Here’s hoping its crap off-road capabilities means it hits and gets stuck on the first bump.

Yeah, things aren’t clear-cut. There are several matters in which Japan is painfully behind, and being such a populus country you can find people with views across the board.

But a lax justice system isn’t one of them. In fact Japan almost certainly has a huge problem with ostracising and convicting the innocent. You might hear about people losing their jobs just for getting arrested, even if found innocent.

And while laws also definitely need improving, it’s happening.

The main problem with stuff like age of consent, is going to be communities and groups of people who are behind on these things, and thereby shielding individuals from justice by keeping the bad things happening out of earshot of society at large. Their justice system might be brutally ruthless, but that doesn’t help if it never finds out about the crime in the first place.

That’s a completely different conversion.

And you might want to check Japanese conviction rates before making assumptions. Their system is damn near “guilty until proven innocent”.

Now, whether such crimes actually get reported, is again, another, different conversation. There absolutely are vile predators over there, as a judge publicly commented he thought it was weird he could get arrested for banging a 14-year-old.

But the ensuing scandal is also the reason why that dude is no longer a judge, and why the national minimum finally got raised.

There isn’t one. They are repeating a technically kind-of-true funny ha-ha internet factoid.

The effective age of consent is higher, as prefectures all have local laws setting it to something sane, but people say it’s 13 because it was the old national minimum on record up until last year.

And that national law was literally from over a hundred years back, and was finally updated last year to raise the national minimum to 16. Still lower than the 18 in effect in places like Tokyo.

Not since last year, when it was raised to 16.

Even then that was the national minimum set over a hundred years ago.

In practice it’s 18 in most prefectures, and has been for years, due to local law setting it to something sane.

You’re welcome! Percy and Curiosity are magnificent machines! There’s a ton of fantastic content out there about their design and engineering. Smarter Every Day and Real Engineering both have videos about them.

Most people also don’t realize how absolutely HUGE they are, until they see a person stand next to one of them on video or in a picture.

They’ve lasted quite well.

But it’s apparently one of the things the designers want to do better with future rovers.

The design was meant to be light-weight while providing good traction on the martian surface, but it has turned out more fragile than they’d hoped. All six wheels on Curiosity are quite damaged.

The wheels on Perseverance are still aluminium, but instead of the zig-zag tread, the large gaps of flat metal that have been getting punctured, were done away with. The wheels on Percy instead have a dense pattern of wavy tread.

Good.

Shitty cyclists suck. I ride my own bike every day, and I can’t get over how often I see someone riding among pedestrians, (often along a road clear of cars, or worse yet, along an actual bike lane right there).

I must have shouted “the bike lane is literally right here” as I go past people like this over a hundred times in my life.

It’s obvius to me that hitting someone with my bike would be horrible, yet I see people riding them all the time like it’s the same as lightly jogging.

That’s usually how it’s discussed.

From a certain perspective, it doesn’t matter whether a given soldier dies or is injured. Either way, it means a combatant was removed from the conflict.

As such, deaths and injuries are grouped together when discussing the “losses” of war.

Perchance there’s hope for you yet! Despite this happenstance of negativity.

I will use irregardless to my dying breath. In fact I go out of my way to use dumb combinations of synonyms all the time, mayhaps, possentially…

You can also use alternate UIs, or apps.

I run my own photon instance for use on desktop, but you can use the official one to use any lemmy account with the photon UI.

Someone in the playtest has to invite you.

You can ask for someone willing to do that over on [email protected]. That’s how I got in.

There’s a bunch of planned but unreleased heroes still in development that might drop in an update at any time. They are already in the game in a WIP state, so you can find videos of people who have used commands to access that stuff in sandbox or custom matches.

Mirage was only just added, Valve doesn’t announce or elaborate much on what is coming when, they are basically adding stuff as it becomes ready.

Climbing ropes weren’t even in the game a few updates ago.

[email protected]

They are making the point that society is actually harmed by self-doubting individuals, as corporations ≠ society.

Mine really likes massage around the base of the tail. A lot of cats do, I think. He’ll use his rear legs to push into your hand if you don’t use enough force.

It amuses new people when he “lifts his butt” when they pet him, and I have to tell them its because he wants them to press WAY harder around the tail.

I’ve learned the meaning of tons of cues over the years, and I can fairly reliably turn my boy into a relaxed puddle of feline liquid by heeding the hints for what he’s in the mood for.

Makes me think about that line where Bruce Banner says “the other guy spit it out”, referring to the Hulk when he tried the same thing with the gun in his mouth.

Neat

What the fuck? Who deliberated on this?

We’ve known the solutions for decades.

AI isn’t going to do shit about the fact that the real problem is human institutions dragging their feet on the matter because they’d rather not deal with the immediate expenses and downsides of doing something about climate change.