Ancient Greek sure is a bitch to spell in English.

The government, however, remains committed to European Union accession

Lol. Their accession has been stagnating for the last ~8 years. They don’t “remain”, they might only start to commit to the accession.

This is my flag.

“what did students do before chatgpt?”

Is this supposed to be an actual quote? Like, someone said this unironically?

The “actual” story/plot (message?) only really came together after watching a long YouTube video (actually, I read the transcript / script as a blog post so it wasn’t as long for me to get through it).

Can you link it? If you still remember what/where it was…

it’s something that you’re actually supposed to think about while watching it

Says who? IMO the strongest aspect of Lain is the vibe (style, sound, art, the whole world). The overall narrative is jarringly structured, a bit chaotic, with sudden introductions and resolutions of subplots, and especially on the first watch it’s futile to try to treat it as some sort of a (solvable) puzzle, or, even worse, a philosophical tractate. Not that it might not be treated that way on a rewatch sometime down the line (though honestly I wouldn’t expect that to be possible even then), but the first time around it has to draw you into the world and into Lain’s mind. Just relax, make yourself comfortable, and let it be an irrational, intimate experience that it’s probably meant to be. (Or, well, don’t, if you’ve already given up.)

He has audiobooks? For reals? OMFG.

He reads/records other people’s books and puts it on his YT channel that’s linked on his profile, it’s not his own writing.

I guess I should’ve posted the reddit comments earlier on in the comment chain.

seemed very subjective

Him literally saying it is subjective? Operating from a US address is subjective? His language (including his natural American pronunciation that you can hear in his audiobooks) and the language of all of his sources is subjective?

And yeah, sorry chief, CIA saying that people saying bad stuff about CIA is SSSR propaganda is a bit too much even for me. I’ll go ahead and say it - suggesting that a tankie, despite the actual evidence in his online activity, has simply got to be a non-American because clearly he just hates USA too much, is a very American-brained and Red-Scare-ish idea.

I’ve no problem with you being skeptical, but consider the actual examples:

What’s messed up, is that my US cell carrier, recently told me that my currently working 4g Xiaomi phone “won’t be supported” in like 3 months. They aren’t even turning off 4g, its just I suspect they’re trying to find ways to make sure chinese phones aren’t usable in the US.

They can really arrest all of us. Police and prison budgets have been skyrocketing for 30+ years, its the biggest item in most city and state budgets.

Leaf through his other comments as well, let me know what’s your impression.

Yes. He mentioned it in his reddit comments, but even if you don’t go out looking for it, there are various indicators - language (exclusively English), the fact lemmy.ml is registered from a US address, the fact that all of his discourse is heavily US-centric.

Frankly, only an American can be this obsessed with CIA.

An American is taking care of the Russian community and defending it from CIA propaganda, that’s so anti-imperialist. I’m sure Russians are thankful 🙏

Hmm, purism can take many shapes, it’s not a strictly formulated stance (even though it might act like it is “scientific” because it minds etymology). It doesn’t have to be negative towards neologisms, in fact it can be very positive towards them if they’re based on native material and are meant to replace loanwords.

He has both

In 1990, he entered Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.[49][50] Two years later, he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied until 1995.[51] Although Musk has said that he earned his degrees in 1995, the University of Pennsylvania did not award them until 1997 – a Bachelor of Arts in physics and a Bachelor of Science in economics from the university’s Wharton School.[52][53][54][55][56]

Indeed, check the picture of the original flag I posted below

Well, you can calculate the areas of blue triangles easily since they’re right triangles, than just calculate pink+blue area and substract the blue area that you calculated previously, repeat for white+pink+blue.

assuming it’s a 3*6 grid

Yep

This comes off as stupid, that’s for sure, but Letterboxd is so tame about its monetisation it still feels unnecessary to complain about it.

Sounds like Big Cable Elf propaganda.

Amen. Like, I get the initial annoyance with webp but it doesn’t even take this sort of essay to agree that it just is a good format. The only problem right now is that not all sites and software support it, but I hope that will be solved soon enough.

Some apps that guide you through home workout.

western mainstream media sources systematically skew, omit and promote information, sometimes even spread outright disinformation in line with the political ideology of their owners, their corporate interests or their national ideologies too

As opposed to eastern(?) mainstream media, western non-mainstream media, and eastern(?) non-mainstream media. Propagandistic goals of the media exist always and everywhere, I don’t see why it’s necessary to single out western mainstream media in this discussion. (I’d note that I agree that having some site just throw an unsubstantiated “fake news” label onto news sites is worthless as criticism.)

Recently went down the rabbit hole (ok, I’m lying, I just read a Wikipedia article and one scientific study), and found out that the venomousness of the platypus has crazy implications for mammal evolution:

In spite of the rarity of venom among extant mammals, venom may be an ancestral feature among mammals, as venomous spurs akin to those of the modern platypus are found in most non-therian Mammaliaformes groups.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venomous_mammal

(The monotremes are the platypus and the echidna, which unlike the platypus isn’t venomous but still has the spurs.)