I’m American ex catholic and yeah that was my childhood church. That said we also have a lot of people who convert to catholicism for the aesthetics and to crusade larp, and one of them insisted on arguing with the previous pope about basic doctrine as the old man was dying…

So yeah, you’re supposed to listen to the pope but nobody does.

Oh yikes…

Yeah Japan has uncomfortable cultural quirks at times, and they’ve gotten away with a fair bit in the whole “pretending they weren’t evil in the 30s-40s” sphere, but like they’re not doing that much in the extremely bad category at the moment beyond the yakuza (and organized crime is outside government control by definition).

If you want to know who can get away with real bad shit it’s Saudi Arabia and it’s because the us financially benefits from their regime

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But it should also be noted, teenagers are particularly targeted by and vulnerable to such messaging. In my 30s I can look around and see the evidence against such comparisons, but at 16 I was just some kid who worried she’d never be attractive or well liked. Had I been in spaces that encouraged such attitudes such as Instagram or 4chan I would have been really vulnerable to it.

Young people are often overly worried about such things because adolescence is a difficult and transitory stage where these worries are developmentally appropriate. They’re supposed to have adults who can help them deal with this, and peers that they can learn by interacting with, but it’s normal to not believe your parents on such issues and interactions with peers has been moved online with social media and there’s little interaction with adults. This has led room for teenagers to be preyed on by algorithms that encourage their worst instincts and online communities that teach anything from antisocial behavior to masochistic epistemology.

Yeah there was a period where it noticed I watched a few trans youtubers and so it started promoting anti trans content, it was around the election (I forget if before or after), but either way it disgusted me that they’d do that

That’s what the police training has been teaching them to do. Learning about it was extremely scary, because seriously why the fuck would you teach cops of all fucking people to shoot at the first twinge of fear and that everyone is out to get them!

Some movie theaters have something similar if you ask. Others just do subtitle screenings.

Yeah, going slow, feeling the slip into the distance you expected to. I’m not a good driver, but I lose a lot less driving ability on ice than most people because I’m acutely aware of how my car will act on it. That said I live in the PNW these days so no more lake effect snow, not much freezing temps, and my ice driving skills only apply on flat land, fuck driving on snowy mountains.

Shit yeah that’s about how long for me. Gods, I remember talking about how cool and futuristic Facebook was back in like 08, but in my defense I was a middle schooler. I rapidly saw it morph into a hub of unpleasantness and bailed.

You know, that’s what my favorite games need. I was just thinking how much better Expedition 33 would be if it also included grocery shopping

The rule of thumb is to plan for machines having 80% uptime. Mind you, new lines, and especially new technologies are often a clusterfuck until they mature and you really understand the quirks of trying to do what you’re trying to do with them. But yeah 20% retooling would make sense if they have a lot of models and a really complicated retooling process, but if that’s the case, well listen, I believe it, but I’d be asking questions about how to cut the tool change time down.

Hell you can even parallelize the slow parts so the fast parts aren’t waiting as much

Yeah, Japan fucking gets rockabilly. Yankii is looking at my country’s reflection in another country’s subcultures and for once liking the image

St John’s wort probably

Wtf northern Spain?

Also wales and Ireland surprised me, I had assumed those were different named

Well yeah, adbusters was based

Have him sing the Canada version

Also it’s a carbon sink if you barrel it up and bury it

What about sensor errors resulting in deadly amounts of penetration?