AccountMaker 2w ago • 100%
I came here to mention her. She should be a case study on how to write believable, badass and strong characters
AccountMaker 2w ago • 100%
At some point in my adult life I realized that I could make semolina with milk whenever I want. I just cook it in milk to the desired thickness and eat it like that. Love it
AccountMaker 2w ago • 100%
Though you really need the ability to stay calm and collected. I once tried to talk with a childhood friend who became a hardcore christian and nationalist in the meantime, and I just couldn't believe the things I heard.
When I asked him why would the bible be a definitive source of whatever, he said "You can only have one truth, and if you live by the bible you know it to be true, so it is the truth". There were so many things wrong with that line of thought, my brain received a ddos attack and had to reboot.
Same thing for homosexuals. He, in a very very creepy way I must say, told an entire story of how normal men who are sexual deviants eventually get tired of women because they need to do increasingly more sickening things, and then move on to men. That's how men become gay.
How the hell do you reply to someone who just completely made up a story and believes in it? When I eventually asked how is the Netherlands not burning to the ground when they are tolerant, he actually said "Not yet". So, if any Dutch person is reading this, better brace for gay armageddon or something. I just can't figure out what to say to someone who literally spends 10 mins saying nothing. I eventually stopped interacting with him because I just don't have the energy (this was just an example, I had dozens of interactions like that with him)
Or when a colleague said that the Ukranian civilians were happy when the Russians came to save them. My head temperature increased 10 degrees and I just turned around and left. You really need special skills to talk to people like that, which I sadly lack
AccountMaker 2w ago • 94%
Yeah, but for example, IEEE conference paper templates explicitly state "The word 'data' is plural, not singilar". So if you use it with a singular verb you will receive this post in an email and you can only say thank you and change it.
AccountMaker 2w ago • 100%
I literally started due to lemmy posts. I just went in order and watched TOS and TNG. Now I'm going through DS9. I'm really glad I did, because it's amazing!
AccountMaker 3w ago • 71%
Exactly my thoughts. You could copy that speech from the beginning, replace every instance of Germany/Germans with Russia/Russians, replace Poland with Ukraine, and you'll have milions of people nodding as saying: "Yes, that makes sense, defend Russia!"
AccountMaker 3w ago • 100%
As someone working in the tech industry (not from the US), the comparatively better working conditions and pay compared to most other jobs sadly create a big bubble for most people, where the ideas of exploitation seem like they only occur in manual labour jobs. There doesn't seem to be much of class consciousness when you and your colleagues are better off than most other people.
AccountMaker 3w ago • 100%
Black metal as a genre. I could not believe that anyone seriously listened to that. It was either random noise or actually scary stuff (I am the black wizards actually scared me for some reason lol). But after enough exposure and playing Freezing moon myself, I actually got to enjoy it to the point where now I listend to black metal 80% of the time.
In the same vein, "Sons of Winter and Stars" by Wintersun was so unharmonized and terrible to me when I first listened to it, but after a few listens it became one of my favourite songs
AccountMaker 3w ago • 100%
I remember reading "Hypatia: The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher" by Edward J. Watts, and the book makes a really good point on how Hypatia is remembered for her death more than for her life. She's regarded as a mrtyr for philosophy, as a victim of Christianity, as a feminist icon, but her life and achievements are, unfairly, rarely discussed.
Really recommend the book, it was a very nice and light read. But working from memory, Hypatia taught a variant of Neoplatonism that was acceptable to both Christians and polytheists, and so her lectures could bind the fractured society of Alexandria, as students from all sorts of backgrounds attended.
AccountMaker 3w ago • 100%
Mostly Cellar Darling, Sargeist and Behexen. I listened to some Amon Amarth yesterday, but death metal kinda bores me quickly, and I'm used to spinning like 3 albums for months on end
AccountMaker 4w ago • 100%
The perfect feline supplement can only be found through trial and error
AccountMaker 4w ago • 100%
My headcanon is that Data names every cat he owns 'Spot' and he has different cats throughout the series
AccountMaker 4w ago • 100%
He also made beautiful poetry that many of us can relate to:
You tell me to do this,
He tells me to do that.
You're all bastards,
Go fuck your mother.
"Poem about bastards" by Zhang Zongchang
AccountMaker 4w ago • 100%
I never heard about the tildeverse before, sounds really interesting. How does one choose which tilde to join, though? It seems to me like only cosmic.voyage has a specific theme, while the rest only differ in the OS running on the machine. Or are tildes just there to host your account, while all the interactions are done via irc?
AccountMaker 1mo ago • 100%
I figured that she noticed him visually, a shadow was cast or she saw movement. Anon also said that she heard her mom "for the first time" when she got the implant.
Taking all this into account, while the greentext seems to have avoided the first label of homosexuality, the verity of the story nevertheless has to be put into question.
AccountMaker 1mo ago • 100%
Yeah, the texture is not the best, but I found that cooking oats in water and adding frozen berries makes it really good taste-wise. And a colleague told me that adding milk to oats cooked in water is almost the same as cooking them in milk.
But man, adding semolina to your oats and cooking them with milk makes suuuuch a good breakfast because the semolina provides a tasty dense medium in which the oats are suspended.
AccountMaker 1mo ago • 100%
arXiv doesn't have peer review as far as I know
AccountMaker 1mo ago • 80%
I read this in chief O'Brien's voice
> MetaGer, the privacy-focused search engine of the non-profit association SUMA-EV, will no longer exist in its familiar form. It will still be possible to use the token-financed service. Nothing will change for members and users who use MetaGer with a key. However, it is the ad-financed search that has ensured the main part of the revenue and thus the operation and further development. Unfortunately, this “normal” search is no longer possible as of today. This is just as dramatic as it sounds: it is no longer possible for SUMA-EV to continue to employ staff. All employees are being made redundant, as are the offices. >The reason is that Yahoo terminated our contracts unilaterally and without any notice on Monday. Upon request, we were merely informed that Yahoo would no longer be operating the business in Germany. For us as the operator of MetaGer, this means on the one hand that we no longer receive any advertising revenue, which has been used to pay for office space, servers and employees. On the other hand, we will also no longer be able to deliver our search results as part of the ad-financed search. Only with Yahoo did we have a central deal to receive search results in return for advertising. This no longer applies. >What happens now? MetaGer's supporting association, SUMA-EV, will continue to exist. It will also still be possible to buy a key for the token-financed search and search with MetaGer. With this model, MetaGer will still be able to query paid search engines and deliver the results without tracking as usual. We will also continue to work for SUMA-EV and MetaGer on a voluntary basis to ensure the operation of this small niche, but this will of course be on a very small scale and not what MetaGer is all about. MetaGer-Maps can also no longer be operated in this context. The plans to become bigger and to one day provide a really good alternative to “the big players” with its own index (or European index) have of course died with this termination by Yahoo. And that is what is really sad.
Seven Spires released a new album back in June. This is my favorite song, but the entire album is amazing.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17284168 > DW Video.
A crane I made with 2cm x 2cm paper
Some black metal from Serbia. Below are the lyrics and my translation Zalutao pod veo košmara / I wandered under the veil of nightmares Često usnim brisan prostor / I often dream of a cleared space Negde i nigde, na granici svetova / Somewhere and nowhere, on the edge of worlds Dubok je koren strahova / The root of fears is deep I sanjam... / And I'm dreaming of... Serpentine guste magme / Snaking flows of thick magma Nema izlaza odavde / There is no escape from here Peku se na tihoj vatri / They're burning on a silent fire I žrtve i dželati / Both victims and executioners I sve što još ne poznade smrti lice / And everything that had not yet known the face of death Obgrliše kosturnice / Was embraced by ossuaries Zastao je dašak jave / A breath of lucidness lingered Ko u šaci zrno soli / Like a grain of salt in the palm Možda se i iskobeljam / Maybe I'll get out Kovčezi nam nisu okovi / Coffins aren't our chains Serpentine guste magme / Snaking flows of thick magma Nema izlaza odavde / There is no escape from here Tu je neki zid, ruina / There's a wall, a ruin Pored polje puno crkotina / Next to it a field filled with carrion Gasovi i isparenja / Gases and fumes Na sve strane plamti litosfera / The lithosphere is on fire on all sides Obliven znojem, budim se / I wake up covered in sweat Kraj istih ruševina, gde sve / Next to the same ruins, where everything Što poznade smrti lice / That knew the face of death Progutaše kosturnice / Got swallowed by ossuaries
Some black metal from Croatia
One of my absolutely favourite symphonic metal bands.
Kul stranica ako je neko zainteresovan. Koliko sam razumeo, sadrži materijale koji se koriste na Filozofskom fakultetu.
Ispostavilo se da ovde ima dosta linuksaša, pa me zanima da li imate neke posebne utiske o pojedinim distribucijama? Šta koristite i zašto, šta ne koristite više i zašto? Ja sam jedno vreme menjao distribucije više puta nedeljno, ali ovo su mi utisci koji su ostali: Debian - Najstabilniji OS koji je možda jedini koji mi je ikad crash-ovao. Za moj hardver uvek traži da zasebno skinem neke firmware-e, ali apt mi je ostao kao omiljeni package manager. Arch - Jako fina stvar što možeš tačno da biraš kako će ti izgledati sistem i što je jako dobra prilika da naučiš više o linuksu generalno, ali sam primetio kod mene da ako ne update-ujem povremeno, pacman više ne želi da sarađuje, neće da skida pakete. A i desi se nekad da mi javi "signatures broken" ili tako nešto, što me stvarno nervira kad ne palim laptop par nedelja i onda moram sat vremena da ga opravljam da bih skinuo nešto što mi treba na 5 min. Solus - Najveća tragedija mojih mladalačkih dana. To je jedina distribucija koja mi apsolutno nikad nije pravila nikakve probleme, a ja sam je menjao za Deepin jer je debian based, ima najlepši DE out of the box i bio sam zavisnik od menjanja distribucija. Sad ne mogu Solus da pogledam u oči od srama. Trenutno imam Fedoru i skroz mi je okej, nemam neke posebne komentare, ali želim nešto novo, nešto divlje. Pa kao bonus pitanje: je l' koristio neko NixOS (koji je izgleda popularan na lemmy-ju), Gentoo ili Slackware?