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Seems like they're named after an animator who worked at Pixar!

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I'd never heard that name either, for what it's worth. America may be the Great Satan, but at least it's fun to look at all the interesting names in movie credits

Not in the UK, but for what little it's worth I tried using VPN servers in England and Scotland and they seemed to work fine. Accessing them from some datacenter doesn't really tell you anything about your residential ISP, though--hope someone else will chime in!

My brain is like Teflon for this Trump legal stuff. At this point the libs in my life have yapped at me about this for hundreds of hours collectively, but I still only really know who Michael Cohen is and that's because he was in the news even before Trump took office. I refuse to let anyone else involved take up mental real estate that could be used to store important things like Hexbear taglines or the mechanisms and locations of invisible walls in Super Mario 64

I only understand this because Contra talked about the parallels between incel forums and /tttt/ in her Incels video, so thankfully I got to just look at a photo of the brainworms instead of actually being infested with them

Oops, I blindly copied a Poast Nitter link recently and had no idea--thanks for the PSA!

I see what you did there

Having an itasha without a coherent theme is poor form--no wonder he got got.

I feel good, a special kind of horny

I remember watching this as a kid and more recently as an adult, but I thought the horniness was delivery, subtext, and innuendo--not outright text! Wild.

edit: oh, apparently that lyric is only in the longer cut off the soundtrack album, not the version we actual hear in the movie. Still wild though

Commie-adjacent dream I had:

Me and my buddy (not a real life one) are US troops (ugh, I know) when suddenly we get called up to be deployed inside the DPRK. There's a lot of confusion, and somehow due to dream logic we get plopped outside a city in a fairly rural area, just the two of us. We try to inconspicuously make our way towards the city center (we're not in uniform) to some military end, and along the way we marvel at how kind people are to us and how good the infrastructure is. At some point I think my buddy gets injured or something and then put up in a hotel. It turns out he's an Omega, and he's given birth to a child (also his wife is just there for some reason???). I end up leaving by myself, walking through a big cineplex and a lovely park with cherry blossoms. Also randomly ran into two middle-aged white ladies who were talking about the Kim Jong-Eun administration and how it's got problems, but he's certainly much better than (random Democratic congresswoman).

Weirdly, after all this build-up of knowledge and understanding, the dream culminates in a one-man raid on some large military vessel docked in the harbor where I'm taking dudes out with this gel gun that renders them unconscious. Finally, some high ranking Army guy shows up and asks me if I'm a bad enough dude to go on a mission to retrieve the Death Note, which is apparently deep in some highly-guarded compound. That part doesn't happen, but there's some weird meta stuff where a narrator reveals this was all based on some traditional Korean folk tale.

On the one hand, it's standard incoherent dream nonsense, but I do like the concept of troops getting dropped into the DPRK for a military operation, having their propaganda-informed views destroyed simply by meeting people and seeing the country, and eventually defecting. And dammit, Kim, if you've got the Death Note what are you waiting for??

This is one of the things I love about languages written with Chinese characters: yes, it's a pain in the ass to learn thousands of characters, but once you've achieved basic literacy (i.e. high school graduate level) you can successfully guess the meaning of a lot of technical terms that are impenetrable in English.

Take petechial hemorrhage. It's a term that I'm sure is familiar to anyone who's watched enough crime procedurals (since it's present in victims of strangulation) referring to a characteristic pattern of tiny spots of bleeding under the skin. Hemorrhage is a word that I imagine many (most?) high school graduates would recognize, especially since it's also used metaphorically in a less formal way, but the etymology uses two roots (for "blood" and "burst") that are rare outside of other specialized medical/scientific terminology, so if you didn't know what it meant already you're pretty much screwed. But petechial is only used in specialized medical contexts and again, is completely impenetrable without knowing Latin or Italian (perhaps other Romance languages?).

The equivalent term in Japanese is {点状|てんじょう }{出血|しゅっけつ } (tenjou-shukketsu). Technical terms like this are often formed of two-character compounds, and this is no exception. The second half, {出血|しゅっけつ }, is literally just the everyday term for "bleeding" so even a child would know it, but if you wanted to break it down it consists of 出 ("exit; go out") and 血 ("blood")—dead simple. The first half, like petechial, is not an everyday word, but unlike petechial we can easily get a sense of what it means. {点状|てんじょう } consists of 点 ("spot; point") and 状 ("condition; status). So altogether, the word is "[spot-condition]-bleeding." That gives you a pretty decent sense of what the word means, and all the kanji are simple enough that a fifth grader could read it and make the same inferences. Meanwhile, you could show a PhD the word petechial and unless they're in medicine or have a strong Latin background, they'd have no hope.

That's not to say that all technical terms are this simple—far from it—but even when they use more exotic and/or complicated characters you can often still get a sense of their meaning by looking at the components that make up unfamiliar characters to get broader semantic and phonetic clues.

Isn't the dating app for people that play old dead MMORPGs...old dead MMORPGs?