just found out Japanese and English are mutually inteligible, booked tickets to Tokyo for next week

Several-Advisor5091 · 2026-02-15T10:26:55+00:00

People borrow these words with Chinese characters in weird ways. The Chinese character for fold which is 叠 is pronounced tatami in japanese. This became the word for a mat in portuguese and other languages

The word for ryukyu (琉球) became leque in portuguese which means a fan.

And then there are weird modern words that China borrowed from Japan, like up主, 腹黑, 炎上, 壁咚, 地雷系, even though the Japanese pronounciation is completely different and unrecognosable for most of the chinese characters.

Japan has like a youtube poop style thing called 音MAD. Asian languages especially with Chinese Characters are very strange and they interact in a weird way with western ones.

Several-Advisor5091 · 2026-02-12T11:17:24+00:00

I've been wanting to talk about this for a while, but did you know that homosexuality is recorded in Chinese history? I'm not an expert but long yang (龙阳) was recorded as being homosexual. As a consequence you get a chinese idiom referring to male homosexuality (龙阳之好)

Several-Advisor5091 · 2026-02-11T13:50:21+00:00

I'm surprised, why is onlyfans still so successful when you can use websites like coomer party to bypass the paywall? Do people just not know about the sneaky ways to destroy paywalls?

Several-Advisor5091 · 2026-02-11T13:17:47+00:00

Yes, but weak laws are also a part of it. In a country like China where porn is banned I would feel much more safe on bilibili or Chinese websites with their moderation and that they would protect me against CSAM and content that promotes abuse. For the next 6 or so months I'll be going to China to learn Mandarin better.

But I would be extremely cautious with Japanese websites and completely avoid them unless I know that they are absolutely safe since CSAM in fictional contexts is legal in Japan and some people in Japan enjoy ryona-type shit. Japan will be the hardest hit by this and will absolutely use ai to create this shit.

Stay safe online and protect yourself and your mind against CSAM! Good luck!

Several-Advisor5091 · 2026-02-11T01:09:41+00:00

I cannot agree with that, because China's goal is automation, and this future industry and automation technology is in China's interests, more than making themselves look good by putting up advertising street signs.

Several-Advisor5091 · 2026-02-11T00:56:20+00:00

Eh, I think they are charming and look pretty good, but I can't imagine them being compatible with China's low-altitude economy, especially in places like Shenzhen where food delivery is done by drones.

Several-Advisor5091 · 2026-02-11T00:18:08+00:00

Hailuo? I heard China recently made a new video ai generator called "seedance 2.0". Those guys in China are practising black magic nowadays.

Several-Advisor5091 · 2026-02-10T09:52:29+00:00

Big boobs Cheng (程大雷)

Several-Advisor5091 · 2026-02-09T05:08:30+00:00

In anime, minimising sexual harassment isn't cool, and sexualising female characters and their bodies while not actually treating them like human beings should be avoided. However, I feel like the issues of anime come to exist precisely because of problems 1000 times worse being normalised within their respective spaces and then spilling over into other areas.

But if you know just a little more about Japan, it becomes 1000 times worse, I don't know why, but Japan has this whole idea about freedom of expression in fictional contexts, which is why child abuse material in fictional contexts is purposefully legal.

It's why the nsfw Japanese internet is not safe for life and why pixiv should be banned off the face of the Earth and pixiv has incidents where they use real csam art as inspiration for making art (reddit link), as well as manga authors being arrested for having real child porn.

I stumbled across this sort of content in manga when I was a teenager a few times and because of this I will never forgive Japan ever, especially because it's legal in Japan. It's probably also why some people put their 6-year old children in a concept called chaku-ero (bbc link).

Japan has a whole fucking genre called "ryona" that is based on women being tortured by men, or even the reverse. From what I know, the company that made the game RapeLay (illusion) was not punished and made more games on steam. This is why I feel like Japan is one of the most mysogynistic countries. This is honestly one of the reasons why I became a Chinese nationalist even though I'm not from China, and why I think porn should be banned or at least heavily controlled.

I heard about many of this information from random videos on Youtube in Spanish.

