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Hard to say - there's not a lot of family history to go off of. My Mom's side of the family died mostly from complications related to alcohol and lung cancer from smoking, but I don't drink or smoke so those don't apply to me. My Dad's side of the family is pretty small - I only have my grandparents (grandmother just turned 94 today and my grandfather passed away from "old age" a few years back) and a great aunt (died of an asthma attack before I was born).

I guess cancer's probably the most likely. My heart's in good shape and I'm pretty fit so I can't see that changing, and I don't do much that would put me at risk of stabbings/shootings or freak accidents.
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I love how Trump didn't even have the balls to announce this himself and just sent Sessions out to do it instead.
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Great, now he's going to have no idea how to use warp pipes.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

How about being suspended for 2 weeks for saying gender dysphoria is a mental illness? You know, like how it's classified?

Breaking the rules, fair, next.

Again, you're not being materially harmed by that action - it just means if you want to voice that opinion, you have to do it somewhere else.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

The mods censor dissenting opinions so there is reason to see it as immoral.

It would be just as immoral if you got thrown out of a theatre for shouting "I hate black people!" at the top of your lungs - which is to say, not immoral at all.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

darkknight109 posted...

Equating internet moderations to censorship is a bit like calling someone who isn't a vegetarian a mass murderer

Saying censorship is beating people in to submission if not murdering is like saying assault is only when you're put in intensive care.

If you want to talk about censorship as some great evil, though, you need to use the term only when it is actually being used for evil. Crying about how the nasty admins won't let you post a racist meme just devalues the whole phrase and makes actually damaging forms of censorship sound like more whining instead of something to actually be alarmed about.
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You know, I find it very strange how much of a hard-on the internet generation has for so-called "censorship", when most of what is being complained about isn't in any way comparable to actual censorship.

Let's be clear: "censorship" is supposed to mean the active suppression of facts and/or dissent, usually undertaken to solidify the grasp on power held by some party or autocrat. Censorship frequently involves not just the stifling of discourse and the editing or silencing of troublesome voices, but also violence, intimidation, and sometimes downright murder. It is an action undertaken by totalitarian regimes, it causes hardship, and it impedes progress.

Having a post moderated on GameFAQs isn't censorship - that's just called a ToS violation. It means you broke the rules you agreed to follow when you signed up for this 100% completely free-to-use site. In the same way that if you shouted "piss cock balls fuck" in the middle of a fancy restaurant you would be asked to leave, you are not being censored so much as you are being taken to task for being an asshole and violating the rules of decent human conduct.

Equating internet moderations to censorship is a bit like calling someone who isn't a vegetarian a mass murderer - you're ridiculously blowing the former out of proportion and dis-empowering the label that's supposed to be used for the latter.
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Veedrock- posted...

darkknight109 posted...

If you don't like it, there are many other forums out there that you can go to instead.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamefaqs/

I love how the stickied thread there is basically "You're not on GameFAQs, but don't be an asshole here either."

Guess Reddit censors things too, eh?
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I have no problem with offensive speech being censored on a privately run website.

If you don't like it, there are many other forums out there that you can go to instead.
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Zeus posted...

It sorta goes without saying that there can't be a net benefit.

Sure there can - just not if you implement it like the way it's done in the study.
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LaggnFragnLarry posted...

i liked du hast back in the day. their lineup could use more metal

Du Hast comes from an era where Rammstein had much more dance/electronic influence in their tracks than their current sound. I don't know how someone could listen to the LIFAD album and not see it as pretty much pure metal.
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No, because outside the rare cases where someone is overweight due to a medical condition or medication side-effect, it is unhealthy and it is treatable. I don't think they should be mocked or insulted or shamed for it, because I don't think anyone deserves to suffer that simply for physical appearance, but at the same time it should not be normalized - I always cringe when I see the plus-sized beauty contests, with the contestants going on and on about how "being big can be beautiful" - maybe so, but that doesn't mean it should be encouraged.
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I wish the German pavilion would hire Rammstein for Oktoberfest. I would make the trip for that.
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2500 sq ft, oceanfront, 3 bed, 3 bath, 1/2 acre of land - the mortgage is about $2200 a month.
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Maybe it was just me, but I kinda figured that there would be some gate that you passed through where it's just like "congrats, you're an adult now!", but nothing like that really happens - everything is gradual. I don't know at what point I became an adult, but I own a house and a business and have a good-paying job, so I guess it happened at some point in the last decade or so.
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That sounds uncomfortable. Like, fuck, just sitting down would be a potential crushing hazard.

