Unfortunately we’ve already lost. Even if she had no investments and had to live off her current billions she’d still be able to inject £100,000 of caviar and racehorse semen (oh sorry, printer ink is actually more valuable) into her veins every night and still be good for the next 30+ years. In one sense, whether she makes money off you or not changes nothing because she’ll still be able to fund all the anti trans shit she wants with her current empire.

Billionaires are a mistake of society and she’s a garbage person but whether one person or 500,000 people buy Hogwarts is quite literally meaningless to her wealth because she already won capitalism.

I never hated having a middle name until japan. The number of places that desperately need all of your entire name as written on your passport is ridiculous. It’s like “ok you got me, I was absolutely attempting to commit bank fraud because it’s highly likely that the one person named Cornelius Tiberius Wallace trying to get a new bank book for the account I’ve had for 30 years could potentially have a doppelganger named simply Cornelius Wallace living in the same town of 10,000 people. If only there were some other way to identify someone besides their middle name. What’s that? You’ve never had a problem differentiating between the endless parade of Taro Satos that walk through your door? I’m shocked I tell you.”

I’m just surprised they let you leave anything off your name, but I guess in your case they see Japanese name plus a bunch of other fake garbage you use to fool people when existing in gaikokuland, so of course you only need to put your true name on forms.

Japan sucks for this. With a western name it gets transliterated into syllables, and so (esp w a middle name) you’re writing anywhere from 5 to 15+ characters on forms designed for 5 max.

They’re better about it in recent years but it still kinda blows

I still play doom, although I try a lot of newer wads. It’s crazy that there’s basically 30 years of free content people have been creating since it came out (even if most stuff much past 10 or 15 years old can feel kinda dated and not so interesting to play).

米 is the second character of 亜米利加

I wonder why it became beikoku instead of mekoku when it got shortened to 米国. I’m glad language learners at least don’t have to deal with ateji anymore. What a nightmare.

Beijing is “northern capital”, Tokyo is “eastern capital”, and Kyoto is “capital capital”.

hell of a read, thanks

What’s the story?

I mean, the main point is that language doesn’t have to make “logical” sense. It’s not a math problem. Just look at all the inconsistencies in pretty much every aspect of a language. It’s all there simply because of history and people agreeing on meanings for words and phrases. For example, you’ve got something like prepositions. There’s literally zero logical reason why we talk or speak to someone, but we don’t tell or converse to someone.

And people who are more rigid in thinking about language always seem to think the language they learned growing up is the most “correct” version, whether that has a basis in history or not. Like even though literally has been used as an intensifier for (literally) hundreds of years, that seems to be a sticking point, whereas something like very, which has a similar root (veracis meaning truth), any sentence using very doesn’t have to have an exact truthful meaning.

Hell, once we go back to “original” meanings of words, where do we stop? The singular use of “they” is older than that of singular “you”, but I somehow never see the “singular they is confusing” crowd advocating for a return to thee/thou.

Idioms don’t have to (and often don’t) make sense. How do you feel about “head over heels”?

Civilians can’t just come in and start stealing jargon words and apply their own non-jargon meanings.

This is (literally) one of the more insane takes I’ve ever seen about language. You want jargon to apply only as jargon meaning in all contexts? Lay usage aside, what about when two fields of study use the same word? Battle royale to see who gets to keep it?

There’s that old line that if my aunt had wheels she’d be a bicycle. Maybe the command form is muddling the topic here, but using the be-verb with an adjective like that attaches a subject complement, essentially describing the subject. But “I am fast” describing a person doesn’t mean that saying “I drive fast” is describing a drive as a noun.

Tabernac!

I have a theory

Some flat adverbs sound perfectly natural to most speakers, like “play nice” or “drive safe”. Others have less acceptability among people in general, like “That tastes real good.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_adverb

How do you feel about other words with their own opposite meanings, like dust or sanction? If the meaning isn’t clear it’s almost always because the speaker constructed a sentence poorly, which of course can lead to misunderstandings even when not using contronyms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contronym

Looks like aks was the original pronunciation

https://youtu.be/dzmmx_v_4fM?t=429

that pinball game that was on xp

This one? Someone made an ad free port of it for android but it unsurprisingly got pulled off google. You can play it here and there’s a link to the git where you can prob get it for android still

https://ksylvestre.itch.io/space-cadet-pinball

Fuckin Logan Airport won’t sell you a beer before noon. Goddamn bullshit puritan laws

Born Slippy

https://youtu.be/iTFrCbQGyvM