I didn't spot that tbh. After a decade I still can't quite get all the nuances of how に should be used, especially when it's used as part of more sophisticated/niche grammar structures. N1 is still a little ways off...
I do notice that none of the translations got the nuance of 「キモい！」と反応してくれて right.
Moreover, she said “You’re degenerate!!!” for me.
The use of くれて to imply this was a sort of mutually positive interaction changes the entire tone of the passage, so it's kind of bad GPT misses it. Though I feel like I'm putting far too much thought into the ramblings of a perv on the internet.
Corvos
5mo ago
It's as if Kaczynski was using AI agents and hypersonic missiles, starting a VC-backed startup for the cause of destroying technology.
'The Master's tools can absolutely dismantle the Master's house,' said Kaczynski, watching from his penthouse as smoke rose on the horizon. 'With great efficacy.'
Corvos
5mo ago
I think he must have tried to iterate on his original translation. The direct translation is more accurate:
Today’s stream was perfect! When I commented, “Step on me, please!” my oshi, Haachama, actually responded with “You’re gross!” And then she even followed up with “You’re way too much of a perv!” It was insane!! I feel like I’m in sexy heaven right now. This is honestly the most peaceful moment of my life.
And the thing I’m most hyped for is Haachama’s birthday live on Sunday, August 10th at 9PM!! I seriously want to support her with everything I’ve got. Just imagining that day feels like I’m drinking her bathwater.
Though I agree with @phailyoor that a lot of self-expression is lost here compared to his original attempted translation.
Corvos
5mo ago
Sort of. Broadly, I believe that young people weren’t in serious danger so depriving them of the vaccine for a while was fine. Rather, young people weren’t being deprived per se. Whereas your white guy over 45 was still in some need of a vaccine and depriving them is therefore a problem.
If the disparity was massive enough I imagine I’d bite that bullet and give the vaccines to the young black people first out of obvious necessity.
My understanding is that the disparities weren’t that wide and that in the cultural moment professionals were sort of overjoyed to find a reason to demonstrate their anti-racist credentials by giving black people preference in a matter of life and death. Which obviously affects my perception.
Corvos
5mo ago
I'm not saying they are correct, I am saying its a reasonable non evil position to hold.
Ah, apologies.
I personally think that the position’s semi-evilness comes from its reasonableness. It’s a perfectly reasonable chain of thought that ends up denying white people care because they aren’t yet dying in sufficient quantities.
Broadly I would say that the case of old versus young was so stark that it was ok to deprioritise them. And in general one is normally able to avoid such problems by having sufficient manufactured medicine.
But in general when things like this come up, I think that it is best to avoid temptation by not discriminating, to the extent possible.
Corvos
5mo ago
Re: Avatar fiction, Semper Victoria is very good, although doesn’t take the transhumanist angle.
Rather, it just extrapolates directly from the end of the first film. The original mission has failed and Earth society is on the verge of ripping itself apart from cascading fuel shortages. So the UN does the only thing it can do: cobble together all the resources they can still access, send one more expedition in a Hail Mary flight across the stars, and promise Parker Selfridge immunity from prosecution if he agrees to act as advisor for the mission.
It’s very well written and the author does a great job of keeping the stakes high and the characters relatable and non-preachy. To quote them:
This is not going to be a "humans show up and curb-stomp the na'vi" kind of story. Nor is it "Humanity is perfect, na'vi aren't". I'm going to show humanity as we are, the good, the bad, the ugly. the noble and the savage, the idealist and the cynical, etc.
Even if you're a huge fan of the Na'vi, I think you can still enjoy my tale. Give it to the first few chapters at least and let me know what you think.
That's one way of putting it, but another way of putting it is that such a distribution is effectively punishing white people for being too healthy.
Essentially, "you're not dying enough, so you can't have a vaccine". The underlying problem that the machete version of the cartoon is trying to point out is that attempting to compensate for different base health by race is in practice going to mean depriving people from healthier groups of care that they would receive in a colour-blind society, until and unless they start dying at an equitable rate.