Not to mention, I don't know too many women who like having their cervices punctured during sex.
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TheCyborgNinja posted...

The cost will be thousands of lives that will end in the initial artillery barrage from the North. So it deserves thought...

"Thousands" is significantly underselling it.

TheCyborgNinja posted...

but I honestly feel a third world war is inevitable.

Who do you think would bother to start a third world war and for what purpose?

Peacetime is profitable and the world economies are so tightly intertwined now, all the major powers wouldn't dare to ever lift a finger against any of the others. The closest you'll likely ever see to a genuine conflict between major powers are proxy wars like Syria or Ukraine.
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No.

In one of the only times I will ever agree with Steve Bannon, he was absolutely correct when he said "Until somebody solves the part of the equation that shows me that ten million people in Seoul don’t die in the first 30 minutes from conventional weapons, I don’t know what you’re talking about, there’s no military solution here, they got us."

He's not wrong. The only way war is coming to the Korean peninsula is if NK starts it.
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These estimates are based on a universal basic income paid for by increasing the federal deficit. As part of the study, the researchers also calculated the effect to the economy of paying for the cash handouts by increasing taxes. In that case, there were would be no net benefit to the economy, the report finds.

This is a pretty important part of the study and a good example of why its results don't mean very much.

I support a universal basic income, but not implemented like this.
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AllstarSniper32 posted...

Foppe posted...

dioxxys posted...

i wanted anime banging

lol, Akarin is the best!!!

Also, that's not banging, THAT'S DANCING!!!!!!

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Mead posted...

helIy posted...

Mead posted...

Why the fuck does Japan still have princesses and shit

what about england

Them too

That is little kid shit

I've tried to explain the concept of royalty to Americans before and why those of us who have a monarch as head of state generally are happy with it, but I have since given up since there's apparently something that doesn't translate over into the American zeitgeist when it comes to monarchies.

Shenti_Reborn posted...

Japan needs to get their shit together and I imagine within the next couple of decades with all the social pressure they probably will.

There hasn't been a lot of social pressure in Japan on this issue, as far as I'm aware, and Japan generally doesn't pay too much attention to social pressures from outside its own borders. Bear in mind that cultural harmony is one of the highest ideals of Japanese - and many other east-Asian - cultures, so there has to be a truly momentous shift in cultural opinion before anything changes.
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DS has a more accurate translation, cut down on the censorship, and added not only the PS1 features (things like the ending tracker were great) but some new content not available elsewhere (which is mostly pretty decent in quality, if ultimately forgettable). It is definitely the best version.

SNES is next in line, because what the PS1 gains in expanded content, it more than loses in absolutely awful load times.
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So, just to see if I have this straight, you're jealous of a high-functioning autist with limited job prospects who's stuck living at home with his parents?

Because that's kind of sad.

BeerOnTap posted...

Helping people in need is the role of private charities, churches, and communities

If they'd succeeded in fulfilling that role, government would never have needed to step in. The fact that they didn't kind of shoots a whole bunch of holes in this viewpoint.

BeerOnTap posted...

And if people were allowed to keep more of their hard-earned money (and that includes large corporations) then they could afford to be incredibly more charitable.

Again, history does not bear this out.

Prior to the 20th century, social security programs were rare-to-non-existent in most countries and their functions were handled by charitable organizations. And they were fucking terrible at it.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

To be fair, literally everything you just described WAS his behavior.

I'd say that his behaviour was the manner in which he conducted himself, rather than the actions he undertook. Even if he was polite and courteous during the whole thing (and he was anything but), I'd still be in favour of charging him; on the other hand, if he was a complete asshole about it but left without arresting anyone, I'd say he deserved nothing worse than a reprimand.

That's the distinction I'm drawing between behaviour and actions.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

The point I assume he was trying to make was that, perhaps, depending on the officer's prior history, it would be entirely possible to emphasize acceptable behavior for the future and reinforce the idea of patient privilege (which it's entirely possible he and other officers in his region haven't been sufficiently educated about - which in itself should spur an investigation of its own), especially if it IS determined that he was being explicitly ordered by a superior to take the actions he was taking (in which case disciplinary action should go higher than simply throwing one scapegoat to the masses and fucking him over when the real fault lies elsewhere).

