And, lo, the Bob was chill.

People might not assign Bobs magical properties, but they do just fine in getting people killed.

Robert E Lee - Confederate general

Sir Robert Peel - ‘Father’ of modern policing

Robert Mugabe - Former revolutionary and president of Zimbabwe

Baron Robert Clive - helped set up East India Trading Co

Various Kings and would-be Kings Robert - found all over Europe, can’t even guess how many literally died ‘in the name of’ these Bobs

Etc.

‘Are you sure your character would do that? They know it’s basically suicide.’

Close, but not quite the same. I used my fingers as the imaginary runner, leaping from thing to thing, riding wires, etc.

Bach - Seems obvious

Gojira - They don’t have a bad song, only more and less great.

Lorn - The electronic sound of a plea for help

And this one band I’ve followed for years that keeps making all kinds of experimental stuff: Various Artists

The oneness of all means all beliefs are merely instrumental interpretation, a representation of a part of the whole contained within another part.

So many people on lemmy seem to not be the types to hate based on nationality, except for this. The only nationalities I have seen attacked on here are Trumpicans and the French. Trumpicans at least are an ideology, but what is happening with the French that makes them the exception?

Warlock: I promised my soul in exchange for great power.

Rogue: To which great power?

Warlock: All of them. Let them fight over it when I am dead.

I didn’t realize that at the time. I don’t know how closely copied the game is so it could be wrong.

From what I understand, most anime is made for Japanese audiences and licensed out for localization after the fact. I’d be surprised if more than a few Japanese companies spent much time considering what the rest of the world wants to watch.

Misread woodworker as woodpecker. Amusingly surreal.

Wouldn’t they be resistant to heat and light damage if it’s from birth, but maybe with a weakness against cold, water, and common sense?

Exactly. There are a lot of things I find uncomfortable about other cultures, but I know I can’t force my beliefs onto other cultures. They have to deal with that themselves.

That’s their standard. The rest of the world doesn’t get a say, same way Nigerians don’t get to tell British gay folk not to be gay, Scandinavians don’t get to tell Americans what kind of gun laws they should have, and you don’t get to ban the Chinese from eating dogs. Your standards don’t determine the lives of people half a world away. If they don’t it want to change, it won’t.

Visit the doctor and feel so ambushed you need to visit your psychiatrist.

Unfortunately, people like that are an outsized problem wherever they exist. The extremes are often the most visible parts of a group, especially in the world of algorithmic relevance. If you really want to see whatever your group is achieve cultural success, those people are counterproductive.

-Hey, do you know any Japanese food you could recommend?

-Sure. What are you looking for?

-Anything, as long as it doesn’t have rice or soy in it.

-… here you go.

Asking for anime without the idolization of young female beauty is just entitled ethnocentrism. It’s part of Japanese culture. Unless you are living in Japan, you don’t get a say in their culture. Asking for art that only displays scenarios that fit your normative views is an entitled misunderstanding of the purpose of art/craft, both as an expression and as a product. If you need your world filtered so you experience only things that reinforce your worldview, you might as well move to a compound in the woods, because that’s the only way you’re going to avoid all the people who don’t share your beliefs.

‘Old enough’ is a troublesome concept. I’ve met parents in their 40s who I wouldn’t say met the mental competence minimum to be capable of informed consent, so age isn’t really the measure.

If you want to give a kid the chance to learn tech but not be messed up by it, the best advice I’ve seen is to keep it isolated and user focused. The computer is a place they can go to when they demand its utility, not with them all the time and demanding their attention. The computer is a tool to let them do something else, not a way to cure 30 second windows of boredom with a stream of content. No internet or uncontrolled content, only curated software with no social aspect so they aren’t open for exploitation. The internet is basically a ‘no’ for maintaining sanity and safety. They’ll get access to all sorts of things as they get older/gain autonomy, so you won’t have to worry about when it’s appropriate to give them access.

Call? People still do that?

Holy shit, you’re right!
I gotta go do a thing. We probably won’t talk later.