Notices by clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de), page 50

It's very cool and Singaporean that they even mix in Hokkien in the Mandarin lyrics!

In most of the Chinese language space people treat different Chinese languages as if they're just different pronounciations, I pronounce it like this, you like that, but it's the "same word", but in Singapore people seem more aware of different Chinese cultural contexts and connotations. "Heng ong huat" is a particular phrase that has to be said in Hokkien, as the equivalent words are not an expression in Mandarin (?).

I can't easily find exactly what the words "heng ong huat" mean etymologically, the hits I get online are very superficial and pragmatic and don't even mention the Chinese characters. It's not simply "gung hei faat choi" ("gong xi fa cai") pronounced in Hokkien, that would be "kiong-hí hoat-châi".

@Elias Mårtenson

@Elias Mårtenson Oh! It's the "faat" of "gung hei faat choi"! Very topical for the New Year.

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/恭喜

@Elias Mårtenson Very cool, thank you!

TIL Tamil is the most common (>50%) Indian-heritage language in Singapore.

Behind the Scenes:

farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

youtube.com/watch?v=dJuXsmH9Vv…

Love reading all the excited comments in Singaporean English. 😊

Kid is playing this absolute banger on repeat:

"As Long As You Huat"

farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

youtube.com/watch?v=FcvKzn3n51…

It's a Chinese New Year's dance beat made by the Singaporean comedy collective that makes the YouTube series "JianHao" about school life in Singapore.

It's sponsored by supermarket (?) Great and they're singing about spending their stimulus money there. 😊
【As Long As You Huat】- TITAN 2024 新年歌 (Official Music Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcvKzn3n514&t=202

@Becky I have two hypotheses for a mechanism, I believe both may be true and mutually reinforcing:

- "saying the SQL seems unnecessary" (true) "so I'll just say the postgre" (incorrect, but understandable (yet still annoying))
- "postgres looks French, I'll pronounce it in French" (especially as I work in a French company)

I'm happy with my current workplace. It's a big corporation and has all the rigidity that comes with it, but for a big corporation there is a sincere and generally succesful ambition coming all the way from the top and supported from the bottom to value employees of all kinds, combine responsibilities with the influence to fulfill those responsibilites, provide reasonable salaries and provide excellent insurance and work-life balance.

The one cultural trait in this company I can never get over is that everyone pronounces "PostgreSQL" "postgrey" rather than "postgres".

While writing libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-8… I went looking up the correct way to split and capitalize "Time Cube", and that ended up with me watching an interview with the man himself.

I hadn't heard him speak before.

He sounds like his website.

I had an ice cream cone during lunch, my first in months. Just a standard packaged ice cream cone from the convenience store freezer.

Ice cream cones are *so good*. It's magic. I will enjoy the aftertaste for hours.

Some people also think they broke up, so how will they have babies now, how will there be a Leto II.

People, people, she showed that she was angry and then left the room. That's it. How fragile are your relationships?

@Paul

@Paul Their response to that is "[being a contrarian is no more a sign of agency than being supportive]".

I think the movie could have been more clear. Lots of people seem to interpret it as her not understanding that the marriage to Irulan is purely political, and she's just jealous and throwing a tantrum. I think it's clear that she's smart and thoughtful, not impulsive.

Paul thinks going deeper into messianism and imperial intrigue is the only way to protect the Fremen and get revenge for his House, and she thinks that's bullshit and that the power has gone to his head.

They're both right, of course.