[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Okay, but the point of the scene isn't that "Susie dumb". She clearly recognizes it and just refuses to acknowledge it because she has practically nothing right now without her adventures with Kris.

  • Her household is extremely abusive and neglectful.
  • She's been expelled from schools and clearly has a trash academic record.
  • She finally connected with Noelle through her adventures with Kris, and that relationship is just barely beginning.
  • Kris and Ralsei were her first real friends and easily still her closest.
  • Toriel seems to be the first adult (or even person) who showed her genuine compassion.
  • She now literally lives in castle town.
  • In her mind, she isn't the hero and stands no chance against the Knight without Kris – who she thinks is the hero of the prophecy – and Ralsei.
  • Kris has been, overall, treating her well from her perspective, especially in the light world.
  • She's happy for the first time in basically her entire life.

Given she still doesn't really know how dark world stuff works, it's 100% understandable that Kris being (directly or otherwise) the source of basically everything good in her life right now (in a way that's clearly not stable) would get her to chalk it up to circumstance.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Honestly super fair re: bleeding out. I was considering the thigh there and forgot to mention my problem specifically with the calf, which would be chronic pain. I know that comes with getting shot anywhere and especially in the limbs (sort of Sophie's choice if you want to gamble on the distal or proximal for the arms), but I figure the problem for me wouldn't be potentially losing the leg as much as it would be feeling pain every time I walk due to the pressure. If anything, the shin protecting the tibial nerve makes it seem like you wouldn't be all that likely to lose sensation.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

The gut is notoriously one of the most painful places you can get shot. It's fairly "safe" overall with antibiotics and prompt medical intervention, although it would carry a higher risk of infection. Plus hitting a kidney seems like a pretty severe complication. So I think I'd rather take the arm.

Edit: Plus possibility of hitting the spine. oof, ouch, owie

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

100% somewhere in the arm (like assuming this isn't in some test lab where "the ear" can be consistently guaranteed).

  • Foot would likely be serious, lifelong pain when walking.
  • Leg is extremely dangerous for bleeding out. Like maybe if I could get immediate medical attention it wouldn't be terrible, but there are still better options. (Plus avoids an accidental shot to the knee.)
  • Abdomen is obviously not a first choice.
  • Head and neck are obviously going to be the worst, and I even mean that in the sense that a shot to the head isn't inherently some insta-kill. Lots of ways to hit the brain that completely debilitate you for life.
  • Hands seem like a great way to fuck up the nerves and have dexterity trouble for the rest of your life.

So arm it is, preferably right because it's further from the heart.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Seems adjacent to the two-minute (sometimes five-minute) rule, where instead of giving any given task two minutes, you commit to doing tasks ASAP that, by your estimation, will take approx. two minutes or less.

The traditional two-minute rule says nothing about longer tasks, so this is a neat wrinkle in that.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago

That cat looks overweight.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 19 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Fuhrer’s decision detailed a catalogue of sex crimes committed by Cooper. Those include attacking strangers in parking lots and at a bus stop in the 1990s. While incarcerated, she has been accused of sexually assaulting correctional and parole staff. 

Last year, she became increasingly verbally abusive, according to an affidavit from a correctional official. She was fixated on a particular female staff member, and was denied access to a number of others due to “inappropriate behaviour and comments,” the judge said.

"The evidence discloses a pattern of escalating aggressive, violent behaviour, mostly toward women, by Ms. Cooper," Fuhrer wrote.

According to the ruling, Cooper admitted she had many more victims than indicated by her criminal convictions. When she arrived at Atlantic Institution following her gender surgery, she was apparently hiding razor blades in her sneakers, the judge said.

I mean, yeah. Obviously AFAB can be lesbian sex offenders too, but you're talking about someone who's sexually assaulted many female victims in the past, still hasn't changed their ways and finds targets even in an all-male-inmate prison, was incarcerated when she still identified as male and seemingly has been for a long time, has (per the judge) failed to show that her safety in the male prison isn't being respected, and has allegedly gotten even worse in the past year.

Not only is this likely saving a lot of inmates at the female prison from being sexually assaulted, but it's probably safer for Cooper herself. I know Canadian prisons are better-maintained than US ones, but I still can't imagine the target painted on her back when inmates hear there's an older trans woman with an extensive history of sexually assaulting women who petitioned to be transferred – let alone if she tries to continue that behavior.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago

But – there’s always a “but” – before you get too excited, there’s a catch.

Both Frame and yserver were built using LLM bots.

I mean, yeah. Even X11's own maintainers are sick of that mountain of spaghetti and are just keeping it on life support. Anything trying to replace X11 (besides XWayland) is effectively a throwaway project and shouldn't be seriously used.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Literally no one was there when France landed there, so you can either a) ask France and Spain for their thoughts, b) resurrect the Fuegians who visited and let them have it, forcibly deporting the people who've lived there for centuries, or c) disregard pragmatism and say they aren't part of any country – either way, you can stop obnoxiously trying to defend Argentina's baseless colonialist claim under the guise of "anticolonialism".

