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Dicska

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  • None of this "what are you thankful for" shit today. What's something you hate?

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  • Selfishness. It's the root cause of many things that plague the world: people putting themselves/their immediate circle before others, lack of empathy, greed, xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny, racism, fascism, or pricks listening to stuff through their phone's speaker in public.

  • Nice weather we're having

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  • I sent you my desktop layout, please respond

  • CIA tracing those IPv44 addresses

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  • Not a single mouse, cursor or command line in sight, but somehow they always type 84 letters per second, and get a flashy UI with animation, 3D models spinning, moving, zooming and morphing, or at the very least windows popping up and doing various stuff.

    Just like in real life.

  • Don't touch my garbage!

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  • And this is Jackass.

  • What's your opinion on communism?

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  • While I wasn't too exact, this is what I meant by a bunch of humans. Not all of them are that selfish, but it happens frequently enough that I would consider them (yes, them) a selfish species without a second thought.

  • What's your opinion on communism?

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  • It can work within a species that isn't inherently selfish. In theory it makes perfect sense. Trust a bunch of humans to keep everything just and equal and watch as the dickheads make sure they get more stuff/power than others. Iterate it for a few generations and you'll get your average dystopia.

  • People who prepared costumes for Halloween: how much money/effort did you put in it?

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  • Luigi hat: £7.95

    Moustache: £3.99

    Water pistol (only found a double pack): £3.75

    Total: £15.69

    Unfortunately, not many people got the reference when I pulled my pistol to complete the set.

    There wasn't much effort, apart from having to custom trim the moustache, since it came in a pack, and none of the included ~12 styles were the exact same as Luigi's.

  • Multilingual people, do you feel better about yourself than those that only speak one language? Monolingual people, do you envy/admire Multilingual people? And why?

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  • I love learning languages because it constantly reassures me how similar we all are regardless of superficial differences

    One of the many things I find fascinating about learning about different languages is how differently people can think about certain things. You add water to vodka in English? You water it down (since you're decreasing the concentration, right?). Same thing in my language? You water it up (since you're increasing the volume, right?). Most of the adjectives after nouns in Spanish. Entire structures that you would expect at the beginning of a sentence in English being pushed to the end in German. SVO/VSO differences. Different or similar idioms, phrases for the same thing. Two birds with one stone? Two birds with one throw? Two flies with one slap? Two pigeons with one bean? I'm boring already and I can't even stop.

  • What would you do if you found an infinite money/duplication glitch in real life?

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  • Duplicate money.

  • In terms of wallet, keys, phone, etc, which pocket does each belong to in your jeans?

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  • Hmmm... Left handed? I have the same setup, but on the opposite sides (thick wallet, but it fits, and I don't care how it looks).

    right back pocket for important stuff (tissues, paper tickets, notes), left back for rubbish.

  • do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last?

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  • Oh, yes you're right - I'm not a native speaker and I think we phrase it slightly differently, and I took that literally. Thanks for the explanation!

  • do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last?

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  • Oh, I was thinking they meant 65-75 people before the pendulum (the second counter on the grandfather clock?) swung back, so 65-75 people per second. I didn't think so deeply about the maths behind it, just accepted it as a possible meaning. But I'll do it now.

    UPDATE: Checks out for 2-3 years, but something is telling me there was enough time for even more years to fit between 1939 and 1945.

    UPDATE: Unless you consider "swung back" as 2 seconds, because then it's even possible.

  • Multiliguists of Lemmy - When speaking Language A and using a word from Language B how do you decide which pronunciation to use?

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  • While I don't think that's the objectively correct way (I can accept reasons both for and against switching accents), I also try to say some words the "original" way. In fact, at work I often hear native English customers pronounce some foreign loan words in their corresponding language (or at least making an attempt at it). I wouldn't say that's the dominant style, but it does happen.

    What does NOT happen as often is the overexaggerated pitch change that is present in the video. Obviously, they were doing it intentionally for comedic effect, but it also makes fun of people who don't do it out of pretentiousness. Once a word is used often enough, I don't see the point sticking with the "original" pronunciation (I guess not many people pronounce 'beef' as 'bœuf' anymore). Even moreso if the "original" word has sounds that the English language doesn't. I won't get angry if you can't roll your R's.

    But when they butcher words that just take some careful reading I lose it. They know the German 'sch', and it's fine - even remarkable. What's not remarkable is when they see a combination of those letters, ignore the order, and just pronounce it as if it was 'sch', regardless. Fuchsia. C-H-S. Maybe, just MAYBE it's not the same as S-C-H. English has a good bunch of words containing CH. The plural of tech is techs. You don't pronounce it as 'tesh'. Fuchsia is, originally, a word containing CH, followed by S.

    Another pet (ha) peeve of mine is Dachshund. I know it's confusingly many characters, all c, h and s. But English also has the word 'hound'. It comes from the same root as the German 'Hund'. The rest is Dachs. For hints, see the above paragraph. Pronouncing it as "dashoond" is just as offensive and ignorant (to me; not in general) as saying warthog as war+thog.

  • Teams

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  • A task that would have taken 1 person a few hours to do remotely, has now taken 8 people, 3 weeks of in office meetings and status updates and endless interruptions and discussions over every aspect of the project over and over again to finally complete.

    You're loving the RTO now, but then half a year later the management decides to fire dozens of people and replace them with this flashy new thing called AI, which gets the job done in 6 hours instead, even if buggy, and causing even more problems with unnoticed misinterpretations, but hey, 6 hours is so much less than 3 weeks, and we saved a lot of money!

    And then the reduced staff will have to do even more work, get swamped, then gets replaced by AI (which still leads to inferior product), and by that point the management won't even consider RTO being the reason for all that inefficiency.

    You could have done the job at home in 3-4 hours, but instead they shot themselves in the foot and still considered it a win.

    Oh, and the office that they are renting and that is now half empty because of the reduced staff...? Suddenly it's not a problem like it was with remote working.

  • Without stating your age, how old are you?

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  • As a non-native, I was a bit too old to find the lyrics and get them. After that, it was quite weird to me, but apart from the name being a bit off, I never heard of Gorky Park before.

  • Without stating your age, how old are you?

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  • (I am aware, it's the same here - I was just making a joke by splitting up the sentence differently)

  • Without stating your age, how old are you?

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  • When I told my colleagues about my surprise when I found out The Scorpions were German, none, but none of them had any idea what band I was talking about.

  • Without stating your age, how old are you?

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  • In which god forsaken country are voting rights dependent on children's age?

  • What's something that, after you had it, you immediately wanted another?

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  • A holiday

  • 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?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    People working in the meat industry: could/can you actually feel the effects of the rise of veganism of the last ~10 years? How (much) did it affect the area you work in?