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はてなキーワード: MOREとは
idk how to put this nicely at all but i can't help feeling that having a baby feels more and more like a fucking status symbol
people who really want them make it work, they say, and there is no way in hell i would send a child to private school or anything like that - yet even the bare economic reality of it is just conceptually or financially impossible to me without debt
people are like why don't you uproot your entire lives and go live in bumfuck iowa if you really want them you fucking yuppies
and it's like yeah cool let's become socially isolated and cut off from everything we know bc there's no fucking rent control or childcare or anything
https://twitter.com/mcmansionhell/status/1701402733847237042?s=20
「子供を生むことがますますステータスの証のようになっているように思えてならない
本当に子供が欲しいならなんだかんだうまく行くものだと他の人は言う
しかし育児に必要な最低限の費用だけでも私には借金なしには払えない
本当に子供がほしいならアイオワ州みたいなド田舎に移住すればいいじゃないか、とも言われる
ああそれはいい考えだ、今までの人生を何もかも捨てて保育施設も何もないところで社会的に孤立しよう！」
アメリカも大変やね
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中山真珠（国民民主党）最年少静岡県議はどうして生まれ、今何を考え、これからどこに向かうのか🧑🏻🌟
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プログラミングスクールprogramming-kids.jp/school/uenojou
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6SWucqqKN4
640 views Jul 14, 2023 #国民民主党 #玉木雄一郎 #静岡
静岡県議として最年少27歳で当選をした中山真珠さんのインタビューです
Z世代議員として、先輩議員から今までの常識を学ぶ事、若い世代の代表として議会に新風を巻き起こす事。その狭間で葛藤する中山さん。そのしっかりとした考えを是非お聞きくださいませ
#中山真珠 #中山しんじゅ #静岡県議 #静岡 #清水 #最年少
右も左もわからず立候補して当選する。そら無免許運転はするわな。静岡県民だし。
８年ほど前
公金泥棒女だな
まんまWBPCそのものじゃないですか！
https://www.mskj.or.jp/profile/shinju-nakayama.html
でた！公金チューチュー
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作詞 - 松井五郎 / 作曲 - 林哲司 / 編曲 - 田代隆廣 / 歌 - 仲間由紀恵
後にカプコンのアクションゲーム『ロックマンX4』のエンディングテーマとしても使用された。
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One More Time,One More Chanceは「月とキャベツ」が名作なので「秒速5センチメートル」の曲って言われると複雑な気持ちになる。
例えば、One More Time,One More Chance（山崎まさよし主演映画）→秒速5センチメートル
secret base（キッズ・ウォー）→あの日見た花の名前を僕達はまだ知らない
例えば、One More Time,One More Chance（山崎まさよし主演映画）→秒速5センチメートル
secret base（キッズ・ウォー）→あの日見た花の名前を僕達はまだ知らない
などは有名すぎるほど有名だけど、他にもあると思うので有名無名問わず知ってる人は教えて下さい
【追記】
正直、投稿時は何億回もこんなお題出てるやろし良くて20くらいかな・・・て思い投稿したので、ブックマーク300超えでありがたいやら半信半疑やらで不思議な気分ですｗ
すでに一部のとこにコメントしましたが、主の出しゃばり感がウザいのでｗ 一旦辞めて投稿がある程度落ち着いたらこちらにまとめて追記しようと思います。
投稿した方もブックマークの方も、拡散してくれたみなさん・・・まとめてになりますが本当にありがとうございます！
なおまだまだ募集しておりますのでこれは違うかな？ていう思いつきでも軽率にコメント頂けると全俺が泣いて喜びますのでよろしくお願いします。
https://anond.hatelabo.jp/20230808132541
ススキノの首切り事件、女性の方が最初レイプされておまけに動画まで撮られてたって報道がでている。
In the Susukino decapitation case, it is reported that the woman was raped first and was even videotaped.
自分には同棲している彼女がいるんだけれど、その報道見た時に、彼女がボロボロ泣き出した。
I have a live-in girlfriend, and when she saw the news report, she burst into tears.
どうしたのって聞いても泣くばかりだったんだけれど、少しずつ話してくれて、「自分も殺したかった自分も殺したかった」って言うんだよ。
When I asked her what was wrong, she just cried, but little by little she started talking to me and said, "I wanted to kill him and I wanted to kill myself."
彼女も俺と付き合う前、性暴行の被害者になってしまっていたことを話してくれた。
She also told me that she had been a victim of sexual assault before she started dating me.
もちろん警察に行ったけれど、何回も警察官相手に再現させられてそれでも犯人は捕まえられず、おまけに逮捕したとしても、起訴するまでの被害者の負担の大きさや刑事罰の軽さ（たった数年）伝えられてただただ絶望だけして帰ってきたって。
Of course, she went to the police, but after being made to reenact the crime several times by the police officers, she was still unable to catch the perpetrator, and even if she was arrested, she came home only in despair after being told of the burden on the victim to prosecute and the light criminal penalty (only a few years).
ずっと負けてたまるかと、仕事も辞めず俺とも出会って付き合ってみたけれど、ずっと辛いままで絶望は消えなくて、でも俺にも事件のことは言えなかった。
She thought she couldn't keep losing, so she didn't quit her job and tried to meet and date me, but it remained painful and the despair didn't go away, but she couldn't tell me about the incident either.
それはやっぱり言ってもどうしようもないし、言うことで自分が救われるとも思えなかったからそうだし、俺に汚れてると思われて嫌われるのもずっと怖かったらしい。
To her, there was nothing she could do about it, and she didn't think that she would be saved by saying it, and it seemed that she was always afraid of being hated by me because she thought I was dirty.
でもレイプした相手を家族総出で殺したススキノの事件見て、自分もずっと相手を殺したかったって気持ちに気が付いたら、色々耐えきれなくて言葉に出してしまったらしい。
But when she saw the Susukino decapitation case which the whole family killed the rapist, she realized that she wanted to kill him all along, too, and it seems she couldn't stand it any more and ended up speaking out.
もちろんそれを行動に移すことはできないけれど、殺したかったって言葉に出来たことに、ありがとうって言うんだよ…。
Of course she can't put it into action, but she says thank you for being able to say she wanted to kill him.
俺は、この事件の猟奇的な部分だけ見て、怖いなー、位にしか思ってなかったが、レイプ含め性犯罪って被害者を心の底から狂わせてしまうのかもしれないって彼女のおかげで気が付くことができた。
When I saw only the bizarre part of this incident, I thought nothing more than "scary", she made me realize that sexual crimes including rape might drive the victim insane to the core.
いや、正直に言うと、性犯罪が被害者に対してもたらす凶悪さを知らなかった自分自身に、今実はめちゃくちゃ嫌悪感を感じてる。
No, to be honest, I actually hate myself for not knowing the atrocities that sex crimes bring to their victims.
