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In almost every case, when using a word from another language, you pronounce it using the phonetic inventory of the language you are speaking. Otherwise it can sound really weird. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKkHfkvpw34
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credburn posted:I used to go to karaoke and sing songs that were in German. I don't know German, and that's kind of the joke, but I got pretty well at phoneticizing the words. I was thinking of singing the song Judgement from Yakuza 0 (which is itself a karaoke song in the game). I was practicing it and there are some English words thrown in there, and I realized as I sang the English words I was singing them as the singer does in the song, which is to say with an extremely thick Japanese accent. So it got me thinking, is it problematic that I'm doing this song at all? Phonetically singing a German rock song is fun and kind of funny but doing it to a Japanese song feels almost like something approaching yellow-face*. Especially since I'm not saying these words like an American who knows some Japanese; I'm mimicking a singer, who is Japanese. Fwiw I (white af) am engaged to a Filipina and there is always karaoke at any get together. And when I (a non-tagalog speaker) do the phonetic pronunciation thing to a Filipino song it absolutely slays. The only people I can imagine having a problem with you singing Japanese karaoke are that specific genre of Twitter / Tumblr virtue-signaling white folks. How much you care about their opinion is a question only you can answer.
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BonHair posted:I know you can make money from drawing weird porn on the internet. But how do you get started if you're just looking to get paid and not actually a part of some niche community? I have a friend (not me, I have zero artistic talent, but otherwise I'd be game) who has difficulty holding down a real job, but they're pretty good at drawing and not afraid of mpreg cars or whatever, so it seems like a good way to get some income without having to deal with coworkers and external deadlines. But what sites do you go to and how do you advertise? You might get better answers in the Deviant Art thread (https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3958040). There's a few artists in there who do side work IIRC and I think maybe even one patron of those specific arts. As stated by Fruits of the Sea, it helps if they have an online portfolio already. But for sanity and reputation stake, make new accounts and a new email address and maybe a persona. Bob White is a respectable graphic artist and illustrator. Kwayle_Fukker is a purveyor of perverted arts. From there, Deviant Art or Fur Affinity probably. Get on there and start posting. If they don't have furry art, but can throw something together, all the better, assuming that's not drawing a line. If they are good and have the money to invest, set up their own smut specific website with a gallery and commission rules/rates. Unfortunately, like it or not, if you want to make money creating pornographic artwork ,you're going to have to be involved in some niche communities. The entire concept of illustrated porn is a niche in itself. You would have to get involved with some community or another and there is probably enough cross over that news of someone available for commissions would travel fast.
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Also, Twitter. Everything is on Twitter if you find the right hashtags and accounts to associate with.
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I've been trying to break into that market, and a big problem you're going to run into is that there are artists who legitimately create and enjoy the stuff you're just trying to make for money. So you're going to be competing with the output of someone who draws that stuff for fun, who genuinely enjoys it, and intimately knows what people who like that art is looking for. Like there's a reason you can always tell when someone draws porn they're into, because it slips into their other drawings, and they just have that look. Like when someone traces porn for a comic or whatever. Or when simple sketches always have incredibly detailed mouths or feet or hands or whatever. You're friend will run into a real problem if they're not into whatever they're drawing, because there's hundreds, even thousands of artists who ARE into it, who take commissions, have patreons, and are pillars of their weird niche community of perverts. There's also the problem of "Don't draw a fetish you're not willing to become your own," but that normally becomes a problem waaaay later.
