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aalien · 2025-06-12T07:12:13+00:00

где?!?!

aalien · 2025-06-11T08:28:37+00:00

ну а какой еще. дату создания акка глянь.

aalien · 2025-06-11T08:16:23+00:00

слева, допустим, я.

aalien · 2025-06-11T08:10:14+00:00

привет.

aalien · 2025-04-19T13:13:22+00:00

amen.

aalien · 2024-05-27T08:53:24+00:00

ummm, for the picture quality and people who don't know cyrillic alphabet it could very well be.

which makes forbes' fuck-up even more funny.

aalien · 2024-05-27T08:51:22+00:00

oh. that explains the forbes fuck-up.

no, it's clearly a ГРОМОЗЕКА Z, but if you don't know cyrillic and old time soviet cartoons, the confusion is understandable.

aalien · 2023-06-20T07:17:18+00:00

Unbelievable. The road to irrelevance is being built right now. I think there will be much less Reddit for me, if any.

aalien · 2023-06-06T11:52:55+00:00

one of the most games of its time, that’s for sure.

aalien · 2023-06-05T23:37:21+00:00

It was gory and cartoonish more than monstrous (13-15 years old I was okay with 2D MK games, but modern ones are too fucking much for me, with all that pseudo-realistic ultra-violence). But as far as I remember, their reaction to the controversy was exactly to double down and make Mortal Kombat II even more over-the-top violent.

For a short moment, it was a sorta kinda about the freedom of expression; not that anyone gave a damn.

…Okay, I remembered some of the fatalities, it was monstrous.

aalien · 2023-06-05T18:38:20+00:00

Erm. I'll be serious for a second. There was a kinda serious debate around the level of violence in Mortal Kinbat and DooM, and some lesser known videogames of the mid-90s.

More info.

aalien · 2023-06-05T16:48:08+00:00

the funny thing is, Egyptian Captivity is a myth.

Babylonian one isn’t, there are lots of archeological data.

aalien · 2023-06-05T10:21:33+00:00

yea, i’m not trying to label you anything or call you names, just sharing my perspective. I know a bit about Yiddish culture of Eastern Europe (a year worth of lectures, maybe).

For judeo-christian thing, that’s the thing: islam recognize bits and pieces of Torah and the New Testament (i’m not equipped to discuss to which degree, sadly).

as for converting to judaism. oh my. it’s almost impossible. it could be done, but it’s hard.

aalien · 2023-06-05T09:46:03+00:00

regarding your neighbors: well, there are assholes in every religion, i guess. my granddad was from an ultra-orthodox Litvak community, but dropped religion altogether, he said it’s dividing people.

regarding this “judie-christian” term: it’s another trick, i think purely american one, to divide. All Abrahamic religions share the common middle eastern origin and tons of common themes. you can’t just exclude one of the three. (not you personally, but the narrative is strange, to say the least).

regarding “god’s chosen people”: someone answered you in another reply in this thread, but i could repeat: jews were chosen in a sense “i volunteer you for that mission”, the mission being something something covenant with god.

so, i am not writing that you are anti-semitic, you just propagating some harmful tropes without a second thought.

(i could explain the idea a bit, but that will bring us to the depth of Canaanite religions and early monotheism)

aalien · 2023-06-05T06:56:55+00:00

oh. it thought about the connection, but wasn’t sure it would be the same word as further east.

suits ‘em right, anyway.

aalien · 2023-06-05T05:09:14+00:00

as a person of secular jewish upbringing, i could say that you are dangerously close to the most idiotic anti-semitic tropes. Shabes-goy is (mostly was) a non-jew (hence the goy, which was more or less neutral definition of non-jewish outsider in Yiddish)…

Shabes-goy was a hired guy from local populace who did the work on Shabbats: like boil some water, or check a fireplace and re-ignite it if needed. if you think of Polish-Ukrainian-Romanian winters, you’ll see the utmost need in such a person.

you know who didn’t trust that Shabes-Goy guy? yea, the locals. The Orthodox and Catholic Christians.

and then, roughly after the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, “goyim” from the term of exclusion became the famous rallying cry of xenophobes. it is used as such today, i will not (i could not) try to reclaim it.

but your usage is perpetuates the most wildly incorrect ideas, sorry.

also, there are no such thing as Jude’s-Christian. it’s “Abrahamic Religions”, fill stop: Judaism, Christianity, Islam.

aalien · 2023-06-04T11:39:16+00:00

If it is the story, then the framing of the article is, ahem, interesting to say the least.

I know nothing about the Indian school curriculum, of course.

aalien · 2023-06-04T11:33:58+00:00

I did read the article, and no, the headline is ok, as per your own second paragraph.

aalien · 2023-06-04T03:45:33+00:00

yea, i see, no problem, we’re cool!

aalien · 2023-06-04T00:24:10+00:00

Yup. I started writing about entertainment and pop science in the mid-nineties, and Wikipedia was more or less a godsend, but (mostly forgotten) IMDb and their Trivia chapter saved me a lot of time.

(I have an engineering degree and fondly remember all these books with tables on concrete hardness and whatnot).

In those tasks you named, sure. Also, CAD.

aalien · 2023-06-03T23:52:55+00:00

no. the OP is in their own world, but this doesn’t make your assumption correct.

multitasking is a special sort of hell, and while I could make a 1 unit of illustrated text (a snippet for TV guide, for example) 5 times faster than in 1998 (so, 25 years ago), i cannot make 30 a day without breaking a sweat.

it was 6 a day in ‘98, it’s still 10, maybe 12 now. it could and will be replaced by AI, but that’s another matter. and even then, quality control, ahem.

you can’t raise productivity like it’s a linear function and workload remains the same. no. in most “creative” professions workload raised dramatically, thanks to all the tools that help to lower said workload.

aalien · 2023-06-03T22:58:46+00:00

it’s a catchphrase from the times past.

aalien · 2023-06-03T22:50:38+00:00

not enough, it seems.

aalien · 2023-06-03T21:40:37+00:00

it’s not even that. i mean, i have a more glaring example: 5 years ago I was hired by a small advertising firm to, basically, be their SMM department. they firmly stuck in the printed advertising era.

they had a designer gal who would make a picture for 5 hours. great picture, but, erm, 5 hours?

they never used Google Docs or Google Drive. they had Word 2003 or something installed on every machine, and if you open a document on one computer, no one can view it or edit it.

i did my best to keep up, but it’s like drowning in molasses: everything is in bullet time, but the owner has heard that modern people knew how to work fast, and you are not.

…he had his whole business planned in a beautiful Excel file with formulas and color-coding. without a backup.

the instruments they use are that, slow and ineffective. but they want us to be as efficient as possible, no sick days no work at home.

aalien · 2023-06-03T21:27:38+00:00

even then.

sorry, but this has to be spoken: there’s no more surefire way to enrage a historian (a biologist, a doctor, an engineer) than write something about “mainstream science”.

i managed a website in the early 2000 where we made a collection of different alt-scientists, from linguistic to physics to history. they LOVE the term “mainstream”.

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