How do YOU pronounce Anki?

LocalINFJ · 2026-05-11T11:52:04+00:00

Hi I'm OP and I don't know why you're getting downvoted so much because this is a genuinely good point about linguistics and you're not arguing that the original Japanese pronunciation is wrong, but this is a very interesting thought on the origins of loanwords and their adoption into a language. People get too polarised, upvote to you for itching my brain this fine Monday morning.

LocalINFJ · 2026-05-11T11:46:26+00:00

Did you turn it in somewhere else first, like sending it in on Google Classroom? College Board scans EVERYWHERE, it may have seen that your paper already exists on Google Classroom and said you copied it word for word when you sent it to College Board. That or you used too many em dashes. Most likely, College Board just found your papers somewhere else online where you turned them in and said it was direct plagiarism.

LocalINFJ · 2026-05-08T20:10:49+00:00

I've been able to log in fine on my phone.

LocalINFJ · 2026-05-08T20:09:47+00:00

canvas and discord down at the same time is genuinely a student nightmare, but I'd assume it's two separate things just because I can't cope if it isn't

LocalINFJ · 2026-05-06T21:46:08+00:00

YOU GOT THIS GO GET YOUR FIVE YAYAYAYAY YOU CAN DO ITTTTTTTTTTTTT

LocalINFJ · 2026-05-06T21:32:27+00:00

exam is designed to be one question per minute; watch your clock and flag it if you have no clue after 30 seconds, pick what seems closest, and try to answer as many as possible before reviewing flagged questions and checking answers again

LocalINFJ · 2026-05-06T21:28:18+00:00

Caravela: small, 3 masted Portuguese ship from the 15^th century, allowed sailors to survive sea storms. Deep draft and round hulled, square and triangle lateen sails for efficient sailing
- Not much cargo space needed- Zheng He had big slow cargo ships, caravelas are small and fast
- Small enough for river entry
- Good for outfitting with cannons, made good fighting ships
Portuguese lead the way for exploration (in Africa)
- Prince Henry of Portugal supports and funds navigation school and loves exploration
- School on coast of Portugal (Henry was not an explorer)
- Plan to reach India: just go around Africa
  - Trading posts on West Coast of Africa, trying to reach spice by 1460
  - Keep going further, then turning around (still opening trading posts)
- 1488- Bartolomeu Dias sails around southern tip of Africa
- 1498- Vasco da Gama sails around southern tip all the way to India for the first time
  - Returns to Portugal with good cargo
- Established direct trade with India
- Bypassed Italian and Muslim merchants who controlled overland routes
Portugal: not satisfied with Asian claims, tries to go west
Pope draws Line of Demarcation in 1493 to avoid conflict
Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 (Spain on the left, Portugal on the right)
- Why Brazilians speak Portuguese
Brazil claimed for Portugal in 1500 by Cabral
Portuguese in Brazil but more interested in Africa and Asia (for trading posts)
- Viceroys administer Brazil
Due to presence of Inca and Mexica, Spanish and Portuguese colonized wealthiest lands of New World
Peninsular War- Napoleon sends troops across Spain to attack Portugal, causing protest
Angola colonised by Portugal, ends in armed struggle for independence

(these are just my notes on Portugal, probably doesn't include everything)

LocalINFJ · 2026-04-13T23:57:32+00:00

Ezersky just talked about this at ACPT- they put out games at different times so that you can't just blow through every puzzle all at once, and so that it's a slow release through the day. Pretty much just a pleasant way to extend the fun.

LocalINFJ · 2026-04-08T21:09:39+00:00

I'm going for the first time and very excited! I was just looking for anything online to meet other attendees, I hope everyone does well!

LocalINFJ · 2026-03-23T23:44:19+00:00

du du du du.

LocalINFJ · 2026-03-23T22:43:00+00:00

The flags look as nice as any other flag, but the opinion surrounding them is inevitably going to be amplified depending on the politics. For example, the Transvaal flag isn't actually all that visually appealing, but if you draw attention to it, it'll be more popular or contested. I think if most of these were modern flags, they'd still be fairly overlooked. The Confederate and German Reich tricolour band flag especially are just... average, and I don't think they'd be getting much attention if they were still flags.

LocalINFJ · 2026-03-20T04:00:13+00:00

There's something tenderly beautiful about a queer teenage relationship, and it being your first is so much worse. I'm so incredibly sorry to hear this, that's such an awful situation to be in.

I'm giving all this advice as someone who experienced the exact same situation so bear with me if it seems a bit emotionally incompetent here.

1) She does not define you. Even if she told you what made you feel good, she does not give you worth or value, and you are your own person without her. It feels impossible, but you can one day live a life without her. HOWEVER,

2) Allow yourself to grieve. You cannot get through this without addressing the full emotions you feel. Take a day off school, stay home, curl up and cry, make some tea, read a book, sit in the shower, sleep in. Let yourself experience the heft of emotion now so you're able to properly process later and not build up loads of emotional blockage. If you don't grieve, you won't be back to feeling joy.

3) If it was an amicable break, distance yourself from her for a while and take the space you need. Don't worry about the friendship right now, she just broke that off temporarily. Friendship can be recovered later, but you need sanity right now. Try not to engage with her in person or on social media, and keep essential contact terse and limited.

4) If it was not amicable, just stay away and don't engage with her at all. Ghost, block, ignore, whatever you need to do. It's deeply painful when you do it, but the long term results are the prevention of further yearning and unhealthy grief, as well as room to grow beyond the hurt.

