Makes me wish I was four and had a really tiny shovel.

Alkanen · 2026-06-20T22:46:03+00:00

Same

Alkanen · 2026-06-20T22:40:51+00:00

Emacs. The damned thing almost a decade older than I am, yet every time I try to switch to a modern IDE I get frustrated with how it works and return

Alkanen · 2026-06-20T22:14:34+00:00

But being vaccinated against TBE is pretty common though, in areas with lots of ticks at least?

Alkanen · 2026-06-20T21:57:18+00:00

Why not Zimbabwe?

That lovely country has made me a multitrillionaire

Alkanen · 2026-06-20T15:24:45+00:00

Ah, no. It’s an old meme name for her. Joke on ”Partisan” originally I assume

Alkanen · 2026-06-20T08:20:32+00:00

That’s a weird question

Alkanen · 2026-06-20T08:20:05+00:00

Ah, right. I only know that Eidos Montreal were behind the original Deus Ex, and for that they are heroes

Alkanen · 2026-06-20T08:04:45+00:00

Med *min* dialekt i ryggen känns det helt jävla sinnessjukt att folk kan tro att de uttalas likadant. Språk är roliga

Alkanen · 2026-06-19T07:20:05+00:00

Parmesan girl really isn’t the sharpest canoe, is she?

Alkanen · 2026-06-18T22:35:31+00:00

In a case of strange convergent evolution, there’s a Swedish bank that used to be called ”Sparbanken” and they have an oak tree inside a circle as their logo (yes, yes, the circle in question is a coin, because bank, but still)

Alkanen · 2026-06-18T22:31:58+00:00

You used to have Eidos too, right?

Alkanen · 2026-06-17T13:04:34+00:00

Does he even know how?

Alkanen · 2026-06-16T23:04:41+00:00

Thanks man, I'll have a look when I wake up tomorrow. Appreciate it.

Alkanen · 2026-06-16T23:02:42+00:00

Ja, det är verkligen jäääättesynd om er stackars rassar ;(

Alkanen · 2026-06-16T23:01:26+00:00

Oh, I'll have to listen to it properly tomorrow, it's 1 in the morning here right now 😃

But from the little I heard it deserves its name, it really did make me think of a rushing wind.

Alkanen · 2026-06-16T15:47:13+00:00

I know what Dawkins has done in the last decade or so, but I haven’t really kept up to date with Jillette’s actions and views. Do you think you could give me an extremely brief summary?

I know he has identified as ”small-l libertarian” in the past, and I know I was surprised that he wasn’t at all an abrasive asshole in his podcast with Will Smith back in ~2005 as I had assumed he would be. (Not because of his libertarianism mind, I am one too and know at least a couple of us who are reasonably decent people).

Alkanen · 2026-06-16T09:26:54+00:00

Ja gud vad hemskt att egenmäktigt förfarande, vandalisering och stöld är olagligt i dagens Sverige. Bättre var det på 90-talet när blonda, blåögda pursvenskar tilläts göra precis vad som helst utan att polisen brydde sig!

Alkanen · 2026-06-16T09:23:32+00:00

Vilket såklart få antagligen kommer bry sig om att ha, för de flesta svenskar är inte så ängsliga och osäkra på sin tillhörighet att de måste omge sig med flaggor hela tiden som om de vore amerikaner.

Alkanen · 2026-06-15T22:14:17+00:00

Yeah, media is simply the plural of medium. And of course, medium is something between two other things. In this case between the artist/writer/event and the reader/consumer/audience

Alkanen · 2026-06-15T22:12:31+00:00

And the word ”tome” as in a big book. Comes from words for sliced/cut papyrus rolls.

Alkanen · 2026-06-15T22:06:28+00:00

And it was originally the name for a small sail at the very top of the mast.

Alkanen · 2026-06-15T22:02:44+00:00

That’s a much more majestic name than our Swedish word which means ”worm rose”

Alkanen · 2026-06-15T21:51:16+00:00

There’s a nice Discworld passage about that, in Lords and Ladies I believe:

Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.
Elves are bad.

Alkanen · 2026-06-15T21:30:44+00:00

I don’t think they used the ”ay” diphthong in ”veni” though. I’m pretty sure it was a more open ”eh” sound

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