nic_cage_thank_you.jif!

That was much better

Nah it’ll be fixed eventually (quote 1970 devs)

I don’t get it. Why’s that picture included? Is there something in the picture I’m supposed to notice?

I don’t disagree, but have you seen what a bulldozer goes for? Guns are expensive, but a dirt cheap cobot arm with a 9mm and extended mag, will be a tenth or less.

Oh please, all the robots need is a light intensity sensor, some simple targeting, and a gun actuator, and they can do “policing” even more effectively than ICE. Maybe a speaker to play a token warning message before firing. You know something like “HALT! Show your identity papers, you have 10 seconds to comply, 9, 8, 7”

Movement comes later, once all the immigrants have figured out where the robots are planted.

Also, have you seen the ticket prices? Cat 4 tickets, the cheapest tickets, are generally 10x the 2022 prices https://www.sportingnews.com/us/soccer/news/world-cup-2026-tickets-cheapest-expensive/d3fd676c4f35b53961e35c38

The cheapest tickets for the opening match has gone from 55USD to 560USD.

So on top of the threat of ICE, and before them CBP at the airport, where you can be required to unlock your phone for inspection, you also get to pay like 2 days wages, to sit furthest from the field with a light pole in the way. GTFO, but there’s enough suckers to make it work.

In a blatant money grab FIFA has even expanded the cup to 48 teams.

Not that I’d discard the idea, but it just seems more likely to succeed with more phones, if we stuck with android, just in another flavor.

The desktop app argument may sound cool on the surface, but to me it’s almost a counter argument. But that’s because I used windows ce pocket (or whatever it was called) before smartphones became a thing. It was really just a PDA with a GSM modem, that could make calls. Anyway, at the time people hadn’t figured out the smartphone UI, and everything required a stylus. I mean, even the keyboard required a stylus, because the interactable objects were too small to reliably hit with your fingers. Running desktop programs on your phone requires some tweaking to work.

Yeah, I tried non-google forks, and I couldn’t find my food badda-bam-bam-tisch /s there’s a joke in there about AI ruining dining as well but I digress.

I have actually dabbled in 3rd party ROMs, but the trouble is that, at least in Denmark, I need my phone to be trusted. And unlocking the bootloader breaks the trust. All of a sudden I couldn’t use my phone to sign with the national ID app (mitID), I couldn’t use MobilePay (a ubiquitous Danish venmo-like app) or my banking app, and Netflix started to bitch.

The ID app is especially bad. I use Firefox as my default browser on my android phone. But most implementations of the ID app doesn’t work unless you have chrome as the default. And forget about not having google services running, that breaks all sort of official apps.

What we need is an EU founded android clone, that all government apps must support. Something that doesn’t require an overpriced Pixel phone(I’m looking at you Graphene). No google services, and the user must have admin rights.

An EU regulation, requiring that all phones, tablets and PCs, must make available methods to install an OS of your choice. That’s what we need. That would be a great way to fuck over both Apple, Google, and the US dominance on tech in general.

I suppose it doesn‘t take much to dominate Danish download charts.

I’ll have you know that tens of Danes have smartphones! Even Børge has one, and he still wears clogs to church.

Jokes aside, while it wouldn’t seem impressive numerically, charts are relative. Eg if a population is only 100, having your app downloaded 50 times still means 50% reach.

So it may be insignificant from the app developers POV, but it speaks volumes about the general state of the Danish people’s mind.

We’re talking about a country that were front and center, ruining a lot of men in my generation, when GWB sounded the article 5 bugle after 9/11, went looking for WMD in Iraq, where “made in the USA” was seen as a quality stamp, and where we throughout my childhood have had live TV transmissions from a Danish 4th of July party. It’s in this country, that one of the most downloaded apps is the “fuck America and their stupid brands” app.

FFS we were still buying F35s and negotiating Patriot missile systems after Trump was re-elected and started looking at Greenland like it was a 12 year old girl.

