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@philthatremains Yet we've been subsidizing you with cheap oil and other natural resources in order for you to be able to build and keep that military. We help you in Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan. We house your people when you get attacked. And this contempt is how you look at us?

Americans have every right to look at Canada with disgust. they have been living under the umbrella of protection that we provide while sneering at us the whole time. reprehensible and dishonorable

@3DDPDDTs @kevlap017 I cared enough to correct you, that's it.

@icebalm @kevlap017 Tywin Lannister Voice: “You are caring at this very moment”.

One of my biggest annoyances about these accusations that "bilingualism requirements advantage francophones" is that there's this assumption that francophones are like innately knowledgeable about English, that only Anglos have to learn French. And it's so stupid.

@Charles_string_ It's not impossible to learn a language. It's impossible to learn a language to a high level that you don't need to use, because you need tens of thousands of hours of immersion to train listening, comprehension, and production, and no one is doing that unless necessary.

So apparently JJ McCullough has been debating people for the past day claiming it's impossible to learn French and that elitist billingual people oppress Anglo Canadians across the country. I will never understand how he became so many foreigners' primary info source on Canada.

@3DDPDDTs @kevlap017 No, we wouldn't care, because we don't speak to the AC CEO on a regular basis, and if we ever cared what he had to say it can just be translated.

@kevlap017 Turn the tables with any example and anglophones sounds like such giant hypocrites. If the AC CEO only spoke in French they’d be apoplectic.

@kevlap017 Let's not pretend that it isn't more prevalent for francophone Quebecers to learn English than it is for an anglophone Canadian citizen to learn French purely based on the utility alone. English is the current lingua franca. The EU parliament even uses it despite the UK leaving.

@StaceyMonette27 Because our 23 year olds are too busy reciting land acknowledgements and going to Pro-Palestine rallies. Nick will waste his time anyways, because even after he's exposed all the same fraud we've already exposed the Liberals will win a majority government.

Quick question… Why does Canada, with a population of 41.5 million people, need a 23 year old kid from Utah ( Nick Shirley ) to come to Canada to expose obvious fraud & corruption? Don’t get me wrong, I love what he’s doing down there but come on…

@0xDeFiK デカ

正直に答えてください…。この料理を見たとき、最初に頭に浮かぶ言葉は何ですか？

In English, nothing ends with the letter g

@hanaamurakami People are just rage baiting. Ignore them.

I always see “Japan is underhated” can someone explain why we’re getting blamed for things we didn’t do?

@arjnmpm @Kaichan10425470 @HakataQueen

@icebalm @Kaichan10425470 @HakataQueen What do you mean by accurate if not literal? Accurate to what? At that point it's not the words you're being accurate to. And if it's like the theme of the story that requires artistic interpretation. And yes translators are authors. They are writing the text in that language.

Once you actually speak Japanese you realize most translations are actually alright, you just nitpick because you don’t know enough nuance and translate every words literally

@AnarcroAlchemy @Kaichan10425470 @HakataQueen

@Kaichan10425470 @icebalm @HakataQueen

@awake_2023 楽しんでください〜

Im so excited🔥

She's ignoring the reality that the overwhelmingly vast majority of gun crime in Canada is perpetrated with illegally obtained firearms. She's irrational, being led by emotions, and has no business being anyone in any sort of decision making position.

@ick_real $150/hr? Sign me up.

If I offered you $3k every week and all you had to do was read a book for at least 4 hours a day, would you take it?

@irys_en Because that's when flowers bloom, IRyS, during the rainy season of spring.

Why does it always rain during cherry blossom season?😭😭😭

@LeoVasanko @RetroTechChris That was common, it was meant for CD-ROM drives. Some motherboards only had one IDE connector, so adding another to the sound card was a fairly big selling point.

@RetroTechChris That sound card has an IDE controller on it. Why does a sound card have a connector for hard drives?

This might just be the strangest sound card design I have ever seen! Guessing they were designing this to be an "angled" PCB, then changed their mind at the last minute 😂

@RetroTechChris You got one pre-cut. They were normally sold with the top left part cut off.

@gantolandon @adrusi @TetraspaceWest "Anata" is often used in signs, literature, or music when the author doesn't know the target audience's name, status, position, etc. Some married women also use it when talking to their husbands, it sounds like "dear", "dearie", or "honey".

@adrusi @TetraspaceWest I’ve seen “anata” being used on station signposts, so it can’t be that insulting or patronizing.

Japanese has the untranslatable concept of you (derogatory). Actually it has like six at various levels of insulting

@adrusi @TetraspaceWest If you know a person's name or title you would refer to them by that. Otherwise, just using a direct, generic "you" to refer to someone means you consider them lesser, someone not even worthy of knowing. It's very disrespectful to the point of possibly starting fights.

@TetraspaceWest is it derogatory or just personable/condescending?

@Deivid_Carri youtube.com/watch?v=bZe5J8…