Interesting Links for 19-06-2023
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andrewducker- 1. The horrifying toll of Sweden's lax pandemic policy
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- 2. Ursula Vernon has cancer
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- 3. Possibly the finest money-making scheme of all time
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- 4. Read here about chickenpox parties, and consider that this is what the NHS still wants today in the UK
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- 5. California restaurant had fake priest hear workers' confessions
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- 6. Rishi Sunak mocks trans women in leaked video footage
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- 7. Schopenhauer's 38 ways to unfairly win an argument
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- 8. Apple wants to own pictures of apples. All of them
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- 9. Companies in Japan opting for selected offices to work in English
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- 10. No matter how else you might feel about the internet, the opportunity it provides for people to educate themselves is *amazing*
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Date: 2023-06-19 02:28 pm (UTC)I suspect he holds to the 'two kinds' theory (two kinds of trans women) but no one wants to hold that conversation for obvious reasons!
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Date: 2023-06-19 02:39 pm (UTC)“I found the conversation to be strange and unlike normal confessions,” [...] “He asked if I ever got pulled over for speeding, if I drank alcohol, or if I had stolen anything,” [...] “The priest mostly had work-related questions, which I thought was strange.”
If they'd played the long game, substituting a fake priest and having them behave believably like a priest so that the fraud was not immediately detected, I could respect their competence even if not in any way their ethics. This way I can't even admire them as a worthy antagonist.
It's understandable in some contexts. Spam, in particular: I remember reading an analysis once that suggested that spammers deliberately make their pitches unsubtle in their dishonesty, on the basis that that way anyone short of 100% gullible will hit delete immediately and only the most likely of suckers will waste the spammer's time by actually responding. But the difference is that spammers are very hard to catch and shut down, so recipients don't generally have any stronger response than the delete key, and that doesn't stop the spammer trying other victims independently. Here, just one victim spotting the scam can blow the whole thing wide open for everyone, as in fact happened.
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Date: 2023-06-19 02:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-06-19 02:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-06-19 03:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-06-19 05:20 pm (UTC)They did give Ben one, but the answer was "No" until we mention Down's Syndrome.
8. Are they still stinging from losing "Apple Music" ?
Do they think they would have won that if McCartney had not had an agreement signed by Jobs ?
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Date: 2023-06-20 08:19 am (UTC)Ursula Vernon
Date: 2023-06-19 06:08 pm (UTC)Re: Ursula Vernon
Date: 2023-06-20 08:17 am (UTC)Japanese VS English
Date: 2023-06-19 06:18 pm (UTC)Also - for anyone moving to Japan to take advantage of the opportunity, it's great until one has to leave work for, oh, grocery shopping, or picking up a parcel, or getting a haircut, or ...
Re: Japanese VS English
Date: 2023-06-20 08:19 am (UTC)Apparently it's going to be more to be able to hire Indian and South Korean developers than American ones. They're a lot cheaper, and English is the common second language.
Re: Japanese VS English
Date: 2023-06-20 01:49 pm (UTC)Obviously the people coming to Japan will learn the first type of Japanese, but it is unlikely they will master the second type of Japanese.
(And the reverse is, of course, also true for Japanese people!)
Re: Japanese VS English
Date: 2023-06-20 01:55 pm (UTC)Re: Japanese VS English
Date: 2023-06-20 02:06 pm (UTC)Having done a year of Japanese at uni (30 years ago!), I think it would not be massively harder to get to the same stage - but if there was a lot of written stuff... Hmmm
My current job in Germany does documentation in English, anything verbal or casual messaging in German (unless both parties not native). This is pretty common, was the same in prev job. Lots of places are English for both by default though. First job was 100% German. That's tough. I can see why the Japanese might well find it advantageous to have office language English.
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Date: 2023-06-20 01:39 pm (UTC)#8 = Also, never underestimate the power of corporate greed.
Ursula Vernon has cancer
Date: 2023-06-29 07:26 am (UTC)Re: Ursula Vernon has cancer
Date: 2023-06-29 07:30 am (UTC)