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i feel sorry for the voice actors for in-store announcements and so on, can't be fun to know the particular script you happen to be reading will make random people hate your voice

if elected as president of europe i will mandate all cities to be designed by people with runner vision. all buildings to be at least twenty stories, all rooftops to have ziplines and places for soft landings by 2035

my knowledge of japanese is in my opinion pretty awful, but my girlfriend keeps having to remind me that i am doing the xkcd 2501 thing whenever i think the average weeb merely knows hiragana, katakana, the most common ten or so particles, ko/so/a/do, common forms of aru and iru,

oh my god the Wizard of Oz, the famous technicolor musical film, came out only a few days before the start of World War II

that explains so much about why i struggled to place it

gen alpha kid listens only to modern pitch-corrected music, plays portal: “i don't get it, glados is supposed to sound robotic?”

machine translation is actually very easy, you just multiply by the matrix

1 0 0 x
0 1 0 y
0 0 1 z
0 0 0 1

i don't know what to make of the many sufferings of others

it's easy to believe that everything is one's own fault, that if one were simply maximally self-sacrificing that one could not be troubled by those cries, because one would have done every last thing they could

thank you for asking. i am the prophet of the ontology. you are a points at symbol A. this decision is final

holy shit why did i ever willingly choose to interact with german bureaucracy what the fuck they can't even get something as basic as “using a single consistent name and single consistent format for the tax number” correct

i think it's really cool how the most popular ide these days includes a remote access trojan with encrypted reverse tunnel service to get around corporate firewalls for your data exfiltration and you might even get asked to use it for your job in direct violation of corp policy