I have two chimps within, Laziness and Hyperactivity. They smoke cigs, drink yerba, fling shit at each other, and devour the face of anyone who gets close to either.
They also devour my dreams.
And it’s such a great game. It exploits really well the expectations of visual novels and games in general, first pretending to play along them and then breaking those expectations. (I’m trying my hardest to not spoil it, seriously.)
But Google doesn’t care about it. Or about sensible rules. Or enforcing fairly the very rules it expects you to follow.
I don’t think the series is inappropriate at all. Like, even if I had children and saw one of them reading this series, I wouldn’t mind it.
There are quite a few manga and anime that have inappropriate relations between teachers and students, but this one gets singled out (even if it’s not that inappropriate, looking at your comment)?
Bingo. I know plenty of those, and even read one or two of them; I don’t think it’s morally bad, because it’s all fiction. But I do get pissed at this sort of double standard, where I get to enjoy even raunchy things and other people can’t enjoy even inoffensive things because they happen to be gay, fuck this shit. (Sorry for the swearing, it isn’t targetted at you, I’m just angry.)
Punctuation is the text equivalent of prosody, the comma splice is not some “error” to be “fought against”, unlike what all those toilet paper manual styles literally screech against, they’re like those junk emails we get, comma splice is the equivalent of speaking fast and relatively uninterrupted, like I’m doing here, it’s a self-demonstrating example anyway, you probably get it, right.
…serious now. What you say in a discursive level IMO matters way, way more than how you say it.
There are some exceptions¹ but I typically don’t downvote people for asking why the downvotes.
That’s because I think the downvote button is an awfully vague feedback channel; it informs you people saw something they don’t like in your post/comment, but never what they did. Sometimes you can take a good guess, but it’s at most a guess, not knowledge².
In fact I wish the downvote button was multiple buttons: like “this is wrong”, “this is bad”, “this is unfunny”, etc. For this reason; it simply works better as feedback. Slashdot has a similar-ish system, but for the positive votes instead.
But I get why people voice that feedback through a downvote button: it’s fast. And also because it’s pseudo-anonymous³, so the poster can voice their take without inserting themself into the discussion. But IMO that’s a flaw, not a feature.
Such tragic news. I’m going to lose my sleep because of th…
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…sorry, I dropped off for a wee bit. What were we talking about?
Warning: I’m not mincing words.
Oh look, assumptive trash who can’t read context ruining the day of yet another person. This time the target is a manga artist.
I don’t typically read teen romance manga series (nothing wrong with them, just not my cup of tea). But I gave this one a check. Quick summary: main character (Nakamura Okuto) has a crush on his schoolmate (Hirose Aiki) and is trying to get closer to him.
The manga does a pretty good job representing the insecurity-fuelled wild imagination of the late teen years; almost everyone was like this, with the MC being gay adding further insecurity.
Here’s the octopus scene in question, from chapter 2:
It’s clear by context that this (first page) is just Nakamura’s imagination going wild, as reality (second page) is shared immediately afterwards. And come on, Hirose is fully clothed, the scene is by no means “raunchy”, even if you get the reference (NSFW Wikipedia link). It’s being played for humour and characterisation of the MC, not for sexual gratification.
The allegedly “inappropriate behaviour” with the teacher? Chapter 10. Some assumptive teachers picking up on a student (Hirose), the teacher calling him into a room, and pretending to give the student an earful. Then winking to convey “it’s all fake” to the reader. And here’s what the teacher is up to, from chapter 11:
Trying to be a teacher his students can rely on. Wow such shameful behaviour. /s
Now, let’s ask the following: if the love interest of the main character was a girl instead of a boy, would people create such a ruckus? I genuinely do not think so, and I think the fake outrage is motivated by homophobia.
But that’s how the cookie crumbles in Twitter and Reddit, innit? And here (the Fediverse) too. Distort what you see, vomit assumptions, clip context, all so you can fake some outrage “for great justice” while enforcing injustice. Because it doesn’t bloody matter if you’re actually helping with a social cause, you just want to vomit “as an ally lol lmao”, those slacktivists consider their precious-oh-so-precious feelings more important than the marginalised groups they lie (yes) to defend. And it’s pretty easy to bring the “think on the children teens!” discourse to distil homophobia.
The fact the Syundei-sensei is a woman also relevant. Society forces women to bend to pressure way more than us men; doubly so in Japan, where the idealised woman (yamako nadeshiko) is supposed to show submission.
