alokir

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[–] alokir 1 points 1 year ago

Also that it's a foreign holiday that was imported to make money and taint our culture.

Some who are more into conspiracy theories also say that they want to push uniformity through American pop culture because "The Jews™" want to make a one world government and enslave everyone.

They say it's anti-Christian because instead of practicing the Christian customs of remembering the dead and praying on this day, kids go out to party dressed as demons.

Source: my neighbor is a far right conspiracy theorist and goes on the same rant about it every year.

[–] alokir 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

Why? Many European countries struggle with not having enough people.

[–] alokir 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No need for shields when you have plot armor

[–] alokir 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Got it. You either remember someone's face or their name, but not both.

[–] alokir 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, that's what I think, too. Orbán seems to jump from far left to far right rhetoric depending on which voter block he wants to pander to, just to stay in power.

I don't think most controversial things that he pushes matters to him as much as power and money, the only thing that I think he's really passionate about is fixing our demographic issues.

[–] alokir 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The funny things is that despite all the nationalistic rhetoric, Orbán would rather build relations with Fico because they're both pro-Russia than the Hungarian minority parties.

[–] alokir 39 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Depends on what you already know.

Functional languages like Haskell, Clojure or Erlang have a reputation of being hard to grasp.

Rust's borrow mechanics are hard for some people at first, especially because it's very unique to the language.

Javascript can be frustrating because it also has some rare features among popular languages, and uses the same keywords for different concepts. It's not bad at all once you let go of your assumptions and dedicate the time to understand how it works under the hood.

C++ is also notorious for being hard but I haven't used it for a very long time so I can't say anything about it.

[–] alokir 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Right, I should have been more specific.

It's a common talking point in my home country that Ukraine and Russia should stop fighting immediately and have peace talks.

But when Russia occupies parts of Ukraine they won't say "yeah, sorry, my bad, we'll leave", they'll want to enforce their demands, which will most likely be territories and/or installing a Russian puppet government.

The problem is not peace talks but doing it right now. Ukraine will have to at least push them back and weaken them first.

It's not a good precedent to let major powers invade their neighbors and be able to immediately get what they want.

[–] alokir 2 points 1 year ago

Honestly, I didn't notice any difference in sound quality, so for me it wasn't worth switching to Tidal. You could try their free trial and see for yourself, maybe you have better ears or headphones than me.

The only hassle was transferring my playlists, but I used an app that did it for me.

[–] alokir 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I used both Spotify and Tidal, I have upper mid range headphones and I couldn't tell the difference in quality.

I'm now using YouTube Music because it costs the same as Spotify (around $4 in my country) but I also get YT Premium, so no YT ads on mobile either. On desktop I'm using an ad blocker, so by having premium I can support the creators that I watch without wasting my time with ads.

[–] alokir 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Probably Typescript, it has so many quality of life features that I miss when I'm using anything else. A close second is C#, Kotlin third.

Rust when performance really matters.

PowerShell when scripting and automating stuff. It's common to hate it because "microsoft bad" but it's very logical and it feels modern. Funnily enough, I've only used it on Mac and Linux.

[–] alokir 4 points 1 year ago

Lies of P got me hooked.

Whenever I see the label "soulslike" I expect a cheap clone that doesn't understand what made DS special and just superficially copies its mechanics.

I didn't expect much going in so I was pleasantly surprised by how good it is.

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