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  • Okay I finally submitted an application for a passport (USA)... and I touched lots of grass today...

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  • People think of the US as a very racist country, and it definitely is in many ways. But it's one of the few countries that "walks the walk" and doesn't just "talk the talk". America is one of the most racially diverse big countries.

    I think America is less racist than, for example, maybe Japan. But since Japan is already effectively a demographic ethnostate, you don't hear about racism being a problem as often.

    The average random person in America is not racist, and has also spent their whole life interacting with people of different races.

  • Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent?

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  • What do you use it for? The only game I found that worked really well was Metroid Prime (after a ton of tweaking)

  • How do I become a sea boat worker

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  • Reminds me of the beginning of Moby Dick

    Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.

  • NSFW

    What makes a vagina better than the penis?

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  • Misogyny probably originates from a place of jealousy, tbh. They take a little more maintenance, but vaginas are absolutely the superior sex organ.

    Sigmund Freud reading this and exploding 🤯💥

  • If you could ask one question and be guaranteed the correct answer, what would you ask?

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  • What I imagine to be the "true" answer to the question is that "consciousness" isn't really real, but if it's thought of as a result of physical/chemical properties, then there's no dividing line between what reactions count as consciousness (ie, a waterfall or tectonic plate could also be conscious).

    You can't prove that you experience that sort of intangible experience and it can't be measured or well-defined, so I'm personally inclined to not really believe in it at all.OR if we do accept that it's a result of chemical reactions and we want to define it in terms of those, then there's not a strong reason to differentiate a human experience from rocks or computers or waterfalls.I think people are inclined to think that such a thing exists because we have the abilities of memory and communication, but the concept itself I think is not very useful. Which is why I suspect that a magically True answer would say that the physicality of the brain itself is as close as you can get to that idea.

  • If you could ask one question and be guaranteed the correct answer, what would you ask?

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  • The physical processes themselves are the so-called subjective conscious experience in a way that cannot be better described by an abstraction.There's no such thing as a conscious experience without physical processes and no hard-line difference between different physical reactions that would differentiate consciousness and non-consciousness.

  • What is the coolest website you’ve visited that no one knows about?

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  • There's a couple really cool old anime forums I've found before. This one is definitely the coolest, but it's in French so I don't really understand very much of it:https://www.dessins-animes.net/

  • Your display contains no yellow pixels - yet it displays the color yellow just fine

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  • On the topic of messing around in Paint, there's something really cool you can do assuming you have a display with normal pixels.Make a new paint document and color the left half perfectly red and the right half perfectly blue (#FF0000 and #0000FF). Make sure the colors are touching in the middle. If you look really close at the place the colors touch, there will be a tiny little black gap. If you do the opposite, with red on the right and blue on the left, the gap will not appear.

    This is, of course, because of the physical layout of the pixels with R on the left and B on the right. By putting red on the left and blue on the right, we make the biggest possible subpixel dark zone.

  • Do YOU consider Kanji difficult?

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  • I've been studying Japanese for almost six years now and I would say YES kanji is difficult, but it's not insurmountable. It's also one of the most interesting and fulfilling parts of learning the language.There's a certain level of "you have to know the rules before you know how to break the rules" but kanji can often be used in interesting nonstandard ways in literature & manga and just in general carry so much meaning and depth.There's always something new to learn. Did you know that there's another version of 探す (to search) that has a slightly different connotation? 探す is usually used to search for something you want, but 捜す is used to search for something that's missing.

    By the way, do we have a Japanese learning community on Lemmy?

  • Do YOU consider Kanji difficult?

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  • Depends on what you mean by "similar". If you're looking for the right thing, there are often a lot of phonetic hints in kanji.

    For example, 矢 and 夫 sound completely different, totally unrelated. These are pretty basic kanji though; I think it's analogous to how O and Q are totally different, or i and j.

    If there's more complex similarities though, then yeah there can be an implied phonetic relationship. Look at: 同胴洞銅恫桐粡. These can all be pronounced the same: どう (dou). Though, many of them have kunyomi readings that are totally unrelated.

  • If you watch anime - or used to watch anime...

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  • I really got into anime in 2018 with Little Witch Academia but as a kid my first anime ever was probably Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind or another early Ghibli movie. Also as a kid I watched the Cardcaptor Sakura movies.

    My first impressions were very positive. I was kinda primed to expect all anime to be trash and cringe so I was surprised when Little Witch Academia was actually just a great show. I've been watching non-stop since then, learned the language, translated some manga, etc.

    My favorite series since I first watched it in 2020 has always been The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Every arc is amazing, the characters are so interesting, and the presentation is so creative. Though I just recently started PaniPoni Dash! and it's the first thing that's ever challenged Haruhi for me; it might be my new #1. It's 2005 Shaft and it's kinda the peak of Shaft's style and quirkiness and it's also really funny.

    I also just recently watched absolutely the worst anime I've ever seen: Kennel Tokorozawa. It is funny, which is a positive, but not enough to outweigh how overwhelmingly awful it is as a whole.The worst things I've seen that (somehow) have an actual level of popularity and acclaim: Shinsekai yori, 86, The Boy and the Heron. All bad for different reasons, but each one irredeemably terrible.

    You didn't ask, but I'll also mention what I think is the most underrated anime ever: Christmas in January. Amazing short movie. Not very popular or well-regarded, but very subtle and emotional and whimsical. Definitely the most "hidden gem" thing I've ever found.

  • Whales ARE fish

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  • In a break from the long tradition of grouping all fish into a single class (Pisces), modern phylogenetics views fish as a paraphyletic group that includes all vertebrates except tetrapods.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish

  • If everybody in the world agreed to do so, what would you rename the twelve months?

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  • The idea that July and August were added and shifted the months to be wrong is actually a misconception afaik. The months they replaced were already basically "fiveuary" and "sixuary".The numbering got shifted off when they decided January should be the first month; it used to be March. February was the last month, which explains why leap days are added to February.

  • What's something fun you're looking forward to?

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  • I found out a few of my friends have never eaten a bunch of classic fruits. Things like mango, pomegranate, kiwi, and even tangerine.

    I'm planning a fruit party for everybody to try and then judge different fruits.

  • Huge Nintendo Switch 2 Update Adds Handheld Mode Boost For Switch 1 Titles

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  • Sony sued over the screenshots, but also over unfair competition. Nintendo's legal theory isn't the same as Sony's, but regardless I don't think it's based on whether or not the emulator makes money.

  • Huge Nintendo Switch 2 Update Adds Handheld Mode Boost For Switch 1 Titles

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  • Bleem! won lawsuits against Sony despite being a paid emulator, so Nintendo doesn't really have legal standing just based on whether or not the creators make money.

  • What is your preferred political ideology, and why?

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  • What's your reasoning for pro-piracy?

  • What would it take for you to switch to Linux?

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  • If I could find something like AltSnap on Linux I would move like, this week.I know some of the features may already be part of Linux but I use this program pretty extensively and I don't know much about Linux desktops and how they control.

    But anyway I'm gonna move to Linux anyway, I have a date in my calendar later this year and my friend is gonna help me switch to it.

  • Mar-a-Lago Gunman Was a Trump Supporter and Angry About Epstein Files

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  • Aggregate polling is around 40% support. The lowest I found was 38% from economist.com, but ~41% is pretty common across any aggregate you can look up yourself. NYT for example says 41% support.