だってさ、普通の男が目にするエロコンテンツに、性犯罪ものって普通に多いし。自分だって痴漢ものや盗撮で抜いたこともある。罪悪感なんてほとんど感じたこともなかった。
Because, you know, there are many sexual crimes in the erotic contents that ordinary men see.
I have masturbated to molestation and voyeurism myself.
I have never felt guilty about it.
自分は普通の男だと思ってたけれど、エロと暴力？加害欲？支配欲？がごちゃ混ぜになって、もしかしたら取り返しのつかないとこまで来てるんじゃないかって怖くなった。
I thought I was a normal guy, but Eroticism and Violence? Aggression? A desire to dominate? I was afraid that I might have reached a point where I could not take it back.
人の一生ぶち壊すような行為で抜いてたなんて、自分の過去のオナニーネタ思い出すと吐き気がするようになったし、頭が割れそうに痛くなる。
I began to feel nauseous and my head hurt like it was going to crack when I remembered my past masturbatory material, that I was masturbating in an act that would ruin a person's life.
彼女は、まだたまに夜になると子供みたいにワーワー泣いてる。殺したかったって言葉を言うと安心するみたいで、そのあと寝てる。たまに、死にたかったって呟くこともある。
She still cries like a child sometimes at night.
She seems to be relieved when I say the words "I wanted to kill him," and then she goes to sleep.
Sometimes she mumbles that she wanted to die.
俺は、まだ自分のことも彼女のこともどうすることもできていない。
I still haven't figured out what to do about myself or about her.
これからもずっと一緒にいたいけれど、自分が自分に抱く自己嫌悪の向き合い方はまだどうしたらいいかわからない。
I want to be with her for the rest of my life, but I still don't know how to deal with the self-loathing I have for myself.
でも自分のことをいくら憎んだって、自分は性犯罪を行う側の性別にいるんだってことは変わらない、けど性犯罪にあう女性を減らしていきたいという気持ちはある。
No matter how much I hate myself, the fact that I belong to the gender that perpetrates sexual crimes remains unchanged. However, I do have a desire to reduce the number of women who become victims of sexual crimes.
彼女にどうしてかわからないけれど、ごめんって謝りながら、俺に出来ることは無いか聞いたら
I don't know why, but I apologized and asked her if there was anything I could do.
「今まで一人で性犯罪防止の活動に賛同してたけれど、もしよければ一緒に読んで、出来ることを一緒にしたい」って。
She said, "I've always supported activities for preventing sexual crimes on my own, but if you're willing, I'd like us to read together and do what we can together."
Change.orgってサイトで不同意性交罪の法律作ることへの署名をするとか、今まで一人でしていたらしい。（俺はこの法律自体のことも知らなかった）
She seems to have been signing petitions on Change.org to create laws against non-consensual intercourse, something she had been doing on her own until now. (I wasn't even aware of this law itself.)
I told her that I would also start signing petitions together from now on.
あと、ポルノサイトからクレジット会社や銀行が撤退するよう働きかける海外の動きが、日本に来るようにっていうのが願いらしい。
Also, she seems to have a wish that the overseas movement to encourage credit card companies and banks to withdraw from pornography sites would come to Japan.
VISAがpornhubから手を引いたんだよって教えてくれた。
She informed me that VISA has pulled out from Pornhub.
彼女が過去に撮られたかもしれない動画がネットに載っているんじゃないかって考えるたびに、撮る暴力、売る暴力、売る場所を作る暴力、買って楽しむ暴力、全部が怖くて憎くてたまらなくなった。
Every time I think that there might be videos of her from the past out there on the internet, the violence of filming, the violence of selling, the violence of creating platforms for selling, the violence of buying and enjoying – it all becomes so frightening, loathsome, and unbearable.
でもそういう場所で抜いてた自分もいる訳で。あーまた吐きそう。でも吐くだけで済む自分はなんて楽なんだろうな。180cmある男なんて、痴漢もされなきゃレイプもされない妊娠も絶対しないし。
But I've also been someone who masturbated on those kinds of sites.
But how easy it must be for someone like me who can just throw up and be done with it.
Being a 180cm tall man, I'll never experience groping, rape, or even pregnancy.
とりあえず、pcolle gcolle palpis とか盗撮動画売買サイトの決済会社(楽天銀行とか大手も普通にいるのな）には、暴力で金を稼ぐの辞めてくれって問い合わせしてみるつもり。
For now, I plan to contact payment companies of voyeurism video trading sites like pcolle, gcolle, and palpis (there are even major ones like Rakuten Bank involved) and urge them to stop facilitating violent profit-making.
It's probably pointless to talk to the website operators anyway.
なんも変わらないかもしれないが、なんもしなくてもなんの被害にも合わない加害側の性がするべき贖罪の欠片のつもりでいる。
Even if nothing changes, I intend to hold onto the fragment of atonement that comes with feeling the responsibility of the gender that doesn't experience any harm or victimization without doing anything.
俺はまだ、加害と暴力と支配とエロの境目の切り離し方がわからない。ただ日本のエロコンテンツは、あまりにもそれがぐちゃぐちゃになってることで成り立ってるのは実感としてわかる。
I still don't understand how to separate the boundaries between perpetration, violence, dominance, and eroticism.
However, I do realize on a visceral level that much of Japan's erotic content thrives on this confusing mixture.
二次元とリアルは切り離して考えろよっていう意見もあるだろうけれど、でも認知が歪まない保証なんてないし、それに二次元なら動物を虐待して楽しんでいいのかって言ったらそれには大多数の人間は嫌悪感抱くよな。それが女性が対象になると途端にOKになるのは歪んでるよな。まあそれで抜いてた俺も最低なのは今も変わらない。
While there might be opinions urging to separate the realm of 2D from reality, there's no assurance that cognition won't become distorted. Moreover, if it were about the 2D world, if someone were to enjoy animal abuse, the majority of people would feel a sense of repulsion.
It's twisted that when it involves women, it suddenly becomes acceptable.
Well, even considering that, I still haven't changed my belief that I was despicable for masturbating on such behavior.
死にたくなるほど殺したくなるほど、被害者を追い詰める性犯罪は、やっぱりエロネタとして扱っちゃいけないんだよ。
Sexual crimes that make women want to die and make woman want to kill, those that corner the victims, should never be treated as mere erotic material.
でも大切な人がその被害にあうまで、そう思えなかった俺自身、最低だな。でも出来ることをやりたいと思う。
But I couldn't think that way until someone dear to me became a victim. I'm ashamed of myself.
But I want to do what I can.
Translated by Goolgle translation and DeepL translation and ChatGPT.
