Jezza! @jezza@qoto.org
Proper nutter.
Joined Jul 2023
@levisan general reccos, or specifically for autistic people?
@levisan the language count mostly refers to students. They're not citizens, they don't "live here" in any meaningful sense, and they certainly don't contribute to local "culture" in any meaningful sense (that is, it does not effect the locals except to irritate them when someone is attempting to do business through hand signals.)
It might be a more reasonable count if was restricted to people who properly lived here, but then the number goes down precipitously to something less impressive.
I think a reasonable measure would be how much other cultures contribute -- what habits brought in by X bleeed into the population. Not just at the dinner table, but in common speech and habits at home.
For example, do people adopt the bum gun when exposed to it? Do foreign phrases, even translated, become part of local vocabularies? (I picked up "office plankton" from Russians to describe the infinitely replaceable and mostly useless office workers that inhabit cubicles and reception desks.)
@levisan literally this. A lot of people here have the pretense that this town is a world cultural mecca, so when I ask for a few examples of how, inevitably the fact that several restaurants sell ridiculously overpriced rice and gravy comes up as a primary supporting argument. (Others might include, "look, a man in arab garb!" or in rhetorical form, "do you know how many languages are spoken here?!")
We need a term for this. Something like "Spice whores" but possibly nicer?
@progo that's not the point in the first place. It's the first step on a path that ends with biometric authentication to use computers and services, the lookup and validation of which will effectively be a central log of what people are doing.
@levisan i'm pro flame-thrower, myself.
@levisan shooting or otherwise executing those responsible for the unjust option is probably a better choice.
@levisan it's a very slick, minimal presentation. Certainly caught my eye!
I'm more of a bliki type. I like dokuwiki as a base engine.
@levisan what's the software behind the digital garden?
@levisan goes back to the old Prussian higher education system. What's wild is this many smart people haven't figured out how to band together and overcome it. Perhaps because they're not actually that smart.
@levisan and cut into the profit margin that comes with being distantly compared to champagne? Imagine the consumer price difference expectation if they packaged it in cans...
@levisan it's kinda ironic that we have browser defaults for exactly this kind of presentation, yet, you basically never see anything that looks like a simple document.
@levisan i made a comment to that effect once, and promptly got removed from the job. Turned out that the site was designed by the owner, and he thought it was perfect.
There are all kinds of retarded reasons why things don't get updated, and laziness is just one of them.
For me, unexciting, clean, Bauhausy modernism that gets straight to the point and underlines the key value propsitions and services of the organization or person is a design goal.
Some clients appreciate this, others see a lack of 5meg stock pictures of multiculti hipsters drinking coffee with yesteryear's laptop and feel that something important is missing.
@levisan the original olympics were a sort of festival for Zeus. The olympics as reconstituted are a globalist function. They are precisely about nations, founded as the (keyword first:) International Olympic Committee in the late 19th century.
As the olympics sweeps through a city, billions are pissed away on athletic facilities that will likely never be used again, and as much again on 1984-ish security architecture that will. It's at least as corrupt as FIFA, and a feeding trough for favored contractors and agencies.
By point:
1. Not all countries support or organize all the same sports, so the programs of various countries get to play on the world stage so long as they play at the best level of their nation.
Olympic standards, in turn, often become national standards (hence 25m and 50m pools around the world.)
2. No it wasn't. Judges (and referees) are absolutely necessary to deal with corner cases and close calls. Subjective issues like ice skating performance require the insight of experienced skaters and judges to be ranked. Olympic events resolve in rankings, not participation trophies.
3. That defeats the purpose of national representation and the vision of the IOC. It's about globalism, representing nations as participants in a single global platform, like the UN and other global organizations.
@levisan mostly because it would be under a single point of control. Modern digital currencies are not simply mediums of exchange, but also, regulation. Eg, you can only spend it on category X, but not category Y and Z. If you don't spend it by date, it evaporates. And of course, every transaction, globally, could be centrally monitored.
Those are important ingredients for hypothetical global totalitarianism.
take your dick home, @levisan !
@levisan maybe you've got better whippersnappers than others. You have whippersnapper privilege!
@levisan those communities are designed for older people: one storey buildings with minimal flat thresholds on the doors, community services to cover what old people increasingly cannot (lawn, snow clearing, exterior maintenance of the home).
Excluding younger people limits parties, crazy drivers, and people out of step with the rhythm of life of retirees.
No booming house/car stereos, no skateboarders / scooter riders to wipe out driving... and obvious indications that someone doesn't belong in the neighborhood.
Proper nutter.
Joined Jul 2023
