I love me some good navel oranges. So, on a good day, yes.

There are three types of people:

The type of breakfast people in movies would eat one bean sprout from and off they go.

Spanish is more inflectional than Japanese. Keigo, the more respectful forms, holds cultural nuance, yes; but it isn't standardly required for meaning.

Japanese is the more foreign language, but I've felt fairly let-off-the-hook as far as inflection goes.

Learned some Spanish in high school and went beyond curriculum because I really like linguistics. Started learning Japanese in middle school, fell off, and picked back up on it a few months ago.

Japanese is definitely more difficult for the average native English speaker.

With virtually no languages beyond dialect distinction can you take an idea from one and directly translate it to the other and be fully fluent—however your rate of success doing so is going to be higher between English and Spanish than it'd be between English and Japanese.

I will say, however, as a native American English speaker, I have an easier time listening to Japanese than I do Latin American Spanish.

Your suggestion of promoting AI-generated product as expression and their idea of poisoning the AI well are not the same.

A dialectical discussion can and often does include "no, your suggestion is counterproductive and undesirable."

"It's a doggy dog world."

If only...

Why would YouTube not count as social media?

Pre-rebuttal in case you go in this direction: Being a social media platform and being a video sharing platform are not mutually exclusive.

I still have an Instagram account because that's where my friends / past friends are. I've backed up and removed all my posts, and even when I was "actively posting," I hardly used it. Now it's only for communicating with people with whom I have no other way of speaking.

I still use YouTube, and do, in fact, use YouTube Premium. I'm on a family account, and while there are decent clients that I situationally use, there is no real alternative for the platform itself due to the nature of user-generated content platforms.

I no longer use my Reddit account, but I do read threads when they come up in search engine results, and many times, I do specifically narrow my search to the Reddit domain. Too much information there to completely ignore.

My Discord account is still active, although I have successfully managed to get my best friend off of there, which was like 99.5% of my Discord usage. But unfortunately because the informational age of the internet is dying, many products and games choose to use Discord for official support, which means that information is no longer indexable and only exists in the neutron star that is Discord.

So when people ask if I use mainstream social media (I can count on one hand how many times this has been asked), my quick answer is just "YouTube."

Not sure if this is semi-common knowledge or not, but:

I'm sure everyone is familiar with at least one of the geographical adjectives for the cardinal directions: Oriental, generally meaning eastern.

Similarly, you can probably see the connection for the North: Boreal. As in Aurora Borealis.

Known to a lesser degree, there is Occidental, meaning western. I don't have a connection for this one off the top of my head.

And finally, for the sake of this comment, there is the term for the South: Austral. Of course, this is where we get "Australia."

As such, the magnetic light show of the Antarctic is not aurora borealis. It is, in fact, aptly named aurora australis.

Another fun side note: There was allegedly support for the idea of naming Canada Borealia. I personally like this idea, because it tickles my inner 12 year old.

Almost every VOCALOID / vocal synth cover, as long as the tuning / overall quality is good.

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