(I think the original aphorism that was distorted into this may have been "the only true joy is the joy of creation", "den enda sanna glΓ€djen Γ€r skaparglΓ€djen" but the petty version has since long overshadowed the wholesome original π)
@clacke I think that should go in my toot rotation. I have a script which every day takes the next item off a list, toots it, then puts it back on the bottom.
I'll add that. Do you want to be credited? If so, how?
It is incredibly frustrating that the only thing more stupid than Patreon is all the alleged Patreon substitutes that clearly don't even understand what Patreon does.
Pro tip: Patreon has no meaningful competitors, and also it sucks, so there's a huge opportunity for somebody to kick sand in its face and take its lunch money. But to do that you would have to understand what actually Patreon does that is worth it to creators to allow Patreon to take 5% of their proceeds (and then pass on to them a second 5% in payment processing fees).
UX designers who eliminated the filesystem from user consciousness in name of simplicity ruined the world and are morally culpable for shriveling minds of children who are unable to tackle the challenges of today thanks to a choice sold as advocacy for the user but was ultimately motivated by control of a disempowered customer.
@SwiftOnSecurity The absolute misery and struggles I had teaching basic file management to students back even in like 2015 who had no idea that a file had to exist somewhere when downloaded, and you need to open files to work with them in a GUI tool...
I felt bad because we wasted so much effort on this at the expense of later topics in #GIS.
@SwiftOnSecurity I was literally teaching file systems to High School students today, and had to demonstrate to them that their Macs, Androids, and iOS devices have file systems. It was enlightening.
@stenhaastrup Sure, all languages have them to a greater or lesser extent. But Germans criticising an American publication for a faux-German expression is really off, that's all!
@andreaslindholm@thomas@jon I think while the songwriters are old enough to have had a "freestyle" and the kid is wearing one in the video (or was that a portable CD player?), the lyrics talk about a freestyler who can rock the microphone, so it's probably unrelated.
@openclimatedata@jon In the 1980's, at least this Swedish teenager thought that "freestyle" was a word that was used the same way in English. Only when I arrived in the U.S. did I realize that I should say Walkman.π¬
Iβd caution against any Germans being too harsh on the New York Times making up the German word βFreudenfreudeβ (as an opposite of Schadenfreude)
Letβs not forget the German language oddly uses the English word βHandyβ to mean mobile phone - but it doesnβt mean that in English
@flyingtomoon For jargon, like business terms and technical terms, just as much as trying to sound modern or cool, I think it can be that the concept and word comes from the Anglosphere first, and then nobody wants to make the effort or take the risk to be the first person to try to form consensus around a local term.
@TheCybermatron@jon but then there's also the business lingo where probably a lot actually just comes from this desire to look modern. So yeah, I'd differentiate between everyday speech and the business stuff
@TheCybermatron@jon as a fellow german, I'd definitely attribute this change mostly to the internet. I'm part of Gen Z and therefore online a lot and have been for the majority of my life and I find myself using anglicised versions of words a lot more than my parents for example
@mason Total confusion ensues when a Gearm speaker spends too much time on the English part of the internet it seems... Had to look up that bodybag indeed meant a bag for a corpse as I thought and then learned it has a totally different meaning in German.
A year or so later, he taught himself to throw pennies, spinning so fast they buzzed and curved. This time he practiced in his bedroom. By the time I realized what was going on, he could hit a target and punch though drywall or hollow doors.
When people are persistent enough, they can do surprising things.
When I was in high school, I knew a guy that decided to learn some acrobatics when he was about ten. He started by trying to jump, spin all the way around head over heels, and land on his feet in the same spot. By the time I met him, he was about five years into it, and he could do amazing stunts like you'd expect from a circus performer.
He had, of course, broken a few bones along the way. His younger brother did not do any of those tricks.
It is amazing what people can do when they set their minds to the task.
I'm back at my desk and I'm supposed to be working on my Bill of Rights book, but I'm thinking about the comments I'm getting about Trump, gag orders, and the First Amendment.
See! Overlap! So I'm actually doing paid work π Who is goofing off? Not ME.
I've been getting questions about this.
I was poking around to see what people are saying, and found this comment from a lawyer‡οΈ
I asked, "What do you suggest?" and clarification of "honest judicial review."
@TruthSandwich@Teri_Kanefield Well, if even lawyers suggest that, please can anyone point me to an explanation, why Mr Trump is not in jail, or considering that he claims to be a billionaire with businesses around the globe, why has his bail not been set at a reasonable level to his worth?
You don't let a drug dealer walk around freely waiting for his trial either, right?
Bankman-Fried had his 250m bail (!) also revoked for interfering with the investigation/trial, hadn't he?
> Harvard senteces are collection of sample phrases that are used for standardized testing of Voice over IP, cellular, and other telephone systems. They are phonetically balanced sentences that use specific phonemes at the same frequency they appear in English.
@jalefkowit@vmstan There is a Swedish book on the topic, the title of which translates to "you fucking shit system!" ("djΓ€vla skitsystem"), as one is likely to exclaim while using one of the products of these processes.
whatβs the deal with βupdogβ? when the payoff is βnot much, whatβs up with youβ itβs way too respectful and wholesome to be a prank, yet when the setup is something like βi live on updog streetβ itβs too duplicitous not to be one
@Sheril We should also give credit to Louisa Tyndall for her silent co-authorship of many of John's papers and her highly effective research into the medicinal uses of chloral hydrate.