Folks, you can understand why someone decided to kill themselves: e.g. a tragic life, and from their perspective, there’s no one to support them, no one to love them, no one for them to love.

But it doesn’t mean you agree with their decision to kill themselves.

If understanding = agreeing, a lot more people would be committing suicide while trying to understand why such a person would kill themselves. It makes no logical sense. Or it means that those alive is either of these: they either don’t understand it out of naivety, or choose to not understand it to not kill themselves. Assuming it’s an adult with their full faculty, who witnessed such a tragedy, that’s just… such a sad world.

Surely the invisible hand will slap us!

Don’t @ me. Just needed to be pointlessly funny for my own sake.

Worth calling out who “they” are, cause I know a LOT of people who don’t want this.

The federal government certainly doesn’t seem like they’re doing much to reduce car dependency right now with the motion to fast track oil and gas pipelines. (Worth editing in this part for those in the UK: Yes, the current government is led by the same Carney you might know.)

The provincial government, where this highway is situated, proposed adding a tunnel, yes you read that right, A FUCKING TUNNEL!, underneath this highway TO ALLOW MORE CARS ON THE ROAD.

The Toronto City Council (which, to be fair, has less sway here) is filled with car-brained nutjobs from the suburbs who oppose every measure that they perceive makes it harder for them to get into the city.

I don’t think complaining and wanting better is a bad thing though. If anything, I often find that a society that doesn’t complain and say things like “it’s better than nothing” often ends up with something shitty and putting up with it for far too long. Sure, appreciate the fact that we have what we do, especially cuase there were people that fought really hard for it, but we mustn’t get complacent.

I’m sorry to say this as an outsider looking in, but from looking at the news coming out of the UK and listening to people talking, the UK has had it pretty rough for most of the last 2 decades, if not beyond that. That’s enough time for some adults to feel like it’s been bad for most, if not all of, their lives.

Beating Isshin is so dang satisfying! I really wish Fromsoft would bless us with another Sekiro.

I get your sentiment, but I’ll use your argument against you here: just as computing as a hobby doesn’t exist in a vacuum, the enjoyment of any hobby doesn’t exist in one either. I get it if you’re feeling guilty by association — lots amongst us are likely feeling that way, and I started off thinking that way too, even if I, demonstrably, am not contributing to the enablement of that evil. The person knitting at home for leisure may get lumped with the fascist knitters. Their techniques at knitting up beautiful sweaters that they’ve shared is being used to make fascist uniforms, used as a symbol of repression. It’s disappointing, but it should not be reason for us to give up on this space we’ve created and allow these forces of evil to take up the whole space and allow the hobby, the technique, the tool, to truly and fully become monopolized by these forces. That evil isn’t going away by us staying quiet and just leaving the space; the tools are already there, and if we just passively shy away from pushing back, then the tools and narrative are theirs to control.

And all this is why it’s important for us to continue participating in the discourse, even if we don’t actively push back against that force. We show that normality exists, that not all the people in the space is some dickhead.

At least that’s what my optimistic side is telling me, and my pessimistic side wants to believe that we can actually do that so that I don’t just fine up on humanity entirely.

It feels like all the joy I used to feel from being [human] has been completely voided as [humanity] has become the modern vector for fascism and surveillance. I find myself recoiling from all [human] spaces, even [safe, supportive] ones that I’d loved and supported in the past.

I’m not trying to poke fun at you, but I found that we can really apply what you said there to a lot of other aspects of life and it wouldn’t sound too crazy these days.

Tools are tools. The car brings you from point A to point B. That point B can be your home where you feel safe, or right into some person to hurt or even kill them. The kitchen knife lets you cut your veges, but you can also cut off someone else’s finger. But do we say we should stop using these tools because of how badly other people are using them?

What you’re tired of is people being irresponsible, people wanting to act with impunity, to gain dangerous powers, to threaten others, to satisfy only themselves, be it sadistic, sexual, egotistic, self-compensation, or whatever. The problem lies in certain groups of people, not the tool. Why are we fussing over the tool when it’s the people that we need to deal with? Sure, we can argue that the tool makes doing the harm easier, and yes we should try to find ways to build better, safer tools, or control who gets to use the tools, but it never removes people’s abilities to do harm through other means. Not having the Internet and technology just means that these harms are more localized and muted. A tree fell in the forest and no one was there to hear it, but it also means no one knows if someone’s actually there and they’re hurt because of it.

Not saying it isn’t. Just saying we’ve essentially hit the proverbial jackpot. Not a jackpot we like, but a jackpot nonetheless.

Since there are comments saying that the hantavirus rarely spreads from human-to-human, it seems like the news hasn’t spread fast enough…

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/hondius-ship-hantavirus-andes-strain-9.7189281

Hantavirus is spread by rodents and, more rarely, people. To date, the Andes strain is the only type of hantavirus in which human-to-human transmission has been confirmed, usually through close contact, such as by sharing a bed or food, experts say.

Article title: WHO confirms Andes strain hantavirus on cruise ship passengers, with 3 transferring from ship for treatment

…

And just 13 minutes ago, this news came out: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/hantavirus-outbreak-cruise-ship-9.7190707; Contract tracing is underway.

libsdl seems like a good base. Seems like it’s available in Debian and in the main Arch repo too. That’s plenty good for Linux. Looks like it’s also available for Windows too.

Then what was the fuss from YT reviewers about?

So tiny and cute, but those claws don’t joke around even at that age.

First time hearing about Rocknix. Not heard about Rockchip too. Seems like a cool project though. Wondering where they got the driver from, or if they made their own.