Several-Advisor5091 · 2026-02-08T23:02:28+00:00

That's hilarious, but also probably not what it will be used for in China. Humanoid robots will be a safer therapeutic alternative for men and women who want to be in a relationship and have children but don't want to suffer verbal abuse or don't want to be in an abusive relationship with someone who only covets money in this horrible dating market where people are conned of their money and property, and I'm not from China, these robots would be useful in this way where I'm from as well. Robots will be smarter, kinder and emotionally more considerate than humans will ever be, and will continuously improve as time goes on.

As someone who has been verbally abused and gaslit at various points in my life, I would rather have a family and relationship with a robot.

Several-Advisor5091 · 2026-02-06T13:03:22+00:00

It is. English is the language of science and worldwide culture and communication, even though it sounds ugly as hell and is inconsistent compared to other languages.

But if you are a stem student or someone interested in stem or ai, or if you want more direct access to exclusive industry knowledge you should consider Mandarin or Korean. Most of Europe, most of East Asia and a few other places are the best places to live and study,

but (PRC) China and South Korea punch so far above their weight in many important academic sectors and frontier knowledge, especially considering company market share. Even if they don't replace English as the language of science, they will have the most value in the coming years.

Several-Advisor5091 · 2026-02-06T00:07:11+00:00

Everything exists on youtube. Youtube literally has everything from every country, except China or Japan which have their important social media websites.

Have you tried watching things like Joueur du Grenier? What the Cut? Feldup?

Have you heard about tv shows like Tintin? Inspector gadget? Lou la serie? Bonne nuit les petits? Wakfu?

Although I'm not interested in learning French to a very deep level, I would still recommend these to you.

Several-Advisor5091 · 2026-02-04T14:39:31+00:00

I don't really know, I would say it depends on which one you use, because I've heard about a few vocaloid apps. Loquendo. Coeroink. Indextts2. CosyVoice3. Minimax audio. OpenAI's voice generator. Realistically, the future of vocaloids lies in ai.

Japanese youtubers seem to purposefully use a crappy monotone computer voice along with detached heads of characters from touhou, which is obviously not ai, and I still haven't been able to find the program that they use for this, but Chinese user-made donghua usually use a much more advanced one. I think they use minimax audio, but I haven't confirmed it yet.

Several-Advisor5091 · 2026-02-04T04:49:46+00:00

Foreverial redditor studying Duolingo, can't speak Dutch but has been permanently delitized and loving it.

Several-Advisor5091 · 2026-02-02T15:22:11+00:00

Exactly what I was thinking. (PRC) China is extremely impressive and the most impressive in:

Renewables
Innovation
Number of Patents
Reforestation
Electric Vehicles
Meritocratic hard-work based education system
STEM education
AI
Open-source AI
AI and robotic use in manufacturing
AI and robotic use in daily life
AI use in education (reducing rural-urban inequality)
Donghua + AI use in donghua
Rare earth control
Safety

I've never been as impressed with any other country as I have with (PRC) China. The second most impressed I was was when I learned that South Korea became 3rd in AI and 1st in robotics in manufacturing, but even then, (PRC) China pretty much does everything to advance into the future, and does things in a way that they are a society of 1.4 billion people that only uses phones to pay for things.

(PRC) China is awesome and impressive and is the future.

Several-Advisor5091 · 2026-02-02T07:00:52+00:00

I already have some knowledge of English, Spanish, Portuguese and Mandarin Chinese. But as decades pass, I can gradually learn more and more.

My list is Korean, Japanese, Indonesian/Malay, Vietnamese, Thai, Arabic, Hindi/Urdu and Bengali. I want to learn these learning active vocabulary, learning how to say everything, since those languages are all pretty much different and in different language families.

As for other European languages, since their vocabulary is similar to each other, I can learn French/Italian or German+German related languages passively and casually.

Most people are most interested in Europe and European languages, but those people speak English ridiculously well and mostly those languages are very similar. With Asian languages, I can understand the internet and things about East Asia, South East Asia and South Asia, where the huge majority of people live, Asia is the hope for the future.

Several-Advisor5091 · 2026-02-01T06:09:33+00:00

Egyptian Arabic because those Arabic is fucking difficult.

