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SVENSK DOKUMENTÄRFILM AV JOHAN PALMGREN Julen börjar i Gävle - en bockumentär

If anyone is more interested in the work behind the Gävle goat there is apparently a documentary here, unfortunately mostly in swedish, but what I found most charming is that you can climb into the goat through a door in it's behind.

And if you ever wondered: yes, according to rumors a couple have fucked in the Gävle goat. In 1966 in fact, the first year it was up and before any kind of arson. I don't know why they threw that into the documentary but this goat has layers is all I'm saying.

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Riding home through the pitch black city forest on a rental bike after a night out is honestly such a vibe

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i think it's mostly about the screen you're using

I can only read “dogs” and only see anything in one other. I see nothing in any other.

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Lyrics, Languages & Luck

October 31, 2023

The Search

So a couple days ago I came across a nightcore song called How Do You Do. It might have been on tumblr, simply through my Spotify feed or maybe on TikTok, i don’t remember. Anyways, I listened to it on Spotify and the specific version on there is by Nightcore Fanatics. It’s different from most other versions that show up on Google & YouTube in one major way: it has a non-english part somewhere in the middle, sort of like a second chorus. The original song (well sort of, we’ll get into that) doesn’t have a part in another language. So i started looking for the lyrics.

First the obvious, the lyrics button in Spotify itself. Turns out the lyrics aren’t synced to the song and a major part, the part that I’m looking for, is missing and just represented with an ellipsis (…). Similar to how it still is here (as of October 31, 2023 ).

To Google we go, where I made a couple discoveries: - there’s a ton of different versions, both nightcore and not - it’s hard to find stuff because How Do You Do! - Roxette also exists - the two major non-nightcore versions are by Boom! and BeFour - neither has the non-english section - there’s lots of websites claiming to have the correct lyrics but they either have the standard english-only lyrics or the spotify-version with the ellipsis

The Surrender

At this point a was feeling like just leaving it be even though I had the song on repeat and really wanted to know what it says, but I decided to look a bit more. In the Wikipedia article about the BeFour song it said that the actual original song is a Russian song called Kanikuly by Bum, so I thought maybe it’s from that song. But no, it sounds completely different.

On Spotify it credits Kim Peter Göran Johansson Karlsson as the songwriter, which is an extremely Swedish name. Additionally it also sounded kind of Scandinavian to me (that’s probably just my bias due to the languages I’ve been exposed too and Caramelldansen) which led me to believe I was on the right track. However, my limited Swedish skills in conjunction with various translation and automatic speech recognition tools as well as conversations with multiple LLMs didn’t get me anywhere.

The credited record label is 1702219 Records DK which I thought might be Danish but it turns out DK just stands for DistroKid, a music distribution service. So no luck there.

I also found this version on SoundCloud which said it was Russian but I assumed that was wrong and probably just due to the original song mentioned earlier. It did not sound like Russian to me at all, probably because I’d never heard Russian in that high pitched nightcore voice.

So then I gave up.

The Resolution

Just today, three days after first looking into this I told a friend (who coincidentally knows a little Russian) about my search over lunch. He went on Spotify to listen to the song a few hours later and then sent me a text á la “Hey, it’s Russian, the lyrics are right here on Spotify”. At first I didn’t believe that because Spotify was obviously the first place I’d looked but it turns out they updated the lyrics very recently and they in fact now have the full (russian) lyrics. So know I present:

The Russian Lyrics to How Do You Do - Nightcore Fanatics

Превед медвед, Мы не виделись сто лет, Я везде тебя найду, How do you do you do

For those who can’t read Cyrillic:

Preved medved, My ne videlis' sto let, Ya vezde tebya naydu, How do you do you do

And in English:

Hello bear, We haven’t seen each other for a hundred years, I’ll find you everywhere, How do you do you do

The Backstory

The lyrics being updated exactly now sounds like a massive coincidence and a ton of luck for me of course but I’m not sure it is. I obviously somehow got to this song exactly now for some reason and i think that reason is an algorithm, maybe the Spotify recommendation system, maybe TikTok, maybe tumblr, maybe even YouTube, maybe multiple of them together. I’m pretty sure that song is going a bit viral somewhere right now and I’m just part of that wave which is why Spotify was getting much more traffic on that song and decided to prioritize the lyrics. Another example for how marvelous the internet really is.

