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I’m on my second gopro (a hero 10). It will overheat in the shade outside in summer. The battery also crapped out quite early, though they did find another one to send me (I bought it new from them directly, but after newer models released). I don’t see myself buying another of their cameras.

Neat! I have a video on the topic in my to-watch list, but hadn’t looked into the details yet so far.

Korean due to it being an alphabe

Technically, it’s not; it’s a syllabary like Japanese katakana and hiragana.

Is it actually that hard while Japanese phonology is considered “easier” to pick up.

Japanese is dead easy for an English speaker so long as they remember that vowel length matters, and the R is not a standard General American R.

Korean has a couple of sounds/features (tense consonants) not in use in General American, but nothing insurmountable. I’d call it more difficult but only very slightly so.

Tone

Korean is actually considered to be undergoing tonogenesis, so that’s kinda neat.

Tone isn’t a huge deal; even if you get it wrong, there’s usually only one thing that makes sense in the context of the sentence. Not a worry in Korean at the moment. Japanese has pitch accent which can cause the same issue (If I’m running through the field plucking はな (hana), you’re not going to think it means ‘nose’ here if I get the pitch accent wrong).

One can pick up reading Korean more quickly than Japanese (if no Kanji/Hanzi/Hanja experience otherwise), though I found bacchim to be annoying. In exchange, Korean tends to have some grammatical features lacking in Japanese, but I never got far enough to learn what those were (outside of some more forms of address/honorific).

• bailing hay/straw in the summer for a neighbor from
• working at a fast food place
• working in retail at a farm store
• working at a movie theater

All before I turned 18 starting at 13. At first for the money, then to be out of a tough home situation as much as possible.

Joetsu, Niigata, Japan. I can’t put my finger on it and was only there for a day, but I don’t feel any need to go back. Weird layout, bad roads, rusting (not that that’s rare for Japan outside of the metropolis areas), etc. People were a mixed bag as well, though no one was overtly unfriendly.

Having lived a number of years there, where in Houston you are can feel like entirely different cities (and, in terms of distance, probably should be).

What engineer would use 'ft’s? *ducks*

not me, but I also have aphantasia and no inner voice that I can hear so that may be why.

I was already most of the way there and it’s 06:40. I am drinking coffee, though, which I suppose is mostly water.

Reading that gave me a tough hiccough.

That’s just the WD-40, still, with a lighter between it and the stick.

American who left the country over a decade ago.

Many (of course not all) speak more loudly than they think and more than is necessary. This is especially noticeable when not competing against other people’s voices/loudness in quiet places. That is, the default is higher and you might work to lower it or at least be aware of it depending upon the ambient volume and norms where you are (Americans aren’t the only ones like this).

Many US folks also act differently to even other English-speaking countries. This can be extroversion, small talk in countries that don’t do that, certain expectations of how things should work, etc. USAmericans are the folks I hear most saying “but it’s not that way in my country!” (though again, not exclusively). How direct you are vs others is another one; many can be quite direct whereas other countries use more context and subtlety. My advice would just be to watch how other people interact more intently than just being around in the space until you get used to it. I’ve never lived in Australia so I couldn’t specifically say

I just searched earlier and DDG had a link telling me to try its AI (I think it was on my mobile on firefox). At least it didn’t force it, I guess.

Absolutely not. I remember themes and notes buti do not store exactly the dialogue or anything.

Passive voice shenanigans. They expect to lay off. They’re the ones doing it.

Heh, I honestly can’t remember the last ad for a game I saw. Maybe on japanese TV since I don’t get ads on YouTube where I spend most of my watching time. I’ll keep an eye out for it, though; that does make sense.

/ As I type this, I realize I’ve seen several war thunder sponsored segments in videos, but I just ignore or mute.

I enjoy watching some people play games. I cannot watch them play RPGs or similar with choices nor puzzles. Even if their puzzle solution is right in the end and mine is not, I still just get frustrated by the experience.

Yep. We have copilot do reviews but also require human reviews

Japan set the allowed alcohol limit to basically zero sometime in the '90s so drinking anything and driving here can see you lose your license and spend time in Jail… as it should be IMO.

Maintenance is done at night and, when that’s not happening, they run freight trains. In Tokyo, last train used to be like 1:30ish on some lines and started up again a bit before 5am. Now it’s more like a bit after midnight and starting again closer to 5am. JR is a private company (a group of them, actually) and they keep squeezing things further, presumably for more profit.

They did start a bus line between nightlife areas a few years ago, but it never got popular and was closed (and also just took drunk people around from one party area to the next and not home).