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- Comment on Machine Rights Will Give Us A Harder Fight 4 days ago:
I don’t really care to argue about this, but isn’t this logically flawed? If machines will give a harder fight than trans people have, then does that not mean that they might succeed to gain rights even if trans people fail?
- Comment on Police seize £200k Lamborghini under tightened antisocial driving laws 4 days ago:
Supercars like this are inherently probable cause for antisocial driving, so they should all be seized.
- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 1 week ago:
Isn’t the input lag going to be insane if the game runs at, say, 10 fps? This would have to come with some kind of new render pipeline where the simulation can somehow still run at a higher framerate.
- Comment on The American Dream, minus 60% 1 week ago:
That’s probably the minority of voters.
- Comment on Day 771 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
I never understood why they put the monsters in the Stronghold of Security. They aren’t even good for grinding are they?
- Comment on Curl up 2 weeks ago:
This belongs on a t-shirt
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Officially Have A Pay-To-Press Button 3 weeks ago:
Was not this already known after the release of Switch 2?
Yes, which is why this article is from 2025. Why OP is posting it now is anyone’s guess.
- Comment on To win and so this before the loser could have with you 4 weeks ago:
Given the TikTok UI, I presume this is from a gambling ad.
- Comment on Anon borrows a pen 4 weeks ago:
If anon were smooth, he would’ve asked for her phone number after getting the pen and then written it on his wrist. But then he would not be anon.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I asked the Magic 8 Ball and it said that signs point to yes.
- Comment on Anon meets Jigsaw 1 month ago:
Wait, Jigsaw is an old guy? I thought he was a doll.
- Comment on PLZ 1 month ago:
Nothing really, they can eat it just fine. Bread is just poor in certain micronutrients that birds need, so if their diet is mostly bread (which is common for pond ducks) they can get a nutrient deficiency that may cause a condition called angel wing (the exact cause is apparently unknown).
- Comment on three cheers for fate! 1 month ago:
They’re not attacking billionaire yachts though, instead it’s small sailing boats. Some of those are probably owned by fairly rich people, but probably not that rich.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
The “first real” tractor wasn’t invented in 1839 (that one wasn’t self-propelled, it was just a movable steam engine). The first actual self-propelled traction engine was produced in 1859, and obviously many traction engine-related inventions followed in the next couple of decades.
The plough page you linked earlier mentions several different kinds of ploughs being invented around 1873 – for example the stump-jump plough which was invented in 1876. It’s entirely possible that there was some kind of plough invented in 1873.
However, the most likely explanation is probably this: John Deere created the first steel plough in 1837. The author of this meme found this fact and mistakenly swapped the 3 and 7 around, arriving at 1873.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
1873 would be around when tractors were invented, so it’s possible there was some specific kind of plough that was invented in 1873 that Google’s AI search result showed to whatever dimwit made this meme.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible to construct a self reproducing mechanical device? 1 month ago:
Precluding chemical reactions would pretty much make this impossible, given that any non-trivial machine would have to refine raw materials which would involve chemistry.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 1 month ago:
There are in Japanese. That is the entire point.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 1 month ago:
Damn, you really don’t get it.
“Pedophile” is a very loaded word in English, arguably one of the most loaded words in the language. Calling someone a pedophile in English is tantamount to saying that they should be shunned and behind bars or at least on a list. Doing so without evidence can get you charged for defamation (and acquitted, but only if you’re rich enough—but I digress).
ロリコン in Japanese is substantially less loaded. Therefore “pedophile” is not universally the accurate translation; in some circumstances it’s more accurate to use an euphemism, or the loanword “lolicon” which is pretty well established in English at this point.
This has nothing to do with condoning or condemning pedophilia, by the way. And even if it did, then I’d argue that, if anything, using “pedophile” in a mild and casual context, like how “lolicon” is sometimes used, serves to reduce the stigma rather than maintain it. Though that’s a discussion I have no interest in getting into right now.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 1 month ago:
Yeah, and to someone who doesn’t know that context, using the word “pedophile” is going to make the line sound very different from what it does in the original language and culture.
