Bi/He/Him. 🔞only. I used to write about anime professionally from 2008 to 2024. Death to all posers.
Fort Worth, TX
Joined April 2009
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if they manage to flip mississippi blue i'll change back to the old username and start releasing music again btw
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I got my "real adult job" after 3 years breaking my back in a restaurant and another 2 doing shit temp gigs, and ONLY because in my final temp gig, the guy I was brought on to assist quit four days into my contract.
And that was five years ago. It's gotten SO much more bleak
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The thing none of these dweebs want to admit is that even if we continue treating service industry jobs as low-paying, "meant for part-timers and students" jobs, there are little to no better options available for people to move to once they would need to make the living wage
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FDR was very explicit when creating the minimum wage that it should be a livable wage.
This idea that minimum wage jobs are starter jobs is corporate propaganda used to defend paying people substandard wages.
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The more I think about this the more true it feels.
I think it might be in part because a subset of the English-speaking participants of the discussion aren't native speakers and another subset is native speakers who didn't really understand their high school English classes.
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One big issue in this country is there’s a massive disconnect between what someone needs to make hourly to pay rent and bills comfortably and what older people see as an absurdly high wage for an hourly worker.
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This is exactly what I mean by excellent translators often being also good writers.
The goal is to deliver the author's intent accurately into something that flows naturally in the target language.
I'm not even gonna pretend that shit's easy and neither should anti-loc idiots.
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When I was 20, BDubs had $0.25 wings and $2 tall domestic drafts on Monday night.
For about $10 I could have a few brews and fill my stomach while watching football.
Same meal costs $50 plus tip now.
No thanks, I'll stay home.
That reminds me, is Toyota going to restart Scion A/V with the revival, because it's needed now more than ever.
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American sports are optimized around a series of increasingly dying conceptual frameworks: strong local/regional identity, the structure of linear television, the desirability of attending games in person, the desirability of watching full games at all. Only the NBA gets this
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the kids will never understand how lit 25c or even 50c wing night with the boys was in college
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Before: Wings were 25 cents each for MNF
Now: Wings are $20 for a Dozen
Before: Beers were $2.50 Drafts for MNF
Now: Beers are $8 for a Bud Light
Before: Bar Open til Midnight
Now: Bar closes at 10pm
Those are 3 of the main reasons
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Understanding this core American dynamic helps you understand why, in the late Biden years, many Americans living in an economy that was the envy of the world mentally convinced themselves they were Depression-era Dust Bowl farmers.
Vonnegut's criticism of American POWs reminds me of that scene in The Sopranos where the Russian woman tells Tony that Americans expect nothing bad to ever happen to them (while the rest of the world expects only bad and isn’t disappointed) and that they have everything yet still complain.
This attitude of automatic expectation of good fortune in all things—which most people who grow up in the U.S. take as some sort of birthright—probably goes the furthest toward explaining why so many Americans seem to crack so easily when they experience the slightest setback or misfortune.
It's a way of looking at life that few throughout the rest of the world could probably even comprehend.
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The amount of horror stories, including my own that are coming out during open enrollment season may actually be enough to finally get us single payer healthcare in the US if not just straight up Medicare for All
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I had a chance to interview director Kenji Nakamura about Mononoke: The Curse of the Serpent. Read it here below! 👇
INTERVIEW: According to chief director Kenji Nakamura, one of the challenges of color use and color saturation in Mononoke the Movie is that the team had to painstakingly work on one frame at a time to get everything right.
anitrendz.net/news/2026/11/0…
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I'm back again to handle the translation!
It's a great adaptation that gets the new arc off on the right foot. There's even a bit of anime original content!
And the theme song by @kevinpenkin and @moricalliope absolutely slaps!
The journey into the unknown continues. Riko, Reg, Nanachi, and Faputa venture deeper into the Abyss, where unexpected reunions, deadly encounters, and untold secrets await in a brand-new adventure.
#MadeInAbyss: Awakening Mystery arrives in 2027.
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There was a year where I pitched myself to multiple booking agencies and they all rejected me because I didn't fit whatever rigid cliquish techno framework they wanted. A year later I headlined the Sydney opera house without em. You gotta believe in yourself no matter what.
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you can love a place and also admit that there are things uniquely wrong with it. japan and america go bar for bar in consumerism, but japan’s commodification of the human body/ human interaction itself is like nothing else (which imo is connected to the stranglehold ai has here)
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Most of the 7-Eleven ATMs in Japan charge a small fee for cash withdrawals. The magenta color Aeon Bank ones are free.
These are found in Aeon malls, My Basket and Aeon-owned train station concession markets (like in Kaihimmakuhari). Withdraw up to ¥500,000.
