tiredofsametab

‘she screams in silence’?

Kick the US out of Nato and any special status in the UN. Sanction the everliving fuck out of everything US. This will destroy the retirement I was at least partially expecting to get, but fuck it.

I’m from the US and still have family there. There’s zero chance I go unless someone is dying and, even then, I dare not bring my wife who speaks very little English. I’m glad we went before this shitstorm happened so she could at least meet my surviving grandparents once.

The olds expect women to quit basically when they marry or get pregnant. Worker protections are better these days, but the view is still there with some. Some couples do have to have one spouse quit because of the whole daycare thing in some areas, though.

There is a wage gap between men and women and fewer women are in positions of power, though the latter at least is slowly getting better.

Not having a child won’t cancel societal expectations of the older generations. Women are often still expected to serve tea and do other things in older/traditional companies.

My company is a westernized Japanese company and we do have a number of women including in higher roles (though none on the board, I think). I’m in a remote IT role so I don’t generally hang out after work with non-IT staff to hear real opinions or the rumor mill, though.

My wife was treated well and fairly by her small japanese company, but she has experienced some discrimination previously.

In our village, we do have work we do in the community every month or two (mostly cutting grass, litter picking, and maintaining shared spaces). Some things are definitely typically done by the men or women with women doing the inside cleaning and cooking at events with men doing the outside work. We’ve already broken that mold some as I’m also the cook (I baked things to bring to our last event).

Inflation, daycare, and work-life balance are the complaints I hear most. A ton of the jobs and good education are in Tokyo so people want to be there. This overloads all the daycare and other systems. Since corona, the floodgates have opened on price increases and inflation. Since 3/11 energy costs have been rising and things with Russia also hit (after nuclear, tons of fuel is needed and is imported, often from Russia).

Having more things in other parts of the country that still paid well would help. Where I live (in Tohoku) daycare slots are plentiful and there are all kinds of subsidies for kids. The only jobs here, though, are fishery, forestry, agriculture, etc. My town is less bad because a lot was rebuilt after the tsunami, but the lack of people also means a lack of tax which also means infrastructure suffers. Rust and crumbling things everywhere.

I’ve drunk with some people who did voice acting of animes here in Japan. They generally work a lot and don’t get compensated nearly well enough. Salaries here are generally lower than somewhere like the US, but people in entertainment and arts often have a rough time.

I’m on board so long as we switch to a language that’s actually pronounceable like Norwegian or something.

I might be tempted to as long as the destination was “into a lake”.

Edit: as soon as I wrote that, I realized: I don’t wanna pollute a lake so nevermind.

Hrm. Maybe I should pull some money out of my US account tomorrow morning. Not sure what, if it happens, would do to the exchange rate

There definitely is/was a Polish instance.

I think it meant the main city of the breakwat region, not Moldova, but the wording isn’t great

I’m wife’s hometown and we’re meeting her childhood friends in a few hours at an izakaya for sushi, fish, and all sorts of stuff. Please have a moment of silence for my liver this weekend.

“The ancestor of Santa…” or something would probably work around it well enough to keep those people happy.

And the halls echoed with laughter. Hrm? I forgot an ‘s’? Where?! Oh, slaughter; the halls echoed with slaughter.

Wife saw two shooting stars in short succession a few days ago. I wonder if it was little grains preceding this guy or just random junk.

I’ve seen uni entrance exam tests and it’s definitely just there for the test – no one speaks the way they do in those. I was never a teacher, though, so I’m just going on what my friends say (my wife hated English class and never paid attention, so she doesn’t remember much).

To be fair, the JLPT also tends to include outdated Japanese, so there’s that as well.

I can see the difference, but I think it takes practice. シ lines coming from left, line align with bottom left and　ツ lines coming from top and all 3 roughly align at top.

Edit: maybe ctrl+f ‘Happy Lilac’ on this page and it may help: https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/katakana-chart/

It’s a common statement, but I think it’s a bit too generalized. Japan is still bleeding-edge in some very niche areas, but a lot of technology in daily life is behind. A lot of stuff still requires going in person, phone calls, faxes, and a seal stamp to get done. I was able to do something through the bloated, awful eTax software today after hours of fighting with it yesterday (need to run several things as admin, install plugins as admin, have Japanese as the main browser language, and have Japanese locale of PC and it’s still cludgy and unreliable).

It gets easier and I agree with saying it aloud. Once you start getting used to patterns, you can decipher them more easily (at least the ones from a language you speak). Remember no diphthongs and each syllable gets one beat.

My pet theory is that it’s also how the infamous “No Smorking” Engrish came about in reverse. The ‘o’ in smoking tends to sound long and a lot of times words that sound like that to the Japanese from English will be (long-sounding vowel)+r.

Alignment/starting position is the key. The "-like strokes in shi are left-aligned, the "-like ones in tsu are top-aligned. Same for ‘so’ and ‘n’. This is why people talk about stroke order being important (although in this case it’s not simply the order).