She’s even sighted in the wikipedia article “In 2023, Linda Yaccarino was appointed as the CEO of Twitter while the company was facing an uncertain future and a number of challenges, including outages, user discontent and advertiser skepticism. The company lost more than half of its value since its acquisition by Elon Musk six months prior.”
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It would probably be cheaper for me to drive up to White Rock or Abbotsford BC then go see a doctor in Seattle even with my insurance. But when you get sick it’s kind of hard to shop around.
It’s just a slight mistake in the spelling that is a little funny and is bound to happen to anyone who isn’t a native speaker. I certainly said a lot of funny things that didn’t makes sense when I used to visit Japan when i tried to communicate in Japanese. Taking the effort to speak an other language is a great way to appreciate how hard it can be and hopefully a lot more understanding of other people who make the effort to learn your own language. So I’m glad your here participating in the conversation. :-)
Yeah, it’s ruff there is the crazy work hours and then often the “mandatory” drinking parties after work. It really can put your own culture in perspective.
It’s likely a side-effect of it being translated as Gairaigo then back to English. It’s so common there are lots of interesting and funny examples all over the Japan and is referred to as “jinglish”.
Fair point, the history or US “gun-ship diplomacy”, Banana Republics, School of the America’s, Domino Theory inspired coup d’etat’s in Chile, Iran, and a dozen other places is nothing to be proud of but you have to understand that like many other places in the world much of these act’s were done covertly or couched in a steady stream of propaganda. Regular people have been fed the idea of “American Exceptionalism” most of their lives with little access to alternative narratives or if they did questions the system they were branded “radicals” or “Un-American”. You could find counter-narratives but they typically were isolated and the “counter culture” was even famously targeted by the Nixon administrations and FBI in the 60’s (e.g, COINTELPRO) but un-covering these programs required a lot of effort but because of the changing tide of less conservative and corrupt supreme court judges and a strong middle class (aka a modern educated bourgeoisie) and the existing frame work of the the Bill of Rights and Constitution along with the iterative amendments there was progress in the Rule of Law. This was also aided by legal tools like the Freedom of Information Act along with the Fifth Estate in bringing the truth to light. However, there have been strong forces by American Oligarchic’s and organizations they fund such as the Federalist Society working tirelessly to undermine these changes. Understanding this requires a level of effort beyond the typical citizen especially as the middle class has been steadily eroded and most people are just struggling to survive economically. Not to mention the proliferation of conspiratorial thinking like Q-Anon and other miss-information. So I guess what I’m trying to say is it’s complicated and it’s easy for regular citizens to often believe what they are told or want to believe things that make them feel good or not even have a voice in the actions of their own government at all. This isn’t just a United State or Japan problem it’s a constant problem in many nation states around the world and the history of societies. To your specific point of “why do you all act like America was somehow a force for good and not terror” a lot of us don’t! Maybe take a look at some of the work of English philosopher and physician John Lock because I’m just trying to keep a roof over my head and enough food and other basics like most people on this planet.
Unfortunately, the past war crimes, were horrific and the lack of accountability for them remains an issue. I can not speak for the average Japanese citizen but I have a feeling most of the Japanese people are ashamed of the cult of personality of their past leaders and wish the current government would handle things like the controversies surrounding Yasukuni Shrine differently. Much like most American’s don’t support Trumpism.
Who knows about the source but I was looking to see any indication of where this was. I actually got a chance to see a baseball game at the Tokyo Dome or maybe it was a sumo event - it was so long ago. From my own experience and shallow understanding of the culture it’s probably true. One of the huge motivations is the fear of bringing shame to your family which can be good and bad…it’s just such a different culture and an outsider like me really can’t fully appreciate or really understand because even if you spend your life there you will probably always be considered a bit of an outsider. And the Tom Selleck movie Mr. Baseball is actually pretty good.
The crime rate and especially the murder rate compared the the US is shockingly different.
One of the highlights of my life was having a chance to live with a family in the Tokyo suburbs - in Akitsu Higashimurayama. Miss them so much. お母さん に 会いたい な～
6·3 years agoA lot of the pay and benefit increases come with an expectation that the worker will increase their productivity. US workers have been conditioned to blame themselves if they don’t meet these expectations and it has become baked into the work culture. We can not maintain the current imbalance in pay disparity and 1% wealth without structural changes but it’s culturally forbidden to even talk about this without being accused of being a communist. This paradigm has been created after decades of messaging from the system that supports the existing oligarchy - IMO.
It’s not as refined as reddit but the content is better and the community can improve the UI/UX over time… At first it was a little awkward for me coming from reddit but it didn’t take long for me to adjust and the diversity of people and ideas I’ve found on here is well worth it.
1·3 years agore-builder in Emacs works really good for this because I’ll usually have the text in a buffer already that I want to match or replace or adjust or select - I’m constantly using it.
I’m interested in finding ways to use it but when if I’m writing code I really like the spectrum of different answers on stack overflow with comment’s on WHY they did it that way. Might use it for boring emails though.
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3·3 years agoI never posted on reddit…but luked for a very long time but I want this place to be better the reddit so bad and so…
Wasn’t sure I’d listen to this whole thing but half way threw it starts to really get weird. Damn, kind of feel bad for her…it most be hell working for Elon.