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  • The only story I could find after googling "North Korea giant rabbits" was this:

    BERLIN: A German farmer who sold 12 giant rabbits to North Korea with the aim of setting up a breeding program to alleviate famine has said he was shocked to hear they were eaten at Kim Jong-il's birthday banquet.

    Which I mean… they were sent as gifts to be breeding stock for meat production. It seems more like a mismanagement of charity resources than a sad story to me.

  • In my experience, those laws aren't followed much in reality. The biggest sites, sure, but most smaller sites are a mess under the hood. As long as something is "technically usable", even if very awkward and annoying, it's often hard to sue or anything like that. Maybe it's different in other countries though, I live in Australia.

    Next time you use a website, try only using your keyboard to navigate it and accomplish your task, and you'll see what I mean. It's a rough test of how much they value accessibility. For example, many websites disable the border around what you're highlighting, so you have no idea what the tab button is about to click. Or popup windows don't actually change your tab selection, so you have to tab through literally the entire page in the background to get to the popup window. Stuff like that; technically usable but annoying as hell.

  • Have you seen Flemish giant rabbits? They're bazooka bunnies

  • Yeah, if you care about screen reader users, functionally it's just "Anubis but worse". Unfortunately, most people don't care, so for them and all visual users, it has the benefit of no additional "load time" computational check — the page appears instantly without the Anubis step. Though I'm not sure how long it takes the page to do the de-scrambling.

    The primary purpose of this project is to mutilate your HTML so bots can't scrape it, rather than preventing bot traffic in the first place. The screen reader stuff is a bolt-on.

  • I love myself twice per day

  • If it's 50k untaxed, now we're talking. It's not like a 50k bonus for one year, where you only see a portion of it.

    I think this question is more a mirror of your current life situation. A lot of people would take the 50k, and I don't blame them. That money might get them out of a doom poverty spiral — they can fix their car, pay off credit card debt, etc…

    Personally; I'm retired, earn almost nothing, but also spend almost nothing. I'd go for the coin flip, and if I win, give it to my family or charity or something.

  • It's a bit hard to find non-Japanese information since it's a relatively new and lesser known yokai, but this site does a pretty decent breakdown.

    Ms. Eight Feet Tall (八尺様, Hachishakusama, also informally called Hasshakusama) is a type of main Japanese spirit (Yokai) that takes the form of an impossibly tall female specter often rumored to have a deep, masculine or an attractive, feminine voice in which she repeats the interjection "Po" ぽ] repeatedly, and has a habit of preying on children, usually those who are nine to eleven years old.

    It is said that Hachishakusama catches her victims by stalking a select child she takes a liking to for a few days or even months. After a certain time has passed, she takes the child away from their family members and their whereabouts are left completely undisclosed ever since. It's unknown how or why she chooses to abduct them, but it can be assumed that like most spirits, she can also just teleport to the child's location and take them away with her that way too.

    However, there are a rare few of people who have been "liked" by Hachishakusama and lived to tell the tale. Those who are fortunate enough to have survived the spirit's wrath have to leave Japan and reside in a different country; they cannot return to Japan due to the risk of being hunted by Hachishakusama once more which also prohibits them from seeing their families by extension even under urgent situations, like a relative of theirs passing away.

    Basically, don't reciprocate her affection or pity her too much. If she finds you interesting and you see a tall dark woman watching you intermittently, flee the country immediately. She stalks people to see if they're a good replacement for her lost son, and "adopts" them.

    Source: https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Eight_Feet_Tall

  • Per the GitHub:

    Accessibility layer<Shield> hides protected regions from assistive tech and ships an a11y prop that renders a real alternative beside them — mode: "text" puts your words in the page encrypted behind a time-lock puzzle the reader's browser opens (no link for a scraper to follow, no artifact for you to host), or mode: "audio" points at a recording you make. What remains: NVDA and JAWS verification (VoiceOver is done by hand, Windows is not), the focus indicator a sighted keyboard user loses to an invisible control, and the non-React tiers shipping none of it.

    In summary, they have two ways to get around this.

    • By default, blind people are fucked as usual. Most everything is unusable via screen reader just due to the way modern websites are designed.
    • Audio mode pre-records an audio file of your text, and plays that, bypassing the screen reader. This is extremely horrible UX for screen readers, for anything more complicated than a wall of text, but at least it's something.
    • Text mode will do some sort of computational challenge, using CPU on the blind person's machine for a few seconds, then revealing the original unmolested text. Assuming this works properly, because screen readers are extremely fragile beasts.
  • Po

  • I usually just say I don't want to give out my phone number. It usually works but it short circuits the cashier's brain

  • I dunno if I've just been unlucky, but I've mostly run into jerks on this platform the last week or so. Reasonable people are the exception, I get just awful replies on most comments, it's really strange. Everyone seems to have a bee in their bonnet. I deleted my Reddit account because every day was people just being toxic at any opportunity, and the same thing is happening here too. My block list is getting pretty long. Makes me wonder if all social media is just inherently an awful place to be.

  • Most people don't actually want that unfortunately. I agree with you but the numbers don't lie. People love bloated and annoying websites

  • Yeah exactly. A lot of features are like, let's design the website to perfectly suit your device. But then that means they know everything about your device, otherwise they can't design for it. Then, if they know everything about your device, bad actors will abuse that information. So the only solution is going back to shit websites, but nobody wants that, so we just kind of pretend that it's not a problem and compromise as best we can

  • I already have to scroll past 20 options to get to Australia in country drop down lists lol

  • Nice keyboard

  • ProWalk Tours. Just walking around in a foreign country in Ultra HD. No commentary. For me the sounds of walking and the mumble of genuine chatter is relaxing. Plus if you look at the screen every frame is beautiful.

  • There's probably a lot of different kinds.

    I think I might be fucked or something; I don't feel love the same way other people describe. No warm tingles, no sense of belonging. To me, it's like having very close friends that I know care about me more than just as a friend.

    I try to be a good partner, friend, family member, etc, because I take pride in my work. I reciprocate, but I'm just pretending at the end of the day; there's no emotion from my side. I know my partner likes tea made a certain way at the same time, so I make it, but their smile is just feedback. All love languages are one-directional since I don't understand it.

    I haven't told anyone, I think it would upset them, but maybe I should just be honest. I think they call it "aromantic" nowadays? Though I'm hesitant to add yet more labels to my identity.

  • Aight fine you got me with the bait. I regretfully read the second link. Let me summarise it for you.

    The second study looked at whether people understand things better when they read information or listen to it.

    Overall, the researchers found that reading and listening were about equally effective for understanding information. However, reading seemed to help more in certain situations. For example, people did better when they could read at their own paceinstead of having information read to them at a fixed speed. Reading also helped more when the task required deeper thinking, like making connections or understanding ideas that were not directly stated, rather than just remembering exact details.

    The study also suggested that the difference between reading and listening may depend on the language being studied. In languages where spelling and pronunciation are closely connected, reading and listening seemed more similar than in languages where they are less predictable.

    Again, no mention of testing in distracted settings. You're just making shit up at this point. But if you want to feel smart because you "read" 40 books per week while doing the dishes, you do you. You seem to care very deeply about this topic since you're all over this thread.

  • Nah I think this person just is out of practice for reading comprehension