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What really irks me about it is that the palm pilot I had 20+ years ago actually had BETTER hand writing recognition than the software on my devices today!
If by hand writing recognition you mean force you to learn their "graffiti" system, and write one letter at a time sure. Lets not even pretend newton did any better.
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Seriously? That's such a weird point to make!
The Harry Potter series tried and mostly failed to push a bunch of weird political stuff. Slavery is the most noticeable but there was also racism mixed in. The black token character is called Kingsley Shacklebolt. The Chinese token character is called Cho Chang. The war is overtly world war 2, and Voldemort is Hitler - he wants to kill everyone who has impure blood. The Minister for Magic mirrors the British and Ame…
I can believe that the origins of this trope are antisemetic, but I don't see very much reason to think that any antisemitic mindset was in JK Rowling's head when she wrote it.
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It's not the only example of extreme immorality that's presented pretty causally in the series. I loved the books as much as anyone, but Azkaban struck me as utter barbarism even then. You're telling me that prisoners, regardless of what they were actually sentenced for, get psychologically tortured through the magical induction of deep despair until they develop a form of dementia? And this happens whether you're a…
To be fair, dementors are consistently depicted as pure evil that has no place in society. The funnier thing for me is how the Ministry is a militarized law enforcement body that functions as the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of the magical society. But there are things you can't unsee once you revisit the series as an adult, like all the harmful tropes that's casually littered throughout the series.…
I don't think they're portrayed as greedy? Although I'm willing to be proven wrong if anyone has textual evidence otherwise. They are also mistreated by wizards in the books, which I think portrayed them sympathetically. I remember scenes where Harry notices their mistreatment and thinks it's wrong
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First, cough syrup ID checking is not about deaths, as nearly none are associated with dextromethorphan abuse (17 from 2000-2010, and most not from OTC). But an estimated 980 deaths/year from acetaminophen abuse: https://www.propublica.org/article/tylenol-mcneil-fda-behind... So that's a great example: harm adults because young people have access to something which is hardly dangerous, but set them free with multi-to…
> nearly none are associated with dextromethorphan abuse What do the numbers look like from before bottles were child locked?
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To be fair, dementors are consistently depicted as pure evil that has no place in society. The funnier thing for me is how the Ministry is a militarized law enforcement body that functions as the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of the magical society. But there are things you can't unsee once you revisit the series as an adult, like all the harmful tropes that's casually littered throughout the series.…
> and cunning, greedy creatures with long, hooked noses that run the wizarding bank I don't think they're portrayed as greedy? Although I'm willing to be proven wrong if anyone has textual evidence otherwise. They are also mistreated by wizards in the books, which I think portrayed them sympathetically. I remember scenes where Harry notices their mistreatment and thinks it's wrong
Also, notice how real world tropes are just portrayed as facts in the Harry Potter world.
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The Harry Potter series tried and mostly failed to push a bunch of weird political stuff. Slavery is the most noticeable but there was also racism mixed in. The black token character is called Kingsley Shacklebolt. The Chinese token character is called Cho Chang. The war is overtly world war 2, and Voldemort is Hitler - he wants to kill everyone who has impure blood. The Minister for Magic mirrors the British and Ame…
> The banks are run by goblins with big noses. I can believe that the origins of this trope are antisemetic, but I don't see very much reason to think that any antisemitic mindset was in JK Rowling's head when she wrote it.
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> The banks are run by goblins with big noses. I can believe that the origins of this trope are antisemetic, but I don't see very much reason to think that any antisemitic mindset was in JK Rowling's head when she wrote it.
That's a real stretch. She copied a modern day trope, not some ancient myth with unclear origin. Even if we bend over backwards to believe that she wasn't aware that the trope targeted a specific demographic, there's zero chance that her publisher failed to catch it too. And also the entire movie staff that chose floors with seven pointed stars for the bank. Also also consider that this trope is far from an isolated…
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Wild guess, but even if those creating the filters would agree with you, it doesn’t mean they know how to nerf the system only for the cases they want to actively wipeout.
>Wild guess, but even if those creating the filters would agree with you, it doesn’t mean they know how to nerf the system only for the cases they want to actively wipeout. Thank you. I don't understand your comment. I don't know 'nerf' (as in Star Wars?) in this context, and the system to wipeout is what? Are you referring to Assisted Suicide?
Don’t get it wrong: asking for clarifications is also a perfectly legitimate way to learn. And you often get more than initial expectation in that way. But if you ever fall in a case where you don’t get a reply or the reply don’t help, remember you are not powerless in finding some answers through online resources.
So, expressed a bit differently the initial response stated something like "it’s not always easy to avoid downgrading many other interesting and legit possibility of a device when trying to tweak it so it becomes less dangerous in some terrible scenario it could be involved into."
Let me know if it’s making the response more clear to you like that, please.
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> Is that satire? are you projecting your fears? The general point of society is that there is a collective agreement that people should live by a set of rules, and if you step outside of those rules, you will be punished. It could be simple as someone telling you off for being rude, all the way up to prison for a huge transgression. As ever with all things human, life exists on a spectrum. on the one had you have co…
The agreement must not be perfectly enforced. Human judgement is necessary, which means not only the judges and prosecutors, but also the low chance that the system becomes aware of non-problematic violations in the first place.
Infact I would go so far to say that it requires a constant introspection to evolve society to adapt to its current environment. This would be impossible in a "perfectly" enforced system, or even a vaguely rigid one.
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It is already a way to filter some people from others, in particular adults from children. https://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
That doesn't seem like a reliable method at all.