Corvos
5mo ago
A statistically even worse method of birth control. Recommending this is 100% colored by ideological bias.
You are conflating two things:
- Not having sex is a 100% effective way of not having children.
- Telling your kids not to have sex has much lower efficacy, modulo the personality of the kid and the relationship with the parents.
Most of the suggesters likely have confidence in the method (as they should) and in their kids (rightly or wrongly) and therefore suggest this method.
Those girls are damaged and they have already been steeped in a way of life that makes them cynical, mercenary, and not well suited for stable monogamous relationships. I am not even condemning them for it; it's a survival strategy for desperately poor women who have few other options.
I’m afraid I have to second this. I had a friend who married such a girl in another Asian country. He believed that she had retired and that since he was now providing for her she would not be tempted back into old habits that she clearly disliked.
It was not so. The habits of decades don’t fade so easily - she chafed at the lack of power she had as the demure receiver of her husband’s money and returned to prostitution behind his back to fund a secret drug habit and (I suspect) to get back some agency in her life. Then he lost his job and things blew up completely.
One of EA's main tenets is that the traditional hyperfocus on overhead costs of charities is unhelpful as a measure of actual efficacy. If you want smart, driven people to do good work in allocating resources, paying them something like market rate is advisable. Otherwise, you're selecting on something other than merely talent for the job.
Yes, but the problem is that if you are giving them good salaries, you are selecting for the ability to tell good stories to donors in exchange for money. There's a reason why charities have tended to be suspicious of such structures: they have no in-built market correction so they're easy to turn into guilt-tripping sinecures. (GiveWell is fine but it's like a regulatory body and is straightforwardly capturable, so doesn't count.) That's why charities have traditionally relied on a combination of:
- scions of wealth
- wives of wealthy men
- men who've made their money and want to give back to the community (or, cynically, to barter wealth for influence)
Since none of them need money. Of course, this still biases charities towards sounding good rather than doing good, but that's really really hard to avoid.
Corvos
5mo ago
AFAIK the number of places for non-ethnically-Japanese is capped at 10% to maintain the character of the sport.
Hmm. How about this:
Someone once said that every genius needs a translator. A mind that thinks of new ideas often has a perspective too different from ordinary people to be able to communicate that idea to them.
Returning to cisheteronormativity (which is even worse when typing on a phone), it is not the case that somebody was idly musing and accidentally summoned Cthulhu into being.
The word’s creators were not normal people. They were mostly gay activists and Marxists who for various reasons wished to tear down both the concept and the existence of normality.
Their particular position allowed them to conceive of the word ‘ cisheteronormativity’ because they were already living the opposite of it, but that word remains an infohazard. Even hearing it summons a conceptual shadow into peoples’ heads because cis and hetero (and normal) are words with known opposites. To hear cis is to understand that transness exists, to hear hetero is to know that homoness exists. You don’t even necessarily know what they mean yet, but now you ‘understand’ that they do exist and you want to find out more. You also need to find out more, because the word is fashionable and you want to be able to use it. The construction also suggests expertise and knowledge because of the way we treat Greek roots, of course.
It’s as if we started talking about homo-morphic societies. It instantly summons a concept of heteromorphic societies, waiting to be filled.
In short, peoples’ complaint is broadly that academia has being creating, popularising and lending authority to infohazards. Granting that there is some chicken-and-eggness, it remains an escalating cycle. And I do not believe that the people who invented ‘to problematise’ as a verb are doing this on accident.
You could YesChad and say you approve of cisheteronormativity but you now have to fight about it, and that battle will be fought on the plain of words and definitions and identities, where everything is slippery and nothing is ultimately defensible.
Think of the famous dialogue from Life of Brian:
LORETTA: It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them.
REG: But... you can't have babies.
LORETTA: Don't you oppress me.
REG: I'm not oppressing you, Stan. You haven't got a womb! Where's the foetus going to gestate?! You going to keep it in a box?!
