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jezebelkat

@jezebelkat@famichiki.jp

Labor Organiser 🎌, Journalist, Teacher, New Mexican, Kimagure Orange Road Fan
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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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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.

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.

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

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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@mike @dyckron

"but the free market knows best!"

🙄

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, 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 Yikes. Getting hit would have been bad enough. Getting hit by a cop and then likely arrested would not have been great!

jezebelkat,
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@dave Instant lecture on electrical safety.

jezebelkat,
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@dave

AOL CDs as frisbees, yup that sounds like 2001.

jezebelkat,
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@dave

Okay. Fire hazard. Nice.

jezebelkat, to random
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How did I not know that Tenchi Muyo OVA, started in 1992, had its most recent season in 2020-2021, which I haven't seen!

Guess it's time for a rewatch of something I haven't seen in nearly 30 years.

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats @YamaguchiSake

"There is considerable evidence of comprised of in well-edited publications throughout the 20th century:"

I have always used it, and I am sure I have used it in academic writing with no pushback at all.

At this point, it is a correct usage, as long as it is understood to be.

jezebelkat,
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screams That damn Britishism I was just complaining about.

jezebelkat,
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@YamaguchiSake No way. The whole is COMPRISED OF its parts.

"A whole comprises its parts" is backwards.

The parts comprise the whole.

I'm sorry, the dictionary is wrong. At least in my dialect.

jezebelkat,
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@YamaguchiSake

Looks like this is a long-standing argument. I always assumed it was a Britishism. I have never heard an American use it differently from me:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/can-you-use-comprised-of-grammar

Garwboy, to random
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So many people lining up to see the new Margot Robbie movie. Which is fair enough. After all, summertime is...

[Lowers shades]

Barbie queue season

[Flees]

jezebelkat,
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@Garwboy Well, you could go see that other movie instead.

I hear it's The Bomb.

TomatoGrilledCheese, to android
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Everyone's talked plenty about the iphone apps for Mastodon, but I don't recall seeing any discussion about the apps. Is the official app for Android as bad as the one for iphone? I imagine there are alternatives there too.

jezebelkat,
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@TomatoGrilledCheese It's not great, but I am using it with the assumption it is growing pains.

FlockOfCats, to random
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Really weird clickbaity headline on CNN…I guess just writing “Japan” would be too informative?

Why not go all in:
This country raised the age of consent from 13, and what happened next will surprise you!

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats it's only half true at best. All prefectures have had a higher age of consent for decades. Sensationalism for sensationalism's sake.

LadyDragonfly, to random

I present to you the 90s Band Alignment Chart.

jezebelkat,
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@LadyDragonfly no Toad the Wet Sprocket or am I just blind?

eniko, (edited ) to random
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Are you limiting your participation in indoor activities in public due to covid?

jezebelkat,
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@eniko

Lots of people in my work and social circles are. I worry less for me, more for them.

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