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Japan-based backend software dev and small-scale farmer.
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.
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.
Why would I want to create an array called ‘layer’?
We’re stuck on Mac at work and I hate it.
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.
How do y’all have so many sock problems?! O.o
In metric, the 12 really isn’t important anymore which kinda invalidates that. We normally go to the nearest mm or, if needed, some fraction of that (not normally needed in my life at least)
We were taught it in my rural red state elementary school in the '80s. Maybe because metrification seemed like a more real possibility, I guess.
Japan apparently has the same problem. It definitely has that probably using a phone to scan the id card to use various services (which is why I run stock android, mostly, with transit passed and banking being the other reasons).
I say apparently because I have zero interest in having the id on my phone itself.
Rooting apparently makes FELICA not work which is super inconvenient in Japan.
I dated a former sex worker before. The biggest problem in it was her alcoholism, really.
Seconded. Not just Tokyo, either, but even up in sendai
I don’t use a smartphone enough to worry about it. If I am using my phone, most of the time it’s either Anki, Google Maps, or, like you mention, banking/government stuff.
Texting via SMS (or whatever it is these days) isn’t really a thing in Japan, either, which makes things more difficult especially as I despise talking on the phone. If, for example, I’m at the supermarket and wife remembers something she needs, getting that message is good
I’d love to at some point but, last I heard, it breaks the felica and wallet integration which I need to do japanese government stuff (and use the train and such)
I was redhat/mandrake of which neither worked well on my PC, Gentoo, Ubuntu, and mint (playing with distros like LoaF at various points).
I got started on Linux at home from the valley of despair on early-2000s Gentoo. It wasn’t that bad, but I did have a lot more time on my hands being too poor to go out most of the time.
I just put mint on a laptop yesterday; got no time for it anymore
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.
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.