To the extent it belongs to anyone, it obviously belongs to the UK far more than it does to the asshurt losers who flaccidly tried and utterly failed to assert sovereignty over it.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ah, yes, the fact that prehistoric Fuegians may have visited the Falklands surely means they're the birthright of Argentina. Airtight anti-colonialist explanation.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

What you are suffering is realizing this illustration was made by AI and the faux-meaningful quote comes from god knows where.

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Some background context (assuming you're already roughly familiar with OpenStreetMap):

  • StreetComplete is an Android-exclusive app that acts as an extremely trimmed-down, gamified way to contribute to OpenStreetMap. You don't contribute new structures, but rather you fill in details about existing ones.
  • It'll ask you questions about existing structures like "How many levels does this building have?" or "What is the surface of this bike path?" These are called "quests", and it's expected (see: Bro Code, Division 6, Chapter 5, §32) that you're either there in person surveying or have been there recently and absolutely know that you're correct. The visual presentation is extremely smooth and beginner-friendly.
  • This is helpful not just to new users but to people who don't ever want to get deep into editing the map. (It can also help regular contributors notice small details they accidentally missed in an area.) A bunch of non-power-users contributing small details goes a long way to making the map actually robust and arguably better than services like GMaps – instead of just something that a few privacy/FOSS advocates vocally use and giant corporations silently use.
  • Go Map!! is a robust editor for iOS, kind of like an analog of Vespucci on Android.

However, I learned that Go Map!! isn't just a robust editor; you can also use it to contribute to StreetComplete's index of quests.

Why YSK: if you or a friend has an iOS device, this is a great way to contribute to OpenStreetMap with a very streamlined UI that acts more like a game than it does mapping software. I didn't know this before and would often only bring up StreetComplete and hope the other person has Android.

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Okay, I know "now" is a couple months out-of-date, but I didn't know this until today, so I figured some other people might not either.

I have both OsmAnd and CoMaps, and I generally prefer OsmAnd for its extensive customizability, Carto render, and the fact it can be kept more up-to-date. So it surprised me it didn't have the option to view 3D buildings, since OSM for a long time now has kept track of information like building levels (building:levels), height (height), and even building parts with varying levels and heights. OsmAnd introduced this with Version 5.3 on April 21 for Android and April 24 for iOS.

Note that there are many towns and cities where this data either doesn't exist yet or is incomplete, but even then, buildings will default to building:levels=1 in terms of the heightmap, so it'll still give you some "texture", so to speak (and show where you can personally improve the map if you contribute).

This was one of the few things on OsmAnd I was really missing from CoMaps, so it's great to see it!


Edit: Looks like there's a "level of detail" suboption for building part levels, i.e. where different parts of the same building can have different levels.

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Posting this because @sanitation@lemmy.today doesn't care to lift a finger to vet the unfettered slop they post here; this is the real article.

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I don't know if this is common knowledge, but not all refrigerators nowadays are magnetic. When going out shopping for one, bringing a small fridge magnet can help you easily rule some models out if you care about that.

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Book is "A Concise History of Korea: From Antiquity to the Present" by Michael J. Seth, 2nd. edition (2016). It's very well-put-together and is incredibly fascinating. The Neolithic stuff at the beginning of the first chapter ("The Origins") starts out a bit dull (kind of by necessity), but I was hooked by Chapter 2 ("The Period of the Three Kingdoms, Fourth Century to 676"). Genuinely fantastic and now one of my favorite nonfiction books I've ever read. (I made the mistake of not reading the Appendix on hangul romanization until very late into the book; don't make my mistake if you read it too and don't know hangul.)

What I especially loved were the excerpts of primary literature at the end of each chapter – political documents, poetry, etc. My favorite by far was a declaration of independence (see) signed in 1919 by Son Byong-hi and other progenitors of the March First Movement – positioned at the end of Chapter 10 "Colonial Korea, 1910 to 1945" and right before Chapter 11 "Division and War, 1945 to 1953"; it's a genuine emotional gut-punch in that context.

Elephant in the room: I think it does a genuinely good job at fairly representing both South and North Korea in the final five chapters (one is the civil war; two parallel the Koreas post-civil war into the 1990s; and two parallel the Koreas from the 1990s to 2015). But even if you stop before modern times and only follow it to the end of the Yi dynasty, it's completely captivating. Also, it helped me finally discover this gem.


Anyway, if there are any Koreans out there, I'll write you a farewell letter in 2750.

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Betteridge's law is dead, and we killed it.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48096114

Serious Deltarune lore analysis [OC]

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