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16 days agoI’m a MAL user but I love how quirky Kitsu is, like their broad definition of anime including My Little Pony and the top ranking being like 90% Demon Slayer recap movies (it’s an exaggeration now but a few years ago it would not be)
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What’s your reasoning for pro-piracy?
2·1 month agoAggregate polling is around 40% support. The lowest I found was 38% from economist.com, but ~41% is pretty common across any aggregate you can look up yourself. NYT for example says 41% support.
You do not invent your own name sign. Name signs may only be given by a person in the Deaf community. Some hearing people (like interpreters and teachers) mistakenly give name signs without realizing they are in violation of Deaf culture traditions. However, a name sign cannot be assigned by a hearing person.
American Sign Language has deep cultural and linguistic significance. Typically, it is not until you are involved in the community that you are given a name sign. In fact, not everyone within the Deaf community has a name sign.
From article
It’s like a cultural thing. This still doesn’t really answer why it’s like that in the first place, but I think in general the reason it feels inappropriate to name yourself in another language is that it feels “cringe” for lack of a better word. Somebody picks a name that has all kinds of cultural and colloquial associations without understanding them at all.
That’s kinda my theory of cultural appropriation; it’s not wrong because of some deep ethical reason, but rather it’s just often uncool. People sending signals that they don’t understand themselves.
Spanish: pick your own name
Japanese: must use the Japanese-ified version of your name, eg Smith -> Sumisu, and people will usually refer to you by last name.In retrospect, it was kinda strange to pick names in Spanish. It would be really strange / unacceptable to just pick a random Japanese name for yourself, and I’ve heard that it’s really rude to pick a name for yourself in American Sign Language. I wonder why it’s so widely accepted to do so for Spanish.
Wow! I had no idea.
Wikipedia:“Mizu no Hoshi e Ai o Komete” (水の星へ愛をこめて; lit. ‘To the Aqueous Star with Love’) is the debut single by Japanese singer Hiroko Moriguchi, released on August 7, 1985 under Starchild Records. The song was written by Neil Sedaka and Masao Urino, based on Sedaka’s unreleased song “For Us to Decide”.
I think it’s in part because the song is slightly too mature for her that it appeals to Kiki, and maybe to the younger audience who relates to her.
The lyrics of Rouge no Dengon are really good. It’s about a woman who’s on a train, leaving town to get away from her cheating husband. She left a “message in rouge” for him to find in the bathroom, that she won’t be back until he changes his ways. She’s actually going to his mother’s house, and she’ll have his mother call him to scold him in the morning.
If you’re familiar with the song as the opening theme to Kiki’s Delivery Service, it really really fits Kiki’s character as she listens to the song while leaving home for the first time. You might get the feeling that the themes of the song are things relates to herself: independence, anxiety, maturity, and female solidarity. And of course, if you watch the movie, those are all things she experiences in her new town.
Basically it’s a REALLY REALLY good song and absolutely perfect choice for the movie it’s in. I also love the singer’s other Ghibli movie song you mention, Contrails/Hikoukigumo.
4·2 months agoI remember seeing this clip several months ago. In context, it was clearly in reference to Biden’s cancer diagnosis, which was still popular/relevant news at the time.
“When you start feeling sorry for him, remember he’s a bad guy” -Trump
*points at photo
“Is that the new pope?”“Yeah!”
“Is he doin a good job?”
*4 second pause, looks back at photo
“Uhh, yes. He’s doing a good job. Did you know he’s from America!?”I thought the serious 4-second evaluation period was funny. Good to know he’s doing a good job. This was at a Catholic thrift store yesterday.
Your arms and hands would be pretty messed up. Depending on which arm was broken twice and how badly, it may be permanently damaged.
Biggest thing is probably blood loss. I think your survival comes down to how much blood you lost in your glass injuries and from every other injury combined.Source: not a doctor, just guessing.
Ben Palmer had a great response to this concern
YouTube link
Though it’s unintuitive, the validity of a sample size has more to do with its literal value/size than how it compares to the total population.
If you have a sample size of 1000, your predictions about the 2000th individual in a population of 2000 will be just as accurate as your prediction about the 10,000,000th individual in a population of 10,000,000.
A bigger sample size is better, but it has almost nothing to do with the total population, it doesn’t matter if it’s 1.2 billion or 100 trillion.
I get this too. I didn’t think/know it was air pressure though? Seems to happen to me randomly, and rarely.
In the original picture I could only ever see white & gold, but in this photo you post I can see either way.
I love Chipotle. Maybe it’s just the locations near me, but the quality is good and prices are not as high as some others in the thread say; certainly not $20. Maybe $11 or $12, and for a really big meal.
Unfortunately I stopped eating there when I stopped shopping at Target, when they got rid of their DEI policies in clear capitulation to MAGA. Plenty of places with comparable quality & price that at least try not to do hiring discrimination
Alone Again, Naturally by Gilbert O’Sullivan.
A small twist, but a very devastating song
There’s a couple really cool old anime forums I’ve found before. This one is definitely the coolest, but it’s in French so I don’t really understand very much of it:
https://www.dessins-animes.net/