intrepid

I love this word. Excellent word. 11/10

the UN is arguing that because prostitution exists, there should be legal protections for pimps and a reclassification of child rape victims as "workers*.

Citation needed.

You keep mixing porn and prostitution. Maybe keep your messaging straight so other people can follow? Because I still don’t know what your argument here is other than “I DONT LIKE IT”.

(I didn’t read more than the first sentence of the article, bad enough that you made me give Russian propaganda a click)

Not sure I follow. You don’t like porn, correct? Because … there are people who rape children…?

Whatever you want it to be. If that’s nothing, cool. Trying to find some external thing to bestow a meaning upon you is religion.

Anything novel about it or just the usual logorrhoea?

complete waste of a life not to act your age

How does that connect in any way?

Do you not hear the words in your head while reading?

lol fuck, I knew someone would call me out on my rusty Japanese. Thank you!

ㅋㅋ which is “lol”

Gamers may be familiar with “kkkkkk” because that’s what you’d type on a keyboard to get ㅋㅋㅋㅋ :D

Edit: Gawwwd don’t listen to me today. This isn’t exactly correct. And I struggle to explain transliteration. Basically, the character ㅋ corresponds to “k”. I need sleep.

First things that comes to mind: Japanese for “to laugh” is 笑う “warau”. The equivalent of “lol” then started as 笑. Over time it evolved into just the first Latin letter “wwwww”. Which kind of looks like grass. And because Japanese people love word play, logically the next step was 草 “kusa” - which means “grass” and now also “lol”.

Anyway, sentences in languages that use logograms, such as Japanese, are generally shorter since they just use one character where languages that use Latin letters need several (“Want to hang out tonight after school?” - 授業後今晩遊ぼう？). So standard text message character limits are plenty to convey A LOT of stuff in Japanese. (EDIT: See comment below about the quality of that Japanese sentence lol)

You can make sentences more compact if you want to: 今晩　遊？ is not a complete sentence but the essential parts that carry the meaning, “this evening” and “hang out”, are there so if you’re in a hurry that’ll do.

Going further back in time might be more interesting, the Japanese did some crazy shit with pagers: https://www.japanesewithanime.com/2018/02/spelling-words-using-numbers.html

I’d sure love to see those pop culture summaries. Wondering how the author can determine how accurate they are without having seen (understood) the thing being summarised.

oh boy oh boy <3

Bodily functions that should be automatic fail all the time, for bullshit reasons, why not that one? Not that I have any strong feelings about that story but I don’t think it’s entirely outrageous to imagine. I’m aware that I may lack vital information about human anatomy - but so do the people you’re talking about.

Alright. Sounds like bullshit that you’re going to have to deal with, whether or not we’re facing the AI apocalypse, and I sympathise.

I don’t even really know what a 401k is, I’m not from the US. The fact that globally social security systems are failing due to neglect and tax gifts for the rich is a whole other issue.

That doesn’t mean much. If a person is too old to learn a new job, they should be able to retire. If a person’s cognitive ability is THAT low, so low they can’t learn the simplest of jobs, they should probably be in some care facility or (better) be cared for at home with their caretakers (who’ve had proper training) receiving adequate compensation. Why are we talking, in this context, about people who are unable to work anyway?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m very much against what we’ve come to call “AI” and how it’s taking over everything.

What does “can’t be trained for a new job” mean? Why? What’s keeping them from learning a new thing?

They did want it to be the new PDF.

Why would I want this? Serious question. How would this benefit anyone?

So… you knew the answer?