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itās remarkable how much money you can save by not leaving the house and not eating and not moving
looking at my bank account after a month of being in a depressive coma like wow. Iām so good at budgeting
The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorise, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save ā the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour ā your capital. The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have, i.e., the greater is your alienated life, the greater is the store of your estranged being.
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How to write formal Japanese emailsć»ę£å¼ćŖę„ę¬čŖć®ć”ć¼ć«ć®ęøćę¹
The nonprofit I work for recently gave all us interns a really informative talk on the protocol for writing profession emails in Japanese, so I thought Iād share what I learned with you guys! Just so you know, Iāll be using some advanced vocab (including ę¬čŖ) in this post and pretty much wonāt gloss any kanji. So if youāre feeling up to it, then letās go! č”ćć¾ćććļ¼
Subject line
For some reason our presenter did this one last, but Iām going to put it at the beginning. As in English subject lines, be plain and mention the specific purpose of your email. I have temporarily lost SO many work emails due to inane or repeat subject lines. Include your last name in the subject line if you think itās necessary. Hereās a sample subject line for an internship application:
ć¤ć³ćæć¼ć³ć·ććē³ćč¾¼ćæļ¼XX大å¦ć»ļ¼»ååć»åå*ļ¼½ļ¼
Hereās one for the nonprofit I work for:
ćļ¼»éå¶å©å£ä½ļ¼½ćććććÆļ¼ļ¼ć³ććć¦ć¤ć«ć¹ļ¼11ę9ę„éå§ļ¼
Please donāt ask what I do hereā¦itās semi-ridiculous. (And I donāt even get paid.)
*If you have a Western name where your given name comes before your family name, itās more up to you which order you put them in and which one you use in general, especially if you donāt know if your Japanese recipient will be able to recognize which is which (or if youāre like me and your last name is nigh unpronounceable in kana). You might want to think about this on a case-by-case basis.
Addressing the recipient
Usually the first thing you do in an English email is greet who youāre talking to. This is the same in Japanese. Hereās a basic template:
ę Ŗå¼ä¼ē¤¾ABC XXéØ ļ¼»ååć»ååļ¼½ę§
First, you name the company*Ā your addressee works for; second, the department; and third, their full name, accompanied by ę§ļ¼ćć¾ļ¼, not ćć!
*Be careful here: not all companies are ę Ŗå¼ä¼ē¤¾. Basically, the first line is for their workplace. If youāre a university student like me, you might be emailing someone who works for ABC大å¦.
Introducing yourself
Next, you should say who you are. The format for this varies on whether you are tellingĀ them who you are or remindingĀ them, i.e., if this is your first time emailing them or not. Hereās an introduction template for a university student:
åćć¦ć”ć¼ć«ććéććććć¾ććABC大å¦XXå¦éØYYå¦ē§*ć®ļ¼»ååć»ååļ¼½ćØē³ćć¾ćć
With a first email, you state that itās the first email and introduce yourself using ē³ć to be extra polite. You also state your university (if they donāt work for it already, presumably), your major, and å¦ē§* if necessary. If youāre a double major like me, you can write XXå¦éØ twice in a row.
Hereās a template for a second email:
ćć¤ććäøč©±ć«ćŖć£ć¦ććć¾ććABC大å¦ļ¼XXå¦éØć®ļ¼»ååļ¼½ć§ćć
Basically, you thank them for talking with you again and briefly reintroduce yourself, depending on if your university or your major is more relevant. No need to use ē³ć.
*Iāll be honest: I donāt really know what a å¦ē§ is or how it differs from å¦éØļ¼å°ę»ļ¼å°é. Our presenter called it aĀ āsub-major.ā No clue what that means. Concentration, maybe? Tread carefully, my friends.
Email body
Just as in English emails, Japanese emails should be simply written and get to the point as immediately as possible. Thatās more basic email etiquette than anythingāafter all, does anyone reallyĀ want to be reading emails?
You should also use ę¬čŖ in the email body if you can. Pick whether to use å°ę¬čŖ or č¬č²čŖ and then stick with your choice for the entire email. I gotta say, I have no idea how to decide which one to use! ę¬čŖ is so hard! Do your best!!!
(Also, hereās a ę¬čŖ Quizlet I made a while ago!)
Here are some useful phrases to include in your email body:
XXćę·»ä»ćć¦ććć¾ćć®ć§ćć確čŖćé”ććććć¾ćć = I have attached XX for you to check.
