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- Comment on Anon meets Jigsaw 3 days ago:
Wait, Jigsaw is an old guy? I thought he was a doll.
- Comment on PLZ 1 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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? 2 weeks 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" ☠️ 2 weeks ago:
There are in Japanese. That is the entire point.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 2 weeks 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" ☠️ 2 weeks 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" ☠️ 2 weeks 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" ☠️ 2 weeks 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" ☠️ 2 weeks 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" ☠️ 2 weeks 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" ☠️ 2 weeks 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" ☠️ 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know, I haven’t watched the show so I don’t know what the meaning is here.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 2 weeks 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" ☠️ 2 weeks 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" ☠️ 2 weeks 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" ☠️ 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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.
- Comment on Is this a rope hanging under a helicopter? 2 weeks ago:
To be fair some wet wipes are flushable (as in they disintegrate when flushed), the problem is that not all of them are and there’s no standard they have to adhere to, so even the ones that shouldn’t be flushed are allowed to advertise themselves as flushable.
- Comment on Is this a rope hanging under a helicopter? 2 weeks ago:
You are literally 20 years late with this opinion.
- Comment on Is this a rope hanging under a helicopter? 2 weeks ago:
Sold out to some venture capital firm.
- Comment on I agree with don 2 weeks ago:
I’m sorry to tell you this but closing the lid doesn’t stop viral aerosol contamination and it’s been researched www.ajicjournal.org/article/…/fulltext
- Comment on I agree with don 2 weeks ago:
I can’t help but imagine that there is some solution to peeing in a dress besides doing it while standing up, considering that dresses were traditionally worn by people who do not have cocks.
- Comment on It's not about physical vs digital games, it's about ownership 3 weeks ago:
The ability to trade is lost on pretty much every platform including PC. In some ways it’s been lost on PC for the longest time, because PC has had CD key nonsense since at least the 90s while consoles operated on physical media for much longer.
The lack of this ability is, of course, compensated for by piracy.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I’m just so tired of seeing 50 posts about this. If you use consoles in 2026 you have bigger problems than not having discs for your games. On PC physical media is unnecessary because you can just back up your files.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 5 weeks ago:
I believe they increasingly use PLA which is a bioplastic. But yeah it used to be, and in many cases likely still is, polyethylene which is an oil product.
- Comment on Bee fly 1 month ago:
The larval stages are predators or parasitoids of the eggs and larvae of other insects. The adult females usually deposit eggs in the vicinity of possible hosts, quite often in the burrows of beetles, wasps, or solitary bees.
Larvae live parasitically in the nests of various solitary bees and wasps.[2] When the fly larva locates a host larva, it will consume it slowly, greatly increasing in size as it tightly holds onto the host, eventually becoming a pupa and overwintering.[9]
haha yeah, adorable
- Comment on The Russian Neo-Nazi Network Pushing ‘White Lives Matter’ Division in Britain – Promoted by Tommy Robinson 1 month ago:
https://x.com/Academists1721/status/2064427986267275660
Is supporting actual Russian fascist groups like this something lemmy.ml lets its users do? Can we get a .ml admin to weigh in on this?
