Klye @khird@qoto.org
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@mitch the "established history" is that the US treated Japan and Germany pretty much equally, despite the difference in *race*, until the difference in *actions* when Japan attacked Pearl Harbour and (belatedly) declared war. The US gave economic support to their opponents China (Import-Export Bank) and Britain (Lend-Lease Act) to buy American materiel, but military involvement was comparatively limited in both theatres, despite a substantially greater contemporary awareness of the Japanese atrocities at Nanking than the German ones in Poland et al.
There are a number of things one can point to as evidence of racism in America at that point in history, but her entry into WWII really isn't one of them. In fact, one can look back a generation earlier to see that when Germany gave a similar casus belli in the sinking of the Lusitania, the country was certainly willing to go to war against a white enemy if that's who attacked.
I'm not going to question your experience in your family, but I'm reasonably convinced that it doesn't extend to "Usonia, in general" as strongly as your initial post suggests.
@mitch that is certainly a take.
@eclectech "It's good Scottish weather, madam: the rain is falling straight down - well, slightly to the side, like."
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"The cult of individualism" pops up in BWC publications, but I think history moves towards individuation, social structures depend on individuation, and that leads to individualism - which is another word for maturity. #Bahai #theology
https://senmcglinn.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/evolving-to-individualism/
@sunflowerinrain it sounds very much like a typo (T and N are adjacent on the us-dvorak layout). It's not a typical usage error here; it's much more common to see "then", which is a near-homophone of "than" in some American pronunciations.
@sunflowerinrain I've never heard "coronated" and "burglarized" only rarely, but one that I do encounter and on which I'd care to hear your opinion: "obligated". Is this a synonym for "obliged", a word with a different meaning, or just an American butchering of the language?
@trinsec IIRC when you click play, you have the option to select format (modern/standard/whatever) and best-of-N, and in that menu there's a "bot match" option with an icon of a quintain.
I haven't played in several months, though - I don't enjoy the deck-building, so every time the set of legal cards changes, I give it up until I feel like making another deck to conform to the new rules.
@mitch sir this is the fediverse, the feziverse is thataway ;-)
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It's not okay to force other instance admins to block everything you also block (as admin or user)
The point of the Fediverse is to have a lot of different instances with each their own guidelines
Ofc we need to be on the same line but that doesn't mean everything has to be 1-to-1
Personally I don't agree with: "I'll block you if you don't block what I block'
Stop that
@mitch In many ways it's simpler than the American variety - the Commons wields pretty much all the power at the federal level (as opposed to having a president from one party while the other controls Congress) and it all gets elected at the same time (as opposed to having only a third of the American senators stand for election in any presidential cycle). There aren't even any term limits to worry about - as long as the voters are happy enough with you to keep you around, they're allowed to do that.
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@mitch I assume that's just the display software not honouring EXIF rotation or equivalent? Or did they actually decide penguin butt was what your slide needed?
> As a fun aside, i threw Arab numbers into something recently for subsection markers (1.A.۱, 1.B.۲, …) just to play with this notion.
I hope it worked well! One caveat - if the audience was unfamiliar with the symbols, those ones may not have been particularly useful, because someone who doesn't know the order can't use them to navigate (for example, if you see 1.A.۶ and you want to find 1.A.۵, should you scan up the page or down it?). And if the list isn't ordered, you may as well just use bullet points.
> Depending on fonts those glyphs can be very similar looking. I'm thinking of the story of how "patient O" became as "patient 0" (https://radiolab.org/podcast/patient-zero-updated). There are other real world examples of glyphs becoming confused, causing confusion in underlying concepts.
This is true, but I don't think it affects Greek letters particularly badly. I used to do peer tutoring as an undergrad, and I can't recall anyone mixing up Greek and Latin letters, but I can recall plenty of occasions where someone would mistake variable x for multiplication ×, or even variable t for addition +, *in his own handwriting*. It really awakened me to the importance of penmanship, and now I always use cursive, even in equations.
> Consider a student in a lecture. How is a student who uses a digital device for note taking going to capture these as a lecture flies by? You might say, use pen and paper, but what if there are dexterity issues or other constraints that prevent this? Even if they have pen and paper, what if they hear the instructor say a glyphs name, but they didn't recognize it.
