:
The big question is if anybody is buying them.
- Comment on Is there a real, actually working way to earn money online without having a job? 3 months ago:
Not if you are rich enough you don’t. Most people still do because everybody needs something worthwhile. But you don’t strictly need to work when you have reached some arbitrary level of wealth and ownership.
- Comment on Is there a real, actually working way to earn money online without having a job? 3 months ago:
The only way to make money without work is to be part of the owner class that lets others do all the work.
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 3 months ago:
One step forward and two steps un-forward.
- Comment on Why do I always have "dreams" that give me anxiety (aka: nightmares)? Why do I never just get to re-live my happy memories in my dreams? Wtf brain?!? This is outrageous! It's unfair! 4 months ago:
I think it sounds like something different. Lucid dreaming is being in a state between awake and asleep to stay in first person control with the brain in unrestrained creative mode, while this is about training the brain to make up desired interpretations after waking up from full sleep mode.
- Comment on Why do I always have "dreams" that give me anxiety (aka: nightmares)? Why do I never just get to re-live my happy memories in my dreams? Wtf brain?!? This is outrageous! It's unfair! 4 months ago:
Oh this is interesting. I’ve recently come to terms with the amazing plasticity of the brain. So if the brain assembles a narrative only after the flood of random stimuli, it should be possible to train it to use certain baselines for what narratives to assemble.
Any neurologists and psychiatrists and other brain specialists in the house?
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 5 months ago:
The rest of the world has done various responses to the American trade war. Most everybody else has found other partners to do business with and those that haven’t are soon about to. America is not hurting other countries economically as much as they are hurting themselves. The entire ICE thing is terrible and it is too bad the government agencies have given in and that the military seems to be rolling with it too. But it is still domestic affairs as long there isn’t any proof of concentration camps or massacres or the like. We have lots of empathy for the people in America suffering from all of this.
But then again…
You guys have free elections and this is your democratically elected leader doing what he promised to do. You guys had him elected after he staged a failed coup once already. What do you expect the rest of the world to do about it? To save you guys from yourselves?
- Comment on Is airtags really useful? 5 months ago:
I know several owners of cats that have tags. I know at least one with a proper GPS transmitter on the cat collar.
- Comment on Why do narcissists have such fragile egos? 7 months ago:
Grey rocking is the best strategy to get rid of all annoying people. Do not engage, do not give them any fuel, do not give them any satisfaction. Be as boring and unexciting as you can possibly be until they lose interest in you.
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 7 months ago:
Chinese OEM resellers will print anything on the product and the packaging. It’s just another sale for them. Same guy probably sells it with ten different brandings and flags and quotes and slogans for different markets.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Go on the date, have fun, spend dad’s money. When he asks, tell him it was great and she spent all night pegging you in the arse and her side dude joined in. Then ask him for more money so you can do drugs together.
- Comment on These shipping tape things 7 months ago:
Sorry, it wasn’t directed towards you. I was thinking out loud.
- Comment on These shipping tape things 7 months ago:
And we’re all adult enough to handle reading the words.
It’s such a strange idea to use bad words but okay it by censoring letters out. Either use the word or don’t.
- Comment on My earphones' cable has been oozing sticky goo for over a yer now 7 months ago:
I think cancer treatment will be more costly than a new pair of earbuds or whatever your next cheap accessory that is leaking unknown chemicals.