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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@Gearhead said in In other news today...:
@jinpa Thank you. I have lurked long before my first posting and reading WTF posts has been great. In the old days, the custom was to lurk and understand before posting. Is this not still true? In my lurking time, I think I understood a few: , and . The first means "I'm too lazy to check" and the second means "Cheers", no? If so or not, thank you!
:tro**** generally are used as substitutes for , due to them coming up as auto-complete options when you start typing the latter. Personally I kind of use in the trolling cases where I'd use rooSip or similar emotes on Twitch.
Yeah. There's also my favorite or . We're...full of inside jokes here. Most of them bad. And the rest we've forgotten why they started. But welcome! @Gearhead I mean, not @izzion. You've been here for a while.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
But welcome! @Gearhead I mean, not @izzion. You've been here for a while.
Yeah, @izzion's been here long enough to know we don't really welcome anybody. At best, we tolerate them.
Filed under: Misanthropists 'R' We
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@Gearhead said in In other news today...:
@jinpa Thank you. I have lurked long before my first posting and reading WTF posts has been great. In the old days, the custom was to lurk and understand before posting. Is this not still true? In my lurking time, I think I understood a few: , and . The first means "I'm too lazy to check" and the second means "Cheers", no? If so or not, thank you!
Hmmmmm I always interpreted as starting daytime drinking. I'm now a little disappointed in the forums ditizens.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I'm now a little disappointed in the forums ditizens.
The feeling's mutual
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
starting daytime drinking
Starting? That would imply that it wasn't done before. That's disappointing.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@Gearhead said in In other news today...:
@jinpa Thank you. I have lurked long before my first posting and reading WTF posts has been great. In the old days, the custom was to lurk and understand before posting. Is this not still true? In my lurking time, I think I understood a few: , and . The first means "I'm too lazy to check" and the second means "Cheers", no? If so or not, thank you!
Hmmmmm I always interpreted as starting daytime drinking. I'm now a little disappointed in the forums ditizens.
Having to write my trolling in language y'all would understand requires daytime drinking
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@izzion There is a denizen here known for his posts bordering on incomprehensibility. In his early days, that was not so much true, and he pondered if one could have a forum where the requirement was that you be drunk when posting.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
if one could have a forum where the requirement was that you be drunk when posting.
thedailywtf.ie
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
There is a denizen here known for his posts bordering on incomprehensibility.
Bordering? His posts are like the capitol city of incomprehensibility.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
if one could have a forum where the requirement was that you be drunk when posting.
thedailywtf.ie
I could squat that but most of the providers charge extra for whois privacy. Bite my ass.
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@Gearhead said in In other news today...:
@jinpa Thank you. I have lurked long before my first posting and reading WTF posts has been great. In the old days, the custom was to lurk and understand before posting. Is this not still true? In my lurking time, I think I understood a few: , and . The first means "I'm too lazy to check" and the second means "Cheers", no? If so or not, thank you!
Loosely speaking, I consider/interpret -derived one’s for political-adjacent trollery, -like one’s for personal trollery, and // variations (with different nuance) of trolling about the topic at hand, e.g. “windows, your files are were you left them”.
Of course, these are just my opinions and not
my employer’spolicy.
And the rules, well, as we say around here…
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
There is a denizen here known for his posts bordering on incomprehensibility.
Bordering? His posts are like the capitol city of incomprehensibility.
However, yon city is entirely constructed of borders, so far at least as can be comprehended.
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MindGeek — owner of several adult entertainment sites, including Pornhub, Brazzers and Redtube — was acquired by a Canadian private equity firm, Ethical Capital Partners (ECP).
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@DogsB There is nothing unethical on porn (). Unlike some more meta endeavours ().
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
There is nothing unethical on porn ().
Yikes, what have I been watching then.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
I hope we'll get some material for the front page of TDWTF.
The / answer, of course, being to ask him why he hasn't done that for Tesla already.
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@remi Same answer
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Was a candidate for the First World Problems thread, but I couldn't find it.
I've seen Japanese comic series with the premise that their government started to force the young people into arranged marriages because of the low birthrate problem. Or otherwise mandatorily matchmake. But that seems like an overly complicated solution. I mean, they could just ban contraceptives instead, and nature takes care of the rest.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Was a candidate for the First World Problems thread, but I couldn't find it.
I've seen Japanese comic series with the premise that their government started to force the young people into arranged marriages because of the low birthrate problem. Or otherwise mandatorily matchmake. But that seems like an overly complicated solution. I mean, they could just ban contraceptives instead, and nature takes care of the rest.
I'm not sure that I can approve of any policy that would produce more weebs.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Was a candidate for the First World Problems thread, but I couldn't find it.
