In Norway, even though we have a lot of larger SUV’s driving around, being caught on mobile is very pricy and police controls are very regular.

Congratulation to the writer of Ready, Player One to costing the Zuccer $77bn

Voyager, why? Is the formatting all messed up??

“Isolationism FTW!”

“Wait, why are we being isolated??”

Still they don’t want it.

Back in my youth when I ruined my teeth by drinking 5-6 liters of Coca Cola a day, I could smell if a bottle was three or less months from expiration date, or if it was fresher.

Humans are a social animal, and no artificial presences will ever be able to exchange actual human interaction in any way.

If you are stuck in an echo chamber claiming otherwise, that seems outright unhealthy. Connect with people to connect with yourself. Nothing is worse for mental health that always getting it confirmed and never challanged, which is what makes AI so dangerous for mental health.

Wow, that sounds like shit. I use YouTube to sleep, though on Librefox with UBO and mostly the channel Good Sleepy Knight or longer talks.

Good thing with GSK is that their 7 hour static after 1 hour story seems legit and is, if anything, a confirmation to go back to sleep unless my lights have turned on if I wake up at night and hear it, and chill and real enough that I can focus on it to fall asleep easily again, without being too much to wake me up more.

And always remember, family are the friends you never chose, and nothing commands you to keep them around. Surround yourself with people you enjoy and that enjoy you. Life is too short to suffer time with people you don’t want to be with.

Water flows better than blood.

“Normal” is an average, meaning almost all people are on either side of that middle ground.

Word for word, ‘met betrekking tot’ is directly something like ‘med betraktning for’ = ‘with consideration towards’ in modern language, while the modern Norwegian version of the same is ‘med tanke på’ = ‘with thought on’.

Meaning the same, but the old one sounds archaic, from the time when Norwegian had formal and informal language, like most languages still has, but that somehow disappeared gradually after the war, to the degree that we now often sound rude.

The abbreviation written out, my translation would have been word for word, and not guesswork. I know Dutch and Norwegian are very similar grammatically, so I’d assume it is the same in that using just the word for ‘regarding’ would just not make any grammatical sense, hence why we have the acronym. Simplification without simplifying anything, now that is efficient simplicity.

Sitting on my lap, having accepted our football playing and other games as an apology for me having worked all day.

The difference between grammatical and literal translations is always so funny. Here, let me explain:

Dutch: geef me een klap papa

Norwegian literal: gi meg en klapp, pappa

Nor to English literal: give me a clap, dad

Norwegian situational; smekk meg, far 😏

Nor to English literal: smack me, father 😏

That was the one. I read the mbt as a similar acronym as in Norwegian, mtp, meaning ‘in regards to’.

Gen Z has energies like millennial had astrology

Best block ever for enjoying Lemmy, combined with as much US politics based as possible.

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Started reading “Young lad” in the melody. Third word disappointed. Will go back to reading the rest now, just wanted to share my experience so far.

As a Norwegian, I understood all but one word.