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This is just speculation so not a real answer: many precious metals are easier to work than some of the harder counterparts like iron and steel. Secondarily, it’s harder to fake those. Even if you make an alloy counterfeit with the same weight when coated with the precious metal, you still need at least the previous metal and it would still fail other tests such as malleability.

My brain isn’t consciously thinking about the constituent parts of words as I’m saying them. I definitely don’t think “milk neck” when I think nipple, either.

I’ve made this mistake and apparently others have as well: the words for lips (kuchibiru) and nipple (chikubi) got mixed up in my head leading to some awkwardness in Japanese.

• phone
• watch
• handkerchief
• wallet
• sigh of relief
• performance of “screw you guys, I’m goin’ home”

Not all other languages have gendered nouns. Articles and affixes are usual points of pain I see (as someone who grew up in a monolingual English-speaking household), and of course the whole orthography mess with spelling is terrible (how can ough have like 6 or 8 pronounciations?!). If you want fun, some languages have distinctions between inanimate and animate things as well as cases that don’t exist in English as well if you want to look in fun other features.

Edit: I meant to say prepositions. Affixes is often more in the other direction

Same, IIRC.

I remember pepsi blue existing but I don’t remember ever wanting to buy it. I did probably try it at some point, but neither of the restaurants I worked at during those years carried it.

I have a 100% remote job a few hundred km away. Even if you made the exception for remote work, my job would basically be pointless because our company operates entirely in the online world.

I also wouldn’t be able to Skype or even email my aging family back in the US.

Also, in very rural Japan, online shopping is a huge saver of time and money. I’d also have to watch OTA Japanese tv which mostly sucks.

I was thinking just various learning materials, but I think you can just shoot me instead sometime before the bank repo’s my house

Anki or similar for flashcards if you want an app. Physically writing things tends to yield better results for most people, so I used to do flashcards and write my answer and, after a few cards, make a sentence out of that.

Get a book or take a course on grammar (many different ways to accomplish this depending upon budget and learning style that works best for you).

Constantly be getting input, even if you don’t understand it.

Shadowing – what comes out of your mouth might sound very different to what you want to say. Work on that accent, intonation, etc.

All of the above were actually about learning Japanese (my 3rd foreign language) and I guess German (my second) to a lesser degree. The only thing I’m aware of with Spanish is that the varieties can differ a lot between Spain and the new world, so you might want to make sure you consume resources related to that.

Anecdotally, a lot moved to Insta or maintain both xitter and insta, but yeah, there’s no real inertia to move and, outside of otaku circles, it seems that mastodon and the fediverse are basically unknown.

I don’t have an account there.

My discover feed in a browser with English was some generic memes and jokes, something about Drake’s music, some comments on netflix and movies, etc.

My discover feed in a browser with Japanese set as the main language was some of the same, photography, anime drawings, and probably about half of the literal same posts (in English) as above. This could, I guess, be related to other sites I have visited or cookies or something.

This is a bit too vague for me, but I think some of what you mention sounds like inconvenience now for future convenience. For safety plan example, it’s mildly inconvenient for me to get my kit together (I live in an earthquake-heavy area and just outside the tsunami hazard zone), know locations and routes, etc. but you’d best believe that it’s better to pay that inconvenience now than flap if I do have to evacuate. I think timescales are important to think of (kinda like the RoI of your actions).

I begrudgingly switched to vscode a few years ago. I’ve never had any issues like this with it. My only issues have been with a plugin that I installed optionally (and that was later fixed by the plugin author).

May 1st 2024 was a decade ago? (The article has a list and only two are old as you mention, though not quite a decade yet)

They’re definitely defined differently between some countries. Japanese cup sizes are different to US ones

To generalize the answer a bit, if for no other goal, than make the goal to move to a country that better aligns with your beliefs and that you feel rewards you properly for your work. Make incremental steps to achieving that (what exactly the list looks like depends upon the person’s current state and where they want to go) and make marking each one off a goal and motivation.

That I’m an atheist, probably. Living on the opposite side of the world is a close second.

I grew up with and around them but they’re generally not a thing here in Japan. I’m trying to compost all my organics and such anyway and most things can go into compost.

It was literally in the last couple of weeks that I first came across this. I thought it just meant ‘a person living in a country in which isn’t their home country’ regardless of origin, etc. The only thing I thought of it is that it wasn’t necessarily permanent whereas immigrant to me had permanence. It’s wild that, to me, it seems to have come out of nowhere.

Does making a list of all games not on any list count as a game? Also, what happens since that game is now on a list making the original list incorrect?

My actual answer would probably be the old SSI games on Amiga specifically for Death Knights of Krynn or similar, though I don’t think they hold up super well (it’s 1st ed D&D specifically in Dragonlance and adapted to PCs of the time).