homicidalrobot

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[–] homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Because the way they write numbers is generally misunderstood in the west. Wan, the ten thousand character, and Yi, the hundred million character, are typically the crux of translating big numbers like this.

万 (wàn) comes up the most often and is the largest stumbling block for most people learning Mandarin numbers. In English, numbers are usually broken up into chunks of three digits. Because of 万 (wàn), it's easier to break numbers up into groups of four in Mandarin. In English, we split "twelve thousand" numerically into "12,000" (chunks of three digits). Split it the Chinese way, "1,2000," and the Chinese reading "一万两千" (one wan and two "thousand" = yīwàn liǎngqiān) makes more sense.

Not saying the figure isn't exaggerated, but holy shit it's obvious why it's translated this way in articles if you look even slightly beyond the surface.

[–] homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

I don't regret to inform you the count is up to 13 times. Some of these documents are export restricted or controlled and not classified, but it's still extremely funny either way every time it happens.

[–] homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

You're outing yourself as not proficient enough to remove guardrails on your own install.

[–] homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

"Legitimately high ranked" in this context means "claimed he was top 50 by registering for an opt in leaderboard site with under 5,000 users". He wasn't good at diablo 4 either. Personally, I'm in the camp that believes he is buying accounts or paying individuals to play accounts for him 90% of the time. Dude even had trash stat distribution in elden ring, his build was both not meta and hardly workable, no stats at a breakpoint, set up to fat roll. No MLGS, just wearing extremely heavy armor and weapons with C int scaling that you get off the ground that way. Plus, tech genius that he is, took a phone picture instead of a screenshot. It would not surprise me to learn he save edited a bad character because the total level was quite high but the hovered weapon was unupgraded.

[–] homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Where a period or a comma followed by "And" would go. Semicolon is a full break, distinctly more than a comma

[–] homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This guy didn't even consider the other dude's post and jumped to made up pseudo-logic. This particular type of idiot is one of the worst on the internet. Their whole account is political concern trolling from a fencepost. You're literally constantly trashing people in your comments too - usually without any examples or explanations. Truly the mark of someone who has no idea what they're talking about, you have been attacking people for political takes across the spectrum without actually representing any ideas yourself.

If the word syllogism is too scary for you, just say so. It's not a tough concept, you could self-educate in a week or two, but you've gone to being flippant about it with no substance. It's clear you don't have a real opinion you've thought through on the topic, so I have no idea what the point of this comment was.

[–] homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Actually, you can present the fallacy to anyone providing an undistributed middle syllogism, since they've "made an argument". In the post, an undistributed middle is identifiable - "your most hated almost dictatorship". This is almost certainly not the same even among tankies, so the user is putting forth an argument with poor logic from the get-go. You're not actually educated about logic except by youtube videos from people using greek or roman figures as avatars, are you?

[–] homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You're mistaken. Rednote updated allowing for EN->Mandarin translation for chinese native users and made the settings menu appear in english for english speaking users. The rumors you've heard about rednote bifurcating (like Douyin and TikTok) are only rumors.

It amazes me that people will form whole opinions like this with no effort, no personal investigation. You can literally use a vpn to browse it if you're worried about your data, but I'm willing to bet that you have a marketing machine in your house that you welcomed with open arms. A majority of users on every social media have already had their data sold to every conceivable database, or are young enough that they don't realize how many datapoints they're making with their electronic footprint. Think about how likely it is that using a chinese app would actually affect you in any way - we've known for years now that health insurance and healthcare companies in the US that aren't covered by the narrow scope of HIPAA are selling our information, but you're worried about vine and instagram with storefronts included? Do you even know about marvel SNAP?

[–] homicidalrobot@lemm.ee -3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The only vibe I get from you is "15yo who just learned about politics".

AN: read this user's comment history lmao

[–] homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago (13 children)

They have Douyin (it's a carbon copy of tiktok). Rednote released a public statement welcoming US users, no evidence that what this article implies is being considered at all. The evidence is a reddit post. You are responding in agreement to a propaganda rag.

[–] homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

I didn't intend it to be directly insulting, but it seems like you're well aware how lemmy leans already and you're willing to double down on centrist stalling points anyway. With no realistic middle choices available, and none cropping up, Americans are a little more than a little tired of centrist talking points.

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