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[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago (15 children)

He has no idea what her life is like from the inside or what degree of suffering she may be experiencing, because he is not her. All he knows is that her opting for MAID will cause him suffering.

If she's competent to manage her own finances and legal affairs, she's also competent to make this decision. Either she is an independent adult, or she is not. There's no halfway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

The number of josei series running this season is actually unusually high—the manga for Dog Signal, 7th Time Loop, and Mofumofu(!) are apparently all classed as josei. Normally, you don't see more than one a season, and the only other multi-cours ones I can think of are Chihayafuru and Saiyuki.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I'm actually a bit surprised they got any of them right. Maybe the ones they solved correctly had exact matches in their training data . . . ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If she did have a gun, then yes, it was reasonable for the officer to shoot her.

If the police were just yelling that to improve the optics, or because they weren't putting enough effort into identifying a non-gun object that she was carrying, well . . .

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Long shounen action series tend to live or die on character arcs and the quality of the fight scenes. I don't recall Fairy Tail's fight scenes as being exceptional for the genre, so if the characters didn't grab you fairly early, then it wasn't the show for you. 🤷

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. Unless they pose an immediate risk to others, let 'em run if you don't have any nonlethal options for stopping them. Police firearms should be a last resort for heading off physical danger.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Most recycling isn't currently profitable without some kind of subsidy or legislation pushing it (exceptions: some metals, paper, maybe glass). If dealing with the increasing mountains of dead electronics made money, it would be getting done on a much larger scale than individual junk-pickers in the developing world scavenging in dumps. In addition to reducing the volume of waste being created, we need to provide a market for the recycled material that pays enough to push financing of new plants to do recycling at scale (and make sure that the recycling doesn't create negative externalities of its own).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I gave up commenting on bad websites about a quarter-century ago. Most of them are bad one way or the other.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The reason I phrased it that way is that it struck me as the sort of feature that might have gotten removed from one or more popular browsers in the name of "simplification". The right-click functionality still exists in the browser I daily-drive (Pale Moon, a Firefox fork that retains a lot of features its parent has jettisoned, so I couldn't be sure this wasn't one of them).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Right-clicking the back button used to get you a list of the previous several pages you could select from to bypass this.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (4 children)

From other news sources, I gather that "young" in this case means ~30, not teens. That is, people who are out of school, have jobs, and many of whom are at least considering things like home ownership and having kids.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't think that's Spanish. Nahuatl, which is an indigenous language spoken in Mexico, does use x- to transcribe the sound commonly written as sh- in English, so that's probably a Nahuatl place-name.

In the case of Xitter, though, the reference is generally to Mandarin Chinese, which uses x- to transcribe one of the two or three distinct sounds in that language that all sound like sh- to Anglophones.

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