LORETTA: crying
JUDITH: Here! I-- I've got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can't actually have babies, not having a womb, which is nobody's fault, not even the Romans', but that he can have the right to have babies.
FRANCIS: Good idea, Judith. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies, brother. Sister. Sorry.
REG: What's the point?
FRANCIS: What?
REG: What's the point of fighting for his right to have babies when he can't have babies?!
In the real world, men cannot have babies. But in the free-floating world of words and dignity, men can have the right to have babies, and good luck suggesting otherwise. Once you concede this argument, you will find it unacceptable to point out that men in real life can’t have babies because you are now infringing their commonly accepted rights.
In this way academia has been midwife, facilitator and enforcer of vast and IMO largely negative trends in our society, and is attracting opprobrium accordingly.
But cisheteronormativity doesn't refer to that, not precisely. By the act of naming, by the deliberate use of 'cis' and 'hetero' which are nouns with explicit opposites 'trans' and 'homo', it posits cisheteronormativity as one of many options, it refers to 'the pervasive societal assumption that everyone is cisgender and heterosexual, and that these are the only acceptable or natural ways to be, despite the wrongness of this fact as indicated by the existence of this word'.
I know that one can go down the rabbit-hole on this kind of reasoning, but there's still something to it. Real cisheteronormative societies don't have a word for cisheteronormativity in the same way that fish don't have a word for water. That's why they're cisheteronormative! And nobody would understand it if you tried to explain it to them, they would say, 'Well yeah, men sleep with women and make kids, that's how it works. Even people who bugger sheep know that. What's wrong with you?' The cisheteronormative word for 'cisheteronormative' is 'normal'.
A society where people use 'cisheteronormativity' in conversation is simply not the same as one where people don't. The creation of the word cisheteronormative innately destroys cisheteronormativity.
Corvos
5mo ago
I would guess they thought that weed would make them more relaxed and therefore more capable. Like the Ballmer Peak but with a different drug. I have no experience so can't say if it's plausible.
Corvos
5mo ago
The original flights had to work, right? They were America's way of showing superiority to the Russians and to Communism. Now that it's just another tour of service, albeit an unusual one, I'm not surprised standards have been relaxed.
Corvos
5mo ago
The idea is that naming something does not equal creating it. The thing was already there, you just named it.
However, that's not always the case, I think. Articulating an idea can bring it into being (this is why 'meme theory' treats ideas as organisms) and the way you articulate it significantly affects how it goes on to be perceived and thought about.
Corvos
5mo ago
Right? And from the sound of your other messages it sounds like you’re ready to take on Stormveil.
Good hunting!
Corvos
5mo ago
The same was true of Jimmy Saville:
The BBC allowed all manner of creative swearing and graphic insults to air during The Thick Of It.
But there was just one line in all of the scripts that made executives so nervous they insisted it be censored, creator Armando Iannucci has revealed.
The excised line, spoken by Peter Capaldi’s fiercely foul-mouthed spin doctor Malcolm Tucker was: 'That's inevitable. It's as inevitable as what they'll find in Jimmy Savile's basement after he's dead.'
'The BBC lawyers said you can't say that,’ Iannucci told an audience in Melbourne
Although Savile died in 2011, between seres three and four, the extent of his sexual abuse of children only began to emerge in September the following year, a month before the final episode aired.
Everybody in TV knew. And were performatively shocked later on, of course.
Corvos
5mo ago
Every time you use the art, it should send a wave of energy for maybe 5 metres. I think with a shorter buildup time if you chain them.
You can apply/remove/shift the ashes of war whenever you want to, but you can only have the ash applied to one weapon at a time. Ashes of war can be duplicated if you find the right item though.
@4bpp sorry for double-dipping, but since I've got you here do you know why わ is used? Obviously it's usually feminine, and I understand that the male usage is from the archaic patterns where it's broadly an emphasiser like ぞ and therefore used by archaic / cool characters to express emphasis. Is that what's going on here? It doesn't quite seem to fit.
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