Wow, I really don't like the character redesigns. "StarFox characters... but in real life" seems a bit uninspired. I think the rest of the visuals look great though.

Gillian Anderson

You can divide culture and grammar. It's simple: your hypothetical long exchange can trchnically be expressed in the Japanese language at 1/5 the length and still retain grammatical correctness and meaning. i.e. the long exchange is not a result of the technical aspects of language, i.e. it has nothing to do with pronoun ommission. The cultural aspect of language is what makes the conversation long. And you're making a huge assumption about the context of the exchange. Is it between two strangers? Family members? Sibling? Friends? A king and a peasant? Classmates? All of these situations would have exchanges with different lengths and grammar, but this arises from the culture. We do the same thing in English too. On average, an email between a boss and an employee will probably be longer and more formal than between two friends, no? Not as long as an equivalent email in Japanese, but the same trend exists in both languages is my point.

"Politness ping pong" has a lot less to do with the technical aspects of Japanese and more to co with cultural norms. i.e. it's not a design flaw in the grammar.

I think you have it backwards. Coding games is complicated, and that's why AI can't be used to code them effectively.

I don't think engineers need encouragement to be cynical. More often engineers need to lighten up.

Pritzker has been seen around Chicago throughout this whole debacle, specifically at protests. Seems like he's doing a little more than chilling at his office. Even when he said "you have to go through me" he was at a protest. I'm pretty anti-billionare, but at least this elected official is not cowering from the fascists.

If someone asks, I'll offer to buy them food or other supplies. My wife hands out handwarmers during the winter. We used to put together care packages for people, but lost the habit. I don't give out money because I don't want to enable addictions. When you offer something other than money, you are able to more easily separate people who want a fix over people who want to improve their situation. Your resources go farther when you help the latter.

edit: One thing that helps people out a lot is buying them public transit passes. It gives them mobility to get to shelter/services they wouldn't have access to otherwise.

I don't know why an MSN link was used instead of a direct link to the article:

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/microsoft-is-warping-the-pc-industry/

Believe it or not, people might not always have abortion at the top of their list when they're moving. In fact I'm willing to bet cost of living is near the top of their list.

Can you give an example? I know that some people have a hard time with the strong smells, but I honestly have never heard it made fun of in any demeaning way. Maybe at worst a character has a bad time on a toilet due to the Indian food being so spicy, but I can't think of how it would be made fun of. Seems well loved here in the States in my experience.

Lemmy client that is a fork of Infinity for reddit.