The one time where sovereign citizenship makes sense is when native people who have never ceded their land to the crown claim it. This might be one of those cases. They may be in Hamilton, but the land may be unseeded.

I think it’s an indication that the written language is not reasonable for the modern age. Granted, Japanese has 2000 characters in everyday use, versus the 10,000 in Chinese, but each character could have up to six or seven different pronunciations based on the context, whereas I think Chinese has one or at most two.

The sticking point is that written Japanese can carry a lot of nuance. For a given word, you may be able to use different characters to emphasize certain meanings. Losing that would be traumatic, especially because the culture has a great deal of love and respect for their heritage.

Spoken Japanese is not insanely difficult for English speakers, although it is more difficult than Romance languages.

If you try to learn to read and write, you’re in for a world of pain. Probably 3 years of working on it several hours a day. In fact, even Japanese people are losing the ability to write by hand, because it’s easier to type in the phonetic words and have the computer figure out which characters to use.

I’ve probably played through it 5 times, using different skill trees.

• Never get involved in a land war in Asia
• Never go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line
• Never bet on a fucking Nazi

But hundreds of thousands, or millions of other Nazis were never tried or punished for their crimes. Indeed, it was usually the ones who gave the orders who were tried.

• We Have Ways of Making You Talk
• Battleground
• The Rest is Classified
• The History of English
• Ehrman Podcast (Christianity from an atheist expert in the New Testament)

Definitely a thing for days like Valentine’s.

I look at Trump having meetings with Putin where none of Trump’s advisors were allowed to attend, no transcripts were published, and I think they even used only Russian translators.

So either Trump is controlling Putin, or Putin is controlling Trump. I know which way to bet.

From what I have heard, this organisation was a bloated and cumbersome bureaucracy. It attempted to bring caregivers into the decision-making processes, but ignored the fact that doctors and nurses didn’t want to sit in lots of meetings instead of caring for patients.

I listened to a phone in where a nurse with decades of experience mentioned meetings of up to 40 people, where only five or six attendees were needed. And that at one point she had eight levels of management above her.

It’s not that some people in positions of power don’t understand the danger of Trump et al. That they act to their own benefit and the benefit of the people who are funding them, not for the people or the republic.

If I recall correctly, Chapman’s ice cream is made in strictly nut-free facilities, making it safe for people with nut allergies. That is a very big deal.

And Kawartha Dairy.

In Quebec, we love Coaticook ice cream!

One of the things about his performance is that the role has also been played by more than a dozen other actors, including Kenneth Branagh, Peter Ustinov, Albert Finney, John Malkovich an Ian Holm. Yet he made the character indelibly his own.

One of our three dogs does the head tilt. It is also the one that is not as dumb as dirt.

I think it’s more likely to hurt the country that cannot produce most of its own food, rather than the one that can.

Doesn’t it have to be a land border to qualify? I think so. They are two islands in the Gulf of St Lawrence.

English and French, Japanese, and I used to be able to speak German and Sesotho.

I’m working on Spanish now.

https://www.languagetransfer.org/ is the best language learning system I’ve ever come across.

Not to mention that both brothers were widely known to be distributors in the drug trade.

If you want some numbers, in 2023 Ontario provided slightly over $8,000/student/year for post-secondary institutions. That was the lowest for any province in Canada.

The next lowest province, Nova Scotia, paid over $13,000/student/year, more than 50% higher.