mcfidget.bsky.social
Northern Irish, Movie-lover, 日本語OK, He/Him.
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Or, you could just never use 'whom', just like everyone else.
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It could be a lot worse. It’s using kanji for their sounds rather than their meaning (ateji). So for Alexander 荒九三舵 would be pronounced Arekusanda, but going by the meaning of the kanji it’s gibberish (rough nine three rudder).
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I only know enough Mandarin to understand 不是 but I recognise 狼 from Japanese, so I'm about 95% sure this means what everyone expects it to mean.
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Being born in a country doesn't automatically grant citizenship in a lot of countries. Japan does allow people to become citizens via naturalization regardless of ethnicity, often with relaxed conditions if born in the country.
www.moj.go.jp/EN/MINJI/min...
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Yes. It still isn't an ethnostate.
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It took you half an hour to look something up on wikipedia and you still didn't get the right term? Point to where I said 'ethnocratic state'.
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OK so you just don't know what the term 'Ethnostate' means.
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Is the US an ethnostate? Ethnostate is a term that means something specific not just something you can apply to anywhere there's discrimination.
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It's not though...
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Tell that to the Ainu, or the Ryukyuans, or zainichi Koreans, or burakumin, or...
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"Full transparency, I had no idea what I was voting for."
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Nah you wouldn't get people saying that up here.
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Not to the exclusion of them. In more serious discussions people would mostly say Unionist or Nationalist, but in casual conversation it's pretty common to talk about Protestant and Catholic in that way.
And the H thing is more commonly said to be down to segregated schools than region.
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Probably more common in the North. Certainly in ways like the Frasier joke. Plenty of jokes like how you can tell if someone's Catholic or Protestant by how they pronounce the letter H.
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I don't know, in NI it's still pretty common for people to talk in terms of protestant and catholic communities like that.
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So you really are that lazy?
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Yeah, so is asking people to do things you could very easily do yourself.
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You know the title and the name of the youtube channel. How lazy are you? It took me seconds to find.
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SPECIAL YAOI CLAY TABLET!
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He's clearly slowly backing away, trying to escape. I hope he succeeds.
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Do you have any comment on the rest of what they said? I have seen a number of translators express concern about ANN running an advertorial for an AI localisation company.
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Never cede ground to fascists.
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I'd really prefer it if Grok stuff stayed in the other place.
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...says former deputy prime minister of the UK.
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AI is such a self inflicted reputational injury that anytime I see anyone say "we only used it for this tiny thing" I find myself screaming "THEN WHY USE IT ALL?!". Surely these companies can see that it's going to do more harm to their image than good.
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…reacting to something you don’t know about by smugly celebrating your ignorance is a truly fascinating response.
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Also Oz Perkins there is Osgood Perkins, the director of Longlegs and The Monkey.
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I’m shocked the DUP are trying to claim him considering he’s Catholic. Maybe they believe the jokes about him killing the pope.
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...artists they don't like [get awards]* was...
Sorry.
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This particular post is probably more directly inspired by an indie comic artist who recently made a comic about how the only reason *certain* artists they don't like was "white guilt". (The comic also complained about "calarts style")
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Wasn't Oprah basically the liberal Rogan?
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That last line got me good.
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Like the nuance that replacing a foreign name with a more familiar name kinda erases other cultures and languages?
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Cool, so no one would have a problem if the dub for Jujutsu Kaisen changed these guys' names to Ewan Osborn and George Smith.
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Don't you mean Takeshi?
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People will complain about jelly donuts and still call this guy Ash.
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Like stills from Come and See.
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Also he technically isn't Afrikaner.
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If it salutes like a Nazi...
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Well, his grandad did run the British Union of Fascists so he probably thinks far right tendencies are pretty normal.
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Let me think. Nope, giant monster slugs but no horses.
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Forging poisons at the poison forge.
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Every single modern biologist knows better than Darwin. The guy didn't know about DNA, science progresses, that's the whole point.
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Apparently this is her, I would bet good money Piers was invited her on deliberately to aim for a moment like this.
removepaywalls.com/https://www....
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Slight mix up with the Japanese there, ニホンモモンガ is 'Nihon-momonga' (the Japanese dwarf flying squirrel). 'Ezo-momonga' is written as エゾモモンガ.
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That's great.
But with RFK Jr.'s ongoing dehumanisation of autistic people, I still haven't forgiven De Niro's part in legitimising his nonsense.
(This was in 2017, I can't find anything from De Niro on vaccines since covid, hopefully he's changed his views)
www.vox.com/2017/2/15/14...
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If it's a good enough excuse for Air Bud...
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But you can produce awful, incorrect, garbage SO MUCH FASTER with them.
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LLMs are useful for being wrong faster, that's about it.