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  • Guess the anime by its title and plot description in my conlang, part 5

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  • Dragon Ball Z

    The first sentence, "Gǒ byaḱot́a so yadravša dara Ga", looks like "Go [verbs, some kind of movement?] with his new son [or 'child' but with masculine references] Ga." but, since I don't have much knowledge of anime, and since you hinted at the popularity, I looked at a popularity list. Dragon Ball Z jumped out me because of the Zed being the non-American Zee, and its description starts "Goku is back with his new son, Gohan". So that's my answer.

    Fullmetal Alchemist

    This is one I was working on the last time I noticed one of these posts. "-v -ska" suggested a title where the first part was an adjective (rather than a "The [noun] of [noun]" title), and I'd noticed "{buheyniya|everybody}" and "{buhspinske|forever}" and concluded "buh-" was some kind of totalising prefix, so I looked for titles with "all", "every"-ish beginnings.

    The description gives two male characters, Alphonse and Edward, which correspond with the Aa and Ea names in the translation. And your new gloss has "{ranske|equal}" where the English description talks of needing 'equal trade'. I don't have time now to work through the rest, and it could just be a bunch of coincidences, but it's my best bet for now.

  • 50 Cent Deletes Post Offering To Paying NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani To Leave NY - HOT 97

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  • Not even 1 year. Factor in that mayors have been in office for 12 years, and later careers are likely to also be lucrative, and anything less than $5M is not a serious offer.

  • Angloid journalists are not intellectual, to put it lightly

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  • This appears to be from a paywalled FT article but the author is given on the Vietnam category page:—

    A new reality began to dawn’: the fall of Saigon, 50 years onChris Mullin describes the last days of the Vietnam war and the aftermath

    I'm assuming there aren't too many Chris Mullins who are journalists writing about Vietnam and, therefore, he is the former MP with a Wikipedia page that gives this context:—

    Having reported from Cambodia in 1973 and 1980, in 1990 he was outspoken on the British Government's record in Cambodia, being a leading voice in some of the first protracted debates on Britain's provision of clandestine military support to Khmer terrorists, allied to the Khmer Rouge.

    and

    his politics shifted leftward in response to the Vietnam War

    and

    He has been highly critical of the American strategy in Vietnam and has stated that he believes that the war, intended to stop the advance of Communism, instead only delayed the coming of market forces in the country

    This doesn't read like ignorance to me. Like a lawyer prompting a witness, this seems like someone asking the questions that allow the interviewee to give the most effective replies.

    I can't read the "reply was devastating" line as being personally devastating to an ignorant journalist, because someone in that position didn't need to write that and put it on show. Instead I read it as being devastating to the naive sentiment, perhaps held by the reader, that Vietnam's only legitimate response was to run to the UN.

    The author has an extensive history with the topic and doesn't appear to be blindly anti-Vietnam, so I think you may have the wrong end of the stick here.

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  • You couldn't, because Eve wasn't called Eve at the time, and because God doesn't deadname trans women.

    Original SRS surgeon God creates a woman from male flesh in Genesis 2:22. First ally Adam insists that "she shall be called Woman" in Genesis 2:23. By Genesis 2:25 they're acknowledged as man and wife. But Eve doesn't get her own name until Genesis 3:20, and then that's the only name we ever know her by.

  • Do streamers just not have anything going on inside their skulls?

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  • Stream of unconsciousness?

  • [FIXED]How to change the size of shortcut image in new tab page without css

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  • Is changing the zoom level (Ctrl-+ or Ctrl-[scroll wheel]) an acceptable solution?

  • Not only in the US, it is a universal fiction

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  • No, absolutely not. Someone else suggested meeting people in the middle. I am not. Never accept the liberal smears that right wingers are the stupid ones. The most clueless people in politics call themselves 'centrists'.

    I quite specifically limited my approach to "people who could be won over". Obviously the fascists cannot be won over. But propaganda exists, and people who are capable of being better people are influenced by it. None of us are immune. So we need to counter that, and telling everyone who isn't already on our side that they will forever be our enemy is incredibly counter productive.

    What I am saying is that Pacman Theory is not a thing. You cannot push people away and expect them to pop up behind you and have your back. If you tell someone that they are right wing while others are telling them it's good to be right wing, you are not going to change their mind.

    Now maybe you think that's not a problem, that we can just get rid of them. Bad news: the numbers are not on our side. We need numbers, and the only source is terrible. That sucks, no argument. But it is also reality, I'm afraid.

    We absolutely should not coddle liberals. We should insist that their ideas are stupid and dangerous, that they should get better ones, and—hey, wouldn't you just know it—I have some that I can give you, for the low, low cost of being the better person you know you want to be.

    We should not welcome them with open arms until they can be better people. But we really, really shouldn't push them into the open arms of the right, because that's how you actually enable fascism.

    "Coddle my feelings so I might give a fuck about your human rights and stop enabling fascism"

    I used exactly the same approach in my original comment: you are correct; the tactical ideas should be changed.

    Did you feel coddled?

    GTFOH

    Probably not.

  • Not only in the US, it is a universal fiction

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  • It is not enough to be correct. You also have to be smart. And telling people who could be won over that actually, no, you're not on our side, you're one of them—"you are Right Wing"—is a monumentally stupid opening move.

    Stop telling people they are right wing. A lot of people—especially those most susceptible to right-wing rhetoric—think that who they are is fixed. Instead, insist that they are people who want the best for others (even if you don't think that's true enough yet). Tell them that they're dragging around the anchors of right wing ideology, and that if they want things to be better, those ideas—which harm most people for the benefit of an unscrupulous few—should and can be left behind.

    You're still not going to win very often, but at least you aren't throwing the game immediately.

