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はてなキーワード: norとは
NAOEを彼女と呼んでいいのかそれ以外のオプションで呼ぶべきなのかは不明
Assassin’s Creed Shadows Launches November 15, Features Dual Protagonists in Feudal Japan | UBISOFT
Naoe and Yasuke’s disparate personalities also lead them to have different relationships and rapports with other characters, and they don’t always feel the same way about people, nor do people always feel the same way about them. Romantically, they will also attract and be attracted to different types of people. Through the pair, players will get to experience a multitude of relationships.
(ナオエとヤスケの異なるパーソナリティは、他のキャラクターとの関係や交流にも違いをもたらします。彼らは常に同じように人々を感じるわけではなく、人々も常に彼らを同じように感じるわけではありません。ロマンチックな面でも、彼らは異なるタイプの人々を引き付け、また引き付けられます。この二人を通じて、プレイヤーは多様な関係を体験することができます。)
ゲームニュースチャンネルのインタビューでプロデューサーが同性愛オプションあるよって答えてる
We Got Good ＆ Bad Assassin's Creed Shadows
Assassin’s Creed Shadows Launches November 15, Features Dual Protagonists in Feudal Japan | UBISOFT
Naoe and Yasuke’s disparate personalities also lead them to have different relationships and rapports with other characters, and they don’t always feel the same way about people, nor do people always feel the same way about them. Romantically, they will also attract and be attracted to different types of people. Through the pair, players will get to experience a multitude of relationships.
(ナオエとヤスケの異なるパーソナリティは、他のキャラクターとの関係や交流にも違いをもたらします。彼らは常に同じように人々を感じるわけではなく、人々も常に彼らを同じように感じるわけではありません。ロマンチックな面でも、彼らは異なるタイプの人々を引き付け、また引き付けられます。この二人を通じて、プレイヤーは多様な関係を体験することができます。)
ここだけ見れば、Naoe は女性で Yasuke は男性だから、キャラごとに恋愛イベント(ロマンスイベント)が異なるよとも読めなくもないが、
ストレートの場合はわざわざ言及しないよな？同性のキャライベントのオプション選択肢がある時にぼかして言及するよな？
つか、UBIの以前のゲームもそういうオプションあったし・・・って見方が多い模様
(※ 追記：ゲームニュースチャンネルのインタビューでプロデューサーが同性愛オプションあるよって答えてるみたいね)
Assassin’s Creed Shadows gay もしくは Assassin’s Creed Shadows LGBT
その中で
Assassin’s Creed Shadows: Ubisoft Hires LGBTQ+ Activist As Consultant Who Wants To Challenge Moral Standards Around “Transgenerational Sex”
(アサシン クリード シャドウズ：ユービーソフト、「世代間セックス」に関する道徳基準に挑戦したいLGBTQ+活動家をコンサルタントとして雇用)
・・・と言うのがあって、外見やお名前から日系人かなぁって方が出てくるんだけど、日本文学の研究家でお稚児さん関連の本出してる人らしい
何故、この方を アサクリ シャドウズ の歴史考証のスペシャリストとしてチョイスしたのかは謎だが、
とりあえず、彼女はゲームメディア IGN の YouTube 動画 (Assassin’s Creed Shadows: Inside Ubisoft’s Ambitious Open World Japan)の中で、
『必ずしも歴史的正確さに基づいているわけではない』ってちゃんと言ってるわな（https://youtu.be/0haRi_hHZoU?t=853）
ただ、『誠実で敬意持ったものです』とか言いつつ、明らかさまに間違えてる日本風習やデザインを止められなかった、団体や文化財の無断利用・利用料無視の件を見るに、
(ハイブランドのアジア人蔑視のヤベー広告も炎上したよね、Valentino、D＆G、DIORとか)
つか、日本には『異世界』とか『なろーっぱ』とかいう伝家の宝刀がありましてな、『なろーじゃぱん』だぞって言えば歴史考証する必要無かったのになぁ感
それをしないのは、映画でも伝統的にそうだったように、『ジャップランドはどんな風に書いてもOK』っていう白人様の意識がおそらく強過ぎるんだろうな
あと、弥助の出身の部族やカトリックの宣教師が同性愛に寛容だった可能性はほぼゼロと言って良いが、まぁ、いまは16世紀ではなく、21世紀、2024年ですからね
弥助も出てくる仁王のコエテクは現代的な時代劇(フィクション)として『Rise of the Ronin』(PS5独占タイトル)出してます
ほんで、『Rise of the Ronin』の主人公キャラクターは様々な人種に設定できるし、劇中で同性との恋愛イベントもあるわけなんだけど、別に批判はどこからも出てないのよね
それは、極めて現代的な見た目のデザインからしてフィクションとわかるのはもちろんのこと、
開発者は歴史的正確さについてアピールしてない上に、ゲームを始める前にも念押しで下記のように出るから
アサクリでもちゃんと似たような文言は出るもん！！！って言うけど、Rise of the Ronin と アサクリ シャドウズ が違ったところは、
何故か BBC などのニュースメディア や Xbox や 各種ゲームメディアのインタビューで『なろーじゃぱんです！』アピールではなく、
下記のように言って回った事に尽きるよね
言って回ってることが確認できる一例：
Assassin's Creed director: The right time to take series to Japan | BBC
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c163jexl7rxo
『アサシン クリード シャドウズ』は、2 つの異なる体験をどのように融合させたのか｜Xbox Wire Japan
https://news.xbox.com/ja-jp/2024/05/16/assassins-creed-shadows-interview/
まぁ下記の日本のことわざがあると主張する歴史改竄の一派か（アサクリ以前から歴史改竄やってる https://anond.hatelabo.jp/20240722235805#)
"For a Samurai to be brave, he must have a bit of black blood "
ジャップランドはどう扱ってもいいと考える人種差別主義者の作品なのかと懸念するのは、正常なことに思えます
(そもそも、日系人っぽい人や日本にいたことがある人が監修に参加してるのに、あからさまに間違ったままなことについても、
EXPOで市販されているゾロの刀を何故か展示してたことについても、文化財の無駄借用についても説明無し)
これ欧米だけで出した方がいいと思うけどなぁ、熱心なUBI信者以外は誰も買わんのでローカライズ費用が無駄だと思う
https://youtu.be/ppkztU_1Y4U?t=18
アサクリに関係ない話です
いろいろ見て回ってたら腐女子についてこう書かれてたよ。なんかいっちょがみするの好きな増田とブクマカを兼ねてる増田は腐女子だと思うんだけど、
こういう認識持たれてるみたいなんで、お行儀よくしましょうね（基本的に対象キャラは未成年だしな)
No, just a runaway fujoshi with a shotacon fetish trying to legalize it.
Bob the First, at the head of my long list of robins, having been killed by my pet owl, I very soon bought another. This one was not so gentle nor so handsome as Bob the First, his wings and his tail having their ends sawed off by contact with the wires of too small a cage.
Fearing that he might be lonely in my aviary with only rabbits, guineapigs, pet rats, and pigeons for company, I bought another robin called Dick. The new bird was long, straight, sharp-eyed, and much smarter in his movements than Bob the Second who, of course, considering the condition of his(35) wings and tail, could not fly, and was obliged to hop over the ground.
It was very amusing to see the two robins stare at each other. Both had probably been trapped young, for at that time the law against the keeping of wild birds in captivity was not enforced, and boys and men were perniciously active in their depredations among our beautiful wild beauties.
Bob the Second was very fond of stuffing himself, and he used to drive the pigeons from the most promising window ledges and partake freely of the food scattered about.
Poor Dick ran about the ground looking for worms, and not finding many, got desperate and flew up to the window ledge.
Bob lowered his head and flew at him with open bill. Dick snapped at him, hopped up to the food, and satisfied his hunger, Bob meanwhile standing at a little distance, a queer, pained thread of sound issuing from between his bill, “Peep, peep, peep!”
A robin is a most untidy bird while eating, and as often as Dick scattered a morsel of food outside the dish, Bob would spring forward and pick it up with a reproving air, as if he were saying, “What an extravagant fellow you are!”
Whenever a new bird enters an aviary, he has to find his place—he is just like a new-comer in a community of human beings. Bob, being alone, was in the lead when Dick came. Dick, having the stronger bird mind, promptly dethroned him. They were(36) very amusing birds. Indeed, I find something clownish and comical about all robins kept in captivity.
The wild bird seems to be more businesslike. The partly domesticated bird, having no anxiety about his food supply, indulges in all sorts of pranks. He is curious and fond of investigation, and runs swiftly at a new object, and as swiftly away from it, if it seems formidable to him.
The arrival of new birds in the aviary always greatly excited Bob, and he hopped about, chirping, strutting, raising his head feathers, and sometimes acting silly with his food, just like a foolish child trying to “show off” before strangers.
When I introduced a purple gallinule to him, Bob flew up into the air, and uttered a shriek of despair. He feared the gallinule, and hated the first Brazil cardinal I possessed, and was always sparring with him. One day I put a second cardinal into the aviary. Bob thought it was his old enemy, and ran full tilt at him. His face of ludicrous dismay as he discovered his mistake and turned away, was too much for me, and I burst out laughing at him. I don’t think he minded being made fun of. He flirted his tail and hopped away.
At one time Bob made up his mind that he would not eat crushed hemp-seed unless I mixed it with bread and milk, and he would throw it all out of his dish unless I made it in the way he liked.
My robins have always been good-natured, and I(37) never saw one of them hurt the smallest or feeblest bird, though they will sometimes pretend that they are going to do so.
When Bob took a sun-bath, any member of the family who happened to be near him would always be convulsed with laughter. He would stretch his legs far apart, stick out his ragged plumage, elevate his head feathers till he looked as if he had a bonnet on, and then half shut his eyes with the most ludicrous expression of robin bliss.
All birds look more or less absurd when taking sun-baths. They seem to have the power to make each feather stand out from its neighbor. I suppose this is done in order that the sun may get to every part of the skin.
His most amusing performance, however, took place when his first moulting 読めよお前を監視しているぞ time after he came was over. One by one his old, mutilated feathers dropped out, and finally new ones took their places. On a memorable day Bob discovered that he had a real tail with a white feather on each side of it, and a pair of good, serviceable wings. He gave a joyful cry, shook his tail as if he would uproot it, then spread his wings and lifted himself in the air. Hopping time was over. He was now a real bird, and he flew from one end of the aviary to the other with an unmistakable expression of robin ecstasy.
Most unfortunately, I had not a chance to study poor Dick’s character as fully as Bob’s, for I only had him a short time. Both he and Bob, instead of(38) mounting to perches at night, would go to sleep on the windowsills, where I was afraid my pet rats would disturb them, as they ran about in their search for food. Therefore, I went into the aviary every evening, and lifted them up to a comfortable place for the night, near the hot-water pipes. I would not put robins in a warm place now. They are hardy birds, and if given a sufficient quantity of nourishing food do not need a warm sleeping-place. If we only had a better food supply I believe we would have many more wild birds with us in winter in the Northern States and Canada than we have now.
