manualamadrugada

when usamericans say "the state of the world right now" they just mean their country's current political climate. and when they say "you wouldn't understand what we're going through" they're always talking about something every other country has experienced ten times before and usually because of the US

meowbrown

下手 と 苦手

They both means not good at something. My teacher mentioned the easy way to use it is 苦手 sounds more polite to use it when you talk about other people.

nihongoseito

a similar distinction applies to 上手 and 得意 as well! 上手 is most appropriate for talking about others, while 得意 is more typical when talking about yourself, your family, or otherwise your in-group.

(side note: 苦手 can also be used to describe things you yourself don't like or aren't good at tolerating. for example, カフェインは苦手です = "i can't handle caffeine"!)

meowbrown

Thanks for adding to this! I'm finding it useful too!

silly-calm

So I found the original manga, and the line is 引き戸なのにおすし. It appears to be a pun, but it works slightly differently than you suggested. You were close though! し (shi) on its own can be the 連用形 (a verb conjugation that doesn't exist in English, a bit too complicated to explain here) for する (suru; a verb meaning "do" like you said), but that wouldn't work with the word 押す (osu, push; the 連用形 of 押す would be 押し rather than 押すし, and that would say "oshi," not "osushi"). But when it comes after the dictionary form of a verb (like 押す) it's instead being used to indicate that something is one reason out of an incomplete list of reasons. So I read this as し being used with おす to indicate a reason for the surprise conveyed by the first part, 引き戸なのに (even though it's a sliding door; lit. "pull door"). The なのに isn't exactly the same as the English "even though." It actually expresses some surprise as well. So I'd translate this as something like "It's a sliding (pull) door?? But... You push it/Sushi!" With "You push it!" being implied to be only one of several reasons why they were surprised by the door. And 押すし ([topic] pushes it, among other reasons) is read the same way as お寿司 (sushi), like you said. So rather than using the kanji for either 押すし or お寿司, it's written in hiragana (おすし), so it can look like either "it's a sliding (pull) door?? But... you push it!" or "It's a sliding (pull) door?? But... sushi!"

This joke doesn't work at all in English for several reasons, one of which being that a "sliding door" isn't called a "pull door" in English, and another being that "You push it (among other reasons)" doesn't sound like the English "sushi." Which just goes to show that direct translation just isn't always possible, unfortunately (ESPECIALLY with puns).

ballwizard

if ur my follower and u engage with my posts often rest assured ur username and icon combo is in my mind and I see it and go oh yeah I know that guy yay

honestlyhardmilkshake

Every "new language learning technique that will change your life" just boils down to "Did you know that if you learn/practice the language you're learning you will get better at it?"

luke-shywalker

hey it’s ok if you lost your ai virginity back when you were uneducated. a lot of posts go like “reblog if you have never ever used generative ai and never ever will!!!” but it’s ok if you have used gen ai before and it’s even ok if you used to think it was cool, back before you understood what it really was and how it worked, either because no one had taught you about it and you discovered it on your own or because the only education you had received about it was from the tech bros. you’re not a burger with a bite out of it for having used ai. ok

dnealians-nemesis

It is 100 percent okay to stop using it today and join the "boo AI" club.

This isn't a purity thing. This is a "everyone stand with us against destroying the environment and giving asthma to poor people" thing.

Did you know that when one community says no to an AI data center, they specifically search out communities with fewer resources? Communities that can't defend themselves? And the pollution 100 percent affects their health and wellbeing, in addition to burning through our already scarce drinking water.

You can stop using character.ai today. You can say "I listened to the facts and stopped." And another thing: don't you think it's a bit more impactful to have used it, stopped, and then you're in a position to say how little it helped? How doing things for yourself improved your life?

yeahwrite

also posts in the spirit of "if you've used AI even ONCE your soul is tainted!!!!" can't be great to those with OCD

derinthescarletpescatarian

So true. People Gold Star Lesbianning ai makes me so tired.

ayeforscotland

Sweden, Norway and Germany are deploying troops for a reconnaissance mission in Greenland.

Source.

ayeforscotland

As have France.

ayeforscotland

People in the comments going ‘No need to worry, they only sent 20 people’ as if that’s not the very fucking obvious plan.

luimnigh

Seriously, it's very clear what's happening here.

They're human shields.

