Obviously this is a broad and controversial topic (especially since I'm asking about both on and offline) but as individualism and isolationism seems to be increasing in the western world, I'm wondering what can be done and what others have done to counteract this trend.

It doesn't matter if it was a pet, a child, or someone else, just that you were taking care of them.

Here's an example of what I mean.

Isn't that the same as saying that one values a pen more than the author who uses it to write something down?

There is a thing that I want to talk about, but I don't know which community is the best to do so. It doesn't have nothing to do with politics or something like that.

Edit: I'm asking for a Lemmy community to post.

• Do you listen to more of it? Less?
• Do you focus on a different song?
• Do you stop listening to music until it's gone?

Obviously I mean total blindness and not legally blindness, where some vision can still be there.

Lemmings that know a blind person can also pitch in.

I've never remembered one of my dreams, so I'm not really sure what to expect. Give me your best stories!

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/questions/p/1261259/if-you-could-create-artistic-works-like-the-mona-lisa-gioconda-in-better-quality-should

I feel like I’ve been thinking about this too much in the last few days.

If you could recreate every drawing in history digitally or in better quality overall, wouldn’t your work be considered superior?

Why the hell isn’t there a nonprofit project that does this already?

What's your honest advice for a young person struggling with rent, money, and finding a job, still relying on parents financially right now?

Not looking for "just work hard," genuinely curious what actually got you through a phase like this, and how you dealt with the guilt of relying on parents at this age.

I just feel like I'm running behind something, not even sure what exactly, money, stability, proving something to myself, maybe all of it at once. Curious if anyone else has felt that and figured out what they were actually running from, or toward........

For instance, Toad is referred to as キノピオ while Bowser is literally called クッパ (basically the same shit with Pokemon, since サトシ is renamed as Ash Ketchum in the American version, like why? The main protagonist from Pokemon is named after Satoshi Tajiri, the creator). Also, in Breath of the Wild: Revali's diary entry is conveyed differently, he is jealous of link in the JP version but in ENG, he considers him as a rival.

I started playing Zelda in JP and the text scrolls faster (since Kanji exists, but they put furigana on top of it since the audience is for kids). You can kind of tell when a game is originally made in the native language when playing in ENG due to wording differences (in the case of Japanese, it's more on honorifics and nuance), like they just say "Zelda" by name when in JP they refer to her as 姫様 (ひめさま) from dialog.

I remember the old AOL promo disks, they gave away to sign up for aol but they were basically a browser and isp iirc. Or atleast thats what i thought it was when i was 10. The point being, there seemed to be a fairly large gap between paying for browser service and browsers selling your first born child's identity to pay for the fines they got for stealing people's data. Im not calling any one or the other out and if you need me to then youre already too fucked to care.

I find it very very very difficult to justify ever spending money on any SaaS and i think its the fault of the browser peeps. The few SaaS ive fucked with used to always be minitool or the otherone for data recovery. I was yound and new to the industry because i didnt have even an email address till i was 33 and that was balls deep in pandemic. The point im getting to tho is that how much fucking service and work are they really putting into a product that is basically running cli commands anyone can usually find and run. Not much changes with 99% of set up pc's so what the fuck could they be updating and slaving over that they can justify some out fucking landish prices.

The most transparent one ive used was as a trial and i did pay for a couple months. That was screaming frog... then i learned everything is already there on the internet anyway so just take the time and scrape it .anually, which lasted about a week and within a month i was able to find keys, access full databases of competators and all by not doing fuck all illegal. Im not talking big companies but still. Am i just too used to working in te mines to know most people would rather pay to have it done than learn or put the work into doing it?

Oh and i almost forgot to bring this full circle. Browsers fucking update almost daily trying to keep up with the internet demands. They always have multiple versions testing diggeremt shit, they are one of the most widely used products and/or services by just about fuckin everyone.

So thats my full circle: microsoft pays people to putout broken products that break other products theyre plugged into. Google mak3s you pay for their security that also ranks highest under most security and data breaches, tinder is just getting paid for buttfucking you into thinking your guna buttfuck someone, i cant fucking believe what they charge now. Partition wizard does the same shit prssing Ctrl and clicking start menu button does on windows (along with tons of other similar software swervice providers who just run cli commands with a gui. ALL OF THEM CHARGING AN ARM AND A LEG meanwhile ive been using ff, ddg and chrome every day got the past 20 years plus. Have never had a security issue i didnt personally cause my self or by using social media nack in the day. But looking accross the field and the players in play, what the fuck are they actually charging for and why are people still paying for the shit.

I mean, does the population density in the US support bullet trains? I know that both Japan & China for example have large population density within each city (whether you live in Osaka heading for Kobe or from Shanghai to Beijing, you get the picture) plus the governments of both countries invest heavily on the infrastructure including maintenance.

Distance is another factor between destinations, like from Nagoya to Kyoto it’s only 130km (80mi) and the commute by bullet train is 33 minutes while from New York to DC it’s 226mi taking you 4 hours by car but via bullet train, the commute time is less than it would be from driving alone. The cities in Japan are closer to each other by comparison.

China is a large country (not big as let's say like Russia in terms of land size) alongside varying topography and climates (they can still install tracks in uneven terrain but adjusting how they are installed), although their population is larger than the US (they have about more than 1.4 billion people as a country while the US is about 348 million).

The taxes work differently across countries, like in both Japan & China: they have the funds gathered from taxation allowing them to maintain constant upkeep or make further improvements. Well, what does the US government spend their taxes on? That in itself also lies the question whether the taxes citizens are already paying are worth it.

Taxes exist in all countries regardless, as governments need funding to maintain and improve infrastructure, roads, schools, hospitals, etc. The real question is: how is the government using that money? For example, in Japan the reason why public transport is considered reliable is due to their government using people's taxes for upkeep & bullet trains.

Think Creep (Acoustic), The Dog Days are Over, A Sign of The Times. It's all something deep and special that I can't exactly place, but it hits you like a god damn train sometimes.

I'll start: printers.

I bought an HP in March 2020 when my job went remote and HP bricked it remotely after only 100 pages because I wouldn't sign up for their subscription program. Ended up trashing a perfectly good printer.

Luckily my library's close by and I can print there remotely.

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I had a better way of articulating it, but I went with that.

So for the longest time I felt like I shouldn't give people reasons behind an answer because you can put in the reasons behind it can sway their decisions. Also I know that I had incomplete data set. Humans do lean on each other to think and you can inject what idea and have it spread.

To attempt something more coherent. You can do propaganda when you try to reason. It's just natural to talk as if they know and just bridge the gaps in their knowledge with any old phrase

In Britain we have a load of royal named things, e.g "The King's Head," "The Prince Henry," or animal themed pubs like "The Three Pikes," The Red Lion (most common oub name) or something gorey like "The Hanged Man," "The Village Chopping Block." On that note, we also have pubs named after landmarks, e.g "The Old Oak," "The Anvil."

Any more modern establishment like a bar can have posher or more postmodern names. Sometimes jokey names.

I was struck by a realisation thst i don't know how other countries name their pubs amd bars. Would be helpful to know, for understanding other cultures. I even don't know for places like the USA, which also speak English. Excited to hear your responses!

Why is it good that you exist and why should we care?

I ask this because I need to answer this question for myself and want to copy off your answers instead of actually introspecting.

why are we here on earth ?? [ motive of our lives ] is it happiness or sufferings?