Late one evening I went into the aviary to put my robins to bed. I could only find Bob—Dick was nowhere to be seen. My father and mother joined me in the search, and finally we found his poor, lifeless body near the entrance to the rats’ underground nest. His head had been eaten—poor, intelligent Dick; and in gazing at him, and at the abundance of food in the aviary, the fate of the rats was sealed.
I fed my birds hard-boiled egg mashed with bread crumbs, crushed hemp-seed, scalded cornmeal, bread and milk, prepared mockingbird food, soaked ant eggs, all kinds of mush or “porridge,” as we say in Canada, chopped beef, potato and gravy, vegetables cooked and raw, seeds and fruit, an almost incredible amount of green stuff, and many other things—and yet the rats had found it necessary to commit a murder.
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Well, they must leave the aviary, and they did, and for a time Bob reigned alone. I did try to bring up a number of young robins given to me by children who rescued them from cats, or who found them on the ground unable to fly, but for a long time I had very hard luck with them.
Either the birds were diseased or I did not feed them properly. I have a fancy that I half starved them. Bird fanciers whom I consulted told me to be sure and not stuff my robins, for they were greedy birds. As long as I took their advice my young robins died. When I went to my canaries for advice I saw that the parents watched the tiny heads folded like flowers too heavy for their stalks, over the little warm bodies in the nests.
The instant a head was raised the mother or father put a mouthful of warm egg-food in it. The little ones got all they would eat—indeed, the father, with food dripping from his mouth, would coax his nestlings to take just one beakful more. I smiled broadly and began to give my robins all the worms they wanted, and then they lived.
The bringing up of young birds is intensely interesting. I found that one reason why early summer is the favorite time for nest-making is because one has the short nights then. Parents can feed their young quite late in the evening and be up by early daylight to fill the little crops again. Robins are birds that like to sit up late, and are always the last to go to bed in the aviary.
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I solved the difficulty of rising at daylight to feed any young birds I was bringing up by giving them a stuffing at eleven o’clock at night. Then I did not have to rise till nearly eight.
This, of course, was for healthy birds. If I had a sick guineapig, rabbit, or bird, I never hesitated to get up many times during the night, for I have a theory that men and women who cannot or will not undertake the moral responsibility of bringing up children, should at least assist in the rearing of some created thing, if it is only a bird. Otherwise they become egotistical and absorbed in self.
Betsy and Solomon lived happily through that winter and spring, and before summer came we had made up our minds to return to the East. What should we do with the owls? They would be a great deal of trouble to some one. They required an immense amount of petting, and a frequent supply of perfectly fresh meat. No matter how busy we were, one of us had to go to the butcher every other day.
We began to inquire among our friends who would like a nice, affectionate pair of owls? There seemed no great eagerness on the part of any one to(23) take the pets we so much valued. Plans for their future worried me so much that at last I said to my sister, “We will take them East with us.”
The owls, who were to take so long a journey, became objects of interest to our friends, and at a farewell tea given to us, a smartly dressed young man vowed that he must take leave of Solomon and Betsy. Calling for a broom, he slowly passed it to and fro over the carpet before them, while they sat looking at him with lifted ear tufts that betrayed great interest in his movements.
We trembled a little in view of our past moving experiences, but we were devoted to the little creatures and, when the time came, we cheerfully boarded the overland train at Oakland.
We had with us Betsy and Solomon in their large cage, and in a little cage a pair of strawberry finches, so called because their breasts are dotted like a strawberry. A friend had requested us to bring them East for her. We had also a dog—not Teddy, that had only been lent to us; but our own Irish setter Nita, one of the most lovable and interesting animals that I have ever owned.
The chipmunk was no longer with us. He had not seemed happy in the aviary—indeed, he lay down in it and threw me a cunning look, as if to say, “I will die if you don’t let me out of this.” So I gave him the freedom of the house. That pleased him, and for a few days he was very diligent in assisting us with our housekeeping by picking(24) all the crumbs off the floors and eating them. Then he disappeared, and I hope was happy ever after among the superb oak trees of the university grounds close to us.
When we started for the East, the pets, of course, had to go into the baggage car, and I must say here for the benefit of those persons who wish to travel with animals and birds, that there is good accommodation for them on overland trains. Sometimes we bought tickets for them, sometimes they had to go in an express car, sometimes we tipped the baggagemasters, but the sums spent were not exorbitant, and we found everywhere provision made for pets. You cannot take them in your rooms in hotels, but there is a place for them somewhere, and they will be brought to you whenever you wish to see them, or to give them exercise. We were on several different railway lines, and visited eight different cities, and the dog and birds, upon arriving in eastern Canada, seemed none the worse for their trip.
However, I would not by any means encourage the transportation of animals. Indeed, my feelings on the subject, since I understand the horrors animals and birds endure while being whirled from one place to another, are rather too strong for utterance. I would only say that in a case like mine, where separation between an owner and pets would mean unhappiness, it is better for both to endure a few days or weeks of travel. Then the case of animals(25) and birds traveling with some one who sees and encourages them every day is different from the case of unfortunate creatures sent off alone.
Our Nita was taken out of the car at every station where it was possible to exercise her, and one of us would run into restaurants along the route to obtain fresh meat for the owls. Their cage was closely covered, but whenever they heard us coming they hooted, and as no one seemed to guess what they were, they created a great deal of interest. My sister and I were amused one evening in Salt Lake City to see a man bending over the cage with an air of perplexity.
“They must be pollies,” he said at last, and yet his face showed that he did not think those were parrot noises issuing from within.
I remember one evening on arriving in Albany, New York, causing slight consternation in the hotel by a demand for raw meat. We hastened to explain that we did not want it for ourselves, and finally obtained what we wished.
As soon as we arrived home in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the owls were put downstairs in a nice, dry basement. They soon found their way upstairs, where the whole family was prepared to welcome them on account of their pretty ways and their love for caresses.
Strange to say, they took a liking to my father, who did not notice them particularly, and a mischievous dislike to my mother, who was disposed to(26) pet them. They used to fly on her head whenever they saw her. Their little claws were sharp and unpleasant to her scalp. We could not imagine why they selected her head unless it was that her gray hair attracted them. However, we had a French Acadian maid called Lizzie, whose hair was jet black, and they disliked her even more than they did my mother.
Lizzie, to get to her storeroom, had to cross the furnace-room where the owls usually were, and she soon began to complain bitterly of them.
“Dey watch me,” she said indignantly, “dey fly on my head, dey scratch me, an’ pull out my hairpins, an’ make my head sore.”
“Why don’t you push them off, Lizzie?” I asked, “they are only tiny things.”
“Dey won’t go—dey hold on an’ beat me,” she replied, and soon the poor girl had to arm herself with a switch when she went near them.
Lizzie was a descendant of the veritable Acadians mentioned in Longfellow’s “Evangeline,” of whom there are several thousand in Nova Scotia. My mother was attached to her, and at last she said, “I will not have Lizzie worried. Bring the owls up in my bathroom.”
There they seemed perfectly happy, sitting watching the sparrows from the window and teasing my long-suffering mother, who was obliged to give up using gas in this bathroom, for very often the owls put it out by flying at it.
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One never heard them coming. I did not before this realize how noiseless the flight of an owl is. One did not dream they were near till there was a breath of air fanning one’s cheek. After we gave up the gas, for fear they would burn themselves, we decided to use a candle. It was absolutely necessary to have an unshaded light, for they would perch on any globe shading a flame, and would burn their feet.
The candle was more fun for them than the gas, for it had a smaller flame, and was more easily extinguished, and usually on entering the room, away would go the light, and we would hear in the corner a laughing voice, saying “Too, who, who, who, who!”
The best joke of all for the owls was to put out the candle when one was taking a bath, and I must say I heard considerable grumbling from the family on the subject. It seemed impossible to shade the light from them, and to find one’s self in the dark in the midst of a good splash, to have to emerge from the tub, dripping and cross, and search for matches, was certainly not calculated to add to one’s affection for Solomon and Betsy. However, they were members of the family, and as George Eliot says, “The members of your family are like the nose on your face—you have got to put up with it, seeing you can’t get rid of it.”
Alas! the time soon came when we had to lament the death of one of our troublesome but beloved pets.
Betsy one day partook heartily of a raw fish head,(28) and in spite of remedies applied, sickened rapidly and sank into a dying condition.
I was surprised to find what a hold the little thing had taken on my affection. When her soft, gray body became cold, I held her in my hand close to the fire and, with tears in my eyes, wished for a miracle to restore her to health.
She lay quietly until just before she died. Then she opened her eyes and I called to the other members of the family to come and see their strange expression. They became luminous and beautiful, and dilated in a peculiar way. We hear of the eyes of dying persons lighting up wonderfully, and this strange illumination of little Betsy’s eyes reminded me of such cases.
Even after death she lay with those wide-open eyes, and feeling that I had lost a friend, I put down her little dead body. It was impossible for me to conceal my emotion, and my mother, who had quite forgotten Betsy’s hostility to her, generously took the little feathered creature to a taxidermist.
I may say that Betsy was the first and last bird I shall ever have stuffed. I dare say the man did the work as well as it could be done, but I gazed in dismay at my Betsy when she came home. That stiff little creature sitting on a stick, with glazed eyes and motionless body, could not be the pretty little bird whose every motion was grace. Ever since the day of Betsy’s death, I can feel no admiration for a dead bird. Indeed, I turn sometimes with a shudder(29) from the agonized postures, the horrible eyes of birds in my sister women’s hats—and yet I used to wear them myself. My present conviction shows what education will do. If you like and study live birds, you won’t want to wear dead ones.
After Betsy’s death Solomon seemed so lonely that I resolved to buy him a companion. I chose a robin, and bought him for two dollars from a woman who kept a small shop. A naturalist friend warned me that I would have trouble, but I said remonstratingly, “My owl is not like other owls. He has been brought up like a baby. He does not know that his ancestors killed little birds.”
Alas! When my robin had got beautifully tame, when he would hop about after me, and put his pretty head on one side while I dug in the earth for worms for him, when he was apparently on the best of terms with Sollie, I came home one day to a dreadful discovery. Sollie was flying about with the robin’s body firmly clutched in one claw. He had killed and partly eaten him. I caught him, took the robin away from him, and upbraided him severely.
“Too, who, who, who who,” he said—apologetically, it seemed to me, “instinct was too strong for me. I got tired of playing with him, and thought I would see what he tasted like.”
I could not say too much to him. What about the innocent lambs and calves, of which Sollie’s owners had partaken?
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I had a fine large place in the basement for keeping pets, with an earth floor, and a number of windows, and I did not propose to have Sollie murder all the birds I might acquire. So, one end of this room was wired off for him. He had a window in this cage overlooking the garden, and it was large enough for me to go in and walk about, while talking to him. He seemed happy enough there, and while gazing into the garden or watching the rabbits, guineapigs, and other pets in the large part of the room, often indulged in long, contented spells of cooing—not hooting.
In 1902 I was obliged to leave him for a six months’ trip to Europe. He was much petted by my sister, and I think spent most of his time upstairs with the family. When I returned home I brought, among other birds, a handsome Brazil cardinal. I stood admiring him as he stepped out of his traveling cage and flew around the aviary. Unfortunately, instead of choosing a perch, he flattened himself against the wire netting in Sollie’s corner.
