You’re comparing apples to oranges.

That’s a good point

I heard they love ex-cops in jail. Long time.

It’s making it so easy.

Okay.

Yes

They might be weary, but this is what they’ll get.

“dog farmers”, holy shit :(

Of course the CCP health ministry would never lie.

I thought Grimes had an affair with a trans person, and ever since he’s been on the crazy train. Maybe he knows exactly that it’s all bullshit, but it’s also lucrative and hard to backpedal.

Saw a toddler with a phone in hand today, maybe a year. Couldn’t walk yet, but had no trouble scrolling.

India is wild :(

8 years are 2 election cycles. Much can happen in that time.

I’m an indie author, and all my novels ended up on PDFdrive.

Not that I’d be mad about it. If someone pirates my books and likes them, maybe they’ll support me in the future.

Just saying, I’m not wearing suits. I’m working full-time and write when I have off and got the time and energy.

For us Indies, getting eyeballs on our books is next to impossible anyways, so I already gave up on the idea that writing will ever be more than an expensive hobby.

Many European language versions of anime and games are being localized not by translating the original Japanese, but the English.

Lots of translators also seem to use Google or DeepL, which makes the issue even worse.

The English language version often don’t even translate, they write their own version, calling it “creative liberty”. This leads to a completely different version than what was intended, with others, such as the German or Spanish version, being even further from the original.

That’s why claims of people of having “learnt Japanese from anime” are dubious in the best of cases.

Source: Am Japanese, working in game translation in Tokyo. I’m also trilingual, which makes it even worse to watch this. Ignorance is bliss.

Capitalism really is trading goods for currency, and allowing lending and investment. What’s going on though, with unchecked companies and laughable fines, ruins the whole thing. In its current state, capitalism will be our undoing, but with proper laws, regulations and oversight, it could work.

The problem is, corps have grown too powerful already and can blackmail governments. It’s like other models that could work in theory, but never benefit the people in the end. Communism tends to lead to tyranny, for example.

People are just really shit at designing and running big societies.

It’s not regulated properly, that’s the problem