stoly
@stoly@lemmy.world
- Comment on Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border? 2 weeks ago:
These things have existed for as long as cities did but worried mostly about import duties than immigrants. In most of history, having more people to do useful things was a good thing and they tended not to block immigration except when there might be ethnic or racial tensions and such.
- Comment on How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this? 3 weeks ago:
I had a friend who was a computer science student and did an additional major in Japanese just so he could read manga in original language. It can be done but requires a lot of dedication.
If you are a native English speaker, then learning Germanic and Romance languages will be easy because they have much in common. With Japanese, there’s no real evolutionary commonality so you really have to just learn a whole new system that doesn’t match your expectations–and from scratch. Example:
1,352
English: one-thousand three-hundred fifty-two Japanese: one thousands place, three hundreds place, five tens place, two
Just the conception of how numbers work is different. This isn’t to say you shouldn’t try to do this, it would be fantastic. Just know that you have to develop a lot of new intuitions.
- Comment on Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg 3 weeks ago:
lol my first question was whether that was from wales
- Comment on What is up with Gen Alphas love for Austin Powers? 3 weeks ago:
When Austin Powers came out I thought it was the funniest thing ever. 25 years later I watched a few scenes and turned it off. It aged really poorly.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating. 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t that what happened with Win 7?
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 3 weeks ago:
This is an aspect of driving that people don’t get. It doesn’t necessarily matter WHAT the laws are–there are so many ways to drive all around the world. What matters is that everyone follows the same ones so that they know what to expect from others. If people routinely ignore one law in a region and that’s part of the expectation, then everyone is just fine. It’s that one person who doesn’t follow the norms that is dangerous.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 3 weeks ago:
There are no “bad people” but plenty of people who do shitty things. Here are some of those that street racers do:
- They endanger themselves and others
- They make a lot of noise
- They pollute, scar, and mark the streets
So probably “yes” if you want to define it that way.
- Comment on Mr. Pope 3 weeks ago:
So if you are a true Catholic you have to take the word of the Pope as the word of God. Catholics who disagree with the pope are hypocrites.
- Comment on After 10 years of every social media platform becoming just another political propaganda machine Im totally bored of it. 3 weeks ago:
I agree. It was fun for a very long time and then somewhere around 2015 it became a political shitshow and people started getting mean.
- Comment on Does it feel like the PS5's library is *severely* lacking compared to the PS4's around the same time in its lifecycle? 4 weeks ago:
Lol I love how you criticize the gaming industry and then your friends directly.
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 5 weeks ago:
Or complete
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 5 weeks ago:
It was an international group that met in France that created the metric system.
- Comment on Has this happened to you? 5 weeks ago:
That’s because you suffer the deadly condition of caring about the well being of others.
- Comment on My friend got this when she tried to view a Reddit post about a dental issue that got marked as NSFW 1 month ago:
There are orders of magnitude difference in the severity.
- Comment on How come butthole scratches doesn't get infected with poop bacteria ? 1 month ago:
good one!
- Comment on How come butthole scratches doesn't get infected with poop bacteria ? 1 month ago:
They do. It’s why you have an immune system. You’re literally being attacked millions of times per day but keep it in check.
- Comment on Why do narcissists have such fragile egos? 1 month ago:
Narcissism is not neurodivergence, it is a personality disorder. There is a great difference between them.
- Comment on Why do narcissists have such fragile egos? 1 month ago:
The fragility is part of the narcissism. You don’t get one without the other. In the end, narcissism is an extreme projection of insecurity, which is why “narcissistic rage” is a thing.
- Comment on Chemical companies lobbying MPs not to ban Pfas 1 month ago:
lol nice one
- Comment on Chemical companies lobbying MPs not to ban Pfas 1 month ago:
LOL how do you make an argument that essentially goes “please let us continue to pollute so that we can make more money”?
- Comment on Elden Ring on Switch 2 Is a Disaster in Handheld Mode - IGN 2 months ago:
I hadn’t realized that that was a thing, amazing!
- Comment on Polymer P0rn 2 months ago:
I think the joke for the top two might be mixed up.
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 2 months ago:
Can you imagine being the president of some country and being forced to pretend like you’re at all interested?
- Comment on Why are drivers for food delivery apps so often listed wrong? 2 months ago:
For delivery, I don’t know that I have seen it. Perhaps for Uber/Lyft, though.
- Comment on Why are drivers for food delivery apps so often listed wrong? 2 months ago:
This is like content matching on YouTube or Twitch. It can be wrong but what are you going to do about it?
- Comment on Why are drivers for food delivery apps so often listed wrong? 2 months ago:
They are referring to the fact that the app might show a photo and the person showing up is not the same as in the photo of the driver.
- Comment on Why are drivers for food delivery apps so often listed wrong? 2 months ago:
Because someone with the proper papers is signing up but their family member is doing the actual work. It’s basically working the system. People actually get jobs this way too.
- Comment on USB-C extensions are not allowed for a reason 2 months ago:
It’s important to note that not all cables connect all the wires. You don’t need them all if your cable is only for charging. You need more if your cable transfers data.
- Comment on USB-C extensions are not allowed for a reason 2 months ago:
The USB consortium has responded to this sort of need over time, but they have to do it in a way that is completely backwards compatible. It might be possible to do this in a new release of the standard, but it may also be that millions of cheap cables would be rendered useless in the process.
- Comment on USB-C extensions are not allowed for a reason 2 months ago:
But lightning isn’t usb-c.