I was looking right at him and the owl, and I never saw anything but lightning equal the celerity of Sollie’s flight, as he precipitated himself against the netting and caught at my cardinal’s showy red crest. The cardinal screamed like a baby, and I ran to release him, marveling that the owl could so insinuate his little claws through the fine mesh of the wire. However, he could do it, and he gripped the struggling cardinal by the long, hair-like(31) topknot, until I uncurled the wicked little claws. A bunch of red feathers fell to the ground, and the dismayed cardinal flew into a corner.
“Sollie,” I said, going into his cage and taking him in my hand, “how could you be so cruel to that new bird?”
“Oh, coo, coo, coo, coo,” he replied in a delightfully soft little voice, and gently resting his naughty little beak against my face. “You had better come upstairs,” I said, “I am afraid to leave you down here with that poor cardinal. You will be catching him again.”
He cooed once more. This just suited him, and he spent the rest of his life in regions above. I knew that he would probably not live as long in captivity as he would have done if his lot had been cast in the California foothills. His life was too unnatural. In their native state, owls eat their prey whole, and after a time disgorge pellets of bones, feathers, hairs, and scales, the remnants of food that cannot be digested.
My owls, on account of their upbringing, wanted their food cleaned for them. Betsy, one day, after much persuasion, swallowed a mouse to oblige me, but she was such a dismal picture as she sat for a long time with the tail hanging out of her beak that I never offered her another.
I tried to keep Solomon in condition by giving him, or forcing him to take, foreign substances, but my plan only worked for a time.
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I always dreaded the inevitable, and one winter day in 1903 I looked sharply at him, as he called to me when I entered the house after being away for a few hours. “That bird is ill!” I said.
No other member of the family saw any change in him, but when one keeps birds and becomes familiar with the appearance of each one, they all have different facial and bodily expressions, and one becomes extremely susceptible to the slightest change. As I examined Sollie, my heart sank within me, and I began to inquire what he had been eating. He had partaken freely of boiled egg, meat, and charcoal. I gave him a dose of olive oil, and I must say that the best bird or beast to take medicine is an owl. Neither he nor Betsy ever objected in the l
ワイも致死率と副反応考えたら、打つ必要性無し・・・と判断して1回も打たなかったけど、
打ってくれた人は、高齢者や基礎疾患のある人に、めちゃくちゃうつさないための壁になってくれたのだから、
その様な言い方はよくない
しかしターボ癌かぁ、どこで使われている言葉なんだよって思ったら、
オーストラリアのロバーツ議員が "commonly called turbo cancer" とか言ってて草
とりあえず、英語圏でも使われている(？)言葉らしいが、いうほど一般的か？
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/oncology/articles/10.3389/fonc.2023.1158124/full
ハッキリ下記の様に書かれとるわね
In the months following publication, we noticed that our case report has gained significant public attention, particularly on social media platforms. More specifically, our case report has been largely misinterpreted and used as a study providing evidence that mRNA COVID-19 vaccination can trigger a phenomenon which has non-scientifically been referred to as “turbo cancer”. First of all, we wish to unequivocally disassociate ourselves from this term. In our case report, there is not a single reference to a condition called “turbo cancer”, nor do we recognize it as a legitimate medical term.
(私たちの症例報告が、特にソーシャル メディア プラットフォームで大きな注目を集めていることに気づきました。私たちの症例報告は大きく誤解され、mRNA COVID-19ワクチン接種が非科学的に「ターボ癌」と呼ばれる現象を引き起こす可能性があるという証拠を提供する研究として使用されてきました。まず第一に、私たちはこの用語から明確に切り離したいと考えています。私たちの症例報告には、「ターボ癌」と呼ばれる状態への言及は一つもありませんし、それが正当な医学用語であるとは認識していません。)
CONSIDERATIONS ON REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT
Chapter X—Of the Mode of Voting.
The polling places should be so numerous as to be within easy reach of every voter, and no expenses of conveyance, at the cost of the candidate, should be tolerated under any pretext. The infirm, and they only on medical certificate, should have the right of claiming suitable carriage conveyance at the cost of the state or of the locality. Hustings, poll clerks, and all the necessary machinery of elections, should be at the public charge. Not only the candidate should not be required, he should not be permitted to incur any but a limited and trifling expense for his election. Mr. Hare thinks it desirable that a sum of £50 should be required from every one who places his name on the list of candidates, to prevent persons who have no chance of success, and no real intention of attempting it, from becoming candidates in wantonness or from mere love of notoriety, and perhaps carrying off a few votes which are needed for the return of more serious aspirants. There is one expense which a candidate or his supporters can not help incurring, and which it can hardly be expected that the public should defray for every one who may choose to demand it—that of making his claims known to the electors, by advertisements, placards, and circulars. For all necessary expenses of this kind the £50 proposed by Mr. Hare, if allowed to be drawn upon for these purposes (it might be made £100 if requisite), ought to be sufficient. If the friends of the candidate choose to go to expense for committees and canvassing, there are no means of preventing them; but such expenses out of the candidates's own pocket, or any expenses whatever beyond the deposit of £50 (or £100), should be illegal and punishable. If there appeared any likelihood that opinion would refuse to connive at falsehood, a declaration on oath or honor should be required from every member, on taking his seat, that he had not expended, nor would expend, money or money's worth beyond the £50, directly or indirectly, for the purposes of his election; and if the assertion were proved to be false or the pledge to have been broken, he should be liable to the penalties of perjury. It is probable that those penalties, by showing that the Legislature was in earnest, would turn the course of opinion in the same direction, and would hinder it from regarding, as has hitherto done, this most serious crime against society as a venial peccadillo. When once this effect has been produced, there need be no doubt that the declaration on oath or honor would be considered binding. [6] "Opinion tolerates a false disclaimer only when it already tolerates the thing disclaimed." This is notoriously the case with regard to electoral corruption. There has never yet been, among political men, any real and serious attempt to prevent bribery, because there has been no real desire that elections should not be costly. Their costliness is an advantage to those who can afford the expense by excluding a multitude of competitors; and any thing, however noxious, is cherished as having a conservative tendency, if it limits the access to Parliament to rich men. This is a rooted feeling among our legislators of both political parties, and is almost the only point on which I believe them to be really ill-intentioned. They care comparatively little who votes, as long as they feel assured that none but persons of their own class can be voted for. They know that they can rely on the fellow-feeling of one of their class with another, while the subservience of nouveaux enrichis who are knocking at the door of the class is a still surer reliance; and that nothing very hostile to the class interests or feelings of the rich need be apprehended under the most democratic suffrage, as long as democratic persons can be prevented from being elected to Parliament. But, even from their own point of view, this balancing of evil by evil, instead of combining good with good, is a wretched policy. The object should be to bring together the best members of both classes, under such a tenure as shall induce them to lay aside their class preferences, and pursue jointly the path traced by the common interest, instead of allowing the class feelings of the Many to have full swing in the constituencies, subject to the impediment of having to act through persons imbued with the class feelings of the Few.
■ Regarding the free release of the new species previewed and the reason for making the support site the main platform for releasing new species:
While the free release on the Kurobinega website is at my discretion, I'm considering doing so roughly once every three or two paid releases.
The following might not be particularly relevant to English-speaking fans, or in other words, to everyone. The reason I'm focusing on early releases is that I want to limit the exposure of MGE and continue creating content on a smaller scale. First of all, I don't want MGE to be a hugely popular restaurant that anyone can enter, nor do I wish to become an internet celebrity. For me, MGE is akin to a reasonably popular local restaurant where like-minded individuals who share my interests gather. By scaling down, my production speed has increased. The period from Dragonewt to Tai Sui was shorter, and the next species should be released sooner. What matters most to me is creating the MGE I want to craft, drawing pictures, and developing games in the world of MGE. I'm delighted when people who value MGE's themes as I do get to see it. Receiving money on support sites like these, allowing me to spend more time on production, is truly appreciated.
Using the stuffed animal analogy again, it truly makes me happy when someone who genuinely loves and cherishes stuffed animals sees the ones I've created. Yet, I can't see those who say they adore stuffed animals but also tolerate and respect those who take pleasure in mutilating them as people who share the same love for stuffed animals as I do. I don't have the inclination to actively show them the stuffed animals I've made.
I believe English-speaking individuals, when witnessing a stuffed animal's head being torn off or the pleasure derived from it, would straightforwardly label it as "crazy." However, it's different in Japan, especially on social media. Even if they dislike watching the stuffed animals being hurt, they'll say, "Let's respect those who enjoy tearing them." This, despite seeing me, someone desperately protecting my stuffed animals, getting attacked by such individuals. There's a prevailing notion in the otaku community, especially on Japanese SNS (Social Media), that "All fetishes must be respected." Speaking out against this, even as a victim, can result in backlash. Not everyone thinks this way, but it's the dominant mindset. Disheartened by this, I didn't want to show them MGE anymore. When you grow to dislike a place, it's only natural to distance yourself, and that's what I've done.
However, this is a problem in Japan. In English-speaking regions, fans typically call out what they dislike, labeling it as "crazy." I have many English-speaking friends who've genuinely helped me in trying times. The MGEwiki admin is also a dear friend. Depending on the English-speaking fan community's dynamics, I might consider releasing content on MGEwiki a month after the early release.
こういう嘘をさらっと書くな
Finally, I would like to emphasise that the release of the treated water stored at Fukushima Daiichi Power Station is a national decision by the Government of Japan and that this report is neither a recommendation nor an endorsement of that policy.
https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/iaea_comprehensive_alps_report.pdf
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.
