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Dicska

@ Dicska @lemmy.world

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  • BBC 'bans' journalists from saying US 'kidnapped' Venezuela's Maduro

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  • Not closely related, but back when I was first reading the book, the idea of computer generated songs sounded like "flying future car" delusions, and learning AI in the early 2000's even confirmed not the impossibility but the crazy limitations of all this.

    I have just listened to a podcast last month that mentions how there are songs on Spotify made entirely by AI, and 97% of the people they asked couldn't tell apart regular songs from the AI generated ones.

    On one hand, it's remarkable. On the other hand, we're cooked. What's even more depressing is that many-many, even more worrying things are getting pretty accurate in the book. Maybe not back in 1984, but we're witnessing the convergence.

  • I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany

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  • True, my bad for a poor word choice. I guess 'people' would have been more appropriate. But I guess the rest holds.

  • I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany

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  • Some executioner style villain

  • I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany

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  • Or Németország in Hungarian. And Hungary is Magyarország in Hungarian. Ország just means country, so they're just "German country" and "Hungarian country", literally.

    Most slavic countries also call Germany Německo or the like.

    This happens when there's no fast global media when you meet a new nation, and you can't copy someone else's homework to come up with a name for them. Or when you copy someone else's homework, instead of actually asking a member of that nation.

  • I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany

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  • AFAIK French has something similar. I might be wrong, but similarly to the Holland/Netherlands (Nederlanden) story, it was named after one of the tribes in Germany (alamanni, "all men"), before the great unification.

  • We have FTP server

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  • I was just thinking about ways to justify "have a ftp" server. The only defence I can think of is that they pronounce 'ftp' not as 'eff-tee-pee' but literally as 'ftp', a vowelless word.

  • 2025

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  • I was pulled back from another timeline and I got several WAIT WHATs, only realising a few seconds later that, in fact, I had read about these people's death at one point in the past. Also, lol for the bottom row.

  • Rule 6?

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  • Hol' up, does that mean Venezuelan politics is mighty fine?

  • i blame this person no matter what

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  • Yeah, everything checks out. He is two worlds and 6000 years old.

  • If God truly is ‘all-powerful’ and ‘omnipotent,’ then Jesus dying wasn’t the only way to ‘save us.’”

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  • I'm sure my reasoning would bounce off just one question later, but my next question would be that if god knows everything then why does he test people's faith? He doesn't need to, since he knows already whether you have faith or not. Also, are hundreds of million years old dinosaur bones really the most brilliant way of testing someone's faith?

  • recycle

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  • While I'm not an expert in economics, from my uneducated point of view it looks like they are an inevitable result of unregulated/improperly regulated capitalism. But I understand once you make strong enough regulations to try and prevent that, it might not be called capitalism anymore, but I guess it also depends on your (everyone's?) very definition of capitalism.

    Again, I might just be a dumb fuck in the matter, though.

  • recycle

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  • To be fair, back when I made a decision of decreasing my meat consumption, it took off as "meatball Mondays": I allowed myself to eat meat one, maybe two days a week (but not a must). It's been ~6 years since. Last year at one point I tried to remember when it was the last time I had meat (it wasn't that week or the one before). I couldn't remember.

    Meatball Mondays are still a good start.

  • The feed is about to get much crustier

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  • On the one hand, his posts contain a non-negligible number of "boomer" style memes (could be stuff like wife bad, targeted at minorities, vegans, whatever - not necessarily actual examples, just trying to define "boomer" humour), and some of them end up getting downvoted into negatives.

    On the other hand, he's bringing content to Lemmy regularly. I'm not saying that's enough on its own, but I can complain all day about niche communities being dead/empty, and then I don't post shit. He does. More people should do that.

    Just do it right, though.

    Oh, whether it's a bot or not: I'm not saying definitely not, but at least the posting history is showing changes. Started putting an NSFW tag on everything lately (probably to boost engagement, because wow, maybe boobs), and it seems like it stopped. Could still be experiments with a bot account, but there's that.

  • NSFW

    The hard work of calling out anyone who doesn't fully agree with him.

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  • Russia plans to build a nuclear power plant on the moon in the next few years

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  • It's like this ancient joke about the kid that says he and his dad know the answer to every question.

  • Limbs

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  • I suspected it was rage bait, starting with the British isles being coloured green, despite the existence of the word 'toe' there.

  • What are you most Excited in 2026?

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  • Elections in my country. And you can imagine my general level of excitement if this is the thing I'm the most excited about.

    But this fucker has been in his position for 15 years now, polarising society, being Putler's buttplug, undermining the EU and the sanctions, protecting pedos, even trying to ban Pride, and selling out the country to China/Russia. This is pretty much the last hope to do something against that, since he's been eroding democracy and installing puppets everywhere while moving all the country's money to places he has personal control of.

    And the only opposition runner who actually has realistic chance against him is also rather shady/sus. And this is the best thing we got.

  • YOLO

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  • I know it's not that relevant, but isn't hydrofluoric acid a different and much more reactive acid than hydrochloric acid?

  • Firefox testing a "sent from Firefox" message on shared links now

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  • Why did you push so hard to get family to chat?

    Where... where did you get this from? I didn't push so hard to get my family to chat. In fact, I didn't push my family to chat. In fact, I wasn't even the one creating the group, but when most of my family is there already, and I get added to the chat I won't leave it just because I refuse to. And by the time I had WhatsApp already.

    (EDIT: I read back and I kind of understand why you thought so. We got the parents to use same platform once most people were in it already. I didn't take part in creating the group or choosing the platform, but my siblings and I put some effort in getting our parents to use the same thing, indeed.)

    Not out of personal choice. That was the means to communicate at work. I'm glad if it's not required by your employer, but that was a requirement where I work. It's like using whatever app/program/tool at work: if that's what they use for communication (and expect you to do the same), you can't just say "I won't partake, everyone can bugger off".

    I'm happy if you have the freedom to pick your own tools for everything, but not everyone can. It doesn't mean I like it or that I support it.

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
    Dicska @lemmy.world

    I guess I'm joining the protest. Here's my zodiac.

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
    Dicska @lemmy.world

    Youngest actor ever - EDIT: mystery solved, thanks all!

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    Dicska @lemmy.world

    How would you take 'stfu' from a stranger online (as their 1st line), provided what you said wasn't meant to be funny?

  • Lemmy.world Support @lemmy.world
    Dicska @lemmy.world

    I live in the EU area; why is the 'Evanston, IL' community ~half of my feed at LOCAL/Active?