gjoel

What do you intend to take macro photos of? I have the canon EF 100 f/2.8 and it's pretty versatile, not to mention a pretty good choice for portraits (although on a crop sensor you do get a bit far away). For macro a little distance is good so you don't block the light or, if that's your deal, scare off the insects.

Lemmy is kinda rat related, so the feature of collecting multiple communities together, say, by tying their tails together, could be described as rat kings.

"Resynthesizer is a Gimp plug-in for texture synthesis. Given a sample of a texture, it can create more of that texture. This has a surprising number of uses: Creating more of a texture. (including creation of tileable textures)"

In case you, like I, didn't know.

Genius, why didn't anyone else think of doing that? Absolutely brilliant, world class mind on that one!

Denmark has dba, den blå avis (used to be a news paper of sorts where you could trade). Owned by ebay. We also have a bunch of other services like Reshopper for everything baby related and gul og gratis which paradoxically is neither gul (yellow) nor gratis.

Citation Needed.

The Støvle Dance is from an old Danish Christmas show. My daughter just got super into it. https://youtu.be/Lhka0pjBzAQ?si=1PC_Yd00lU_x3zWk it is a mix of Danish and English.

Det jul det cool is an even older rap Christmas song about the commercialization of Christmas. They didn't expect it to get any kind of traction so they just sampled some music without caring about the rights. It has been included in all Danish Christmas music collections since the 80ies. They don't collect royalties, the band they sampled from do. https://youtu.be/FuyKWtF5aqU?si=C2wkvpaKIkvnoV2V

Or convince him he's rich, I guess. He just pardoned a bunch of rich despicable people.

Silo - I like it, suspenseful mystery sci fi.

Pantheon - Saw first episode. Sci fi cartoon, looks interesting. It managed to keep me watching. :)

Skeleton crew - Star Wars for kids. Slightly ridiculous in that kids show way, but probably amazing for the target audience. Pretty interesting for me.

I think this is a much more useful strategy for convincing people to change. If someone like I did, mentions they aren't happy about, for instance, pronouns, then people start lashing out. I might have had a conversation on this, but honestly the tone in some of the responses isn't likely to convince me to listen. Even when I start out saying I'm going to end up on the losing side of this.

Language evolves because people force it to.

Sometimes, yes, often, no. New slang is naturally picked up and often makes it into the common vernacular, not because people are forcing other people to use it, but because people voluntarily start using. The same goes for loan words. The enter the language, and sometimes get mutated over time in that particular language. When "tablet" became popular someone tried to pick a Danish word for it, but it didn't stick. Same goes for many other computer-related words, which ended up just being the English word.

But, if you choose not to respect the wishes of others, you will suffer consequences.

This is the aggressive attitude that immediately makes me reluctant to adhere to any special pronouns people may choose. I don't know if you meant this as a lightly veiled threat, but people can become very aggressive if you "misgender" people.

The reason some languages have a gender binary is often because that society forced a gender binary on people to control them.

I haven't heard this before, do you have some reading material I can explore?

Inventing entirely new pronouns is no more ridiculous than inventing yet another television show character or yet another tiktok dance craze or yet another romance novel or yet another $15/month subscription service that does the same things other service do or writing yet another magazine column.

I would tentatively agree, if not for the fact that "the consequences" you mentioned above for ignoring any of these things are that I don't have to suffer them. The consequences for misgendering Elliot Page is ostracization, even if he isn't in the conversation or likely to ever hear about any conversation I will ever have about him.

Where you put your effort shows you what you care about.

That is true. And I really don't care that much about trans people. I want them to live a life without oppression with the same freedoms I have, but aside from that I care as much about them as do about the guy who lives in the apartment down the street, whom I've never met. And to that end, I think there are things that are reasonable to request from others in society, and I think there are things that are not. And changing the language for them I don't find reasonable, just like I would ask anyone to change the language for me, and shame them if they didn't. In the same vein, if people are so horrified about trans people using the wrong bathroom, just stop gendering them. To me, the only reason why we gender them anyway is because men take their bits out in front of everyone, so if we remove that part, they are virtually identical.

Pronouns. I get that they matter a lot to some people, and of course it's super annoying (if not worse) to be referred to in the wrong way, but I find it unreasonable to demand being referred to something outside of the gender binary, simply because that's the way language works.

I am aware that English has used "they" for a person of unknown gender for ages, but for one, I don't think it's something that you should demand people call you when they actually know your gender, but also I really hate that this is making its way into other languages like my own, that has never had this convention. Inventing entirely new pronouns is just ridiculous, I have a hard enough time to remember your name.

I am also aware that language evolves, but this is not evolution, it's forced, and if one group of people can try to force a change they prefer, I'm as much in my right to resist it if I don't like it.

People are super passionate about this though and in fifty years I'm sure I'll be seen as a fossil for not getting with the times now - in fact I'm sure certain people see me like this now.