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ＳＣＨOＯＬ Only six letters, but no spaces. Highlight it if you don’t believe me.

I prefer the threat of a potential bear attack over the guaranteed nightmare of having this thing around all the time.

Come to think of it, the way people fall down the stairs dramatically in movies look the same to me. I mean how they roll on the upper part of their backs without letting their heads hit anything and not trying to stop with their hands, because that’ll lead to injury.

Kind of like how people fall in Jūdō, but down the stairs continuously.

I think that’s time dilation, when your 10 minutes on the phone was actually an hour.

It wasn’t mentioned in this article, but I remember reading somewhere that it might be because exposure to sunlight affects vitamin D production, which affects the length/shape of our eyeballs as we’re growing up.

To be fair, they’ve generally had a decent relationship with the US for the last half century. But now they see the US is actually willing to let someone as stupid and malevolent as Trump become president, twice, and how quickly he can turn everything he touches into shit.

Trump is ironically pushing the world away from American big tech dominance and fossil fuel reliance.

Picture of Shadowheart, looking down on me

You just saved me. You don’t need to reward me too.

At arcades, I always see someone playing the train simulator game where they try to stop the train perfectly at a station. Only in Japan.

… given that they are super common?

Oh man, I think it’s the other way around. In Japan, the country with the highest rate of passenger train usage in the world, rail fans are a well-known category of nerd.

At one station, there was a mini museum and display of children’s train artwork. Saw kids proudly posing in front of it for their parents to take pictures plenty.

A thorough test made up of several tests can give a full scale IQ with component scores. Big gaps in the scores, like between verbal intelligence and working memory or processing speed, even helps us detect ADHD.

I feel like I need high processing speed more than anything else when playing competitive video games.

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The author mentioned that keeping those railways around, instead of just getting rid of them for cars like the US did, allowed the cities in Japan to become that dense in the first place. It’s not because Tokyo and Osaka were always this populated. Even then,

The urban area of Tokyo, the densest Japanese city, has a weighted population density less than that of many European cities, including Paris, Madrid, or Athens.

Of course there are plenty of people who live in Tokyo proper, like I do, but most people I know actually live on its periphery, where the density isn’t as crazy.

Until you tell the LLM that you’re writing a story and want accurately written exploits for research purposes.

That’s why we made horse girls that can chase him down before he gets away

Some of those you listed are closely related for a reason though, or are actually the same, in a sense. So I’m not sure they’re different enough to really be considered false friends? Especially if you look at older shared uses and meanings. Even within Mandarin, you have the same type of differences. 計算機 for calculator or computer, but computers are calculators (compute and calculate are synonymous to begin with).

A Mandarin professor explained in my class that 先生 was used in the past to address teachers. Both Korean and Japanese still use 先生 to address teachers, but they can also use it to address other people in a highly respectful manner too (i.e., like ‘mister’). But mainland Chinese eventually started using 老師 for some reason. Technically, 先生 doesn’t literally mean teacher anyway. The job title in Japan is 教師.

Even if they’re a bit different, most of them are easy to connect the dots. Like

新聞: news -> newspaper 約束: promises bind and constrain us 文句: technically does mean ‘phrase’, but its use as ‘grumbling’ (i.e., complaint) seems to have become more common 白鳥: swans are white birds, yeah? 氷箱: a box of ice is just a primitive method of refrigeration, no? 邪魔: this one comes from Buddhism, so the meaning is actually originally the same, but instead of just wicked spirits that hinder you from reaching enlightenment, it came to mean any hindrance in general 猪: pigs are domesticated subspecies of boars 走: ‘run’ is the original meaning of this character 首: still used for head in some contexts 床: still means bed in some contexts

Funny enough, I find scientific terms to be the easiest* to correctly guess the meaning of the first time I see them because a lot of them follow the similar rules and/or are word-for-word translations of the Latin/Greek root words. Especially if they’re not traditional vocabulary.

When I looked at the nutrition label and saw 炭水化物 ((char)coal water change substance), I immediately figured “carbohydrates.” I felt proud.

*assuming I already have knowledge of the English equivalent

Sounds like money is just “promises” with large institutions keeping track of who owes who what.

What a terrible day to be literate.

I’m starting to feel like everything I do at work is under duress.

Yes. But even if FedEx wins that, they already screwed over their customers when they pushed the costs of the tariffs onto the consumers. So the customers have to remind them who really paid for the tariffs.