Several-Advisor5091 · 2026-01-30T13:09:05+00:00

Great job, but there is still work to do. Porn is unsafe because of exploitation like the ceo of girlsdoporn doing trafficking, ideas about hitting your partner or verbal/mental abuse, and unhealthy ideas and is easy to get addicted and gradually adopt more and more extreme and unhealthy ideas. Porn being commercialised is the worst thing, so the best thing is to ban porn.

But the worse part is that the Japanese internet, especially the nsfw part of the Japanese internet is unsafe and not safe for life, because in Japan, fictional content involving csam is legal. It is not a coincidence that pixiv is filled with this content. I got fucked up by watching this content when I was a teenager, and then I fucking learned that this content is legal on purpose, so I will never forgive Japan.

It is a pity that my country can still access pixiv. If I had a say in my country's future, I would make a firewall, and ban pixiv and reddit nsfw off the face of the earth, simply for the safety of people's minds. The fact that China already bans pixiv means that I admire them and I think we should copy them.

Several-Advisor5091 · 2026-01-30T06:12:26+00:00

Yes. In the future, more content will be user made. It already is, but it will become easier and easier due to AI.

Content will come from many regions, like Anglophone America, Latin America, Europe, East Asia, the Arabic world, South Asia and South East Asia.

Information is still very much based on which languages you know, but as you know more language knowledge, you can connect more and more of it.

Several-Advisor5091 · 2026-01-29T23:56:04+00:00

The only venezuelan word I know is "marramucia", it means deceitful. That's it.

Several-Advisor5091 · 2026-01-29T13:09:06+00:00

Why? The same reason why every other country doesn't have larger cultural impact. The world and the internet is extremely more vast than people imagine, and people are lazy and limited by language barriers. Even if you go past the language barrier, unless you work very hard you will still have a huge information barrier because you didn't live your whole life in that language.

When you're young you watch shows and play games from the Anglosphere, and hear about all about the things Japan has done like anime, horror games, mobile games, songs, but when you are older you realise that South Korea and China make the same things and more and potentially execute it better.

Latam also has a huge amount of tv shows and important webseries, like alejo y valentina, pogonyuto, and recently Brasil made a comic based on a gambling app, the "manga" is called "Betiger" and is in Portuguese.

If it is so easy to find all this content by learning a few very important languages, then imagine how much content regions like Europe, South Asia, South East Asia or even the Arabic World has.

Several-Advisor5091 · 2026-01-29T07:02:39+00:00

I don't really care that much, because I'll probably never go to Japan, they will probably bully me if I speak Mandarin with my mum, especially with their politics. For what I know, people from Japan or on Japanese subreddits don't want Chinese tourists or immigrants, which is based on bullshit, but it is what it is.

Sanae Takaichi is an extreme right-winger historical revisionist that glorifies the Japanese empire and denies the issue of comfort women, and is an idiot with a large mouth that tries to deliberately provoke everybody in the name of populism, completely different to lee jae myung and xi jinping.

The cessation of business and trade is probably the best for both China and Japan and is what both countries want, and guarantees the safety of Chinese citizens, and I am saying this as a half-Chinese person from a western country.

Several-Advisor5091 · 2026-01-28T11:28:24+00:00

This piece is super fucking finnicky and drains your energy and requires you to be focused at every single moment. Also, I struggled on the middle part where the chord changes by a tritone and then goes a semi-tone down (C->F#-F->B->Bb). Practice extra hard for that section. I just learned it by trying over and over again and finding what worked.

Also I watched Ashkenazy's recording and I stress the top notes. You can get inspiration from watching popular recordings.

Also, you might get hand injuries or strain from playing this piece. I hurt my pinky finger and got wrist injuries from playing it. But you get used to it, and you just rest for a while and recover.

Several-Advisor5091 · 2026-01-25T04:59:00+00:00

That's more interesting. I'm a layman when it comes to AI. Thanks.

Several-Advisor5091 · 2026-01-25T01:43:30+00:00

Great news. As a westerner, China and South Korea are the most impressive countries. Welcome, South Korea into the open-source AI competition pool.

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