2017年の夏、ジェンマ・マクガフ(Gemma McGough)は失業していたが、英国の上位1％の富裕層の仲間入りを果たしたところでもあった。自らが経営する企業「Product Compliance Specialists」を売却し、大富豪になったため、二度と働かなくて済む境遇になった。
19年、マクガフは「Eleos Compliance」を創業し、透明性と社会や環境に配慮した企業に与えられる「B Corp認証」も取得した。彼女は新会社から給料を受け取ることにしたものの、収入の大半は投資、債券、賃貸不動産などの資産収入が占めるようになった。
すると突然、マクガフのもとに、節税のために法の抜け穴を利用する方法を指南する不穏な文書が複数の会計士から山のように届いた。そこでマクガフは給与所得に課される税率と比べて、資産売却による所得に課される税率が低いのはなぜかなのか分析した。
マクガフはふたつの結論を得た。ひとつは英国の税制は不公平だということ。もうひとつは、自分はもっと納税して社会に貢献できるはずだ、ということだった。
公平性と常識を貫くための手段
富豪たちは激しい競争を勝ち抜いて富を手に入れたにもかかわらず、なぜ「富裕層に課税せよ」と声を上げるのだろうか？ マクガフは、自分は「経済的に困窮している」労働者階級の出身なので、いまの資産で「もう十分」と思いがちなのかもしれないと語る。
マクガフは16歳で退学して最初の仕事に就き、「ノートPC2台と連絡先のリスト1枚」だけで元夫とともに最初の会社を立ち上げた。運とタイミングが功を奏し、マクガフのRFコンプライアンス企業は成長産業の一端を担うほどになった。そして欧州連合（EU）出身の労働者を雇用できたこともマクガフの成功につながった。
Patriotic Millionairesのメンバーは、健康で教育を受けた労働者人口を維持し、可処分所得がある中間層の消費者の双方を支えるためには、富裕税が役立つという経済的な根拠を示したいと考えている。裕福な実業家がより多くの税金を支払うことで、社会の安定性も高まるため、彼ら自身のためにもなると主張しているのだ。
だがマクガフは、経済格差が拡大し公共サービスが劣化している時代に、公平性と常識を貫くための手段として富裕税を捉えている。英国人の富裕層の1％は、最貧困層の70％が有する資産の合計よりも多くの資産を保有している。「社会全体が機能不全に陥っていても関係なく暮らせる大金を、富裕層が保有していることが問題だと思います」とマクガフは述べる。「国は、大富豪にしかるべき税負担をしてもらうべきです」
富裕層が自分たちへの増税を望む理由 | WIRED
https://wired.jp/article/millionaires-begging-governments-tax-wealth/
『愛国的大富豪』の英国支部が最近設立され、現在30人のメンバーを擁するまでに成長している。このグループは、「極端な富の終焉を加速させる」ために税制の見直しを求めている。
メンバーのゲーリー・スティーブンソン（Gary Stevenson)(35歳）は、「税制を労働者から、基本的にすべてを所有し、税金を納めず、働かない超富裕層にシフトする必要がある」と語った。
スティーブンソンはイースト・ロンドンのイルフォードの貧しい家庭に育ったが、シティバンクのトップ・トレーダーとして数百万ポンドを稼ぐまでになった。
彼は、世界が「経済災害」に向かっているという強い信念を持っている。二度と働く必要がなかった彼は、2014年に銀行を退職し、低賃金と手の届かない住宅に反対するキャンペーンブログ「Wealth Economics」を立ち上げた。
「大金持ちには基本的に何も課税されないこのシステムを何とかしない限り、この問題はどんどん悪化していく」と彼は言う。
愛国的大富豪は、キャピタルゲイン税を所得税に合わせることを望んでいる。
同グループはまた、360万ポンド以上の資産家に対し、年率2％から始まる「小規模な」累進富裕税の導入を主張している。これは全メンバーに影響するという。また、相続税の「大幅な引き上げ」も提唱している。
これは、できるだけ多くの資金を避難させようとする多くの大富豪にとっては忌まわしいものである。
(中略)
もう一人のメンバー、ジュリア・デイヴィス(Julia Davies)は、彼女が設立したバックパック会社オスプレー・ヨーロッパの株式を売却し、数百万ドルを手にした。
50歳の元弁護士は、その金の一部を使って環境基金We Have The Powerを設立した。イングランドの南海岸に2人の子供と住むデイヴィスは、昨年『愛国的大富豪』に加わった。彼女は、現在の税制は、余裕のない一般労働者を直撃していると語った。
「パンデミックによって、社会で本当に重要なのは誰なのか、真のキーパーソンは誰なのかが浮き彫りになりました」と彼女は言う。
しかし、愛国的大富豪が超富裕層を大量に勧誘する可能性はまだ低そうだ
Patriots who abhor extreme wealth or are they just potty? Meet the British millionaires who want to pay MORE tax
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-10554643/The-UK-millionaires-want-pay-tax.html
なお労働階級出身者の富豪や女性の富豪が声上げてることが多い感じがする
ディズニーの相続人のアビゲイル・ディズニーも課税を求める声をあげていて女性だね
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60053919
ある意味課税されて当然の大富豪はおいとくとして、自分自身はいくらあればお金は充分か？の問題、難しいよね
ワイくんは運良く日本人に生まれ、なんとなくITの仕事をしているため、給与を貰いすぎている人々のひとりな訳だが、
レールから外れた人生を歩んでるのと、人よりもできないことが多いのと、いろいろあって面倒見ないといけないものが多いのと、
なんとなくITの仕事してるだけで別に何ができる訳でもないので、そこそこお金は稼げるうちに稼いで溜め込んではおきたい
贅沢もしたい
また犬飼いたい。フラフラ生きとるから犬や自分自身や身内がどんな状況でも責任持てるか自信無くて飼えんのよな・・・
犬飼う程度の贅沢はしたいけど、週末を過ごすためのセカンドハウスってレベルの贅沢はいらないし理解もできない(目の保養ではある)
海外も行きたい。サンフランシスコ→ニューヨーク→ハワイの3つを2週間くらいで巡りたい
でも高級ホテルではなくていい。安全で電気水でトラブル起きなそうならなんでもいい
(ハワイだけはリゾート地だからかまぁ無理がない範囲でそれっぽいホテルに泊まれそうなら泊まりたい)
完全に不労で湧き出るお金が30万あったら30万で生活できるようにすべてをサイズダウンするけど、
本当に信じてほしいならWordreferenceかStackexchange辺りで以下の点について複数のネイティブに尋ねてこいよ
some people take being proficient in one language not being in anotherは文法的に正しくわかりやすく正式な英語かどうか
It's 1,000 years early for a young man like you to f*ck against me.のようにfuck againstをmess withの意味で使うのは一般的かどうか(普通はfuck withを使う)
あと仮にネイティブだったとしてもそれだけで信用に足るわけじゃない
菅総理の件でネイティブを信用できたのは、1人や2人のネイティブではなく全員が同じことを言っていたから
君の意見は大多数のネイティブや辞書の記述に真っ向から反対するものだから、ネイティブだったとしても参考にならない
数学や科学では大多数が間違っていて1人だけが正しいという状況がありうるが、言語は良くも悪くも多数派が絶対正義なわけ
でなければlong time no seeなんていう文法的に間違った表現は使われるはずがない
Wikipediaにもgoing toは比較的インフォーマルだと書いてある
The going-to future is relatively informal; in more formal contexts it may be replaced by the will/shall future, or by expressions such as plan(s) to, expect(s) to, is/are expected to, etc.
