Ah, that makes sense.

absolutely perfect choice for the movie it’s in.

I’m aware of the meaning, but I actually found it strange that they put a song about cheating in a film aimed at children.

I think it’s less ‘fix’ and more ‘make irrelevant’.

In a society that doesn’t care too much about gender, crossdressing stops being anything of note.

Similarly, if you think about a cyberpunk society through a Marxist lens (or use a bit of common sense), you quickly see the flaw in the premise.

Several Japanese songs, such as Summer of Goodbye, Message in Rouge and Contrails

Garland of a Hundred Flowers - My neighbours’ national anthem can’t be this cute! (Nepali)

Halls of Hueyteotl and Baba Yetu (both Swahili, both from video games)

Sir this is a-lemmy. We all hate Microslop, rich people and cars here.

Well at least she wasn’t wearing blue or green.

Yes. Also humans are chimps, dogs are wolves and wheat and most citrus fruits don’t even exist.

Or we could accept that the whole idea of a purely genetic phylogeny with each clade bifurcating into two and later bifurcations always having to be grouped together with no regard for ecological pressures or mutation rates or hybridisation as the unhinged ravings of a geneticist (derogative) who has never touched grass, and move on.

Also evolution (common genetic pool) and ecology (common niche, environmental pressures and behaviour).

I believe it’s a European thing. I’ve cried after eating Andhra food (more spicy than most Indian styles) but my stomach doesn’t seem to mind. European visitors get indigestion.

In any society, some sections would be having ‘good times’, and wouldn’t want the status quo to change. Other sections wouldn’t be having a great time, and would be asking for change.

Centrists then might be people who want some changes, although people who don’t want any change often also call themselves centrists since (1) different sections would be asking for different directions of change, so staying put might seem the middle ground, and (2) it’s more respectable than admitting the current system benefits them and they don’t want it to change.

Also centralists are different. Centralisation / decentralisation is the debate over how much power national governments should have versus local governments.

Centrism is okay during good times

Good times for whom?

yet

Yes. A group of US companies have bought Tiktok US. Tiktok elsewhere is still owned by the Singaporean / Chinese company.

True, but it would only work in the US, no? Tiktok itself is still Singaporean, and they don’t care about Israel’s crimes being revealed.

How does the sale of Tiktok’s US operation to a US consortium affect a Palestinian?

… an account that appeared to have the same username was still visible on TikTok in Australia – but not in the Middle East, when Al Jazeera checked in different geographies.

Either she got banned on the real Tiktok - and this has nothing to do with the sale of Tiktok US - or she and Al Jazeera are using US Tiktok in the Middle East (but why?).

I’m a huge fan of Xiaomi’s phones (for the hardware and pricing) but let’s be honest their software isn’t exactly their strength. To be fair, it has improved in recent years.

but lions and tigers… guess they were harder to spot among the foliage

Lions live in the savanna and grassland. They can hide among the grass, but they generally hunt by chasing prey in turns until the prey tires. Tigers are ambush predators and excellent at hiding.

Healthy lions and tigers do not hunt humans. They can kill humans pretty easily, but prefer meatier prey. But when they get too old / sick to hunt wild animals, they might hunt humans out of desperation.

Also Asian lions have become used to humans since their protected area has tribal settlements and is surrounded by villages. Local people sometimes feed the lions, and on youtube you can find videos of people even touching them. (This is dangerous, messes with the lions’ ecology and is illegal, but people do it and stopping them now might cause new problems.)

It depends. By default, it uses a weaker encryption than WhatsApp. You can turn on e2e encryption, but not in group chats.

On the other hand, it has multiple FOSS clients, will work on pretty much any platform, and has a great UI.

If you want a fairly secure chat app that your grandparents can use, then Telegram is perfect. If you’re sending highly confidential stuff, then no.

It’s also suitable for project groups, because of the better tools (and moderation bots) available to the mods.

Hey, that’s not arcane knowledge.

Arcane knowledge is memorising the server’s IP address.

To translate from one language to another, you need to know both languages very well, including puns, idioms, etc., and have a deep understanding of both cultures involved. A word for word translation will rarely do; you may even have to come up with new jokes / references to replace ones that don’t work in the target language.

If you have read translations of manga by, say, Rumiko Takahashi, you might have seen footnotes explaining all the puns and references. And even this is not ideal, since it breaks the reader’s flow.