But you can learn French. There are grammars and dictionaries explaining how it functions. It’s not beyond anyone’s comprehension, assuming some patient work.

Educating and explaining will help LGBT more than treating it as a sacred mystery. People used to act bewildered when faced with the concept of homosexuality. Today nobody dares to take such a stupid position, because it’s too obvious that homosexuality is nothing magical or particularly illogical. I hope trans and all the other gender/sex-based identities will go down the same route.

You barely responded to anything I wrote. The key words seem to correspond, but nothing here actually builds upon the previous comments, it’s either restating things or saying something (as far as I see) unrelated and illogical.

What exactly are my own best interests that I’m supposedly voting against by supposedly voting for Democrats? Why are my best interests crucial here anyway? Could we also take into account the 200 dead Iranian children’s best interests? I think they’re more important than mine, honestly.

Who tied these people to the tracks?

A mentally ill guy who’s mentally ill because his alcoholic father treated him horribly as a kid, and his father was an alcoholic because he lost his job because of the economic recession.

What now?

are they watching me decide?

Why do you care? Does that affect your decision?

There is no “non-rigged” game, this is a very messy world burdened with centuries of unfairness. At some point you’ll have to move on from merely pointing out who’s at fault towards actually trying to fix things.

I’m sure their feelings are very hurt because you hate them :(

These lazy hippies couldn’t even record the music for the other half of the film, smh my head.

I’m pretty sure I stole this one from him, tbh

I don’t know about the features, the thing that makes me wary is that Collabora is a private company, unlike TDF which is non-profit.

I’m a fire starter, wooden fire starter

Well if we’re looking at a “history repeats itself” event, I still hope it won’t be Collabora replacing LO as the default FOSS office suite.

LO works fine, it won’t suddenly stop because of this. But it may gradually decline, that’s to be seen… I’ll stick with LO for now.

Thank you! I opened the thread kind of wondering how interesting it could be - after all, you’re just placing the artwork where it has to be, no big philosophy, right, what is there to even ask? But reading through the existing replies and thinking about my own experiences in museums inspired me to come up with questions, and your answers have been really interesting.

As for the reflection, I wondered if the problem could be that I’m physically too short so I view the artwork from a lower angle…

I think that very, very few people these days believe in this equality (i.e. believe that it exists in practice), “libs” or otherwise.

if you’re saying stuff like this

I’m not. My statement was (quite obviously, I think) an illustration of the bizarre logic of interpreting “A is better than B” as “people who have difficulties with A should be gatekept from the subject altogether and not use B either”.

Reading literally engages different parts of your brain that are otherwise dormant.

That’s still not “a lot more cognitive effort” that you claimed, though, and also not proof that it reduces your appreciation of the animation.

And as I mentioned, sometimes I want to watch stuff while high.

Who cares? That’s such a specific use case, nobody is arguing for or against dubbing with regards to how much you can follow it while high.

Sometimes I want to give my eyes a break from using my glasses or reading things in fine detail.

but it is also very common for myself and a lot of other people to be doing other things and having TV on in the background

Writing this after previously arguing dubbing is better because it allows you to follow the animation more attentively is just ridiculous.

This whole discussion is ridiculous, in fact.

In galleries and museums I frequently find it difficult to properly see a painting with a glass cover because the glass reflects the room’s lighting. So wherever I stand, one part of the painting is covered by light. Is this normal?

I’ve seen one guy online years ago claim that the important old artworks shown in museums and galleries are actually replicas, that it’s too dangerous to display the originals. I thought that sounds like bullshit. Is it?

You get artworks by people like Cornelia Parker, which may involve a lot of individual pieces, which need individually hanging at an exact height in a specific place.

I just googled the pics. Do these sort of pieces come with diagrams showing how to place them?

That keeps out the visually impaired.

And favouring walking and riding a bicycle over driving a car is gatekeeping of transport because it keeps out the disabled. What a bizarre argument/accusation.

It requires a lot more cognitive effort to watch, and takes your eyes off the actual animation that you are meant to enjoy.

It doesn’t, as long as your reading skills are above that of a 12-year-old.

People in the US who watch foreign films in different languages have a similar subculture.

Bruh, what? Non-English films aren’t dubbed enough in the first place for this to be a metric for a “subculture”.

So you’re just demanding the baseline for a normal society.

So why is OP presenting that as something negative, or unworthy of supporting?

Two thirds of secondary teachers (66 per cent) agree that pupils’ critical thinking has declined due to AI usage.

AI use among teachers is now widespread and growing. Three quarters (76 per cent) are now using AI tools for day-to-day work,

hmmm 🤔

Libs claim that in the US people are equal before the law?

No particular conspiracy theory needed - because it generates clicks and views, even if you dislike the content. This thread itself being an example.