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- Comment on What are you doing for digital estate planning? 14 hours ago:
Nothing. I expect to be the last in my family and honestly don’t care much what happens with my estate after I’m dead. I’ve been thinking about setting up a will for the benefit of my friends and their kids but that’s about it. What little is not found by the tax office after my passing doesn’t matter. None of my accounts no longer matter. Maybe I should ask for someone to remove any identifiable trace of me online though I don’t really know why anybody should be bothered. In less than a hundred years nobody will know I have ever existed. Maybe some opinion or speck of information I’ve shared at some point will anonymously benefit someone in the future but that’s about it. Whatever remains of me online is just digital dust in the crevices of the information highway that nobody will care to examine anyway. And I’m perfectly fine with it.
- Comment on Fuckin CEO's and billionaires gotta go 2 days ago:
I don’t care if they are fucking, as long it isn’t raping children on Epstein island.
- Comment on Gotta catch 'em all... 1 week ago:
I suggest a competition to hack the servers and figure out everybody that collected it or whatever you do at one of those
- Comment on Infuriating day of the week layout 2 weeks ago:
Start on Thursdays for an outward spiral or Friday for an inward
- Comment on When looking up a word definition... 2 weeks ago:
Recursion. See recursion.
- Comment on This sandwich 2 weeks ago:
If you served this in Sweden you’d get angry side glances and passive aggressive snorts.
- Comment on Was Pedro Pascal objectively "in everything"? 3 weeks ago:
My idea is that you can look up on IMDB how many movies he was in that particular year and compare with your favourite actors instead of asking somebody else to do it for you.
- Comment on Was Pedro Pascal objectively "in everything"? 3 weeks ago:
There are thousands of movies made every year.
Do *you" think one single actor was objectively in most of them?
- Comment on Why are expressions like "women artists" or "women writers" used? 4 weeks ago:
In Swedish too, but curiously we use them chaotically, somewhat based in traditional gendered jobs but not always. A lot of jobs exist in both feminine and masculine forms but are mostly used in one or another unless making a point. Others exist in only one masculine sounding form but they are really used as neutrum.
For example: Skådespelare/skådespelerska (actor/actress) are used as expected. Konstnär/konstnärinna (male/female artist) is very rarely used in feminine regardless of gender of the artist. Läkare (doctor) exists only in one form so if you want to say “female doctor” you have to say “kvinnlig läkare”. Meanwhile skötare/sköterska (male/female nurse) is more complicated because all nurses in hospitals are i feminin form, but in mental health they are in masculine form, and elsewhere I don’t even know.
- Comment on In Open Carry states, is it also allowed to openly carry bladed weapons like Swords? Bow and arrow? 4 weeks ago:
Launching children with automatic weapons over 300 meters.
- Comment on Why are plug sockets region locked? 1 month ago:
They were introduced and installed and became common and at some point declared regional standards at the time when there were no standards at all. You’d visit your local shop and buy your four lamps in your entire lifetime with a plug that fits the socket and you’d be happy that you have this new electricity thing in your house. There would be no reason for anybody to be interested in what the sockets and the plugs look like in the neighbouring country, not to mention some far away land.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Existence is a fluke in the eternal ocean of time. None of us were here for at least one eternity. Now we are. Then we will be not again for at least one another eternity. Not being is more natural than being.
- Comment on Fuck IMDB and fuck Amazon 1 month ago:
Letterboxd has been great for movie buffs but it has gained a mainstream crowd over the years and become less trustworthy with big titles and movies with celebrities that people have the hornies for.
Still too bad to hear about these ambitions of making the big buck out of it.
- Comment on Why does not a CR (Carriage Return) automatically start a new line on some online text editors? 1 month ago:
Well, you are free to declare your own flavour and try get it supported by whatever editors and libraries you use. Damn, you can make up your own format that works in any particular way you want to. I bet in this time and age you could vibe code it with functions to your heart’s desire.