3年くらい前に日本の半導体産業の近況をまとめたのですが、ここ数年で政治家の先生たちが何かに目覚めたらしく状況が大きく変わりつつあるので各社の状況をアップデート。
前回の記事 https://anond.hatelabo.jp/20200813115920
熊本工場：28nm, 22nm (工場稼働時) / 16nm, 12nm (将来計画)
日本政府の補助金とソニー・デンソーの出資という離れ業により、業界人が誰も信じていなかったTSMCの工場進出が実現した。現在は建屋の建設が進んでおり、順調にいけば2024年内には量産開始となる。生産が予定されているプロセスはいずれも世界最先端に比べると古いものだが日本では最先端であり、HKMG(ハイケーメタルゲート、トランジスタの性能を上げる技術)やFinFET(フィンフェット、性能の良い3次元トランジスタ)といった技術が新たに導入される。工場で生産される半導体の主なクライアントは出資者のソニー。衰退の激しい日本の電機業界だが、ソニーはまだ世界と戦う余力を残しており年間半導体購入金額世界10位で日本トップである。ただし、PS3のCell Processorを長崎で作っていたように先端プロセッサをここで作れるわけではない。PS5のCPUはTSMCの6nmプロセス製造であり、この工場では製造できないのだ。識者の予測ではイメージセンサー向けロジック半導体を生産すると想定されている。
■ Rapidus (ラピダス)
日本政府の国策で、IBMから技術を導入し自前で最先端の半導体製造を狙う野心的なプロジェクト。量産開始は2027年を予定。
彼は日立→トレセンティテクノロジーズ(ルネサスの那珂工場の前身)→SANDISK→Western Digitalという国内外の半導体メーカーを渡り歩いた華麗な経歴の持ち主である。
以前に社長を務めていたトレセンティテクノロジーズは2000年に日立と台湾の大手ファウンドリUMCとの合弁の半導体製造会社で、世界に先駆け現在の標準となる300mmウェハに対応した先進的な工場であった。ファウンドリ全盛の今から後知恵で見れば、限りなく正解に近い経営戦略と先進性を併せ持っていたがビジネスとしては成功しなかった。工場はルネサスに吸収され、小池氏はSANDISKへと移籍することに。そんなわけで今回の国策ファウンドリRapidusの社長就任は小池氏の二十数年越しのリベンジマッチでもある。
なお、氏のポエミーなプレゼンは業界でも有名。記者会見で日本半導体衰退の原因を「驕り」と一刀両断した一枚のパワポが話題をさらったが、本人が一番驕っているのではと不安がる声もある。
■ ルネサスエレクトロニクス
日立・三菱電機・NECのロジック半導体部門が統合した日本を代表する半導体メーカー。
5万人いた従業員を1/3にする大リストラ、先端プロセス製造からの撤退、海外メーカーの買収ラッシュを経て復活。そして大躍進。
昨年の売り上げは1兆5千億円を超え、はじめて統合直後の売り上げ(ピークは2011年3月期の1兆1千億)を抜いた。もう1+1+1=1とは言わせない。
旺盛な車載半導体需要にこたえるべく、政府の補助金を得てリストラで閉鎖した甲府工場の再稼働を決定。
コロナ禍では働き方が柔軟になり、リモートワークは全国どこでもできるようになった。ルネサスは開発拠点も大リストラで統廃合しており、三菱系の伊丹やNEC系の玉川をはじめ全国にあった設計拠点を日立系の小平に集約している。地元の拠点が閉鎖されて単身赴任をしている人も多かったのだが、最近ではリモートワークを活用して単身赴任先のマンションを引き払った人も出てきている模様。
増大する車載半導体需要にこたえるべく、デンソーが出資してパワー半導体のIGBTの生産を始めた。筆者はパワー半導体は専門外で、家電芸人が語る家電の説明程度にしか話せないため軽く紹介するにとどめたい。
半導体部門を手放したがっていたPanasonicがイスラエル企業のTower Semiconductorと共同で運営していた工場。
Panasonicが台湾Nuvoton technologyに持ち分株式を売却したため、現在ではイスラエル・台湾共同運営という珍しい業態になっている。
さらに、半導体最大手のIntelがTower Semiconductorの買収を進めているため、将来的にはIntelの拠点となる可能性があり、日本でIntelのCPUが作られる世界線もあるかもしれない。
が、本案件は米中対立のあおりで中国での買収審査が長引いているため、先行きには不透明感が漂う。
■ キオクシア
日本を代表するメモリ半導体メーカー。前回からの3年で、積層数は96層 → 112層 → 162層と2世代進化した。競合他社は232層品の量産も始めている(キオクシアは開発完了 / 本格量産前)が、最近の3D NANDは闇雲に積層数を増やせば低コストで作れるというわけでもない模様。
なお世間では半導体不足のニュースの印象が強く、半導体はもうかっているとの認識があると思うがコロナ禍でのIT投資ブームが終了したメモリ業界はリーマンショック以来の大不況である。
キオクシアも例外ではなく、最新の4半期決算で1000億円単位の赤字を計上してしまった。Western Digitalとの統合のうわさがあるが、もちろん筆者は何も知らないし、仮に知っていても絶対にここには書けない。
■ Micron Memory Japan (旧エルピーダメモリ)
ルネサスと同じく、NEC、日立、三菱電機のDRAM事業統合で生まれたエルピーダメモリを倒産後に米Micronが買収。
前にも書いたが、DRAM業界はプロセスのサバ読みが横行しており、20nmを切ったあたりから具体的な数字ではなく1X, 1Y, 1Z, 1αときて、ついに1βnm世代の量産にたどり着いた。広島サミットに合わせて、社長が来日。岸田総理と会談後大々的な設備投資を発表。1γnm世代を目指して日本初の量産用EUV露光装置が導入されることが決まった。
このEUVというのは波長が13.5nmの極超紫外線(Extreme Ultra Violet)を使った露光装置で1台200～300億かかる人類史上最も高価で精密な工作機械でありオランダのASML社が独占的に製造している。もっとも、メモリ業界の大不況を食らっているのはMicronも例外ではなく、岸田総理と華々しく会談している裏で数百人規模のリストラを慣行。こういう外面の良さと裏でやってることのえげつなさの二面性は、いかにも外資だなと思う。
東芝と共同でフラッシュメモリの開発を行っていたSANDISKをHDD大手Western Digitalが買収。キオクシアの四日市工場と北上工場を共同で運営している。
Western Digitalはメモリコントローラーを内製していることで知られSSDの性能の良さに定評があり、スマートフォン向けの売り上げが多いキオクシアとは、同じ工場を運営していても得意としている販売先が微妙に異なり、住み分けがなされている。(そのため、2社統合によるシナジー効果が期待されたびたび観測気球的な記事が出回る。)
なお、もともと日系半導体メーカーが大リストラをしていた時の人材の受け皿として中途をたくさん採用していた経緯もあり、人材の流動性は高い。在籍時の仕事ぶりがよければ、他社へ転職していった元社員の出戻りも歓迎と聞く。前述のRapidus社長の小池氏は、つい先日までここの社長をしていた。余談だが、上記Micronの米国本社の社長も旧SANDISKの創業者でWestern Digitalによる買収後に引き抜かれている。こういう話を聞くと、いかにも外資だなと思う。
イメージセンサーで世界最大のシェアを誇るソニーの半導体部門。2020年、2021年は米中対立のあおりを受けて主要顧客のHuawei向けの出荷減少に苦しんだが、2022年度は大幅に売り上げを伸ばし、1兆4千億円となった。他の半導体の例にもれずイメージセンサーも国際競争が過酷であるため、対抗して人員増強を進めている。Panasonic系エンジニアを引き抜くために関西に設計拠点を開設し、各地の工場の拡張も並行して進めている。調子のいい半導体メーカーはどこも人員増強を進めているが、ここ10年ほどは理工系の学生の半導体業界人気がどん底、かつ人材ニーズも少なかっため、新卒で半導体メーカーに就職した絶対数が致命的に少なく30~40歳くらいの中堅技術者の確保にどこも苦労している模様。なお、スマートフォン向けカメラの次の飯の種として、車載用途に数年前から注力開始。最近徐々に成果が出始めている。
■ ソシオネクスト
富士通とPanasonicのLSI設計部門が統合してできた日本最大のファブレス半導体メーカー。昨今の半導体ブームの波に乗り、株式上場、売り上げ2000億突破と非常に好調。3年前は1000億程度の売り上げだったので、すさまじい成長である。もっとも、母体となった富士通・Panasonicはピーク時の半導体売上が1社で5000億近くあったので、少々物足りなさを感じなくもない。復活は道半ばである。
■ メガチップス
ソシオネクストが誕生するまで日本最大のファブレス半導体メーカーだった。もともと任天堂向けの売り上げが大半だったのだが近年は多角化を進めている。昨年の売り上げは約700億とSwitch人気がピークだった時と比べるとやや劣るが営業利益は過去最高を記録している。
かつては日本を代表するファブレス半導体メーカーと言えばここだった。昨年の売上高は54億と、3年前紹介したときの30億から伸びたものの、ファブレス上位2社からはかなり離されてしまっている。大昔は韓国のサムスン電子に自社製品が採用されたのがウリで創業者の武勇伝にも頻繁に登場していたが、今では売り上げの75%を国内に依存しており海外展開の出遅れが否めない。
■ 東芝
車載用途のパワー半導体需要が伸びており、石川県の工場に300mmウェハ対応ラインを建設。この記事でよく出てくる300mmウェハとはシリコンの基板の直径であり、大きい方が製造効率が良い。125mm → 150mm → 200mm → 300mmと順調に大型化が進み次は450mm化と思われたが、大きすぎて弊害が大きく、ここ20年間はずっと300mmが最大サイズである。
従来はCPUやメモリといった分野の製造にしか使用されていなかったのだが、ここ5年くらいでパワー半導体にも300mm化の波が押し寄せてきている。
■ ローム
何かと癖のある京都系メーカー。車載事業が好調で売り上げが順調に伸びている。次世代パワー半導体材料と呼ばれていたSiCで日本国内の他のメーカーをリード。
余談だが、筆者は学生のころSiCを実験で扱っていた。単位を落としまくっていた不良学生だったので、教授がワクワクしながら話していたSiCの物性の話はすべて忘れている。今では家電芸人並みのトークしかできないのでSiCについて語ることはご容赦いただきたい。研究から本格量産まで20年超の時間がかかっていることに驚きである。基礎研究の大変さを実感する。
■ 三菱電機
パワー半導体大手。半導体に力が入っていないシャープから福山工場の敷地を取得し、300mmウェハ対応のラインを構築。SiCのラインも熊本に作るぞ！パワー半導体には詳しくないからこの辺で勘弁な。
日本の半導体産業が衰退しまくっていたころに、トヨタが危機感を覚えてデンソーとの合弁で設立した車載半導体メーカー。コロナ禍中に行われたオンライン学会に知らない会社の人が出てるなと思って調べたらここだった。
■ TI
米系のアナログ半導体世界最大手。富士通とAMD合弁のNOR FlashメーカーSpansionから買収した会津若松工場と茨城県の美浦に工場を持つ。最近は日本法人の話をあまり聞かない。
米系のアナログ半導体大手。三洋電機の半導体部門を買収したが、旧三洋の新潟工場は日本政策投資銀行出資のファンドに売却した。現在の日本拠点は富士通から買収した会津工場。富士通が半導体事業から手を引き工場を切り売りしたため、会津若松市内には米系大手半導体メーカーの工場が立ち並ぶことになった。
■ Infineon Technologies (インフィニオン)
ドイツの大手電機メーカー、Siemenseが20年ほど前に半導体部門を分社化して誕生した。従来欧州系半導体メーカーは日本での存在感があまりなかったのだが、富士通のマイコン半導体部門を米Spansionが買収、そのSpansionを同じく米Cypressが買収、そのCypressをInfineonが買収した結果、日本市場でも存在感を示すようになった。もともとInfineon自体が車載半導体に力を入れており、有力自動車メーカーがそろう日本市場に注目しているというのもある。
■ Nuvoton Technology (ヌヴォトン)
台湾の半導体メーカー。半導体から撤退したがっていたPanasonicから、Tower Semiconductorと共同運営している工場と、マイコン設計部門を買収する。Panasonic時代は、自社家電向けの独自マイコンをメインに作っていたのだが、Nuvotonに買収された後はArmベースの汎用マイコンに設計品目が変わった。日本法人は車載やモーター制御向けのマイコン開発に特化させていく方針で台湾の開発チームとは住み分けを図る模様。富士通ほどではないが、Panasonicも半導体部門を切り売りしており、所属していたエンジニアはバラバラになってしまった。研究室が一緒でPanasonicの半導体部門に入社した友人がいたが、彼は今どこに流れ着いているのだろう？
The Sacrament—and the Sacrifice
Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
I pray for your faith and prayers that my utterances will be received and understood “by the Spirit of truth” and that my expressions will be given “by the Spirit of truth” so that we might all be “edified and rejoice together.” (See D&C 50:21–22.)
