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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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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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@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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@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.

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

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

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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@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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Raising the fertility rate to 2.07 without national changes to child-forward policies and without immigration (immigrants by and large have higher rates of childbirth) that leads to citizenship is impossible.

The US and the UK both show growth in the report's chart. Why? Immigration, immigration, immigration, immigration </Baller>.

FlockOfCats, to random
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I will soon be trying this tantanmen from the renowned ramen purveyor Denny’s

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats

Call me when I can buy a Grand Slam in a styrofoam bowl.

jezebelkat, to random
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Now Listening:

I honestly can't believe this album was 2022 and not... 2002. You know what you're getting here, it's Avril Lavigne. But, like, if that's what you want... There you go.

jezebelkat,
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Thoughts:

  1. Better than I don't remember. Equipment and quality matters, it's like a first listen.
  2. Sk8ter Boi is the worst song. Nobody's Fool rap parts are a dishonorable mention.
  3. Best songs: I'm With You, Tomorrow, Anything But Ordinary
  4. Greater range of styles than Love Sux, and Love Sux comes off as "What did I expect? Not this shit again" and Let Go comes off as "What do I expect? Do I know?" That alone tells you the age/life stage of each... More about this...
jezebelkat,
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Oh yeah... Now my ears aren't bleeding. One advantage to not seriously listening to music, especially not on good equipment, until relatively recently, is that I haven't destroyed my ears.

jezebelkat,
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Okay, let's try this again with digital files suitable for 2024 and not 2002.

Now Listening:

jezebelkat,
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I queued up Let Go and... ouch. Going from Love Sux in Hi-Res Lossless to what must be my original rip in 128kps MP3... on Sennheiser HD 600s.

The pain, friends. The pain. Them MP3s are crunchy. I'm going to need to replace these.

jezebelkat,
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I'm going to have to go back and listen to Let Go, not sure the last time I did, especially as a full album. I bet it has been several years, maybe not since it came out.

jezebelkat,
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Called it:

jackonskates, to random
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I fucked up. It's raining and I did laundry. I'm sure to hear about this all weekend.

jezebelkat,
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@sfpodge @scoutie @jackonskates

I'm using a laundromat, but also I planning to buy a combo unit. I hate hanging my clothes.

jezebelkat,
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@scoutie @sfpodge @jackonskates

It's Japan. It's ALWAYS rainy season.

TSUYU IS FOREVER

jezebelkat,
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@scoutie @sfpodge @jackonskates

I'm from the desert. To me, this Japan is always wet. Sometimes hot wet, sometimes cold wet, sometimes soft wet, sometimes hard wet, but always, always, always wet.

FlockOfCats, to random
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All the antiemetic posts here make me not want to puke!

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats

This pun makes me nauseous.

FlockOfCats, (edited ) to random
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My friend has been in Japan for a little while now, but she finally got around to hooking up her TV.

She just sent a message to ask if it was always like this. 😂

(No, it’s not. Usually they just show people eating)

[sound on 🎶 ]

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats

Only a couple words of text on screen? No bubbles of talent heads floating around? Tell her this is absolutely sedate by Japanese standards.

FlockOfCats, to random
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<checks calendar>

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats

This is Japan. We are all infected with Tsuyu.

FlockOfCats, to random
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+)-(15 1|| //0//?

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats

Never played it, but saw plenty of this nonsense on IRC and Usenet.

I myself did not partake in the elite speech.

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