複複複複製を超えた適切な実体や感覚を持たず、イエスノーノーウイルスの使用はかなり隠喩的だ。「ウイルス」という言葉は複複ウイルス以上の意味を持っている。
Having no proper substance, or sense beyond its re re re replication, yes no no usage of virus is ever metaphorical. The word ‘virus’ is more re re virus.
no usage of virus is ever metaphorical
は「どんなウイルスの使用法も決して比喩的ではない＝直接的だ」
って意味じゃないんかな
そっちのほうが「ちゃんとした実体や感覚を持たずにひたすら複製するだけ」という前半部の意味とつながる
The word ‘virus’ is more re re virus.
は「ウイルスという単語は、それ自体が複製され続けるウイルスのようなものだ」
という意味だと思うんだが
Yes No Yes No Yes Yes No longer それは何を意味しているのか？しかしどうやってそれは広がるのか？
Yes No Yes No Yes Yes No longer what does it mean? but how does it spread?
これは、「Yes No Yes No Yes Yes」といった言葉に対して、もはや「何を意味しているのか」ではなく「どう広がるのか」が問題とされる、ということだろう
つまり「記号論はウイルス技術学へと転落する」ということの具体例というわけ
ちなみにChatGPTによるとYes No Yes No Yes Yes Noはウイルスが複製拡散する様子を模しているらしい
The repetition of "Yes No Yes No Yes Yes No" emphasizes the notion of spreading and replicating, similar to how a virus multiplies and propagates itself.
やれやれ、反論できないから英語でマウント取るしかないとか情けねえな
I looked through the state of the union you mentioned but it's actually a lot more informal than you made it out to be. I thought you were talking about a full fledged formal writing like legal documents, but this is definitely nowhere close to that. I can see why Biden used "going to" in this speech since it's fairly colloquial (though not over the top, just the right amount of colloquial language so the entire nation can understand it without difficulty) and thus falls well within the semantic range of the phrase "going to".
As my Dad used to say, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about being able to look your kid in the eye and say, “Honey –it’s going to be OK,” and mean it.
Also
I write more in English than Japanese. Have been for over 10 years.
Yet you've made a basic grammar mistake here, oh well : "some people take being proficient in one language not being in another"
Should've written like this "some people are proficient in one language but not in another"
The fact you speak more definitively in a formal setting, and the fact "going to" is informal (or not) are 2 different things. Cambridge dictionary is correct in that "going to" is used in more informal setting. It's that YOU are reading it wrong. It is not an informal expression. And by the way, some people take being proficient in one language not being in another, but they can actually co-exist. I write more in English than Japanese. Have been for over 10 years.
いやいや電車の例でbe going toを使うと堅苦しすぎるとか言ってたじゃん
「be going toもまだ文語的」←こういうのもさ、ちゃんとソース示した上で言おうね
ネイティブはbe going toはカジュアルで口語的だとはっきり言ってるから
Use "will" in writing and "going to" when speaking.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/87900/going-to-vs-will
‘Going to’ is less formal / more conversational, and widely used for personal things that are likely to happen in the fairly near future.
For most people, "is going to" is just a more casual way to say "will". Since it is more casual, it's not used as much in formal writing, etc. Conversely, "will" often has a more formal sound, and people often prefer "is going to" in casual conversation.
https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/243476/next-week-she-will-be-vs-next-week-she-is-going-to-be
you have to try to compete with me by NOT a word but a CONTETNT, can you understand?
even a child can blaming the wrong spell, cause even a fool can do it
i stated social problem, you just pointed out my word, which is more constructive?
your mounting style is typical ugly japanese way, are you aware of your ugliness?
In a discussion about the case, someone raised an objection to "someone who was not a party to the incident, who was not from Nagasaki, and who was not from Hiroshima, complaining about it. Seeing that opinion made me aware of my position, so I will say what I must say.
I was born in Nagasaki and am a third-generation A-bomb survivor.
I say this because I grew up hearing the stories of the A-bomb damage directly from those who suffered from the atomic bombings.
I feel that it is unacceptable for someone like me to speak about the A-bomb damage.
However, there are few A-bomb survivors left, so I will speak up.
In Nagasaki, children grow up hearing stories about the atomic bombing. We were made to sit in the gymnasium of an elementary school in the middle of summer, where there was not even an air conditioner or a fan, and for nearly an hour we were made to listen to stories about the atomic bombing. It was hard for me anyway.
I think it was even more painful for the elderly people who told the stories. But I don't think an elementary school kid could have imagined that. I, too, have forgotten most of the stories I was told. I can only remember one or two at most.
Another thing is that at this time of year, pictures of the victims of the atomic bombing are pasted up in the hallways.
In other parts of the country, these are grotesque images that would cause a fuss from the parents who are always nagging about them.
Recently, even the A-bomb museum has become more gentle in its exhibits, and most of the radical and horrifying exhibits that would have traumatized visitors have been removed.
I don't know how elementary schools now teach about the A-bomb damage. But when I was in elementary school, there were photos on display.
There was one photo that I just couldn't face as an elementary school student. It was a picture of Taniguchi Sumiteru(谷口稜曄). If you search for it, you can find it. It is a shocking picture, but I would still like you to see it.
I couldn't pass through the hallway where the photo was displayed, so I always took the long way around to another floor to avoid seeing the photo.
My grandfather was under the bomb and went to the burnt ruins of the bomb to look for his sister. I can understand now that he couldn't turn away or go another way.
There would have been a mountain of people still alive and moaning in the ruins of the burnt ruins. There would have been many more who would have died out in agony.
My grandfather walked for miles and miles, towing a rear wheelchair, through the narrow streets of rubble-strewn Nagasaki in search of his sister.
My grandfather was not a child then. But of course there were elementary school children who did the same thing he did. I am not speculating that there were. There were. I heard the story from him, and I still remember it.
A young brother and sister found their father's corpse in the ruins of the fire and burned it themselves. They didn't have enough wood to burn him alive, and when they saw his brain spilling out, they ran away, and that was the last time they ever saw him again.
I can never forget that story I heard when I was a kid, and even now it's painful and painful, my hands are shaking and I'm crying.
