LupineTroubles

Ladislaus the Post-Posthumous.

Children can be victims both incidentally and circumstancially while born to privilege, their victimization even if minor doesn't require rationalization this way especially when the man in question is so obviously and clearly in the wrong.

Scandinavian countries did love their forced contraceptives and forced sterilizations on women. I am always amazed how recently they relinquished eugenics policies and often with no acknowledgement of its impact let alone any goodwill compensation.

Cope with what exactly? A cursory browse through that subreddit will show you many of them aren't even living in West and many that do also are from non-Western backgrounds. Same goes with popular mobile AI-related dating apps.

They are only fighting it insofar to protect their own profits. They happily trained all data on libgen and archive.org for free and now that most LLM models have that data the push to block access to such sites intensified. When it comes to these things laws are always weaponized.

This is not a phenomenon limited to west at all.

Hopeless optimism at the end aside, it's a good message. One cannot lose sight of life for the concern of it.

Oracle bone script is really cool! It actually helps a lot when you want to internalize some of the characters to remember them to look up oracle bone script originals because a lot of them are a lot more pictographic, especially things like kanjis for animals but not only.

You do inevitably learn kyuujitai variants for a lot of kanji especially when reading but I suppose with history as long as Chinese characters one has to specify what is really traditional. I am sure Han scribes would be disappoint at using typeface design characters as opposed to clerical script even if my handwriting wasn't bad. Much like how Ottoman scribes were so indignant when Italians printed Arabic script books to sell in Ottoman markets. Still maybe I will try to practice different forms of characters too when I am at least somewhat comfortable writing the standard modern characters with a brush pen.

I was rather talking about the implications of more extensive simplification undertaken by China in second half of 20th century where they heavily cut through stroke counts in more common and complex characters such as the one for 爱 instead of 愛. It is definitely faster and easier to write the left one when handwriting is concerned but because in digital environment writing either is same key strokes rather than different brush strokes there is no extra writing difficulty while it introduces a bit more ambiguity with characters because it reduces the radical count and variance. This applies to a lot of kyuujitai as opposed to shinjitai which is why I think the count of Kanji used in Japanese material is going up instead of down.

After learning over 2000 of these characters I unfortunately have completely accepted the immortal wisdom of Chinese scribes and would always choose traditional. Interestingly while I understand why the Chinese simplified the traditional characters in 20th century to reduce stroke count and make writing faster I actually find that in computer age traditional characters have advantage in being more distinct from each other while reading them. It's a strange trade-off.

I am currently learning Japanese so I thought something was wrong with either my eyes or brain until I realized that's Simplified Chinese.

There is no geographical conception of "Europe", it is a political and cultural term. Turkey and Russia are alternatively considered either part or outside of this conceptualization in part or in full. You will have people arguing for either so it's obvious that this is not a clear cut situation. Nevertheless I wouldn't consider Turkey as part of Europe, if nothing else Bosphorus makes for a cleaner cut off point for the cultural area of Europe.