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  I find this weirdly sad. I always tried to understand the name of the character and how it may be pronounced (I’m seriously going to include a glossary with IPA for all proper nouns if I ever produce anything for real publication). To me it’s a part of the world-building and I almost recoil at just replacing it with nonsense.

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  I considered killing myself last night. I self-harmed for the first time in many years. My company advertised remote work. I asked if I could move far away from Tokyo and sure, no problem. I got told if RTO, then it would be close and new people only. I got permission to run a side job doing a small farm. Sure no problem. I’ve been in this industry for 20+ years now. Mandatory return to office (I live 4 hours each way). They pay transportation expenses per month at a level that wouldn’t...

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  I went lemmy (very early, still with auto-refresh, etc.) for a very short time due to hating it to kbin, later mbin, and now piefed. I'm not sure if I like piefed better. I don't care about mastodon or other similar platforms so that may change your decision.

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  Joke answer: whomever my wife would let us. Actual answer: I don't know. I'm in my mid 40s. If I had to start over for some reason and was looking for a serious relationship, at least 30s as the minimum. Max would be low 50s, probably, though I've not thought a ton about it. Actualer answer: if I ever lost my wife, I doubt I could/would pursue a serious relationship again or at least for a long enough time to make my answer above probably innacurate.

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  Who steals a porch? Seriously, the nerve!

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  Xennial here. I got rid of most social media years ago (FB, twitter, etc.) and never signed up for a lot of others. I'm replacing my google pixel watch with a pebble. I'm open to ditching my android google phone as well once something works properly with all the Japanese government and banking services. Thinking about how to degoogle. It wasn't all sunshine and rainbows back in the '80s and '90s, but I definitely feel like we should take back some of our balance, security,...