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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thought this was Loss for a second

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I downvoted instinctively.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

In france I lften see both the middle and left ones.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I do the middle one but start with 4 dots, then connect those dots with lines, then do 2 lines crossing in the middle. it gives you 10 in a small space. So in the pictures there it would be 3, 5, 7, 8, 9.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

That sounds really efficient.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I just feel like the figure on the right should have each unit be the same length. Why should four be denoted with a shorter length?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

3 is also shorter.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Since when is Brazil not part of South America?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

We’re special. 😂 I guess because we are a lot similar to other South American countries, but also very different. For instance, we don’t even speak Spanish.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The Asian one makes no sense.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

It's the character for 'correct', which doesn't really explain much. Best I can figure it's just that it's a common character with five strokes in a satisfying right-down-right-down-right order.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the final one is the symbol for "five" and it takes 5 strokes to draw. it'd be like drawing a 5 one segment at a time in an eight segment number display as the tally marks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You are wrong. This is the character for "correct". "Five" is similar. Both have five strokes.

五 = five

正 = correct, positive

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

“Five” 五 has four strokes

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Oh, you are right. It's been a couple of decades since I actually had to write Japanese by hand.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So then why aren't they using '五' to make the tally marks?

Trends are weird.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Because it actually has four strokes. The "L" in the middle is one stroke

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I still don’t like it. It’s not a logical placement of strokes. No I don’t care that the Kanji ultimately means ‘5’.

I don’t like it. It’s aesthetically displeasing with no logic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

It’s only aesthetically displeasing to you because you come from a western background. For someone used to say mandarin it is quite aesthetically pleasing. The final bottom stroke “closes” the set in a satisfying way that is consistent Chinese character stroke order.

Some things are culturally relative. Aesthetics is one of those things.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I use n. American one but find the France/Brazil one makes Sense. The Asian looks aesthetically displaying but not for the train you stated.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I understand that, But they’re still wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The world is a wonderful and diverse place. Looking at your comment history I see some slurs that, to me at least, hint that you are a younger person.

My main advice to have empathy, be accepting and realize that many people live their own lives most of which are very different than yours.

People can learn, change, and live unique and meaningful lives. :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh I’m just spouting off occasionally with hyperbole, rants and un-serious trolling.

Don’t sweat it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’m glad. :) And worry not. I do try to make the world a better place where I can, but I understand that I can’t get too invested in every attempt. In this case no sweat was involved. Just empathy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

TBH I actually have a lot of empathy but I also love going off half-cocked online. Probably as a release valve for my inner demons which don’t get exercised enough in daily life.

I’m rarely actually serious (apart from my hatred of the disfunction-by-design of the RightWing) but it’s easy for that to get lost in translation.

Poe’s law etc.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I understand. In this case I would encourage you to exercise that empathy online. Is it worth making others feel worse in order to make yourself feel better? I hope you don’t feel so.

The world is what we make it. Lemmy is new enough that we are now setting the tone. I want to push Lemmy away from the “leave of legends” style perma salty attitude as much as I can. I encourage others to build positive spaces too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Yeah I hear you. TBH I think it’s because Lemmy is so quiet, sometimes 100% of the time in some communities, that I frequently don’t care what sort of engagement I get as long as it’s something.

Chasing the dopamine of social interaction I guess.

I can’t promise to only foster empathy everywhere but I’ll do my best to be cool here.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

No logic…unless you use the language it’s written in. You’re only looking at it from your perspective and saying it’s ugly and makes no sense. Because the language, to you makes no sense because you haven’t learned it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

… and they are wrong. It’s imbalanced.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Funny how people get so butthurt and rage-filled when it comes to aesthetic opinions.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Are you…referring to yourself? Because that’s not a trend anyone has noticed—but you tend to be exhibiting an outlandish reaction to something you find aesthetically displeasing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I voiced a calm opinion. Others seem to be more ‘engaged’ in trying to shout me down. Just as I thought might happen.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The European tally line diagonal from top left to bottom right feels wrong.

I usually see it the other way.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I've always felt the same about the "no" sign:

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Looks to me as if all the ghosts have been busted.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yep, the example in OP seems wrong (for right handed people), it's very awkward line to pull

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Not in my experience. Diagonal down is easy to pull

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

This is the way

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