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A lot of cell towers (at least used to) have only hours of backup. In Houston when hurricane Ike tore through, cellphones were useless due to overloading at first, then various towers started going offline at 24, 36, 48, etc. hours. I think after Ike, at least some were upgraded to 72-96 hours, but I would not expect that to be the case at all in areas that don't frequently see disasters.

A lot of people overseas also rely on social security. I certainly would hope to collect something in another 20ish years as well.

To me, the storage isn't the impressive part; it's the logic, "thinking", fine motor control, etc.

Some of it is rose-coloured glasses. Even my grandfather (born in the 1920s) once remarked to me whilst watching the news: "you know, this has always been happening; we just didn't used to talk about it", in response to some kind of crime/violence. It's also generally one of the goals of parents to let kids be kids and shelter them as best they can from some of the actual hardships and shit that is life, so a lot of us think back fondly on those times (at least who are lucky enough to have similar experiences; not everyone had adults in their lives that would or even could do that).

Spying has been around forever, but the creative jobs thing is apt. Instead, it was the threat of manual work getting taken over by robots, hating Japan because of their miracle economy basically made possible (at least at first) due to the US but then nearly overtaking the US, etc. that defined a lot of what I saw (which is humorous given that I have been living in Japan for the past decade).

I'm a xennial and I'd say I'm doing pretty good at keeping up, but I'm also a software dev so that probably skews things a bit.

I think what the person meant is a lot of people in the US are one or two paychecks from losing their housing and have virtually no savings.

India is the one that I know of that differs in some way. I'm sure there are more.

Avoid caffeine in the afternoon (how late depends on each person's caffeine metabolism). Don't eat within a few hours of bed. Don't drink right before bed. Go to bed at the same time every day. Try to avoid screens within an hour of bed. If you must, it should be something passive.

Doing some of those is better than none of those; not everyone can do them all. I found I was more sensitive to caffeine than I thought and that making my bedtime the same +/- 30 minutes every day made things a lot better for my sleep. I take a hot bath about an hour before bed, get into bed, put on some background music (nothing too interesting or I won't sleep), and then fall asleep pretty well.

Japanese and full of law references and the history of laws that needed to be memorized. I'm going to take the online US licensing test and convert.

I know it's true about anyone way, waaayy too into their hobby, but some anime fans in particular need to chill way out, especially where it intersects with coming to Japan and being super creepy to others, particularly after a few drinks.

I grew up in the US and have lived outside it for 10 years now. I would agree with this. Voting and representation have never been total and is definitely less available for many groups. Further things are being stripped away.

Might have been microwave link. We had those as part of our disaster recovery at a few places I worked.

Have you tried flipping and or rotating your mattress? Getting a new mattress? Getting a new pad/spring/boxspring (or maybe rotating/flipping that)? Have you looked into your sleep hygiene and schedule?

If all goes well, I should get my permanent residency here in Japan in a couple more months; I'm just waiting on all the paperwork to get done (probably may-june).

I'm looking forward to eating fresh veg right off the farm, but that's not going to start super soon (well, from my own farm, anyway; some locals have hot-houses and are already producing various things).

I'm hoping to get my amateur radio license this year as well, but I don't really have much time to study (fulltime job + running a small farm business) so we'll see on that one.

I'm guessing whomever/wherever you're seeing is either defederated or, more likely, blocked by me. In any case, pay them no mind if you do see them.

Various flavors of high fantasy -> probably very dead very quickly unless I gain magic abilities once I'm in-universe.

I'm a dual citizen (and live in a third country). I wanted to show my wife more of the US museums and parks, as well as having her meet more of my family. It's 100% off the table now. There's zero chance, even for two weeks, I put my wife (who already speaks very little English) in that situation. Also, fuck giving the US any extra money.

Good news! Most of the world would find that extremely weird (as with calling a room with no baths a bathroom). I think it's due to the euphemism treadmill.

If it's fixed to a waterproof wall, it would work. Weird, but work.

I fear american farmers will go bankrupt and all their land will be bought by corporations.

That's already kinda the case that's been happening in slow motion. Various policies over the last several decades have driven family farmers out of business to be replaced with bigger and bigger companies.