Kevin_P
4mo ago
Handheld whiteboard for character writing practice. I spent probably 30-60 minutes a day just repetitively writing and erasing.
I'd advise against this part, it's a whole lot of effort for very little gain. You'll hardly ever need to write characters by hand. 99%+ of the time you'll be typing instead which is based on pinyin - you just enter Latin letters and choose the right characters from a list based on the sound.
Much easier to just learn the basics of how stroke order works and then focus on reading and typing. Copy the characters from your phone on the rare occasions that you have to write anything on paper.
Kevin_P
6mo ago
Based on the page history at archive.org the "certain hospitalized patients" line was added in May 2020, with the "should only be used in a hospital or during clinical trials" part being added around a month later. At the time it seemed plausible that it would work.
Kevin_P
7mo ago
I think you might have misunderstood. The one that has to pay is the developer.
End users aren't being charged, so there's no reason for them to mess with firewalls or DNS settings. Maybe a tiny handful might try to support the devs by blocking Unity's tracking beacon, but 99%+ will just hit the Install button as usual.
Kevin_P
9mo ago
Latest scientific studies indicate that the share of gaming consoles owned by women (PDF, page 9) ranges from 42% to 52%.
I checked that PDF link and the data was 86% male which completely contradicts what you claimed.
Not sure if that was your point and you were trying to set up a contrast between "the science" and Nintendo's actual sales figures, but if so that didn't come through in the post.
Kevin_P
10mo ago
“Equality of opportunity is morally undesirable.” Pro
I'd be interested to hear where you're coming from on this one. Is this the "social mobility hollows out the working class" / "desegregation destroyed Black America" argument or something different?
Kevin_P
10mo ago
I can't find anything about Jewish attitudes specifically but here's something at least. +13% net favorability among the US general population (as of September 2022), broken down to 27% favorable / very favorable, 14% unfavorable / very unfavorable, 27% neutral and 32% unaware.
There are crosstabs by race, gender, political party etc, but nothing specifically for jews
Kevin_P
10mo ago
In Japan where I now live (I feel like I throw that into every post but here it's perhaps relevant) theres a term called 紅白 or kouhaku (literally "confession")
I know this is being a bit pedantic, but you're thinking of 告白 (kokuhaku). 紅白 is the red vs white singing competition at new year.
Kevin_P
10mo ago
I got 30,246 and also got avulse wrong. Maybe there are a handful of points for speed?
Kevin_P
11mo ago
Here's an inverse conspiracy theory that's also technically a conspiracy: Flat Earthers don't exist.
It's held up as the archetypical example of conspiracy theory believers, but I'm convinced that pretty much everyone who expresses support for Flat Earth theories - well over 99% - is knowingly playing along in a giant hoax, for a sense of community and the amusement of getting ridiculous stories published in serious newspapers. (Some of them don't actually realise this and think that only they themselves are roleplayers while the rest of their group are serious).
Kevin_P
11mo ago
That wouldn't help. The idea is that the basilisk tortures a simulation of you, not the original meat version. There's no reason it couldn't do that after your death (at least beyond the standard objections to the basilisk scenario).
Kevin_P
11mo ago
I'd argue that the situation with the antivax movement supports the grandparent's point. Doctors and epidemiologists have always been against it but for the rest of the Blue Tribe the standard reaction was always "roll your eyes and move on" rather than TPTB doing everything in their power to crush it.
Obviously the red/blue coding isn't the only thing that's caused the change, but I don't think it's irrelevant either.
I've heard it called "word association football"
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