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There's definitely still a lot of money to be made drawing furry porn commissions or whatever as a non furry. You don't have to be into it. The people who spend all day on furry porn twitter networking with other furry porn artists (and so have the biggest audiences to sell comms to) are probably really into it though. Like don't make a specific subject your whole identity if you aren't into it but lots of suspiciously wealthy internet people commission "vanilla" artists to draw their ultra niche fetish. Even if you draw nothing but basic bitch wolves with their titties out in pinup poses you'll eventually get some requests from people who want a 500 foot tall Falco from star fox shoving a skyscraper up his butt. More than "avoid drawing fetishes", a better rule is just "set lines for what you are and are not comfortable with drawing", cus you'll get a bunch of weird requests pushing your boundaries no matter what. e: But yeah definitely 100% market to furries cus that's where the best money is RPATDO_LAMD fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Aug 7, 2022 |
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:e: But yeah definitely 100% market to furries cus that's where the best money is https://twitter.com/BanananaTwinky/status/1502985078560813058
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how long has Puerto Vallarta been a gay vacation destination a la Provincetown, Fire Island, and Palm Springs? I feel like I only heard about it for the first time in 2020, but that doesn't mean anything since I haven't been to any of the ones I have heard of either
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My wife buys a lot of TV series on Amazon Prime. It recently stated telling her she has to purchase these same shows to watch them again. Not everything…mostly older purchases, but some much more recent purchases, too. Do purchases expire? Are you only allowed to have a maximum amount in your library? We live in the US.
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Lincoln posted:My wife buys a lot of TV series on Amazon Prime. It recently stated telling her she has to purchase these same shows to watch them again. Not everything…mostly older purchases, but some much more recent purchases, too. Do purchases expire? Are you only allowed to have a maximum amount in your library? We live in the US. Several possibilities. 1. She thought she bought them but actually just rented them 2. She bought them but a new version is out (4k or something) and that turns up first in a search and she goes to click play on it but that's not the version she bought 3. Shenanigans Has she tried going into her digital purchases section of her Amazon profile and seeing if they show up there?
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Lincoln posted:My wife buys a lot of TV series on Amazon Prime. It recently stated telling her she has to purchase these same shows to watch them again. Not everything…mostly older purchases, but some much more recent purchases, too. Do purchases expire? Are you only allowed to have a maximum amount in your library? We live in the US. Sounds like your wife is about to be radicalised and learn how to get on Usenet.
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Lincoln posted:My wife buys a lot of TV series on Amazon Prime. It recently stated telling her she has to purchase these same shows to watch them again. Not everything…mostly older purchases, but some much more recent purchases, too. Do purchases expire? Are you only allowed to have a maximum amount in your library? We live in the US. There are some things on Amazon that are rentals rather than purchases. Newer movies and specials that might also be available through other sources/streams. I can't speak to shows specifically, but IIRC, paid rentals are good for maybe a few weeks. You should be able to look through previous purchases and see if something was listed as a rental.
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4. She downloaded them and the downloads have an expiration date.
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People who know anything at all about plants, give me a hand here: I'm looking for fairly large seeds. What's they're seeds for is immaterial -- this is an art project -- but they need to be seeds, spherical to oblong, about 10mm in diameter. Absolutely no more than 13mm, else they won't fit in the vial I intend to fill with them. I was thinking maybe date palm seeds? Maybe there's something better.
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Date palm seeds would work. Almonds would too and are already clean but does it ruin your whatever that they are generally recognizable as a nut?
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gay frog chemicals posted:It's fine. The stereotypical japanese accent is literally just how katakana is pronounced properly to get people to understand you, it's something people have to get used to when they live in japan. Related: my Japanese is pretty terrible, but I found I could often make myself understood, when I didn't know the word for something, by using ordinary Japanese grammar and sentence structure, and just saying the word I needed in English, but with katakana pronunciation. It worked waaaay more often than I would have expected. I remember reading that in Japan they all E: not to mention, there are heaps of straight-up English loanwords in Japanese anyway, so it seems like there's a reasonable chance that the common word for something might actually *be* English pronounced as if written in katakana. Hyperlynx fucked around with this message at 06:56 on Aug 8, 2022 |
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the Spain Virus posted:People who know anything at all about plants, give me a hand here: One approach to this is to search the USDA PLANTS Database characteristics search. It has a data field for “seeds per pound” (under “Reproduction”). Spheres ten millimetres diameter work out to about one hundred and fifty thousand per pound. Thirteen millimetres would be as low as seventy thousand. So the 100000–200000 range is a good place to start. This yields a hundred and ninety plants, which can be further winnowed with any of the other search criteria.