I've seen Japanese comic series with the premise that their government started to force the young people into arranged marriages because of the low birthrate problem. Or otherwise mandatorily matchmake. But that seems like an overly complicated solution. I mean, they could just ban contraceptives instead, and nature takes care of the rest.
They've been fighting it for at least a couple of decades.
But that article is a bit... Odd...
Shit like:Japan is one of the oldest, most historic, and most interesting countries in the world.
Might make sense from a US perspective, but... Most places in the world have some deep historical roots, and if you scratch the surface you'll find lots of interesting history and culture.
Or using urbanization to tell the story of population collapse. Sure, it's a problem, but it's not particularly linked to the population collapse. Urbanization has been going on since before the industrialization, and population collapse is a lot more recent than that. But I guess urbanization makes for a starker picture.
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@Carnage What applies to Japan applies to a lot of places, the birthrate issue included. Japan is just a bit ahead of the curve. And they haven't tried to fix it via immigration.
An earlier article that, instead of a village in the boonies, used ghost neighborhoods in the city suburbs to illustrate the point, came across a lot better. But that was some time ago. And this is what I came across today.
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And here's @Dragoon with the long-awaited new season of In Science News Today...
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
I hope we'll get some material for the front page of TDWTF.
That's an interesting date. I'd have expected the announced date to be a day later.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
I mean, they could just ban contraceptives instead, and nature takes care of the rest.
Not necessarily; a big part of the problem, both in Japan and in other Western nations, is not that people are having too much sex with contraception but rather that too many people are simply not having sex (or more broadly speaking, socializing) at all.
If you want to look at things to ban to fix this, contraceptives might help, but much higher up the list would be pornography and social media.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
I hope we'll get some material for the front page of TDWTF.
That's an interesting date. I'd have expected the announced date to be a day later.
Maybe that's deliberate: one day later is when the bug reports will start to show up...
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
And here's @Dragoon with the long-awaited new season of In Science News Today...
My brain being set in permanent contrarian mode, several useful Swedish words instantly popped into my head when I read
The initial study revealed that swear words were less likely to include approximants, which include sounds like l, r, w and y.
Such as slyna, hordjävlar and similar. To note, v and w are the same in Swedish.
But I've also been told that Swedish is a poor language for cursing.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
I mean, they could just ban contraceptives instead, and nature takes care of the rest.
Not necessarily; a big part of the problem, both in Japan and in other Western nations, is not that people are having too much sex with contraception but rather that too many people are simply not having sex (or more broadly speaking, socializing) at all.
If you want to look at things to ban to fix this, contraceptives might help, but much higher up the list would be pornography and social media.
And banning overtime would probably also be a good start, and shitty foods.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Swedish is a poor language
for cursing.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
a poor language for cursing.
There is a scene in one Czech movie where some Japanese buddies are sitting at home, it's pissing outside, and one of them is saying that Japanese does not have good curses, and that saying “fucking weather” has much better ring to it, and they start chanting “fucking weather”. At the same time above them the Enola Gay is approaching and the pilot says “Fucking weather, I can't find the town. What's our secondary? Hiroshima? Let's try there”¹.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
too many people are simply not having sex (or more broadly speaking, socializing) at all
Eh. That's something that's always been. No matter the era, there's always been a part of the population that just won't reproduce. And there's always been a part that can't keep their pants on, breeding like rabbits. The two tend to offset each other. Until now.
ban [...] pornography and social media
On the bright side, those are likely to be the first victims when the economic collapse happens. They both run on marketing money.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
too many people are simply not having sex (or more broadly speaking, socializing) at all
Eh. That's something that's always been. No matter the era, there's always been a part of the population that just won't reproduce. And there's always been a part that can't keep their pants on, breeding like rabbits. The two tend to offset each other. Until now.
ban [...] pornography and social media
On the bright side, those are likely to be the first victims when the economic collapse happens. They both run on marketing money.
Porn will just go back to costing money, and having lots of it available illicitly.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
too many people are simply not having sex (or more broadly speaking, socializing) at all
Eh. That's something that's always been. No matter the era, there's always been a part of the population that just won't reproduce. And there's always been a part that can't keep their pants on, breeding like rabbits. The two tend to offset each other. Until now.
ban [...] pornography and social media
On the bright side, those are likely to be the first victims when the economic collapse happens. They both run on marketing money.
Porn will just go back to costing money, and having lots of it available illicitly.
Of course. But if history is anything to go by, that's a sufficient barrier.
Having to learn how to torrent was a barrier to a lot of people, as unbelievable as that sounds. And not because they couldn't learn; it was never exactly rocket science. But simply for .