There is no force that NATO could deploy to Greenland that could successfully repel an American invasion.

What they're doing is making a statement: if you want to take Greenland, you have to kill our soldiers too. You will not be going to war with Denmark, you will be going to war with all of us.

This is making it clear to the Trump administration that there will be no political hemming and hawing, there will be no debate over whether they'll respond to Article 5 being invoked. An attack on Greenland is an attack on all of these nations, because it literally will be.

So think twice.

eymurn

In your 20s, you'll feel like you're losing the race. It's important to understand that there is no race.

noah-wyles

In your 30s, you'll feel like you're losing the race. It's important to understand that there is no race.

languagesjester

If you're into audio methods, libro.fm is having a sale on several complete language courses of the Paul Noble method: French, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, German and Italian

As usual one single method won't make you fluent but I personnally like the laid-back no-stress feel of those methods (and the sale is consequent 80+% off): here

They also have "fluent in 3 months" and books about writing in English or about the English language right now: all the language sales

(Also not sponsored or whatever but libro.fm is a no DRM alternative to Audible and you actually own your audiobooks and can have them in mp3)

what-even-is-thiss

Taking up Japanese as a side project for myself has reminded me of something.

So like a long time ago I had a professor that I absolutely adored. She happened to be Japanese American. She grew up speaking Japanese at home but never really spent a lot of time in Japan. She mostly spoke with other Japanese Americans and read books.

So one day early in her teaching career there’s an exchange student from Japan who’s having a hard time understanding a concept so she explained it to him in Japanese and then he looked absolutely rattled. Like in shock. Pale.

This is how she learned that the way she speaks Japanese makes her sound like a gang member.

Japanese doesn’t exactly have cuss words in the same way as English does but imagine that the nicest professor you’ve ever had pulls your paper over and says “Okay listen here you little piece of shit I’m gonna fucking explain this to you. Violently.”

writerlyn

The idea of “but everyone knows that” needs to stop.

I saw a post about someone chiding Millennials for not knowing about JKRowlings transphobia, and asking how it is at all possible that people can exist in the world and the internet and, you know, not know.

Which I mean, I get. It is so present in so many of my online spaces that it seems astounding that someone could simply be ignorant! It feels impossible!

But let me tell you a story:

I went on a girls trip with a bunch of friends. All of us are rather incredibly liberal and all of us are incredibly online.

One girl would not stop talking about Harry Potter.

At one point, another girl asked her why she was ok with supporting it, and she had no real clue that JK Rowling was at all transphobic. She had heard that she likes to support Lesbian causes and thought “oh ok cool!” And that was it. She was AGOG with the news and rather horrified.

I must once again emphasize that she was an incredibly online person. She’s a foodie and a restaurant blogger.

Later in the trip we were picking restaurants and I suggested one I found on Google, and she gasped at me. Actually gasped, asking how I could ever be okay picking that one.

The shock must’ve been on my face, because she then told me all of the shitty things that restaurateur does. He abuses staff. Underpays them. Fires them on a whim. Is known for being one of the worst people to his employees in the entire restaurant business on this coast.

And she was so shocked I had never heard of this. Because in her mind, I was just as online as her. And in her online world, EVERYONE knew about this guy.

So I think the moral of this story is: always approach the other person with some empathy. Even online people, even people you think MUST know about how bad people are, may not have heard. It may truly be just them being on a different sphere of the internet than you.

So be gentle, be kind when letting people know they might not have heard about the cancellation of XYZ person. Don’t assume that everyone knows all the same info as you.

By all means, let them know so they can make informed decisions, but being kind will go a lot further than attacking them for some info they might not know yet.

doublefallen

update from the discord group courtesy of one of my mutuals;

do not trust that damned survey. change your discord password. utilize 2FA.

I use 2FA on every website I log into, and it didn't ask for any details when I took the survey, but I still don't trust that thing at all. One can never be too safe.

venusinverted

to be clear, the one that is a scam is the one that asks for your Discord login information. there is a legitimate one that does not ask for ANY information and that one is a legitimate qualtrics survey from Discord. make sure you always check sites and links before you click on them fellas!

akilah12902

The legit survey has been closed down as of yesterday.

