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Two human editors. I'm one of them and I absolutely do not use AI tools when I edit. If you're going off the use of emdashes and endashes, I've been using them for over 25 years.

Pretty high on the RPF, actually! Especially in the early days, a lot of film, prop, and design industry professionals would congregate there and exchange information or big shop f…

The evolution of "jerk" makes me also think of "nimrod" and how it referred to the biblical hunter and meant someone with great skills in hunting, until it was used to refer to Elm…

I wonder what went right with Yahoo Japan, and how it was so successful here that it's still a mainstay for many to this day Related post I saw an hour after writing this: https://…

Thank you for answering! I'll be giving this a shot sometime :)

Does Folio actually copy the content (i.e. if the original article is removed, Folio still has it) or does it function as a collection of bookmarks that it changes the presentation…

Separate from the forestry philosophy in the headlines article, Japan also famously made a decision in the 1960s that resulted in monoculturing the country into seasonal allergies …

Have you seen Electones? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electone

In the 00s, I remember leaning on LiteStep and Stardock (I think?) for theming rather than anything specific to windows

I read this as remembering to set aside time specifically for play and not just for day-to-day parenting and discipline

> Adobe is the one major company trying to be ethical with its AI training data I was actually contacted by someone at Adobe for a chat about disability representation and sensitiv…

> When that problem was mainly contained to just some drugs, overeating and laziness it was a less pressing issue. Don't do drugs, basically. Exercise sometimes. But once it starts…

Just dropped in my email to try out the Japanese. I'll let you know. I'm not really sure what to do with this -- I thought you wanted someone to take a look at some Japanese conten…

Many businesses and residences typically bag their trash and leave it on the street curb. The main exception is when a building has a managed trash facility, which is a room that p…

This is fantastic and just the kind of thing my nephew enjoys! Thank you for sharing. :)

the showers here especially have always made me slouch and I'm not especially tall at 175 cm! It was only after getting a shower where I could stand straight that I realized how mu…

They'll look for external options whether they're paid lessons somewhere, English-related events, or online chances to talk to native speakers. Many will also go on to look for job…

Novels are often written vertically as well, so it's fairly common still.

Literally: it's difficult to avoid pain, but suffering is optional

The best part of the museum is the chicken ramen factory, which you need to make a reservation for in advance. It is NOT the cup noodle factory. Cup noodle factory: no reservations…

It may be "broken" in the sense that it's not accurate to the original language in orthography or pronunciation, but it's great because it's internally consistent for speakers of J…

They're almost always Rinnai, specifically 乾太くん (kanta-kun).

Very well stated! I completely agree with this and this is why I feel like the rebels don't actually have a carrier doctrine as proposed by the article.

I agree with the bases -- we do see that multiple times, but we don't really see as much scrambling from carriers in the same way that we see them scrambling from planetary/lunar b…