I also found a reddit thread about exactly this today where the guy transcribing the lyrics asks for help which is kind of funny.

Finally, what does Hello bear actually mean? Well, it stems from a big Russian meme about a peculiar picture. In this slang words are purposefully misspelled (”Preved” instead of “Privet”) which then leads to the according to the “cringe af” lyrics. This is a good starting point if you want to read more.

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sql injection: boring, outdated

prompt extraction: thrilling, cutting-edge

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this is amazing

You turn on the radio one morning to find another one of those Rap songs where every 4th word is a swear. Naturally the Radio bleeps it out, but you realize that it sounds familiar. You realize that the rappers are speaking in Morse code.

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pls give me 1(one) reason aces have ever been oppressed, and 1(one) example of aces being a part of lgbt history(before 2004 at least) and then maybe i’ll consider the idea that aces belong in the lgbt community lol

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Bitches love to be like "science sucks where are the eldritch horrors where is the knowledge thats maddening to know" that's thermodynamics motherfucker. The first two world experts in thermodynamics (Ludwig Boltzmann and Paul Ehrenfest) both killed themselves because they had to do fucking thermodynamics

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i like looking up which speeches appear in certain songs

a while ago i looked at you - petit biscuit and now it's time for liberation - harold van lennep

so it turns out it's from a sermon on the book of hosea by ravi zacharias which was kinda surprising to me

you can find the section from which the sentences in the song where taken (out of order) here

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also: if you're using Windows 10 Home (like me) you probably don't have the Local Group Policy Editor

you can get it using this tutorial

I got a laptop with Windows 11 for an IT course so I can get certified, and doing the first time device set-up for it made me want to commit unspeakable violence

Windows 11 should not exist, no one should use it for any reason, it puts ads in the file explorer and has made it so file searches are also web searches and this cannot be turned off except through registry editing. Whoever is responsible for those decisions should be killed, full stop.

Switch to linux, it's free and it's good.

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me: *googling what kind of bike helmet i should get*

search result 1, AI-generated article: Since the dawn of time, humans have wondered what kind of bike helmet is best for protecting their cranium and lower intestine. In the event that you find yourself with a bike helmet, you must find a way to save your family. Therefore, we have compiled a list of qualities to look for. First, sodium content is of great importance when biking your helmet.

search results 2, 3, and 4: sponsored ads for bike helmets on amazon

search result 5, reddit thread: bikeaholic363736: hey guys, do any of you have experience with the windslapper 30g helmet from spronklegear?

spokejunkie666: it's probably the best helmet on the market right now. if you're not using the windslapper you might as well just be riding your bike into a woodchipper

handlebar_hamburglar: idiot. we've had this thread a hundred times. don't the mods enforce the repost ban anymore? OP, don't listen to spokejunkie. the windslapper is the leading cause of death in the netherlands

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i just learned that tumblr can't handle @'s in links and just assumes they're email addresses.

like this is clearly supposed to be a link: https://www.google.com/maps/@65.1536251,-18.7276712,402949m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu

however, if i put it into a hyperlink like this it automatically adds mailto: to the front of the link because the coordinates are encoded with an @: mailto:https://www.google.com/maps/@65.1536251,-18.7276712,402949m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu

this is of course not a valid email address.

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i just learned that tumblr can't handle @'s in links and just assumes they're email addresses.

like this is clearly supposed to be a link: https://www.google.com/maps/@65.1536251,-18.7276712,402949m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu

however, if i put it into a hyperlink like this it automatically adds mailto: to the front of the link because the coordinates are encoded with an @: mailto:https://www.google.com/maps/@65.1536251,-18.7276712,402949m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu

this is of course not a valid email address.

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sometimes i forget just how empty iceland really is.

from there it's like a hundred kilometers of dirt road in every direction to the next anything.

no asphalted roads, no intersections, no villages, no gas stations, no house, no people.

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