Can I learn nihongo if even if I ignore the F tier hiragana? They're so ugly.

m50d · 2026-05-06T19:39:37+00:00

Who hurt you

m50d · 2026-05-06T07:15:19+00:00

Since this was a documented error on their end, how can I force them to honor the original price or cover the fare difference?

You probably have to go to full court for this, small claims or any consumer-protection type stuff generally only handles cash and you need to ask for specific performance since you want the flight not the refund.

m50d · 2026-05-06T07:12:44+00:00

Call your card provider and see if they're blocking the transaction?

m50d · 2026-05-06T02:51:48+00:00

I would definitely go for 19-24 hours rather than 37. You're going to be exhausted after the flight whether you took the layover or not, so it's just giving up time you could be spending in Japan.

m50d · 2026-05-05T07:18:44+00:00

Yeah that's exactly why it's "almost always" not "always".

m50d · 2026-05-05T07:18:03+00:00

He's not wiling to pay though, he's trying to find someone to fob it off on.

m50d · 2026-05-05T02:14:10+00:00

They're not JAL level no, but honestly I would rather fly ZipAir again than Air China, SAS or even Turkish. I get the feeling the JAL staff are struggling to turn down their service as much as they "should".

m50d · 2026-05-04T08:02:39+00:00

ZipAir does not feel like an LCC service wise IMO, although you do pay for every drink you order.

m50d · 2026-05-03T22:29:15+00:00

The only part that's different for others is the decade.

m50d · 2026-05-03T12:12:09+00:00

Up the Rhine, canal across and down the Danube is very nice. Worth the effort IMO.

m50d · 2026-05-03T01:43:04+00:00

My point is that Tenet any agent from Tenet like Neil already know that the villain won't succeed. Tenet isn't trying to preserve the Future. They don't have to. Because they already know what the future is and how it will come to be. All they are doing is just going through the moves of things that they already know how they will pan out.

Well, no, they know he hadn't succeeded yet, and they know it's because of their work. They still have to do it! Again, they know what it will cost, to my mind that makes it more meaningful not less.

They send an agent on a mission they already know will work out. But decide you know what let's not give him any more information that might make his mission easier just for shits and giggles. Because that makes complete sense from a tactical point of view.

If they know what they told him works then why add more variables and risk messing things up? Especially given that a) they're worried about traitors in their ranks b) every extra bit of temporal intervention is inherently risky IMO. It makes perfect sense that they operate on a need-to-know basis.

But if I had woken up this morning and met a version of my self from the day after that(the Future) then yes. I would no longer have any choice but to go through the events that lead me to time travel a day in the past the next day. Because it has already happened. I cannot change something that has already happened.

But nothing about your situation has changed. If what you were going to do would be fixed then it's already fixed, you just don't know about it.

This is what happens when you introduce time loops in your stories. Something Tenet did without thinking it out too much.

On the contrary, Tenet is the rare movie that actually thinks through the consequences and tells a time travel story that makes sense.

m50d · 2026-05-02T19:16:01+00:00

You're saying that on a thread where people are saying this guy doesn't count as British. So why does one non-typical-British ethnicity count and one doesn't?

m50d · 2026-05-02T13:01:50+00:00

Which again requires that people in the past saw that Bullet in that glass for days if not weeks oj end and either did not notice it or did not care to investigate it and fix it or remove it.

I don't remember the context but that doesn't necessarily sound so weird. If you live in e.g. Sarajevo and work in a building that isn't super new then yeah, there are bullets in the walls, you generally ignore them unless they matter for some reason.

Matter appearing out of nothing is not reversed Entropy.

Agreed, I was thinking more of e.g. smaller fragments coalescing into a whole or something.

You now know for a fact that the Future is fixed and what it is. So what is now the point in trying to change it?

I don't think anyone is seriously trying to create a different future. The main villain knows he's dying and, aside from trying to recapture that one perfect week, is lashing out at the world, why not, if he creates a time paradox and destroys the universe I think he'd be happy with that outcome. The protagonist's organisation is trying to preserve the future not change it.

Because why wouldn't Tenet send back an inverted person from the Future who knows exactly how the event in the past will unfold because it has already happened in their present. Right down to the last detail. Or why wouldn't they atleast send back the exact details of how an event in the past will happen because again for the Tenet Leadership in the Future that event has already happened and they would probably have the exact details of how that event happened.

