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Krampus is just a vilification of pagan traditions anyway. This is just Christianity doing its bullshit cultural appropriation and erasure, as always.

There are dozens of us.

This reminds me of a translation I saw for a spring themed song. Not the mechanical spring, the flowering one.

Japanese has three writing systems 漢字 which are essentially Chinese characters, the traditional kind rather than the simplified ones, ひらがな and カタカナ. They each complement one another and offer context, but sometimes you can also use different sets as a stylistic choice, which can deviate from general practise.

So there is this one line in the song

人ゴミを掻き分けては

Typically you’d write that first word with hiragana, 人ごみ, meaning crowd. ゴミ is a different word meaning rubbish, garbage, trash, litter, etc.

Whoever translated the song must’ve been decently new to the language, and did a valiant attempt, but they separated words out too much, and read 人ゴミ as two words, and 掻き分け again as two words.

• 人 person/people
• ゴミ garbage
• 掻き arm stroke (like in swimming)
• 分 part/portion

And thus translated it to something like “the people rummaged through the trash.”

• 人ごみ crowd
• 掻き分ける push aside/push through

So the actual meaning was roughly “I made my way through the crowd”

Thank you! I did actually spend some time yesterday setting up some AppImages with Gear Lever, and so far it seems alright. The update feature seems very neat.

I might give AM a whirl on my laptop though!

What do you mean “bring back?” If you want to part your hair in the middle, go wild. Who is going to stop you?

Yeah, the thought that Trump is nearing his end sounds like cope to me. It has been from the very start. Fucker has plot armour.

I’ll give it a whirl! Thank you!

My biggest problem was that Electron applications just refused to function, so for a while I’d try it, get annoyed and swap back to X11, and then give it a few months and try again. Back in August or so I swapped to Wayland pemanently, decided to just toss the Electron applications that wouldn’t work.

Since then the only problem I’ve had has been with DXVK and games, but only on a particular NVidia driver, so I think we can all guess who the real culprit is.

I used a daemon to manage my AppImages, worked great until fairly recently where it began mounting way too many FUSEs and just make AppImages stop working altogether. I miss it, because now I have to manually manage the AppImages, and that makes me sad. :(

I’m lazy.

It’s not so much that it’s tied up, but rather that it’s not real yet can still be used as economic leverage. Elon Musk taking out a massive loan to buy whatever because his company is worth this and that isn’t functionally that different from me taking out a loan because I might win big at the lottery sometime within the next 50 years.

At some point they start playing fast and loose, and then you end up with bubbles that the rest of us have to pay for because all that imaginary money has to come from somewhere.

Apologies beforehand for the soap-boxing, but this is something I’m rather passionate about.

So I work as a full-stack developer, with a penchant for UI/UX and front-end, and I have a particular passion for accessibility. The web is a fantastic place for connecting and empowering people, but I believe it can’t be truly open and democratised without everyone having equal access to it.

The way I see it, it’s your job as a designer to make your design accessible. There’s obviously more to it, someone working purely with design can’t do all the heavy lifting when optimising for screen readers and such, but I view it rather like an architect ignoring accessibility in their buildings, or a chef ignoring allergies. Can you do it? Absolutely. Are there good excuses for it? I don’t think so.

Personally I only have an auditory processing disorder, and the only accessibility tool I really use is subtitles. The thing is being able-bodied is not necessarily a permanent state, and anyone could go from able to disabled in the blink of an eye. Thus we all benefit from having accessible design in our day to day lives.

Sadly, there’s not enough focus on accessible design in schools today, thus learning about it becomes more of a personal responsibility. If you work with web, then the browser accessibility tools are literally just two keystrokes away. They’re not that hard to learn to use. Setting up a screen reader and working with that is a bit more work, but I’d encourage everyone who work with this kind of thing to do so because even if our education properly covered these things, nothing beats first-hand experience.

Modern browsers have tools for this built in. Lack of accessibility is a choice.

So she posed with a complete stranger wearing a swastika. I don’t think anyone I know would do that. I sure as hell wouldn’t.

This is the same lady who sued a blog for questioning why she doesn’t speak out against the Aryan Goddess thing, but is perfectly okay leaving the people calling her their Aryan Goddess alone.

If you sue people asking you why you don’t denounce nazism, but leave the ones calling you their nazi queen alone… well, sounds like she’s a nazi queen to me.

I am sure the Aryan Goddess is completely unproblematic and earned all her money without hurting anyone. Truly, a self-made billionaire.

You naughty little scamp you.

Feed. The three f’s.

Those are some spiffing owls.

I have no idea what that is.

Ah yes, the famous PhD in Bullshitology from the Institute of Scatology and other Sciences.