We are the Blarg. Resistance is futile.
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You moved to Lemmy to ask this question on an account called Ahmed? You sound like a customer service bot?
This is not the reaction of a human being struggling with porn addiction. Let's just say you have not succeeded in allahing my skepticism.
Not like any other election before where tech companies had zero interests and just thought may the best team win.
A new account, all written in bold, with a potential rage bait about religion and jacking it? I smell bravo sierra.
"Western" languages? There is no such thing. There are Turkic ones, Indo-European ones, Uralic ones, Afro-Asiatic ones. They and more are all west of wherever Chinese characters are used.
You are picking a small number of Chinese characters that bear a distant resemblance to the meaning they carry to this day in languages that use them. Most of them have been abstracted to hell. Or simplified beyond recognition, I guess not just in the Chinese mainland. And that 火 means 🔥 was not obvious to me when I learned it. You need somebody to tell you to imagine a person with their arms on fire to see it. So the abstraction has progressed too far. Where you see a mountain I see a fork also. Therefore, I challenge your premise to the extent that this is obvious without being instructed.
I can also teach you pyr(o) means fire and maniac is an obsessive crazy person. You can get to the meaning of pyromaniac from there too. That as a learning process is not too different from 火山 equals volcano.
A lot of these images you presented strike me as linguistic retconning to aid children (and foreigners) learning the characters.
The point of the Latin alphabet is not to tie meaning to the letters but to the sounds they represent in the language that uses it. So even if, hypothetically, you could trace back the letter O to a symbol representing a window in Egyptian hieroglyphics this has no bearing on how the letter is used today.
It's also noteworthy to me that any language using Chinese characters have invented a syllabary (like Hiragana and Katakana in Japan) or use the alphabet to an extent to teach the language (pinyin in the PRC, complete latinization in Vietnam). Korean adopted a syllabary that has a similar look and design but actually makes sense. There is a strong appeal to the utility of being able to read what's on the page without having to think about anywhere from 1000 to 100000 abstracted characters.
You are struggling with a parasocial relationship. You idolize this one creator and for that creator you're one tiny follower among whatever gazillion inflated bot count your social media of choice shows they have. You're lucky to get a reply and, just as one example, most creators on Instagram will engage with a few early comments because it tweaks the algorithm in their favor if they show engagement/counter engagement. They probably don't gaf so lmao lol etc.
You're nothing to them other than a view count. Accept that role and vent with a person preferably irl.
Radio playlists are a science like marketing. Half the budget is wasted, you're just never sure which half.
Stations have a target audience. They will have focused grouped this. They know their favorite music, how long on average they listen, and how much they will expect to hear certain artists. The DJs are mere announcers, they have little to no choice in what they play, and they are grateful to have a job. So like anybody working in retail during Christmas, they can tune out the music in their heads.
BUT IF YOU READ IT YOU WILL FIND OUT THAT PEOPLE ARE DIVIDED OVER THIS ISSUE. SO THERE IS NO CONCLUSIVE ANSWER.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer boss or company.
How do you blackmail a person who feels no shame? Could only be about his money. And I don't see any angle, say, the Russians or the Israeli government has there to make him worried. So even if they are sitting on solid evidence of him eating babies on the island that won't be nearly enough to put pressure on him. Unless it's scientific evidence that his hands are too small. And he'll just fake-news-stonewall that until he'll cover the Lincoln Memorial in gold or something, just to move the media cycle along.
47 thinks he's smart but he is at best NYC realtor smart. With a touch of the mob, maybe. He's severely undereducated as a president. More so than W by a factor of 1000. But he Peter principled himself into positions where he is unimpeachable or people are afraid to tell him when he's wrong. He shows a persistent pattern of parroting the opinion of the last man he spoke with. He is larping the Emperor's New Clothes fairy tale with an ego that needs constant praise, his own in a pinch. You don't need to blackmail a person like that. Praise him, flatter him, promise him money and good headlines and he happily will kill a minimum of two of his children.
Netanyahu sent him down the garden path on Iran. And now he'll get a deal that's worse than the Obama one he derided. Which I'm sure he never read. Because he only absorbs about one page of content if it's nicely spaced and contains pictures. Per week.
I'm going to go out in this limb: nobody here is qualified to make that assessment and has direct access to the man, which you need to make the call. So fuck off with this shit stirring bullshit.