I cycle, so I’m definitely not a fan of low waist jeans. I want my lower back to feel warm and covered.
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Get a Pinephone, or a Fairphone with Ubuntu. More privacy and more features than dumb phones.
Well, maybe you are:
- Planning a surprise party
- Leaving a job
- Trying to escape an abusive relationship
- Famous
- Writing a detective novel
- A writer without a publisher
- Searching about an embarrassing medical condition
- Having a crush in someone
- In the closet
- A teenager with controlling parents
- Having a hobby that’s considered embarrassing or childish
- Having a psycho stalker
- Buying a present from Santa
- A reporter who doesn’t want to reveal their sources
- Buying a toilet and you don’t want toilet recommendations for the rest of your life
- Lending your computer to someone, and you don’t want your recommended videos to change
- Under an NDA
… Or maybe you’re talking with someone who’s in one of those categories.
We have to normalise privacy in order to keep these people safe. For instance, it’s a stupid example but it works, if I always use private browser windows, my husband won’t suspect anything when I’m looking for a gift for him.
That’s only the tip of the iceberg and it’s not even touching some bigger problems:
- You can be profiled based on your likes, social media posts, purchase history, etc, and maybe used for election results manipulation, or who knows what else. That’s not a conspiracy theory, it has happened, see for instance Cambridge Analytica.
- Maybe the political situation will change in the future. Oops, now your data is suddenly in the hands of a malicious dictator.
- If you keep a backdoor open to let the “good and trusted” actors in, there’s no way to not let malicious actors in as well.
SlimSocial for Facebook works, it’s just slow.
I use this and you can preemptively create some groups you can share your location to, then turn those on. If this works for you.
Oh, apparently you’re right! I just made a quick search. I was speaking based on what a Japanese friend had told me long ago, but maybe he had misunderstood it too.
No, くすくす is onomatopoeia for giggling. https://jisho.org/word/くすくす
Ah, no, this is some Internet slang, and oddly enough it comes from the first meaning. AFAIK, the second one doesn’t exist in Japanese.
Basically, “hahaha” in Katakana is written as ハハハ. If you line up enough ハハ’s, it will look like a series of ｗ’s.In chats, they use ｗ (from 笑い、warai) to denote laughter. If you line up enough ｗｗｗｗ’s, it looks like grass. That’s how 草 ended up meaning LOL.
You can immerse yourself into stuff like online articles, blog posts, or Twitter (yes I know, Japanese people don’t seem willing to leave it). This way you can read at your own pace without having to chase after what you hear. You can install a browser add-on like Yomichan for Firefox, that lets you look up words by just hovering over them while pressing Shift. It makes reading 100x easier.
There are also some websites that offer articles for each reading level, such as https://yomujp.com/n5/ and https://www.nihongoschool.co.uk/nihongoblog .
Finally, what I can really recommend is to find some Japanese friends to chat with. Difficult, I know. Back in my day I searched on Skype, I wouldn’t know what to recommend now, sorry. I first did this when I was around N5 level and totally fell flat on my face, but when I was at N4 I could easily hold a conversation about a variety of topics.
Well, it’s a Tuesday so that means I can get fresh fish in my local street market. Nothing much going on otherwise.
I use NextCloud News, it’s super convenient and also syncs between my phone and computer. I use it for reading the news (playing hide and seek with one news site after another when they inevitably disconnect their RSS/Atom support), for the webcomics I follow, and for keeping up with friends’ blogs.
Not a native speaker, but nobody else has jumped in, so here’s my understanding of it. Take it with a grain of salt because I’m not a native speaker. If you want I could ask my sensei for clarifications, I just would prefer to not bother her.
These two phrases only have a different nuance, not technically a different meaning. The nuance is exactly what you described in what you consciously know. So you might use the 〜ていた form to say how it was safe for you to go on a hike, and the 〜た form to focus on the season change itself. It’s not necessarily wrong to use them interchangeably.
Women don’t have balls, therefore they can’t store pee, and that explains the longer queues in women’s bathrooms. See you next time with a new episode of Troll Biology!
I’ve seen conferences outright ban the use of scents because of people who get irritated by them. Fair enough, if you ask me.
In my case at least, it’s not a matter of seeing a smoker in a public place, the smell starts irritating my nose and throat and then I have to play a game of “find the smoker”. I agree that car exhausts are also harmful, I agree that we should also reduce driving as much as possible, but at least I can tolerate the smell of car exhaust much more easily if I have to be next to it. Everyone else seems to be able to enjoy their (outdoor) meal or concert, and I’d love to be able to get back to the point where I can think “yeah this is harmful, I should probably not subject myself to it” instead of “I can’t breathe”.
Ah, maybe the difference is that my parents smoked when I was very small. Eventually they both quit and now they both hate the smell. But yes, I also grew up before the smoking ban.
No, I commute in jeans. Makes it super hard to find high-waist jeans that are narrow at the bottom and also have a certain degree of elasticity, so when I find them I buy a lot.