internationale Erika3sis • 1d ago • 100%

Proziekt "Hexbernés"

*Hexbernés* (ja *Tankés*) — Hexbear.net s'n pidzin jenzik. Hexbernés ni perati koto s'n reglapraili wa: 1. Inglés ni peranaide. 2. Ponimati koto dekiru zjo, kore wa hexbernés s'n perapera. ::: spoiler Ôrsiet / Translation *Hexbearnese* (or *Tankese*) — Hexbear.net's pidgin language. The rules of speaking Hexbearnese are: 1. Do not speak English. 2. If you manage to be understood, this constitutes fluency in Hexbearnese. ::: ___ Annù: Hitno wa Erika to nazwati. Ditno wa?

anime Erika3sis • 2d ago • 100%

"Phone Case" by Snowiicat / Nichijou fan art

^アモガス^

main Erika3sis • 2d ago • 100%

[rant] I am so tired of this ad for eggs

The alternate YT frontends on my PC stopped working for a while and I couldn't get my adblocker to work on YT so I just endured the ads for a while, and while really *all* the ads are profoundly annoying, *this one* annoyed me especially. ::: spoiler Transcript in Norwegian **Kvinne:** Hanen eller egget? Nå kan vi faktisk velge. **Fortellerstemme:** Hvert år har millioner av hanekyllinger blitt avlivet i Norge, fordi de ikke kan legge egg. Nå kan hanekyllingeggene plukkes ut lenge før de klekkes, med en ny teknologi som gjør det mulig å se kjønnet etter at egget er befruktet. **Kvinne:** For det skal alltid være godt å velge [merke]. **Liten tekst nederst på skjermen:** Gjelder alle [merke]-egg fra 2025. ::: ::: spoiler Own translation **Woman:** The rooster or the egg? We can actually choose now. **Narrator:** Every year, millions of cockerels have been euthanized in Norway because they cannot lay eggs. Now, cockerel eggs can be plucked out long before they hatch, using a new technology that makes it possible to see the sex after the egg is fertilized. **Woman:** Because it should always be good to choose [brand]. **Small text at the bottom of the screen:** Applies to all [brand] eggs starting 2025. ::: ___ The fucking *audacity* of making an ad where you just straight-up say your business savagely murders millions of baby animals a year and is still murdering baby animals at an industrial scale literally at the present moment, only to then act like this is the brand you should choose if you care about animal welfare — because "hey, at least they're gonna stop savagely murdering millions of baby animals In A Few Months." Sexing unhatched eggs improves their profit margins. This brand was perfectly fine with mass murder for years, there's absolutely nothing to indicate that anything has fundamentally changed about them. There is no good egg brand to choose if you care about animal welfare because the industry is fundamentally exploitative of animals. Why the fuck would an egg brand even *attempt* to pull an animal welfare angle in its advertising‽ Why the fuck would the actress and the narrator and the scriptwriter and the cinematographer and the sound designer and the 3D animator and the VFX guy and the director and whoever else, think that this ad would do anything *other* than make people question whether they should eat eggs at all‽ Holy Hell I need to become a vegan like yesterday, this shit is fuuuucked.

anime Erika3sis • 3d ago • 100%

Bocchi the Crystal

The picture shows Pinkie Pie who is the main character from Bocchi the Rock, for those not in the know

