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US -> Japan. Mostly, I miss family. I have basically no love for the area in which I grew up nor contact with anyone there (half my family never lived there, the other half moved to another state).

I do miss some foods that are hard to find or very expensive here. Things like PC parts are (or at least were) much cheaper in the US since it was generally a niche hobby device outside of business use here until quite recently.

I can’t remember BK doing anything too crazy over here. Currently, the special thing is just a garlic sauce/topping, it appears.

We don’t have that problem and have a water heater (not tankless). I think they just do something different with the plumbing here in Japan most of the time.

Assume that this is an apocalyptic Jew before rabbinic judaeism. That should frame thinks a bit better. The problem, at least as I understand it, is people doing commerce, particularly for a profit, in a sacred space. I do t think the money was the problem in and of itself, but rather the execution and motive. In another story, biblical Jesus tells someone of wealth and power that what he needs to do is give all of that up and he was quite miffed (in a very tldr telling)

Oh, a franc for every time that one happened…

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)