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That's one hell of an answer and another reason why I love this thread 
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Do federal rebates increase prices? I was just thinking about the solar and EV rebates in the new inflation reduction act (terrible name btw), and I am wondering why solar and EV retailers wouldn't jack their prices up by that exact amount since they already found the highest feasible consumer price point
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If they don't change the price, they get the same profit per unit as otherwise but they sell more units because more people will buy a more affordable car. In perfectly smooth academic economics land, the maximum total profit would be somewhere in the middle.
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This may be a bigger question that the thread was meant to handle, but what exactly caused the crazy inflation we’re seeing?
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Let's say that a company is producing 100 units/month for $100 apiece. Let's further assume that they've determined that this is the best product count / price point they can achieve (which maximizes their profit given current demand). Then the Fed comes along and offers a $50 subsidy on the good the company is producing. What happens next depends on what kind of market the company is in and how heavily-regulated they are. If they're an unregulated monopoly, then they can just boost their price by $50, so the consumer still pays $100, and they absorb the complete value of the subsidy without altering their production. At the opposite end of the spectrum, if they're in what economists call "perfect competition", then they can't increase price without every single consumer ditching them for a competitor. The $100 price point is precisely what it costs them to produce the good, i.e. it's just enough for the company to stay afloat (and the same holds true for every other company in this market). If they raise the price by 1 cent, all of their business will go to competitors. In that situation, all of the value of the subsidy goes to the consumer, because any company that attempts to take any value for themselves will get priced out of the market. Perfect competition isn't a real-world scenario, though -- it requires things like "zero cost of entry", "perfect market knowledge by all actors", and "infinitely large markets". Even if it did exist, its very existence would mean that it doesn't need to be subsidized. Typically, reality lies somewhere in the middle. Companies can and do try to get as much of that subsidy money for themselves as possible, but they aren't always able to get all of it because of competitors, as well as market regulation. If you and I both make basically equivalent electric vehicles, at basically equivalent price points, and you try to take $6k of the federal EV subsidy for yourself while I'm willing to settle for $5k (and price my cars $1k lower than you do), odds are I'll get substantially more business than you. In practice, I suspect that a successful subsidy (i.e. one that isn't just captured by the companies) requires doing enough research beforehand to determine things like: - There's enough (non-colluding) competition that companies can't just raise prices - Companies are capable of expanding production - There's unmet demand for the products the companies are producing Like, if you wanted to subsidize electric car production in the 1990's, you'd have to grapple with issues like "there's simply not enough lithium being produced to make batteries". So you can't just tell car companies "hey we'll knock $10k off of every electric car you produce that meets these specs" because they can't make those cars, much as consumers might like to buy them.
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I may be going back to school and note taking is a skill I’m going to have to reacquire. Do these note taking tablets, the reMarkable, make a big difference in the note taking experience? I’m guessing that at the very least the fact that it has cloud support makes it relatively archival?
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:This may be a bigger question that the thread was meant to handle, but what exactly caused the crazy inflation we’re seeing? A combination of things but mostly it is the after effects of major worldwide shipping disruption that continues to have issues today because of covid.
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The current inflation (as with any bout of inflation) is a complicated enough thing that everyone has their own politically motivated pet answer to that question, and there's probably a kernel of truth to all of them, but thisMr. Nice! posted:mostly it is the after effects of major worldwide shipping disruption that continues to have issues today because of covid. Of course those are boring explanations that don't serve political ends the way blaming e.g. covid stimulus money does so you don't hear as many people going on about them.
