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BillTongg

@ BillTongg @lemmy.world

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  • Can I still consider myself a “young woman” after I turn 24? I turn 24 in March (next month).

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  • I have children older than you. It's a matter of perspective - I think anyone under 50 is young, and no doubt in 10 years time I'll think the same of anyone under 60. I don't feel that I really grew up until I was well into my 30s, and my career didn't really get anywhere before I was 40, but now before I know it I'm retired. Relish your youth - it'll pass soon enough!

  • Foreign Music

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  • Excellent, you already know about WFMU! I need to listen to more shows - mostly I just stick to This is the Modern World and sometimes Clay Pigeon on the main broadcast channel, plus Irene Trudel and Continental Subway on the Drummer stream, but there's so much more on there it makes my head spin.

  • Former Apple designer Sir Jony Ive has said he feels “responsible” for the “not so positive consequences” of the iPhone.

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  • Neither. He talked about the impact of always being connected, always contactable, and how he needs self discipline to resist the obvious attractions phones have. He didn't say anything specifically about social media, which is the thing I struggle with, thanks to its addictive functionality.

  • Former Apple designer Sir Jony Ive has said he feels “responsible” for the “not so positive consequences” of the iPhone.

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  • Quite. Certainly not on Desert Island Discs. Perhaps on a programme like Hard Talk.

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    Former Apple designer Sir Jony Ive has said he feels “responsible” for the “not so positive consequences” of the iPhone.

  • Foreign Music

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  • WFMU (a radio station in New Jersey) has a weekly show on one of its web streams. It's called Continental Subway, presented by an American called David Dichelle, who lives in Germany.

    He plays all kinds of music in many different languages, as well as different versions of folk songs in English - he's working through the Roud Folksong Index and has reached Roud 350, The Topman and the Afterguard / The Sailor and the Soldier. However, most of what he plays isn't in English and as well as music from many different countries each week he will play 8 or 10 songs from a particular country chosen at random. This week it was Chad.

    Very highly recommended, not least because all the shows back to 2017 are archived, so you can listen again when you want, and it's listener supported so there are no adverts. Links to all the shows and playlists here: https://wfmu.org/playlists/CW

  • We'll fix it later

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  • This deserves many more upvotes than you've had. I guess most people here just don't get the reference.

  • Study of TikTok, X 'For You' feeds in Germany finds far-right political bias ahead of federal elections | TechCrunch

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  • No, not off the top of my head. But English is roughly half French/Latin and half German, with some Norse and other influences thrown in. Wer or were sound Germanic, so then a little Wikipedia help filled in the details.

  • Study of TikTok, X 'For You' feeds in Germany finds far-right political bias ahead of federal elections | TechCrunch

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  • Yes, this is interesting! 'Wer' (meaning 'man') came from Old High German with the Anglo Saxons 1,500 years ago, and was part of Old English. It then became 'were' in Middle English and remains as part of werewolf ('man wolf') in modern English.

  • FTFY

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  • Yes, similar here. Windows 10 had been telling me I needed to upgrade to 11 but that my PC (a Lenovo X1 Carbon with a pretty decent spec for 5 years ago - i7 and 16GB of RAM) couldn't support it and would have to be replaced. I had run Linux Mint for many years on a Samsung from around 2010, which still works, so I thought now is the time to dump Windows. Installed Mint 22 and everything just works.

  • TIL the UK has a radio station for the queer community that broadcasts all over Britain on FM and DAB radio.

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  • There is a history of inclusive radio in the UK which goes back at least to the 1960s. Anyone who was born here and is over the age of about 50 will know about Kenneth Williams, who appeared in radio comedies with Hugh Paddick. The material is dated and may be regarded as clichéd and demeaning now, but they played two gay men called Julian and Sandy on a show called Round the Horne from 1965 to 1968, and the same characters came up in later shows as well. Bear in mind this was on national radio at a time when gay sex was still illegal in the UK. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_and_Sandy for more details.

  • Internet radio recommendations

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  • I really love WFMU in New Jersey. Of course they broadcast on FM, but they have four live streams (I especially like the 'Give the Drummer Radio' stream https://wfmu.org/drummer). Take a look at the schedules - you'll find lots of music that you won't hear on mainstream radio, across a wide range of different genres, and all of it is archived so you can listen to past shows and see the playlists for each one. It's listener supported, so there are no adverts except for their own WFMU fund raising. My favourite shows:

  • Doppler

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  • I know just enough about the light spectrum and the red shift to understand why this is funny (thanks Prof. Brian Cox!), but it underlines how shallow my knowledge is. So much cosmology, so little time...

  • I’m a Federal Worker. You Have No Idea the Irreversible Damage Elon Musk Is Doing.

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  • Yes, I see. It doesn't sound very hopeful then.

  • I’m a Federal Worker. You Have No Idea the Irreversible Damage Elon Musk Is Doing.

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  • I’m a Federal Worker. You Have No Idea the Irreversible Damage Elon Musk Is Doing.

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  • I've been wondering how long it will be until his opponents start to be arrested. That has been a successful strategy for Putin, along with rigging who can be on the ballot if there are any future elections (and from comments I heard before the election, when Trump was addressing some kind of white nationalist evangelical gathering, I get the impression that elections are far from certain now) so it would be no surprise to see a similar approach in the US.

    You'll have to forgive me because I'm a European with a limited understanding of US law, but what can stand in the way of wholesale dismantling of the democratic process? Am I correct in thinking you don't have a politically independent judiciary and that the Supreme Court was stacked with Trump supporters during his first term, so he can essentially do whatever he wants?

  • google is not and never was your friend, it is a dictator tool: Degoogle

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  • Yes, agreed. He seems to regard life as a zero-sum game, in which he can't win unless someone else loses, so he doesn't understand the concept of win-win. It's a kind of cognitive bias which is a serious weakness in someone who apparently imagines himself to be a master of 'the art of the deal'.

  • Danes hit back at Trump with ‘buy California bid’ as they vow ‘to take over Disneyland and bring hygge to Hollywood’

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  • Well, the vikings reached the east coast of what is now Canada in around the year 1,000, but they were Norwegians, not Danes. They never got any further than New Brunswick, but who knows, if they visited Florida perhaps they would have stayed...

  • Danes launch bid to 'buy California' after Trump's Greenland threats

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  • In these dark times it's great to see the Danes responding to unpleasant orange chauvinism and bigotry with dry humour. It kind of deflates the mafia boss's self importance.

    I'm watching series 7 of a Danish TV programme called Badehotellet at the moment and it struck me that the Danish sense of humour it portrays is very much like the British, full of irony and self-deprecation. If they could buy the UK as well I'd be extremely happy.

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  • Yes, I'm new to Lemmy, ex-Reddit, and now I'm looking at what else I can do. I ran Linux Mint on an old laptop for many years, but that was when I was still working and I also had a company laptop on Windows if I needed it. So now I'm retired and currently I only have a refurbished Lenovo with Win 10, which goes out of support soon. I suppose I could do dual boot on that machine, but I'd rather have Windows in a VM for the rare occasions when I can't get something to run in Wine. I have no idea where I'd buy a copy of Win 11, but presumably Microsoft have a store.