ćč³ŖåćŖć©ćććć¾ććććé ę ®ćŖććē³ćä»ććć ććć = If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.
ćäøęćŖē¹ćŖć©ćććć¾ćććććę°č»½ć«ćé£ēµ”ćć ććć = If anything is unclear, please feel free to contact me.
ćÆćć·ć§ć³čØč (cushion phrases)
In classic Japanese fashion, ćÆćć·ć§ć³čØč are phrases used to soften requests, questions, apologiesā¦basically all manner of inconvenience or imposition. These can get pretty long, which seems to go against the general rule of concision in emails, but in Japanese these are very important. Use them in your email body.
Asking for help, making a request:
ęćå „ćć¾ćć⦠(note: å „ here is pronounced ć)
ćęę°ććććććć¾ććā¦
ćčæ·ęććććććć¾ććā¦
Asking a question:
å°ć ćå°ććććććØćććć¾ćć
Making an apology:
čŖ ć«ļ¼å¤§å¤ē³ć訳ćććć¾ćććā¦
There are probably lots more of these to be discovered. Maybe someday a Japanese person will write YOU an embarrassingly polite email!
Closing
Ah, conclusionsāthe worst part of any piece of writing. Luckily, we have more templates. This is another case where the format varies depending on whether youāve emailed this person before. Hereās the template for a first email:
ćåæćććØććććęę°ććććććć¾ćććä½åććććććé”ćē³ćäøćć¾ćć
Probably the most commas Iāve ever seen used in one Japanese sentence. This is all č¬č²čŖ.
Hereās a template for if youāve emailed them before:
ä»å¾ćØćļ¼å¼ćē¶ććććććé”ććććć¾ćć
Basically, you have to thank them for their continued support/tolerance of you.Ā
Signature
And here we have just what we did for the addressee at the beginning, but now for you, the sender.
ļ¼»ååć»ååļ¼½ ABC大å¦XX愽éØXXå¦ē§* ęŗåøÆēŖå·ļ¼XXX ć”ć¼ć«ļ¼YYY@
Optionally, you can also link any webpage you might have (like LinkedIn) or include your home, school, or business address. Iām not totally clear on what the protocol is surrounding your cell phone number, since in the US at least I would never give that out in an email signature, but you can probably delete it or easily replace it with a work number.
*Again, substitute your place of work if necessary.
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Yikes, that was a lot of content at once, especially since most of it is just canned phrases to memorize or keep on hand. I hope this will help you guys in all your scary email-writing endeavors!! ć¾ććć®ę¬”ć¾ć§ćļ¼
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the signs as chinese idioms
Aries: ä¹ę å锾 (yƬ wĆŗ fĒn gù) - not to flinch or shrink back in pursuing for a righteous cause
Taurus: ē¾ęäøę (bĒi zhĆ© bù nĆ”o)Ā - with a determination that stands against all odds
Gemini: åå¹»č«ęµ (biĆ n huĆ n mò cĆØ) - to have unpredictable and irregular changes/behavior; capricious
Cancer: å ³ęå¤č³ (guÄn huĆ”i bĆØi zhƬ) - to give utmost care and concern, typically in looking after someoneĀ
Leo: éē³äøŗå¼ (jÄ«n shĆ wĆ©i kÄi) - sincerity can warm the coldest of hearts; a strong will can overcome any challenge
Virgo: ē²¾ēę±ē²¾ (jÄ«ng yƬ qiĆŗ jÄ«ng) - to seek constant improvement or perfection even in an area of strength
Libra: č¦å°½ēę„ (kĒ jƬn gÄn lĆ”i) - the bitterness ends and good times begin anew
Scorpio:Ā ę½ē§»é»å (qiĆ”n yĆ mò huĆ ) - an imperceptible influence; to be affected subconsciously by
Sagittarius: č±ē¶å¼ę (huò rĆ”n kÄi lĒng) - to experience a moment of clarity in an eye-opening experience
Capricorn:Ā ååæę²„č” (Ēu xÄ«n lƬ xuĆØ) - to put oneās heart into, or throw all of oneās energy and concentration into something
Aquarius: å大精深 (bó dĆ jÄ«ng shÄn)Ā - to have a vast knowledge and wide, profound thinking
Pisces:Ā äøå¤ę”ęŗ (shƬ wĆ i tĆ”o yuĆ”n) - a peaceful haven or utopia, undisturbed by the matters of the world
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A historian or a sociologist will say something like ātechnology doesnāt exist on a simply hierarchy like in a video game,ā and I think people whose exposure to history is primarily through pop culture will go āhuh? that seems like nonsense. I mean, an automatic rifle beats a sword. 21st century America is richer than 3000 BC Mesopotamia. Our medical technology right now, today, is better than anything in the Middle Ages. Of course you can ārankā technology!ā
But the real answer is still no; because no technology exists apart from its context, and the question you are forgetting isābetter how? Better in what situations?
