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jutty

jutty@blendit.bsd.cafe
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Hacker, writer, translator, unix & programming nerd.

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I think you really miss the point. It’s as if your suggestion that romanization methods have imperfections dismisses the actual reasons why people will refuse to make the effort to learn how to pronounce a name from a language other than their own, which go far beyond whether or not the spelling “makes sense”.

The comic gives a very concrete example of that. It wouldn’t matter if the letters exactly mapped to a perfect pronunciation, the mere fact it does not roll of the tongue, i.e. “sounds foreign”, coupled with the underlying xenophobia+racism combo is what’s at work there.

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aaaa thank you so much!!! 💜

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I switched recently from neomutt to aerc and yes, if you want less complicated configuration, it’s a great pick. I find it less buggy and just best designed overall.

I never tried Gmail or Exchange on it, but this should have some helpful info on that: https://man.sr.ht/~rjarry/aerc/providers/

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it’s really cool how in your art I sense simultaneous struggle against technocracy and a sense of empathy for sentient machines and their potential for freedom

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oh my it makes even less sense than I figured

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My guess is it starts on top left, then moves right, then goes down all the way to bottom right, and comes full circle to the left and back up.

So “doesn’t make you look any better making me look bad”.

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It’s the only thing left after I’ve reduced my tab bar to a row of favicons.

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