Side note: her art style clearly takes inspiration of the early 90s manga scene, I love it.
That threat did not materialize, and now some apologists are saying that it was just one of Trump’s deranged bargaining tactics, as if that excuses such categorical declarations of mass violence from a US president
Even if playing along this fucking farce of “just” a “bargaining tactic” (instead of accurately representing it as commitment to war crimes), and even if we brush off all moral standards (we should not), that’s still bloody stupid. He’s making sure the Iranian population gets as motivated as possible to resist, while the United-Statian population resists against any sort of war effort. He’s shooting his own foot split hoof.
Currently, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, xAI, Oracle and even Meta have large contracts with the US military.
That should surprise nobody. Let’s play “spot who you know”:
But this week should serve as a clarifying moment.
Aah, cut off the crap. If this is a clarifying moment for anyone, the person in question has been living under a rock since forever.
By “USA” and “Iran” I’m referring to the governments. The comment wouldn’t make sense if it was referring to the populations.
I’ve been using mostly DuckDuckGo. It isn’t considerably better than Google, but it’s already enough and I don’t need to touch Google at all. When it fails, Kagi free tier.
The trick is to give up the idea you’ll find the result on your first try, instead use the results there to further refine your search. Forcing words with “quotation marks”, removing words with a -minus, this sort of stuff.
My picks from this list:
Thales and Pythagoras’ origination of modern mathematics
Descartes’ launch of modern analytic philosophy
Newton’s mechanics and calculus
Darwin’s theory of evolution
Mendeleev’s periodic table
Einstein’s special and general relativity
Probability theory
Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetism
If I must pick one, it would be Mendeleev’s periodic table.
The reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European, the common ancestor of the Indo-European languages
Some might be surprised by what I’m going to say, given I’m passionate towards this topic, but: I genuinely do not think the reconstruction of PIE is anywhere close to other achievements in the list. The reconstruction itself has more holes than a sieve, like:
and so goes on.
Sad but not surprising. Iran got the upper hand, and USA refuses to admit defeat. Throw in something similar to the gambler’s fallacy (“we were losing, so we’ll be winning!”) and USA has more motivation to stick into the war than the rational approach would be.
And odds are they know Iran is trying to play the long game.
The tactic of mass destruction of homes in Gaza, where Israel has been accused of committing genocide, was described as domicide by academics, a strategy that is used to systematically destroy and damage civilian housing to render entire areas uninhabitable.
The accusation of genocide is completely accurate; domicide is only part of it. Israel’s modus operandi goes as follows:
It’s likely what Netanyahu is doing with Lebanon, too. Nazism called it Lebensraum (“life space”, or “living space”); I don’t know how the Zionism calls it, but it’s the same deal.
Moving past the obvious slurs in your comment
I already explained why they were used, here and here.
those migrants might actually get more of a red carpet treatment - sorry to spoil your vengeful dreams.
Emphasis mine. Contrariwise to your assumption, no, I don’t dream about people getting treated like subhumans. I encourage you to actually read the comment you’re replying to, and you’ll see
…seriously, I hope not. I’m not from the belief two wrongs make a right. Immigration is part of human social behaviour since some of us left Africa; and I’m not surprised they’re leaving USA, given the current awful state of that place acc. to news.
Side note: if I wanted to write “vengeful dreams”, I’d have better targets. And I wouldn’t write something as mild (yes) as that comment.
In part because they are who they are
i.e. a society built from oppression, living from oppression, and selling it as merit.
but also because of the spoken language making it easier to get higher paid jobs […]
Okay, you clearly did not get the comment you’re answering to, so I’ll summarise:
Your typical American expects to be treated above others, as if this was a divine right granted to the United Karenland of America. And news are simply parroting this mindset, doing everything possible to not step on little Karenlanders’ toes. I’m trying to remind them that, if they get well treated, it’s because there are plenty people out there who behave like decent beings, instead of behaving like your typical American.
Now, if your depiction of Romania is accurate or not in this regard, that’s irrelevant for the sake of my original comment. But I’ll ask you the following: do the Roma folks agree with you? Technically they aren’t immigrants, but a similar situation applies. (Just like African Americans in USA.)
Side note #2: language prestige piggybacks on the power (soft and hard) associated with its speakers. And I think it’s an open secret USA is going downhill. I wouldn’t be surprised if “I’m a native English speaker!” became a liability later on.
