George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
The things you lean on / are things that don't last
User ID: 107
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
5mo ago
Fair enough.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
5mo ago
I misread thing as thug, assumed that this must be some sort of sentence anagram, and wasted about twenty minutes of my commute trying to work it out.
I need better glasses.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
5mo ago
Thanks.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6mo ago
I didn't. I only know of programs using databases suited to, say, undergraduate essays, and not this kind of research writing. The sentences don't seem the type of writing one would paste from someone else, much more something an AI would generate.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6mo ago
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6mo ago
Is no one going to point out the Game of Thrones reference or is it too obvious?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
7mo ago
You can create any image, drop it into Keynote as a slide, then superimpose any font(s) you like. Then simply export the slide as an image file. PowerPoint can also probably do this. I'm sure Photoshop, etc. can do this as well but I've no experience.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
7mo ago
My wife has recently claimed that drinking something called saji berry juice (which she mixes with orange juice) has changed her moods, aches, and generally feeling for the better. The little drop of Retsyn apparently is iron supplementation; apparently saji is high in iron. The link I am linking to says it's called "seaberry" or "sea buckthorn" and I have no idea what it is and had never seen or heard of it until there it was in a carton in our fridge.
This is what she drinks.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
7mo ago
See, you answered, you didn't have to. Anyway yes I knew you'd mentioned NY. Hard to keep track who's who and where, and I don't and can't, but sometimes I can.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
7mo ago
Thanks. I assume the same just following ingrained rules of reading, but apparently it's also spelled asabiyya which would make me want to extend that Y sound. Unless your bee is more of a beee than mine.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
7mo ago
Well there's obviously nuance or we wouldn't disagree. I'd argue the following support Cole knowing all along: The title itself; the repeated interactions where Cole is never once confused or unaware that he is interacting with a spirit; his repeated glances at his mother to see how/if she sees Malcolm (which I believe is why many viewed the film more than once, to check if Malcolm ever interacted with the mother as they had assumed); and finally their last interaction ("I'm not going to see you anymore, am I?") which suggests that now that Malcolm has made his peace, he will "move on" in a way that Cole has always expected him to do, but now knows is upon them.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
7mo ago
Cole knew, Malcolm himself did not. Thus the whole narrative structure upon which the film is based, the "gotcha" moment at the end, etc. For Cole to have announced it to him (and thus revealed to us all his prescience) would have ended the film before it started. Even at the end he tells Malcolm ghosts only see what they want to see and sometimes don't know they're dead. Cole is and has always been aware of all this. I agree with Raiders in that I cannot fathom anyone not thinking this.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
7mo ago
Well, I will enter this all into my file. I don't use tacks but do use a tie bar. It was a gift from students, and I'm sentimental.
I first saw the term in Neil Strauss's The Game (2011) which arguably popularized the idea of being a PUA, though apparently it predates even that.
Edit ' wrong date
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
8mo ago
1998, August. Why?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
9mo ago
Is there any allowance for humor in Hinduism?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
9mo ago
I'm trying to think of a Kinks quote but I only come up with Come Dancin'
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
10mo ago
Steelmanning as I understand it does not mean constructing an elaborate facade of reasonable, fact-based arguments on behalf of your opponent, where you must engage in mental contortionism and grant them every concession--or "accept" their assumptions, as you've phrased it. It simply means making (or assuming) the clearest best form of their argument--which you can then refute.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
10mo ago
Brilliant. Yes, that is the best way if one is intent on deletion. I was unaware it could be done en masse. I have an alt or two that I may decide to also wipe, so I will keep this in mind, thank you. There were a lot of little pieces of me floating around on reddit, and although it doesn't pain me as much as I might have thought it would to wipe those pieces from history, I do feel it's somehow a shame. But my disillusionment with reddit has now as much to do with its active userbase as the results of its admin decisions.
What does "stock" of the people mean here?
edit： I don't mean to sound baiting, I am genuinely curious. Like, breeding? Genetic superiority? Socioeconomic status? More genteel class manners?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
10mo ago
A friend of mine has a daughter, raised her here though my friend and her husband are from the US and both blue-eyed and white--their daughter is also. But the girl, because of her upbringing, can, and does, move as fluently through Japanese culture as her classmates. She is also perfectly, natively fluent in English. It's a marvel to see her slip in and out of these versions of herself.
In Nihonjinron scholarship (if that's the word to use) there have been many efforts at defining "Japaneseness." Some suggest both parents need to be ethnically Japanese. Because Japanese culture is so much a part of functioning here, however (that's a whole can of worms), others suggest that to be Japanese one has to be fluent in the language and preferably born in Japan.
That, too, sometimes doesn't matter. Returnee students who may have spent a few years abroad (especially if in early youth) are routinely told, on return, that because of some alteration in attitude, dress, or ineffable behavioral trait, they're "not really Japanese," as if their Japaneseness has been stripped from them.
The dimensions of the definition become more and more Procrustean as one goes on, as you might expect.
Eventually the concept "I know a Japanese when I see one" becomes the answer if the subject is pressed--and of course one cannot press the subject very far, for highlighting disagreement.or inconsistency in this way would be poor manners, itself "un-Japanese."
Older people might not consider the girl in my example above as ever having any chance of being Japanese, any more than a Zainichi Korean or third-generation Chinese. It isn't hard to find people using the term "Japanese blood" when the topic comes up. One quickly realizes nationality isn't the issue, or even culture, or language--or even biology (though there is of course that rather infamous book arguing the Japanese person's brain is structurally different from, well, from all the rest of us.)
I have the distinct sense that all this evaporates if you boil it down enough and you'll be left with steam, and, eventually an empty pot.
To address your question, there seems to be no real movement here (with a non-Japanese presence of around 2%) to shepherd anyone into the Japanese fold. Though I am considered uchi (内) or "one of the group/family/elect" in certain contexts here, remove one layer and I am again soto (外) or an outsider. But I haven't ever considered attempting applying for Japanese nationality.
I'd a fairly extreme (if benign) racist acquaintance some years ago who liked Japan and the Japanese fine because of the sense of clear delineation he felt here.
Based on the last paragraph of this post perhaps you might allow me to pose a question.
I am an American citizen (Caucasian, more or less, if it matters, with some Native American ancestry) living in Japan, my home now over two decades. I speak the language passably well though my kanji isn't what it should be (even recently on this forum I goofed a very basic term, and, as one might expect, was gently corrected). Though I am not in a service job, I am public-facing in that I stand in front of adult students every day. Would you argue that I shouldn't make efforts to learn Japanese, or that my learning of Japanese should be done only as a means of communication, and not as one of a larger set of strategies to integrate (to whatever degree) into Japanese culture?
You may suggest that I am "not Japanese and never will be" and that is of course not an unpopular perspective (particularly, even especially here). But surely the old saw about when in Rome carries some water in your mind? It's possible I'm misunderstanding you.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
11mo ago
Not pedantic at all, thank you for the correction.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
11mo ago
Relevance to whom? You seem to be suggesting that the setup and dynamic (as opposed to the content) of the forum is the problem.
Oh? And why isn't it? Presumably we aren't all conversing in a vacuum, nor is the detailed articulate response of every single person necessarily desirable, even for the most riveting posts. I don't agree generally with you about what you term "Motte monkeys," however, so I don't imagine we'll end up in agreement.
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