The phishing scam is taking advantage of the high emotions about AI, but if anything online asks for your login info (that is not on the actual verified website that belongs to that login that you navigated to yourself (not a link from an email or post!)), that is a huge sign to STOP.

nyaa

デゴチ@degochiyakuri

psshaw

How do you say "game over for my life for real" in Japanese

loki-zen

@mercuryjellyfish

chouhatsumimi

Since I didn't see it in other reblogs, here's the original post without the translate feature.

"Now it'd be straight up game-over for my life for real" is 今は普通にガチ人生終わりそう.

Ima wa futsuu ni gachi jinsei owarisou

Now it'd be straight up game-over for my life for real.

("futsuu ni" and "gachi" are both used for emphasis, similarly to "straight up" and "for real", so it's hard to say which is which.)

100493503004422

the usa is absolutely on its way to a fully fascist state & whenever anyone says that, there's always a comment that says "america has always been fascist." imo you're willfully downplaying an authoritarian takeover in order to sound edgy. all it does is derail the conversation & diminish the significance of what's been happening over the last 8 months. nothing will distract from a useful conversation about resistance more than changing it to be about the last 250 years instead. it's insidious and honestly straight out of a handbook on how to disrupt organizing

eowyntheavenger

People keep missing the point of this post, so let me spell it out: a fascist state is led by a dictator. Yes, the US has always been a white supremacist, colonialist and imperialist state, and has committed horrific crimes against its own people as well as people in many other countries, and we absolutely should criticize that and talk about how we got to this point. But don’t you fucking dare downplay what is happening now because you don’t know what fascism means. Fascism is a specific type of government/ideology, not just a word for “bad people doing bad things.” It absolutely overlaps with nationalism, racism, and militarism, all things that the US is known for, but the US has not actually been led by a dictator before. When you say “the US has always been fascist” you are naively ignoring how much worse things could get - and discouraging resistance to Trump.

3liza

Meiji period fashion was some of the best in the world, speaking purely from an aesthetic standpoint you can really see the collision of European and Japanese standards of beauty and how their broad agreement even in particulars (the similarity between Japanese and Gibson girl bouffants, the obi vs the corset, the obi knot vs the bustle, the mutual covetousness for exotic textiles, the feverish swapping of both art styles and subjects) combined and produced some of the most interesting cultural exchange we have this level of documentation for. Europeans were wearing kimono or adapting them into tea gowns, japanese were pairing lacy Edwardian blouses with skirt hakama and little button up boots. haori jackets with bowler hats and European style lapels. if steampunk was any good as an aesthetic it would steal wholesale from the copious records we have in both graphic arts and photography of how people were dressing in this milieu.

3liza

«The botany professor,» from Kkokei Shimbun, October 20, 1908.
she's wearing a kimono blouse or haori, edwardian skirt or hakama, gibson girl bouffant, a lacy high-collar blouse with cravat and brooch, and a pocket watch with chain

1910-1930 (Taishō era, right after Meiji, which I should have included in my OP) men's haori with western lapels

applesforhela

I have a love for both kimonos and bustle dresses, so I love seeing how the two fashions influenced each other over this period.  And thanks to Pinterest, I have pictures!

Victorian tea gown that clearly started as a kimono.  It still has the long furisode sleeves, but now they’re gathered at the shoulder and turned around so that the long open side is facing the front instead of the back.  Similarly the back is taken in with curved seams to fit the torso and pleated below that for the skirt.

Woodblock of a woman in a a bustle dress made with colorful patterned fabrics and examples of how a woman could style her hair with it.

More prints to showcase hairstyles, two women wearing western wear and two women wearing kimonos.

This next one’s modern, but it involves hoopskirts so I’ll add it in because it makes me so happy.  There’s been different styles of wedding fashion that take kimonos and give them a more modern look.  Often this involves taking a kimono and then cutting and resewing it into a new dress.  Very pretty, but it can’t ever be worn like a traditional kimono again.  But now there’s another trend where the bride wears a hoopskirt with a white skirt, then you take the kimono and drape it on.  The back of the kimono covers the front of the dress, the long sleeves fall across the sides or the back, and you still wear an obi with it.  The result is pretty and the kimono itself doesn’t have to be altered at all.

And because you mentioned steampunk, I have to add in these two:

nonasuch

Personally I’m a big fan of Taisho Meisen kimono, which are what happen when the Japanese textile industry abruptly gets access to aniline dyes, new spinning and weaving technology, and the concept of Art Deco: