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by mydriasis 3y ago
I have given up in the fight for relevance. Now I am grandpa even at age 29. My nephews think it's hilarious, at least. I know a couple of their slang terms, and I abuse them. me: "Hey, nephew! Scooby doo Ohio rizz!" nephew:
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by mydriasis 3y ago
Culture in the United States is a disturbing heap of consumerist oppression. I have friends overseas, and when they ask, I say "we do not have culture here, we have stores." I can't think of ~ anything ~ from mainstream cultu
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by mydriasis 3y ago
"How many died" and "Where are you getting your figures" are disturbing questions when speaking about ethnic cleansing. These people have had their homes and lives taken away from them. Like the Ukrainians. Like the Ugan
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by mydriasis 3y ago
No, and don't put words in my mouth. There's nothing business as usual about genocide. Neither are the people of the Balkans so flippant, none of this is forgotten. There's an awful lot of talk about "moving on" her
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by mydriasis 3y ago
No, none of that is forgotten either. It's hell as far back as anyone alive can remember, from the 90s to the 40s to WWI and the Balkan wars, and all of the fighting with the Ottoman empire throughout the 19th century. But you knew all
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by mydriasis 3y ago
What a wicked cool idea!
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by mydriasis 3y ago
There was a dude named Milman Parry[0] who went to Yugoslavia in the 20th century and recorded something like 3500 aluminum records of traditional cultural music, which were later transcribed into like 100 notebooks. If nothing else, I wish
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by mydriasis 3y ago
This is a super interesting perspective, I have genuinely never thought of the internet in this way.
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by mydriasis 3y ago
That feels kind of dishonest... But then, is "justifying means by the ends" really harmful in this case if it's free stuff that I'm just desperate to give away ?:D No ads, no cloud, no data sales, just plz look at my sit
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by mydriasis 3y ago
> Everybody with a subpar product thinks that what is lacking for them is exposure. Most of them start spending a lot on ads. Most probably your website is not good enough to attract a public. You didn't have to be mean, you chose t
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by mydriasis 3y ago
> And there are many hundreds or thousands of such languages and cultures competing on the internet. Definitely! I think that on the culture side specifically, there's not very much "English-side" voice for it. Hence why I
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by mydriasis 3y ago
I'll try that out, thank you for the advice!
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by mydriasis 3y ago
To me, language and culture have intrinsic value. I also feel very attached to my cultural heritage because I'm descended from holocaust survivors. I don't want to simply sit back and watch as the culture and language disappear, a
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by mydriasis 3y ago
There's no pool of competitors -- that's why I'm doing this in the first place. The resources for learning this stuff are scarce. I just don't know how to get the word out there. I'm not looking to make money, I jus
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by mydriasis 3y ago
The Vatican cannot bear that there are secrets that it cannot know. The pope cannot bear that there are groups beyond his supremacy.
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by mydriasis 3y ago
Bosnian / Croatian / Serbian. I'm adjacent to you, but I don't think they're quite the same, I'm afraid.
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by mydriasis 3y ago
Yes -- and this is a good question with a good answer -- because I want to help people who might be interested in the language and culture find it. And I _know they're out there_ by the number of people who at least _tried_ some really
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by mydriasis 3y ago
Hmm, that does sound like a good idea!
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by mydriasis 3y ago
This resonates with me. I've posted my language practice website on HN, LinkedIn, blah blah blah several places, and I can't get people to care. I've finally got some traction on slav facebook, but only just barely. Joining a
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by mydriasis 3y ago
Not only will I not be upgrading to another smartphone, I'm two months in on my dumb phone. It's been an incredible and liberating experience. Not only am I not glued to the smartphone anymore, my phone bill is now $15 / mont
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by mydriasis 3y ago
I mean, what choice do we have?
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by mydriasis 3y ago
I think yak shaving implies that this would be a tedious step toward something greater, but there's nothing greater at the end of the task, here
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by mydriasis 3y ago
A Catholic hacker army? Could there be a digital crusade?
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by mydriasis 3y ago
You might say seven steps!
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by mydriasis 3y ago
This is one of the claims of the Harvard classics collection, which includes more than just philosophy and social studies. If you want to dig deep, you could go through it.
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by mydriasis 3y ago
Don't go to Croatian wikipedia. As bad as English wiki might be... oh man.
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by mydriasis 3y ago
Now _that_ is cool. I'd love to use it for work meetings. I could throw virtual trash at my coworkers while we argue about system design. Every time you suggest a technology that isn't postgres you get 6 virtual empty pop cans thr
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by mydriasis 3y ago
I don't care about parliament, it's iterated below that it's a simple slip up. I agree with the poster who said a simple apology would suffice on their end. It's the man himself. That's what really matters. Too many
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by mydriasis 3y ago
Not alone. 25% of Belarus was exterminated by the Nazis.
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by mydriasis 3y ago
> “In view of the scandalous events in the Canadian parliament, which involved honouring, in the presence of President Zelensky, a member of the criminal Nazi SS Galizien formation, I have taken steps towards the possible extradition of

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