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How do y’all have so many sock problems?! O.o

2002? Pfft, amateur (and I moved mine across an ocean!)

My brain added an ‘n’ to the first word of “waking universe” and I think it still works

Solidarity from Japan. The price of some simple chocolate bars has basically tripled in recent years. Japan was always averse to price increases and they would literally make the news. Corona + Russia (which impacted fuel costs) opened the floodgates and prices that remained stable for ages went nuts. Still at least once a month there’s a new list of stuff increasing in price, now with extra weak yen goodness™.

Japan really likes it’s foam (7:3 beer to foam is considered best). They even have cans where most of the top pops off and it foams up to a head (I hate those). I was always the guy who would order it without foam at my local. One of the half-Japanese staff was the same. I don’t care for the texture (and younger, poorer me didn’t care for what I saw as a waste of money). The only good thing I’ve heard is it can keep the beer fresher in the glass for longer, but I was never a slow drinker.

I think there are some other areas that have a lot more to worry about than Tokyo. I don’t remember for sure, but I think the expected path this time would be north in Yamanashi (I looked into what predictions were when I was house-hunting a few years ago).

“Are there actually any signs of eruption?” said Shinichiro Kariya, a 57-year-old hospital employee. “Why are we now hearing things like ‘10 centimeters of ash could fall,’ even in Tokyo? I’m wondering why this is happening all of a sudden.”

I’m shocked that this is news to anyone. Most schools send kids to a disaster prep field trip at least once where they would cover all this stuff. I guess maybe some part of Japan doesn’t talk about it, but there have definitely been TV shows about it, even in the decade I’ve been living here.

Get rid of air bnb and similar. It’s caused a ton of problems in Japan as well with people buying whole buildings and pricing out existing tenants. There are legal protections, but most tenants, particularly elderly, don’t know about them and either pay new increased prices by the new landlord or move out. The government enacted laws requiring a minpaku (think lodging/hotel) license and putting maxes on time, but tons of people still run illegal ones.

A lot of those people seem to be Chinese investors running them off of other sites which has furthered anger and xenophobia against all foreigners. One of the parties that skyrocketed in the most recent election wants to strip property rights from all foreigners and not just investment properties but ALL properties. It’s a reaction to getting priced out and the government not doing shit about it. Granted, there are tons of other problems (prices rising weekly or monthly, wages not keeping up at all with inflation and rising prices, and overtourism more generally), but this is low-hanging fruit.

As someone who just bought a house last year (on the market for over a year in the countryside with farmland for which I had to interview and get permits to buy and use), and volunteers in his community, this is terrifying to me. I had to go through tons of extra hoops just for being a foreigner to begin with and now, thanks to fuckhead illegal hotel owners and bad policy, now lots of people want to take the one little bit of stability I finally felt.

I worked at a site with a karma system years before reddit and the like ever came into being. There will always be people who just downvote anything they don’t like. Unless you start finding and removing those users, nothing is going to change with them. And if you start removing chunks of your community, you have fewer posters, less interaction, etc.

I missed “this year” in the title somehow. Oops.

I’m a command+shift+5 type of person, but you are correct that it is there. Why on earth is it not in the actual settings app?! Thanks!

I thought I looked at some point, but I might be misremembering. I hadn’t used a mac in literally 20+ years when I started at this job (and hate using mac, but that’s another story), so I might also have missed something obvious. Looking in the settings now, though, nothing comes up for screenshot, screen shot, or screen capture (aside from keyboard shortcut settings).

Gross. My home PCs have just the recycle bin. My work mac nothing (except the brief moment screenshots get put there because before I move them someone at Apple is a monster)

I think Feynman would be interesting based on the videos of him I’ve seen. It probably also aligns best with where my knowledge is. Einstein is probably too theoretical and too much math I don’t know (or have long forgotten in the decades since I learnt it).

I have zero Polish and my French is mostly forgotten so Curie is out, though she would be my second choice of those listed (I don’t recall if she spoke English off-hand).

It’s bamboo common here in rural Japan. We have two types, one of which has edible shoots in the spring so there’s that at least. It does hold the ground together along the riverbank so I never plan on fully ripping it up; last thing I need is for a chunk of my property to slide off in the next big quake.

I see dead people (because movies and such exist). In person, though, you’re right unless you’ve got a time machine hiding somewhere.

I’d rather some more of it be human food, but maybe that’s out back. I’m slowly turning areas around the house I just bought into native stuff and food. It is, however, a constant battle against kudzu strangling and bamboo encroaching. I generally avoid having anything that tall and unkept (as some areas look to be) due to venomous snakes that can bite when surprised :/

Not my 1997; we were way too poor for that. My asshole first stepfather would be alive again and I would be back in the latter half of highschool, so a pass all around from me (but y’all feel free to enjoy good memories :) )

My handwriting can be fast or readable but not both. This is why I was so excited when I finally got a laptop (on my second or third attempt at uni ~2004-5). I still take notes this way for anything that requires me to not be slow.

I don’t think there’s anything terribly useful that could be said. There were already factions fighting over more central power or a loose confederation. Multiple attempts to get things going failed in various ways before finally something was agreed upon. You can look at the bill of rights and what that was a response to.

Some rando in weird clothes showing up claiming to have advice for them is probably not going to go well to begin with. The most rational response would be to get that nutjob out or in prison.

I could swear we broke 100F more than once when I was growing up in rural Ohio in the '80s and '90s. I wonder if it’s a source/data problem?