“I am really concerned over your purchase of Adolf Hitler’s cutlery. Don’t bring me to these places ever again, or we are done. ” I said.
We left and went back to my place. My nightmare was finally over.
-Amelia

So… they’re still together and she’s fine with all of this? Wow, garbage humans.

Japanese went through its own kanji simplification over time, codified in the postwar period.

Also, some characters were invented at different times, including when Japan was mostly in its sakoku period (no foreigners in/out except at the trading post in Dejima).

Yeah, I can read Chinese restaurant menus OK (usually; some names are less literal and I have no idea). From what I’ve seen on the net, I could deal with some navigation.

My sentences are a bit mean by design, but even a lot of signs use grammar like that.

For anyone wondering, the sentence might look like “the cat ate the mouse” but it’s actually the opposite (cat was eaten by mouse). More polite japanese grammar indirects things a lot and it can be really rough. For example, official documents, credit card applications, and a lot of signs. I’ve been in Japan most of a decade and it’s still tough

Chinese folk can mostly read written Japanese

This is 100% untrue unless you’re talking about menus and such. Japanese uses three other writing systems (counting Roman letters) two of which Chinese speakers are not going to know without study. A handful of the hiragana/katakana still look and are pronounced like the old Japanese kanji they came from, but those also were not Mandarin but from other dialects of middle Chinese (I want to say there was a lot of Wu, but I can’t recall for certain). EDIT: and even knowing how to read them is going to be useless in the most important case, which is that they conjugate verbs, and do other very important lifting in the language.

Japanese, on the other hand, can read a lot of the kanji, but aren’t going to necessarily get a lot out of anything because Chinese grammar is so radically different to Japanese.

Both will have trouble with characters whose meaning for the same character differs in the other language, and potential difficulty with characters invented in one of the countries independently.

Source: live in Japan, married to Japanese, a number of Chinese friends (mostly Taiwan and HK, but a few mainland)

Edit: sample sentence: 猫がネズミに食べされました。Here it is with the kanji for ネズミ instead, which would give Chinese readers a better chance: 猫が鼠に食べされました。However, I don’t think a Chinese speaker with no internet/dictionary and no previous knowledge of Japanese is going to get the meaning correct. The second one with the kanji will fair better, but I still suspect it would be wrong.

Here’s another one 猫が鼠にご飯を作ってくれた。

How about even older: HEAT (HEAT.net)? https://web.archive.org/web/19970601031026/http://www.heat.net/

I live in Japan and am not at all worried about this. Maybe local seafood prices will drop. Great for us, but sucks for the fishermen and their families.

Now, if we could properly build things and not cheap out on the plans so that this doesn’t happen again, that’d be great… (also, more geothermal!)

As a gamer living in eastern Asia, Epic’s exclusives that could only be bought in certain countries due to payment processors pissed me off enough to boycott. I generally don’t touch any games that started as exclusives there, either. The couple of exceptions I have, I waited until they were a couple of years old and > 50% off on Steam or GoG

Interesting. I no longer travel or commute as much as I used to so my QC35s are still perfectly OK for the occasions I do. Interesting to know about the others on the market.

Do they block outside sound though

They have noise cancellation that works well enough for me (they have more advanced newer versions, but I see no reason to upgrade now). When I first tried my friend’s before buying, I complained he ruined the world for me because I never knew how much background could be cut out, heh.

Yeah, the condensation is inevitable and does need to go somewhere. I don’t know where it goes with mine, but the headphones keep on working.

That’s insane. I have the same Bose over-the-ear (I can’t stand in-ear) headphones for years. They have been to the gym with me, jogging, and just existing in a humid, Tokyo summer for the last 5.5 years and have zero electronic issues. I did replace the exterior cushiony bit twice now, but the actual electronics are fine.

a perfect example

I specifically was asking for documentation about “Lack of effort to stop sexual assault in Japan is well documented”. The article provided mentions the efforts they are making.

I suppose you could do a basic web search. Meh.

You make the claim, you provide the evidence.

The actual reason I ask is that, if this specific sort of thing exists, it would be good to specifically target and fight it.

Days since last timezone incident: -1

This is specifically for train groping, for one, and literally has a whole section on what they are doing about it. I specifically wanted to know what was being cited here:

Lack of effort to stop sexual assault in Japan is well documented.

Victim blaming is common. This is a systemic problem

This, I agree with.

Lack of effort to stop sexual assault in Japan is well documented.

For this, I’d like to see the documentation you cite.

Hrm. “Resume” is clear enough, but I don’t see a “stop” or “pause” anywhere before it.

I mean, the vast majority of people here are not committing sexual assault. There is certainly work to be done with the justice system regarding reporting and prosecuting crimes, but it’s not like Japan or Osaka or Tokyo just condone SA.

I thought this was going to be about using beef wellington leftovers to make burgers somehow, heh.

Wanted poster. Maybe because I’m not in the US, but the article had no photos for me https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/additional/christopher-john-worrell/@@download.pdf

To me, it looked like she said ‘no’ and he was a shitbag and told her to GTFO

B, but only their bellies; the portal is above most of their bodies, and their heads and ankles will get cut off for being off even the track.