And as a personal opinion, I think it’s wrong to put all the American migrants in the same pot.
That is not what I’m doing.
Their dice remind me the ones from senet (board game from Egypt):
See the sticks there? They might look different, but they’re similar in spirit: two sided and uneven. Senet is way more recent than those Native American dice, though, probably from around 3000 BCE.
Just as a word of advice, don’t use slurs from another cultures.
I promise you sound just as ignorant and bigoted using the slurs you don’t understand.
Frankly? If there’s something sounding bigoted here, it’s your “since you’re not American I assume you’re an ignorant*, so let me enlighten you poor little thing” discourse.
I might not be a native English speaker but I’m fully aware of the offensiveness of the word in question; and it’s being used for this very reason, to highlight shit immigrants in USA go through, but emigrants from USA expect to avoid. (Ooopsie, I’m supposed to mince words and call them “expats”, right?)
And by the bloody reactions, this shite worked pretty well, innit.
*just in case: nominalisation intended.
The “I’m not racist but” introduction [SIC] did not help here.
That is not even remotely close to what I wrote in the content warning; don’t distort it.
You’re way too comfortable using the slurs you used
Don’t assume. I don’t typically use one of the words in question, except metalinguistically and when relevant to do so. I did it here because I know it makes people from a certain privileged group (Americans) uncomfortable. Note also how I am not using it to target the group it’s usually used against (Black people; they aren’t part of the problem).
And regarding “spic”, since it targets to my own group (Latin Americans), I give myself the freedom to use it.
and this whole exercise waw just unnecessary mocking of people who genuinely just want better lives
I’m not mocking anyone for wanting a better life. I’m showing what other people, who are (or were, given the current state of the things) also seeking a better life, were subjected to. “Hope you don’t need to taste your own society’s poison, and be genuinely grateful if you don’t”.
If anything I’m angry at the bloody double standard shown by the media (including this text) regarding American immigrants and immigrants in USA. And, as I said, the expectations of some Americans. “I’m American, I deserve to be treated better than those fucking spics!” (inb4 refer to what I said regarding “spic”)
You’re openly enjoying a power fantasy of denigrating people
Stop assuming. You’re making shit up about what’s inside someone else’s head, dammit. If you want to criticise what I wrote it’s fair game, but I’m not wasting my time with the next bullshit about my “comfort” or “enjoyment” or whatever.
I already stated why I did this.
trying to escape from fascism
When some people here tried to escape from fascism, guess how they were treated there?
And by “fascism” here, I don’t mean just 16 months. I mean decades, due to coups staged by USA. And people going to USA because being treated the way I represented there would be still better than “giving birth to electricity” as a political dissident.
But we don’t talk about this here, right? Noooo, only Americans (or should I say WASPs?) trying a better life.
smugly asserting yourself as superior
Okay. Third assumption = bullshit in a row. I’m not engaging further with you, go assume what the Pope is thinking.
If you don’t say anything, nobody will call you out for lying. Even if lying by omission is a thing.
I spelled out the actual slurs to not lessen their impact. I know plenty people from USA visit the Fediverse and this comm; I wanted them to see the sort of treatment immigrants in their country get (that goes from denial of deciding one’s own identity to dehumanisation), while reading the news shared by the OP, about when they are the immigrants in other countries. Because I’ve noticed a lot of them expect others to roll red carpets for them, when they never did the same towards the others.
In the meantime I asterisked “burger” into “b*rger” to show a bit of culture stereotypically associated with Americans being treated itself as a slur. (Cue to “spic”. Like, are we Latin Americans supposed to feel bad for… spicing our food?)
One more thing, since I’m talking about this. I focused on Latin Americans because I do happen to know people from here who live in USA; but the same applies to other groups there. East Asians, Meds (from both sides of the sea, but specially the southern one), Middle Easterners… and it goes without saying their society does the same shit towards the descendants of people they forced to live there as slaves, stigmatising even their bloody African American dialects.
The new season is animated by a totally different company, and the first episode looks great (aside from the OP).
That’s good to know! To be honest I don’t mind some usage of AI; but I tend to judge books by covers, and anime series by the OP, so if they’re getting sloppy with the OP I’m concerned about the rest.
Gotta love HN reasoning skills. /s
The text itself says the real surge: it’s the digital one, that started in 1971.