tiredofsametab

The nazis used a variety of orientations of the symbol.

That song is EVERYWHERE here in Japan each Christmas and it drives me nuts.

From the US but in Japan. Christmas is a normal working day. Couples often go out for a date night. KFC’s chicken (or another fried or roasted one) is a common staple for dinner.

Family will get each other presents. I’ve heard it’s more like one present, but I don’t really know. I should ask the in-laws this winter when we go for New Years (the big family gathering time in Japan and NOT so much a big party time with lots of businesses closed).

For cases where it sounds like another letter, why not just use that one?

Which the other one? Within English itself, the same letter can be pronounced a number of ways. It’s like when people want to “fix” English spelling, they always assume it’s going to be their dialect that wins.

Started on beehaw but hated Lemmy of the time. Went with a kbin instance. First one died. Second died. I liked mbin so I picked one more and so far it is yet to burn down, fall over, and then sink into a swamp.

If this one ever goes away, I might try pixelfed or whatever it’s called

Table tennis

Such hits as ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘x’, and ‘y’. I know the version of the language we were using didn’t have native utf-8 support, so I don’t think kanji varnames were possible. It even made comments in kana and kanji really wonky (I think the comments were shiftjis)

Pay down the house or. If that doesn’t count. Buy an EV (or maybe the electrical work at my house to support one)

I live in Japan and haven’t heard of this, but I’m generally allergic to most social media. I’ll have to ask my wife when I get home if she’s seen it.

You got 3 letters?! Luck!

I worked at a japanese company whose engineers we’re former NTT developers. Copypasta (i.e. not using functions), inefficient algos, single-letter var names, remote code execution from code as root, etc. good times!

Dear democratic party: as a voter in a state that went from purple to more red, I was still voting for you in every election and outside of the blue cities. Was. I would rather vote for a pile of dogshit than your party again.

Yeah, it was not fun. I’m about an hour from Sendai and we had some long ones. Not the most violent, though.

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.

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

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.

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