Reddit refugee. Likes the Agora. Likes classical music. Flight simmer. No life.
As someone raised Catholic, and now just generally Christian who goes to mass whenever I feel like it, if any politician ever uses the religion card, I might just commit some act punishable by the TEK (Hungary). /hj obviously, but ffs man! Freedom of religion is being eroded by the Hungarian government as well. Why does anyone’s faith have to control others’?
So as a technically Catholic: I am not persecuted. I am being privileged way too fucking much.
And yet, more than 40% of Hungarian voters want to vote for Orbán again. Under his corrupt electoral system, that will be again a 2/3 supermajority. From a Hungarian: The prevailing belief here is “Orbán lies and sucks, but never again for Gyurcsány” or “Everyone sucks, Fidesz is the least bad” or even “There’s no better alternative”. This fuck should be voted out in 2026, but we know he won’t.
From the state’s founding, Hungary is a Western country, which never wants to be part of the East on purpose. […] Eastern politics can’t tolerate autonomy, can’t tolerate independence, and can’t tolerate freedom. It eliminates the defences defending a human’s independence. […] It makes one vulnerable; if need be, it intimidates. […] Since the East stepped foot in Hungary, freedom-loving Hungarians like us always wanted the same: to liberate ourselves from their withering hugs, and to remove their domestic guards. […] Our wish always was this: we wanted a Western democracy which builds on Christian culture, and on the ideals of freedom, equality, and fraternity. We always fought against the faux-democracy […]
– Viktor Orbán, 2007, in a segment to the young people in Hungary.
illiberal democracy my ass.
András is actually from my home town. I think that’s beautiful.
“do what I say or get blackmailed” so is that blackmailing with threating to blackmail someone? Did he technically just publicly blackmail POTUS? I have a feeling that’s not fully legal.
Did this sad blob of cells just say that illegal immigration is an invasion? Did he just quote a dissenting opinion as a basis?
What the actual fuck. This sounds like something Orbán would do. Oh wait, they like the sound of that…
I really like me a good serif. Computer (Latin) Modern is very satisfying. Also, according to some research, it’s up there with the Helveticas and the Arials for readability. Note that 12-point is where serifs flourish (figuratively).
Newer research actually says that it mostly doesn’t matter. Use a readable sans or serif, there’s no measurable difference.[1][2][3]
[1] Wery, J.J., Diliberto, J.A. The effect of a specialized dyslexia font, OpenDyslexic, on reading rate and accuracy. Ann. of Dyslexia 67, 114–127 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11881-016-0127-1
[2] Kuster, S.M., van Weerdenburg, M., Gompel, M. et al. Dyslexie font does not benefit reading in children with or without dyslexia. Ann. of Dyslexia 68, 25–42 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11881-017-0154-6
[3] Rello, L., Baeza-Yates, R. How to present more readable text for people with dyslexia. Univ Access Inf Soc 16, 29–49 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-015-0438-8
nah, you can have 16+8+4+2+1 = 31 on one hand, and 1024+512+256+128+64+32+16+8+4+2+1=2047 on two hands.
As a Christian, I think like this: who am I tot tell you what values you should have? I have my (Christian) values, you can have yours. Anyone who goes against that is against freedom of religion.
IT bubonic plague
Hungary presents: grep --kis--és-nagybetűk-figyelmen-kívül-hagyása
Yeah that is a resounding no. PS: I am not exaggerating. That is the first translation that came into mind
And today I learned that people should joke around more with statistics.
How the hell did you get 0.5 cars going right on red? Did a car just plow through multiple houses between going straight and turning right at an intersection?
sorry, but minor inflation doesn't come across as suffering to me? Not challenging you, but if you can provide me with concrete examples I might just realise how probably stupid I am.
As a Hungarian, I must unpolitely ask you to not complain about 3,7% inflation while other places have 16%. To us, the economy of North–West Europe and the US look like absolute miracles.
O God, the hash one isn't bad, just stop there for the sake of all that is holy
I give it a month before either the ECJ steps in or they quietly change the law/interpretation (Article 13/17 says hi)
The brainwashing is mental. Just about a month ago some secretary of state came to our town and preached that ‘science without faith is science without morality (and that is bad), so therefore teaching without teaching faith is teaching immorality. West does that, West bad.’ On 15 March, the national holiday, our
dictatorVezetőprime minister preached the same thing.