If tech bros funded by VC tech bros had started wikipedia ( @wikipedia ), the past few years would’ve been the same, but now they’d be pivoting to charge for Verified Editor Badges :deifirev: and introducing a scrollable feed of video shorts for Historical Figures Gone Goblin Mode
I’m very adamant about using “toot” instead of “post”. I’ll die on this hill, but hopefully not today because I have lots of errands to run, like buying stamps at the toot office.
Sometimes I hate Japanese so much. People say don’t be afraid of making mistakes, but then you make a little mistake and people are like what are these incomprehensible sounds coming from your facehole?? 😤
I was telling Ms FoC something about the apartment groundskeeper and I referred to the 管理さん instead of the 管理人さん and she was like wtf is a カンリサン
I was like, can you please try to accommodate a little. And she said that absolutely no one would understand 管理さん. Totally muri. 🙄
My suspicion is that most non-science people don’t realize that just coming up with a definition “this is a kilogram” and then being able to make a measurement in a lab where you can say with confidence “this is a kilogram” has involved an unimaginably huge amount of work and gazillions of dollars
We’ve celebrated the amazing foods of Japan in the #JapaneseFoodTournament, and now we’ll look in the opposite direction and vote for the LEAST favorite Japanese food.
This is intended in the spirit of fun and adventure. If you can, I encourage everyone to try these dishes. Many are acquired tastes but you might acquire them! Or at least gain more perspective on Japanese food culture.
There has been a lot of teeth-gnashing and angst over the fall of #twitter, but from some of the latest news, I think we will have to start thinking about a much bigger problem: the fall of #Google.