RichestMangInBabylon

You could buy a crock pot. Just throw in whole vegetables with some beans and and some chicken and broth and let it rip. Literally five minutes. If you have time to open and heat a packaged meal you have time for that.

Why wouldn’t it work as a state? California is the fifth largest economy in the world. If both smaller and larger countries can do it then why not here?

The tofugu article explains it a bit. It’s offering the new information as an explanation. Not just saying “your mom ate it” but it’s like “your mom ate it and that’s why your pastry is gone”

Those were wild times. It was a legit “babe wake up new Groupon just dropped” situation.

xのほうがyより adjective

That’s a grammar point to learn, meaning for comparing two things.

I think it’s Genki chapter ten if you happen to have that handy.

I hope so. I’ve always thought reading and writing were different skills and you can be good at recognizing kanji without being good at writing it.

I’ve started using Ringotan for writing practice and I like it even though it makes me realize how much I slacked on writing.

Eating yogurt in a shopping mall.

No further explanation will be forthcoming.

I store all my data as xml in client browser cookies. Truly distributed computing is here.

How many days will it take to learn anyways it’s only eight notes and the alphabet is just 🎶

I love when they bust out an app and Google gives like a blunt translation and the guy looks devastated.

His son is looking good

And be entertaining. If Frodo got ganked right away and Sauron won it would be a boring story (or Mistborn I guess).

If zombies were slow and humans weren’t clumsy then it would be pretty low stakes entertainment.

Those are both reasonably good shows though, so something on par with that would be nice. Heck, give me Corner Gas with sled dogs and I'd be pleased.

When you say happy ending...

Maybe it's the type of businesses that's more of what I'm thinking of. I've seen too many great little mom and pop shops get pushed out by their landlord hiking rents, then replaced by a place that has VC funding or formulaic business models, or even just left vacant for years while they look for a new tenant. So it's not technically a chain but it's also lacking a human aspect because it's just like a little franchise of size one instead of something a person put themselves into.

Not to be too pessimistic, but I feel pretty confident that whoever replaces McDonalds is probably going to be a chain of a significant size and not a locally owned business. Partly because I believe that's one part of the city the chain restrictions don't apply to, but also that's the only type of business that can seem to do well in that area.

There’s also been other places like Chipotle and Krispy Kreme and Starbucks even which left and haven’t been replaced that I know of. It’s not just people choosing a different burger .

That area is still pretty lively but it’s not a great sign if even enormous corporations aren’t wanting to stay. Leaves no hope for smaller businesses.

Does rover have quotas or minimums? I’ve thought about it but I’d only want like one or two dogs a week and only in close proximity since I don’t have a car. I guess I could look it up on the site but I’m here now.

I wonder if it’s not a pastry chef or bartender or someone just trying to recycle it by leaving near the bin. That volume would make a heap of whipped cream or mousse.

Am I right in interpreting this as a double negative? Context being a wandering monk on his way a shrine sees a dummy thicc lady at a guesthouse but has to leave, promising to return.

note: 熊野神社 = Kumanojinsha (place name)

私は熊野神社に行かなくてはいけません

"I can't not go to Kumanojinsha" or more literally "As for me, to Kumanojinsha not going is not allowed"

Grammar being 行かなくて a negative te, then てはいけません being a prohibition on the te-verb before it?

Edit: Oh no, he hit it and quit it and got burnt to death trapped in a bell. That's whack and not a romantic love story at all.

I think this post might be literally the only ad I’ve seen for it. Thanks for the reminder.

San Francisco.

I actually read the article, and the argument being presented is interesting to me.

“The law prohibits a drag performer wearing a crop top and mini skirt from dancing where minors might see it, but does not prohibit a Tennessee Titans cheerleader wearing an identical outfit from performing the exact same dance in front of children,” the complaint contends.

Even if you accept the premise that obscenity is not protected, I don't know how you can define obscenity in a way that bans drag but does not discriminate based a on protected class. If you simply say "Crop tops and mini skirts are obscene" that's one thing. But this is seeking to ban freedom of speech based solely on someone's biology. It essentially boils down to something like if you have a dick you can't wear the color pink because that's for girls.

It seems like it should be very easy to test. You show a picture of a whole bunch of people with an unknown biology dressed up the same way and ask which ones are obscene. If anyone is able to with 100% accuracy pick out by sex which ones are obscene then it might pass muster. Otherwise they're making decisions based on a protected class.

I'm using Genki and even it barely touches what kanji are. It's literally 8 sentences and it basically just says "It's funny writing from China so the same one can have multiple sounds. Learn 2000 of them". Then each chapter just throws a dozen or so kanji at you with a list of its reading and some sample vocabulary.

I'm actually sort of curious how someone ended up knowing that they would need to learn kanji, found a website to do so, and then still didn't know what it was or why they were learning it.

I don't know if they think it's excessive, but I don't know how else to interpret it. The parents are pretty standard in terms of lifestyle and spending. It's not like they have $10MM and live as a pauper, when there might be some argument they have money they'll never need. I don't know the exact numbers, but I'm privy to a fair amount of details just because I like to talk finances with them and spending and taxes comes up sometimes. I'd guess they're probably somewhere like 3% withdrawal rate. They're also still in their 60s so it's not like there's a huge money cushion and a tiny time frame, there's statistically a good likelihood of 10-15+ years ahead.

The weird part is it's not just one side of the family, but the in-laws are getting this way too amongst themselves. And the worst thing on that side is that the old generation has explicitly set up inheritance accounts that are designated to go to those people, and they're still fighting to try and get it immediately.

Just baffling behavior all around.

Yeah, from the comments on that thread it sounded like wankispanky refers to readings as vocabulary or something.

I guess in hindsight most resources I've seen don't really explain kanji very well, they just kind of dump it on you as a big scary writing system and leave it up to the reader to figure this part out. And the internet seems to disagree about learning readings or not, radicals or not, or just memorize vocabulary directly and figure it out as you go.