Ashelyn

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[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I feel like you and I have very different understandings of the 4chan userbase demographics

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 months ago

The only way you can tell it's fake is that Elon doesn't wear suits

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 6 months ago (4 children)

her boyfriend? bold assumption

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

7zip all the way, especially back then!

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 months ago

Deliberately sabotaging your job as a government worker (assuming you're not working in a military industrial complex or enforcement job) plays directly into the right's framing of government as inefficient. It's important that public-facing positions be competent to foster public trust; after all, those positions are what conservatives dismantle first as pretext to abolish an agency. After public discontent sets in through first-hand experience dealing with understaffing, those public services become ripe for privatization.

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The text is translated to English, yes, but the original art was drawn for Japanese text which usually flows top to bottom, right to left. The entire visual design of a manga or comic book is structured around the reading direction for the language it was originally written in. When adding translations, you can't just change the bubble locations since they're almost always incorporated into the artwork directly.

With the above in mind, you effectively have two options with manga: flip the artwork before adding the English translation so the bubbles flow left-to-right, or leave it alone and just explain the reading direction differences. There are often artistic, logistical, and financial reasons for the latter approach, so it tends to be more common.

When on physical paper, most manga books are also read by flipping the pages right to left, and most of them explain this to English-language readers trying to read it the "normal" way on the last page.

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Maybe a hot take, but I thought it looked cool in the concept images (though those are obviously unburdened by the constraints of reality). Unfortunately, so much of that sleekness it was originally going for was killed by the time the physical product went into production, and the low build quality is very apparent from pretty much any photos of one you can find.

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Replace the hot sauce with 2lbs of piping hot, thick, white American Patriot mayonnaise

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 months ago

This is one of the reasons my main email is a (unique) password I still memorize, so if my password manager fails catastrophically I can still get in.

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

They have Google services ~~but through a third party wrapper called MicroG, which keeps it~~ sandboxed to a degree that you can keep it from doing system-level actions like this

edit: not microG, as evidenced by the strikethrough I put in very soon after receiving the first of several replies clarifying the situation. I would encourage you to read one of them before adding your own. <3

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 months ago

I really hope it doesn't, but it's just the kind of insanity that he'd pull to try and make good on his promise if his loyalists start actually complaining about it.

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Trump's going to order that they stop culling chicken farms due to H5N1 infections, call the disease a mild cold like he did with covid-19 and claim it's not that big of a deal. Nearly instantly, of course, a bird flu pandemic breaks out as the virus mutates to infect humans, but the CDC and NIH will be stopped from making any statements about the disease.

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