Well, I did say in my post that the lieutenant that gave the order should face the same charges/discipline that the officer in question does.

Regardless, I think that charges are still warranted regardless - ignorantia juris non excusat applies to everyone, and I would posit it applies even more to those whose entire job is enforcing the law (how, exactly, are you supposed to enforce the law if you don't even know what it is?). This officer, near as my armchair-law degree can tell, broke or attempted to break multiple "unlawful search and seizure" laws and he should be held responsible for that.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

And before some clever ass in the topic decides to pull the Hitler card and sarcastically point out that "I was only following orders" isn't a valid defense, when placed in a position where you are being asked to accept what your superior is telling you versus what you are being told by a civilian in a situation where you may have no prior reason to believe what they're telling you DOES make that scenario a hell of a lot murkier.

Here's the thing, though - he's dealing with multiple medical professionals who are explaining what the law is. And I can say this as a professional myself - every competent professional is very familiar with the laws that govern their profession; the odds that 3-4 of them are all lying to you are almost nil. If I was in this officer's shoes at the very least I would have raised the situation with the lieutenant and requested additional legal clarification as to the validity of his orders (it's not like the victim and his blood were going anywhere at that point).

If the lieutenant sticks to his original orders, the cop has a much stronger legal and moral defence at that point, but as it was he ignored the advice of multiple competent professionals and proceeded with a questionably legal activity. Even then, the "most" correct action would have been refusing an illegal order - after all, if your boss told you to murder someone and that they authorized you to do it, you would still be in a rather significant amount of trouble if you carried that order out.
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WastelandCowboy posted...

Fired, no. Reprimanded and reeducated on how to act when collecting evidence.

It wasn't his behaviour that has people upset (though that, obviously, was pretty shitty as well); the guy attempted to illegally collect evidence, despite several medical professionals explaining to him - and providing him written proof - that what he was doing was against the law, and when that didn't work he made an illegal arrest on spurious charges.

Again, because I feel this needs to be emphasized, this cop deliberately broke the law and other people suffered for it. He shouldn't just be fired, he should be criminally charged (and the lieutenant who ordered him to do this should face the same charges).
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All of the above, depending on what I'm trying to learn. I will say, though, I generally find institutionalized learning to be the least useful of the bunch. Lectures are just generally shitty for conveying information - you need some actual application in there somewhere.
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I had a nice pocket-watch that I used to wear when I worked - loved that thing, but unfortunately it stopped working.

I don't know that I'd ever buy another, because I telecommute these days, but I'm not ruling it out. Pocket-watches are the shit.
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Gamechamp3k posted...

For kanji, I actually do recommend a paid website: Wanikani. It basically game-ifies kanji learning by giving you reviews of learned kanji at regular intervals based on how well you've been proven to remember them. The more times you get it right in a row, the longer it will be until the next review, until eventually it's convinced you've burned it into your mind. Every level teaches the radicals that make up the kanji, the kanji themselves, and a bunch of vocabulary words in which that kanji is used.

If you do sign up, make sure you google a 50% off coupon code. If you sign up with it you get 50% off for life.

This website is also really great for grammar: http://www.guidetojapanese.org

So... when do you start paying for this? I ask, because it sounded interesting so I signed up and it has yet to ask me for payment.
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Nope, life is good. I'm happy at my job - it pays well, the work is interesting and engaging, and my co-workers and supervisors are all good people; a few years ago I bought my dream house on the coast, got settled in a wonderful community, and started up my own side-business (a martial arts studio with a pretty good student group); I was recently elected president of an international martial arts federation, which has been awesome so far.

I'd like to have a kid at some point (a daughter, if I can be choosy), but beyond that and a potential lotto win, there's honestly nothing in my life I'm unsatisfied with.
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One of the houses I looked at when I was buying was vacant because the previous owner committed suicide in it.

That wasn't a dealbreaker, but it wasn't a very nice house anyways so I passed on it.
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Zeus posted...

Plus doing an all-female cast means they don't have to compete with the older, superior versions of the film

Little early to be calling the older versions superior when the announcement of the new film isn't even 24 hours old, don't you think?
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Kimbos_Egg posted...

Who the fuck is this for? People who have no idea what the source material is?

