FriendOfDeSoto

I would say in English you need a tool to analyze the text; in Japanese your ears can do this job.

In Japanese there is speech coded predominantly male and female. This includes word choices and some grammatical ones as well.

Unnecessary. Leave the door open to air dry between washes.

I live in a place where humidity maxes out over summer and I assure you just airing it out doesn’t do the trick.

Also, there are washing machines on this planet that don’t run on hot water. I have one of those. I can run hot water from the tap but it technically isn’t built for that. These machines require treatment.

What do you think is more likely? That a laundry noob is gonna throw self measured amounts of vinegar and citric acid in their washing machine? Or that they get a readymade product from the drugstore?

If you don’t own delicate garments that require hand washing or a suit that requires dry cleaning, you’re probably alright. Other than that, in my experience it pays off long term to separate colors from whites.

Is your washing machine using hot/warm water? If no, it might start stinking after a while of only running cold cycles. You can probably buy washing machine cleaner liquid that you run on an empty cycle. You do that once a year or when it stinks to prevent your clothes picking up the same moldy scent.

Don’t throw wool into the dryer. Don’t hang up heavy sweaters on hangers when they’re still wet. The extra weight will over time create hanger bulges on your shoulders. Fabric softeners are a waste of money if you ask me.

This is by no means complete. If you have any more specific questions that relate to your situation, maybe just put those in here.

I appreciate your well actually here. I would just like to point out for future reference that any comment containing the question “are you high?” like that is most likely tongue in cheek.

The knees? Are you high? The ankles.

Jeez! Cut the gingerbread man in the gingerbread house some slack.

A nightmare is still a dream.

And that’s why perjury exists as a crime. Or the right to refuse to testify against family members (depends on your location). Or the right to shut up lest your testimony incriminate yourself.

Most people testifying in court have not committed crimes. They will be suitably impressed with the seriousness of it all so they won’t lie.

95 percent of court proceedings are fucking boring. Even in most big cases. That’s why writers fluff it to to keep viewers viewing and readers turning pages. It’s not like that.

This is sign that Google is worried that a market of 500 million people could decide to move away from the US tech giants. Very worried, judging by this flimsy fear-driven argument. Good.

I would like to add to my upvote a personal note of gratitude for the time and effort you put in here.

I think that is a slight misconception. The full name is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. So UK≠GB. Great Britain is just the three contiguous home nations (and possibly all the weird little islands I think). And then the British Isles include all the islands including all of Ireland. It is no wonder people are confused.

It’s a question of shorthand and relative distance to the country. In most European languages, the spelling equivalent of America refers to the country by default. The continent as an entity doesn’t get mentioned that much and when it does either context gets you there or a regional attribute like a cardinal direction or central. In my experience this applies to British English as well. “The United States” is often more cumbersome in translation and might require grammatical inflection when used in a local language - and confusingly could refer to Mexico as well. Funny enough though some languages adopted “USA” as another way to refer to the country, even if in translation this should get you a different letter combination.

Because of the dominance of the English in the United Kingdom, a lot of continental Europeans lazily refer to the UK as their version of “England.” Might be Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, a channel island or what have you. We gave up in trying to distinguish. People and how they call places are like that. Quiet understanding beats accuracy.

I think you overthought that one.

Yes, they are. Me thinking something in the early 90s and it being objectively so at the time are not the same thing. I’ve already let 90s me know that you think my opinion was wrong.

I sympathize with your point of view here. I feel like that ship has sailed though. Messaging is the preferred means. That ship is not coming back any more.

Email is not well protected unless you and everybody communicating with you is taking extras precautions. Signal is E2E encrypted, WhatsApp also but owned by Meta so barf, Telegram’s encryption status is complicated but probably better than plain email. There is a privacy advantage.

I treat instant messages that have the content of an email as such. I’ll reply in my own time. Just because I got it instantly doesn’t mean I need to act on it right away. I have some groups and contacts muted and have set quiet hours on my phone for evenings and nights. My advice is to look for ways to manage the stress you feel about this. That could mean going off the chat apps all together but I think you can also tweak settings and your behavior.

It happens. A very highly intelligent user will occasionally post something in a lot of communities and gets a rise out of downvotes, annoyed comments, and blocks. It’s annoying but that is often the nature of the internet. Report, block, and move on.

It’s only the very highly intelligent users who do this. So it doesn’t happen a lot.

Don’t engage with anybody you don’t know well on DMs. And if some other very highly intelligent person goes to the effort of sending you abuse via DM, take pride that you really got under their skin. Ignore it if you can.

I’m sure there was harder rock in existence. My point wasn’t they were objectively the hardest. It was that our perception of music changes over time.

You grew up in a world where Rock’n’Roll already existed. They liked it because it didn’t before and it took a while to slap a label on it. You grew up in a world where people bought music or paid to stream. When Rock’n’Roll started sheet music was the big seller. They had just introduced vinyl as a medium. You are exposed to all sorts of music today. Back in the 1940s US, predominantly, white people listened to white people music and black people listened to black people music. It’s only when some white people saw the black music was better and then unabashedly copied it for the more economically impactful white audience that this became a hit. It’s not just the quality of the music; it’s the culture and the change within it that came with it. It’s a big package.

I remember listening to Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit when out came out thinking this was the roughest rock could ever go. ~30 years later it sounds rather tame. That’s the way our musical ears work. We tend to have a hardcore recency bias.

There is enough crime happening on either side of this 15-year divide to care about.