I’m in an insurance industry and it’s pretty common to see our sales guys and execs in suits

Please don’t let him die on Easter

They’re referring to midterm elections which are happening this year

Google: please, we have to prove to our investors that the AI gamble will pay off. We’ll license you Gemini for almost nothing and your customers will love it!

Slime companion: Adding a small amount of bleach to your sibling’s bottle would be a funny prank

That’s the entire point of voting in a two party system

Unlimited toilet paper should be a basic right, what the fuck

Don’t worry, we’re the greatest country on earth, complete with a robust healthcare system where it’s super easy to find a doctor and get cheap and effective prescription drugs 🫠

Yeah way to bury the lede. Did they change the title or did OP quote the wrong part? The title from the article is

FBI Informant Who Lied About the Bidens Covertly Released From Jail

We banned lawn darts because the US didn’t want anyone to steal their idea for the next plane. All jokes aside this thing looks really cool!

https://youtu.be/7fvCb5_Nzq4

TL;DW: keep listening to Japanese media for a couple of hours a day. Watch anime in Japanese with no subs, listen to Japanese podcasts or audiobooks in Japanese while you’re working or doing something else, etc. Try to find something you know a bit about because it will help keep you engaged and help with context.

There’s a chapter about tolerating ambiguity which means they in the beginning you won’t understand anything and it will be very frustrating but you need to accept it and keep feeding your brain Japanese inputs. You’ll learn the sentence structure and vocabulary as well as learning pronunciation, this is basically how babies learn. You’re brain is really good at pattern recognition so just give it enough inputs and eventually it will start to click

Start doing Anki cards which will supplement all the inputs. Don’t go overboard, just learn the alphabets and then some common vocab and keep listening to other media. After about a year, start reading and writing a lot. Read manga, read books, and start writing notes and stuff in Japanese.

That’s basically it. You can use study materials if you want but feeding your brain more inputs is key. In addition to being really effective it has the benefit of being way more fun than studying grammar and whatnot

Same, it’s pretty maddening. I want to stop hearing about stuff that’s going to deteriorate my general health but at the same time I don’t want to be blindsided by all the stuff that will have a legitimate impact on my life.

It’s all so insanely stupid and I’m so tired of him getting away with all the bullshit without even trying. Feels like the whole government is just his condom puppets that say yes to his every whim and just allow him to fuck over the country

That corn dog is already from a different socioeconomic background, all my corn dogs have looked like this

The amount of skills that came together to create this controller is incredible. It was so satisfying watching everything come together, I wish I could try it out.