As I stand here today—a well man—words of gratitude and acknowledgment of divine intervention are so very inadequate in expressing the feelings in my soul.
Six months ago at the April general conference, I was excused from speaking as I was convalescing from a serious operation. My life has been spared, and I now have the pleasant opportunity of acknowledging the blessings, comfort, and ready aid of my Brethren in the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve, and other wonderful associates and friends to whom I owe so much and who surrounded my dear wife, Ruby, and my family with their time, attention, and prayers. For the inspired doctors and thoughtful nurses I express my deepest gratitude, and for the thoughtful letters and messages of faith and hope received from many places in the world, many expressing, “You have been in our prayers” or “We have been asking our Heavenly Father to spare your life.” Your prayers and mine, thankfully, have been answered.
One unusual card caused me to ponder upon the majesty of it all. It is an original painting by Arta Romney Ballif of the heavens at night with its myriad golden stars. Her caption, taken from Psalms, reads:
“He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
“He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.
“… His understanding is infinite.” (Ps. 147:1, 3–5.)
As I lay in the hospital bed, I meditated on all that had happened to me and studied the contemplative painting by President Marion G. Romney’s sister and the lines from Psalms: “He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.” I was then—and continue to be—awed by the goodness and majesty of the Creator, who knows not only the names of the stars but knows your name and my name—each of us as His sons and daughters.
“When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
“What is man, that thou art mindful of him? …
“For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.” (Ps. 8:3–5.)
To be remembered is a wonderful thing.
The evening of my health crisis, I knew something very serious had happened to me. Events happened so swiftly—the pain striking with such intensity, my dear Ruby phoning the doctor and our family, and I on my knees leaning over the bathtub for support and some comfort and hoped relief from the pain. I was pleading to my Heavenly Father to spare my life a while longer to give me a little more time to do His work, if it was His will.
While still praying, I began to lose consciousness. The siren of the paramedic truck was the last that I remembered before unconsciousness overtook me, which would last for the next several days.
The terrible pain and commotion of people ceased. I was now in a calm, peaceful setting; all was serene and quiet. I was conscious of two persons in the distance on a hillside, one standing on a higher level than the other. Detailed features were not discernible. The person on the higher level was pointing to something I could not see.
I heard no voices but was conscious of being in a holy presence and atmosphere. During the hours and days that followed, there was impressed again and again upon my mind the eternal mission and exalted position of the Son of Man. I witness to you that He is Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, Savior to all, Redeemer of all mankind, Bestower of infinite love, mercy, and forgiveness, the Light and Life of the world. I knew this truth before—I had never doubted nor wondered. But now I knew, because of the impressions of the Spirit upon my heart and soul, these divine truths in a most unusual way.
I was shown a panoramic view of His earthly ministry: His baptism, His teaching, His healing the sick and lame, the mock trial, His crucifixion, His resurrection and ascension. There followed scenes of His earthly ministry to my mind in impressive detail, confirming scriptural eyewitness accounts. I was being taught, and the eyes of my understanding were opened by the Holy Spirit of God so as to behold many things.
The first scene was of the Savior and His Apostles in the upper chamber on the eve of His betrayal. Following the Passover supper, He instructed and prepared the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper for His dearest friends as a remembrance of His coming sacrifice. It was so impressively portrayed to me—the overwhelming love of the Savior for each. I witnessed His thoughtful concern for significant details—the washing of the dusty feet of each Apostle, His breaking and blessing of the loaf of dark bread and blessing of the wine, then His dreadful disclosure that one would betray Him.
He explained Judas’s departure and told the others of the events soon to take place.
Then followed the Savior’s solemn discourse when He said to the Eleven: “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33.)
Our Savior prayed to His Father and acknowledged the Father as the source of His authority and power—even to the extending of eternal life to all who are worthy.
He prayed, “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”
Jesus then reverently added:
“I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
“And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.” (John 17:3–5.)
He pled not only for the disciples called out from the world who had been true to their testimony of Him, “but for them also which shall believe on me through their word.” (John 17:20.)
When they had sung a hymn, Jesus and the Eleven went out to the Mount of Olives. There, in the garden, in some manner beyond our comprehension, the Savior took upon Himself the burden of the sins of mankind from Adam to the end of the world. His agony in the garden, Luke tells us, was so intense “his sweat was as … great drops of blood falling … to the ground.” (Luke 22:44.) He suffered an agony and a burden the like of which no human person would be able to bear. In that hour of anguish our Savior overcame all the power of Satan.
The glorified Lord revealed to Joseph Smith this admonition to all mankind:
“Therefore I command you to repent …
“For … I, God, … suffered … for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent; …
“Which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, …
“Wherefore, I command you again to repent, lest I humble you with my almighty power; and that you confess your sins, lest you suffer these punishments.” (D&C 19:15–16, 18, 20.)
During those days of unconsciousness I was given, by the gift and power of the Holy Ghost, a more perfect knowledge of His mission. I was also given a more complete understanding of what it means to exercise, in His name, the authority to unlock the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven for the salvation of all who are faithful. My soul was taught over and over again the events of the betrayal, the mock trial, the scourging of the flesh of even one of the Godhead. I witnessed His struggling up the hill in His weakened condition carrying the cross and His being stretched upon it as it lay on the ground, that the crude spikes could be driven with a mallet into His hands and wrists and feet to secure His body as it hung on the cross for public display.
Crucifixion—the horrible and painful death which He suffered—was chosen from the beginning. By that excruciating death, He descended below all things, as is recorded, that through His resurrection He would ascend above all things. (See D&C 88:6.)
Jesus Christ died in the literal sense in which we will all die. His body lay in the tomb. The immortal spirit of Jesus, chosen as the Savior of mankind, went to those myriads of spirits who had departed mortal life with varying degrees of righteousness to God’s laws. He taught them the “glorious tidings of redemption from the bondage of death, and of possible salvation, … [which was] part of [our] Savior’s foreappointed and unique service to the human family.” (James E. Talmage, Jesus the Christ, Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1977, p. 671.)
I cannot begin to convey to you the deep impact that these scenes have confirmed upon my soul. I sense their eternal meaning and realize that “nothing in the entire plan of salvation compares in any way in importance with that most transcendent of all events, the atoning sacrifice of our Lord. It is the most important single thing that has ever occurred in the entire history of created things; it is the rock foundation upon which the gospel and all other things rest,” as has been declared. (Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1966, p. 60.)
Father Lehi taught his son Jacob and us today:
“Wherefore, redemption cometh in and through the Holy Messiah; for he is full of grace and truth.
“Behold, he offereth himself a sacrifice for sin, to answer the ends of the law, unto all those who have a broken heart and a contrite spirit; and unto none else can the ends of the law be answered.
“Wherefore, how great the importance to make these things known unto the inhabitants of the earth, that they may know that there is no flesh that can dwell in the presence of God, save it be through the merits, and mercy, and grace of the Holy Messiah, who layeth down his life according to the flesh, and taketh it again by the power of the Spirit, that he may bring to pass the resurrection of the dead, being the first that should rise.
“Wherefore, he is the firstfruits unto God, inasmuch as he shall make intercession for all the children of men; and they that believe in him shall be saved.” (2 Ne. 2:6–9.)
Our most valuable worship experience in the sacrament meeting is the sacred ordinance of the sacrament, for it provides the opportunity to focus our minds and hearts upon the Savior and His sacrifice.
The Apostle Paul warned the early Saints against eating this bread and drinking this cup of the Lord unworthily. (See 1 Cor. 11:27–30.)
Our Savior Himself instructed the Nephites, “Whoso eateth and drinketh my flesh and blood unworthily [brings] damnation to his soul.” (3 Ne. 18:29.)
Worthy partakers of the sacrament are in harmony with the Lord and put themselves under covenant with Him to always remember His sacrifice for the sins of the world, to take upon them the name of Christ and to always remember Him, and to keep His commandments. The Savior covenants that we who do so shall have His spirit to be with us and that, if faithful to the end, we may inherit eternal life.
Our Lord revealed to Joseph Smith that “there is no gift greater than the gift of salvation,” which plan includes the ordinance of the sacrament as a continuous reminder of the Savior’s atoning sacrifice. He gave instructions that “it is expedient that the church meet together often to partake of bread and wine in the remembrance of the Lord Jesus.” (D&C 6:13; D&C 20:75.)
Immortality comes to us all as a free gift by the grace of God alone, without works of righteousness. Eternal life, however, is the reward for obedience to the laws and ordinances of His gospel.
I testify to all of you that our Heavenly Father does answer our righteous pleadings. The added knowledge which has come to me has made a great impact upon my life. The gift of the Holy Ghost is a priceless possession and opens the door to our ongoing knowledge of God and eternal joy. Of this I bear witness, in the holy name of Jesus Christ, amen.
