amikke - Network

Jan 28, 2025, 13:15

I like to make fun of usians for using medieval units, but someone just reminded me that the brits measure weight in fucking stones lmao

cavemaxxing

Jan 14, 2025, 14:03

I just realised that the famous ghost buildings in China are literally an IRL analogue to proof-of-work cryptocurrency. People buy the apartments knowing they don't have any practical use, only as a vessel to preserve savings to one day sell to someone else buying them for the same purpose, and their supply is limited by literal work and materials.

They've implemented the most inefficient form of currency known to man, and they don't even have any of the benefits crypto provides.

Jan 14, 2025, 07:42

Half of all new "hits" I hear on the radio are older famous songs with the vocals replaced by some wannabe pop star singing about dancing. If this is the state of the industry, then no wonder they're afraid of AI. It's literally more creative.

Dec 19, 2024, 17:04

This should be mandatory viewing before allowing someone on social media.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnFQd-8ULgM
We've went all the way back to having to tell people to not feed the trolls, except now they feed them literally.

Oct 30, 2024, 13:25

The indent war according to space propoents: tabs vs spaces
The indent war actually: tabs vs 2 spaces vs 4 spaces vs 3 spaces
Damn, if only we had a character that can have its width adjusted to fit one's visual preferences.

Aug 16, 2024, 23:07

https://jimmyhmiller.github.io/ugliest-beautiful-codebase

Aug 13, 2024, 15:00

Jun 12, 2024, 19:59

May 24, 2024, 16:03

The "reinventing trains" crowd when seeing a bus:

> hurhurhur yeah and maybe also connect those "pods" to be more efficient, oh and maybe also put them on some kind of tracks so that they don't need separate drivers.

It's peak internet activism when the loudest proponents of the mode of transportation based entirely on the economy of scale don't understand the economy of scale.

May 13, 2024, 15:33

pronouncing "schizophrenia" with the German "sch"

May 13, 2024, 14:54

Imagine if ESRB ratings worked like YouTube. Four ratings:
1. Fit for babies
2. Adults only 18+
3. You can't make money on it
4. We will hunt you down

May 06, 2024, 18:37

Apr 19, 2024, 15:35

Content warning: rant about the English language

It's unfortunate that the #1 international language ended up being English. With its complete pronunciation anarchy it's impossible to tell someone over writing how to pronounce something, or in some cases even describe a sound, without digging up example words. And even that isn't foolproof since they fail at consistently pronouncing their own language and the same written word can have completely different pronunciation depending on accent.

Every single other European language I know of would be better. Yes, even French, they write 4x what they read, but at least they do it fairly consistently. No "ghoti" situations. No cases where an adult sees a written word and isn't sure how to pronounce it.

In some better timeline the US ended up speaking Spanish and a whole class of worldwide communication problems was avoided.

Apr 18, 2024, 15:21

Apr 09, 2024, 15:31

#tgv #train #meme

Apr 04, 2024, 00:45

Congratulations fedi, I've now seen so many twitter-tier "capitalism bad" takes that "capitalism" is now my second filter ever.

Mar 01, 2024, 10:39

Funny and very good express course to pronouncing written Polish. You might not be able to immediately pronounce it well, but after this video you will know how any given written Polish word or sentence *should* sound. And I mean it, it may be 10 minutes long, but it contains 99+% of knowledge needed to pronounce the entirety of the language.

Also the shade on English letters is 100% deserved lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn1mjIiB9zM

Feb 12, 2024, 16:18

On the topic of amazing instance administration, what was the anarchist-aligned instance the unencrypted database of which got seized by police from an admin's home or something like that?

Feb 12, 2024, 14:13

They set up a queer instance under Afghanistan TLD XD

Feb 12, 2024, 12:24

#meme