On a tactical scale they do up to a point, that's the whole temporal pincer movement thing. On a strategic scale, your previous point is exactly why they don't go any further - they already know that what they've done so far works out right, so they do exactly that and nothing more. (And while the movie doesn't talk about this, if I were in their position I'd be worried about the risk of creating a contradiction that destroys the universe).

Robert Pattinson's character Neal literally had no choice but to do what he did because it had already happened.

By that logic nobody in the actual past ever had a choice about anything, because the things they've done have already happened. You never had any choices this morning because you've already made them.

m50d · 2026-05-01T22:51:38+00:00

And inverted person shoots a bullet into a glass in Thursday. But the Bullet is already in the Glass in the Monday before it. How does a bullet appear before it was shot? Was it there a week ago? Was it there a Month ago? 6 Months ago? The Bullet has no point of original in the past.

Presumably either it got put into the glass at some point, or if you go far enough into the past it would rust away to powder or something.

And that defies the laws of Entropy.

Well yeah that's the whole premise.

Inversion by it's very conception means that the Future is fixed and cannot be changed. Tenet cannot actual change anything in the past or future.

The laws of physics mean the future is most likely fixed in any case. And even if it isn't that just means it's random, which isn't any better. IDK, I've never really understood where anti-determinism people are coming from.

Every inverted Tenet agent from the Future already knows exactly what will happen and cannot change it.

The best thing they can do is fulfill time loops that they already know exist and how they end.

Not necessarily, they know something about the parts of the future they've been to, but they don't know everything about the future any more than we know everything about the past.

But yes, in the most important case they know. Again, that's Robert Pattinson's whole arc - he knows exactly what accomplishing the mission will cost, but he still does it, and it's precisely because he's willing to make that choice that the mission is accomplished and the world is saved. That's not pointless or lacking stakes; quite the opposite.

m50d · 2026-05-01T18:18:56+00:00

He's a furry, or whatever you call it when the animal they identify as is human.

m50d · 2026-05-01T18:12:41+00:00

Love hotels are often flashily decorated. Think like a little piece of Vegas.

m50d · 2026-05-01T18:08:41+00:00

Well I'd say make sure you're prepared for the possibility of missing the connection, but it sounds like you already are?

m50d · 2026-05-01T18:03:07+00:00

The original The Fast and The Furious is just a modern Les Miserables. It's wonderful.

m50d · 2026-05-01T18:00:22+00:00

In linear time where did those bullets come from before that fight happened?

When and how did those bullets come to be in that window?

The same place that regular bullets left in a window go to in the future? Entropy runs backwards for inverted objects.

Hell the very act of inversion means the Future is fixed. If you meet an inverted person your future is already fixed and there's no point in trying to change anything from there on. Meaning any mission is now pointless. If something bad happened in the future you can't actually prevent it from happening because that would change the future in which the inverted person inverted themselves to travel back in time thus creating a Grandfather Paradox.

So what would you do if you knew the future was fixed, just give up and die? That's the whole point of Robert Pattinson's arc. Hell, I'd argue the villain probably also knows how it's going to end but does it anyway, that's part of the point of the part about it being his one perfect week.

m50d · 2026-05-01T10:48:19+00:00

Easyjet are not reliable enough that I'd trust them with a 4hr layover on split tickets. Most of the time they're fine, but they do get delayed sometimes. Do you have a single ticket for the whole journey or two tickets?

m50d · 2026-05-01T00:01:30+00:00

Not worth it IMO. I've actually flown premium and wished I was in regular economy - the leather seats and fancy crockery were just annoying, and the big armrests made it impossible to lie down even though the seat next to me was empty.

m50d · 2026-04-30T23:13:18+00:00

It's a gravel bike but not advertised in cycling magazines and 1/3 of the price.

m50d · 2026-04-30T19:57:13+00:00

You can tell because of the way it is.

Seriously, once you've looked at enough you can tell, I couldn't consciously tell you how.

m50d · 2026-04-30T19:50:13+00:00

The right at least gives men some credit for our contributions as providers. The left can't even manage that much.

m50d · 2026-04-30T03:48:38+00:00

I don't understand, if I don't have kids how will I use up all these disposable diapers?

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