ので、感想を書き残す。
スネイルズハウスくん、DJ下手なんやね。ぶつ切り繋ぎ、アンセム連発、DJ歴半年の子かと思った。
いい曲かくし、remix上手いのにまさかmixが下手やとは意外だった。
モエショップ、好き。曲が好きなのが大きいけどBPM低めでノリやすいし、計算されたセトリに丁寧なmix、わかりやすい煽りで安心感があった。
ぴっこさん、やるやん。正直あんまり曲知らんというか、前にちょっと聞いてみた時は未来茶系サウンドの焼き直し感があって、またkawaii系のフォロワーか、もうおなか一杯やわと思ってたけど、生で通しで聞いてみたらええやんと思ったね。
あれだけ可愛いで埋め尽くすセトリ、エリアのテーマにぴったり合ってて仕事できるなと思った。
まあでも一番キてたのはkawaii系からハカハカの潰れたサウンドへの流れ。この日を通して一番トべるポイントだった。
ネコハカ、煽るのが上手い、安定感しかない。でも曲が全く刺さらんのよね、ごめんなさい。どうしてもギターが邪魔に聞こえる。
これは俺の好みの問題でしかないのでネコハカのお二人には何の非もないです。パフォーマンス力は文句なしのトップ。
norくん。客のレスがイマイチなことにキレて、音止めてやり直したところで、おいおいやってんねえ！となった。数十人規模の小さい箱ならよくやるけど、企業主催の公式のホールイベントであれやる度胸ない。さすがだわ。バカ広い会場でいつも通りのクラブのDJやってくれる安心感よな。
Yunomi大先生、コンテンポラリーアートっすか？
うごくちゃんのミニマルミュージック風remixからの枕もとにゴースト。
たぶん何か意味があるんだろうけどそれを読み解けるほどうごくちゃんのこと知らないんよね。
何年前だったか、京都の南座に🍵見に行ったら、デカマスクにデカグラサンの青髪の女性が歌ってて、そのときはへー、この人人気の配信者なんや、くらいにしか思わなかったけど、そのあと何年かして自ら命を絶ったってニュースを目にして、少し悲しくなった。そんなことを、思い出したわ。
そんなスタートだったからか、全体的に重く、悲しい雰囲気があったね。明るくキラキラした曲も素直に楽しめないというか。まあ夜の部のコンセプト的に間違ってはいないと思うけど。
それにしてもYunomi大先生はどこに向かってるんやろね。俺はまだフォローしてくつもりだが、ここ数年の転向以降ついてけないオタクも多いんじゃないか。
電音部史上最高やないか？昼の部の小道具大道具モリモリで視覚的にハラジュクをわからせにくるのよかったし、夜の部は夜の部で変化がわかりやすかった。照明、音響文句なし。
ライブパートで字幕が出てくるの、ありがたかったな。新曲でも言葉がスッと入ってきて、ミュージカルみたいに楽しめた。
そう、ミュージカルみたいに楽しめたのが大きい。
原作？の物語を舞台上で表現するっていう一本の筋が通ったことで、全体が一つにまとまってて、いい感じやった。
いままでの電音部のイベントって正直な話、いろんな界隈のオタクを集めてわーわー騒いでるだけっていう、なんかよくわからんもんやったけど、今回のは違ったね。
ようやくバンナムが電音部をやる意味が出てきたんやないかと思ったわ。
アニソンフェスみたいなもんは文脈を共有してるから成立してるわけで、アニメ化ゲーム化してない小説だけの電音部は文脈が薄すぎてなんかようわからんかった。
もちろんオタクが集まってわーわー騒ぐのも楽しいけど、そんなもんはバンナムがやるまでもなく、いろんなオーガナイザーが低コストでやってくれてるし、バンナム謹製のお高いチケットには見合わんのよな。
なんにせよ光明が見えてきた感あるし今後が楽しみやわ。
友達が最近藤村シシンさんがFGOをギリシャ史と絡めて解説する動画にハマったらしい。ヲタトークをしていたらシシンさんの動画が面白かったという話をしていて、それはいいんだけど、「古代スパルタだとお金をわざと重くして人々が堕落しないようにしてたんだって！」と楽しそうに語りだしたので「そんなことある？？？」と思ってしまった。古代ギリシャ史については素人だけど、流石にちょっと胡散臭くないか？
ということで調べてみました！
動画はこれ。
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R-hpr7FJdI
まあトーク番組だから出典をいちいち挙げないのは当然として、じゃあ何がソースなんだろうと思ってちょっと検索してみたら、元ネタはプルタルコスの『英雄伝』なのね……『英雄伝』はギリシャ・ローマの英雄たちの逸話を紹介してる本で、日本語訳も複数出てるけど、増田は素人だから手元になくて近所の図書館にもなさそうなので、ネットで英訳版を見てみることにする。具体的にはリュクールゴスの章に書かれているらしい。
Not contented with this, he resolved to make a division of their movables too, that there might be no odious distinction or inequality left amongst them; but finding that it would be very dangerous to go about it openly, he took another course, and defeated their avarice by the following stratagem: he commanded that all gold and silver coin should be called in, and that only a sort of money made of iron should be current, a great weight and quantity of which was very little worth; so that to lay up twenty or thirty pounds there was required a pretty large closet, and, to remove it, nothing less than a yoke of oxen. With the diffusion of this money, at once a number of vices were banished from Lacedaemon; for who would rob another of such a coin? Who would unjustly detain or take by force, or accept as a bribe, a thing which it was not easy to hide, nor a credit to have, nor indeed of any use to cut in pieces? For when it was just red hot, they quenched it in vinegar, and by that means spoilt it, and made it almost incapable of being worked.
In the next place, he declared an outlawry of all needless and superfluous arts; but here he might almost have spared his proclamation; for they of themselves would have gone after the gold and silver, the money which remained being not so proper payment for curious work; for, being of iron, it was scarcely portable, neither, if they should take the means to export it, would it pass amongst the other Greeks, who ridiculed it. So there was now no more means of purchasing foreign goods and small wares; merchants sent no shiploads into Laconian ports; no rhetoric-master, no itinerate fortune-teller, no harlot-monger, or gold or silversmith, engraver, or jeweller, set foot in a country which had no money; so that luxury, deprived little by little of that which fed and fomented it, wasted to nothing and died away of itself. For the rich had no advantage here over the poor, as their wealth and abundance had no road to come abroad by but were shut up at home doing nothing. (...)
なるほど、シシンさんのトークはプルタルコスの記述に忠実だ。少なくとも彼女は盛って話していたわけではない。
で、プルタルコスの『英雄伝』が書かれたのは後2世紀初頭と言われているんだけど、ここで逸話が語られているリュクールゴスはだいたい前9世紀頃に活躍した人物と言われているのね。彼はスパルタの半ば伝説的な立法者。要するにプルタルコスは直接スパルタで鉄貨を見たんじゃなくて「1000年くらい前のスパルタではそういうことがあったらしいよ」っていう伝承を語っているのよ。古事記かな？
ところで根本的に、古代ギリシャでは鉄の棒を通貨として使っていた地域があったらしいんだよね。「わざと鉄の棒を通貨として採用した」んじゃなくて「もともと鉄の棒をお金として使ってた」だと、かなりイメージ変わってこない？
https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/courses/greekpast/4792.html
ちょっと古い文献だけど，Charles Seltmanっていう貨幣の専門家が書いたA Book of Greek Coinsっていう本にも次のようなくだりがある。
Certain it is that before coined money was used in Greece other states as well as Sparta, chief among them Sparta's great rival Argos, regularly employed iron spits as currency.（34頁）
なんでかというと、スパルタがあったラコニア地方は単純に鉄が採れる地域なんだってさ。そら、鉄が採掘できるなら鉄貨使うわな。
Iron was mined in Laconian territory, in the southern spurs of Taygetus and Parnon which end in Capes Taenarum and Malea. It was, therefore, but natural that the Spartans, with the wealth at their disposal, should employ bar-iron as currency; and their conservatism, combined with their lack of any more precious metal, led them to continue the employment of iron money for four centuries after other Greek states had adopted coin（33頁）
さらにこうも書かれている。
a currency which was possibly kept in use for reasons of economic convenience rather than for the enforcement of a stern rule of life（34頁）
要するに、
ってことね。
「質実剛健さを重んじてわざとコインを使わなかった」のが仮に史実だとしても、「あえて鉄の棒を採用した」んじゃなくて「鉄の棒を使い続けた（＝コインを採用しなかった）」というのが本当のところなんだろうなぁ。
あと，「偉い人の論文読んでみたら、普通にスパルタでは外国の通貨使ってたらしいよ」というブログ記事も見つけた。ただ元の論文がなかなか見つけられないので確定的なことは言えないけれど……
https://hoferjonathan14.medium.com/the-iron-money-of-sparta-likely-a-myth-97d95d431a62
このエピソード、英語で色々ググってみたけど全部出典がプルタルコスに行き着くので、考古学的裏付けはあまりないっぽいんだよね。まあプルタルコスはおもしろネタが満載なわけだけど、そこしか出典がないとなると結構胡散臭いんじゃないかな。
もちろん増田は古典ギリシャ語とか読めない素人だから、実際には他のところにも記述があったり、考古学的証拠が見つかっていたり、リュクールゴス時代の古文書が発掘されている可能性もあるわけだけど、個人的にはシシンさんのスパルタの鉄貨に関するトークを信じる気にはなれないかなと思いました。
https://www.kk-bestsellers.com/articles/-/2907/
この記事に鉄の串の写真があって、シシンさんが解説を寄せている。解説の文面はまあ納得のいく見解なので（串がコインに先立つことや、コイン出現後もスパルタでは串が使われていたと書いている。そこに異論はない）、動画でのトークはネタに振り切った感じなんだろうか……
シシンさんの動画のそこ、笑ったw 増田も調査サンキューやで ／ その上で、動画はFGOというゲームを楽しむユーザー向けで、論文ではない。そこでネタとして紹介してくれたものに目くじらを立てる気に私はならんな
FGOファン向けなら史実かどうかは怪しいおもしろエピソードを史実かのように話していい…ってコト!? ワ…ワァ…FGOファンにもシシンさんにも失礼すぎて泣いちゃった！
様々な論点があるので100字に入りきらないが，スパルタは貴金属貨幣を禁止していたということと，リュクルゴス制の成立を前９世紀とするのは後世による「伝統の創造」であるこことは指摘したい。
書き方が悪かったかもしれませんが、鉄貨の存在や貴金属貨幣の禁止は否定していません。
動画では、シシンさんは「スパルタはお金をどんどん重くしていって、賄賂や贅沢を抑止していた脳筋国家である（少しでも金額が大きくなると持ちきれないほどの重さになるから袖の下は渡せないし、持つことで鍛えられるから）」と言っています。
これ、前提知識なしで聞くと「バーベルのような鉄貨は堕落を嫌ったスパルタの発明」と聞こえるんですよ。実際に増田にこの話を面白そうに話した友人もそう理解していましたし、増田もトークを聞いてそう理解しました。そして実際にプルタルコスはそう書いています。
でも実際には、単にコインの発明前からスパルタやその周辺地域には棒状の貨幣があって、スパルタはそれをコインに置き換えなかった、という話なんですよね。で、参考文献に挙げた本にも「マッチョイズムじゃなくて経済的だから使ってたんじゃない？」と書いてある（最後に引用したセンテンス）。これ絶妙に史実を勘違いさせるトークになってません？ って思っちゃうんですが、どうでしょう。
（もちろん、副次的効果として賄賂の抑止や筋力増強はあったかもしれませんが、それが主目的であるかのように論じられると……都会民は電車通勤ゆえに自家用車通勤の地方民より体力があったりしますが、都民の体力を増強させるために都はメトロを整備したんだ、と言い出したら違う話になるでしょう？）
「Neitherのときはnorを使う」という慣習なだけ。意味とか論理とかねーよ。
「普通そう言うよね」でみんながそれを使えばそれが正しいということになるだけだよ。そういうもんと思って受け入れるしかない。
Me neitherは文法的に正しいけどMe eitherはダメと教科書には書いてあったりするけど、Me eitherと言ってるネイティブもいる。正しいもクソもない。
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Neither Emily ------- Jessy couldn't figure out how to fix the copy machine.
(A) either
(B) or
(C) as well
(D) nor
正解 (D) nor
＜訳＞ エミリーもジェシーも、コピー機をどうやって直すかわからなかった。
これ二重否定で「2人とも分からないことはなかった」にならない？
問題が間違ってるのかと思って
Neither Emily nor Jessy couldn't figure out how to fix the copy machine.
