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no, "kalsari" means boxers

sounds like a spatial perception issue, i have dyspraxia and that fucked up my left from right a lot when i was younger. i could imagine worse dyspraxia making it bad as an adult

snake case for everything, pascal case for struct/enum/class/trait names, and screaming snake case for constexpr identifiers is the superior method of naming. FUCK camel case, java/c# naming conventions are dumb and stupid and cringe, rust did it right

i'm in pain every time i use scala/f# or something and i have to actually interact with those HEATHEN java/c#-conformist identifiers

because you're wrong, lol, prescriptivism is just anti-linguistics. linguistics is desctiptive and based on usage

It gives me so much joy seeing a Lemmy thread collectively shit on a completely bad take on linguistics

Lol rape is already extremely common (and EXTREMELY underreported) in SK and Japan. There's an awful deeply integrated stigma against women rejecting or reporting sexual assault, they're possibly the most sexist societies in the first world.

You're not convincing anyone with threats of "if you don't give us sex we'll rape you"

196 is a square number, the square of 14.

you can stop there, that's the average age of the users here

bro why does he look like this guy https://youtu.be/WXbs1dEnE_U

https://youtu.be/9k8VvdfM-sg

Wait he did ALL that? I had absolutely 0 idea, it's way more than I thought. Although I will add the one other thing I do know that he did:

• took major steps to removing medical debt from credit scores, including rolling out regulations prohibiting medical debt from being included on credit reports and creating standards for property owners to not consider medical debt for potential renters

to be fair i would say that the internet largely has made information significantly more democratic & accessible. truth, not so much...

although i definitely do count the fact that you need to know how to spot & deal with misinformation and especially disinformation and differentiate it from valid information in order to safely use the internet, as a very big accessibility problem currently. Most people aren't growing up learning that on their own, and it's certainly not well taught.

I will eat this thread printed out on a sheet of paper after elections in November if Biden loses

I mean that's just the paradox of voting. One vote doesn't "matter", in the sense that elections with thousands to millions of voters are almost never decided by a minute number of votes, but the impact of contributing to a culture of "my vote doesn't matter" is that people just don't vote, enough to change the outcome of an election.

One time I had a seizure and almost died, apparently I was screaming extraordinarily loud while convulsing. I called 911 while I was losing awareness because I thought I was having a stroke. So a fuck ton of cop cars arrived because I allegedly specifically asked for a police to come pick me up ::: spoiler (I didn't ask for an ambulance because it'd be outrageously expensive, I ended up being transported by ambulance and then helicopter anyways, the ambulance bill was almost $1000 for a ~10-15 minute ride and the helicopter bill was multiple tens of thousands for a 10 minute ride, lol I almost died to avoid this) spoiler :::.

My friend told me after all this that, while the fuck tons of cop cars are pulled up on my lawn and I'm being carried out with makeshift bondage in a stretcher convulsing/screaming, my old ass neighbour (I'd have to guess like in his 70s) came out with a whole ass ARSENAL strapped all over his body, a rifle attached to his back, pistols and ammo around his hip, everything. And he just walks out of his house, up to the cops, and starts asking about what's happening. I didn't even KNOW this dude had guns, but apparently he's a super conservative gun-owning ""enthusiast"" and he found it appropriate to flaunt what I can only presume he perceives as "badassery" to this sea of cops including the local chief.

Maybe if I wasn't a dumbass and just asked for EMTs instead, that wouldn't have happened haha...

This isn't very relevant to your comment but it just reminded me of that situation for some reason lol.

And dogs

Idk what the other guy's problem is, he needs some serious help, but the OP isn't minimizing abuse, he's providing reasonable explanations for this occuring. He's not minimizing anyone's abuse, and accusing him of such a thing is unhelpful to say the least.

Should it be this way? No, it'd be way better if men and women weren't treated any differently and everyone was encouraged to get the help they need equally. I read his comment as saying this is a cultural issue, not a Google issue, and that it's important that those of us who can should speak openly with other people about the problems gender inequality causes in our society in order to push our communities to treat both men and women seriously when it comes to things like abuse.

If I were to expand on that I'd also say that it's worsened by the fact that our society's perception of abuse in general is completely fucked, and that treating one group as the aggressor and the other as the victim by default hurts everyone in many ways, but that's a larger scope than the topic at hand and I don't want to risk derailing the discussion of our culture's refusal to see men as potential victims.