When was that? Based on life events I’ve reconstructed this timeline of my hangout sites

• late 1990s to mid 2000s was slahdot
• around 2006ish digg came into my life and was great for a some years. At least for memes and generic dopamining on funny pictures. I think I hung around until about 2014 or so, while spicing it up with cracked.com
• 2014ish 9GAG started having more of my type of content. After a few years 9GAG became just automated reposts of r/funny, and talking about that got you censored. Kinda like what reddit is doing now.
• 2017ish I switched to reddit, when 9GAG just became too embarrassingly bad.
• july 21st 2023 I started trying to figure out lemmy. BTW u/spez is a pedophile piss baby.

Maybe I was just trailing behind you others. Was I the one to ruin your experience? Why would you accuse me of that you insensitive clod? Anyway, in that case I’ll go eat crayons in the corner and shitpost on .ml

I’m not kidding we (Denmark) just ordered more f35s and are in the process of buying a couple of US electronic surveillance aircraft and patriot systems… Our intelligence services use Palantir for all our personal info btw

Our politicians are still thinking that we can appease the US by funding the US military industrial complex.

Ublock is great for youtube. I got it to block shorts and those weird texts posts. Why would I want to read on yt? YouTube’s for videos, Lemmy’s for text, and Trix are for kids

It’s not Denmark, it’s our PM. She’s a power hungry a-hole who can’t keep power without inciting fear in people. She milked covid for all she could. Then Russia invaded Ukraine and we started donating a lot. I fully support donating military equipment to Ukraine, but I can tell from Danish news media that some of my fellow Danes are starting to drink the Russian “we can’t afford to help Ukraine when our butter is so expensive”-gatorade. So she needs something else now, with parliamentary elections less than a year away, our dear leader has decided to go all in on “won’t somebody think of the children”, “immigration is bad, and all foreigners are immigrants”, and “justice, both in social benefits and crime”

So the tldr on why Denmark is being a totalitarian prick at the moment is, that our PM is a fading star desperately trying to get reelected.

I really don’t know about English in Austria, Poland or Italy. My experience with English in Italy is 30 years ago, but it comes to: nobody speaks English, and very few people tries.

If you want an open minded population, you’re way better off going for a large city, than a specific country. Last time I was in Berlin I found what was described as an English language feminist queer bookstore. I doubt that you’d find that in a picture-esque Toscan town.

Be aware that you’ll need to have some formal training in English grammar and language theory, in order to teach in most cases. You can’t just drop in with a high school diploma and teach English.

Imagine any European suggesting that states seceding from the union be rewarded and the rest punished. It would be so bizarre.

And here I was thinking this was about emacs and lisp. Yougster complaining about not knowing how to quit Vi smh they have never experienced the horrors of emacs

I don’t think that any language is generally worse for emotions than others.

Ruling something out though, without having anything but your own opinions to justify it, seems like scientific misconduct.

But in writing that, I had to search my vocabulary for 15 seconds for “opinion”, and I spend considerably longer to translate “scientific misconduct” without being satisfied.

So I will maintain my hypothesis that speaking a second language, adds an emotional shield by distancing the speaker.

I found myself writing an email to a Norwegian recipient the other day. I wrote in English, despite Danish and Norwegian bokmål being >95% the same.

It waters out our native languages when we do this, and it is, as you say, in favour of bad English. I find even the most English proficient Danish teens lacking in their vocabulary. Pronunciation is good, but they can express themselves.

I’ve given it a fair bit of thought. I think that the kids choose English, because it’s emotionally distancing. Saying something in English doesn’t carry the same weight, as using their mother’s tongue. Simply because they don’t feel the words the same. Occasionally I will catch myself using English for my internal dialogue, especially when I’m thinking about something that causes me emotional distress.

Is this officially the first bad thing to happen to Iceland that isn’t attributed to Denmark? I knew AI was coming to takes all of our jobs, but this is some black mirror level stuff.

That’s the reason I don’t drive a VW ID3. I wanted one, I really really wanted one. But during my test drive, I got a 10s timeout from the display, for apparently tapping too fast while trying to adjust the AC, WTF? And don’t get me started on the stupid mood lighting.

Too bad, it was in my price range, rear wheel drive, 236hp and a decent range. And there’s soo many of them on the roads in my country that spare parts wouldn’t be an issue.

Luckily it looks like some car manufactures have decided to ditch the ginormous look-at-me-I’m-just-like-a-tesla touch-screens. Kia, hyundai and VW at least according to https://www.slashgear.com/1995254/major-automakers-removing-touch-screen-dashboards/