TheMadCodger

Hygge became too popular so that’s started making it’s way into English. Hopefully that one sticks around. The pronunciation will never be correct though. Nisse sounds awesome though.

What’s the difference between a Låve and a Fjøs?

That’s what English does. Why do you think OP is asking?

A few I’ve acquired over the years.

• “At this point, you can only impress me.”
• “My opinion of you can only go up from here”
• “The bar was on the ground and you brought a shovel.”
• Unencumbered by the thought process.
• “You’re the reason we have warning labels.”
• “They only got two brain cells and both of them are fighting for third place.”
• “It’s impossible to underestimate you.”
• “If you were half as smart as you think you are, you’d be twice as smart as you really are.”
• “If you ever had a clever thought, it died alone and afraid.”
• “They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.”
• “He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.” - Abraham Lincoln
• “May I ask what’s on your mind, if you’ll forgive the overstatement?”
• “You could hide your own Easter eggs.”
• “I can explain it again, if you’d like, but I can’t understand for you.”
• “He is a modest man with much to be modest about.”
• “I would agree with you but then we would both be wrong”

Okay, a simple ‘wrong’ would have done just fine…

Unlike Reddit where you can lurk because there’s so much noise already, it’s quieter here and you get out of it what you put into it. If someone is an ass, block them; you don’t owe them anything.

Lemmy is the most well known, but there’s also piefed and mbin (I’m on piefed) and they all interact with each other (or we couldn’t be talking). Maybe check them out and see if you like one of the others better.

Karma never mattered, but doubly so here.

I know at the end of the day it doesn’t really matter, but it always rubbed me the wrong way when Europeans claim that The Americas are one continent because it’s one connected landmass, but somehow Europe is it’s own continent. North/South America at least came from different super continents and only recently collided. Europe (minus the Balkans) and Asia (minus Arabian and Indian peninsulas) have been together since at least Pangaea.

Really? You know the Waterman? Have you seen the 1909 Cahill map it’s based…

Isn’t Africa connected to Eurasia? So we have the Americas and AfroEurasia plus some islands. Which is why “continents” has no meaning and is another social construct unless you divide them in a way that makes zero sense to anyone who isn’t a geologist.

Yeah, I get that.And it’s not so much that these features are important, so much as I just forget to participate. 😅

It’s not a knock-off, it’s an intentional misdirect. President Grover Cleveland and Congress wanted a workers’ holiday that wasn’t associated with the radical, socialist-flavoured May Day, so they went with the safer, domesticated Knights of Labor version instead.

Oof, I used to be better. I didn’t realise it was timed, and and number of them I knew but couldn’t spell.

1132418!

Maybe it was just the server I tried, but I could never get it to work. Or maybe I configured it wrong 🤷🏼‍♂️

How’s mobile support?

How many digits is your id?

My problem with irc was not remembering to connect and it not being persistent, so when I did show up it’d be empty unless it just happened to be in the middle of others talking. But I did want to get into it.

Live every week like it’s shark week.

Sleepless in Seattle

I only just started dabbling in Bluesky. I like that your username is federated, which meant I’m using Bluesky without a Bluesky account, since I signed up elsewhere first.

It’s definitely a lot more popular than Masto, et al, which isn’t always a good thing. Sure there’s all the famous people, but it makes it harder to find real people to follow. Or at least for me.

I have enjoyed the For You tab though.

One of my favourite f-droid apps is droid-ify, which markets itself as a clutter-free f-droid client. So, I use that instead of f-droid itself.

Upvote for Magritte reference.