tiredofsametab

I started Korean a few days ago. I am still in the “learning how this all works” phase. I’m frustrated by my slow reading speed and inability to find something to help that readily.

Well, it was an old way of pronouncing it: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/people-have-been-saying-ax-instead-ask-1200-years-180949663/

I’ve said that, if I had it to do over again, I might choose to move to Norway or Finland instead of Japan, but birth? I don’t know that’s possible to answer. Even if my family were the same people, they’d probably be culturally different having been born and raised somewhere. Even if we assume my parents were just plonked down there, I probably still wouldn’t be the same person due to my environment. Some of that almost certainly for better, but I wouldn’t be me.

Dragons of Autumn Twilight was one that set me on quite the Dragonlance collection and reading journey

Yeah, I’m not a fan of those. I’m fine with licorice.

Peeps. I’ve never like marshmallow anything, really, and definitely not those abominations. Most cinnamon-flavored things. Edit: forgot one: chocolate-covered cherries. I don’t know why. I have a cherry tree and will eat the cherries off it and don’t even mind most artificially-cheery-flavored things. I also eat other fruits covered in chocolate (even durian).

I care much more about things being clean and orderly than my wife, like, by quite a lot. I do a lot of cleaning.

If the Japan life/visa/legal/finance subreddits would fully move over, I could finally be rid of reddit. Sadly, they have not. Some subs exist, but it’s worthless without the institutional knowledge that some of the people have; Japanese legalese be tough.

Analysts have compared the 2025 boycott to previous consumer movements, including the renaming of french fries to “freedom fries” in the United States during 2003 when France opposed the invasion of Iraq.[4]

As someone who was an adult in the US at the time, these things are not remotely comparable in size or scope. Freedom fries was as a concept was mocked even within groups that were in favor of the war and angry at France (at least where I was).

“I’m going to put a device in my pocket and have it cause me pain over events that don’t impact me or if they do impact me, will almost never be improved or helped in any way by that alert” sounds like a really dumb way to be to me.

Ah, Usenet…

With net fishing, they’re still out of the water quite a long time whilst being hauled up, dumped, and sorted before being thrown in their sorted holding tank.

There are already people who think NewsMax and their ilk are now correct and fox is wrong, so it may just be shifting.

Dude, what a gnarly bunch of dweebs like, you can’t use that language, doy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3QQDAKxUIk from a linguist about finna (and gonna and other things)

I test printed once from Mint, but couldn’t daily-drive linux due to other software I need to work not working after a mint version upgrade.

I bought a Brother about a year ago. I hadn’t owned a printer in about 12-15 years. In Japan, one can generally just print things at the convenience store (after uploading (app, browser, etc.) or via USB stick), but I moved to the middle of nowhere and got tired of going back and forth. I also needed to print things like business cards which the cobini printers won’t do.

Some of them (the Finnish ones I saw) just had the bottom being the rack, basically, so at least that had dripping and airflow. Having an actual board below it would be a terrible idea, I think, heh.

I’ve always wanted the version built into a cabinet, but I live in a high-humdity area and that just screams of mold issues. Why not the version as pictured in the open? Earthquakes. Still, definitely at the point in my life that it’s awesome at least in theory

First you tell me not to listen to ghosts and spirits of the dead, now you’re telling me this one had valid warnings. Which is it?!