I keep wondering how that old man who ran away from his father's brain was able to expose to the public the unimaginably horrible trauma, the scar that will never heal, even after all these years.
Now I think I understand a little.
Why I can't help but talk about my grandfather and the old man now, even as I remember my own trauma.
Because this level of suffering is nothing compared to their words being forgotten.
It's nothing compared to the tremendous suffering that once existed that will be forgotten, like my hands shaking, my heart palpitating, my nose running with vertigo, and so on.
My grandfather, who went through an unimaginable hell, lived to see his grandchildren born, and met his sister's death in the ruins of the fire.
In other words, my grandfather was one of the happiest people in the ruins of the fire.
My grandfather and that old man were, after all, just people wading in the depths of hell.
I think that the suffering that even people who had experienced unimaginable pain could not imagine was lying like pebbles on the ground in Nagasaki 78 years ago, and no one paid any attention to it.
Their suffering, which I can't even imagine, is nothing compared to the countless, unimaginable suffering they witnessed, which they pretend never happened.
Memories fade inexorably with each passing human mouth. The memories that those people could never allow to be forgotten are almost forgotten.
The tremendous suffering of 78 years ago is mostly gone, never to be recounted.
Those who suffered the most from the atomic bombing died rotting in the ruins of the fire without being able to tell anyone about it.
Many of those who saw it with their own eyes kept their mouths shut and took it with them to their graves. Most of those who spoke a few words are still in their graves.
Compared to the words of the old men, my own words are so light. I would rather keep my mouth shut than speak in such light words.
But still, someone has to take over. I realize that even my words, which are so light, are only the top of the voices that are left in this world to carry on the story of the atomic bombing.
I know how it feels to think that I am the only one. Still, I hope that you will not shut your mouth. I know that I have closed my mouth because I thought I shouldn't talk about it, and that is the result.
Sometimes I almost choose to stop imagining the unimaginable suffering and live my life consuming other people's suffering for fun.
I am writing this while I still have some imagination of the suffering of the old people whose voices, faces, and even words I can no longer recall.
すまん。勝手に翻訳した。拡散はどうするかな。redditとかに投稿するのがいいのか?
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I have seen some posts asking if they should talk about "the case" even though they were not involved in it and were not born in Nagasaki or Hiroshima, and I am a bit aware of it, so I have to say what I have to say. I say this because I was born in Nagasaki, am a third generation atomic bomb survivor, and grew up hearing the stories of those who experienced the atomic bombing firsthand. I know it's a little bit too much for me, but I'm going to say this because there are very few survivors left.
In Nagasaki, children grow up hearing stories about the atomic bombing. They were stuffed into sushi for nearly an hour in the gymnasium of an elementary school in the middle of summer, with no air conditioner or fan, and told stories about the atomic bombing. That was a hard time for me. I think it must have been even harder for the old people who told the stories, but there was no way an elementary school kid could imagine such a thing, and I had forgotten most of the stories I had been told for a long time. I have forgotten most of the stories I was told. I can only remember one or two at most. There is one more hard thing. Every year around this time, a row of grotesque images that would drive the PTA crazy in other areas are prominently displayed in the hallways. These days, I hear that the atomic bomb museum has been bleached out and many of the radical and horrifying exhibits that traumatized visitors have been taken down. I don't know if they are still there, but they were there when I was in elementary school.
There was one photo that I just couldn't face when I was in elementary school. It is a picture of Sumiteru Taniguchi. If you search for it, you can find it. It is a shocking picture, but I would like you to take a look at it. I couldn't pass through the hallway where the photo was posted, so I always took the long way around to another floor of the school building to avoid seeing the photo.
Now I'm thinking that my grandfather, who headed into the burnt ruins to look for his sister, couldn't have turned away or taken a different path. There would have been a mountain of people still alive and moaning, not just pictures, and a mountain more who would have given up at the end of their suffering. He walked for miles and miles, towing his handcart through the narrow streets of rubble-strewn Nagasaki in search of his sister. My grandfather was not a child at the time, but of course there were children who did similar things. Not that there wouldn't have been. There were. I heard the story from him, and I still remember it. A young brother and sister found their father's body in the ruins of a fire and they burned it. They didn't have enough wood to burn his body, and when they saw the raw brain that spilled out, they ran away and that was the last time they ever saw him anymore.
I can never forget the story I heard when I was a kid, and even now it is painful and painful, my hands are shaking and I am crying. I keep wondering how the old man who escaped from that father's brain could have been able to unravel the most horrible trauma imaginable and expose it to the public with scars that will never heal.
Now I think I can understand a little.
The reason I can't help but talk about my grandfather and that old man, even if I have to rehash my own trauma, is that this level of suffering is nothing compared to the fact that their words will be forgotten. My hands shaking, my heart palpitating and dizzy, my nose running with tears, it's nothing compared to the tremendous suffering that was once there and will be forgotten.
My grandfather, who went through an unimaginable hell, lived to see his grandchildren born, and met his sister's death in the ruins of the fire. In other words, my grandfather was one of the happiest people in the ruins of the fire. My grandfather and that old man were, after all, just people wading in the depths of hell. I think that the suffering that even people who had experienced unimaginable pain could not imagine was lying like pebbles in Nagasaki 78 years ago, and no one paid any attention to it. Their suffering, which I can't even imagine, is nothing compared to the countless, tremendous suffering they witnessed, which they pretend never happened.
Memories fade inexorably every time people talk about them. The memories that those people could not allow to be forgotten are now largely forgotten; the tremendous suffering of 78 years ago is mostly gone, never to be recounted again. Those who suffered the most from the atomic bombing died rotting in the ruins of the fire, unable to tell anyone about it. Many of those who saw it with their own eyes kept their mouths shut and took it with them to their graves. Most of those who spoke a few words are now under the grave.
Compared to the words of the old men, my own words are so light. I would rather keep my mouth shut than speak in such light words. But still, someone has to take over. I realize that even my words, which are so light, are only the top of the voices that are left in this world to carry on the story of the atomic bombing. I know how it feels to wonder if someone like myself is allowed to speak about this. Still, I hope that you will not shut your mouth. This is the result of our silence.
Sometimes I almost choose to stop imagining the unimaginable suffering and live my life consuming other people's suffering for the fun of it. I am writing this while I still have some imagination of the suffering of the old people whose voices, faces, and even words I can no longer recall.
Translator's note: The original post in Japanese is a response to a post by a Japanese contributor who wondered if he was qualified to speak out on the subject of the A-bomb when he was not from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but still spoke out about Barbie and the A-bomb. I translated it here because I think it deserves to be read by the world.
I must talk about various things regarding the Barbie incident.
I saw a post about it from someone who is neither directly involved nor from Nagasaki or Hiroshima, and it made me realize that there are things I must say.
