I don’t have a problem with wishing bad things. My wishes don’t have any power. They won’t change a thing.

I also don’t believe in karma. Too many bad things happen to good people and vice versa.

Partially. I recently wanted to type 𰻝𰻝面 but my keyboard didn’t suggest 𰻝 even when I tried biang or biang biang. The is that there are several characters with the same syllable and then I still have to know which character is the correct one. And even though there are so many the still sometimes have several meanings. For example in Chinese the character 面 means noodle or flour or side or face (maybe even more). And I still can only sometimes infer the sound from the character. If someone were to ask me I’d ditch Kanji in Japanese and only us Romaji. Unlike English the sounds are actually standardized and it would make writing more compatible with a lot of countries. I’d also accept Hiragana or Katakana. But only one of them. I’d also start a writing reform in English so that the spoken and the written English fit together better.

Yes I find them hard and also not a very good writing system. Especially in Japanese where you have four writing systems. Drawing pictograms means I have to learn a spoken word, a pictogram (or worse pictogram combination) and a meaning for both. I know that English isn’t always written as it is spoken but for the most part it is. Even if I only hear a word I can have a guess at how it’s written and from the writing I have an idea how it might be spoken.

I know. I was just talking about the amount of data that is available that is hard to reproduce in the FOSS world.

The biggest problem is scale. You need enough people to use it to even be remotely useful. Google has the movement data for so many phones that the can detect traffic problem only through the phones moving more slowly. Then there is waze where people actively add data. Even if there was an app that had the same functionality you wouldn’t get any benefit if you are the only in a 100km radius.

In germany some health insurances pay for homeopathy. It’s still bullshit. Same for chiropractors.

Speaking for germany: no mandatory voting, no jury duty.

Being part of a jury is voluntary and you have to apply for it. It’s also probably quite different from the US jury system.

The assumption is a billionaire in USD. Euros might work as well.

Yup. I still miss my rif app. It just felt like such a bad decision. Especially limiting NSFW. I needed to try something else.

I hate when people say that. I work in IT and that is a very popular phrase. Well you can do something wrong for a very long time.

I have heard that before and I think the same as before I started my marriage: I will not start a marriage with planning how it might end. Also half of the assets is fair, ailment is fair. It stings when it happens but it’s fair. I say that as a man with a good income.

I knew the deal when I married my wife. I think part of marrying someone is the fact that ending the marriage is shitty. So you better be careful who you marry.

It could work. You’d just have to make sure to know when and where you will die. Then you could take your bones go back in time and die where you are supposed to.

This here is a man that once has been told that his burger is tasty and now it’s his pride and love language.

I don’t think the GNU/Linux name is even correct anymore. The amount of GNU utils is not as high as it once were and there are so many other components that are important or even essential now that it is somehow unfair to even name GNU so prominently.