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Yeah, Abstraction's explanation of the mechanics is good but the event that started driving inflation up significantly was shipping delays and prices for materials skyrocketing. It got to the point where shipping a container from Asia literally tripled/quadrupled in price and the shipping delays also created scarcity in products that didn't have it before, further driving price increases. You also have to take into account that a ton of industries have transformed their supply chains into lean 'just in time', meaning they cut down on warehousing and logistics costs by having as little inventory as possible and only ordering more inventory when it's immediately needed. This of course is a terrible way to do things if the world's shipping industry collapses because they are caught on the back foot and don't have any recourse but to order more inventory at higher prices and hope it arrives in time (which it doesn't)  I'd also like to add that another thing that disrupts 'perfect competition' is that it doesn't account for companies co-operating in order to increase prices as well as drive new competitors out of the market. A good example of this is the telecoms industry in North America. Who also get a ton of subsidies but don't actually use the money to improve infrastructure. This is called a "cartel". AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile or Bell, Telus and Rogers for Canada. If you're wondering if cartels are illegal, then you would be correct! Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Aug 8, 2022 |
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When in doubt, it's oil companies safeguarding their profits over everything else imo.
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Flipperwaldt posted:When in doubt, it's oil companies safeguarding their profits over everything else imo. Oh yeah, this as well. The price of oil can literally decide elections too, so price hikes often take place at suspiciously convenient times whenever an administration starts mentioning price caps and regulations.
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:This may be a bigger question that the thread was meant to handle, but what exactly caused the crazy inflation we’re seeing? The various covid related stimulus checks all put a decent bit of extra money in a lot of people’s pockets that they may have saved for a rainy day during the uncertainty of the pandemic, but now that everything is fine/not fine but at least semi-predictable, people are spending some of that. Also sanctions on Russia over Ukraine/loss of Ukraine’s exports are putting even more upward pressure on basic inputs like grain, steel, aluminum, oil etc. in an already very strained market. They are both relatively important worldwide in steel and grain production, and Russia is a big metals and oil producer. Even if Europe was buying most of that before the invasion and not the US, Europeans looking for alternative sources of supply raises prices worldwide. E: There's a saying among economists that 'high prices cure high prices' i.e. high prices incentivize producers to expand capacity/produce more and incentivize consumers to consume less, but that can be a lengthy process. Even if there was a steel mill sitting around in perfect condition waiting for someone to flip the switch, it would take several months to get operational, and there aren't many steel mills sitting around idle, and if they were they'd have a hard time finding workers to work in them. Business for the last 30 years has focused on running very lean and cutting excess capacity where possibly, so there isn't just a ton of slack to ramp up production with overtime/extra shifts. Inflation almost certainly will get better, but when is a the big question-is it a year? a decade? Kaiser Schnitzel fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Aug 8, 2022 |
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Thanks for the inflation answers! I had a feeling it was Covid/shipping related but wasn’t sure. I was kinda confused on the whole situation because I work for a major hardware retailer and we’ve been posting record profits basically since Covid started… which made me double take when our normally $5 umbrellas (same price for many years) suddenly became >$7 umbrellas overnight
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Business are also using inflation as an excuse to gouge. Profits are on a bit of a time delay between earned and reported though so if those numbers don't start dropping soon then you'll know just how much of that is just gouging in your particular instance.
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:Even if there was a steel mill sitting around in perfect condition waiting for someone to flip the switch, it would take several months to get operational, and there aren't many steel mills sitting around idle, and if they were they'd have a hard time finding workers to work in them. Business for the last 30 years has focused on running very lean and cutting excess capacity where possibly, so there isn't just a ton of slack to ramp up production with overtime/extra shifts. Inflation almost certainly will get better, but when is a the big question-is it a year? a decade? Your basic theory is sound, but unfortunately you picked a bad example. It turns out there are a lot of (USA) steel mills that are idle (https://www.wsj.com/articles/steelmakers-keep-old-plants-idle-despite-surging-prices-11623322802) and there have been for long enough for there to be multiple documentaries about it. This applies to a lot of USA industries, whole swathes of our corporate landscape operates well below their theoretical maximum production capacities for a variety of reasons. Inceltown posted:Business are also using inflation as an excuse to gouge. Profits are on a bit of a time delay between earned and reported though so if those numbers don't start dropping soon then you'll know just how much of that is just gouging in your particular instance.
