i got charged a few thousand (i think $3000?) for a regular ass MRI in Georgia. in italy the same thing would cost like €200-300 at most, probably less
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That's one of the important reasons that the far-right took over politics in Italy recently, the Italian right is very pro-Ukraine while the Italian left is anti-Ukraine for some godawful reason. Being pro-Ukraine alone got them a significant portion of votes the left would've gotten otherwise. Couple that with one of the primary issues in politics becoming LGBTQ rights, with (especially southern) Italy being largely very catholic and consequently anti-gay (in fact gay marriage is still illegal in Italy, you only have same-sex civil unions), and with the other primary issue being immigration (mostly as a guise for racism), the Italian public started voting very right-wing.
The fact that the left started infighting in Italy and were completely splintered at the time of elections spelled their doom. You can find a similar scenario in some other European countries in the past few years.
Now that the right is fucking basic shit up in Italy, a good amount of the public has slowly been starting to realize that they liked it way more when the leftists were in charge and making slow improvements, even if it wasn't perfect... but it isn't helping much to stop the rise of the right. Italy has always been aligned with highly conservative beliefs, it's common to miss the "good ol' days" when Mussolini was in charge and the economy was good, so it's the norm for politicians to openly say borderline fascist things (well now it's just flat out blatantly fascist speech).
In this context it's heavily implied "built" is used as "engineered/designed", in the same way I "build" a shitty engine for an app
I don't know anything about this artist, could you tell what toxic stuff she's done?
I feel like if you're on a comic strip community you should expect to see various comic strips even from artists you don't like, no? Just block the community or filter the word from titles
real, use rust and zig
every time i run into an issue with rust and i'm like "ah man it's so annoying the language doesn't have this feature" i go write the same thing in c++ or kotlin or something, and then i realize why i hardly touch anything other than rust or f#...
the lack of (generic) variadics, overloading, proper specialization, etc. in rust gets really annoying sometimes but it's an issue solvable with macros and/or weird trait manipulation (feels hacky but it's whatever).
I want my fucking foreskin back
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overdosed on stupid juice
I could say that about Destiny 2 but I still feel dirty about giving any sort of money to Bungie
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I would always recommend people get a second opinion from an ADHD&Autism specialist, because unfortunately many medical professionals go through all of their education/training without ever actually being taught any thing about ADHD. Many doctors' knowledge of mental disorders are also decades out of date.
A decent chunk of doctors just know ADHD (and many other disabilities) off of stereotypes and/or misinformation, it's a common thing in the medical field sadly.
Many times people are either misdiagnosed (sometimes a person with ADHD might also have another disorder which causes the doctor to not think it's ADHD causing specific problems) with an anxiety disorder, BPD, a depressive disorder, or even Bipolar, unsurprisingly ASD too. Symptoms often present similarly to those.
Many ADHD symptoms present similarly to a depression and/or BPD, and ASD & ADHD symptoms can overlap a good bit (but they're not the same despite some people thinking ADHD is part of the ASD spectrum).
Presence of symptoms also causes anxiety (as in when you were in school and you had an assignment due in a few hours, but you can't force yourself to do it, but you don't want to do anything else because then you'd feel bad about doing that instead of the assignment, so you sit for hours in a pool of anxiousness and ADHD paralysis while not doing the assignment even though there's theoretically enough time to)
ADHD also has extremely high comorbidity and link with other disabilities, like the ones named above as well as things like Schizophrenia, Dyspraxia, Dyscalcula/Dyslexia/Dysgraphia.
The biggest problem though is that there's this massive stigma against ADHD, it's seen as a bad thing for someone to have ADHD (especially to parents of kids with ADHD, who often deny it vehemently and take it as a personal attack) and there's this perception of it not being real or serious, plus there's a whole myth of it being universally overdiagnosed (ADHD is actually extremely undiagnosed, despite some people getting the opposite impression that doctors just say every kid has ADHD these days). It's just something conflated with this concept of "laziness" or "just normal things everyone experiences", like a lot of other disorders are (victims of chronic depression and panic attacks can often relate)
Basically always get another opinion if you're still not sure. Someone with ADHD that only finds out later in life may have to change their entire view & approach on the world/life and learn to come to terms with how current society works against them, and how they can try to minimize the massive disadvantage they're given in most situations. So knowing is pretty important.
Larger file size means significantly larger cost when you're working with lots of data... especially when transferring data over the internet
To be fair USSR after communism was leagues better than USSR before communism ever could have been. But it's not exactly proving much pointing out that an extremely unequal authoritarian regime is worse than a more equal but still authoritarian regime.
I don't think the comparison works anyway because this is a true example of exactly what most libertarians have wet dreams of, while with communism people try to use e.g. the USSR and PRC to discredit leftism as a whole (especially socialism) even though any leftist worth their salt would realize authoritarianism is bad and creates a dangerous hierarchy, which is why Marx and Engels specified their ideologies to be democratic.
