wonderingwanderer
@wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
Wherever I wander I wonder whether I’ll ever find a place to call home…
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 1 hour ago:
Xenophobia: the fear or intolerance of foreigners
No, tourism and colonialism aren’t the same thing, but in this context it doesn’t matter.
Besides, which one are we talking about in Japan? We could call it tourism, but don’t you know they’ve literally been occupied by the US military since WWII?
And if you want a strictly tourism example, then how about Barcelona? How is this any different from a giant mural that says “Tourists go home”? And least in Japan they don’t spray gaijin with water guns…
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 1 hour ago:
Literally every country on the planet is xenophobic, people only make a big deal out of it when it’s a western or western-aligned country.
The entire idea of inclusivity, tolerance, and multiculturalism is primarily a western idea sprung from western humanist values and honestly only even taken seriously in secular democracies which tend to be aligned with the west.
And then people act like the west and west-aligned countries are so depraved for not perfectly living up to those values, when hardly any other nation even tries or has any desire to.
It’s honestly kind of amusing once you stop giving a shit.
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 1 hour ago:
You’re right, in Barcelona they write “Tourists go home” in plain English in order to accommodate foreigners who aren’t fluent in Catalan!
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 1 hour ago:
America is a country founded upon immigration, so it’s not a comparable example. In broad terms, Japan is historically a fairly homogenous nation ethnically, culturally, and linguistically (and yes, I know those are very broad terms, I’m talking relative to North American countries like the US and Canada).
If the 1600s-1700s had gone differently, and North America remained predominantly populated by Native peoples speaking Native languages, then yeah I’d say it’s totally within their rights to expect visitors to either learn the local language and attempt to integrate, or be left out of certain parts of society such as restaurants that want to cater exclusively to people who speak Algonquin or whatever.
Show up in Algiers and try saying “Sorry, I don’t speak Arabic. Do you have a French menu?”
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 1 hour ago:
Was it xenophobia for Algeria to reject French-speakers?
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 1 hour ago:
“This is [Barcelona] and we speak [Catalan] here!”
Is this suddenly a different situation?
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 1 hour ago:
Yeah let’s start calling it racism when Barcelona locals spray tourists with water guns and see how quickly these same people scream “THAT’S DIFFERENT!”
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 1 hour ago:
If an American moves to Europe and doesn’t attempt to learn the local language, then by a few months to a year in with zero effort people will say they’re in the wrong for not making an effort to integrate and expecting everyone to speak English for them.
Clearly “Americans expecting foreigners to speak English” is different from “Other countries expecting Americans to speak the local language” from a moral point of view. So why is Japan then lumped in with America as the “Local people must accept and accommodate foreigners who can’t communicate in the local language” bucket, when anywhere else it’s “If you’re traveling there and you didn’t even try learning the language, then you’re ignorant and entitled.”?
- Comment on Its all about bonding 23 hours ago:
I see. I didn’t realize the extruder die was the part that’s bronze
- Comment on Anon is 23 1 day ago:
you can’t get PPE to help protect you from sedentary working conditions
Wrist braces, chairs that encourage you to sit upright, risers for your monitor, a standing desk, etc…
You can also choose to be active in your time off, or during breaks or while waiting for something to load. If you work a physically demanding trade, no amount of elective sedentary behavior in your free time will compensate for the damage and strain you’re putting your body through at work.
Also, this is all without mentioning the fact that some people have disabilities that prevent them from doing many trades.
- Comment on Its all about bonding 1 day ago:
Ohhh, so that’s the part that’s made of bronze. That makes more sense. It threw me off that it’s called “bronze cut” and not “bronze extruded” but I get it now
because there is a myth that rough pasta holds more sauce
I don’t know, the Italian in this thread seems to approve of bronze-cut pasta. Not sure if the opinion of a German overrides that… (I jest, I have German grandparents)
they figured out they can charge extra for pasta that that was made on a die without PTFE coating
Honestly, PTFE has other issues though. It’s a forever chemical and can cause birth defects and cancer. For several years it was popular on cooking stuff for its non-stick and anti-scratching properties. I had a couple pans with it myself, and I loved them at the time. But that was before we as a society learned more about PTFE. Like asbestos and cigarettes, it became widely adopted before we knew enough to avoid it.