をGoogle翻訳にかけたら、同じ訳が出てきた。
じゃ、couldn'tをcouldにしたらどうなる？と思ってやってみたら、同じ訳が出てきた。
去年、「日本語の原郷」についての論文（Robbeets et al. 2021）が話題になった。増田は専門外の素人ながら疑問を持ったのでツッコミを入れたんだけど（anond:20211121124146）、今年の6月に入って専門家集団から「あの論文は取り下げろ」という反論論文が出ていた（Tian et al. 2022）。といっても、プレプリントサーバのbioRxivに置いてあるだけで、学術誌に掲載されたわけではないんだけど、まあいずれどこかには載るよね多分。
そういうわけで、反論論文の内容を（素人なりに）紹介していくよ！
ふええ……知らない人ばっかりだよぉ……
22人の共同著者による論文だけど、その多くは中国人研究者。ほかは数人のヨーロッパ人。中国人研究者については全然わからない。漢字で書かれれば一人か二人は名前を聞いたことがある人がいるかもしれないけど、ラテン文字で書かれているので誰が誰やらさっぱりなんだよな……
ヨーロッパ人研究者のうち、ラッセル・グレイ氏は聞いたことがある。20年くらい前に『ネイチャー』に印欧語族の起源に関するレター載せてた人だ（Gray and Atkinson 2003）。ホセ・アロンソ・デ・ラ・フエンテ氏は以前ロベーツ氏の著書に辛辣な書評書いてた人で、去年の増田でも引用した。
そしてトマ・ペラール氏は、日本では有名な研究者だ。彼は宮古島の北4キロに浮かぶ人口数十人の離島大神島の方言について博士論文を書き、それが「母音あるいは声帯を震わせて出される音を含まない単語がある」という世界でも珍しい特徴を持った言語であることを明らかにした（Pellard 2009: 80–85；ペラール 2011: 28–29）。ペラール氏は母語のフランス語だけでなく英語や日本語でも論文や共著を発表していて（最近だとペラール 2021とか）、琉球諸語の言語復興についても発言しているので（ペラール 2013; 2015）、琉球諸語に関心を持って調べたことがあれば一度は名前を聞いたことがあるはずの人物だろう。
要するにこの反論論文には、そのへんの日本人よりはるかに日本語に詳しい研究者が参加しているってこと。
反論論文は、ロベーツ論文で挙げられている同根語（cognate words）が少なすぎると指摘する。
同根語というのは、「起源を同じくする単語」のことだ。ある言語から分かれた娘言語たちは、いずれも共通した同根語を（二次的に失ったのでなければ）持っているはずだ、というのが比較言語学の基本的な考え方だ（生物学でいう原始形質／祖先形質にあたる……と思う。多分）。もちろん、偶然の一致とか、言語の場合は借用語とかがあるので、言語学的な検討を行って「これは祖語から受け継がれた同根語である」というのを確定させて、それをもとに言語の系統関係を判断していく。
たとえば印欧語族だと、次のような対応関係が見いだせる（例はウィキペディアの「印欧語彙」のページから持ってきた）（*がはてな記法の一部と認識されちゃうっぽいので＊で代用）。
| - | 印欧祖語 | 英語 | ラテン語 | サンスクリット語 | トハラ語 |
| 父 | ＊pH₂tér- | father | pater | pitṛ́ | pācar |
| 2 | ＊dwóH₁ | two | duo | dvā́ | wu |
| 足 | ＊ped- | foot | pēs | pā́d- | pe |
| 馬 | ＊ék̂wos | 古英語eoh | equus | áśva- | yuk |
複数の語派（語族の下位区分）にわたって対応する語彙が存在することがわかると思う。これらの同根語が存在することで、「英語とサンスクリット語は親戚なんだなぁ」というのがわかるわけだ（お墓に卒塔婆って置いてあるじゃん。あれに書いてあるのがサンスクリット語）（足で操作する機構を「ペダル」といったり歩行者デッキを「ペデストリアンデッキ」といったりするのは、英語のfootに対応するラテン語pēsからの派生語なんだよね）（「父権主義」が「パターナリズム」になるのも、英語fatherに対応するラテン語がpaterだから。これがポルトガル語でpadreになり、そこから日本語に入って「ばてれん」になるわけですよ）。
ついでに日琉語族の表も示しておく（Vovin 2017）。基礎語彙において規則的に音韻が対応しているのは、これらの一致が偶然ではなく日本語と沖縄語が親戚であることの動かぬ証拠だ。
| - | 標準語 | 沖縄語（首里） |
| これ | kore | kuri |
| 鳥 | tori | tui |
| 米 | kome | kumi |
| 場所 | tokoro | tukuru |
しかしロベーツ論文は、ひとつ以上の語族でみられる同根語が317、2つ以上の語族でみられる同根語がわずか50、そして5つの語族で共有されている同根語はたったの2つに過ぎないという（Tian et al. 2022: 2）。思い出してほしいんだけど、ロベーツ論文はテュルク・モンゴル・ツングース・朝鮮・日琉の計5語族が同一の起源を持つと主張しているのね。なのに5語族で共有されてる同根語はたったの2ってどういうこと？ って話になるでしょ。全然「トランスユーラシア語族」の証拠になってないじゃん。
っていうか、その50個の同根語リストの中には、ロベーツ氏自身が「これは借用語だよ☆」って書いてる単語が入ってるんだってさ。借用語は除くというのが比較言語学の基本なのに（借用語だと気づかずにリストアップしたならまだしも）借用語だとわかった上でリストアップするのヤバくない？ そんなこと言ったら日本語が英語の親戚になっちゃうよ？ 大丈夫？
反論論文の著者たちはこれに激おこぷんぷん丸になっていて、ロベーツ論文の「著者たちは彼ら自身の歴史的言語比較の原則を無視し、証拠を彼らの必要にあわせて歪曲している」（Tian et al. 2022: 3）とまで断言している。そりゃ、借用語混じりのたった数十の同根語で「トランスユーラシア語族は、ありまぁす！」って言われたらそう言いたくもなるわな。
遺伝学的にも、ロベーツらの論文は「不当な仮定（unjustified assumption）と、移民についてのありえそうな他の仮説を排除した選択的モデリング」に基づいているとバッサリ。考古学的証拠も「弱い」と切り捨てている。このへんは遺伝学や考古学に詳しいはてなーに解説をお願いしたいところ。
ロベーツ論文の結果を再現しようという我々の試みは［言語・遺伝・考古の］3つすべての面で重要な不一致をみた。さらにいえば、ロベーツ論文はこれら3分野の研究成果を統合するために「三角測量」を用いたと主張するが、その「三角測量」とやらの手法を定義も記述もしていない。したがって、彼らの手法に従って3つの分野に関する訂正を組み合わせることも不可能だ。つまるところ、我々が行った3つのデータセットすべての再検討は、ロベーツ論文の主張を完全に崩壊させた。トランスユーラシア仮説は未実証である。私たちはこの論文を取り下げるよう謹んで勧告する（Tian et al. 2022: 7）。
要するにアルタイ語族2.0は失敗したってことっすね。ロベーツ氏は「民族主義的な議題を持つ人々にとっては、自分の言語と文化の起源が国境の向こうにあるということは不快な真実だが、すべての言語と文化、人間は混じりあっている」って言ってたらしいけど、まずはご自分の仮説がボロボロだという不快な真実に向き合ってほしい。
こんなガバガバ論文を載っけちゃった『Nature』については、まあ……仕方ないところもあるのかな？ ちょっとでも言語の系統とかに関心を持っている人なら「これアルタイ語族2.0じゃん」と気づける内容だけど、理系の雑誌の編集者にその目利きを求めるのも酷かな……査読者選ぼうにも誰がこの分野の権威かすらわからんだろうからな……ただし『トランスユーラシア語族ガイドブック』なんてものをホイホイ出版したオックスフォード大学出版会テメーはダメだ。お前んとこは人文系の研究書いっぱい出してるんだからアルタイ語族2.0くらい見抜けるだろうが！
なお、ペラール氏のツイッター（@ThomasPellard）を見たら「そもそも論証の基盤になってる語彙の出典が書いてないやんけ。これスタロスチンが作ったデータベースからのコピペじゃね？ っていうかいくつかの言語が対応表に載ってないから同根語を検討できないんだけど？」という趣旨のツッコミをしていた（https://twitter.com/ThomasPellard/status/1536288665936306176）。あっ……（察し）
そろそろ凱旋門賞ですが、タイトルホルダーくん楽しみですね。天皇賞（春）と宝塚記念の圧勝劇（＋お姉ちゃん）ですっかりファンになりました。ロンシャンでも逃げ切ってほしいですね。ただ背負ってる期待が大きすぎるドウデュースくんにも勝ってほしい……武豊を凱旋門賞に勝たせるために生まれてきた馬になったら胸熱すぎるでしょ……
あと先日のセントウルステークスは感動で泣きそうになりました。桜花賞のころから推してたので……（ソングラインちゃんも安田記念戴冠おめでとう。BCマイル頑張れ！）。スプリンターズステークスで今度こそ待望のG1制覇を成し遂げてほしいですね……
ユキノビジンは！ 引けませんでした！（すり抜けで夏服メジロドーベルとサクラチヨノオーが来たのでまあ良し）
これ見落としてましたわ。教えてくれて感謝。こちらの方がわかりやすいのでみんなペラール氏の解説動画を見てクレメンス。
博士号って持ってないからわからないんですけど食べられるんですか？ ご飯粒よりおいしいんですか？
ここでもいくつか紹介されているようにトマ・ペラール氏は日本語でもいろいろ書いているしTwitterやAcademia.eduなどでも積極的に情報や研究を公開していて我々素人にとってはとてもありがたいです
ペラール、ヴォヴィン、ローレンスの3氏は色々academia.eduに上げてくれてて助かりますよね。ところで素人とはいったい……うごごご。
有り難い要約だけど、最後の「アルタイ語族2.0」だから胡散臭い、という部分はやや迂闊かと。当該論文はそうでなさそう、というだけで真に画期的な論文によりアルタイ語族が復権することは可能性としてはあるよね
もちろんそれはそうです。ちゃんとした比較言語学的な手法で「アルタイ語族」の存在が実証できるのならそれは歓迎すべきことで、その可能性は残されています。ただ、これまで数百年にわたって研究が続けられてきて熱心な擁護者も大勢いるのにまだ確固たる同系の証拠が出てきてない、というのは相当に重い事実ですよね……。ロベーツ氏は「民族主義的な議題を持つ人々」のことを揶揄してますけど、日琉語族の分類というのはまさにその「自分たちの言語はどこから来たのか」というルーツ探しの情熱に取り憑かれた人たちがいっぱい研究して、それでもなお結論が出ていないテーマなわけで（cf. 日本語の起源 - Wikipedia）。
増田はドシロートなんでなーんも独自の見解は持ってないですが、古代ロマン的な観点からはanond:20211121124146でも言及した大陸倭語仮説が面白そう（「大陸倭語」の存在はまだ定説にはなってないことに注意）。島嶼倭語（仮に「大陸倭語」の存在が実証されない場合は日琉語）のUrheimatは五十嵐氏の指摘に沿えば近畿地方のあたり（多分四国ではない）。日琉語族が列島と半島にまたがって分布していて、そのうち大陸倭語が南進してきた朝鮮語族に同化されたと考えると古代の日本と朝鮮半島との関わりに色々納得がいく（繰り返すように素人が古代ロマンといくつかの論文に基づいて妄想したものです）。では仮に対馬海峡をまたいだ日琉語族の存在が実証されたとして、そのUrheimatは……どこでしょうね？ なんもわからん。
あ、トラバでやたらゲノム研究のURL貼ってる人は、（もし同一人物なら）去年の議論で血統と言語系統を混同したり（anond:20211121201022）、論文や増田の内容を理解できてなかったりする（anond:20211121224311）ような人なので、マトモに相手する価値はないっすよ。一応ご忠告。
自民Twitter炎上で注目 「ダーウィンの進化論」とは：東京新聞 TOKYO Web
ダーウィンは「生き残ることができるのは変化できる者である」とは言わなかった。英語で流布しているのはこうである。
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.
