Making an effort

MEL🌸 ||25|| 🇩🇪/🇰🇿 || BBA&MBA✔️||📍🇰🇷 || Languages: German, Russian, English, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian & ASL

[hardstudyingsposts]

IF YOU REALLY WANT IT, PLAN FOR IT.

IF YOU REALLY WANT IT, WORK FOR IT.

IF YOU REALLY WANT IT, PRIORITIZE IT.

IF YOU REALLY WANT IT, FOCUS ON IT.

IF YOU REALLY WANT IT, COMMIT TO IT.

IF YOU REALLY WANT IT, SACRIFICE FOR IT.

[morningautumn]

Reviewing for an exam I have to take later | morningautumn

[hardstudyingsposts]

[bluelightning42]

I wonder why the word for reptiles は虫類 has the kanji for insect 虫 in it?

[tokidokitokyo]

Oooh, pick me! *raises hand*

Because in ancient China they grouped everything like snakes and insects into 虫 without it really meaning "insect" but rather a garbage can term for anything not mammal, bird, or fish. So this has carried on through many other words, such as 爬虫類.

That's why you can write octopus (たこ) as 蛸 with the 虫 radical.

Some more info: https://bestiary.japanesewithanime.com/animals/mushi

[morningautumn]

it’s been raining for literally four days straight but it makes for perfect study weather | morningautumn

[studyinginthestorm]

21 April 2026

(Picture is from last year bc I had no new ones)

Test and exam season is coming! Time to lock in over the next two months. I got my new braces in this week and made some progress on clearing up my room. Small wins snowball, right?

🎧 Friends by Chase Atlantic

[thevulturesquadron]

text: [ “Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5000 years.” ]

[rudjedet]

And they're absolutely specifically pushing it, make no mistake. It's not just a matter of "it's there, it's convenient, so people are going to take the path of the least resistance", it is a legitimate and concerted effort on the part of these companies to get people to outsource all these things to their models.

They're preying on insecurities to do it. Yes, you can write an essay - but can you write a good essay, they ask you. Do you not want to improve your output? Do you not want people to think of you as competent and very clever? Why go through the mortifying process of failing and failing and failing until you succeed if you can just skip the "learning" part of doing, and simply generate a ready-made product?

I'm preaching to the choir here obviously but it's a concerning thing to witness nonetheless. My kid is 6 next week and I've been teaching her that failing at things is morally neutral and in fact necessary even before the advent of AI, but it's becoming ever more important that we teach the kids that criticism and failure and discomfort aren't necessarily bad things, but just a part of the growth process.

AI companies are heavily invested in making themselves relevant. They want people to believe they can't do the things they have done unaided before and to make them become reliant on the AI models, so the AI models' existence is artificially justified.

[inbetweencoffees]

more flashcards for my exam & the assignment for my writing class done; the library seems to be the only place where I can write…

[tokidokitokyo]

器

訓読み: うつわ 音読み: キ container; capacity

器（うつわ） bowl; vessel 食器（しょっき） tableware 器量（きりょう） ability; capacity

彼は器の大きい人だ。 かれ は うつわ の おおきい ひと だ。 He is a big-hearted person.

[succumbing-song]

[is-this-taken-too-questionmark]

underrated level of finally understanding a language is when you are reading a text that is supposed to make you feel some kind of emotion and it works. like hell yeah i can make myself feel things just by looking at strange groups of letters!!

[benzohoarder]

[figural]

#google translate does not capture the tone switch so i have to say. first two sentences are like. normal maybe kind of feminine posting tone #& the last is like. shounen manga protagonist. action movie hero. jojo's bizarre adventure character. #the tone you would use if you were holding a gun with the safety off (– @chadlesbianjasontodd)

[minothtime]

Basically, a translation could be:

I just think it's so interesting that people end up falling in love with their friends' boyfriends! I absolutely despise every single one of them. give me my fucking homie back you goddamn bastard

[liminalweirdo]

translation tags by @minothtime because they are so so good

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

[thewhimsicalarchives]

Keep your eyes on the prize.

[rigelmejo]

Japanese Youtubers Rec Lists

All linked from this reddit post made by redditor AdrixG.

My List (a ton of youtubers are on this list)

Some lists by other users linked on that post:

Japanese Media Recommendation List

Migaku's Spreadsheet

Podcast collection (also has learners podcasts)

Livakivi My 15 Favorite Japanese YouTubers For Learning Japanese

[creatingblackcharacters]

"When you can't keep women out anymore, and you can't force them all to become secretaries or teachers because modern social politics demand that you at least pretend to support gender equality in the workplace, what can you do to keep women out of powerful positions in business? You can set them up to fail- or, to be more accurate, you set them up to fall.

It's called the glass cliff, and it's a phrase that was first coined in 2005 by University of Exeter researchers Michelle K. Ryan and S. Alexander Haslam. The research was inspired by an article in the Times (of London, not New York) that suggested women leaders have a negative impact on stock performance. Perhaps Ryan and Haslam smelled the whiff of bullshit coming from the page. They wondered if it was actually true that women brought doom and gloom to the businesses they led, or if there was some other reason why women were more likely to be found in leadership positions at troubled businesses.

They found that women were indeed more likely than men to be in leadership positions at distressed companies, but they also found that the problems were not the women's fault... These firms had shown months of decline and seemed at risk of failure prior to adding women to their boards.

When Allison Cook and Christy Glass at Utah State University followed up on this research by looking at US companies, they also discovered disturbing patterns impacting women and people of color in business: women and people of color were most likely to be placed at the head of a company when it was already at risk of failure; white men were less likely to accept leadership positions when companies were at risk of failure; and when women or people of color fail to quickly turn around the struggling company, they were most likely replaced with white men.

Women and people of color are often only given the opportunity to steer ships that white men have already rammed into icebergs. Then, when the ship sinks, the media reports that women make bad captains."

Chapter 5- Mediocre, Ijeoma Oluo

[academicssay]

[alexaloraetheris]

I am printing these words out and gluing them backwards onto my forehead

[thistlelearns]

10.4.26 - enjoying the beautiful (and dry) weather before everything changes to humid hell.

currently studying china-taiwan relations.