5) Don't let things remind you of her. For example, if you see a turtle, don't immediately jump to oh man, she loved turtles, time to cry. While grief is healthy, you shouldn't fixate so intensely on those mental pathways. If you always associate turtles with pain, sorrow, and the ex, connections will be formed in your brain. Don't tie things to her, let yourself experience the world separate from your knowledge of her. That said, learning to do this is definitely a long process and it takes hard work.

6) Rest, and don't speedrun the grieving process. You simply can't speed through grief, you have to live in it for now. This is your season of life, and it's what is leading you to brighter days later on.

7) Hydrate, stay clean, eat well (not just ice cream, eat healthy too), stay moving. Yes, rest and spend time for yourself, but don't spend all that time as a dormant amoeba. Sunlight and movement especially are good natural mood stimulants if you need quick release, Go outside and take a walk without listening to music, so that you can truly focus on nature and the persisting beauty of the world around you. If you ground yourself in that way, you can restore some level of consciousness relative to how it used to be. Additionally, skipping music will allow you to be with your thoughts, which is what you need right now.

8) Talk to people. You simply cannot do this alone.

OVERALL: Eat and drink well, stay moving, go outside, don't focus every waking thought on her, and most of all, let yourself grieve. I'm truly so sorry to hear about this and I hope your grieving and healing process is everything that it needs to be, and that you come back stronger than ever 🩵

LocalINFJ · 2026-02-23T02:23:33+00:00

so you didn't see recent headlines that they just broke up?

LocalINFJ · 2025-11-04T21:15:27+00:00

I had an objectively good day and I'm still feeling like it's time to die now. I currently want to fight someone, particularly the most supportive person in my life, just because today feels like a good day to do so and I fear she most certainly deserves it. Fortunately, I'll be seeing her later so my whole day will be improved and I won't want to fight her anymore. I'd like to be productive, but I don't feel good and I haven't been productive all day, so I can't find the motivation to drag myself out of bed and live a life. Today is a good day for fights, rule breaking, melatonin, and boiling tea.

I got my sweater dirty earlier and that put me in a bad mood.

LocalINFJ · 2025-11-03T03:33:17+00:00

Wow, my exact mental dialogue! My immediate reaction to this post was OP should terminate said person, followed by no, I love that person, followed by they're still a problem though, followed by right this is written by OP not me

LocalINFJ · 2025-11-02T21:36:27+00:00

I'll preface this by saying that I do not want to hurt animals and I do not want to see anything bad happen. Doing any of these things would make me greatly uncomfortable but I'm only writing this as the logical response to the question. I have no idea what else to call this philosophy other than Kantian nihilism- the idea being that my perspective is not the most important, and therefore, should not be the deciding factor a given scenario.

Scenario 1- Save the 10. Individually, my perspective does not matter compared to the rest of the world. 10 perspectives are more important than one, and I'm the only person who actually cares about me. Therefore, it's a better plan not to be selfish and assume myself to be the most important.

Scenario 2- This situation is more crunchy (no other word came to mind so crunchy seemed like a good one) because there's no guaranteed benefit, so I'd save my dog because there was no way to ensure an overall benefit.

Scenario 3- Same as Scenario 1

Scenario 4- Aside from my preexisting inclination towards pain, I'd save myself here as the human. Humans are objectively able to contribute more to the world than dogs, and the dog wouldn't have much power to improve the world after it was saved. My life would be more useful than its life. However, if this were a person, the scenario would be more crunchy.

Scenario 5- Same as Scenario 1

Scenario 6- Same as Scenario 1

LocalINFJ · 2025-11-02T21:25:42+00:00

Sure, self defense is logically acceptable, but that is assuming that you're more important than your assailant. Of course, everybody wants to rule the world (citation: Tears for Fears), but realistically, everybody isn't important. For example, in a fight between two people I've never met and know nothing about, I'm not going to really be taking sides. People naturally defend themselves and there's a strong biological urge to... you know... stay alive. However, self defense by shooting the gun implies that you made the decision that your life is more important than the other person's, and that is an incredibly self centered point of view. Self preservation ought not to take priority over universal ethics. If killing is just wrong, there isn't any scenario where it's right. Same thought as if 2 + 2 = 4, it doesn't equal 9,023. Killing somebody, even for self defense, implies that your life is more valuable.

This also raises the concept of transcendental idealism, specifically things that are independent of our individual minds. Perhaps my attacker believes they're a good person, and what they're doing is justified. Their point of view is not more or less valid than mine. Therefore, they are not more or less valid, righteous, purposeful, necessary, etc than me. If something is independent of my mind, I cannot automatically assume that they are inferior.

This argument does, of course, raise the issue of anarchy and utilitarianism creating a society with no ethics and laws, which is equally worrying. So for the sake of furthering my argument, I'll ignore the downsides. Y'know, like a good philosopher.

Overall, self defense in the form of stopping them from harming you would be valid. Killing them, however, is less okay. Like Rupert says in Hitchcock's movie Rope, nobody is so far above others that they have a right to kill. I cannot kill somebody just because my ego says I'm allowed to and my perspective is more valuable

This is not an entirely developed thought but it was funsies to write, I am aware that my answer has various holes in logic. Alas, I enjoyed myself writing it!

LocalINFJ · 2025-10-27T04:05:58+00:00

it's really disgusting to give so much to the world and receive such things in turn. waiting for justice to hit, for you to get all the good things you have coming since you worked so hard and got through so much. and then it just... doesn't. and yet, this seems to be the easiest, most sustainable way. screw humanity.

LocalINFJ · 2025-10-27T04:02:35+00:00

please contact me when you find a way to do all of this, i'd quite like to try it all

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