I mean, you can just buy dvds. They are cheap af. If you know where to look you can also find bluray discs for cheap. My boyfriend and I sometimes go to websites for used dvds and blurays and they don’t cost 30 to 40 euros there.

You can also go to the library and borrow dvd and bluray movies. It’s free and you can discover some films you would have otherwise never seen. I do that a lot and my boyfriend and I enjoy this setup. It is a lot cheaper and nicer than having subscriptions to two or three shitty streaming services that are filled with trash and none of them have the movies we want to watch. Fuck that shit. Physical media all the way. It is so easy and cheap to go back to physical if you really want it. It is probably cheaper than subscribing to services where you basically pay for air and own nothing.

All is forgiven. Most people are practically the living dead before their first cup of coffee.

It was very obviously sarcasm.

I thought that bringing up him being held at gun point by drunk child soldiers in Africa and forced to speak a language you hate was pretty obviously the opposite of boring.

I was making fun of the meme.

This is so true. For example, Werner Herzog hates the French language, despite speaking it fluently. He once had to regrettably speak French when he was held at gun point by drunk child soldiers in Africa.

Pretty uninteresting guy, I’d say.

No, but that’s pretty funny.

They also use a handicapped B for the double S = ß Tsk tsk. Silly Germans, but yes, one must not throw stones in their little glass houses. My native tongue, Danish, is also very nonsensical in differnet ways, but don’t tell the Swedish that I told you that.

Don’t tell them that I told you, but Germans are illiterate. They also think V sounds like F and stuff.

I was recently reminded how stupid ChatGPT is. I was translating some slang from Danish into English that I couldn’t really find a satisfactory solution for myself. ChatGPT full on hallucinate every single fucking prompt for these slang translations nad I ended up turning to one of my colleagues instead and ask him how he would translate the slang instead and he immediately came up with a very funny and accurate translation that fit the context so much better.

The hallucinations that chaptgpt came up with were not just incorrect, it also started going into made up explanations of the history of this slang word and how it is used normally in Danish speech and how it is a compliment. In reality the slangword was a word I had made up, that fit with the context I was using it for, is NOT a compliment and is very much not something people have a history of saying in normal Danish speech. It’s something that if you say it, most people will get what you mean, but it isn’t something people say.

But thank you chatgpt for your creative writing session. It was a very disappointing experience.

Generally whenever anything related to translations to Danish when using American tech has always been absolutely fucking terrible. Everything is, of course, seen through the lense of American contexts so when you’re Danish and using shit like Word, you always have to remember how the program thinks in English even if it’s supposedly installed in Danish.

Google docs are especially terrible at this.

Chat GPT is next level terrible if you move even an inch away from clinical, Danish. I can’t imagine how chatgpt would handle Southern Jut or any type of Danish dialect, really.

And when you’re me, trying to translate a story that uses dialects, slang, fictional slang, broken Danish and normal Danish, you just have to accept that chatgpt is largely useless for anything other than translating at basic bitch level.

In a way that makes me feel comforted. All that fancy tech and they still aren’t anywhere close to human.

You misspelled Australia.

Abundance of unstructured and chaotic knowledge that is blended with misinformation, ads, memes and attention grabbing 5 second videos tends to overwhelm most people.

In Australia they have something called “report a tosser” people who are proven to have littered anything from cigarette buds to plastic bottles and more will be fined to hell and back.

Thank you, my hero! 😚

Wikipedia would have me believe that these meat drilling, bloodsucking mistakes of nature actually pollinate when they aren’t in the process of ruining the lives of warm blooded creatures so now I feel a tiny bit bad, but still. So many other bugs can take over their jobs and manage to lay eggs without feeling the need to turn someone’s skin into Swiss cheese.

Clegs can go extinct and no one will cry about it. Fuck clegs. I will take mosquitos and wasps any day over clegs.

Not only are they the insect version of a bad day they were also adorned the worst color scheme in nature: gray and poop brown. They have nothing going for them. Delete.

The other side of that coin is that people also tend to learn from their parents mistakes and at least avoid some of the negative patterns that came before.

No one can be a perfect parent, but most parents try their best to give their kids a good childhood and then there are some who should have never had kids in the first place.

A bit of nuance is in order, else poems lile that one just feels too fucking childish for me to take seriously. It reeks of I’m 14 and this is deep.

Weirdest thing for me was when I recently listened to a radio program where an expert in Vietnamese culture and history talked about the Vietnam War and how the Vietnamese feel and think about the American part of it and almost universally they are all like “meh, we have dealt with worse”

Meanwhile it seems like the American consciousness think of the Vietnam War as almost a national scar akin to 9/11.

It is of course a simplification of what was talked about in that program, but it really stuck with me how over it the Vietnamese were because they have dealt with injustices far worse than that war and besides America became their ally later so why even worry about that?

Really shows you the differences in mindset. Americans hold on to the past like it’s a lifeline while most other places we kinda just deal with shit and move on. I for one hold no grudges against Germany and my country has mostly forgotten or moved on from occupations and other historical wars because there were so many of those and everybody fought everybody in Europe back in the day so whatever man. Moving on. We technically have a tradition where we are supposed to put candles in the windows on the day we were freed from the Germans. My dad is old enough to remember that day and how people ran through the street with our flag and yelled “the Germans have surrendered”.

But today most people forget to put candles in the windows and life has moved on. We do remember what the war was and what it meant, but we just don’t feel the need to hold on to it like that.

If ww2 had happened to America the same way it happened to Europe, they would have made it they whole identity and pissed and moaned about it still. We would never hear the end of it. Instead they got to spend a few decades gloating about how awesome they were and how they saved the world from the nazis, lol.

“You would all speak German right now if it wasn’t for us” completely ignoring the fact that a good number of European countries speak German and a many others learn German in school for practical reasons.

Wait… people actually think that incognito means that they don’t record your searches??

I thought everybody knew that all incognito does is preventing your searches from showing up in your search history.

Did anyone actually think that these big tech companies would willingly give you an option to keep your searches private from them?

Hello???

Always assume that everything you do online is being recorded and seen by someone. Unless you’re a master computer wiz or whatever the fuck they call it these days, ALWAYS ASSUME YOUR ACTIVITY ONLINE IS PUBLIC.

I left social media earlier this year. Lemmy is my transition platform. I hope to eventually drop off the internet entirely except for job and practical related things.

You just gave me the biggest flashback to a comic made by Endling.

What a blast from the past.

I have been here for a few months and Lemmy is gonna disappoint you too, my friend.

Whatever their reasons for screeching, it’s not something I care to be around.

We have all screeched at some point, especially online. I’m not innocent either, I have just grown out of it and seek to engage with people in more productive ways.

It is one of the reasons I came here in the first place because silly me believed this place would be full of rational and mature people and they are certainly here too, but holy shit have I been overall disappointed in the tone on this platform. To me it is no different than Meta, Twitter and Reddit and maybe I was a fool for believing there would be a platform online where people act normal and are able to have a discussion without becoming hysterical and flinging insults as the first measure of rebuttal.