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Cake day: July 27th, 2026

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  • For those who can’t read, the text says
    ◯ックスするまで出られない部屋
    Which is “A room you can’t leave before you have **x”
    Reading with the pink corrections turns it into
    ワックスかけたら乾燥するまで出られない部屋
    Which is “A room you can’t leave before the applied wax dries”

    I think there is a doujinshi with the same name as the first sentence, but I’m not diving that rabbit hole.



  • If you spoke with any Japanese people in the wild, it’s very hard to find those who can speak proper English. Most of the time they’ll have some basic vocabulary and will be able to understand what you are saying, but saying anything themselves is practically impossible. I often say that Japanese is a phonetically impaired language, mainly because of how little valid sound combinations there are in the language, being risen surrounded with only Japanese trains your voice cords to only produce these sounds. And Japanese phonetics barely intersect with English ones. You see the problem, right?

    And Japanese who are hanging out in places where they can meet with foreigners are obvously better at it than your average Japanese person.

    だから、私日本語を学んでいる。この方で楽だ。










  • Are you arguing that since other terrible things exist, I shouldn’t try to make the world a better place? I can’t exactly see how that’s a valid point.

    I suppose you are trying to appeal to the fact that I’m not perfectly morally pure, trying to make it look like whatever I said is automatically invalid? That’s not how it works. If I say both “smoking is bad for your health” and “you should throw needles into sandboxes”, how exactly does the latter statement being utterly horrible affect the veracity of the former one?

    And of course I’m trying to minimize my usage of things made via exploitation of others, as in repairing the hardware instead of buying new stuff. It’s just incredibly hard to live in the modern world without mudding yourself somewhere. We judge thieves based on their circumstances and whatever they stole, just being a thief does not make you as bad as the worst one, the world is not black and white like that.