More specifically it's spaced as "kor e a" and it can also mean "where is it" when pointing to a feminine noun, or "where is that (woman or thing)" when followed by the name of the referent. In Nynorsk the equivalent would be "kor er ho?" or "kvar er ho?", interchangeably; and in Bokmål it would be "hvor er hun?" (about a woman) or "hvor er den?" (about a thing). So in writing you'll mainly see "kor e a" in wordplay, or in "Who's on first?" type routines involving the name "Korea", or in folk etymology, such as [this article](https://folkehjelp.no/nyheter/frittalende-folkehjelper-i-malm) from Norwegian People's Aid, where there's this section involving a neighborhood called Korea, in a small town called Malm in Trøndelag: ::: spoiler Norsk # Klasse mot klasse Malm har i underkant av 1300 innbyggere og er administrasjonssenter i Verran kommune, innerst i Trondheimsfjorden. Stedet ble bygd opp rundt Fosdalens bergverk etter funnet av jernmalm på begynnelsen av 1900-tallet. Gruva er Nord-Europas dypeste, og driften varte til 1997. Det var hit Walfreds svenske besteforeldre kom på slutten av tjuetallet. Etter å ha vært rallar på Nordlandsbanen fikk bestefaren arbeid i gruva. – Svenskene ble sett på som flinke gruvearbeidere. De var også syndikalister og gode på organisering, og de fant seg ikke i hva som helst. Da ble det streik, sier Walfred, som begynte i gruva i 1973. Han ble med i *removed*foreningsstyret året etter og ble hovedtillitsvalgt i 1991. Nå er han klubbleder for 320 polske sveisere og platearbeidere ved Fosdalen AS som leies ut over hele Norge men er ansatt i bedriften. Alle er selvfølgelig organisert. *removed*foreningslederen erfarte tidlig at det var klassetilhørigheten som var viktigst – ikke nasjonaliteten. – Fra gammelt var Malm-samfunnet delt, forteller Walfred, – det var arbeidere mot funksjonærer. Alle boligene var bygd av bergverket. Arbeiderne bodde i strøket som ble kalt Korea og funksjonærene bodde i Malmlia. Eller Latterlia, som det het på folkemunne, smiler han. Mens forsøket på å latterliggjøre funksjonærstrøket er en opplagt forklaring på dette kallenavnet, fins det flere teorier om Korea-navnet, ifølge Walfred. – En av dem er om mannen som kom hjem og lette etter kona si som han mistenkte for å ha seg med en annen. «Kor e a,» spurte han sint. Men jeg tror det bare er en artig historie. Det er nok mer sannsynlig at navnet har sammenheng med Koreakrigen og ‘krigen’ i arbeiderstrøket, med misunnelse, uenighet og sjalusi, sier han. ::: ::: spoiler English # Class against class Malm has just shy of 1,300 residents and is the administrative center of Verran municipality near the end of the Trondheim Fjord. The town was built up around the Fosdal Mine after the discovery of iron ore at the start of the 1900s. The mine is Northern Europe's deepest and was in operation until 1997. It was hither Walfred's Swedish grandparents came at the end of the 1920s. After spending some time as a traveling railwayman on the Nordland Line, Walfred's grandfather was employed in the mine. – "The Swedes were seen as good miners. They were also syndicalists and good at organizing, and didn't accept things blindly. So there were strikes," says Walfred, who started mining in 1973. He joined the union's board of directors the year after and became the head union representative in 1991. He is now the leader of a club for 320 Polish welders and sheet metal workers for Fosdalen AS, who are hired out across all of Norway but are employed in that company. All of them are of course organized. The union leader learned early on that it was class belonging that was most important, not nationality. – "For a very long time Malm society has been split," says Walfred, – "it was workers against functionaries. All the housing was built by the mining company. The workers lived in the neighborhood which was called Korea, and the functionaries lived in Malmlia. Or Latterlia, as it was popularly known," he smiles. *[note: "malm" means "ore", and "lia" is the definite form of "li" which means "sloping mountain- or hillside covered with grass or forest". The popular name "Latterlia" is a play on this and the word "latterlig", which means "laughable" or "ridiculous".]* While the attempt to poke fun at the functionaries' neighborhood is an unquestionable explanation of its nickname, there are multiple theories on the "Korea" name, according to Walfred. – "One of them is about a man who came home looking for his wife who he suspected of being unfaithful. 'Where is she,' he asked angrily. But I think that's just a peculiar story. It is a lot more likely that the name is connected to the Korean War and the "war" in the workers' neighborhood, with envy, disagreement, and jealousy," he says. ::: ___ *※ Verran was absorbed into Steinkjer municipality on January 1st, 2020. Also, Malm's population has declined by ~100 people since the article was published.* I have to wonder if the folk etymology of this neighborhood's name coming from a dialectal phrase, with this very vivid image of an angry abusive husband, was invented because it is considerably more cringe to be Yet Another Western Locality nicknamed after a war-torn country in Asia, in reference to a perceived high rate of crime or general discord. In the USA there's "Fayettenam" in North Carolina and more famously "Chiraq" in Illinois — the latter was interestingly originally coined by drill rappers before it was co-opted by right-wing conservatives.