Point is he's not at all blaming men, or saying "men are statistically more likely to do X so they SHOULD treat it like this", he's saying "men are more likely to do X which is their rationalization for them treating it like this, but it's part of a bigger problem that we need to fix". But maybe I'm not seeing how it was a malicious comment.

tbf don't think a kid should be eating that much chocofruitysugarbomb oatmeal regardless of if they like it or not, that's how someone like me who has ADHD (which gives me sensory issues and makes me super picky) gets even MORE picky and becomes addicted to sweet food. allegedly

a bowl of the average cereal is about the same value nutritionally as eating a bowl of ice cream with a pile of hay on top, certainly not something one should eat regularly

I live in rural Georgia and in general I can say almost all of the people around me are pretty conservative, my coworkers even casually say typical Republican shit like how it's sooo absurd that "white people can't say the N word but black people can", or how society has gone to shit with this more than 2 genders nonsense, or how taxes are the reason we're all poor even though they're managers being paid slightly above other states' minimum wage at best (~$15.50/hr) and have to waste an absurd amount of money on healthcare & car stuff, or whatever. Even a lot of the queer people I know, stereotypical with dyed hair and all, say this EXACT same shit.

I think everywhere outside of the major cities in this state are like this, those few civilized blue parts are the only ones keeping this place from collapsing... having days on my own in Savannah have been some of the best times of my life, I'm so used to be confined to this garbage rural suburbia surrounded by red that I truly envy people who live in cities... I'm planning to move to Chicago and hopefully it's as good as Savannah, in terms of how nice it is to just walk around the city as well as the local establishments & events.

there's only one way to interpret hairstyle

There is no subjective definition

Every linguist worth their salt completely disagrees with you. Language is a matter of individual experience, it works over our overlaps of personal understandings, and those personal understandings are never perfectly aligned (common understandings of words even drift all the time because of this!). You can call slapping an adjective to a category its own new category, and that's fine, but different people have a different understanding of the concept. There is no "objective" definition or even an "objective" experience of any kind, it just isn't possible, that's not how human brains do things.

A concept like "oxygen" or even "water" might have a significantly more generally overlapping understanding from a large amount of people. Our common education, upbringings, and interactions with other speakers make a lot of English speakers agree on that. But a concept like "hairstyle" is something that requires a lot of nuance, because different people have wildly different interpretations of what's included or counted as its own "hairstyle". Many hairstyles you see as different might be seen to others as one singular hairstyle, or something you see as one hairstyle might be seen to others as different ones. Different people may think very differently at how color, length, texture, shape, accessories, etc. make up hairstyles. Many people even think of head/face shape and bodily features as part of a hairstyle (especially in certain religious contexts). Just because you have a certain understanding of it, and your logic makes sense to you, does not mean it is the "correct" understanding.

The idea of "there's no subjective definition" is extremely prescriptivist and is a spit in the face of modern language/psychology/sociology science. It's unfortunate that this kind of BS is propogated throughout our education system by "English Language Arts" teachers... and is why people genuinely think that AAVE is "bad English" and why people who don't know shit about language constantly have stupid long-winded arguments about how "actually this common/standard usage or pronunciation of a word is wrong", thinking they can enforce certain usages on other people because they can speak a version of the language.

That being said, I think for that exact reason it's absurd that there's even an attempted legal argument about length not being part of hairstyle. What somebody constitutes as a hairstyle is unique to them and the cultures they're a part of, and it's completely unreasonable to dictate that something they and their peers consider a hairstyle isn't a hairstyle, then punish them for it. It is literally their head hair. Same thing with facial hair and body hair. They can do whatever the hell they want with it.

The CEO just influences PR decisions and says stupid stuff online, they don't actually do anything for the company

Game devs are overworked and underpaid af, so all those layers upon layers of abstractions just handed to you by game engines, at the cost of a ton of performance in order to save brainpower and time, look VERY enticing. Sure, you could spend more time and also spend more money in order to keep devs from leaving your company (because if you don't keep giving your devs lucrative deals, they WILL jump ship as soon as they can get a better deal, that's every job in tech) so you can maintain modular, decoupled, high-performance low-level code, but why do that when it's just as profitable, even more profitable actually, not to?

But Nintendo, despite treating their consumers like shit, is EXTREMELY good with workers (especially in the context of Japan which is probably one of the worst countries on this planet for workers). They make good games because their employees aren't overworked and underpaid as hell. They don't have high turnover, they keep their employees over decades because they keep enough funding and effort into their current employees, rather than pumping all of that into hiring like most companies do. That's why they can even exist despite the Switch being kind of garbage, why they can succeed where Sony and Microsoft are failing, because they attract and keep experienced, quality employees, so they can make quality games.

Game development & design can be one of the hardest jobs in the software engineering industry, and it's the biggest entertainment industry on Earth by far, yet game devs have some of the worst conditions of any software engineers, dare I say the worst... So by buying shit games from shit companies, people are just affirming their shit practices.