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  • Craigslist at its best

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  • Also if a child hides under your front wheel and a puppy climbs in your engine while you're in the store, you'll never see them without undercar and in-engine cameras. We should stop driving until cars put those in place.

  • What is the highest level of mathematics that should be expected to graduate high school?

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  • What do you propose we cut in favor of calc?

    edit: core class, because calc is already an elective

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  • If young people anywhere would see floppies, I'm guessing Japan would be more likely than a lot of other places. They're notoriously slow about getting rid of old tech. I think Sony was still making VCRs until 2016, and faxes were ubiquitous even like 10 years ago.

    I saw people in the mid 2000s plug in USB floppy drives so they could work with whatever records they still had on floppy. I have no idea why that was easier for them than just putting the files on a USB drive.

  • Planet rule

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  • I think because if we called both Eris and Pluto planets, then we'd have a bunch of other current dwarf planets that would also qualify, like Ceres, Makemake, etc.

  • Google Removed 749 Million Anna's Archive URLs from its Search Results * TorrentFreak

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  • I usually use ddg but sometimes it can't find things in non-English languages whereas google has the results I'm looking for.

  • Popular Tech Youtuber Enderman loses his YouTube channel after AI error

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  • Oh I thought that was the channel making the copyright claim

  • Popular Tech Youtuber Enderman loses his YouTube channel after AI error

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  • I dunno anything about Enderman but I looked up the Japanese channel out of curiosity. Looks like there are some videos related to some kind of game called Star Rail and there are channels with スターレイル in the title, but I can't find a channel specifically called 棺のスターレイル遊び (which means something like "play coffin's star rail")

  • Super honorable place

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  • VoTe BluE

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  • Journathan

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  • At least he went straight there, unlike that other French guy always taking a roundabout way of getting somewhere. You know, Monsieur Detour.

  • "United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym

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  • I'm not entirely sure about how the pronunciations developed. I know that in modern Japanese there are only certain ways syllables can change their sound. Japan uses a syllabary rather than an alphabet, so for example they can only say the sounds bu and ra, but never "bra" because they don't have a standalone "b". Their syllables get modified in predictable ways, like ka can change to ga, going from a voiceless to voiced velar stop. In much the same way, the ho syllable can become po.

    I don't know much about the history of when nippon became nihon, but the article you linked has a short section on it

    Japanese 日 and 本 were historically pronounced niti and pon, respectively. In compounds, however, final voiceless stops (i.e. p, t, k) of the first word were unreleased in Middle Chinese, and the pronunciation of 日本 was thus Nippon or Jippon (with the adjacent consonants assimilating).

    Historical sound change in Japanese has led to the modern pronunciations of the individual characters as nichi and hon. The pronunciation Nihon originated, possibly in the Kantō region, as a reintroduction of this independent pronunciation of 本 into the compound. This must have taken place during the Edo period, after another sound change occurred which would have resulted in this form becoming Niwon and later Nion.

  • Thought Experiment

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  • the way the internet thinks of Japan really bothers me

    At least it seems like we've (mostly) moved into a post "Japan so wacky! Look at their panty vending machines, and also craaaaazy TV shows!" phase these days. It's still misrepresented in a lot of ways, but long gone are the days when you could just post a pic of a bottle of Pocari Sweat and have everyone lose their shit

  • "United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym

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  • They usually say Nihon instead of Nippon.

    Some English used to use words derived from nippon as well but they mostly dropped out of the language not too long after WWII, prob bc nip is an old slur for Japanese people. There's an ee cummings poem that refers to a piece of "nipponized steel".

    https://allpoetry.com/poem/13587560-plato-told-by-e.e.-cummings

  • Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately?

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  • Yeah maga place looks like it's up to 21 idiots sharing a brain cell now, whereas I think it was 12 a couple weeks ago. Wonder if there's a critical mass for those fucks or if they'll find lemmy too progressive to stick around. I guess they could just circlejerk on their own instance.

  • People who have permanently moved to another country, what gave you the opportunity and was it worth it?

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  • Oops, typo--I meant cat 4. I live in rural Japan.

  • People who have permanently moved to another country, what gave you the opportunity and was it worth it?

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  • Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?

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  • What's that longest time you went without eating? Why?

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  • Like 40 hours I guess, ate lunch on a Thursday and then breakfast on the Saturday. Needed to make a weigh in on the Saturday morning that for some reason I can't remember I was unprepared for--I think it was early in the season. That practice on Friday wasn't much fun though.

    Going to bed hungry isn't nearly as distracting as trying to sleep when you're thirsty though.

  • Chicago fighting ICE

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  • Still blows my mind that space lasers gazpacho lady is the current voice of reason in the gqp

  • Shirts That Go Hard @lemmy.world
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    I think I heard this is a jorts comm now?

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    The art of playing a saw as an instrument

  • [Dormant, please move to [email protected]] Movies and TV Shows @lemm.ee
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    strange order of credits

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    How the fuck is this my problem, ticketmaster?!

    ibb.co /sJFyVhy