But bitching about it to people that are trying to be helpful and explain why it is like it is will not render much other result than said people dropping you into their blocklist for being annoying.
- Comment on Why does not a CR (Carriage Return) automatically start a new line on some online text editors? 1 month ago:
Because it is how the format is defined. There is nothing to fix. You write text in paragraphs by default and if you want it to be displayed in any other way you need to declare it. Most formatting is done before the text, like headings and lists, but this newline without a new paragraph is declared with two trailing spaces.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Oh you kids and your modern ways. By dial-up modem and terminal software. Each BBS had their own number to call.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
And UseNet and IRC and FidoNet and file rival by email and whatnot.
The web makes it easier and more accessible for the general public. Not to mention prettier than a green on green terminal.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Back in ancient times when libraries were the natural source of information, a friend had recently learned about The Illuminati and taken it at face value. I’d already dipped my toes in conspiracies and counter culture and I had read The Illuminatus Trilogy and more but I joined him on a visit to the largest city library.
The librarian was amused by my friends request on books about the Illuminati and grew quite engaged trying to find some rare material for him. Then he struck gold with an old book about the Bavarian Illuminati and the supposed continuation in the shadows. He tried to order it from storage, then went “hmm that’s strange” and went on a journey to locate it through the systems and looked honestly dumbstruck and had to announce that it didn’t exist anywhere.
I made spooky noises at my friend’s when we left.
So yeah, OP. Now you too are on the list.
- Comment on How do you keep your shit organized? 2 months ago:
IKEA Kallax with a combination of insets of drawers and doors and boxes that fit my particular needs. They are cheap and easy to assemble and weigh next to nothing because they are made of some kind of pressed cardboard material but they still look quite all right.
- Comment on Are there words in reverse order between two languages using the Latin Alphabet? 2 months ago:
Are we open for rotation? Cucumber in Swedish is “gurka”, while in Norwegian it’s “agurk”.
- Comment on What happened to us Pirates? We used to sail the web and never even thought about reprecussions just sharing. Now it seems like it costs to be a pirate like a VPN and such. WTH happened? 2 months ago:
No problem, main character.
- Comment on What happened to us Pirates? We used to sail the web and never even thought about reprecussions just sharing. Now it seems like it costs to be a pirate like a VPN and such. WTH happened? 2 months ago:
Dude, nobody owes you anything for free. Back in the days before internet piracy cost postage and floppies and then phone bills, not to mention making and maintaining contacts. Quit fucking whining for having everything effortlessly at your fingertips.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Get a NAS or use any old computer you can get for cheap and upgrade as you go. Hook it up with a network cable to your router so it doesn’t hog your WiFi bandwidth.
- Comment on these eco-facist stickers 3 months ago:
Eco fascism is strangely a real thing.
- Comment on these eco-facist stickers 3 months ago:
Because they are nazis that dyed their mustache green.
- Comment on these eco-facist stickers 3 months ago:
American eco fascists are the biggest hypocrites of them all. They romanticise race and nationality and hijack environmentalism to blame people mainly from southern continents while propagating genocide and a global third reich.
Meanwhile they are a genetic shit cocktail of who knows where more than a couple of generations back with no origin in the geographic location they reside and they have the biggest ecological footprint of all humans on the planet.
- Comment on What is the deal with IPv6? 3 months ago:
And give in to big DNS? What’s next? Multiple services per server? Insanity!
This was proudly coded in Notepad. - Comment on What do you think goes through an animal’s mind and POV? 3 months ago:
Like the human animal’s mind, except with less self awareness, less reflection, less contemplation, less hypotheticals, less mental gymnastics, less moral quandaries, less planning, less worries, less memories, less relationship drama, less existential angst, less sleepless nights remembering cringe moments… Depending on the other animal species and the individual.
- Comment on Tech support for mum 3 months ago:
Too bad you didn’t inherit your parents brains bud.
- Comment on Hexbear is incapable of understanding hypocrisy 3 months ago:
Totalitarians are more alike than different from eachother.