When I take an image file and change its extension from webp to png it converts the binary data, so I imagine your OS' default file manager would do that too. Maybe not tho.
I haven't come across a single image or video editor that doesn't support webp nowadays. I use paint.net, krita, aseprite, inkscape, ibis paint x, opentoonz, and davinci resolve, plus libreoffice if you count that, they all support importing/exporting and editing webp just as any other image file format. I'm pretty sure GIMP and Photoshop do too but I don't use them so I can't say for sure
I feel like a majority of people have to go out of their way to make webp an inconvenience in the modern day.
Besides, if it for some reason doesn't work in a specific situation you need it you can just manually change the extension to ".jpeg" or ".png" and Windows/Linux/Android file managers will automatically convert it. But I can guess most people don't actually face a situation like that.
what's wrong with webp? it's a significantly more efficient file format (like 20% less file size for the same quality) and is supported everywhere by now. if anything, the default should be webp for image types that can be both lossy and losslessly compressed
So you're saying that israel doesn't have any right to protect their own people?
Lol, this is hilarious when you consider Israel and the western world directly funded Hamas and intentionally caused his rise to power. Israel has been causing the immense suffering of Palestinians as well as muslims who are Israeli (who are second-class citizens and treated as subhuman) for decades, but they never got the "right" to defend themselves, they couldn't defend themselves even if they wanted because they would get obliterated by a vastly superior military might. A radical reactionary government is an obvious response to a greater power oppressing them, genocidal maniacs create genocidal maniacs. Israel doesn't give a shit about its citizens nor "self-defense", their government wants an excuse to genocide & subjugate peoples they don't like and take their land. It's the modern world, you can find all the evidence like videos you want of the Israeli military blatantly committing war crimes and executing unarmed Palestinians like animals, that is not self-defense.
I think you forgot to read the fact that these "childrens" must've done something to be put into prison or detention, either because they did some crime against israeli
Actually no, I'm clearly the one that did the reading here because if you actually knew anything about the detention of Palestinians & other groups in Palestine, you would know that the concentration camps they're put in don't require any actual crimes to be committed for them to be held captive there, and there are thousands in those camps who aren't charged with any crime at all and who weren't arrested for a crime.
or by illegally staying in israel.
You mean the non-Israeli land that Israel is illegally occupying?
Do you think they're too stupid to purposely want to be hated by the whole world by jailing innocent childrens??
You think other countries give a shit about crimes against humanity? They're perfectly willing to turn a blind eye if it's from a country they support, Germany is too afraid of seeming anti-semitic to tolerate any criticism of Israel and Israel is too strategically and ideologically important to the US (and mang others) for the US to actually take a real stance against them. Many Europeans are also fiercly anti-muslim, spurred from anti-immigrant sentiment due to a lot of 3rd worlders fleeing to Europe. And most of the other countries that are protesting their crimes against humanity don't exactly affect Israel that much anyways, they rely mostly on countries like the US, China, Germany, etc. Many Israel-aligned countries committed and still commit war crimes all the time, and they don't give a shit when others do it (like Vietnam when first France and then the US completely fucked up Vietnam and its environment all starting from wanting to maintain imperial holdings and then wanting to destroy the government most people supported, and the UK and rest of the NATO-aligned world supported this injustice, only Sweden protested but it didn't change much), they only sometimes pretend to care when it's politically or strategically beneficial.
A little horrors beyond human comprehension won't affect relations with strongly allied or even in some cases separately-aligned nations much – remember that most of the white world, including the UK and US, was fine with or mostly apathetic towards the persecution of Jews (often turning away Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany when the ethnic cleansing was starting) until the people persecuting Jews attacked them or their allies. They didn't take action because it would threaten their international relations. Plus look, the US unjustly jails people constantly at a much higher rate than the rest of the world including both the "civilized" and "uncivilized" countries, and for an unreasonably long duration for a lot of crimes many of which shouldn't even be crimes, but it's not like that is something the rest of the world actually cares about enough to do anything about.
ah yes, the 7200 terrorists, including hundreds of child terrorists. the two and a half 9/11 deaths worth of terrorists
i'm sure most of those are legitimate imprisonments that aren't at all human rights violations, despite many of those people all not having any charges associated with their arrests. i'm sure the vastly unequal treatment of palestinians vs israelis that includes an indefinite time in captivity facing physical abuse and strip searches along with things like public and private gatherings of 10 or more people being illegal for specifically palestinians isn't anything to worry about
But, there are patterns to the language and using a soft "g" sound doesn't follow those patterns, so it's objectively a less correct pronunciation.
Who makes these mystical "rules" that English surely follows? And who says the patterns you see are objectively more correct, there are a ton of other words with "g"/"gi" that pronounce it with a /dʒ/, you have to do some real mental gymnastics to justify one of them being more correct. There is a point where you have to paint a massively arbitrary line to which patterns are more "correct", it is a completely subjective matter.