Aside from PTFE, phenols (like BPA, BPS, and PFAS) are another thing that are really important to avoid, but commonly used in modern manufacturing.
- Comment on Statistically unlikely 2 days ago:
We need to do a lot of things. But I don’t need to elucidate on that point because according to your second paragraph you already understand that.
There’s a lot that needs to change about the world. It’ll happen incrementally until it reaches critical mass to happen all at once. But breaking it up into separate domains and acting like we need to focus on one thing at a time is nonsense.
There are enough people in the world to divide things up according to expertise. Some people can work on reforming healthcare while others reform agriculture while others reform energy while others reform housing while others reform education while others reform whatever other sectors they’re involved with. There’s no need to put some sectors on hold until other sectors improve. That’ll just create a bottleneck and stifle progress.
Some of these issues are interdependent anyway, and require simultaneous cross-sector reforms. For instance housing and agriculture reform depend on energy reform. Healthcare reforms depends on education reform. Honestly, it all depends on education reform. And possibly even electoral reform, which in turn also depends on education reform. But you can’t reform education without also reforming housing, energy, agriculture, elections, etc.
The good news is we don’t need to do things one at a time. To use a computer analogy, we’re capable of parallel processing. Each sector is like a separate processor core, and each expert in a sector is like a separate thread in that core. We can do multi-threading, it’s fine.
- Comment on Its all about bonding 2 days ago:
What if you want to serve it buffet style with more than one choice of sauce? Like at a catering event or something
- Comment on Its all about bonding 2 days ago:
I see… But wouldn’t that only effect the ends? Or does it start as a sheet and get cut into strips like fettuccine? But that would still only be the edges, right? What about something like linguine with a rounder cross-section?
I’m just not picturing it
- Comment on Hell yeah. 2 days ago:
They’re acting like they’re so concerned for the integrity of public libraries, but this is transparently an attempt to manufacture consent to defund public libraries.
It’s so obvious if you pay any attention at all, they’ve been telegraphing this for months if not years…
- Comment on Statistically unlikely 2 days ago:
You’re making a semantic argument, which is kinda useless because what you’re suggesting wouldn’t change anything substantially, just the language we use to describe it. People would still go to the same programs to get the same qualifications, they would just be called something different.
But language has inertia, and you’re never going to get people to stop calling them doctors, no matter how much you insist that they’re called “health engineers” or “A&P technicians” or whatever you come up with.
Why not focus on something else like the much-needed systemic reforms in healthcare; getting business interests out of the medical system; socializing and universalizing healthcare if you live in a backwater country like the US; making sure mental, vision, hearing, and dental are included in that; training enough medical professionals and opening enough clinics to reduce waitlists and ensure everyone has timely access to the care they need; updating standard practices to be consistent with cutting edge research (this is especially important in mental healthcare!); actually funding research to find effective treatments even if that means entrenched healthcare companies offering subpar options have to adapt or become obsolete; et cetera.
So many things to be concerned with that are more important than what we call the people with a medical degree…
- Comment on Its all about bonding 3 days ago:
It depends. If you’re putting the sauce on immediately then you don’t need the oil, but if you’re gonna wait and do it at serving time then I find a light coat of oil is worth it to keep from sticking.
Granted, I tend not to do red sauces. Pesto and cream-based sauces tend to do fine though.
- Comment on Its all about bonding 3 days ago:
I’m pasta-ignorant. How does the material of the cutting tool affect the final product?
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 3 days ago:
How is that not an anti-trust issue? Each one started as an independent company trying to add value by bringing something new to the table, and they bought them all up to eliminate the competition and enshittified them all with the same profit-gouging algorithms.
