I share your view on humanity. I’m glad you said something. Tone is tough to transport online.
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I should have added /s.
Voting is better than not voting in my opinion. That being said, this is a topic I would not throw to the internet to help you decide. The way you have written your post you’re opening yourself up to a lot of partisan replies from the good people of both sides that will probably not aid massively in your decision making process.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Managers and bosses who have been told by employees that you are a good leader, what do you different?English
12·10 days agoSince there is a power imbalance, I would not put much stock in praise like that. People not wanting to leave, not calling in sick a lot, not going to HR to complain are probably some better indicators, with the caveat that every job is different and those are not universally applicable criteria.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Are malls completely dead today?English
4·10 days agoYou’re answering your own question.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Is Hebrew pronunciation hard?English
5·13 days agoYs. Fr n nglsh spkr t’ll b hrd. Nt mpssbl t prnnc bt hrd.
There is a lot of talk about bringing back the wooly mammoth that way but they are collecting funds and not delivering so far. I think some celebrity cloned their dog but IIRC they took samples while the OG puppy was still around. To be fair, I am not sure about that story.
Technically, it’s probably possible with a human but the science isn’t quite there yet. They like to test this first on other creatures before they graduate to bringing back Napoleon or whoever. And that is saying nothing about ethical and legal restrictions on top of that.
I think it’s the same everywhere in the developed world. There are things that will just keep virtually forever, like honey or tea bags, but they come with an expiry date of some sort. Because at some point, allegedly, ol’ moneybags himself lobbied for legislation like that to make people buy more stuff.
I’m in Japan and if I didn’t blatantly disregard the dates and guidance they print on bread I’d never finish a pack.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why don't we use mirrors to bring light into buildings more?English
181·15 days agoDid you hear about that curved building in London that reflected light so well you could cook an egg in the street a block away? I think you could make an argument for white surfaces to reflect light into buildings but full blown mirrors are probably a fire hazard.
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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Does passport piracy exist?English
4·19 days agoIIRC for a while many terrorists and criminals had legitimate Belgian passports because some enterprising criminals had stolen the special printing machine and empty passports from an embassy or something like that.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Could the Mormons breakaway from the usa in an insurgencyEnglish
21·19 days agoNo. And not likely at all.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Has anyone else noticed how arbitrary is the use of the definite article(the) and to a less extent capitalization sometimes?English
1·19 days agoWhy do you post the same stuff under different titles in different communities? What’s the weirdest thing in english?
There is no such thing as a perfect translation. Granted, languages that are more closely related and in places that are culturally similar make it easier. But translation is also making choices. Different translators will make different choices. It would be madness to assume that any book would not contain parts that are at least questionable. That’s regardless of source and target languages. You’re operating under the false assumption that stuff in English is just better, maybe because it’s the most understood language on the planet if you count nonnatives as well. Free yourself of these biases.
I would also point out that neither 死亡 nor 戦死 strictly mean “died.” Without very specific context or a version of an accompanying する they would be translated as death/mortality and death in battle respectively. There you can see how little mistakes can creep in.
Also, since we are sliding into the movie Idiocracy by outsourcing more and more stuff to LLMs, expect more shitty translations. Who knows, your book may have been translated by a bot.
But then its different from the sample Japanese text here. The orientation of all the characters does not change whether the text flows left to right, right to left, or top to bottom. Rotating the ABCs will actually worsen legibility in my opinion.
If the monks in The Name of the Rose times had come up with a vertical cursive script that stuck, maybe it would be different today. But that didn’t happen.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why do Asexual (Aroace) people get discriminated?English
72·26 days agoI wouldn’t have put “you just haven’t found the right one yet” in the discrimination category. That strikes me as helpless and ignorant rather than structurally evil. But I guess it’s the repetition of it.
The “good fucking” one I’m with you. That’s awful. And the pride-internal groupthink is discriminating too.
Thanks for broadening my horizon.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why do Asexual (Aroace) people get discriminated?English
15·26 days agoBecause we are herd animals that tend to pick on those we perceive as different?
That being said, are they discriminated against? Can you give examples?
It is possible for languages written in the Latin alphabet as well. It’s just a pain in the ass to read. You can write cursive Chinese characters top to bottom; there is no vertical cursive script for the Latin ABC. All the connecting nodes are on the horizontal axis. The majority of people are right-handed. So tradition and convention has us reading left to right, top to bottom.
So there is a court ruling that the mother had sole custody. And the father tried to take the kids out of the country, possibly without the mother’s knowledge. That is probably illegally moving your children abroad. The fact that they are your own flesh and blood is superseded by the mothereffing courts. Whether you agree with it or not is irrelevant. So you have to stuff the kids into a big suitcase like any upstanding CEO of an automobile conglomerate or just not leave the country.
There is a lot of meat on the Japan has catching up to do in regards to international custody battles bone. They favor the Japanese national, often unfairly, I think - although that’s a topic for debate for people who are more knowledgeable. However, you can’t take the law into your own hands just because you don’t agree with the decisions. And CPS could talk to the Japanese authorities if they want to (and can manage). But they can do eff all. The better point of contact would be the US embassy in Tokyo. They may not be able to do anything either but if anybody can intervene it’s them.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•How do you stay motivated after relapsing from an addiction?English
32·30 days agoYou moved to Lemmy to ask this question on an account called Ahmed? You sound like a customer service bot?
This is not the reaction of a human being struggling with porn addiction. Let’s just say you have not succeeded in allahing my skepticism.

Fast food is slop anywhere.