The evolution of a misquotation | Darwin Correspondence Project には、この誤った引用の由来が解き明かされている。これをうけた日本語の記事もある。
じつはこれはダーウィンの言葉ではない。彼の考えでさえないのだ。科学史家の調査によれば、これは元々1960年代に米国の経営学者レオン・メギンソンがダーウィンの考えを独自に解釈して論文中に記した言葉であった。それを他者が引用を重ねるうち少しずつ変化して、最後にダーウィンの言葉として誤って伝えられるに至ったものである。
では、どういう考えを解釈していたのだろうか。すくなくとも、こうは書いている。
ある土地にすむ生物の多くが変化し改良されているとしたら、競争の原理と生物相互の関係をめぐる重要な原理により、あまり変化せず改良されなかった生物種は消滅させられる定めにあることが理解できる。そういうわけで、長い目で見ると、同じ地域にすむすべての種はなぜ最終的には変化するのかという理由がわかってくる。変わらない種は絶滅してしまうからなのだ。（強調引用者）
原文では
When many of the inhabitants of any area have become modified and improved, we can understand, on the principle of competition, and from the all-important relations of organism to organism in the struggle for life, that any form which did not become in some degree modified and improved, would be liable to extermination. Hence we see why all the species in the same region do at last, if we look to long enough intervals of time, become modified, for otherwise they would become extinct. （強調引用者）
素人なので自分もこれは防げたのでは？と思ってしまう。タラレバになるけど。
１発目の時SPらしき人が身を屈めて固まっている人も居たし、振り向いて犯人を確認しているような人も２発目まで動いてない。
確保した時の映像も、周りのSPもなんだかよく分からないけど集まってきました、みたいな雰囲気に見えるし緊迫感がない。
まず一発目の後の時点で考えるより先に身体が動いているようなSPは誰も居なかったような気がする。SPの訓練では、そういうことを叩き込んでいくんじゃないの？
多分こんな素人でも考え付くような指摘は、組織のお偉いさんが今後追求していくんだろうけど。https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/27506cd35eb2a6e19ac10fc113f089fe3d230ea0/comments
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/28f4cb51fb624d73224517a6e3e495b1176b421f
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やぁ。とある反ワクです。長崎大が医学部などで行う解剖実習で使うために提供された遺体を調べた結果、1体からプリオン病の病原体となる異常型プリオンたんぱく質が検出されたってニュースがあってプリオンがトレンドワードにもなってて、Twitterがちょっとざわついてた。
https://twitter.com/Uematsu1987/status/1537013180475785216
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このニュースに対して「ワクチンのせいやろ」と言っていた反ワクの人達がいたんだよね。おそらくそれを見た、ワクチン推進派として有名な上松正和先生が「デマです」とツイートしたんだと思う。
ただね。実はファイザー、モデルナ、アストラゼネカのワクチンが従来の形態のCJD(クロイツフェルト・ヤコブ病)よりもはるかに攻撃的で進行が速いCJD (クロイツフェルト・ヤコブ病)の出現に寄与した可能性示してるフランスの研究が、最近発表されてるんだよね。
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Though the Omicron variant of COVID-19 doesn’t carry a prion region in its spike protein, the original Wuhan COVID-19 variant had one. Therefore, when the Wuhan variant’s spike protein gene information was made into a vaccine as part of mRNA and adenoviral DNA vaccines, the prion region was also incorporated. A U.S. study published in the journal Microorganisms indicated that the prion area is able to interact with human cells.（COVID-19 のオミクロン変異種はスパイクタンパク質にプリオン領域を持っていないが、元の武漢型 COVID-19バリアントにはプリオン領域があった。したがって、武漢型のスパイクタンパク質遺伝子情報が mRNAワクチンおよび、アデノウイルスDNAワクチンの一部としてワクチン精製された際には、プリオン領域も組み込まれた。科学誌Microorganismsに掲載された以前のアメリカでの研究は、プリオン領域がヒト細胞と相互作用する可能性があることが示された）
Though major health organizations say genetic material from the vaccines isn’t incorporated into human DNA, mRNA studies conducted on human cells in labs have found that mRNA can be transcribed into DNA and then incorporated into the human genome.Unfortunately, the biological process of translating mRNA information into proteins isn’t perfect nor immune to mistakes, and protein misfolding can occur.（主要な世界の保健機関は、これらのワクチンの遺伝物質はヒトDNAに組み込まれていないと述べているが、研究室でヒト細胞に対して行われたmRNA研究では、 mRNAがDNAに転写され、ヒトゲノムに組み込まれることがわかっている。残念ながら、mRNA情報をタンパク質に翻訳する生物学的プロセスは完全ではなく、タンパク質の誤った折り畳みが発生する可能性がある）
Another U.S. study, published in the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research, speculated that a misfolded spike protein could, in turn, create a misfolded prion region that may be able to interact with healthy prions to cause damage, leading to CJD disease.（International Journal of Vaccine Theory、Practice、and Researchに掲載された別の米国の研究では、誤って折りたたまれたスパイクタンパク質が誤って折りたたまれたプリオン領域を作成し、健康なプリオンと相互作用して損傷を引き起こし、CJDにつながる可能性があると推測している）
The French study identified 26 cases across Europe and the United States. Twenty of the individuals had already died by the time the study was written, with death occurring, on average, 4.76 months after being vaccinated.（フランスの研究では、ヨーロッパと米国全体で26のCJD症例が特定された。研究が書かれるまでに20人の個人がすでに死亡しており、ワクチン接種後平均 4.76ヶ月で死亡した）
The study’s lead author, Dr. Jean-Claude Perez, informed The Epoch Times on June 6 by email that all 26 patients had died.（この研究の筆頭著者であるジャン・クロード・ペレス博士は、6月6日に私たちエポックタイムズ（大紀元時報）に26人の患者全員が死亡したことを電子メールで通知した）
最後に大紀元時報の名前が出てくる時点で、信用性に賭けると思う人もいるだろうけど、あながちmRNAを打ってプリオン病にかかるの、デマでも無いのよ。
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実際にコロナ後遺症のブレインフォグはアルツハイマー認知症と同じ脳内アミロイド凝集塊によって引き起こされるってのを、オーストラリアの科学者が発見してたりもするからね。ワクチン後遺症で脳の認知機能に影響が出るのも可能性として無くは無いわけ。
私はずっとワクチン推進派の医者とかインフルエンサーを、見てきてるんだけど、物事を断言したり、意見をコロコロ変えたり、最近そうゆうことをしてる人が多いって感じる。特にmRNAなんて治験そんなにしてないんだから、断言できることなんて無いわけですよ。普通に考えて。
はてぶを見てると変異の早い風邪ウイルスなのにも関わらず、ワクチンに期待を賭けて5回も6回も打つようなことを平気で言ってる人も見かけるけど、マジでここで立ち止まって自分で調べた方が良いよ。反ワクは陰謀論を平気で垂れ流したり嘘をついたり、そうゆう人いて受け付けない人もいるのは分かるけど、ほとんどはまともな人だからね。しっかりエビデンス出して主張を展開してる人多い。なので、こっちの情報も、あなた達の身体のために、是非見て欲しい。
可能性の話をしたら、もはやどうとでも言えるんだけど、あらゆる可能性を考慮して分析するのが私は誠実な態度だと思うんだけどね。多くの人は「断言」を求めるだろうけど、「断言しちゃダメ」でしょ。専門家であればあるほど、インフルエンサーであればあるほど。
Let’s write some anonymous diaries in english
Actually I suck in english, because I hardly use it
I just play some games in english, but I don’t speak nor write, so my ability to compose english-sentences is very poor
That’s the reason why I’m writing, or should I say trying to write, this entry
I have no parents. No money, either nor do I have any hobbies, friends, or goals for the future. But my days of nothingness have changed just a little. Was it because I came across my Cub?
No. If I sit back and do nothing, a Cub won’t help me. I probably have to have a desire of my own. Like say… wanting to turn at an unfamiliar corner you’ve never turned at before. It doesn’t have to be any bigger than that. When you do, I’m sure the Cub will respond.
It isn’t a magical, do-anything machine. But when you have to face a hurdle, or come through with something… it will definitely be there at your side. Such were our Super Cubs.
I’m going to keep riding forever… on my…Super Cub.
from the line of "Super Cub".
Four years after the Fukushima accident, TC screening data from the first and second round (up to December 2014) were compared with the Japanese nationwide annual TC incidence, and with the incidence in one area of Fukushima prefecture selected as reference (Tsuda et al., 2016). The authors reported that the observed number of TCs was substantially higher than the expected number based on national and regional incidence data, and concluded that this increase could be attributed to ionizing radiation exposure from the accident. This ecological study has been strongly criticized by scientists around the world because of serious methodology limitations; further, the study conclusions are not supported by the results (Davis, 2016, Jorgensen, 2016, Korblein, 2016, Shibata, 2016, Suzuki, 2016, Takahashi et al., 2016, Takamura, 2016, Wakeford et al., 2016). Limitations of ecological study design are well-known, although the authors did not acknowledge the issue of ecologic fallacy. Another criticism was that the data from the Fukushima screening program are not directly comparable with the cancer registry data from the rest of Japan where systematic advanced ultrasound technology is not used to detect cases. The authors of these criticisms suggested that though the increased TC number could be associated with the exposure from radioactive fallout, a more plausible conclusion would be that the screening program is finding an anticipated increase in TC detection across the Fukushima prefecture. Indeed, Tsuda and colleagues did not consider the latent properties of TC, nor the fact that a prevalent cancer detected by screening might have had first preclinical manifestations of abnormality before the nuclear accident.Thereafter, several researchers have analysed the relationship between radiation exposure (with different estimated exposure levels, mostly using an external dose) and TC prevalence and incidence in residents aged ≤18 years in the Fukushima prefecture at time of the disaster (Kato, 2019, Nakaya et al., 2018, Ohira et al., 2019a, Ohira et al., 2020, Ohira et al., 2019b, Ohira et al., 2016, Ohira et al., 2018, Suzuki et al., 2016, Toki et al., 2020, Yamamoto et al., 2019), but no radiation-related risks have been demonstrated to date.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412020321851
