The superscripts are almost certainly references to translators’ footnotes.

The random italicization I’m less sure about, but it seems to primarily be on words that may not have a direct Hebrew counterpart?

If I’m not mistaken (and I might be) the immutability can actually be toggled off for power users.

Probably?

It’s just supposed to be headphones, I think.

It looks meh on its own, but it does look better in context with the rest of Muse Group’s logos. But I’d start from scratch. I don’t think anyone likes the logo.

This isn’t a particularly well thought out stance, but I do wonder if books are kind of self-selecting for appropriate audiences? As in, just being able to read and understand something in a book might be enough to warrant your permission to read it.

Movies and shows can be consumed more passively, with almost no maturity required to experience the media, so I can see why providing that guidance would be warranted.

But I don’t know, that stance might crumble under scrutiny.

Nichijou will always hold a special place in my heart. Slice of life anime with a level of joke escalation to rival Key and Peele.

Man, I still really struggle to understand​ how we can reliably age-gate anything on the Internet without sacrificing privacy for everyone.

IRL you can just show your govt issued ID, but there’s virtually zero privacy risk doing so. Bouncers don’t register ID scans, typically, and they’re just one person. The govt doesn’t know you went to that club or drank at that one bar, unless they’re actively surveilling you.

But if I needed to identify myself as an adult online, simply by virtue of how digital systems work, that probably requires checking against a govt database, and that database will keep logs, and now Trump knows I went to Pornhub, and likely also exactly what I watched or searched for.

Maybe I’m dumb, but I really don’t know any way around this sort of thing.

I remember reading a Haidt article for an ethics class in grad school. The analysis felt… underwhelming? It’s been too long to remember the article, but I think it was something about the “morality” of conservatives being not worse but different than liberals (limited to the US, iirc). I just remember reading it and going… yeah conservative morality functions differently. It’s also just demonstrably worse, though, even based on what the article was focusing on?

That class was weird though. Mostly just a bunch of folks going,“yeah well this is what I care about” and disagreeing with each other with seemingly no intention whatsoever to try and evaluate or engage with one another.

I was a sophomore in high school. A senior girl I vaguely knew but wasn’t friends with, apropos of nothing, leans over to me and goes, “You’re nice. I like nervous, twitchy virgins.”

I don’t know if I’ve ever been more baffled in my life. I don’t even remember if I responded or what I did after that. I just remember thinking, “what the heck just happened?”

Oh. That made me uncomfortable. 😬

They’re rare, but they do exist.

I get compliments on my hugs on the reg. Well, less regularly as I get older and meet new people less often, but still. Being a good hugger is somehow a weirdly rare skill?

Oh, are they having a bad time? I was speaking in generalities, so I could be wrong here.

Smaller instances tend to have slightly worse stability, but it’s honestly negligible.

What’s really weird about all this is Vance is married to an ethnically Indian woman. But he does the Christian nationalist white supremacist schtick.

I have to imagine that the Silicon Valley style tech bro culture that Vance was inculcated into is so full of high skill Indian and Asian people that he has something of a blind spot to what his political rhetoric will do to those people, too. I honestly don’t know how he squares any of his beliefs. Or if he even bothers to try to have a consistent set of beliefs in the first place.

I mean. Maybe?

I’ve been wrong about stuff before. I’m sure I’m wrong about some stuff now.

At this point, I don’t know if America can heal with Mt Rushmore still there. I’m not saying we would blow it up, but I do think it might be good if it was blown up.

Vance is so much worse than I initially thought. And my standards were already super low thanks to the unambiguously racist villainizing of Haitian migrants in Ohio at the VP debate, but holy shit this was grotesque. Literal schoolyard bully shit.

I comment! Sometimes!

And then there was last night where someone called me “brain fucked” for (allegedly) not understanding what conservatism is. Ah, internet discourse.

Oof. Yeah they’ll get ya like that. I’m certainly not immune.