American Gaijin
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Why Fox News Commenters are Idiots: Part 2
There is a certain kind of person who is impossible to talk to or reason with. These people tend to be very religious, though the type of religion they can be an adherent to can be secular. They see the world in utter black and white, and to them, there are no shades of grey…
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Israel: A Country of Unresolved Trauma
There’s a lot going on in the middle east right now, and a lot of strong feelings on a lot of topics. So first, let me tell you what I will not do in this post. I will not defend Hamas. Their actions are beyond the pale, and they (to some level) deserve everything they…
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Clannad: Being Seen
When I was a child, I had a lot of dreams, one of which actually, in a sense, eventually came true. I wanted to be a scientist. I didn’t know what it meant to be a scientist, and that deck was stacked against me from the beginning, but I wanted to be a scientist. As…
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Fox News Commenters are Idiots
Those of you who have hung around here for a while (which I think is exactly one of you) know that I lean right. I have absolutely no respect for wokism or any of that tripe. I’m not a Republican, though, and I’m about to tell you why. This is a post where I, sort…
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Clannad
I really don’t know how this post is going to end. But at the least, I know how it’s going to start. I had heard of Clannad, but I was avoiding watching it, because something about the title made me think that it was an isekai or something set in medieval times, and I’m really not…
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Taking Lessons Again
I restarted Japanese lessons this week. Maybe that was a mistake, but at least they’re not that expensive. Due to a minor fortunate circumstance, I was able to pay off all my loans, thereby freeing up quite a bit of money every month to use for, well, stuff you’d spend money on. I decided to…
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Squarespace
I have quite a few domains. Until recently, they were hosted on Google Domains, which I was happy with. Today, I moved all of them to Dreamhost, which is the service on which I host this site. I moved them because apparently Squarespace, against my wishes and will, took over management of my domains and…
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Exotic
I order a lot of stuff from Japan. It’s mostly manga at the moment, but sometimes a few other things as well. They have a lot of products that I want (and quite a few I don’t, but you can’t win ’em all). Today a manga arrived from Japan. As I pulled it out of…
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Eclipse
Earlier this week, I was fortunate to be in the path of a total solar eclipse. It was, of course, the one that cut a line through the United States, starting in Texas and ending somewhere in the Northeast. As you may know, I live in Central Texas, so I got about three minutes of…
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Bocchi the Rock: Atmosphere
The first anime I ever watched (that I can recall) was “Bocchi the Rock”. It was maybe a year ago, I had heard good things about it and saw some clips on YouTube, and thought “what the heck”. And I loved it. But it’s not really because “she’s just like me fr”. She’s really not. …