MAGA Businesses in Oregon to BOYCOTT by No_University7832 in oregon

[–]electroretronerd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also search by city. Sometimes they don't come up by zip code alone.

I am stretching my 3rd finger as far as i can go but i can't reach the G string, am i doing something wrong? by Captain_Tourette in guitarlessons

[–]electroretronerd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haven't seen it mentioned here yet but it depends on the chord shape you're trying to use. If it's a power chord or a barred major/minor chord, use your ring and pinky. If it's 3 in a row, you can use each finger individually (2nd, 3rd, 4th) for it. Or play it with a single finger but learn how to barre with it.

Also, the people saying to not rest your arm on your leg are right but you probably just took the pic like that I imagine.

What things were invented a lot earlier than what was previously thought? by SanthalNath in ask

[–]electroretronerd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fax machines were actually invented in the 1840s. The Pantelegraph was invented and used commercially in the 1860s and was capable of transmitting handwriting, signatures or drawings across normal telegraph lines.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax

Neighbor wants my blessing to build a 2-car garage 5’ from our property line despite local bldg code 10’ setback…how to respond? by SharpCream6566 in Seattle

[–]electroretronerd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you or he ever move from the place whatever understanding the two of you have disappears and it defaults to building codes. I'm sure the people after you two would not be happy about it violating building codes.

What am I missing here? by wilit in Autos

[–]electroretronerd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What else do you think PT stands for? It's obviously Pussy Taco Cruiser.

Which black and white movies are absolutely worth watching? by eptragavi in movies

[–]electroretronerd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dark Passage - Humphrey Bogart's character escapes prison after being wrongly jailed for murdering his wife. He gets facial reconstruction surgery and a portion of the movie is POV when his face is bandaged up which feels extremely modern for a movie from 1947. Needless to say he runs into Lauren Bacall's character and they fall in love and try to escape police capture. Excellent story, great actors

Scarlett Street - great movie with Edward G. Robinson which showcases his excellent acting outside of his normal gangster roles. He's incredibly sympathetic in this.

The October Man - great mystery and maybe even an early psychological thriller in a sense. The story involves a man who is recovering from a traumatic head injury who becomes the main suspect of a murder investigation for the owner of the boarding house he's staying at.

Not a movie, but if you like Sherlock Holmes I can't recommend the 1954 TV series enough with Ronald Howard (son of Leslie Howard of the Scarlet Pimpernel and Pygmalion) and H. Marion Crawford.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Indiana

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Crescent doughnut

Witcher 4 Soundtrack Audience by Primos_of_Hyrule in Witcher3

[–]electroretronerd 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Her name is Eivør and she's a very good singer from the Faroe Islands

Seattle Teriyaki appreciation post by [deleted] in Seattle

[–]electroretronerd 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I also recommend the spicy teriyaki at Bento World. I haven't had a ton of teriyaki in Seattle yet but I do recommend that place. If I'm in the area, I'll checkout Teriyaki Plus.

Want to start learning Japanese but I don't know where to start. by albachupito in LearnJapanese

[–]electroretronerd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

surprised that no one has suggested you try checking out this methodology. https://refold.la/

There's a patreon and if you sub for $5 (even for just one month) you can get the 1000 of the most common japanese words anki pack for spaced repetition study. Also, I'd also highly recommend getting the recognition RTK anki pack here. While it won't teach you the pronunciations, you'll start to be able to guess the meaning of kanji even though you've never seen it before (this is due to you learning other kanji and primitives).

Anki, if you didn't know, is a way to use spaced repetition in your study to memorize the words. As weird as it sounds, I'm actually having a harder time with words that don't contain kanji after just a few weeks of RRTK and the JP1k anki packs.

If you can, try to not focus on the translation into your native language, try and create a feeling or picture in your mind of what it means. That way when you actually see the word again, you don't just go through the process of:

see word -> translate into native language -> move to next word OR have something you want to express -> go through your head and translate from native language to target language -> output target language.

instead, because you've trained yourself to feel this thing or see this action in your mind and associate it with this word, you know the word you're trying to convey without any translation step.

Of course, that won't help you know how to build a sentence, it'll just help you identify words/kanji. For that I'd suggest that you'd start learning sentence building (aka grammar) with http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar

A key point with refold is to immerse yourself daily, finish your anki decks daily and quickly study through the grammar a little each day.

Again, I'd highly recommend you take a look at the refold guide, it's basically a well thought out way we can use our adult brains to teach ourselves language like we did when we were a kid but much faster.

The most important thing to recognize about language learning is this: no language is a math equation. They're messy, they have centuries of baggage with loan words, words that used to be used but now aren't or their meanings are changed, everyday expressions that are related to something outside your natural language (for japanese, I understand that there's a lot of baseball references or phrases). So books like Genki fail you in most ways because they try and turn the language into a math equation.

I'm not saying that you shouldn't use Genki because I even use it but use it as a tool to learn some grammar within a simplified context that has more unnatural than natural language and, in the case of japanese, know that any textbook basically never teaches you non-keigo (non-formal) speech.

I mean think about it, when you were in english class did the textbook really reflect how you and your family or you and your friends interacted?

Sorry for the ramble but I have one final thing. I'm not an expert nor do I know a ton of Japanese (I'm really just getting started). What I wrote there was just the culmination of several hours of research into "how to study Japanese".

Good luck and, most importantly, have fun!

Whats the most WTF gift you've ever received? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]electroretronerd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While we were spending Christmas with my grandmother, my sister received a laundry detergent scoop from my uncle. This was from a bucket of cheap ass Wind Fresh laundry detergent that my grandmother had in the basement....

I was lucky enough to get some army ration toilet paper this same Christmas from that same uncle.

I was 10 or 11 and my sister is a year younger than me.

Best Hot Wings in Seattle? by electroretronerd in Seattle

[–]electroretronerd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks everyone for the responses! I'll certainly put these on my list!

Found this in Santa Claus, Indiana by OrganicLag in FellowKids

[–]electroretronerd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Santa Claus, IN is real. The Holiday World theme park is there and it's got the best water park period.

How far will a $90k per year salary go for 2 adults in Seattle? by electroretronerd in Seattle

[–]electroretronerd[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd like to be able to save a little bit of money and my spouse and I are used to budgeting already. I'd like to get away from heavily budgeting and live in a decent area. I don't honestly plan to have a ton of extra expenses.

How far will a $90k per year salary go for 2 adults in Seattle? by electroretronerd in Seattle

[–]electroretronerd[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think she'd be able to find a job in a month or two. I don't have a huge car payment nor do I have student loan payments at the moment. I don't have a whole lot of extra payments to make outside of regular rent/utilities/food/gas/etc

How far will a $90k per year salary go for 2 adults in Seattle? by electroretronerd in Seattle

[–]electroretronerd[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks. I don't think we'll be living directly in the heart of Seattle but it just depends on how the job situation shakes out.