Carsten

I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.

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Age: 41
Kids: 3
Hobbies: ∞
Location: [#Aarhus](https://mstdn.dk/tags/Aarhus )
Blog: https://www.carstenboll.dk/

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2025-09-17 08:43:56 UTC

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You obviously don't have kids who are picky eaters :D Or at least not picky in the same way mine are.
Anyway, I will be cooking tofu katsu tonight - probably with steamed rice and a savoury onion-based sauce - and I think it will be a success.

2025-09-02 13:41:14 UTC

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An excited face...?

2025-09-02 12:53:51 UTC

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So, she was displeased at no sorries and pleases?

2025-07-07 09:27:18 UTC

Jeg har for noget tid siden relaunchet https://www.brugt-bazar.dk/ - en federeret markedsplads - efter nogle emailproblemer.
Siden DBA-reworken er elendig og marketplace er drevet af onde mennesker kan i overveje at lægge nogle ting på brugt-bazar.
Sig til hvis i har nogle problemer med at oprette en konto eller andet.
#Flohmark #Fødiverset

2025-05-19 09:12:15 UTC

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I always assumed the word (though not the ingredients) came via indonesian or malay 'kecap'.

2025-05-06 06:05:28 UTC

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*scuttles off to pray to Bilbo*

2025-04-30 08:46:47 UTC

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Maybe the first lunchbox failure is the reason they're forming a new regiment on Bornholm? To stop your bf from going in a rampage....

2025-04-30 08:39:42 UTC

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See, I dont't know enough about the Chinese cultural sphere to know how significant the cultural differences are between ethnic Chinese groups.
Are people Chinese in the same way they're European? Which is to say, ethnic group first and European second.
Or are they Chinese first and Han or Min or Yue second, like I am Danish first and then Samsing (from Samsø) second?
Are all Chinese cultures collectivist? And to which degree? Etc. etc.
I wish I knew more, and my bet is people in general know even less and think of the Chinese as ethnically monolithic which is vary far from true...

2025-04-30 08:20:34 UTC

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I think intermarrying with other cultures is a strong sign of integration or assimilation. The cultures who stay culturally coherent when surrounded by other cultures largely marry inside their own cultural sphere.
This is especially true for e.g. Jewish and Roma cultures, but also as you say the Chinese. Though, I don't know if it's all Chinese cultures or e.g. mainly Hokkien people?
I have a feeling it's cultures where the communal will is stronger than the individual will. Danes are very individualistic in their approach to life - in the sense that we look for meaning and purpose as individuals, not in a fixed role within e.g. a family unit (like 'father' or 'mother'). If your point of origin for meaning is your own happiness and wellbeing over that of the family or your cultural group you're bound to be more likely to marry someone you happen to like and not e.g. a cousin from back home.

2025-04-28 06:35:11 UTC

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Joh, men du må tænke på at konsulenterne og de business-uddannede havde nogle meget fine og overbevisende powerpoints!

2025-04-22 06:34:33 UTC

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Back to work from a nice long Easter-holiday, which also means back to Mastodon and feddit :)
I chiefly use social media to distract myself at work, hah...

2025-03-26 14:56:09 UTC

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Some years back I baked what it called a 'Katrineblommetærte' in Danish, an old type of sweet omelette with plums and almonds. It wasn't very good :D
I expect it was a local version of the French clafoutis where they forgot the flour, but maybe it was based on a tansy instead!

2025-03-19 11:02:30 UTC

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I mean, we let Russia take Crimea in 2014. We'll be lucky indeed if all they get is Crimea, I expect they will keep all occupied areas.
More likely, the US will broker a deal which Ukraine and EU cannot accept, and then use that as an excuse to withdraw completely.

2025-03-13 15:09:18 UTC

Finally been #nicoled - feels like I've made it!
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2025-03-12 07:00:28 UTC

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Det gør vi bestemt også sådan bredt set - man siger indenfor lingvistikken at et sprog er en dialekt med en hær og en flåde :)
Jeg tror også at de fleste danskere vil være fortabt hvis de hører to sønderjyder, vendelboere, eller bornholmere snakke sammen internt. Var de regioner nu selvstændige ville vi kalde det et andet sprog.
Jeg var engang i Norge, hvor jeg snakkede med min venindes farmor der talte dialekt, og det var nemt at forstå og mindede en del om dialekten hvor jeg voksede op.
I bred forstand er dansk-norsk-svensk kun forskellige sprog af politiske årsager.

