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Japan-based backend software dev and small-scale farmer.

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  • I’ve actually got some level of all three types. My wife was trying to get me to play Puyopuyo tetris and it was driving me crazy that no combination in their colorblind menu worked for me.

    The biggest downsides are graphs and stuff like that. Things just look like the same color to me. In my case, blue and purple, yellow and green, and red and green, just depending upon the hues involved. Most modern traffic signals, especially here in Japan, use a combination that is fine for me and not confusing at all.

    I can’t really describe much better since I don’t know what it’s like not to be like this.

    Edit to add: MMOs (and websites about them) often sucked because I could not tell the difference between gold and copper. The whole loot system color thing was also bad since blue/purple and other difficulties. There were some games I probably trashed epic gear thinking it was common.



  • I live not far from Fukushima (though I moved here about a decade after the disaster) and I agree. We have a huge affordability crisis going on with inflation/stagflation. Taking the nuclear plants offline caused reliance on fossil fuels, a lot of which were imported (including from Russia) and all that new cost had to be borne by someone which of course ended up being the consumers.

    In an ideal world, we’d have more renewables and storage, but we’re not there yet. Being mostly mountainous, at the boundary of 3 tectonic plates, and having plenty of natural disasters also doesn’t help.





  • Japan has been allowed a self-defense force. What that force can consist of/have/do has been quite restricted. They’ve built a lot of stuff that they probably technically aren’t allowed to but have said “oh, that’s not a ThingWeCannotHave but a SimlarButAllowedOrReducedThing”. Recent rumblings have been about what constitutes self defense, which some wanting to include attacks on Taiwan, cyber warfare, pre-emptive strikes, and other stuff.

    Then there are the factions that want to strip out the article of the constitution about self-defense-forces-only entirely. Unless I missed it, this has yet to be done.

    As for nuclear weapons, I don’t actually know if that’s covered anywhere in the constitution or self-imposed. We’re only recently getting to the point that there aren’t really any survivors left, but their kids are still around and many fight against having it. As the US becomes a less-reliable ally, I see this resistance falling. Tension has always been high, particularly in Okinawa which always get shafted, between the US forces and civilians and I suspect it will continue to increase.

    ~ Dude living in Japan for a bit over a decade.



  • Mine have generally been mentioned. In my early 20s in the early 2000s. Got into the ancient aliens stuff briefly.

    Believed in supernatural and past life stuff for a good bit.

    By the mid-2000s, having “pulled myself out of poverty” (I didn’t do it on my own; I had help and support for family after having been homeless at one point) and gotten a salaried job, started listening to rightwing radio hosts. Thought I just needed to work a bit harder and success would come. All the other people were lazy and social programs were bad with the possible exception of something like WIC. Nah, I was just fairly lucky to have survived some stupid situations, had help from family, and was generally just way too entitled and thinking I was special. I was fairly insufferable for a good while.