Hey you kids, get off my WLAN!
Sure, I don’t disagree that a very bad soldier can make things worse than by not being there, and the factors you mentioned have a negative correlation with performance, but I don’t think you can automatically determine people will be that level of bad of soldiers based solely on those factors, particularly age.
Especially since people still work at that age, even in physically laborious jobs.
Armies also tend to have more support troops than combat arms anyway.
You go to war with the army that you have, not the army that you want.
Fun fact, recorded rhymes are one of the clues linguists use to help reconstruct older pronunciations of words and their changes over time.
Bro, why you being so hostile.
People can enjoy multiple, different mediums with different ways of communicating artistic vision.
While having unlimited actors can be great, it doesn’t mean the opposite situation is automatically bad and unenjoyable. Nor does having a great cast and budget guarantee a good movie. There are so many instances of fans saying “I liked the book better” than the movie/TV adaptation.
You gotta let your own assumptions be challenged a bit.
Tons of people listen to audio books too. There’s usually only one voice (actor), but they’re pretty good at giving each character their own distinct voice and personality.
Good actors know how to do many roles and convince you they’re a different person.
Aye, that’s it.
You can hear it in some words like 日本, as ‘nippon’ and ‘Japan’ both feel closer to the Middle Chinese pronunciation than they are to modern Mandarin’s ‘rìběn’.
Also, I hear Chinese students unintentionally (or half-intentionally) slip in Mandarin pronunciations all the time when they forget the Japanese pronunciation that is very close.
Japanese speaking and listening is still harder than reading and writing for me, and I’m guessing it’s the same for you, since you already know 漢字?
Yes.
When talking with the average American back home, there are lots of things you can sense they don’t notice and don’t seem to think about, especially if they’ve never even travelled.
From small things like always being cognizant of time zone differences and phone number country codes you use, to bigger things like seeing how crappy American restrictive zoning laws, suburban hellscapes, and car-centric society are.
Also, from the weeb perspective, going from needing anime subtitles to almost not needing them is pretty interesting.
I live in Japan, and of course there are formal ways to say everything, but in formal and polite situations, people actually try to avoid saying ‘you’ (anata, 貴方) as much as possible. Because even that can feel too personal. I only see it in writing that addresses the reader indirectly, like in surveys.
If you do address or refer to them, you typically use their title/position (e.g., ‘sensei’ for doctors and teachers, ‘Mr. President’), or name and appropriate honorific (e.g., Tanaka-san).
P.S., a lot of what might’ve been archaically formal and polite ways to say ‘you’ have become ironically rude and/or condescending. Like, ‘KISAMA!’ (貴様), kimi (君) (sovereign/lord), onushi (お主) (lord).
If you drive the same roads every day, you can start to pick up on the pattern and timings. It’s when it turns yellow in those times you feel almost too close to stop comfortably but too far to feel you’ll make it that people will “squeeze the lemon” and accelerate through that yellow light, not that I recommend it.
Also glad I don’t have to drive anymore.
Okay, that’s enough imagination for today.
As border tensions intensified, the sight of soldiers and journalists carrying heavy field gear underscored the harsh terrain and long deployments at the frontier. For those in such unpredictable conditions, reliable equipment becomes essential.
Like the 5.11 Tactical Backpack, Rush 72 2.0, designed for military and field operations with multiple compartments for carrying essentials.
The sudden shift to advertising gear in the middle of article caught me off guard, lmao
The disappearance of the moth memes were what made me think about how memes nowadays come and go way too fast.
But the moth memes are so unforgettable that they they still come up every once in a while. I’m strangely happy when I see it. It’s like an old friend.
P.S. Nice username.
I remember hearing a while ago a little bit about Servo. It seems to have been started by Mozilla, but is now managed by the Linux Foundation Europe.
I know. But unfortunately, the president is also the commander in chief of the executive branch, so he has the power to approve their operations.
From what I understand, the military will suggest potential courses of action, but not all of them are good, which is where the president is supposed to use his wise judgment, if only he had it.
I don’t think he’s right. Personally, his comments rub me the wrong way. They remind me of the annoying, confidently incorrect comments I’ve see on Reddit so many times.
Granted, I’m also fairly biased because I used to be in the army, and don’t appreciate the kind of assumptions/generalizations people make about people in the US military. I bash the military all the time personally in my private life, but it’s different when I see people who clearly don’t know shit do it.
I respect you for admitting there are things you might not know though.
I feel like many of the commenters below are missing the point, or didn’t even read the article. It’s not about incompetence by the SEALs (they weren’t), it’s Trump’s incompetence. He basically ignored the restrictions his predecessors had put in place because they knew that using special operations for extremely high-risk operations (because they’re likely to fail or be disastrous in the first place) was not something to be done lightly, but Trump, being Trump, just approved crazy operations without any clear thought.
Hey you kids, get off my WLAN!
It always bothered me how so many Twitter users in Japan just kept using Xitter after everything Musk has done to it, like they’re not even aware. I think the language barrier has been filtering some of it out until now.
But,
Boichi, that’s what’s been happening with AI to everybody’s art this entire time!