2025-03-12 06:54:07 UTC

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Det er også noget andet når det er internt, vil jeg sige. Jeg forstår og taler rimeligt godt norsk, men jeg er hurtigt fortabt når to sørlændinge eller nordlændinge taler sammen uden jeg er en del af samtalen.

2025-03-12 06:52:55 UTC

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Den største forskel, sagde hun, var egentligt den humoristiske sans.
Danskerne har en ironisk og humoristisk tilgang til snartsagt alt, og det var bare som om at den omgangstone ikke helt blev grebet i Sverige, det brugte man ikke.
Jeg synes det er interessant, for jeg oplever et stort humorfællesskab med nordmænd - og jeg tænker, at det da ikke kan være så forskelligt ovre i Svealand? Men jeg har ikke nok kontakt med svenskere til at jeg selv kan teste.
Den virksomhed jeg arbejder for er dog lige blevet købt af et svensk firma, så måske jeg får muligheden snart :D

2025-03-12 06:44:48 UTC

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Hah, det tænkte jeg ikke engang over :)
Min søster boede i et par år i Stockholm for a læse til jordemoder (barnmorska?), og hun sagde at hun forstod udemærket svensk - men svenskere generelt og stockholmere især forstår intet dansk.
Jeg tænker at det ikke kan passe, jeg tror at hvis man bruger 30 minutter på at tale sammen, så går det nok, med lidt velvilje på begge sider.

2025-03-12 06:39:07 UTC

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Det kommer an på hvordan du konfigurerer den :) Men jeg smed et bundkort med indbygget wi-fi i.
Den største forskel fra for 20 år siden og til nu er at grafikkort koster ufatteligt mange penge.
Jeg har købt bærbare i mange mange år, mest af praktiske hensyn, men for nogle år siden fik jeg en brugt stationær af en kollega, og må konstatere at jeg klart bedst kan lide stationære.
Nu var det tid til at erstatte den, så håber jeg den nye holder i 10 år.

2025-03-07 08:01:22 UTC

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Productivity was also way lower, which means that those without a strong executive function didn't stand out so much.
I read an account of life in the countryside in the 1700s, and this one farmhand who kept a diary took great pride in not being lazy because he didn't take as many breaks as other people, he would work for 1 hour and then relax for 1 hour, and other people should learn from that he wrote.
Obviously only one source, but it did strike me as funny in a modern context.

2025-02-18 12:14:04 UTC

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I suspect it's bosses who think they can replace some of their staff with an LLM.
They're probably right too, many translators in corporate settings have been replaced by machine translations despite the translations being of an overall lower quality.
As a writer, I think the texts which are generated are garbage - but if my boss thinks otherwise that doesn't really matter, unfortunately.

2025-02-15 16:32:29 UTC

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If you get that job as a chef at Moesgaard you're welcome to join my gamenights :)

2024-11-21 06:10:26 UTC

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tillykke med bedstefardagen!

2024-11-06 08:20:19 UTC

People turn fascist when they’re desperate and angry, same as always. So when they experience economic hardship they look for somone to blame, often immigrants.
And so we call them racists, and I guess that’s true, but it comes from something else; economic inequality.
It's not an unique American problem, in the French EU elections the poorer rural population voted overwhelmingly for the fascists. Same in the German elections, where AfD is popular in the poorer, former East-German provinces.
And even in Denmark, where the more right-wing extremist parties are popular in the poorer southern and northern parts of the country.
The challenge of liberal democracy is clear; show the population outside the cities that they, too, can get their piece of the pie. If we cannot solve that, then we’ll see more countries turn fascist in the next decade.
#uspol #eupol #dkpol
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2024-10-09 21:24:34 UTC

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I'm actually working on a Byzantine setting, around 700 AD. But not for any financial reason obviously...

2024-10-07 09:31:04 UTC

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Documented the process here :)
https://www.carstenboll.dk/paradisaeblesaft-crab-apple-juice/

2024-10-06 17:27:50 UTC

I dag står den blandt andet på paradisæbler, nu skal de koges til saft til cider og til, altså, saft ik.
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