Thanks!

Yes, you would be right about that.

shocking

I think that a lot of parents prefer their teenagers having cell phones to them not having cell phones, because it makes it easier to coordinate lots of things (pick-up time from events, meeting location, “can you pick up [x] while you’re at the store, etc.). Especially given the number of teenagers who rely on their parents for transportation, teenagers not having cell phones is inconvenient for the parents, not just the teenagers.

I think some adults are bothered by teenagers using their cell phones for social media, and/or during in-person social events? Some of the people complaining about teenagers using cell phones are also older than the parents of current teenagers.

why dont phones have little tiny laser pointers built in

Current aesthetic: attending school on Senior Skip Day.

My Marvel Derby Girls!  They are all transparent.

Bonus:

[Gwen] [Black Widow] [Scarlet Witch] [Gamora] [Sif] [Peggy] [White Tiger] [Hawkeye] [Wasp] [Captain Marvel] [Spider-Man & Deadpool]

Also, while lurking the tags in the individual posts, I’ve seen quite a few people say they’d like to cosplay these.  To that, I can only say: PLEASE DO, and show me pics!

(should go without saying, but don’t remove my caption)

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Users: We don't like these new updates and would prefer you to change it back and spend your time on different features, eg making a messaging system.

Staff: Okay... Sounds fake

The moral of Rudolph the Red nose reindeer is that no one likes you unless you’re useful.

I’m studying Japanese, and this is way more complicated than just sticking three sets of characters together for comparison. (I am not studying Chinese. Take everything I say about Chinese with a heaping mound of salt.) Japanese is written with three different sets of syllables (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji), which each have a different use in the language.

Examples of hiragana: あいうえお

Examples of katakana: アイウエオ

Examples of kanji: 私漢字日機口

The kanji might look similar to the Chinese writing system, because that is where they were derived from. Confusing something written entirely in kanji with Chinese is completely understandable if you don’t know either language. (For instance, 中  from the original post could be either Chinese or Japanese.) However, most sentences in Japanese will have other characters, while most Chinese sentences will not.

Example of a Japanese sentence: 私の名前はロバートです。

Example of a Chinese sentence: 的名字是羅伯特 (I think; I pulled this from Google Translate so it could be wildly ungrammatical.)

Korean looks totally different, at least to me.

I don’t really understand getting mad at people for mixing up korean, chinese, and japanese

Like, look at them together

見る한국어中国死ね我要吃你マンコ형사我有大鸡巴

and tell me they don’t look similar lol

Wait, but if Tony learned all his history from watching Hamilton, then why doesn’t he list Hamilton as a founding father?

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Edit: link.