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I use it as an emulsifier in salad dressings. Not sure if I make it through a pot in 4 weeks, but it’s probably close.

This question has me bside myself. I haven’t lived there in more than a decade, though, so not sure if I count anymore. I was trying a joke and realized that I am, at least technically, American and had to stop, heh.

I always thought people talking about seeing things that weren’t there was metaphore. It blew my mind to find out it was literal.

No I’m not!

(I was considering just posting the Monty Python argument scratch instead)

Nothing. These days? Not because I don’t know things, but because a lot of people refuse to accept new information, even when it comes from reputable peer-reviewed sources and there’s not much arguing with that.

I don’t think it does, or at least not much. I quit before BC, the started working in the games industry years later and had to pick it back up. Quit before the panda thing (I forget precisely when).

I have good memories of playing it with coworkers and friends. I don’t think about it these days at all (and fuck blizzard, honestly).

That job had me play lots of MMOs (I worked at one of the community/fan/tools sites (we did not allow account/gold sales, botting discussion/links. Etc)) and eventually I burnt out on them pretty hard. Single player RPGs are more my jam these days

In Japan, it’s piiman which is a type of small green bell pepper

You can strip AI out of this post and nothing changes. Granting various things access to your various systems/works has and will do things like this.

I had to Google as I thought this was another mmo from when I worked in the industry. I guess this means names are a bit generic (I got out of that industry in 2013). This is not one I’m familiar with. (I used to work on fan sites and tools to plot mob locations and quest items on maps and the like. Not the bad ones that had account/currency selling and such; we banned those people)

Your statements do not support your initial arguments.

You’ve conveniently just ignored everything I responded to about grandparents and women being forced out of their careers as a rule.

Further, you state It's a culture of hating kids. and that is just not true.

You are seeing some shitty people and extrapolating that out to “this society hates kids” which is 100% not the case. That is what I take issue with.

I could go on at length about things Japan could do better for families and, in my decade here, there has been great improvement. There is still room to go. That does not mean that Japanese people hate children and do not want them. It does not mean that this is a Japan-only problem yet your argument is that Japan hates kids.

As a long term resident, perhaps the problem isn’t that there isn’t these problems. It’s that you don’t see it.

So you want to tourist-splain to me as someone who lives here and has for a decade? I have family, friends, and coworkers with young kids. I do hear their complaints. I do see their struggles. Again, what you are describing, that Japan has some systemic and cultural child-hating complex, is not at all supported by your argument. It is also laughable to me that you would think you have a better handle on Japan as a whole as a tourist who goes to a few cities. You want to know what you’re also not seeing? You’re not seeing the programs in place. You’re not seeing the variety of things that have been and are being done. You’re literally just making stuff up and saying that all of Japan (the grandparents, for example) is some way.

Also, any ideas on how to spend a week without Internet?

I feel so very old all of a sudden, even as someone who’s technically (at least once they bumped x back to 1980) a milineal.

Hiking, walking, reading, card games, board games, and even just talking. Cooking could be fun as well, depending upon the setup. Fishing, maybe?

Edit: drawing, painting, knitting, etc. as well

Everything in your “fun fact” is not fact. I actually said “what the fuck” when I read it. I’ve been in Japan for a decade, both Tokyo and rural.

Where also are these magical stroller-only elevators? Certain people are supposed to have priority (and, yes, some assholes ignore this which is not a problem unique to Japan), and there are also people who don 'look disabled" but need help (I can be one of them sometimes as my left leg and ankle are as much metal as anything else, though you wouldn’t know by looking at me).

Japan has problems and had places.to.improve but your post is just wild wild to me as a long-term resident.

The Proving Residency for Overseas Voter Eligibility, or PROVE, Act would require overseas voters to have a “current residence” in the state they’re registered, or a spouse, parent or guardian with such a residence.

Fuck all the way off. You make me file taxes every year. You have rules that make investing for my retirement much more difficult because of PFICs. Your asinine IRS rules stop foreign banks and brokerages for even wanting to touch US citizens. You want me to not vote? Do what the rest of the world (minus I think 1 country) does and drop all that shit.

I wouldn’t, personally. Just read around on basic etiquette, don’t litter, etc. If you’re planning on going to Kyoto, it’s been a zoo for years now and the people there always hate it (but also some ridiculous part of their economy is tourism as they found out during corona when the money dried up). Oh, and a lot of smaller places are still cash only so carry cash.

I always encourage people to consider places other than just Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto, especially these days where technology helps any language barrier.

In exit polls from the last election foreigner problems (which lumps tourists in with residents) was still only like 3rd. And for the foreigner issues, overtourism and people buying property and pricing out locals are big issues (and sometimes running (often illegal) guesthouses).

No. I would walk ~5-20 minutes to a bus/train station that would take me there.

Edit: for < 4km I would walk. Why does Google think that would be such a long journey in terms of time (which my first response was based upon)

Extant in Latin and roots in Proto-Indo-European presumably. I’ve met many with my name.

We’re stuck on Mac at work and I hate it.

I think a/c is mostly (entirely?) a north-american naming convention. It’s been “aircon” in the other places I’ve lived in traveled.

My point is, if you’re using feet and inches you maybe want to divide by that. We in the metric world don’t so it’s not that big a deal. Our woodworking is done in CM and MM and we rarely need fractions of mm.