Absolutely. Math notation was handwritten for most of its history and so it evolved under very different pressures from programming notation - suppose you want to distinguish multiple kinds of "x". If you were handwriting them, it'd be much faster to just add some kind of distinguishing mark (x₀, ẋ, x⃗, x̅, x̂, ...) than it would be to use programming variable names `x_initial`, `x_vector`, etc. Moreover, the math forms (and the initial choice of "x", for that matter) take up much less space on physical media, which is costly relative to disk space. On the other hand, to create those symbols at a keyboard requires either a very good memory for Unicode codepoints or extra time to go look them up. To me it's a case where machine must serve man, not the other way around - if you're going to use a computer as a substitute for taking notes by hand, whatever assistive technology you use has to be capable of handling the notation; if it's not, or if it makes things more difficult, the fault is with the technology, not the notation.
> Or consider the learner reading a text. When you read a math text do you think of the symbols as visual symbols, or do you translate them in your mind into utterances in a natural language?
Utterances for sure. Lots of people say they're visual learners, but I've never thought of myself as such - even if I'm reading quickly, a mistake like "well" instead of "we'll" sticks out like a sore thumb, but I can skim right past a homophone like "wheel" without noticing. In a math context, reading fast means I might confuse A and a, because I read them both as "eh" if I don't take the time to read the first one as "capital eh". But I'll never confuse α for either because it sounds completely different.
@sunflowerinrain I used Pale Moon for a time. It's a fork of Firefox from way back when (wouldn't be surprised if over a decade at this point) but actively developed since then. It has the usual issues of a niche product: harder to find troubleshooting info, fewer extensions available, some websites complain it's out of date, etc. That said, it worked well for me and if you want something like Firefox was historically, I think it's reasonable to try.
> It's not even the Greek letters Greek people use.
> the math was actually fine in Arabic
I guess it evens out because we don't use the same numbers Arab people use (1, 2, 3, ... vs ۱, ۲, ۳, ...).
I like the Greek letters because they indicate information about what the symbol represents - in the same way you might use x for a scalar but X for a matrix, or typeset ***x*** in bold to show it's a vector, seeing φ and θ and π floating around tells you that you're likely dealing with angles. In another context I might have x, y in physical space and χ, η in Joukowsky coordinates, so when I see z and ζ I have a good idea which system each belongs to right away, and thus I'm unlikely to get them mixed up as I manipulate my equations.
On the other hand, despite their distinctness, they're close enough to Latin letters that they're often intuitive (α looks like "a", β like "B", etc.), so between that and the limited number you use at any one time, it's never felt particularly onerous to learn them. That's an advantage I think you'd lose with wingdings.
> The "menus" are on the left and right-hand side of QGIS.
Ah, okay.
- Top left, browser: View > Panels > Browser
- Bottom left, layers: View > Panels > Layers
- Top right, processing toolbox: Processing > Toolbox
- Bottom right, identify results: "Attributes" toolbar > Identify Features (you can see this icon selected near the top centre of my screenshot)
> i wonder if i can get the polygons to show in different, pretty colors, like yours
In the processing toolbox:
- Cartography > Topological coloring
- Advanced > Algorithm Settings > Invalid Feature Filtering > Do Not Filter
- Run
Then in the layers pane:
- Right-click the new layer > Properties > Symbology
- Top dropdown (probably reading "Single Symbol" by default) > Categorized
- Value > "color_id"
- Classify
> What did you use to open it with
I opened it with QGIS. That's the screenshot you see. The version in our repository is 3.38.2 "Grenoble".
> you said you found a bunch of menus as well
I don't think I said that - can you point me to the quote you're referencing?
I got the initial file from [this link](https://www.inegi.org.mx/app/biblioteca/ficha.html?upc=702825296827) - it's a zip file containing more zip files, and the one you'd want for Mexicali is 020020001. That'll have a bunch of shapefiles called `020020001<SUFFIX>.shp`, and the "asentamiento" ones have a suffix of `as`.
@Bahais_Mexicali are you looking for something like this? This is based on the "asentamiento" category from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography. I don't think Google lets you scrape their data like you're describing - their general model is to sell products based on data, not the data itself.
@bibliolater Former QOTO user @peterdrake made [a game](https://redslash12.itch.io/gerrymander) on this theme a while back. Not much replay value but a neat puzzle to solve once.
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