Notices by 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social), page 7

@Ricardus My cat is a thoroughbred and is extremely domesticated. It's a bit like owning a dog. I didn't expect that at all when I got him and tried to raise him like a cat, which didn't work. Kind of wish I had known before paying $1000 for him. Yes, I love him, but he's a challenge...

@Ricardus It used to be hard for me to hear the difference between black singers and white singers because, by the time I was born, every white singer had adopted the vocal techniques of black singers. It's like watching Seinfeld and not laughing because everything in Seinfeld has been copied a million times since.

@Ricardus I probably should've mentioned that this is a bit of a look back at what I thought when I was 8, 12, 16 years old. I spent a lot of time learning about the history of music as I got older. This toot was sparked by me coming across the Andrews Sisters and learning that Elvis was apparently a fan of them, which prompted me to listen to a few early Elvis tracks. The more I learn about American culture, the blacker Elvis sounds in those recordings.

I haven't actually run into a single other person on the Internet whose real first name is Thor. Even in real life, I'm usually the only Thor around. The modern spelling Tor is more common in Norway, but usually, that name is hyphenated with another name—Tor-Egil, Tor-Kjetil, Tor-Erling, etc.—and that's the name they go by. I have a middle name, however: Harald (English: Harold)
No hyphen in my case, so I usually go by Thor alone, and that's they way I've always liked it.

I haven't actually run into a single other person on the Internet whose real first name is Thor. Even in real life, I'm usually the only Thor around. The modern spelling Tor is more common in Norway, but usually, that name is hyphenated with another name—Tor-Egil, Tor-Kjetil, Tor-Erling, etc.—and that's the name they go by. I have a middle name, however: Harald (English: Harold)
No hyphen in my case, so I usually go by Thor alone, and that's they way I've always liked it.

Should I ever get very bored, I will write a bot that searches for all occurrences of my first name on the Fediverse so I can chime in personally.

@toilettrouble Waste of a perfectly good hammer, if you ask this Norseman.

@skypage That is increasingly true of C++ too.

Roy Disney: Well, Pinocchio was a flop. A wooden doll that comes alive? Why, that's as dumb of an idea as educating Americans about European high culture with dancing hippos!

Walt Disney: What did you just say?

Roy: Uhh...

Walt: Dancing hippos? Roy, you're a genius! *runs off*

Roy: Oh no, not again...

@skypage Man, I used to be so heavily into strongly typed languages and OOP, but now I just want less mental overhead.

@skypage That's one reason I didn't like TypeScript very much. I also don't find myself writing a great number of actual classes anymore. I mostly create ad-hoc data structures, and you know what? It works fine and is easier than all the formalities... Even with type checked languages, you have to check the format of your external data or at least use a try-catch block to issue a proper error message for it, so...

@skypage Funny thing is that now I'm actually annoyed when I have to declare types or classes.

@skypage JavaScript development is split into many tribes at the moment, but the scene is so huge that each tribe has its own viable ecosystem. Those who compile other languages into WebAssembly aren't likely to dominate. They'll just form another tribe.

@skypage You don't see Scala much in the wild, though... Isn't a big point of Scala, just like Clojure, that you can call Java libraries if you need stuff that hasn't got a Scala implementation? Not too convenient if you change the build target to JavaScript, since nothing that depends on Java would work anymore. I mean, while the idea of alternative languages on the web is a nice one, I suspect it won't easily catch on.

@EdS @hil That text pushes it further than most modern Germanic languages do. Even in Norwegian, it's "hydrogen", not "solstoff". There are some instances, though. Oxygen given medically is called "surstoff" and carbon dioxide is called kullsyre (coal acid). Fuel is called drivstoff (drivestuff), a letter (symbol) is called a bokstav (bookstaff), and so on...

Elvis was basically a bit of a rhythm and blues weaboo that Sam Philips decided to use as a promoter of black music to white teenagers.

I used to just think of Elvis as a guy with a weird voice and funny costume who was famous for no obvious reason, and that one song, Jailhouse Rock, that somehow still sounded cool despite its age.

What I didn't know was that white people didn't invent rock'n'roll, and that Elvis was the reason it became mainstream among whites in the first place.

There are only two professions: "Service", mainly concerned with handling humans, and "other", mainly concerned with handling that which is not human. If you prefer kissing, touching, wiping, decorating, transporting or managing arse, you want to work in "service".

If that doesn't sound good to you, you want to work in "other". Note: You will have to assist the "service" people with their arse business.

If none of this sounds good to you, you're welcome to put a bullet in your head.

@Reinderdijkhuis There's usually a picture setting for that.

@Deiru @koyu Parts cost for both systems: $120

I think I too would get pretty annoyed at journalists asking the same predictable questions again and again. Where other politicians give non-answers and non-apologies, Trump gives the finger.

I'm not a fan of his policies, but if you ignore the gravity of the situation for a moment, the guy is hilarious. It's like giving a New York taxi driver the keys to the oval office.

- Did you collude with the Russians?
- Fuck you!
- Did you grab that woman by the pussy?
- Fuck you!
- Did...
- Fuck you!