It literally can’t combine unrelated concepts though. Not too long ago there was the issue where one (Dall-E?) couldn’t make a picture of a full glass of wine because every glass of wine it had been trained on was half full, because that’s generally how we prefer to photograph wine. It has no concept of “full” the way actual intelligences do, so it couldn’t connect the dots. It had to be trained on actual full glasses of wine to gain the ability to produce them itself.
You think you intentionally made it annoying to read, but you accidentally made it really fun to read.
“More unleserlich.” :3
You’re saying that the kid who wants to be a superhero is a trans boy because “superhero” is code for trans? I’ve never heard of this.
I don’t know how difficult the right-wingers have made it to move here in recent years, but Sweden has pretty great trans healthcare. The wait times can be annoying, but are lightning fast compared to the shit I hear from the UK and US, and everything is paid for collectively. It should go especially smoothly if you’re coming in with a diagnosis and prescriptions already from home.
Nearly everyone is capable of speaking English to accommodate the array of international people here, and there are dedicated courses for foreigners to learn Swedish from beginner level through high school. These courses are paid for collectively and can even earn you money through the CSN program which helps alleviate financial burdens while studying.
It’s kind of nuts how generally trans-positive the public is. When I went to get my ID with my new name the cop who handed it to me was really excited and happy for me. It’s not something I was expecting based on the general transphobia of the world.
The Blood Moon is rising… (Terrarian)
Thank you for the first-hand perspective.
they do not have right to agitate others to be “non-binary” or something like that.
Can you give some examples of what is and isn’t allowed so that I can understand where the line is?
There was a short while when everyone had computers at home, and we became skilled with them because we grew up with them. But those computers were pretty quickly replaced with tablets and phones, leaving the majority of younger generations with much less computer experience.
Because of the locked-down nature and simplified UI design of mobile platforms, they weren’t able to learn skills like navigating file systems or the many tools in document and art programs they would have found on PC.
Rather than being an edutainment tool, mobile devices have offered cheap dopamine hits and predatory monetization. The fact that we know this and do nothing to correct it is incredibly sad.
You can find “leftenant” as a normal spelling in older texts. No one is sure why.
It was spelled with an R in the past, and they tried to change it to an L (because that’s how it “properly” should be according to its origins), but only the spelling stuck, probably due to everyone being illiterate anyway.
It helps to break it up.
worce - ster - shire
“Worcestershire sauce is the worst.”
“Thousand island is worster.”
“‘Worster’? Sure.”
Everyone has trouble with that one. There’s even a joke about it in Finding Nemo. I don’t imagine most English-speakers can spell it offhand.
eye-dee-uh
It was I, Dia.
Schedule depends on where you’d like to blend into. You’ve got:
Possibly more! I think the ones with two syllables sound most common/least specific to a dialect. SK is more American and SH is more UK.
Back in the day your identifier was whatever name you typed in. On IRC you could put a password on a name to claim it so long as you didn’t go inactive for too long (and then it would be free for anyone to take), but you didn’t have to, and on many web chats you didn’t even have the option. It was very common for people to change names frequently for jokes, RP, or setting a status. You didn’t have a profile picture or friends list or any of that.
For the books I would personally most like to translate, I think the problem is marketability. Nordic children’s/youth literature often contains nudity/sexuality and/or darker emotional themes which are often viewed as inappropriate in English-speaking cultures.
In “Vi skulle vært løver” by Line Baugstø a young girl discovers her classmate is transgender, and for much of the book participates in transphobia before learning better and supporting her new friend. It’s a very well-told and realistic emotional experience, but would likely be seen as grooming by many English-speaking audiences. Not only does it support trans people, but it also spends quite a lot of time in the girls’ locker room. I think if you tried to give this to kids in the US or UK there’d just be a ton of controversy about it and it’d get banned.
I wonder this all the time. I can’t help but fantasize how I would translate things while reading, but there’s nothing to be done about it if the publisher isn’t interested. They could at least make it legal to distribute fan translations.
Is she a professional liveseamer on Stitch.tv?
Those things pop your ears, yeah, but they’re not what I mean, and they don’t make the noise. Oh well.
I’m saying it can’t combine clothed children and naked adults to make naked children. It doesn’t know what “naked” means. It can’t imagine what something might look like. It can only make naked children if it has been trained on them directly.