Great story. I’m glad I went looking for it (haven’t read it in 25+ years) because I got to discover that London wrote a slightly different version 6 years earlier.
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2·20 hours agoOops, typo–I meant cat 4. I live in rural Japan.
4·1 day agoI never knew they used the “suffering work” kanji for that phrase
I wonder if there’s anyone interested creating lab diamonds that have imperfections that essentially become indistinguishable from the mined ones. There wouldn’t be any money in it, but they could theoretically crash the blood diamond market.
Trying to learn a FSI category 5 language when you don’t have a dedicated language class is an ongoing and frustrating experience, but the cost of living is low, the countryside is peaceful, and going back to the states right now seems crazy.
https://www.state.gov/foreign-service-institute/foreign-language-training
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Build_a_Fire
Jack London’s husky survived, the guy didn’t make it
Eh, Death of the Author is a thing for a reason–we don’t have to take authors’ thoughts as the end of discussion about a thing. Richard Adams is quoted as saying he didn’t put any meaning into Watership Down, and they were just tales for his daughters. Bradbury said that Fahrenheit 451 was mostly about people becoming isolated in society and watching too much TV rather than censorship.
1·3 days agoI always find it interesting when comparing cuisine between cultures of stuff that exists in different places but only eaten in one (or a few) of them. Like ok, I get that if you’re not used to much seafood in general you maybe will eat some grilled salmon but you’re not gonna be eating the guts out of crabs or lobsters or whatever. But then there’s something like burdock root, which grows in the US, doesn’t have a strong taste, and is just like various other root vegetables we do eat (although not as sweet as something like a carrot). But the US doesn’t eat it while east Asia does.
5·3 days agoDo you use as many conveyor belts as Josh does in Satisfactory?
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.
He had the shits iirc
172·4 days agoOh noes, people are hating fascists! We shouldn’t let those fascist haters run the government, much better to let the fascists do it. Go lick some more ICE balls, you fucking rusty spork.
There was a law professor on a podcast talking about how courts traditionally lend credibility to the government as a default position, but it might have to change because of all the shit this admin is pulling
but if their fascist government fails, then they can go back to normal society of no one knows who they are.
It should be trivial for a theoretical subsequent competent government to identify these people, but I’ve just about lost all hope that anyone will face consequences for doing fascist shit.
Still blows my mind that space lasers gazpacho lady is the current voice of reason in the gqp
Perfect, time for the nobel!
Does that mean a bloated orange with alzheimers somehow failed to achieve something again?
Hiragana isn’t very useful if you’re not studying the language. The only thing a tourist or the like would need it for is the names of some food on menus like soba or something like that. It’s much more important to know some basic kanji (like the difference between man and woman when you’re using the bathroom in a restaurant) and then katakana because that’s how they transliterate the foreign words.
However, if you do study Japanese you’d see hiragana on day one–it’s a crucial part of the language.
All due respect, if getting spit on’s how respect is now defined
-Run the Jewelswith a video that’s only gotten more grim with time
Impping, I presume? Great fun
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