Part of the job of a translator is to…
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 1 month ago:
Yes, and part of the job of a translator is to make sure that this fact is clear to the reader of the translation. “Pedophile” is virtually never a socially acceptable moniker in English whereas sometimes in Japanese “lolicon” is. Therefore it cannot be translated directly. This isn’t particularly unusual; Japanese is a very contextual language, so even beyond cultural differences there are lots of words that require a different translation in different contexts.
For this specific scene the translation could well be fine (I imagine it’s probably a gag scene where the other character gets flustered and rejects the accusation), but there are circumstances where a different translation is required.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 1 month ago:
So small-minded? Let me remind you that “cannibal” is originally an ethnonym coined by Columbus for the native Caribbean people, whose culture certainly had a lot more nuance than just eating people.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 1 month ago:
Yeah a lot of Rudeus’s character is explained by it being a coming-of-age story but instead of a child growing up it’s a manchild growing up.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 1 month ago:
The MiA author is definitely a sex pervert (the volume extras leave no question of this), but children being put through incredibly fucked up dangerous body horror situations because most adults in the setting are useless and/or evil is like half the point of the story. It really does need that.
The fanservice stuff, on the other hand, is either just Japan being Japan, or further playing into the lost innocence theme above. I think one can convincingly argue for it being a little bit of both or entirely just the former, but it almost certainly is not entirely just the latter.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 1 month ago:
It’s a relatively recent thing in the west, too. Not too long ago (well into the previous century) most girls were married off by their 15th or 16th birthday. “Fun” fact: there’s still a lot of child marriage in the US to this day: en.wikipedia.org/…/Child_marriage_in_the_United_S…
Japan isn’t actually substantially different in this regard – sure, they have their teen idols, but then so does the US (Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, what have you) – except they draw a clear line between fictional and real child pornography, both legally and in terms of general attitudes. The legal part isn’t that strange (lolicon material isn’t illegal in most of the US either), but the way general morality permits it in Japan but doesn’t in the US is interesting. My guess is that this is partially explained by the US generally being pretty puritanical when it comes to sexuality, whereas Japan is more liberal about it (in their own way), but that can’t be the only thing because European countries do not have the puritan culture of the US but also don’t share the Japanese tolerance of lolicon.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 1 month ago:
I don’t know, I haven’t watched the show so I don’t know what the meaning is here.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 1 month ago:
Part of the job of a translator is to translate cultural nuance, which would be lost here. That’s what makes the translation inaccurate in some contexts.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 1 month ago:
That sort of pedophilia just has much less cultural acceptance in English speaking world
Which is why it’s not always the most accurate translation. Part of the job of a translator is to translate cultural nuance, which would be lost here.
It’s a bit like how in English, Epstein wouldn’t call Trump a pedophile, he’d say he “likes them young”. In Japanese he could call him a lolicon and get the same tone.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 1 month ago:
Yes, and it’s also used about actual pedophiles. It’s a word with multiple senses/connotations, and one of those senses corresponds closely with the English word “pedophile” while the others do not. That’s why “pedophile” is not always the correct translation for it – though whether it’s correct in this case I can’t say, as I haven’t watched the anime in question.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 1 month ago:
It has a wider variety of usage in Japanese than “pedophile” does in English, so no, it’s not always the most accurate translation. For example, “lolicon” (ロリコン) is used self-referentially, sometimes as a joke and sometimes not, in Japan while “pedophile” is basically never used like this in English. It’s also not too uncommon to use it of another person as a relatively lighthearted jab in Japanese, when in English calling someone else a pedophile (or even the more casual pedo) is a grave accusation.
- Comment on Is this a rope hanging under a helicopter? 1 month ago:
I haven’t seen his experiment and don’t really care what he did. Other independent experiments have shown that some wet wipes do disintegrate. The reason authorities recommend against their use is what I said: there is no standard for what constitutes “flushable” and the industry is rife with false advertising.
Here’s some plumbing YouTube guy testing a bunch of them and finding some that do disintegrate while others do not: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVijZZ2yAtc
Of course the best option is a bidet, but this is as of yet unknown technology to most Americans.