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[–] LwL@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I don't have a single peripheral that uses USB-C. I have a lot of USB-A and some micro-USB.

My phone is USB-C and that's about it. Given that my 2 year old PC case has 8 USB-A connectors and 1 USB-C connector, I'd also wager keyboards and mice won't stop being USB-A anytime soon. There's just no reason for them to be anything else.

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

But is that blueprint dependent on hormone levels? Maybe wolverine would just rapidly grow a full female reproductive system and boobs on HRT, which then would mean that to revert, masculinizing HRT would be needed.

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Itasha wraps are niche enough that they're usually custom made, including the art.

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Easing local control is what that law was about (and it did think far enough to only include user facing). If there wasn't a global tendency to move towards surveillance and identity verification I'd be all for it. As it is I have some reservations about slippery slope.

The law doesn't require identity verification. It requires the OS to provide the age group of the user (set at install) to programs running on the OS. Something that, if adopted widely, would immensely help with allowing parents to control access (i.e. if they decide their kid should be able to see everything, just put them in ths age group for that, similarly they could also do that and manage it the same way as they would now. Or if they're lazy as many parents sadly are, there is at least some enforcement of age control that someone thought about, without giving up any identifying info beyond an age group). Yes it could be circumvented somewhat easily, but as far as I see it that's always a feature. A child being exposed to something accidentally has very different implications than actively trying to access it.

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Money is fundamentally made up. It's whatever the other party is willing to accept as a token that they trust will in turn be accepted by someone else they want a service or item from. Fiat currency just has its backing from being used in transactions with the state.

It also follows that the total value of global money is entirely dependent on people's trust in it. The nominal value of global money supply, whether it is 1 quintillion USD or 100 trillion USD, doesn't directly affect the worth I, or anyone else, ascribe to having 1 USD myself. It's the things that I perceive myself to be able to trade that 1 USD for that do.

What I'm trying to say is that the philosophical idea you're looking for might be more along the lines of "how much of their own resources (time and belongings) is the combined global populace willing to trade for a promise of trading it for someone else's resources in the future".

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I think they neither understand how authoritarean states manage to stay in power, nor how even discounting that you'd need some paragon of socialist virtue at the top to give that up.

What I mean by the first line is that even if your leader genuinely wants to dissolve the state eventually, they can't stay in power without surrounding themselves with people that are both power hungry and stupid, so dissolving the state would fail on account of those people. I guess maybe they believe it's realistic to also have all those people have genuine intentions, but it's just not.

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The house is a form of saving and investment, the value of that minus the debt would count for these numbers.

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It's just still a spelling bee. They'll find some fitting term to call it and that's that. Everyone knows the show is set in a different country anyways. The concept is intuitive enough, even if it'd be very easy in most languages.

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Telling people specifics about my hobbies has always been scary. Particularly when it's weird or doesn't fit the way I assume people see me. For me, I ascribe it to social anxiety mostly, esp resulting from a bunch of childhood occurances that made me very insecure about being open about my interests. Probably one of those things that's not directly autism, but commonly happens in autistic people because of the social issues that often comes with.

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Seconding the otome comment, and a link to a relevant tag on vndb - you can probably find anything from not very sexualized to pure smut on that list, and there's often screenshots. https://vndb.org/g542

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The fact that it happens at all is honestly baffling though. The anti-woke crowd absolutely plays it up (or more likely just gets fed sensationalized headlines and never verifies them) beyond its actual scope, but mostly it's just the crown on top of a lot of general low quality localization. Which isn't even necessarily the localizers fault, as from what I know they were often overworked and had very little time to translate, or were missing the visual context.

The recent scandal with the game yunyun syndrome is the worst I know of, but I vaguely recall some obviously politically motivated changes in meaning in anime subs. It's not made up, but it's really just one particular expression of a wider issue with tl quality.

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Being bad at identifying faces with features you don't commonly see isn't racism, it's inevitable. Also some people are just bad at identifying faces even if they're not fully face blind.

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