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Inceltown posted:Business are also using inflation as an excuse to gouge. Profits are on a bit of a time delay between earned and reported though so if those numbers don't start dropping soon then you'll know just how much of that is just gouging in your particular instance. Yes this example of inflation is a really weird way to spell “price gouging”
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LLSix posted:Your basic theory is sound, but unfortunately you picked a bad example. It turns out there are a lot of (USA) steel mills that are idle (https://www.wsj.com/articles/steelmakers-keep-old-plants-idle-despite-surging-prices-11623322802) and there have been for long enough for there to be multiple documentaries about it. Mothballed steel mills still take a year or more to spin back up
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alnilam posted:Mothballed steel mills still take a year or more to spin back up A lot of businesses are wary of putting cash into expansion that might not play out in the long run. A lot of the CEOs and companies around today are the survivors of the 2008 recession and they are very cautious. Sawmills (and plenty of other businesses) learned the ‘don’t overextend’ lesson hard in 2008 and that’s a big part of why lumber prices have been nuts over the past 2 years. The steel industry has an overcapacity problem worldwide. The article is paywalled so I can’t read it all, but I expect the mills they are keeping idle are older blast furnaces that make new steel from iron ore and coke which is much more intensive and less profitable than the newer, more efficient ‘mini mills’ that are just an arc furnace that recycles scrap. In any case, most companies right now still seem to prefer to stay lean, not increase capacity, and cash in on the high prices. The CEOs get to report record profits, the shareholders get a nice dividend, and the consumer pays the price. That’s not to say that industries aren’t increasing capacity to capitalize on high prices-plenty are. There’s tons of sawmills being built or expanded in the Southeast to take advantage of cheap timber and high lumber prices, but it takes a year or three to build or expand a sawmill, and making steel is more complex than sawing logs.
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Thirteen Orphans posted:I may be going back to school and note taking is a skill I’m going to have to reacquire. Do these note taking tablets, the reMarkable, make a big difference in the note taking experience? I’m guessing that at the very least the fact that it has cloud support makes it relatively archival? I have a Boox Note2 and I love it, but I'd hesitate to say that the note-taking experience is enough of an advantage over alternatives that it's worth the price - especially if you've already got a perfectly good laptop, for example. Whenever I show it to anyone, it pretty much always goes the same: "Oh, that's really cool. I could see a lot of use for that. How much did it cost? Oh, ok, I'm not going to get one, but it does seem cool though!" The one I've got is also a fully functional android tablet, so I can use it for other stuff beside reading books and taking notes, whereas it looks like one of the selling points of the one you're looking at is that it doesn't really do anything else so you avoid distractions? If that's something you feel you need then it might be a worthwhile option? Technology Connections did a series of videos about e-ink tablets that you might find useful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhRgw0HfrYU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytpRnRke6I0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NfX0vlCa4k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D38dcArwCNc
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Thirteen Orphans posted:I may be going back to school and note taking is a skill I’m going to have to reacquire. Do these note taking tablets, the reMarkable, make a big difference in the note taking experience? I’m guessing that at the very least the fact that it has cloud support makes it relatively archival? I've got one. It's really smooth and I like it a lot. It's the first device that dislodged me from my paper notebooks for any appreciable amount of time (about year now!). I REALLY like it as an e-reader. It's loving stupid, but pay the extra money for the eraser. Drawbacks:
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Are there any good female equivalents of "guy", "dude", or "man" that work for casual conversation? As in "Hey, good on you, man!" I don't have very many cis female friends, but I've got a few friends who have recently come out as trans women. In ordinary conversation those previous terms sort of work in an "assuming male as human default" sense, which is still pretty crappy, but I especially don't want to use them with my trans friends. Actually, posting because I'm at a networking event at a pub with one of them, and I've already screwed up a few times and feel terrible for it.
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Hyperlynx posted:Are there any good female equivalents of "guy", "dude", or "man" that work for casual conversation? As in "Hey, good on you, man!" English lacks good gender-neutral equivalents for tons of stuff like this. Like, I was recently trying to figure out a substitute for "fraternal" and as far as I could tell there just isn't one. You basically have to say something that doesn't quite have the same meaning/connotation but is sort of close enough. I think the same is true here; you can use "friend" or its synonyms, but they don't have the same broad utility that "dude" or "guys" do.
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