I was born in Nagasaki and grew up listening to stories from the survivors, being a third-generation survivor myself. Most survivors are no longer with us, so I feel compelled to speak up.
In Nagasaki, kids grow up hearing about the atomic bomb. We were packed like sushi in a gymnasium without air conditioning or even fans during the scorching summer, and we listened to stories about the bomb. It was incredibly tough for me.
I imagine it was even harder for the elderly who spoke about their experiences. As a child, I couldn't fully comprehend their pain, and now, I can hardly remember most of the stories I heard. I can only recall one or two.
Every year during this time, gruesome images that would make PTA elsewhere go crazy were displayed in the hallways. I heard that many of the horrifying exhibits that used to traumatize visitors at the Atomic Bomb Museum have been removed, and the museum has been considerably sanitized. I'm not sure about the current situation, but that's how it was when I was there.
There was one photograph that I could never bear to look at as a child – a picture of Tadashi Taniguchi. You can find it if you search, but it's a shocking image with a viewer discretion warning. Still, I want people to see it.
I couldn't walk down the hallway where that photo was displayed, and I always took a different route, avoiding it so I wouldn't have to see it.
Now, I think of my grandpa who went to the ruins to search for my sister. He couldn't look away or take a different path. The pain must have been unimaginable.
Besides photographs, there were many living people moaning in pain back then, and there must have been even more who succumbed to suffering.
My grandpa walked for miles, pulling a handcart through the debris-laden streets of Nagasaki, searching for my sister.
Even though my grandpa was not a child, I'm sure there were elementary school kids who did similar things. I don't just think they might have been there; they were there. I heard the stories from the people themselves, and I still remember them.
I can't forget the stories I heard as a child, such as the young siblings finding their father's burnt corpse in the ruins and cremating him. They didn't have enough firewood, and their father ended up half-burnt. They ran away after seeing the brain tissue oozing out, and that became their final farewell.
I can never forget those stories I heard as a child, and even now, they still bring pain and suffering, making my hands tremble and tears flow.
I wonder how my grandpa, who ran away from that father's brain tissue, could expose his unimaginable trauma and everlasting scars to the world.
Now, I feel like I understand a little.
Even someone like me, who experienced such unimaginable trauma, has gone through pain that I can't even imagine being compared to being discarded, forgotten, and ignored. Compared to what those people experienced, my suffering means nothing.
My trembling hands and the palpitations and dizziness I experienced are nothing compared to the tremendous pain that many others went through.
Memories fade irreversibly every time they pass through people's lips. The memories that I couldn't bear to be forgotten are almost forgotten now.
The unimaginable pain that existed 78 years ago has mostly disappeared, and we can no longer pass it on.
The people who suffered the most from the atomic bomb perished in the ruins, rotting away without being able to convey it to anyone.
Even those who saw it with their own eyes mostly took the memories with them to their graves. Most of them are now under the tombstones.
Compared to the words of the elderly, my words seem so light. I think that speaking with such light words would be better than keeping silent, as silence has led to this result.
I feel like I might occasionally choose to stop imagining the unimaginable pain and consume the suffering of others in an amusing way to live on.
Before I forget the pain and suffering of those elderly people, whose faces and voices I can no longer recall, I will leave this here.
1975.4.25 シュガー・ベイブが「DOWN TOWN ⁄ いつも通り」 でエレックレコードからレコードデビュー
1976.12.25 山下達郎が小杉理宇造の尽力によりアルバム「CIRCUS TOWN」でRCA ⁄ RVCからソロデビュー
https://www.musicman.co.jp/interview/19480
1980.12.12 近藤真彦が「スニーカーぶる～す」でRVCからレコードデビュー
1981.9.30 近藤真彦のシングル「ギンギラギンにさりげなく」発売 B面「恋のNON STOPツーリング・ロード」の作曲編曲は山下達郎
1982.2 小杉理宇造がRVCから独立 アルファ・ムーンを設立 山下達郎も移籍
1982.5.1 中森明菜が「スローモーション」でワーナー・パイオニアからレコードデビュー
1982.6.30 近藤真彦のシングル「ハイティーン・ブギ」発売 A面「ハイティーン・ブギ」B面「Momoko」共に作曲編曲は山下達郎
1984.9.13 近藤真彦のシングル「永遠に秘密さ」発売 A面「永遠に秘密さ」の作曲編曲は山下達郎B面「One more time」の作曲は山下達郎 編曲は山下達郎・馬飼野康二
1984.10.24 近藤真彦との交際を噂された中森明菜が「ザ・トップテン」の公開生放送で近藤真彦のファンから帰れコールを受ける
https://m.bilibili.com/video/BV11K4y1E7rm
1985.1.26 近藤真彦・中森明菜主演映画「愛・旅立ち」公開
1986.12.24 中森明菜のアルバム「CRIMSON」発売 10曲中「駅」「告白」「OH NO, OH YES!」「赤のエナメル」「ミック・ジャガーに微笑みを」の5曲が竹内まりや作詞作曲
1987.4.29 中森明菜が「夜のヒットスタジオ」で「OH NO, OH YES!」を歌う
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3srAJ5bXpRk
1987.8.12 竹内まりやのアルバム「REQUEST」発売 中森明菜への提供曲「OH NO, OH YES!」「駅」のセルフカバーも収録
1987.10.17 中森明菜が東京厚生年金会館でコンサート 「ミック・ジャガーに微笑みを」を歌う
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tippJz4YGe4
1989.12.28 メリー喜多川の強い勧めで中森明菜がデビュー以来の所属事務所研音から独立 小杉理宇造と新会社コレクションを設立 しかし小杉理宇造はすぐにいなくなりコレクションは機能不全に陥る
https://youtube.com/watch?v=AzEHq7Pb2f4&pp=ygUP6YeR5bGP6aKo5Lya6KaL
1990 アルファ・ムーンがワーナー・パイオニア傘下になる
1991 ワーナーパイオニアがワーナーミュージック・ジャパンに改称
1992 中森明菜がワーナーミュージック・ジャパンとの契約を解消
1993.3.31 中森明菜が「夜のヒットスタジオ RETURNS SPECIAL」で「駅」を歌う
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2AnW6M3b-9g&pp=ygUS5Lit5qOu5piO6I-c44CA6aeF
1994.7.25 竹内まりやのベストアルバム「Impressions」発売 山下達郎がライナーノーツを執筆 「駅」のライナーノーツ全文
「87年のアルバム「リクエスト」のコンセプトのひとつに、「他人に書いた作品を自分で歌う」というのがあり、「けんかをやめて」「元気を出して」などと同じく、この作品も、もともとは、さる有名アイドル・シンガーのために書かれたものである。
まりやは当初、この曲を自分で歌うことに難色を示していた。マイナー・メロの「歌謡曲的」なアプローチだからというのがその理由だったのだが、歌謡曲とそれ程縁のない（？）私の耳には、この曲はとどちらかといえばイタリア風に聞こえたし、また、そのアイドル・シンガーがこの曲に対して示した解釈のひどさに、かなり憤慨していたこともあって、ぜひとも自分の手でアレンジしてみたいという誘惑にかられ、彼女を説得してレコーディングまでこぎつけた。
その後このヴァージョンは有線放送で1位になるなど、今では竹内まりやの代表作のひとつとなっている。メデタシ、メデタシ」
1995 小杉理宇造がワーナーミュージック・ジャパン代表取締役会長就任
2003.11 小杉理宇造がジャニーズ・エンタテイメント代表取締役社長就任
2013.11.28 竹内まりや×クリス松村「Mariya's Songbook」対談
https://natalie.mu/music/pp/takeuchimariya02
「クリス ここまでは若くてかわいらしいアイドルにピッタリな曲が多いんですけど、「駅」とかはまた違いますよね。