Not to mention the concerted effort they made to make in-person dating a social taboo so that everyone literally depends on the dating apps to find potential partners.
Back before I gave up on dating, when I was still on reddit, I can’t tell you how many times I heard the same advice. “Don’t approach people in person, nobody wants to be bothered. Just use the apps where you know they want to be approached.”
That with the systematic minimization of the shittiness of the apps, and the victim blaming “just work on yourself bro, you must be a shit person if you can’t find a partner, so you’d find a partner if you could just stop being a shit person.”
Looking back, I wonder how much of that was astroturfing by the Match Group marketing department…
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 3 days ago:
Holy shit, I didn’t think that was even possible. I can’t let myself start thinking that’s a possibility, I just can’t. That could lead to disaster.
- Comment on Consume 3 days ago:
It shows. The Republic is not a political treatise. Everything in it about city-states, philosopher kings, etc., is an overarching metaphor. He states multiple times throughout that it’s not a realistic political system, would be impossible to implement, and from the outset it’s framed as a device to illustrate a point about how individuals should compose themselves in relation to their three-part natures: rational, spirited, and appetitive.
In modern terminology we could call it the intellect, the emotions, and the body/instincts. The whole spiel about the philosopher kings is merely to say that a person’s rational nature should be in charge of their emotions and physical drives. This isn’t interpretation, he literally states it plain as day multiple times.
Although he does make a point that someone who’s thoroughly educated and has a strong reasoning capacity would make a better (more just) ruler than someone driven by hunger/greed/lust/whim. But that’s more of an aside. And he’s not exactly wrong, either…
Anyway, the context surrounding the Cave analogy was basically him making the point that everything we experience is more or less a hallucination represented by the shadows on the wall. It’s a surprisingly accurate intuition, given what we know now about psychology and perception.
Coupled with the Cave analogy is another analogy where he describes a spectrum between knowledge and belief. For Plato, “knowledge” was a very precise term, and much of what we think we know is merely belief. Anyway, the Cave is basically about how we all tend to live in belief, mistaking it for knowledge, in the same way the cave dwellers mistake the shadows for objects.
To put it another way, much of what we view as objective reality is actually highly subjective. Even the most concrete, systematized models of understanding reality, at their core, are ultimately founded upon basic assumptions.
He also talks about people who have left the Cave (ignorance) and seen the world above in broad daylight (knowledge). When they return to the Cave, everyone thinks they’re crazy and they get shunned because nobody wants to hear their crackbrained ideas about “sunlight” and “trees,” so they become a pariah.
And if you’ve ever tried to explain climate change to a denier, then you likely have some experience of what it’s like to engage with the ignorant from a standpoint of knowledge.
- Comment on Consume 3 days ago:
The Cave analogy was from The Republic…
I get the feeling you haven’t read it. What do you think it’s about?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Checking luggage is like gambling where the stakes are all your shit and the potential payoff is you get to keep all your shit. That’s the best possible outcome: you don’t lose all your shit. The only way to win is not to play.
- Comment on The store that sells them is not dumb enough to use them 2 weeks ago:
I want one but with a frame like R2D2, and it will communicate through a series of beeps and boops. Maybe binary or ternary except the bits are determined by tonality, with modulation to express emotion. And maybe little extendible arms that can fix space ships and hack battle stations and zap enemies and
- Comment on Team Stick 2 weeks ago:
The rock in this photo looks like the rune essence from runescape, which you can take to altars to turn into runes
- Comment on Looking for a game where reading an immersive in-game manual is one of the main gameplay aspects 2 weeks ago:
To keep with the space ship theme, there’s always pikmin
- Comment on Team Stick 2 weeks ago:
Nah I’m still taking the rune essence
- Comment on Team Stick 2 weeks ago:
Okay but can you imbue the stick with rune energy? Didn’t think so
- Comment on Fuck you Whatsapp 2 weeks ago:
Bingo, this is an anti-trust question
- Comment on Team Stick 2 weeks ago:
Username checks out