The Ancient Greeks knew the principles necessary to build steam engines, and probably would perfectly understand the principle of operation of a steam locomotive; but they didnāt build trains, because they didnāt have the metals to build trains with, and they didnāt have the metals to build trains with because the economy of the ancient eastern Mediterranean didnāt support the manufacture of steel; and it didnāt support the manufacture of steel because bronze and the iron they had solved all the problems they needed metals for, a king of ancient Greece devoting his city-stateās spare productive capacity to mining iron ore and turning it into steel would have been wiped out by neighboring states who didnāt waste time and energy doing that, and spent their time making a bunch of bronze swords and beating the crap out of that king and his soldiers. Even if the Greeks could have built trains, what would they use them for? Railroads are a solution to transportation when you have industrial quantities of goods moving around to support a highly integrated economy, a rich source of high-carbon fuel easily available, and (for instance) warfare based on massive formations recruited from a mobilized, industrialized population.
None of which ancient Greece had. If you Connecticut-Yankeeād your way into 5th century BC Greece, you would find that trying to bootstrap an industrial economy from the ground up would require first speedrunning 2300 years of intervening demographic and economic developments, as well as technological ones, and even then a modern Greece surrounded by a Bronze Age world would be a very different animal, along all those dimensions, than a modern Greece surrounded by a modern world.
If you wanted to go Alexander with modern combined arms tactics and maneuver warfare, you couldābut modern combined arms tactics and maneuver warfare is a solution to modern arms, and you might find it was significantly cheaper to arm your hoplites with slightly upgraded versions of the old spear-and-shield, and invest all the materials and energy you would have spent on tanks in building up the wealth of your stateābecause remember, everything you spend on building a better tank youāre not spending on anything else. This is why German technical skill was a miserable failure in WW2ātheir overengineered bullshit was expensive, and for each fancy German tank they pumped out (from a much worse position resource-wise than the Allies), the Allies made many less fancy, good enough tanks, and the Nazis got overrun. To recall the earlier metaphor: your automatic rifle is only any good if the other guy is way over there. If he sneaks up on you with his sword, you might wish you had a sword instead, though that wonāt help you if youāve only ever practiced using a rifle, because itās ābetter.ā
Even the process of innovation is not like most people imagine it, I would argue. The bulk of innovation comes from incremential trial-and-error improvements in processes that accumulate over decades, if not centuries or millennia. Incremential improvement is hard; unless you have a wild overabundance of resources, too much experimentation is just going to waste scarce materials; the thing that drives major innovations is having a problem that needs solving, and (again, until a resource becomes superabundant) a reliable method that produces consistent results is better than wasting time and effort testing a new way of producing something that may or may not work.
If you want an antibiotic or to send a message across the world, or figure out what the Moon is made of, yes, modern technology is better for all those things; and there are periods of cultural and societal change that open up the space for innovations: the steam locomotive was impossible in 5th century BC Greece, and inevitable in 19th century Britain. But it only became inevitable because of economic changes that only became inevitable because of demographic changes that started much earlier; those in turn were dependent on factors beyond the control of any single person or state.
Technologies can be dependent on each other, or on other factors, in the way living organisms are dependent on each other or on environmental factors in a food web; but a shark isnāt ābetterā than a jellyfish because it has a more complicated anatomy. Itās solving the problem of how to be a shark, while the jellyfish is solving the problem of how to be a jellyfish. Even our industrial, āscientificā technologies can struggle in environments theyāre not suited for, which more āprimitiveā technologies do perfectly well inābecause even our best technology (and our best scientists) are constrained by the environments and assumptions they are developed in.
Iāve started to look at it as a sort of evolutionary process, where instead of saying that this or that technology is ābetterā, you need to look at as āthis or that technology is better for this or that particular thing in this or that particular socioeconomic context.ā Instead of having one generic variable of āgoodnessā, you have a multi-dimensional space of different variables for which a particular technology may be good or bad; and even āprimitiveā technologies can still be optimal in some specific niche.
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