@kourge

burnt out eng; he/him; texan transplanted in WA then CA; English/中文/🇫🇷/🇯🇵; learning ייִדיש, español, 한국어; alt @a_wil_a_way

 San Francisco, CA
macaw.social/@kourge
Joined June 2007
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lp@lilypuckettOct 20
close enough
lp@lilypuckett21 Jul 2022
nathan fielder should get hbo to let him redo theranos
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lp@lilypuckett21 Jul 2022
nathan fielder should get hbo to let him redo theranos
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BigKyle69@BigKyle69csOct 16
Replying to @starryeyed_adam
Gayson or Thotdottir?
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“idle Vapourings of a Mind diseased” feels like a correct horse battery staple. “diseased mind idle vapourings”
emma@do_not_test_meOct 13
unbelievably good wikipedia entry if you're looking to kill five minutes or so en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unparl…

Unparliamentary language - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org
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我一開始還自以為聽得懂，一閉上眼睛不看字幕就沒輒了，看大家留言嘴砲大概是因為分不清白話上海話和上海腔的普通話之間界線在哪裡
Laurent Michelon
@LAURENTMICHEL0NOct 11
X can be a real treasure trove of self-appointed China experts with zero credentials. Imagine the arrogance of a Westerner copy-pasting some Wikipedia miscellanea and posting a comment about Song Qingling (Sun Yat-sen's wife) who "never mastered Mandarin", only because she spoke with a Shanghainese accent. Here is a speech she gave in Mandarin in 1952 at the Peace Conference of the Asian and Pacific Regions. What about Mao and Deng, and just about every top-ranking leader of that period of history, who also spoke in their strong regional accents ? Did they, too, never mastered Mandarin ?!
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kevin sanji complete cultural victory
acornwellian🍉@AcornwellianOct 7
legitimately shocking ad I saw at the local theater I went to for Primetime yesterday
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kourge the jafnhár retweeted
datreya
@datreyafrOct 3
Replying to @datreyafr @vsIvsk
ffm.to/all-quiet-on-the-corp…

All Quiet on the Corpo Front

Choose your front

ffm.to
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can’t believe we learned Boardish for “this is so embarrassing do NOT tell anyone” literally in the first quest
jaz@BLACKCOTTONCNDYOct 3
Replying to @cine_maticc_
This reminds me of when I was about to tell Pope where The Board disappeared to like my bad I didn’t know it was THAT much of a secret 😭😭
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santos-inistas@JDabkneeOct 3
when someone has their phone language set to french it’s like,,,, okay!
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presage mentioned 😎
TaskBot89@TaskBot89Oct 2
Replying to @Beretta_USA
So I don’t have to fight through a derelict Cabal ship, filled with Scorn to get this one?
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Let's just stop and ponder how impressive this really is for Europe: they have created a product that is demonstrably worse than Teams.
POLITICOEurope
@POLITICOEuropeOct 1
The European Commission has rolled out an alternative to Microsoft Teams. But officials using it aren't impressed, with one describing the tool as “absolute shit.” vist.ly/5kje9

‘Absolute s–t’: EU’s Microsoft Teams alternative draws bad reviews from officials

The U.S. would “instantly” win a hypothetical tech war, an official moaned.

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then i think about how you can’t not learn “kanji” if you’re learning chinese. real “i can’t eat mexican food everyday” type shi like bitch wtf do you think they eat in mexico everyday? they just call it food, and we just call it 字 <zì>
kourge the jafnhár@kourgeOct 1
people who ask these questions just wanna hear an excuse not to learn kanji, they hate the cold hard reality that the average piece of japanese is UNREADABLE without it
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people who ask these questions just wanna hear an excuse not to learn kanji, they hate the cold hard reality that the average piece of japanese is UNREADABLE without it
minami@sakaimiiSep 30
I saw a post going around asking why Japanese doesn't just get rid of kanji and I cannot think of a worse thing happening
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japanese literally has less sounds than korean, as a consequence there are way more sino-japanese homophones than there are sino-korean ones. if you wrote everything in kana, it gets really damn hard to read
Kris Schnee
@KrisSchneeSep 29
This is a question for the Japanese: Why wasn't there a widespread movement to replace kanji with hiragana/katakana everywhere? The Koreans did the equivalent centuries ago with han'gul writing.
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日本における漢字廃止論や漢字制限論は150年以上前から存在し、前島密や福沢諭吉によって提唱された。第二次世界大戦後はGHQがローマ字化を計画するが実現せず、漢字を制限する目的で当用漢字が導入されたが、1979年に漢字変換が可能なワープロが発明されて以降は下火となっている。 なお、大韓民国において漢字が廃止されたのは1970年代からである。 ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%BC%A2… globe.asahi.com/article/127386… isc.meiji.ac.jp/~katotoru/asah… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_… unseen-japan.com/japan-kanji-ko…
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QuoProQuid@TNOQuoProQuidSep 27
dylan faden in control: resonant is the world’s saddest, wettest boy. people across multiple planes of existence hate his ass. deep state officials do jerk off motions as he passes. eldritch horrors sigh and go, “OH IT’S OUR SECOND CHOICE / RUNNER-UP / DADDY’S LITTLE PISSBABY.”
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I can’t, Liz. I’m turning a completely normal Outpost run into a Rook-sized inconvenience for the entire lobby
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1yo any gender any% cat adoption speedrun
avy@avycadotoastSep 24
last night i filled a form to sign up for cat adoption. for gender i wrote “any” and for age i wrote “1” i now realized they were asking for MY gender and age
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bitch what
Discord
@discordSep 24
when you launch an extremely popular age assurance update that everyone on Discord was really looking forward to and it has bugs
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"greenfield massachusetts lesbian bar controversy" is my new "shredded cheese fajita sad wife"
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and i will be seated when they make a fourth one. i fucking love being pandered to
xX 🎃 SPOOKY Karrot! 👻 Xx@EndlessspiralsSep 20
Love all the quotes being like "what is happening in the sonic movies" Like buddy this is only the tip of the iceberg. He rips stones shirt off in the third one. Actually the third movie in general is this times 10
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