tiredofsametab

Yeah, there’s the joke that jr engineers want to be sr engineers and sr engineers want to be farmers (or woodworkers or whatnot). I like both, but I definitely need the balance of doing something physical and working with my hands.

All the cats around us are mostly feral and won’t even come close. Letting them in would result in piss, shit, and marking everywhere. I happily try to feed them some treats here and there, but no way they’re coming inside the house.

To the current constitution-violating republican administration, none of this matters and the cruelty is part of it. That said, let’s play a game:

• what is the country of someone who grew up in the US, possibly speaking only English?
• what happens if the country is inaccessible for some reason (countries occasionally collapse or close borders)
• what happens if the borders of the country change and the person’s hometown (or all their family) is now in country X instead of their country of birth Y

There are probably more weird edge cases that would need to be in any law as well.

Exactly what I was thinking from just the title, heh.

You still have to declare things in customs. If you don’t and get caught, you could end up far worse than high prices.

We’ve cut way back on meat as well, though part of it for me honestly was the environmental impact. The only time we have beef is on special occasions and not at home (so a couple of times a year). Our main proteins are chicken (domestic), seafood, pork (split between domestic and Canadian depending upon what’s available), and tofu in probably roughly that order. We have other sources of protein as well, but I think of those as the “mains” as it were.

I’ve moved to eating more non-meat than meat and skipping beef at home when I do, but I have never been able to fully convert. I was a pescatarian for almost 1.5 years in my youth and that was mostly doable, but still very tough and never really got easier.

A number of the existing alternatives involve gluten which I can’t have anymore (I rather liked seitan when I had it).

I currently have a vegetable farm and, for as much of the year as I can, eat what I grow outside for veg so they’re certainly not scary.

It’s more because this is the line touted by the far right here and appeared in several publications as the reason for the shortage. The failure of the government and JA to plan for weather, harvests, and tourists (at a time when the yen is super weak against other currencies and things are open post-corona and they’ve known they’re coming) ends up just getting blamed on the tourists in a number of places. Seeing it get touted elsewhere pokes a sore spot.

There were about 32 million tourists pre-corona and about 37 in 2024 per https://www.tourism.jp/en/tourism-database/stats/inbound/

That’s not a huge jump and follows the trend (less the anomaly of the corona times). The idea that we would have such a rice shortage for those conditions is absurd to me yet, at least last time I looked, that was the one a bunch of domestic media focused on.

voices re-recorded

How did they get all 5 people back?! ducks

Edit: I was watching a channel comment on the trailer and they apparently brought in more voice actors at least for the different races now that ‘the storage requirements aren’t as strict’ (paraphrased).

I don’t use it at all, even with various bank apps and such yelling at me to do so. Yeah, a $2 wrench could still eventually get it out of me, but you can’t just use my face/finger to do so.

Bernie Sanders. Christianity spun out of a Jewish apocalyptic sect, so why not, in some very small part, bring it back toward its roots?

older suburban voters would rather have someone sane that’s gay than insane and straight.

Based on some older people in my family that disowned their own child: doubt.

Not knowing the year about the dalmations ruined me. Otherwise: one bang on, one off by 3 years, 2 off by 2 years. The dalmation one I was off by 22 years :/

I don’t know why people still give bethesda money; they’ve clearly not had the players’ best interests in mind for ages. Don’t buy their cash-grab bullshit!

partly due to a rise in consumption caused by record numbers of tourists

Even the guardian getting in on the foreigner-bashing. Don’t blame the gov or the JA, blame those damned dirty foreigners (but also come spend your money here but don’t because it annoys people)!

So fucking dumb as a guy living in Japan for a decade now.

I think for me, like 5% of total lyrics is my limit; if it’s all so screamy/growly/distorted that I can’t understand it, I’ve lost interest.

Farming. I worked on the neighboring farm as a teenager. Then, after a long series of jobs and education, became a software engineer. Being a software engineer taught me something: I miss working on a farm.

It is possible to taste more than one thing at a time, but there are limits to that (at least for me). When the balance of anything is too far out, I lose the other notes of a dish entirely. Garlic, coriander, and certain other herbs/spices can cause that in my case.

Does it feel like that? I know some bits of space are super hot but there’s not enough stuff there to get that energy to a person suspended in it. I guess being right next to the ISS might do it.

At least in Japan, a bicycle is legally a vehicle. It has some special carveouts compared to even scooters and the like, but it’s a vehicle