I didn’t know Priuses had jake brakes.

For square meters of physical space.

True, but out of all the ecosystem the one which gets the highest insolation per square meter requires the lowest amount of square meters of disruption for a given amount of power.

Additional options include:

• Partially cover agricultural fields that get too much sun (yes, it is possible for a plant to get too much sun, depending on the species)
• Cover water reservoirs with floating panels, which both cools the panel (improving its efficiency and lifespan) and lowers evaporative water losses.
• Cover patches of desert, which get a ton of sun.
• Cover rooftops.

The wonderbread fetish guy combines both of these into one.

If Open Office were as good a suite of office software as Microsoft, it’d be the industry standard. No business wants to pay Microsoft license fees just because, they do it because the tools work better and create a better end product.

The idea that everything that businesses do is as efficient as physically possible and the executives are all mega geniuses that are incapable of making bad decisions (or are even incentivized to make good decisions) is untrue.

COBAL is not the greatest programming language to ever be invented. It, and the various pieces of dogshit software that companies collectively shell out billions for every year, are used because they are entrenched in their respective industries and corporate structures, not because of their brilliant design.

Ah, but ICBMs have a response time of 25 to 30 minutes. So we simply need to remove the warheads and replace them with horny people. This would have the additional benefit of advancing nuclear disarmament.

Of course there would need to be a way to safely decelerate the payload and land at the destination, but that’s just details.

I guess it must depend on what model hardware you’re running.

I wouldn’t say it was “fundamentally” founded in democracy when originally only white property owning men could vote.

Even with bad actors, you can still usually appreciate the stories.

True, but not what the conversation was about.

For most of human history, plays were performed by hundreds, maybe thousands of different actors across centuries. How many different men have played Romeo or Hamlet?

I would have absolutely no problem with replacing James Earl Jones with another actor in a remake.

Characters get re-cast quite often as their actors age out or die

All three of these situations are different than dubs. In the first two cases you have people using an existing work to realize a unique artistic vision, combining what was already there with their own perspective and self expression. A remake (and another instance of a play performance) doesn’t replace the original, as its an entirely separate work. In the last case you have the original creators of something working around a fact of life, and still doing their best to realize their own vision.

In the case of a dub you have a localization company contracted by a publishing company to produce a product. Their objective isn’t to create a new work of art, which is why its very rare for someone to say “you should watch the original first then the dub for the best experience”, like they do for, say, Suspiria (1977) and Suspiria (2018).

The desired outcome of a dub is to provide as close to the same experience as possible to the original, but in a different language. So essentially the producers of the dub are trying to do the same job as the original director. The thing is that almost everything about the quality of a movie performance is attributed to the dynamic between director and actor. People literally write books about how a specific performance came to be, specific things that a director said to an actor, specific events that happened to take place on set. If I said “give me access to the same actors and cameras and hand me a script and I could do as good of a job as Steven Spielberg” people would think I was insane.

So why is it SUCH a controversial statement to say that maybe Bobson Dugnut at a random localization company may have done a worse job than someone like Yoko Taro or Hayao Miyazaki?

A lot of cheaply made anime in the 80’s, 90’s, and 00’s had terrible Japanese voice acting too. However, if you don’t know much Japanese and are just reading the subtitles, you are not really in as good of a position to evaluate it.

I used to think this until I watched one of those “[sentence] in 50 languages” videos, and then, surprised by what I heard, I listened to longer things dubbed in languages other than English. It turns out not being able to understand the language doesn’t brainwash you into thinking the performance is compelling.

And, TBH, I’ve come to consider this attitude, that voice actors can just be swapped out like mechanical components, to be disrespectful to them and the art of voice acting. What we have with American dubs is like taking Star Wars and swapping out James Earl Jones for Dwayne Johnson doing the same voice he does in Moana, with zero direction from any of the creatives that originally made the Darth Vader character. Note that I chose Star Wars as an example and not something like Citizen Kane or Schindler’s List. I’m not trying to argue that all Japanese media is some kind of high art that can never be equaled. But something doesn’t need to be high art to be butchered.

I’ve made a simple historically verifiable statement,

Can you provide a source then?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism_and_LGBTQ_rights

The duality of man:

Notably, Cuba made some pretty big strides in 2022 by becoming the only ML state where same sex marriage and adoption is legal.

Which grain do you like the most, wheat, rice, or corn?

I kinda agree, you are “allowed” to sing or dance or paint just because you want to and not to get good at it, nobody is going to yell at you for that.

But on the other hand I feel like a large amount of people won’t even try something for fear of being bad at it. I don’t think they explicitly think of it this way but “the only point of doing something is to be good at it” is the implication of that attitude.

(That’s not to say that you shouldn’t seek to improve your skills if that’s something you enjoy. Just that ‘trying to get better’ isn’t a prerequisite for doing anything at all. You can have fun and enrich your life while sucking at something.)

This seems like it’s not going to be a productive conversation if you’re going to accuse me of using a strawman argument.

It seems like its not going to go anywhere because you think of all human communication as an act of manipulation.

India, despite having over 4 times the population of US, actually produced slightly more than half as much CO2

Sounds like people in the US shouldn’t have kids then.

How geologists reproduce

preferential (ranked choice) voting system

A proportional one like STV, ideally