So I have zero interest in this movie, but I am very familiar with the source material and I fail to see how swapping for an all female cast in any way detracts from the source material. It's not like the Lord of the Flies has any major plot points that lean on the gender of the participants; the whole underlying message is about the tragic and innate savagery of humanity and our willingness to revert to animalism when the chips are down. That can be accomplished just as easily with a cast of girls as a cast of boys.

I have no idea why people are clutching their pearls over this. If anything, the use of girls might enhance the story due to girls' traditional association with purity, passiveness, and pacifism. Nothing guarantees this won't be a shitty movie, but screaming that everything is ruined just because none of the characters have dongs is more than a little sensationalist.

VioletMassacre posted...

I don't really see the problem with this, but they should just use both girls and boys which would be more realistic.

Already been done.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0474539/

Also, how is it more realistic? The original story was that it was all boys because it was a flight evacuating a boys school; just change the school to a girl's school to make the cast all girls, or a co-ed school if you want mixed gender. I fail to see how any of those are unrealistic.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

darkknight109 posted...

I'm kind of happy we've actually mostly progressed on that - people used to resolve these disputes through fighting, mass rioting, and the occasional murder, which, while certainly still around, is much rarer than it was, say, 50 years ago.

I'd argue that since things take a lot longer to come to blows, we take longer than we should to resolve issues and people with mild complaints feel much happier dragging these previously too-stupid-to-mention issues to mass protest.

Who cares, though? Mass protest, as long as it's nonviolent, costs society nothing. It is a peaceful means of expressing a view. Disagree with that view all you want; you can think it's dumb if you must. But it is infinitely preferable to people being attacked, beaten, or killed simply for holding an unpopular view.
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TheCyborgNinja posted...

but at the very least they should be presented in a museum for the purposes of education. Put a little biography up detailing the good and the bad. Done. That's simply not enough for those fringe "triggered crybabies" though.

You are vastly underestimating the number of confederate monuments compared to museums, as well as overstating their historical significance. As an example, 35 confederate monuments have been installed in North Carolina alone since the year 2000. That is within the living memory of most people on this site.

Most of the confederate monuments were not installed as historical pieces in the immediate aftermath of the conflict; they were installed during periods of heightened racial tension as a not so subtle message to blacks that whites were still running the show and they should tow the line or get out. If there's a notable artistic or historical reason why a given particular statue should be saved, fine, make that argument. But giving them a blanket pass "because history" is ridiculous, especially considering a lot of them were mass-manufactured.
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TheCyborgNinja posted...

The era of acceptance has come with a very large, undeniable downside: it's not appropriate to question things.

Things like your post?

TheCyborgNinja posted...

At one time, criticism was something we all had to deal with, founded or not.

And what you describe in the rest of your post *is* criticism. It's people saying they disagree with your views on transsexualism.

TheCyborgNinja posted...

Now there are rules about hearing things you don't want to and people telling everyone they're perfect all the time.

No, there aren't - not unless you means something other than "laws" when you say rules (and if you do mean something other than laws, you're talking about private codes of conduct, which have been people's right to enforce on their businesses for hundreds of years - free speech generally does not protect you from your employer).

TheCyborgNinja posted...

A moderate segment of the population apparently believes freedom of speech is now defined as "only being told what I want to hear."

And a different section of the population apparently believes freedom of speech is now defined as "being allowed to say whatever the hell I want with no consequences whatsoever, regardless of how offensive it is to the people I'm saying it to".

You're complaining about being yelled at by people on Tumblr when you make a transphobic comment, which is all kinds of hilarious considering that what you're complaining about is them exercising their right to freedom of speech.

TheCyborgNinja posted...

That's why things have gone to shit.

In what way have things "gone to shit"? Because people are yelling at each other over social issues? That's nothing new. I'm kind of happy we've actually mostly progressed on that - people used to resolve these disputes through fighting, mass rioting, and the occasional murder, which, while certainly still around, is much rarer than it was, say, 50 years ago.
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Trana folk

I read this in a Don Cherry accent and assumed this was a topic about Torontonians.
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TheCyborgNinja posted...

"History is offensive and should be banned now."
-Fucking dumbasses

No one has suggested banning history.

Lots of people have suggested to stop glorifying the darker parts of it, but that's not the same thing. I'm pretty sure we're not teaching our kids history by having them stare at statues all day.
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WastelandCowboy posted...

