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jezebelkat

@jezebelkat@famichiki.jp

Labor Organiser 🎌, Journalist, Teacher, New Mexican, Kimagure Orange Road Fan
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FlockOfCats, to random
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Peer reviewなし — the paper has been pear-reviewed.

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats

I once made the mistake of answering "なし" when customs asked me if I had anything to declare. The look on the agent's face. And then I had to say, no, no, I mean nothing to declare, nothing special, only normal clothes and personal devices and stuff. And then we both had a good laugh. Sitcom material.

Magor, to random
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Translator for an agency that I have been working with seems to be using some sort of non-MS word processing software. I get the preference for open source stuff, but there is a reason why Word is the standard for this sort of thing...

Whatever they use randomly spits out extra spaces and protected content fields. This breaks the format throughout the document. Initially, I had thought that the client had been protecting certain phrases... but it was not the case.

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats @takosix @Magor

There are a few other opensource office suites, but LibreOffice seems to be the most widely used and supported. I'd drop Office 365 in a heartbeat if it wasn't necessary for my job.

For personal stuff though, that's what I use on my MacBook Pro, since it runs my special blend Linux Mint XFCE.

takosix, to random
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Japanese is such a beautiful language. My favorite phrase is オーマイガー.

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats @takosix

Partial to ナイスキャッチ myself.

FlockOfCats, to random
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Today at work, I foolishly clicked the “try new Outlook” button, hoping for a new version less shitty than the old version.

After it installed, it DEMANDED I copy emails to the Microsoft cloud, which violates our data protection policies. No option for local only as far as I could tell.

Luckily I was just able to remove it and go back to the old version with having to contact IT ☺️

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats

New version of Outlook, new version of Teams, they suck. Not that I like the older versions, but they suck... less.

FlockOfCats, to random
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Oh, does Boeing make helicopters, too? 🧐

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats

"Boeing Rotorcraft Systems (formerly Boeing Helicopters and before that Boeing Vertol) is the former name of an American aircraft manufacturer, now known as Vertical Lift division of Boeing Defense, Space & Security."

dandelionwine, to gardening
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'Lettuce pray...'

jezebelkat,
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@dandelionwine Romain Rites?

FlockOfCats, to random
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Come for the shitposts, stay for the lukewarm takes on Taylor Swift!!

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats

Taylor Swift? More like Seamstress Slow!

jezebelkat, to random
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I dunno folks, maybe that is uhm... not the verb you wanted in that headline?

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240510/p2a/00m/0na/023000c

jezebelkat, to random
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So... 90% of PR holders DO pay their taxes and social insurance?

I bet 90% of Japanese citizens don't. I bet it's a lower percentage.

Almost like if you want PR in Japan, you're probably pretty reliable.

FlockOfCats, to random
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🚨 We’re also received reports that Texas state troopers have taken into custody a number of residents of UT’s turtle pond 🚨

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats

Fascists.

FlockOfCats, to random
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Let’s check in to see how things are going at my alma mater….

Oh

From: @thomasfuchs
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112329768732798142

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats @thomasfuchs

Just the 40 Acres being the 40 Acres hashtag hookem hashtag bleedingburntorange

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats

2003-2006 there, and I was Texan staff. I saw many many Bush era protests.

wonder if we had any crossover

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats

Ah, yeah, @ChrisJValdez and I were yukking it up over in Nacogdoches at Stephen F. Austin in 02.

I joke I visited a friend at UT for Spring Break in 2003 and just never left. Slightly overstated, but basically true. I just went there to hang out with him, but ended up realising I should have gone there in the first place. I'm just lucky to have found a last-minute back door in, on the merits I shouldn't have been able to even do that much--competition being what it was.

FlockOfCats, to random
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If you scale up a pico de gallo recipe 1000x, does it become nano de gallo? 🤔

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats it 2024, tera de gallo or gtfo

jezebelkat, to random
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It's really sad that music has been dead for decades because of all that home taping we did. I really miss music. We should have listened to the recording industry. We'd still have music today if we did.

FlockOfCats, to random
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Toad the Wet Sprocket is a weird band name, but I’m glad they changed it from Toad the Moist Sprocket

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats

Ha.

Toad The Uncomfortably Damp Sprocket.

Toad is actually one of my favorite bands, Fear is probably my favorite album, and All I Want is in the running for my favorite song.

FlockOfCats, to random
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Dear Wind,

You’ve made your point. Now please knock it off. Thank you.

Sincerely,
Chibaraki residents

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats

Co-signed.

jezebelkat, to random
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I'll give you three guesses on which solution isn't even mentioned, let alone considered, and the first two don't count: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VZwI7hDrbw

jezebelkat,
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Kujukuri has the right idea. Other towns and the national government need to get with the program.

Invite immigrants or die.

jezebelkat,
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@jamesrg

I am intimately acquainted with this, as a history of kokutai and Japanese radical ultranationalism from 1825-1945 was the focus of my masters work.

This is my wheelhouse.

jezebelkat,
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@jamesrg ha. Maybe one day, for now, alas, I am far too busy.

jezebelkat,
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@jamesrg

FWIW, I think the ruling class is losing on this issue. People are not stupid. My neighbors have been nothing but welcoming, because they can do basic math--and the math is it is impossible to repopulate towns like this with children from the elderly who still live here or robbing peter to pay paul by poaching native Japanese of childbearing age from other areas.

jezebelkat,
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@jamesrg

Ideology goes out the window when fear reigns, and we're starting to see areas, like my own, where that tipping point has already been reached.

Invite immigrants or die. And Kujukuri does not want to die.

jezebelkat,
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@jamesrg Oh, btw, the pure centre and the impure periphery?

That shit isn't even Japanese. It's Neoconfucianism and was stolen from the Chinese.

Literally, Neo-Confucianist scholars (this would be the predecessors to where my masters studies started, so think 1600s and 1700s) basically said "Naw, China isn't the middle kingdom. Japan was the real middle kingdom the whole time!"

jezebelkat,
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@jamesrg

Japan has always been really, really, REALLY good about bringing stuff from the periphery into the centre and then claiming "ACKSHUALLY, it's ours!" All the way up to KFC and cake for Christmas.

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats @jamesrg

Stolen from the British, via the Imperial Navy from its training exercises with the Royal Navy in the time around the Russo-Japanese war, who themselves stole it from India.

A great example.

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