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@Carnage Depends on the amount of collapse. This is WTDWTF, so it could be burned out buildings, two-headed cows roaming the glowing wastes and you holding a pipe rifle with 7 bullets in your pocket scrounging for scrap metal
and another settlement needs your help
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@Carnage Depends on the amount of collapse. This is WTDWTF, so it could be burned out buildings, two-headed cows roaming the glowing wastes and you holding a pipe rifle with 7 bullets in your pocket scrounging for scrap metal
and another settlement needs your helpI'm not leaving the house in that kind of weather.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
it could be burned out buildings, two-headed cows roaming the glowing wastes and you holding a pipe rifle with 7 bullets in your pocket scrounging for scrap metal
and another settlement needs your helpand it still would be less fucked up than working in IT
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Japan is just a bit ahead of the curve. And they haven't tried to fix it via immigration.
The last point is the real thing. When Germany "imported" millions of foreign workers in the 1960ies, they were officially expected to leave the country just a couple of years later - "Gastarbeiter" = "guest workers", instead of immigrants. But they stayed, and brought family members and friends.
Later on, immigration was mainly by "seeking asylum", and many people were just "tolerated" though their asylum claims were rejected.
When you look at the youngest generation in Germany, you'll see that for most kids at least one parent is not a native German. So yes: it is immigration which prevents the population collapse of Germany.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
I mean, they could just ban contraceptives instead, and nature takes care of the rest.
Not necessarily; a big part of the problem, both in Japan and in other Western nations, is not that people are having too much sex with contraception but rather that too many people are simply not having sex (or more broadly speaking, socializing) at all.
If you want to look at things to ban to fix this, contraceptives might help, but much higher up the list would be pornography and social media.
And banning overtime would probably also be a good start, and shitty foods.
Yeah, someone needs to tell the weebs that real waifus are cheaper than virtual waifus.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
I mean, they could just ban contraceptives instead, and nature takes care of the rest.
Not necessarily; a big part of the problem, both in Japan and in other Western nations, is not that people are having too much sex with contraception but rather that too many people are simply not having sex (or more broadly speaking, socializing) at all.
If you want to look at things to ban to fix this, contraceptives might help, but much higher up the list would be pornography and social media.
And banning overtime would probably also be a good start, and shitty foods.
Yeah, someone needs to tell the weebs that real waifus are cheaper than virtual waifus.
There are other benefits. The virtual waifu will thank you for saving her from virtual space pirates. Real ones do not.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Was a candidate for the First World Problems thread, but I couldn't find it.
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/13533/the-official-first-world-problems-thread
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
I mean, they could just ban contraceptives instead, and nature takes care of the rest.
Not necessarily; a big part of the problem, both in Japan and in other Western nations, is not that people are having too much sex with contraception but rather that too many people are simply not having sex (or more broadly speaking, socializing) at all.
If you want to look at things to ban to fix this, contraceptives might help, but much higher up the list would be pornography and social media.
And banning overtime would probably also be a good start, and shitty foods.
Yeah, someone needs to tell the weebs that real waifus are cheaper than virtual waifus.
There are other benefits. The virtual waifu will thank you for saving her from virtual space pirates. Real ones do not.
If she keeps getting kidnapped by space pirates...
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Good eating on a rabbit that size.
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@DogsB not just any 15 pound rabbit. A giant 15 pound rabbit.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@DogsB not just any 15 pound rabbit. A giant 15 pound rabbit.
I mean, that's the name of the breed so
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
I mean, they could just ban contraceptives instead, and nature takes care of the rest.
Not necessarily; a big part of the problem, both in Japan and in other Western nations, is not that people are having too much sex with contraception but rather that too many people are simply not having sex (or more broadly speaking, socializing) at all.
If you want to look at things to ban to fix this, contraceptives might help, but much higher up the list would be pornography and social media.
And banning overtime would probably also be a good start, and shitty foods.
Yeah, someone needs to tell the weebs that real waifus are cheaper than virtual waifus.
There are other benefits. The virtual waifu will thank you for saving her from virtual space pirates. Real ones do not.
If she keeps getting kidnapped by space pirates...
In other news!
Good eating on a rabbit that size.
Didn't @Luhmann show a photo of such a beast somewhere here?
And, btw, European will use any units in order not to use imperial units:
"roughly the size of small dog"
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@BernieTheBernie I was thinking of that thread but disallowed it because they stuck to kg in the headline and the rest of the article. If they had a tweet without kg I would have used that.
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We assisted in rescuing him on behalf of the ambulance using a turn-table ladder and a line rescue system.
He was then treated by the ambulance.
I have many questions and they don't even relate to the car stuck in the alley.