We may have just gotten lucky. I also had a great time in Venice once by wandering off randomly and ending up somewhere I can only assume tourists don’t normally go. We bought some fruit off a boat which was both delicious and very affordable, so I assume the target demographic was not tourists. I’m pretty sure that’s not the universal experience of Venice either.

You can work around this with a combination of LinkSheet and Lemmy Redirect. However, it gave me trouble logging into Samsung SmartThings once, don’t remember why.

We were in the mood for a chill day, so it was nice to just chill in a park and walk through some random old neighborhoods until we stumbled across a restaurant. There’s nothing chill about Milan, though, at least not where a clueless tourist would find it.

As a European from elsewhere in Europe, I’m never going back to Milan. Maybe it’s fine if you’re into fashion, but if you’re not there’s not much to look at except a cathedral which resembles every other cathedral, and it’s impossible to get a photo of it without also having a friendship bracelet scammer in the frame, actively harassing you.

All tourist locations in Italy and France have people trying to scam you (and some non-scammers just trying to sell you cheap toys), but Milan is the only place I’ve been to where they’re straight up harassing you non-stop. Go to Pisa instead, it’s super relaxing there and you can marvel at their past mistakes in structural engineering. A far better deal.

It’s back now.

This is sad to see. It’s a great movie except for the inherent spoilers due to it being a prequel (instead of going “oh shit” you go “ah, this is where she loses her arm”), and it deserves better than bombing. I hope it recovers in the next couple of weeks, but at this rate they’ll probably cancel The Wasteland.

It is in fact often intentional. It’s basically the same business model as printers. They make money from the refills, not the machine. Obviously people want to save money with generic paper, so they make sure the dispenser only works right with their paper.

What the dispenser manufacturer doesn’t consider is that whoever orders the paper doesn’t use the dispenser, so they don’t give a shit whether the dispenser works well or not. In fact, it not dispensing well saves even more money on paper!

Those games don’t need to keep a low profile regarding that they still work. Let’s just keep our mouths shut and enjoy Boost for Reddit while it lasts.

Oh, okay, so you’re not a random guy who doesn’t want to see anime. Now it makes a lot more sense. Thanks for clarifying.

You’re asking a single community to move to ani.social so that it will be affected by your instance block? Am I reading that right? Why not just block it separately?

It’s also a volume thing. By the time I reach a reddit comment thread what I wanted to say has already been said, and if I say it again my comment will drown in a sea of heavily upvoted comments. On lemmy you can be several days late to the party and still get both upvotes and responses.

Yeah, some nouns are already taken, that’s fair. Like “shafted”.

Almost forgot “jalla” or “jallamekk”, originally adopted by Norwegian military from a middle eastern word for “fast”, meaning a quick and dirty, but not particularly high quality, solution.

According to John Oliver you can use any noun, like for example “gazeboed”.

A classic! I don’t know how I forgot to mention that one, I even coincidentally explained it to someone earlier today!

I’ve found that the meaning depends on regional differences in both English and Norwegian, and as a result I never use “next Sunday”. I say “Sunday in a week and a half” or the date instead.

Waste of materials. Norwegians build air castles.

Some Norwegian politicians have completely ruined this expression, and now use it to mean “a really big favor”.

It’s almost as annoying as when Americans say they “could care less” when they mean the opposite.

In Norwegian we say “helt sylta” (“completely pickled”) when we have a very stuffy nose. I tried using that idiom when calling out of work in the US once, and was informed that I had just told them I was too drunk to go to work!

In Norwegian we say either “you shit on your leg”, “you shit on the shovel” or “you shit on the drawbar (of a horse-drawn carriage)” for the same thing.

And if you’re “out bicycling” you’re making a mistake, like if you’re doing a crossword and you realize that some of the previous words definitely weren’t right, or you’re doing math and you realize that you definitely made a calculation error earlier because nothing makes sense.

If someone says you’re “all out on the field” (“helt på jordet”) it means they think what you just said was completely wrong.

The Norwegian equivalent of “a hard act to follow” is “like (ski) jumping after Wirkola”, a ski jumper who was definitely way better than both you and everyone else.

And if there are owls in the moss (“ugler i mosen”) something is pretty fishy.