竹内 「駅」は確かに違いますね。頼まれたときから、明菜ちゃんには濡れた哀愁メロディの曲を絶対書きたいと勝手に思っていて。そのマイナーメロディの雰囲気に合わせて、昔の恋人を駅で偶然見かけてすれ違う……というストーリーを彼女の写真を見ながら組み立てていきましたね。歌詞自体は当時の私が歌ってもそんなに違和感のないものだったと思いますけど、マイナーコードであれだけベタな歌謡曲メロディを書いたことはなかったんで、それ自体が面白かった。
竹内 本当にそうなんですよ。明菜ちゃんの持ってる佇まいやイメージがそういう発想をくれたと思ってます。自分で歌う曲じゃないからこそ、ああいう哀愁メロディにしたわけですから。明菜ちゃんという素材があってこその曲だったと思いますよ」
BIDEN'S AMBITIOUS EV PLANS COULD MAKE US MORE DEPENDENT ON CHINESE SUPPLY CHAINS, EXPERTS WARN
アメリカ人の59％が2035年までにガソリン車を段階的に廃止することに反対、21％がそのような政策の見通しに興奮している
調査によると、アメリカ人の59％が2035年までにガソリン車とトラックを段階的に廃止することに反対しており、もしアメリカがそのような政策を進めたとしても興奮すると思う人はわずか21％だという。過去2年間でアメリカ国民はガソリン車の段階的廃止への反対を強めており、2021年4月には51％が反対しており、現在反対している人の割合より8％少ない。
ピュー研究所の報告書は、「この期間にわたって、ガソリン車とトラックの段階的廃止に対する支持は民主党、共和党双方の間で高まっている」と述べている。
さらに世論調査の結果、共和党は2035年までにガソリン車を段階的に廃止することに84％対16％の差で反対しているのに対し、民主党は64％対35％の差で賛成していることが示された。
また、共和党員の73％がこの政策に憤慨しているのに対し、民主党員のわずか20％が同じように感じていることも明らかになった。これに対し、共和党員の7％、民主党員の37％が段階的縮小に興奮していると回答した。
そして米国人は、消費者が急速に電気自動車に乗り換えるのを支援するのに必要なインフラを米国が構築できるかどうかについては広く懐疑的だ。米国の成人のうち、それが可能であると非常にまたは非常に自信を持っているのはわずか 17%、30% がある程度自信を持っており、53% は自信がありません。
この調査結果は、バイデン政権と民主党主導のさまざまな州が電気自動車の導入を促進し、場合によっては将来のガソリン車の販売を禁止する規制を進め続ける中で発表された。
ホワイトハウスは4月、「自動車とトラックのメーカーは、輸送の未来は電気であると明言している。市場は動いている」と述べた。「自動車愛好家であり、自称自動車マニアとして、バイデン大統領は今この瞬間を捉えている。」
この声明は、環境保護庁（EPA）がこれまでで最も積極的な連邦政府のテールパイプ排出量を提案した後に発表された。
ホワイトハウスは、これが最終決定され実施されれば、2032年までに新車購入のセダン、クロスオーバー、SUV、小型トラックのなんと67％が電動化される可能性があると予測した。さらに、それまでに購入されるバスとゴミ収集車の最大 50%、短距離貨物トラクターの 35%、長距離貨物トラクターの 25% が電動化される可能性があります。
「バイデン政権は人々にEVの購入を強制するために、あらゆる連邦規則を曲げようとしている」と競争力企業研究所エネルギー・環境センター所長のマイロン・エベル氏は当時述べた。「ドライバーが自分で選んだ車を購入できる市場はまだ存在するが、政府の強制によりその選択肢は急速に制限されつつある。」
2022年3月、EPAは大気浄化法に基づくカリフォルニア州の権限を回復し、独自の排出基準と電気自動車の販売義務を実施し、他の州がカリフォルニア州の規則を採用することを許可した。この動きは、トランプ政権が連邦規則に矛盾する独自の基準を追求する州の権限を剥奪したことを受けて行われた。
そして8月、州の有力な環境当局であるカリフォルニア大気資源委員会は、年間自動車販売台数で全米トップの同州で購入するすべての自動車を2035年までにゼロエミッションにすることを義務付ける規制を承認した。
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原文
Japan review it's been a year since I
moved to Japan and I thought it made
sense to finally rate Japan I will talk
about things I like and the things I
don't like which seems to be the only
two options available if you have
so sugoi or did you know Japan is
actually really bad it's got a lot of
survival issues okay I will list one
good thing and bad thing and I will not
hold back there's no trash bins
I have to put in my pocket
oh
there's always these generic things that
you hear or yes when we you visit it's
kind of weird but then you realize it's
not a big deal anyway let's start off
with number one reason I like Japan
it feels like a giant playground no I
don't mean in the Logan Paul kind of
sense of doing whatever the hell you
want
but rather there's a infinite things all
right lazy feels like to explore and
experience and I've been here a year now
and I don't think I'm gonna get bored
anytime soon although I am having a
child so I don't know how much more I
but it really feels like a whole new
world and if you visited you can
probably relate to it and I'm glad that
even a year in it still feels incredibly
fresh and I even would say that you
realize that the best part of Japan
aren't the touristy places kind of
obviously but there are so many areas
that I found that I really enjoy
visiting and this is probably more
specific to me but you know Tokyo is
very busy and so many times I just catch
myself surrounded by what feels like
hundreds of people and they have no idea
everyone is just doing their own thing
now once it was staring at me no one's
following me no one's being weird you
guys are weird and I'm just kidding I
just love the feeling of being able to
exist in public and uh not worrying
about what everyone else is doing like
I've said this before but I genuinely
enjoy talking to fans or when people
approach me it always makes me happy but
it can be kind of frustrating to always
wanting to just do your own thing and
always be
you know so yeah let's move on to the
bad things of Japan number one reason
Japan is bad it's kind of a heavy
subject and I haven't seen anyone else
really talk about it it's not brought up
very often at least and that is cones
there's too many cones in Japan once you
see it you cannot unsee it they're
everywhere they say oh Japan has so many
vending machines there's like five per
there's more cones than people why are
there so many cones I need to know we
got the tall ones we got the small ones
we got the funny ones the cute ones the
sexy ones I do like those I just don't
understand that whoever plays these
cones think I'm just gonna barge through
oh thank God there's cones here
otherwise I had no idea what I was gonna
and I realized the cone history of Japan
stretches centuries okay if you played
Animal Crossing sometimes it's a
Japanese game so sometimes you get these
items right you're like oh that's kind
of weird I don't know exactly what that
is but it's probably something Japanese
and then you get the bamboo thing and
you're like what the hell is that what
am I even gonna do with that and then
you see it in real life here in Japan
you're like holy [ __ ] it's a cone that's
I feel like they are following me
I'm glad I was able to talk about this
I'm for one and willing to call out
Japan knock it off man no more cones
there's enough cones let me tell you
something even better than cones you may
have noticed new merch finally it's been
forever my mom came over she had
unofficial merge because I literally
have no other merch I've hadn't hadn't
merch I'm sorry Mom so we spruced up the
logo got a cool back design the team
that worked on it really truly
understand how my brand and I think they
did such a good job these pieces look
amazing and I think you guys are gonna
really like them as well these are
available for limited time only so make
sure you order now so excited to finally
have this merch available thanks to
amaze for making this happen we are
gonna have one piece that will stay on
the store so my mom will not buy the
wrong merch but for a limited time that
piece will be available in this color
off-white kind of color it looks really
nice and then after that you can still
get it but not in this color that's
you want this one yeah I get it
so yeah check that out if you're
interested I'm so happy about these
designs and I hope you guys would like
them as well all right reason number two
I like Japan yay when we first announced
that we were gonna move to Japan there
