@jezebelkat@famichiki.jp
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jezebelkat

@jezebelkat@famichiki.jp

Labor Organiser 🎌, Journalist, Teacher, New Mexican, Kimagure Orange Road Fan
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jonny, to random
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I could read Shawn Fain pushing back into radical labor territory all day. They got the money, fork it over. Period.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/gm-makes-new-offer-uaw-sees-movement-all-key-areas-2023-10-20/

jezebelkat,
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@jonny

Union organiser in Japan here:

Honda and Toyota have domestic unions here in Japan.

They can damn well have unions in the US.

snazzyq, (edited ) to random
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What title we going for?

jezebelkat,
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@snazzyq Definitely the second one, it makes you look like you're offering the steak up to some kind of deity in sacrifice.

jezebelkat, to random
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Something that I think will always leave me unsettled about being in Japan: the casual use of foreigner (or in Japanese 外国人, 外国の方) in conversations or in publications in ways in which I consider awkward at best and offensive or insulting more often.

Sometimes it is completely irrelevant, yet said anyway. And other times there are nicer, more informative ways to talk about someone's immigration status when it is relevant.

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats Oh, I already have when I decide to actually attempt the conversation.

Especially since sometimes the person actually IS NOT a non-national. I've taught plenty of native Japanese with mixed parentage who looked more like their non-Yamato parent and have had to deal with this repeatedly.

jezebelkat, to random
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Japan: We have four seasons!

Climate change: Not anymore you don't.

DNA, to random
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Stepmom requested the kids be able to speak English before they visit next because, she "couldn't handle it."

I nodded emphatically.

This makes it easy NEVER TO VISIT AGAIN.

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jezebelkat,
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@DNA tell her to learn Japanese before they visit again.

jezebelkat, to random
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I genuinely recommend Crime Pays, But Botany Doesn't.

There's just something incredibly soothing about his overt working class accent and lexicon, fundamentally challenging the nature of academic and scientific community tropes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TkI0LJkVAA

jezebelkat, to random
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Hey uh, @TomatoGrilledCheese it's uh... it's a funny name.

jezebelkat, to random
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I have questions.

jezebelkat, to random
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Guess I have a pet 🐸 now.

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jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats assuming that worksheet was real, jesus.

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats they're honestly everywhere, but this is the first one that has made it into the house. Unsurprisingly, it has set up shop in the bath tub area. Probably because I have a lot of plants there and it is very humid. And it has the occasional fly.

jezebelkat, to random
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This house in in the outskirts of the DFW suburban wasteland is $650K.

Jesus. Fucking. Christ.

Where do I even begin with this monstrosity?

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats @slims

Plano/Frisco for my teen years, Denton for grad school.

Allow me to assure you, everything is, which is why I found DFW (and Texas suburbia in general) so depressing after a childhood in vibrant Nuevo México.

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats @slims

ME TOO.

My mother lives there still, apartment just down the road a bit. And when we sold the house, the realtor actually asked "wouldn't you want this house, your childhood home, are you sure you want to sell it?"

And I nearly laughed in her face and just said I was 14 when we moved in.

My childhood home is a Pueblo Revival in Las Cruces.

jezebelkat, to random
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hot j-in-e take:

Native Japanese YouTubers who communicate in English and orient (verb intended) their channels towards Anglosphere viewers are worse about leverging "OOH, EXOTIC JAPAN!" than many immigrant YouTubers with the same shtick.

And I'm tired of telling the YT algorithm to stop serving me their trash.

jezebelkat,
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It's like the worst of both worlds, as it both generalises Japan and Japanese people, while also reinforcing 日本 vs 外国 nonsense with topics like "WHAT JAPANESE PEOPLE HATE THAT FOREIGNERS DO"

...yo, there are 196 countries, one of which is Japan, and Japanese people do all of that shit too. Your poop also stinks.

jezebelkat,
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Name me something that is rude, awkward, or discomfiting generally, I can find people doing it in Japan who are ostensibly Yamato descended and holders of Japanese nationality by birth.

Imagine if I did a video called "WHAT AMERICANS HATE THAT FOREIGNERS DO"

It would rightly be called xenophobic or racist.

FlockOfCats, to science
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God bless the client who, for years now, has consistently mistyped (or mis-spellchecked) “specimen” as “spacemen”.

It doesn’t turn out well for the spacemen, who are usually sputter-coated with a metal, sectioned, and subjected to electron microscope observation.

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats Sounds like Miles O'Brien episodes of DS9.

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats It's running joke "O'Brien Must Suffer"

https://www.startrek.com/article/one-trek-mind-obrien-must-suffer

That said, it was revealed in Lower Decks that he ends up being the most important single person to ever serve in Starfleet, so...

jezebelkat, to random
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Re-watching Star Trek: Enterprise given the references to it in Strange New Worlds and it is honestly better than I remember.

One thing I really like is how arrogant and duplicitous the Vulcans are portrayed. Between TOS and VOY, Vulcans are largely portrayed positively, their claimed enlightenment taken at their word.

Not so in Enterprise. It also explains some of the attitude that Spock faces in TOS, particularly from McCoy.

dyckron, to random
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“There used to be a lower, middle and upper class. Now it seems like there’s an ultra-wealthy class and everyone else is just poor.”

Yep, that's what the West reaped from Reaganomics and "government is the problem" thinking. Don't like it? Too bad, shit's locked in hard. Anything else is "socialist."

‘I’m so tired of feeling helpless as a parent': Gen X mom goes viral after explaining why her hardworking kids still can't afford to live
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/m-tired-feeling-helpless-parent-110000324.html

jezebelkat,
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@dyckron I'd argue that there has always only been two classes, the capitalist class and the working class. But there was a time when the capitalist class at least felt the need to give the working class the ability to have a decent standard of living, hence the supposed Middle Class. Not so much anymore. The mask is off and as you say, has been since Reagan and Thatcher.

jezebelkat,
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@mike @dyckron

"but the free market knows best!"

🙄

jezebelkat, to random
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When the cats rise up and kill us all, these cat "owners" will be the reason why no one is spared.

jezebelkat, to random
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What is the stupidest, most dangerous teen shit you ever did?

For me, I am pretty sure it is when at 15, I car surfed on top of my friend's Ford Explorer on a highway going at speed.

Honestly, it is a wonder I didn't fall off and die.

jezebelkat,
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@dave Instant lecture on electrical safety.

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