Who cares about that guy?
He's the only one that can be considered an authority on how the word is pronounced LMAO.
He made a mistake, he should have looked up how words are pronounced before trying to get people to mispronounce "gif".
Pronunciation isn't based on spelling, it's the other way around. Writing is a tool made to accomodate language, and said writing isn't a pronunciation guide. You're lobotomized if you think otherwise, especially in English. But regardless, see below.
If he'd said it was supposed to be pronounced "dug" people would have just ignored him, but his attempt wasn't that absurd, it was just slightly wrong, so not everyone ignored him the way they should have.
But he didn't pronounce it like "dug". He pronounced it consistently with another common 3-letter word "gin". Is "gin" wrong now? You can cope with being wrong all you want, but it doesn't make you less wrong.
It really sounds like you didn't have friends. The rest of us did.
Yeah no that writing reads like a fake Reddit story, I refuse to believe even the dumbest teenagers would act like that.
Of course it does. How you pronounce things depends on the language you use. How people pronounce the letters "gif" is based on their language. In English, it's a hard g.
The English writing system isn't the English language, and the English writing system isn't consistent enough to make estimations for a pronunciation like that. The only two words in the language that contain "gif" are "gift" and "fungiform", plus derivatives of course, the latter of which is generally, by standard, pronounced with a /dʒ/ sound. If you think that's enough basis to go off of to make rules for every other word containing "gif", and then insist that your pronunciation is "correct", that's a you problem.
The same goes for any language – German has mostly-consistent generalized spelling conventions for the language that approximate pronunciation, but a LOT of common words break this convention, including "guken", "orange", the ending "-ig", "toilette", "vase", etc. which are pronounced differently than their spelling would lead you to believe. In fact it is most common for Fremdwörter & Lehnwörter to not be spelled typically. Is every German speaker pronouncing those words wrong now? What about Italian languages, which often do the same thing but significantly more? You can look at less and less standardized languages that contain more and more irregularities, until you get to a language like English and see that the "irregularities" in the writing system completely outweigh any actual "regularities" you see and it becomes completely pointless to try to enforce a pronunciation based on a certain spelling. It's why people learning a language like English or Tibetan or even Danish will have often cite the spelling as an extreme pain point (I can corroborate the first based on my experience teaching ESL), it is an inconsistent orthography where the spelling is almost entirely dependent on the etymology or something else, rather than any current pronunciation.
It's also convenient how you left out the entire part about the dictionaries. Almost as if that was a silver bullet for your flawed argument and you can't acknowledge it because it would make you look too crazy. Because the people who are the most looked up on for "correct" language by most English speakers say you're wrong. Hmmm.
When you consider that a large number of words in English which are spelled the same have different pronunciations or are pronounced wildly phonemically differently by different speakers or in different dialects, like "minute", "combat", "perfect", "read", "bass", "close", "agape", "object", "sewer", "wind", "wound"... "apricot", "leisure", "often", "crayon", "either", "been", "caramel", "garage", "yogurt"... your argument about pronunciation based on "spelling rules" falls apart pretty quickly.
Present your argument on how English works to any linguists or even anyone who has basic knowledge of linguistics and you'll be laughed out of the room.
That is the most anti-linguistic take ever lmao. There is no such thing as an objectively correct pronunciation, both pronunciations of "gif" are valid in the context of most English conversations.
On another note, the guy who created it said it's pronounced /dʒɪf/, so if any pronunciation is more "correct" it's the one you hate. It's not "some people tried to claim", that's what it actually is "correctly" pronounced like according to the only one that can come close to being considered an authority on what the correct pronunciation is.
Your comment being so pretentious and stuck-up about you not liking a pronunciation leads me to believe you're making the whole "we" thing up, and instead of a group of people being dumbasses and laughing at a correct pronunciation, it was just one person (you) malding about it in their head. Because being the kind of person to actually laugh at something like that in real life, face to face, would be too embarrassing for anyone to actually go through with it. God even just reading your comment makes me feel like I'm looking at made-up Reddit stories again...
Also how people speaking other languages handle names doesn't have anything to do with this, there's a big difference between calling someone "wrong" for pronouncing a loanword differently than in the parent language because of the languages' phonetics & phonotactics not aligning with each other, and insisting that everyone else is "wrong" because their completely linguistically valid, common pronunciation challenges your understanding of the language.
Oxford uses /dʒɪf/ as the primary pronunciation with /gif/ as the secondary in most of their resources (although a lot don't specify a primary or secondary), Dictionary.com lists /dʒɪf/ as the primary pronunciation, some like Merriam-Webster list both equally, Cambridge less consistent but list both. Clearly the people who's job is language disagree with you, even if you don't want to ask for linguists to tell you, they literally make the language references you use. If you want to be stubborn and insist on being wrong, so be it.
You can now continue malding about the fact that you use the incorrect pronunciation for the rest of your life, since apparently that's how you see language.
fuck i needed this