Steam Input being independent from Steam would be pretty cool. Upstreaming it to the kernel is nice, but the kernel can be slow-moving, and it doesn’t necessarily lend well to cases where you want to be able to deliver fixes to consumers outside of Linux’s release cadence. Now, Valve could perhaps go release with 2 separate cadences, the older driver as a fallback, and offer a DKMS build for newer driver releases, but it IS work to make sure it doesn’t bork someone’s system.

Are we talking about the old controller? Or the new one? Cause I’m sitting here wondering… how are you able to see that, unless you somehow already have the new controllers?

Or are you using the Steam Deck’s controller to check that?

Sorry for the volley of questions here, but I’m just super curious somehow.

Suppose 20 people make 30 things and have to share amongst themselves; they each get 1.5 things.
2 people make 5 things; they each get 2.5.

And there’s your asnwer. It’s just math.

It’s worth mentioning that GDP per capita is not a reflection of true average wealth of a national population. It is at best an estimate of their average quality of life, and even that has been becoming more and more inaccurate as more countries have more uneven wealth distribution. For example, in NY, the GDP per capita in 2024 is a whopping $604,619, but their median wage in 2024 is a mere $86,830.

Preface: I’m no linguist. Just someone who speaks both JP and EN. But boy do I love thinking about stuff like this. I’m not going to answer your original question though, cause the short answer is really just no.

Subject omission in JP is somewhat interesting because it’s tied to their culture, but I’d like to sort of push back a bit on the thinking that it requires some thinking to figure out who the subject is.

Japanese is a context-heavy language, and this subject omission is an important cultural rule under that. But it does mean that the context needs to first be established between participants.

Suppose you walked up to a friend, waved at them, and said イギリスに行った (lit: went to the UK), most JP speakers would first think that you’re talking about yourself. But if, prior to this conversation, say the day before, you and this friend A were talking about another friend B, and B was deciding where to go and you went to the airport with them, then this friend A would be the only one to know that you’re talking about B.
But suppose it’s been a few more weeks before meeting with A. Then A might think you’re still talking about B, especially if you’ve not mentioned going overseas to A. Then a misunderstanding can happen, and the onus is on you to clarify who you’re talking about in the first place. You’d be thought of as someone who can’t “read the air” if you constantly leave the subject vague without considering the context you’ve thus far established with others.
Friend A can certainly ask for clarification if they know your tendencies, and within their own personal context. 「Bが？」 (t: B did?) they might ask. 「いや。私。」(t: No. I (did).) you might reply. Notice how I just used 私 with no particle; the particle is implied!

I find that a lot of newer learners have a tendency to really focus on this particular aspect of the language. I actually don’t find it to be something that speakers need to expend on a lot of energy on. You know who you’re talking to, and thus know and share enough context to carry on with the conversation. It’s also common to remind each other of which context is being talked about to jog your convo partner’s memory. If you have trouble remembering context, you can always play it safe and be sure to explain yourself, or check if your convo partner remembers it.

Oddly enough, I have a friend who got a bit turned off by this “feature” of Japanese and discouraged him from learning by a bit. He’s always had questionable memory, so having to sort of “remember context” is a bit of a difficult ask for him. I don’t think “remembering context” is a strict requirement to be a good speaker in JP cause it’d just be a quirk of his like it already is in EN. Us English speakers like to think we’re quite rid of context when we compare it to the Japanese, but how much we know each other is context too.

Also, a small comment: just saying 私 in reply to your example for 誰？ isn’t necessarily weird or robotic. It depends on your relationship with the speaker. If you usually use the polite form with the person, then yes, you should append with です.
Now, if you didn’t have the previous part where you’re talking about having a stomachache, then even to a close enough friend, it’s more natural to respond to the “Who?” with 私だ - not too different from EN in this case: it’s “Me” vs “It’s me”.
And when the sentence is お腹が痛い, you’re 100% talking about yourself. If you’re actually talking about someone else, it should be お腹が痛そう (looks painful) or お腹が痛いって ((person) said their stomach hurts).

One thing I commonly see in comments out of threads like this is the oversimplification of how the Japanese communicate. They might be polite and sometimes avoid mentioning the subject for convenience, but when you need tell someone to do something, you can do just that, with different levels of politeness.

• Polite: お願いできますか？ Can I ask you for it?
• Instructional (e.g. teachers): 宿題をしなさい。 Do (your) homework.
• Frank: お前がやれ。 You do it.

The Japanese is expected to be polite to strangers. But they don’t interact with people they’re familiar with in the same way, as it’s usually perceived as a distant way to communicate.

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Bug types being super effective on Psychic types is always so funny to me.

I have big brain and move big things with mind, but a bug bite, it scares me.

The definition makes the argument here really. If being functional means that the system is functional for only a select few, then to the select few, sure it’s functional, but to everyone else, it’s not. If public transit is meant to be “public” and not just a “transit”, then a system functional only to a few isn’t what I can consider to have met expectation of its own definition. I’m certainly being strict about it, and you are free to keep your perspective; I’m not here to change it. I used to live in an area outside of Selangor where buses vanished after being virtually nonexistent, and public transit in KL & Selangor hasn’t given me the slightest bit of sense that it’s reliable, even before I experienced a better system elsewhere in the world.

Some part of my reason of outright calling it non-functional is political: I’ve set the bar higher than just having a system that works for those lucky or rich enough to live near a train or bus station. Imagine if you don’t have access to the benefits of a public policy or system that only a few seem to enjoy, and these few people go around and tell others that the system is being functional. I’m not sure if that’ll sit well with most people, especially when it’s something that is or is close to a basic right.