It’s not Linux native according to the icons in Steam, so try one of the Proton compatibility layers.

Proton Hotfix wouldn’t run it for me but Proton 9.0 got me into the game’s prologue and difficulty select (which requires walking around). Haven’t played any further than that though, so can’t tell if there are to be any problems with other levels.

Was able to modify sound, graphics and mouse settings with no trouble too.

Edit: Made it through to the first intermission screen with no problems. Well, at least not software related. Skill issues are another matter.

As you point out, intelligence is fuzzy and dependent on many factors. Which is why a straight line hard cut-off above and below the mean of a distribution seems pretty arbitrary to me, even if it is based upon a particularly useful way of delineating variance from a mean.

I’m sure cognitive scientists had good reasons for that somewhat arbitrarily defined band of the bell-curve when they gave it the name “average intelligence” but it’s pretty clear that the joke isn’t using that definition.

50% of people are below average intelligence.

(Yeah, yeah, the implied conclusion is fallacious reasoning, but it’s still funny.)

Actually, the British beat the French to it. The Halifax Gibbet pre-dates the guillotine by about 100 years.

Yet another case where another nation somehow becomes better at a sport the British invented.

The southern English are trapped between a rock and a hard place with the whole thing. They do like the idea of stealing culture from the French, but they want to appear to be separate at the same time. And appearing northern would be even worse.

Are you sure? They’re both unvoiced th, which is what thorn is for if you intend to distinguish.

I can’t tell whether Old English used eth for those words early on - though the unvoiced quality in modern English makes that seem unlikely. Did we also devoice them? Eth died out fairly quickly in favour of thorn in all cases, voiced or not. Possibly because its name is “eþ” not “eð”. It doesn’t even use itself. (Though, ironically, ‘w’ also doesn’t and it replaced ƿynn, which does.)

There was another commenter - actually might have been the same guy, I’m not all that sure - who did use eth for voiced instances, to similar controversial effect in comment sections.

We have a diacritic in English text already. Rather than above or below, it goes to the right of the letter it modifies and looks an awful lot like a letter h.

And if you don’t quite buy that, remember that a lot of diacritics started life as letters that were eventually moved above a preceding letter and then simplified. The tilde on ñ was an n itself; the ring on å was another a; and in at least some cases the umlaut was an e.

Modifying-h may only be stuck where it is because technology did away with the need for economical scribes before they had a chance to start messing with it.

Hahaha, that’s not dystopian at all, hahahaha.

When you have a hungry bear on your doorstep, your concern is not misplaced.

Well that’s good to know at least. Still not sure I would have opted for that name, but then, these are clearly the games of sharper minds than mine.

That name puts me in mind of things like “Stormfront” and “National Front”, if not also things like 4chan / 8kun.

…but that might be the point?? If so, I can’t tell if it’s a joke or serious. Disturbing.

I think this is more of a “If Israel keep this up, they’ll be coming for the rest of us once they’re done with Palestine. We need them as a distraction / punching bag to keep Israel busy.”

So far Jordan has kept their heads down and been left alone, but King Abdullah is probably starting to feeling a little tight around the shirt-collar as Israel’s belligerence continues to rise.

Asbestos is also inert.

Strictly speaking, black pudding is a kind of blood sausage, but we’d probably use the former term for the entire category in Britain.

Some people classify haggis as a sausage, but it’s definitely not a blood sausage.

You are […] implying that people of (generally) Asian religions need to change their iconography

That is not and was not my intent, and I was less sure of yours until just now. (This may be reading (in)comprehension on my part, to which I’ll be happy to admit fault.)

So, let me make sure I’m understanding you. Are you saying that you think that any and all gains from bigoted or unethical sources should be thrown away and that we should have nothing to do with them?

I understand why people would be extremely uncomfortable with some of these and I even think that where we can, we should avoid them, but we can’t get rid of everything.

If we must insist on everything then the whole of humanity needs to get in the sea because we’re all products of humanity’s inhumanity if you go back far enough. In many cases, it’s not that far.

If we say “nothing” then we give way to terrible people and let them have free reign.

So tell me. Where is the line? I still think that’s a fairly difficult question, even if you don’t.

You say it’s a solved problem in one area as though it should be a solved problem elsewhere. That puts your comment on unsound footing.

As for the comparison you don’t like, there are often only so many ways to write certain things in code. Some of those are invariably going to be very similar to that which was written by a bigot. That might be OK (like continued Hindu and Buddhist use of the swastika). Outright using that which was actually written by the bigot though?

People may say “please don’t do that”.

And there’s the rub.

This is a tricky one. If a bigot says the sky is blue, they’re not wrong about that. Other things, sure, but not that.

Maybe we could take their efforts and use it against them somehow. That is to say, we might deliberately use that code for anti-hate purposes, perhaps, subverting the bigot’s preferred goals. Make it so that any gain they might have had is overtaken by their disgust at how it’s being used.

On the other hand, taint is by association. There’s a really neat and geometrically useful symbol; fourfold symmetry, previously used by Hindus, that picked up an extremely negative association around 90 years ago, for example, and short of humanity forgetting history, we’re never getting that one back.

If you were someone helped by that code being used against bigotry and you found out where it came from, you’re probably going to have mixed feelings about it when you finally get the time to reflect.

You might understand why people would want to avoid it, even if it is correct.

That’ll, er, teach me to just go by the graph.

Thank you for your insight.

This does not appear to count work done outside school hours, which makes me wonder how much of the work teachers in other countries do outside school hours is actually being counted within the Japanese teachers’ hours.

Or is it the case that Japanese teachers do proportionally more outside school hours too?

You’re missing the fact that water wets itself*, and is thus wet. The only non-wet water is that where the molecules are far enough apart to not interact with each other. That’s very hard to achieve even in the vapour phase.

* Yes, yes, I see you laughing. “It needs new underwear” ha ha ha. But seriously, though.