  • On "Body Positivity"

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  • If you feel better about yourself, and aren't mistreating others, take the win.

    No one is immune to propaganda. We all have some stupid ideas because of it. At least you care enough to try to negate that.

    Don't discount the psychological benefits of exercise either. It can improve mood long before physical changes become noticeable. And other people respond positively to confidence as well as appearance.

  • good vocab training apps

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  • Completely agree with this. Anki isn't perfect, but if you ever find anything better, I want to know what it is.

    Getting started with "Basic" or "Basic (and reversed card)" notes is almost as easy as writing on each side of a physical card, but if you find yourself repeating information—either exactly or with the same kind of variations—it's well worth looking at making your own note types.

    For example, following each Arabic lesson, I was adding each letter into Anki. I wanted to recognise the different forms so, at first, I had 4 notes for each letter:—

    ن ⇄ t

    تـ ⇄ t (initial)

    ـتـ ⇄ t (medial)

    ـت ⇄ t (final)

    With cards generated for both directions, that's 8 cards, but also eight bits of typing.

    Once I recognised the pattern, I made a new note type with "Letter" and "Transliteration" fields. Now I only need to add two things, but I still get eight cards automatically generated by Anki for each letter. Okay, I needed to create some card templates too, but the modifications weren't more complicated than adding "ـ" before/after the Arabic letter (to produce each of the different forms) and " (medial)" etc. after the transliteration. This was about two minutes' work, and it only had to be spent once, but now all the remaining letters can make use of it, saving much more time over all.

    And if I'd been really lazy, I could have just downloaded any of the published decks.

    The other thing I'd say is: it's very easy to overdo things at the start before the gaps between reviews have been filled in. So start slow and keep your learning queue under control. If it starts growing and growing, stop the new cards completely, reduce the queue, and then restart the new cards with a reduced daily limit.

  • China's high-speed rail win so much it might be tired of winning

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  • Why the annual debt alone requires almost 20 whole dollars per person! There can't be a banana anywhere to be found in that entire country.

  • Pyongyang Metro (2024) - New train + station tourists don't usually visit (Kaeson)

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  • These tourist shows just keep getting better and better: thousands of background performers, full-scale, moveable train props; the "tunnel" background didn't even look like it was just a big cylinder going round and round outside the shaking carriage window. Just think what they could do if they put all that effort into building a proper market economy!

    At 16:38–16:44, CEO killer confirmed as North Korean operative.

  • extractify.zip: Extract and Explore compressed files online and securely

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  • Yeah, that's what I was suspecting.

    I ended up leaning towards "download" being used in the boomer way of meaning any data transfer, whatever the direction, which in this case would more specifically be called an "upload". And that "online" was being used to mean "using a website", even though the local processing is offline.

    The alternative fit to the description I had considered was a website you could give an URL, so it retrieves the zip file and allows you to inspect it remotely, and maybe just download some of the contained files, so it deals with the risk and bandwidth issues for you. That would be a different kind of useful, though it'd only be a few days before someone uses it for malign purposes and gets the site operator a no-knock visit from the fuzz, so that seemed much less likely.

    I can see a use for an app that can be used where they can't be installed, though.

  • extractify.zip: Extract and Explore compressed files online and securely

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  • I'm confused. How are you defining "download" and "online" here?

    The website suggests that the server holds the files and does the extraction:

    Extract and Explore compressed files online [emphasis mine]

    which fits with the github claim of:

    to view and extract zip files online without downloading them

    but the website also states that:

    nothing leave your browser

    which suggests that the server has nothing to do with it, and you do actually download the zip files first.

    What am I missing?

  • If you run this JavaScript function on the 31st of a month, the result will be a month off. The best part is that this is the intended behvaior. JavaScript is a cursed language.

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  • You've replied while I was editing, so see that regarding what I mean by side effects.

    As far as throwing an error when you try to create "31st February", this wouldn't actually help much, since the error would still only occur on some days of the year, because your original code doesn't account for the range of outputs from Date() when called without arguments.

    To perform correctly, your code needs to normalise the day of the month, or just create the date more explicitly to begin with, but this is a calendrical issue, not a JavaScript one.

  • If you run this JavaScript function on the 31st of a month, the result will be a month off. The best part is that this is the intended behvaior. JavaScript is a cursed language.

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  • The rake has nothing to do with JS (which I agree is cursed, but for its own reasons, not this).

    You have called a function in a way that does not give a consistent value (Date()). Such functions are hardly the preserve of JavaScript. You've failed to adequately deal with the range of values produced, with code that tries to insist that the "31st February" can be a meaningful date in February. You should accept that this is your mistake and learn to (better) avoid side effects where possible.

    Also, the function isn't side effecty since it doesn't make implicit references outside its scope.

    Edit responding to your edit:

    Also, the function isn't side effecty since it doesn't make implicit references outside its scope.

    The Date() function's output varies according to something other than its input (and even the rest of your program). Using its output without accounting for that variation means that your function, as originally written, also gives inconsistent return values, varying according to something other than its input, because it does, in fact, reference something outside the function. If it did not, the results would only depend on the monthNumber argument, and would always be consistent. I don't know what you call that, but I view it as a side effect.

    As you have said, the rake is that months have different lengths, and you need to account for that. But that's not one of JavaScript's many issues.

  • If you run this JavaScript function on the 31st of a month, the result will be a month off. The best part is that this is the intended behvaior. JavaScript is a cursed language.

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  • You want to create the date "31st February", but it's JavaScript that's cursed?

    Write a less side-effecty function.

     
            function getMonthName(monthNumber) {
        const date = new Date(2023, monthNumber - 1, 1);
        return date.toLocaleString([], { month: 'long' });
    }