games Erika3sis • 6d ago • 100%

Welp I finally got around to installing Flashpoint, and lo and behold I can finally put to rest that memory I had of an anime-pixel-art-style Flash fighting game featuring the Powerpuff Girls

It was apparently called *Powerpuff Girls D: Battle in Megaville*, and as I remembered it, it also featured Dexter from Dexter's Lab, and whenever you beat your opponent, they'd make this sort of echoey cry/scream. I remember finding the game both very fun and cool — despite not having much of a connection to either cartoon — yet also a bit "disturbing" because these characters are supposed to be each other's siblings, and yet here they are just beating the crap out of each other. I didn't quite understand what the deal with the art style was, but I still understood that it, coupled with the violence, made the game feel more teenage and edgy than the cartoon — and being a preteen at the time, that of course appealed to me. Yet I'm pretty sure I only played the game once and then immediately forgot what it was called, and so I would sometimes think to myself for years later "What *was* that game?" but simply never bother to look into it until today. Apparently the D in *Powerpuff Girls D* stands for "Doujinshi", and the game was based on a Powerpuff Girls doujinshi called *Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi* written by someone called Bleedman. The game itself upon revisiting it was not nearly as good as I remembered, it was decently fun but the controls were still a bit clunky, and the art and music and sound design were not nearly as "uniform" as I remembered, either (add to this the visual bugs as a result of using Flashpoint). The things about *Battle in Megaville* that made the game stand out so much as a preteen are obviously just a whole lot of nothing now as a young adult. It does make me curious about that doujinshi, though, because it looks like it has (or at least had) a pretty sizeable fanbase.

main Erika3sis • 6d ago • 100%

Did anyone else think the word "stowaway" was "stolway" when they were younger?

I remember stowaway/stolway was another one of those words that I said and heard wrong for a very long time. If I'm being honest, really, if it weren't for the squiggly red line as I'm writing this, "stolway" would still today feel vaguely more correct than "stowaway", like I would just gloss over it if I saw it in a text. So my child logic was, by my memory, that I related this imagined word "stolway" to something like a reduced form of "stole a way". Which is to say, one could "steal" a way — as in the means to enter or leave somewhere — in the same way as one could "steal" a movie according to that omnipresent anti-piracy PSA, where the "stealing" was not necessarily literal and physical theft of an object, but rather implied doing something one was legally supposed to pay for the privilege of. The peculiar thing is that my dialect does not have L-vocalization, and I don't think I would've commonly heard "stowaway" in a dialect with that feature. What I am pretty certain of is that any time I heard "stowaway", the schwa in the middle was so reduced that it was either completely deleted or made its presence only felt as an elongation of the preceding /w/. I also very clearly pronounced the "stol" in "stolway" with a shorter vowel than in "stole". So, I guess "stolway" could've just been an eggcorn with nothing else to it, but I also have to wonder if maybe I had a bias against the /w(ː).w/ sequence I heard, and given a little background noise figured I'd probably just misheard a much less problematically unusual sequence of /ɫ.w/ — and then I just didn't notice upon subsequent hearings that nobody else pronounced "stowaway" with an L. And since nobody corrected me whenever I pronounced "stolway" with an L, that form persisted for years until I finally saw the word "stowaway" written down.

emoji Erika3sis • 6d ago • 100%

:brownnose:

Keywords: satania,gabriel,dropout,reindeer,christmas And probably more. The picture can be cropped better, you can probably edit in the rightmost part pretty easily so the ear and hair isn't awkwardly cut off like that.

chat Erika3sis • 1w ago • 97%

You ever dream about getting banned from Hexbear

Last night I dreamed that I got banned from Hexbear for 24 hours and told to self-crit. Despite understanding pretty much immediately after the ban went into effect, what I had done wrong, and apologizing to the mod team for the inconvenience, I elected to refrain from all social media for those 24 hours in order to self-crit, which I did by literally time traveling. The odd thing is that in all the other dreams I've had wherein I acted like an uncharacteristically horrible person, I was consistently horrible and completely powerless to stop my own bad behavior despite recognizing it; but this time I was literally given the superhuman ability of time travel in order to go the extra mile to make up for what was ultimately just one bad comment.

badposting Erika3sis • 1w ago • 95%

What do you call a Deaf woman with an unpaid student loan

A gal-o'-debt

electoralism Erika3sis • 1w ago • 100%

What actually causes the low turnout among US overseas citizens? Any personal anecdotes?