was so many people just saying how bad
Japan is actually did you know Japan is
really bad did you know this I have to
list all these reasons now because
everyone is like thing and then thing
Japan ah so I have to tell them and I
it's actually but one thing in
particular that people said was that old
people really don't like foreigners they
hate them so when I was gonna stop by to
say hi to our neighbors who was a little
older at least some of them I was
terrifying I heard all these stories you
know like what are they gonna do to us
so I had my guard up ready for the worst
and I was met with nothing but kindness
and welcoming and I felt like a total
dick for having this preconceived ideas
and just a side comment like yes there
are definitely probably people that
don't like foreigners and all that stuff
but I realized I should let my own
experience is dictate how I feel about
certain things maybe that's just
ignoring a problem I don't know it just
feels like it's a bad way to approach
life if you always have a negative
expectation you know it's smiling people
smiled back
thank you sometimes they don't and
that's okay you know anyway my point
being Japanese people are very in my own
experience
are very nice and friendly the majority
at least and yes even to foreigners I
feel like they are especially nice to
foreigners because they think we're like
a kid lost at Disneyland or something
I just asked for directions I didn't
need you to walk me for half an hour to
this specific place I was going but
thank you I appreciate it a lot of times
I go bouldering alone and there's always
other groups of people being supportive
and yelling like I'm about there like go
you can do it I love it I think it's
great you know or if you're small
talking with people people generally
want to communicate with you and I love
having those moments but of course
there's times where people are like oh
you're a foreigner I don't feel like
even trying
which again it's fine speaking of which
reason I don't like Japan number two
their language
I have lived here for a year and I'm not
fluent in Japanese
I am dumb I am very dumb I remember the
moment we moved here I had studied some
Let's test out this knowledge that I
have acquired let's go I'm just gonna
come in it's gonna be dangerous and you
enter a store for the first time and
they're like
what
what oh
what the classic the most common
experiences that you have aren't
necessarily what you're taught in the
textbook yay I know I think that's the
same for anyone learning a language for
the first time but don't even get me
started on the kanji main what the [ __ ]
is this I feel like Japanese is such a
hard language obviously but I don't
think people realize how hard it is at
least me personally because the more you
learn the more you realize you don't
know [ __ ]
for English speakers Japanese is
considered one of the most difficult
languages and because it's just so
different I listed it as bad because
that was my first kind of experience
with it coming here but the more I
interact with people the more it feels
like I'm unlocking new skills you know
oh I made a phone call for the first
time oh I could ask someone over the
phone I know big deal but it's like oh I
can actually do that or even just having
a small tiny yes shittiest conversation
with a stranger it's still something and
it feels good you start to all of a
sudden understand you know a movie if
you're watching oh I understand actually
what's going on here or I can play games
and kind of get what this they're saying
I have to look up words obviously but to
me all those new experiences that it
unlocks to me is very rewarding even
though it's such a challenge I would
actually now say it's a good thing I
played it on its head it was a good
thing all along but I obviously have a
and it just I don't think it will damage
time reason number three I like Japan
this is nothing to do with Japan to say
it's more related to me taking a more
relaxed approach to YouTube for my
entire 20s I did nothing but YouTube
that was my life and that's okay but I
also think it was a little toxic
probably you know if I wasn't making
videos I sure as hell was thinking about
making videos I uploaded videos during
and it feels really good to finally be
free from it you know and I can discover
other things in life there are other
things in life
a new hobbies and interest that I've
always wanted to do I can do and have so
much fun with it surfing I know I would
love for the longest time and I finally
get to do it and it's so [ __ ] amazing
I love learning new things anything that
isn't necessarily connected to all of
this on the internet and that is
something I'm very very grateful that I
discovered so yeah it's not really Japan
I could have done that anywhere but it's
largely why I enjoyed so much here
reason I don't like Japan number three
this is probably the most trickiest one
and it's the rules what are the rules
Japan has so many rules and it's a bit
conflicting for me to complain about
because a lot of the best stuff about
Japan not the best stuff but a lot of
the reasons why Japan works so well is
because of the rules you know the trains
are always on time things just work in
general it's hard to explain the streets
are clean people aren't loud in public
and so on and these are sort of societal
rules that make it happen more or less
but sometimes There are rules that just
don't make any sense and I have no
problem following rules as long as I
understand the reason for it you know
don't talk on the phone on the train
because it's generally annoying when
other people do that to you A lot of it
is just be thoughtful of other people
it's not just about you and that just
makes it more pleasant for everyone but
one rule is especially which I talked
about before is the fact that because of
kovid I'm not allowed to be in the
delivery room for our baby for more than
two hours that's because of covered
rules it just doesn't make sense to me
and I tell people about this like uh
family and friends and they're always
like well why don't you just ask them or
like why don't you talk to them I'm sure
you can there's got to be somewhere and
it's like no it's Japan okay there are
rules and people follow the rules for
better or worse you know so the more I
