dojan

dojan, 15 hours ago

It’s funny to me how they are announcing this like it’s supposed to make us thankful that they’ve vaguely sort of almost addressed an issue they’re single-handedly repsonsible for. So much for a “responsible rollout.” Joke of a company.

dojan, 15 hours ago

Honestly I don’t think most people know or even care.

dojan, 18 hours ago

I’m okay with the MAGA types drinking themselves to death. At least then most of them won’t vote.

dojan, 20 hours ago

I mean yeah, no shit. The idea that you could buy off your carbon footprint was always ridiculous. It reminds me of letters of indulgence.

Are there legit credits? Yeah probably, but who is overseeing it? What’s stopping a polluter from faking it?

dojan, 20 hours ago

Right. There are so many links in this chain that could cause the entire thing to break. Corruption in the verification bodies. Fake credits. Deception about actually buying credits.

We’re talking really large sums of money too. Like if I take an aeroplane I can tack on a significant sum to “offset” my fare, and I have absolutely no guarantee that that money doesn’t just end up in the CEOs pockets.

Sure, the company could say “of course we won’t just take the money and run”, and as we all know, companies never lie.

dojan, 18 hours ago

Honestly I support this. You probably deserve money more than all those billionaires that are currently profiting off them.

dojan, 1 day ago

People do this even today, too. I’ve somehow started getting videos of babies and toddlers recommended to me (I’m guessing various algorithms thinks it’s time for me to graduate from dogs and cats), and yeah, it’s cute as hell, but it would’ve still been cute had you not shared it and kept it private.

dojan, 1 day ago

Wow. Calling your own child pig in front of millions of people.

dojan, 1 day ago

It’s honestly quite strange that this sort of black box system is allowed to exist. How are governments around the world OK with a vast majority of the internet being filtered through a private company’s lens without any sort of insight into how it works? That sounds skeevy as shit.

dojan, 1 day ago

I love furries and their sexpositivity. This comment made my day.

dojan, 1 day ago

I wish I could find an English source about the guy who got woken by police assaulting him in his bed because he’d sent private sexy photos of him and his boyfriend via Yahoo mail. It’s definitely one of the things that “radicalised” me.

I’ve mentioned it before, and there are Swedish sources, but it’s perhaps not suitable for a site in English.

dojan, 3 days ago

This is definitely something that has to be thought about in terms of UI/UX design. I recently developed a Outlook calendar-esque interface, and we’ve had on-and-off discussions for a couple of hours about how we best implement a way to “click” an empty spot in the calendar to create an event there.

I’m championing “we don’t on mobile, but use double-click on desktop.” I think I’m winning.

dojan, 3 days ago

Or Boeing. 😩

dojan, 3 days ago

I started talking to a dude from Brazil a couple of months ago, and was blown away just by how different Brazilian Portuguese is from Portuguese, even just phonetically. I should’ve probably mentioned that I really only speak English, Swedish, and Japanese, so any other examples are ones that I’ve dug up in lexicons and the like, so there may be terms that are direct translations but not actually used colloquially.

I can totally see different words being used between Brazilian Portuguese and Portugal-Portuguese.

dojan, 3 days ago

This is true, I don’t know which word came first. I’d wager a guess that 蚤の市 predates フリーマーケット, but it’s really just a stab in the dark on the basis that English loanwords feel more modern, and it feels unlikely that a calque would be created after a loanword has been widely adopted.

dojan, 3 days ago

蚤の市

Yep! nomi no ichi. Nomi (蚤) means flea, and ichi (市) means market, no (の) is a possessive particle making it “flea’s market” or “market of flea”

dojan, 3 days ago

Is tori ever used like plaza, like the Swedish word “torg?” The way I read tori in my head makes it sound almost homophonous with torg, hence why I ask.

dojan, 3 days ago

Thank you for sharing! I had not heard of this before. I particularly enjoyed this bit

Farang khi nok (Thai: ฝรั่งขี้นก, lit. ‘bird-droppings Farang’), also used in Lao, is slang commonly used as an insult to a person of white race, equivalent to white trash, as khi means feces and nok means bird, referring to the white color of bird-droppings

That’s so colourful. I love it.

It also made me think of the fictional race in Star Trek, the Ferengi. At least according to Wikipedia that is precisely the origin of their name!

dojan, 2 days ago

Aye! Flodhäst in Swedish, and カバ (河馬, 河 river, 馬 horse) in Japanese.

dojan, 2 days ago

Aha! See, my first thought was that maybe it had something to do with pickpockets being present!

dojan, 3 days ago

I still don’t quite get how these people make sense of the world. We recently had a big reveal that our nazi party is using “anonymous social media accounts” to try and influence popular opinion. They claim that they don’t, and that the accounts aren’t affiliated with the party, but there was a whole report on the thing and it’s landed them in some hot water. The people voting for them are pretty much unfazed but the right-block alliance overall has taken quite a hit to their public support.

One of the things these people who supposedly really love Sweden discussed, was how they could perhaps create some sort of campaign website to try and incide violence among migrants, and possibly incite terror attacks. Like, how do you reconcile your “patriotism and love for your country” with wanting people to perform terror attacks?

Were I to play devil’s advocate I’d say that it’s possible that they were just shooting the shit, but even then? Isn’t it a bit over the top? As a gay guy I’m not joking about conversion therapy or forcible sterilisations.

dojan, 3 days ago

Aww, and Lemmy loves you! 💖

Also, just to toot my own horn, I felt pretty proud of that last one. I initially was like “how the heck do you casually drop Fenrir or David in a sentence” but… It’s not nearly as elegant as Chance.

dojan, 3 days ago

Aww, that’s so sweet! I suppose this means that the way to make adult friends is to tongue-in-cheek talk about adult toys.

I did actually make a in-person friend doing exactly that once.

dojan, 2 days ago

Yeah, I mean it’s easier to do online since generally I move in fairly sex-positive circles. With my in-person friend it was because I misheard what she said. I thought she mentioned that she’d ordered dildos and whatnot from a particular book store and I was like “wait, they have dildos??” We’d only met like a couple hours earlier, but we’ve been good friends ever since. 😅

dojan, 2 days ago

You too!