I think one significant part of the low turnout among US overseas citizens is quite simply the typical voter suppression associated with postal voting in general, including people simply not being told their own rights, exacerbated by some added bureaucracy from being situated outside of the USA and the ballot needing to pass through different postal systems. There might also be some demographics overrepresented among overseas citizens that have their own obstacles to voting, too. This is all a neat explanation of why my own family has generally not voted, however I don't think this is the full story. Another US overseas citizen on Hexbear remarked when I brought up the low turnout yesterday, >I'm an overseas American and I am not voting because it would be a bizarre waste of time. Not only would I be voting by mail in a solidly blue state but if votes by mail ever determined an election there would be a coup. Indeed it seems to be in the "battleground states" where postal voting rights are most challenged. So it would seem that the states where it is easier to vote from abroad, are also the states where there's nothing "competitive" about the elections to begin with. What stood out to me more in that reply, however, was the remark that "there would be a coup" if postal ballots ever determined an election — essentially that the fact that postal ballots are already treated as inherently suspect, would in itself demotivate people from voting in the first place. Otherwise there are probably many US overseas citizens who think of the elections as fundamentally illegitimate for other reasons, or who see both wings of the Capitalist Party as roughly the same — for better and for worse — and so they just wouldn't bother voting even for a "third" party. Or there could be other reasons! Like maybe there might be a stigma against voting in US elections from some countries, because this might make the voter look "disloyal" to their new country, I don't know. This is just speculation. So I'm hoping someone might have more insight into this topic, or might be able to even say the relative prevalence of different reasons why US overseas citizens don't vote.

main Erika3sis • 2w ago • 100%

You find yourself at a fast food restaurant in Norway. You see a door with icons of a person wearing pants, a person wearing a dress, and a person in a wheelchair.

Below these three icons you see some braille. ⠗⠑⠌⠗⠕⠕⠍⠎ ...It says "restrooms" in English. In fact it even uses ⠌ as an abbreviation of "st", something only done in English and Irish braille. You then place your fingertip on the braille. It isn't actually raised. You then realize that it isn't even plural restrooms in the first place, it's single-user.

news Erika3sis • 2w ago • 100%

Dagbladet: Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) raising threat level in Norway | Translation in post body

www.dagbladet.no

The threat to Jewish and Israeli targets in Norway is seen as significantly increased. The terror threat level is therefore raised from moderate to high, and the police is armed. - There are multiple negative conditions that have increased the terror threat, among others conditions related to the ongoing escalation of the conflict in the Middle East. In Norway it is first and foremost threats to Jewish and Israeli targets that are significantly raised, says PST senior advisor Eirik Veum to the Norwegian News Agency. He says that the PST does not wish to say anything concrete about what this entails, but informs that the PST is available for the press from 17 o'clock. - The PST has at the time no information on if there are concrete plans at hand for committing terrorist acts against targets in Norway, but we are working quickly with clearing up threats and points of insecurity, Veum says. The "high" terror threat level is a level 4 on a scale of 1 to 5. The police director has based on the threat evaluation decided that the police should be armed nationwide. - The PST describes a serious and tense situation in the Middle East. Increased likelihood for attempted terror in Norway is a situation the police take incredibly seriously, and we have a number of measures for protecting the people and ensuring we are as prepared as possible, says police director Benedicte Bjørnland in a press release. The temporary arming of the police is effective immediately. - The decision is based on that the police should be able to go quicker into action in the case of a possible terror attack to prevent it, limit the area of damage, or stop an ongoing attack, says Bjørnland. The police have for a longer period had more measures for the purposes of protecting Jewish and Israeli interests in Norway. This effort is now being strengthened. - Going forward we will have increased attention directed to the fact that state actors can use criminal networks for committing terrorism, and which consequences this has for the police's efforts against these milieus, says Bjørnland.