I feel like the important part is just to be able to remember sounds well enough to do that. You just haven’t memorized them directly. The notes and even the entire scale are ultimately arbitrary, so matching the remembered pitches to notes is just some additional memorization.

Dick in chief probably or something like that. In any case a derogatory way of referring to trump.

Thinking it might be a mistake is understandable. Just moving the kid instead of just calling the parents again to confirm is incompetence.

What you wrote about a direct translation is what kind of loses the nuance though.

Imo it’s good to be aware of both, but ultimately language is a tool to convey meaning. In some cases it’s also kind of impossible to have it both direct and keep the meaning, e.g. english says “on the bus/train” while german says “im bus/zug”. German does have a direct translation for “on”, which is “auf”, but in this case it uses “im”, which itself has the direct english translation of “in the” in english. I don’t think any dictionary would list “in” as a translation for “on”, it’s just an etymological quirk that a different preposition is used.

Or more extremely, something like japanese to english, 公園で会いましょう, let’s meet in the park, would have to be more literally translated as “using the park as the location, let’s meet”. (And I don’t even know if that japanese sentence is completely correct, just tried to come up with something for locative で).

It’s just not practical to always include. Speaking a language means to be able to take a meaning and express it. Translation is deriving the meaning and reexpressing it.

I think the more direct versions can be very useful for learning though. And while nuance does get lost sometimes, it’s often unavoidable.

He did regularly exploit everything for maximum profit though, so really he’d still be a problem, even though he’s not power hungry. And to protect his wealth he’d totally meddle in politics too (there’s probably more than one comic where that happens).

Well, he is at least often shown to have some amount of conscience left. Which is probably more than any real-life billionaire, at least the ones you’ve heard the names of.

White bread, but most bread sold in stores here isn’t white bread.

Granted I don’t really know if it’s full of preservatives. It does often have added sugar which is already shit (and a kind of preservative i guess).

Persona 5

Expedition 33

Many deckbuilder roguelikes I’ve played (chrono ark, lost branch of legends, slay the spire, …) but that might not be what you meant

monmusu quest paradox rpg (warning extremely nsfw)

Ok i was gonna spoiler the last one for mild comedic effect but i forgot how to spoiler tag on here and gave up

The taiwan thing is literally just a social pretense to allow mainland china to “save face”. There are extremists that actually want the taiwanese government to rule all of mainland china, but that’s just not the popular opinion.

Well it’s true that saying taiwan is not china is a bit funny though, but in context anyone with basic readinf comprehension should know what is meant.

Because that’s easy, and information on that definitely available. There would never be people in central africa making bank on smuggling people to europe promising that it’s their easy ticket to a better life…

/s if that wasn’t obvious

In theory sending the immigrants back before they get here should be better for everyone, but I’m always a bit doubtful about the execution. Ideally, I don’t think immigration should ever be illegal, but since that’s not gonna happen any time soon, this seems like a good thing at least at surface level. But I’m always sceptical with these things.

You can just buy your own domain and put the relevant dns records to forward it to any service that supports it (generally costs some money though). Then if the service enshittifies you just need to change the dns records. No need to go the full selfhosting route.

I use tuta for that, haven’t had issues so far and also don’t think I’ve heard anything bad.

Then do neither and instead go outside on a walk where you don’t annoy people for very long.

You can disable the new ui. Go to about:config and set “browser.nova.enabled” to false. Not sure if it’ll fix the lagging tho since it might be caused by something else that came with the update.

You’re thinking of net profit margin. Gross profit margin will vary by item but 30% is a pretty normal amt there.

The most specific number I could find is best buy averaging 22-23%. Which is a bit lower but same ballpark.

There are definitely horror movies/stories that will make me scared of whatever boogeyman is in the movie jumping out at me. And those aren’t the jumpscare ones. It even happens with ones that are more on the funny side (fucking the mist did this for a short period of time after and i was kinda just laughing at it all the way even if it was trying to be serious)

That’s why I say I don’t like horror movies far more than the cheap jumpscare ones being annoying. Though also pure gorefests never even registered as horror for me, even if I think they’re kinda boring.

But then I’ve also found that I really like psychological horror actually because it is in fact not scary at all outside of caring for the characters and very easy for me to seperate.

Data ownership and privacy absolutely, within an enterprise license. They very deliberately make you pay for that.

While it’s hard to prove they’re not just breaching contract and training on it anyway, I don’t think it makes sense to assume they are.

It’s probably true on average. As you get older, chances are some of the things you fought for when you were younger are now the new normal, and further change is something you’re more skeptical about.

But definitely not something that’s going to apply to every individual, plus when the world is mostly regressing as it is right now, the whole effect should disappear.

Retail stores also take like 30% usually. People don’t give a shit because it’s not unusual and any option that takes less is worse in some way.

Tuna are saltwater fish. In what environment can cats hunt saltwater fish? I don’t think they could ever realistically interact.

Isn’t both often relevant? Your hormones are probably the main thing usually, but unless you were lucky enough to only go through one puberty, your body has went through some irrrversible changes. And the duration of HRT would also be very relevant, not to mention that someone could for whatever reason not want HRT and still be trans.

Not to disagree that birth sex isn’t any more medically relevant than gender though, and all of that should be part of your medical record and doesn’t need to be elsewhere for that purpose.

Clicking emoji reactions works the same in MS teams at least.

But yeah, sometimes the supposedly obvious thing just doesn’t click. I’m so blind to a lot of modern UX that people seem to like and need help finding the most basic shit because everything is an icon with no text. And giving directions from looking at a screen is just kind of hard.