charly4994 [she/her, comrade/them] @ charly4994 @hexbear.net

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Self taught myself Japanese and not the “self taught watching anime” but with actual textbooks. Living in Japan for a while really helped solidify a lot of it for me, now I can understand most stuff I’m interested in but technical stuff will still absolutely ruin me. I’ve also given up learning to write, if I can read I can type it out anyway.

One of the things I learned while in high school in Japan was that old Japanese is absolutely cursed and as a foreign kid with like conversational Japanese at best it was impossible to understand. And then I also was left in the dust in math when only years later did I realize I was in a calculus course for first years and I only like 3 years away from calculus in the US as a senior.

Then there was the fun when I’d respond with hm? To clarify a question and the people around me would take it as me agreeing since un counts as a yes.

So many things you take for granted with culture and language that you learn about when learning a new language. Honestly was probably my first step towards who I am today and leaving behind my reactionary teenage self. My world expanded, though not good, trans existence was more acknowledged in Japan to a degree even back when I was there though people would still misgender and be shitty, it helped just seeing people exist. Then one night the family I was staying with started talking about how pretty I’d be if I was a girl and yeah…

What if I jump onto the tracks and die with my family member?

When I was looking for a whetstone the amazon results were actually sorta funny. They're selling all the same thing just with a stamped company name on it but the price varies wildly.

I used the pause to pay down what I could. Got rid of the super predatory private loans ASAP and then just paid down the principle as much as possible spending most of my paycheck for years on it. Went from like 140k in debt to 30k. Might be able to finally pay the rest of it off this year. Nursing sucks, but it at least pays the bills well enough.

Lived in Japan on the path of totality back in '09, there was a lot of buzz around it. And then it was a cloudy day and we couldn't see shit. It became a darker cloudy day and then went back. Most of the region was clear, it was just the city and a bit outside it that were covered in clouds. At this point I believe I'm cursed by the universe and will not seek it out solely to not ruin it for others.

I agree that having grandma around for as long as possible is the preferred solution, but nursing homes and healthcare institutions will absolutely drain you of every penny they can get their hands on. If grandma wants to pass on her house, making sure that the nursing home can't get their hands on it is something that should be considered before you send her there.

One of my favorite videos goes over a few specific cases of disability in prehistory by Trey the Explainer. Personally love the family that seemingly took too good care of their daughter and fed her too many sweets.

Coloring Pixels

WooLoop

Both are from the same dev and follow the same monetization model where they offer a fair number of free levels and sell 16 new levels for like 1 dollar or currently like 79 cents. They're both a pretty mindless thing to work on while listening to stuff

Yeah

Before clicking the link I thought it was about LonaRPG.

Saw it pop up sometimes as I've browsed other stuff and it came off as one of those depressing games where everything is terrible, everyone is terrible, and your MC suffers because they simply exist. You also have the flag splash screen that does the evangelical thing of "click if you believe Jesus is LORD of ALL"

But as for Steam, there's quite a few porn games featuring Hitler, this one just crosses steam's policy with the MC being an obvious child.

Can I use the lib defense that I thought he’d be less awful than Dr. Oz?

I was curious about what Breezewood looked like today and after taking a short drive down the street in google maps, I think half these signs are either gone or just decrepit now. It looks like the rest of the bombed out aesthetic post 2008 financial crash you see in a bunch of places in the US.

My memories of E3 are few since I never particularly cared, but when I was like 19 and going to college for something I never finished, I had a bunch of friends that were super hype for it and we were all planning on going out to it in like 2010, not only to go to the con, but to also try to network since we all wanted a job in the games industry. Some other students that were close to graduating gave out some tips on how to approach some bigger names at the event. The only thing that still sticks out to me is how we were told to buy a pack of cigarettes, and go to the smoking sections and hang out to chat up studio people and even if we didn't actually smoke, we should have a lit cigarette in our mouths. Apparently this worked for a number of other people at the school.

That's my assumption, applied to the same hospital network like a dozen times over the last 3 years and I get immediately filtered within minutes even in off hours.

There's too much information required for everyone to make perfect decisions at all times and there's a reason we put warnings on things as a result. Some of it is really fucking obvious that you shouldn't do, some of it isn't. We put on acetaminophen that you shouldn't take more than 3g a day and most boxes/bottles explicitly state no more than x pills every x hours based on the dosage of the pills. What about the people that bought loose caffeine powder to manually add it to things they make like protein smoothies that when not given a scoop in the container put too much caffeine in and end up dying? The world wants caveat emptor to the end of the earth when in reality half this shit is dangerous off the factory line.

How about HFCS? It's in fucking everything in the US, you can't escape that corny goodness. It's not healthy, but it won't kill you in a day, is it the "consumer's" fault that they got life long diseases due to not knowing enough to pick better options or rather, didn't have better options even available?

They're killing enough of us already, we don't need to carry water for them.

I wouldn't call it a moral failing of the revolution but an act of necessity to defend themselves from the wolves that would use any one of these children as a symbol of the Russian Empire to revive it with the support of every monarchy in the region. I mean just look at Miami and how bloodthirsty the children of gusanos are for losing their plantations, I can only imagine how bloodthirsty a child denied their right to an empire would be.

Feels like the self-selection scammers go for, anyone that would find it wank would self-select themselves out of the pool.

I did not see the alternate history subreddit and thought I had missed something major and was disgusted that Brazil would support the US bombing.

Goddamn, apparently there was also another IOF soldier that was on the scene that was also shot by the two that rolled up later to just execute everything that moves. The soldier is presumably not in critical condition unlike the civilian that succumbed to their injuries.

Can see why all those cops love getting training and can even see the next step, training our medical personnel to not respond. They left him there providing no immediate medical attention.

I just sorta realized that the US Civil War was within living memory still when Kissinger was born and that this exchange with John Brown is still closer to Kissinger's birth than his death was. Like imagine some kid born today would have a similar distance to Vietnam that he did with the US Civil War.