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[–] stray@pawb.social 1 points 1 hour ago

These are fantastic, thank you. To be honest, that there exist knives outside kitchen knives hadn't really occurred to me, lol.

[–] stray@pawb.social 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Some Fjällräven stuff is nice, but the kånken backpacks that are so popular are overpriced garbage. Pretty much any other serious brand offers better features for a lower price.

[–] stray@pawb.social 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The "rules" of a language describe how people use the language, but those conventions are subject to constant change because communication is a collaborative art. Some might say it's better to use a semicolon rather than a comma, for example.

[–] stray@pawb.social 1 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I hate Western-style knives though. Do any of these brands do Asian-style?

[–] stray@pawb.social 2 points 21 hours ago

I think the idea was that he could be invoked by his name, but they couldn't have people going around saying "Jehova" (or whatever) randomly without any cool powers happening, so they made up the rule to discourage people poking holes in their flimsy story.

[–] stray@pawb.social 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like any linguist upset by non-prescriptive language needs to maybe reconsider their life choices. Imagine telling someone they're painting incorrectly or being mad at the discovery of a new species.

[–] stray@pawb.social 18 points 1 day ago

You leave the stroller for a moment to grab your take-away order and come back to a crow repeatedly attempting to insert a still-living snail into the baby's face. The snail is confused, but calm. The crow is frustrated. The baby won't stop screaming, further frustrating the crow. Just eat the snail, idiot.

[–] stray@pawb.social 34 points 1 day ago

You have to say that on Meta if you want them to read it.

[–] stray@pawb.social 3 points 1 day ago

I think the desire for random violence is born out of the inability to be justifiably violent towards authoritarian figures. I think that's why I like video games about shooting cops.

[–] stray@pawb.social 5 points 1 day ago

Honestly, I feel like it's worse. I can understand a hateful fuck being gleeful over shit like concentration camps and whatnot, but to see something like that and be indifferent? I can't relate to that in any way. I wouldn't believe anyone like that exists if the evidence of them weren't so prevalent. It feels inhuman. It's the kind of reaction I'd expect from a toad or an inanimate object.

[–] stray@pawb.social 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think what happened is he got conned and went off to cry about it, and now Snorkfröken has come to comfort him and tell him that conning people isn't allowed.

e: I just realized this community has been posting the comic pages in order. I only see them randomly from whatever r/all is called and just kind of assumed everyone was posting and looking at random pages and didn't question it because they're pleasant. Might actually read it properly now, lol.

[–] stray@pawb.social 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

with an impressive 99.26% accuracy.

I feel this would be a blatant lie if it included a bunch of false positives.

https://mander.xyz/comment/17810389

While keeping the FPR low, our model keeps the TPR high, showing that it can accurately find real cases while reducing false alarms.

I'm not educated enough to know what recall means in this context, but there's tables with percentages for it in the page. (Would love an explanation; I'm not sure what to search for to get the right definition.)

 

This is going to contain spoilers through season 1 episode 10.

My tastes in media have become somewhat more demanding as I've gotten older. I used to enjoy pretty much anything with a fun adventure, but now I need my entertainment to also be educational or growth-provoking in some way.

I mostly enjoyed episodes 1-7 because even though it was a cute slice of life, it was coming at it from a more unique angle of how we form and value relationships and I felt that it was emotionally meaningful.

But then by episodes 9 and 10 suddenly all these villains have really specific quirks, and the combat is drawn-out as characters over-exposit every detail of what's going on. They even tell you what's going to happen with the fight well before it ever occurs, and then they still drag out the result for some reason. It was very disappointing and I'm concerned this is just going to be the state of things from now on.

I got kind of excited about the way Frieren was talking about demons because her beef with them sounds a lot like what a pig or chicken would think of humans, and I got almost a racist vibe, but my partner's reaction made it seem like we're not going to get introspective about our biases and hipocrisy, and he suggested we move on to something else. (He's read the comic and wanted to watch the show together.)

Thoughts? I'd like to think the story is going somewhere, but it won't be good for our relationship if it just ends up with me complaining the whole time.

 

One time on IRC the topic of what Boxing Day even is came up, and this guy said in seriousness that it's to memorialize the Boxer Rebellion, and we had a big fight about it. He backed up his claim by pointing out that the horse from Animal Farm was an allegory for said uprising, so he wasn't just making things up.

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