Thanks, mate.

OG’s account is 5 days old and they have amassed quite a weird post history. I would call most of it shit stirring, always nicely illustrated with a picture.

You are welcome to read my longer post history, which is quite anti-MAGA.

Whether we all think that excuse for a man has dementia is irrelevant. Nobody here is likely qualified to make the call. And the ones who might speak up here to do it anyway disqualify themselves by speaking up. So all this is is pointless shit stirring.

I’m going to go out in this limb: nobody here is qualified to make that assessment and has direct access to the man, which you need to make the call. So fuck off with this shit stirring bullshit.

We are the Blarg. Resistance is futile.

You 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.

Not like any other election before where tech companies had zero interests and just thought may the best team win.

A new account, all written in bold, with a potential rage bait about religion and jacking it? I smell bravo sierra.

“Western” languages? There is no such thing. There are Turkic ones, Indo-European ones, Uralic ones, Afro-Asiatic ones. They and more are all west of wherever Chinese characters are used.

You are picking a small number of Chinese characters that bear a distant resemblance to the meaning they carry to this day in languages that use them. Most of them have been abstracted to hell. Or simplified beyond recognition, I guess not just in the Chinese mainland. And that 火 means 🔥 was not obvious to me when I learned it. You need somebody to tell you to imagine a person with their arms on fire to see it. So the abstraction has progressed too far. Where you see a mountain I see a fork also. Therefore, I challenge your premise to the extent that this is obvious without being instructed.

I can also teach you pyr(o) means fire and maniac is an obsessive crazy person. You can get to the meaning of pyromaniac from there too. That as a learning process is not too different from 火山 equals volcano.

A lot of these images you presented strike me as linguistic retconning to aid children (and foreigners) learning the characters.

The point of the Latin alphabet is not to tie meaning to the letters but to the sounds they represent in the language that uses it. So even if, hypothetically, you could trace back the letter O to a symbol representing a window in Egyptian hieroglyphics this has no bearing on how the letter is used today.

It’s also noteworthy to me that any language using Chinese characters have invented a syllabary (like Hiragana and Katakana in Japan) or use the alphabet to an extent to teach the language (pinyin in the PRC, complete latinization in Vietnam). Korean adopted a syllabary that has a similar look and design but actually makes sense. There is a strong appeal to the utility of being able to read what’s on the page without having to think about anywhere from 1000 to 100000 abstracted characters.

You are struggling with a parasocial relationship. You idolize this one creator and for that creator you’re one tiny follower among whatever gazillion inflated bot count your social media of choice shows they have. You’re lucky to get a reply and, just as one example, most creators on Instagram will engage with a few early comments because it tweaks the algorithm in their favor if they show engagement/counter engagement. They probably don’t gaf so lmao lol etc.

You’re nothing to them other than a view count. Accept that role and vent with a person preferably irl.

Radio playlists are a science like marketing. Half the budget is wasted, you’re just never sure which half.

Stations have a target audience. They will have focused grouped this. They know their favorite music, how long on average they listen, and how much they will expect to hear certain artists. The DJs are mere announcers, they have little to no choice in what they play, and they are grateful to have a job. So like anybody working in retail during Christmas, they can tune out the music in their heads.

BUT IF YOU READ IT YOU WILL FIND OUT THAT PEOPLE ARE DIVIDED OVER THIS ISSUE. SO THERE IS NO CONCLUSIVE ANSWER.

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer boss or company.

Have a read through this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_a_tree_falls_in_a_forest_and_no_one_is_around_to_hear_it%2C_does_it_make_a_sound%3F

How do you blackmail a person who feels no shame? Could only be about his money. And I don’t see any angle, say, the Russians or the Israeli government has there to make him worried. So even if they are sitting on solid evidence of him eating babies on the island that won’t be nearly enough to put pressure on him. Unless it’s scientific evidence that his hands are too small. And he’ll just fake-news-stonewall that until he’ll cover the Lincoln Memorial in gold or something, just to move the media cycle along.

47 thinks he’s smart but he is at best NYC realtor smart. With a touch of the mob, maybe. He’s severely undereducated as a president. More so than W by a factor of 1000. But he Peter principled himself into positions where he is unimpeachable or people are afraid to tell him when he’s wrong. He shows a persistent pattern of parroting the opinion of the last man he spoke with. He is larping the Emperor’s New Clothes fairy tale with an ego that needs constant praise, his own in a pinch. You don’t need to blackmail a person like that. Praise him, flatter him, promise him money and good headlines and he happily will kill a minimum of two of his children.

Netanyahu sent him down the garden path on Iran. And now he’ll get a deal that’s worse than the Obama one he derided. Which I’m sure he never read. Because he only absorbs about one page of content if it’s nicely spaced and contains pictures. Per week.

This sounds like an interesting conspiracy theory. I would just say there are plenty of reasons why people shouldn’t use Windows. The JE angle isn’t necessary.

The man wasn’t so much into mass surveillance and hacking as ingratiating himself to other rich people. He did that by handling their finances and reducing their tax bills. Or by providing girls and young women to be abused. He did and collected favors. He amassed influence. He may have crossed paths with people responsible for Windows. But I don’t think the product is tainted by that. Microsoft didn’t need JE for that.

You’re reading more criticism into that than I really feel. I just answered a question. And my original point was merely that while the article makes it almost sound like this ruling was final, it isn’t. The war will be entering its second battle soon.

If we only look at content available on DVD until about the mid 00s still torrenting about the ether today, I’m sure the majority are ripped from rentals. I had friends who basically bled a rental place dry.

There is no European standard. A huge chunk of Europe gets their content dubbed (or narrated) anyway. And for everything else, sometimes they block other preexisting credits, sometimes they don’t.

Hero isn’t a title for life. His willingness to fuck his own life up to reveal NSA secrets to the world was heroic. Him staying in Russia with everything they’ve done more recently is decidedly less so.

We want to judge him by absolute categories like morals and convictions. And that’s unfair because nobody is that pristinely moral all the time. I get that after his 007-like escape to Hong Kong, he would choose the easier way out now. If that means tacitly approving of Russia’s illegal attack on their neighbor then so be it. I think his morals compelled him to release the surveillance secret to the world. And the experience has sufficiently dulled any moral urges. Combine that with a limited list of choices of where else to go. A true superhuman hero would not want to stay where he once sought asylum if that country was itself responsible for hundreds of thousands of people seeking asylum elsewhere. As I said, hero isn’t a title for life.