“Suspension for suspension,” or “dual suspension” was a proposal made by Beijing in March where Pyongyang would declare a moratorium on both nuclear and missile tests in exchange for the United States and South Korea halting large-scale joint military exercises. The proposal is welcomed by North Korea, but has been unsurprisingly rejected by the United States and South Korea.

that's because it's fucking stupid as shit, and NK would just ignore it like they ignore everything or use it as a platform to invade SK.

the actual, 100% reason why NK is so cocky and just does whatever is because no one actually does anything to them. why would they stop if there's no actual reason for them to stop? no one is getting in their business about anything.

everyone can say "oh north korea needs to be taken care of", but that's nothing but talk. pure conjecture. until someone actually does something, they aren't going to change.

you can mobilize all these forces all you want, but their only purpose is to make it look like something might happen, and that may have stopped NK the first time or second time they did that, but then NK noticed that...they aren't actually doing anything in response to them.

By the same token, the odds that North Korea will actually do something are similarly remote. They know they can't win a direct war with the US and while Kim is a maniac, he's not stupid - one missile launched would end his regime. This is simple calculus on his part to solidify his dynasty and deter any potential military action by showing that he could slaughter millions on his way out.
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Here's the thing - for all everyone complains about bills, they're a sign that you bought a bunch of stuff for yourself. You can easily get rid of the bills by giving up all material possessions, but I don't think you'll be happier for it.
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RCtheWSBC posted...

darkknight109 posted...

a) I've held my current job for nearly a decade and statistically speaking I probably make more than you do.

Yeah but SMT has two real jobs, so what now

Technically so do I, so I'm afraid my e-peen is still bigger than his.

Admittedly the second one (I run a martial arts dojo in my spare time) is more of a hobby, but does give me a bit of extra spending cash each year.
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SmokeMassTree posted...

darkknight109 posted...

SmokeMassTree posted...

Did you just compare the number of work place deaths to the number of military deaths?

You do realize there are many more people in the workforce than in the military, right?

Yeah, good point, that's another reason why workers should receive way more money.

Get a real job and you will, kiddo

a) I've held my current job for nearly a decade and statistically speaking I probably make more than you do.
b) Even were that not the case, I'm not American so I wouldn't be getting any money from your government anyways.
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SmokeMassTree posted...

Did you just compare the number of work place deaths to the number of military deaths?

You do realize there are many more people in the workforce than in the military, right?

Yeah, good point, that's another reason why workers should receive way more money.
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Zeus posted...

I'm sure people have tried it after seeing it done on tv, tbh.

I don't see how it would even be possible unless the other kid was a willing participant. Even if it's a big kid picking on a shrimpier one, they'd have to lift a kid up who's reasonably close to them in size/weight, open the locker door, get the kid inside, corral their arms and legs and stuff those in too, close the door, and lock the locker, and those last two steps can be thwarted by any kid who has the presence of mind to tuck their knees in towards their chest and brace their feet on the door.
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Zeus posted...

The implication is hyperbolic, considering that it had no impact and the I'm not entirely sure that the new guidelines would make much difference in these conditions. More importantly, the issue with all of these grand edicts and mandates is that they often prevent *anything* from getting built, which means you're relying on the old, even worse infrastructure. Honestly, if it comes down to a new construction that might not meet some arbitrary standard vs crumbling infrastructure that doesn't need a hurricane for a disaster, I'd take the new stuff.

If the government is spending my tax dollars to build something to protect the populace from disaster, I'd rather they not waste it on something that doesn't even work. If they're not going to build it to a half-decent standard, I'd just as soon they not bother and put the money towards something more productive.

That's the entire reason why we have standards in the first place.
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SmokeMassTree posted...

"Manage our tax money better"
"No!!! Don't cut that!!"

Fuck you want

It's simple - the same as they want from every other politician. Conservatives want him to cut taxes and spending while still maintaining the exact same services and improving their quality, while liberals want him to maintain or expand social programs and protections while not raising taxes in a way that would actually bring in some additional income to pay for it.

Seems pretty straightforward to me.

SmokeMassTree posted...

lol okay

"Hey you guys that risk your lives, you're gonna need to take a pay cut and have less than ideal equipment while we hand out money to lazy fucks that refuse to work"

The military budget isn't high enough until each and every soldier on the ground is in a full suit of batman armor.

A lot more people die in workplace accidents daily than do in the military in a year. Maybe we should be spending our money on where the deaths are actually occurring? Just a thought.
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Peterass posted...

I've started with Hiragana and it's slow going..

A lot of good kana guides also have mnemonics to help you remember them (like hiragana "shi" looking like a SHIeld, for instance). That helps, but a lot of it is just brute force memorization at that point. I used to take them one set of five at a time and just carry a notebook with me and write them down over and over whenever I was waiting for something (I live on an island, so I spend a lot of time waiting for or riding on ferries, which makes for a perfect practice opportunity). As soon as I felt comfortable with one set, I'd add in another. I would guess it took me about a month of off-and-on practice to completely memorize both kana sets (probably could have done it in less if I'd really knuckled down on it).

Peterass posted...

Kanji looks scary as hell. Seems to me that they are essentially emoji's, but other than memorization, I can't find a logical way to interpret the characters that I can recognize.

It's not as intimidating as it first appears. Learn the simple ones first, like the days of the week - that will give you sun/moon (nichi and getsu) and the five elements (kai, sui, moku, kin, and do - respectively fire, water, wood, gold, and earth) - and slowly work your way up (using a grade syllabus helps). A lot of the time more complex kanji are mostly just amalgamations of more simple kanji put together, or will contain radicals (parts, basically) of other kanji you've learned before.
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I'm in the midst of learning it right now, actually. Started back in February. I can hold very simple conversations now, but I'm still a long ways off from true fluency. In terms of characters, I know ~250 kanji, which is roughly a tenth of the common usage characters.

My advice:
-Your very first purchase should be a kana guide and your first exercise should be to memorize all of them, including the proper stroke order. Hiragana first, then katakana next (92 characters total). These are the building blocks of the entire Japanese language (akin to the Western alphabet) and you use them constantly (Hiragana especially).

-Figure out whether you want to speak Japanese, read Japanese, write Japanese, or all of the above, because they all require slightly different skillsets. You can be great at written Japanese and hopeless at conducting an actual conversation and vice versa.

-Flash cards are a godsend for learning Kanji. Don't bother wasting money on buying a pre-made set; learn the characters and make your own. Way cheaper and it helps with memorization.

-Use some form of audial learning as well (I use Rosetta Stone and a couple of other programs) - some parts of Japanese pronunciation are very difficult to describe without hearing them (lengthening vowels, the tendencies for "u" sounds to be minimized, etc.)

-Try and find someone who knows Japanese. Even if they won't teach/tutor you, you can still use them to figure out if you're saying something you shouldn't be (appropriate level of formality, correct gendering, etc.)

-On that note, Japanese is a highly gendered language. There are some things that men say that women never do and vice versa (for instance, men use the phrase "boku" to refer to themselves in Japanese, while women use "atashi"; both can use the slightly more formal "watashi"). Be aware of that, because it can get you into trouble - I used to attend a cooking class with some Japanese women, who would teach me bits and phrases. Occasionally I'd repeat one of them to a friend of mine who spoke Japanese, eliciting a chuckle and a comment along the lines of "You've been talking with your girlfriends again, haven't you?" - his code for telling me I was speaking like a woman, at which point I'd have to ask him how to say the phrase like a man would. Random aside - I saw an old samurai movie a month ago (can't remember the name) that very clearly had a female translator, because the gruff, hyper-masculine samurai protagonist was talking (in Japanese) like the most flamboyant gay guy you've ever heard. It was an absolute riot.

-Similarly, formality is very important in Japanese. There's sometimes literally dozens of ways to say the same thing, depending on how formal you want to be. Always err on the side of politeness, but learn the various forms so you don't come off like a complete stiff.
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Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster.
Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror!

High school kids looking strangely like adults in their mid-20s.
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Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster.
Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror!

I'm usually very good at telling when I will and won't be able to sleep and acting accordingly.
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No, but nor should it, and that is true regardless of whether you acknowledge man-made climate change is real or not.

I always get annoyed with people who take this attitude, even ignoring how tacky it is ("Hah, sucks to be you! If you'd just believed in climate change, your house and all your possessions would still be around!"), because it has absolutely no basis in science. Saying any one event is attributable to climate change is absurd, because the science simply isn't that precise. For all we know, this one particular storm could have been worse in a world without anthropogenic climate change.

You can't attribute individual events to climate change; you can only note trends. Harvey is one data-point on the graph, not a trendline in and of itself.
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None at fault. Been in two minor ones where the other guy was at fault (both times rear-ended at a red light because someone didn't take into account ice on the road when deciding how far in advance they should brake).
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Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster.
Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror!