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If you believe that water is not wet and wet is a property it imparts on other things it contacts, it would indeed be weird

I'm 2-3 times a day. it was 5+ until we figured out my body hates gluten

A lot of countries still do. Japan has changed a lot in the 15isj years since I first came and even more in the decade I've been living here

You've already got various services running on the same lines basically as close together as they can, so there's only so much wiggle room to accomdate something faster than all of them longer stops on existing services could do something, but that has other knock-on effects. Building a new rail and retrofitting every station would work, but it's also a nightmare to both get the land and do all that development.

SSI gold box D&D titles and Dungeon master, though both are better on Amiga

• grandpa always muted commercials. Searching for old ones on YouTube, though, can be (a) a great nostalgia hit and (b) great language practice or culture study when looking at those of other countries

As someone who frequently uses Japan's bullet trains, that max speed is cool, but also of limited value since trains tend to stop in places. There are some areas, moreso in china that Japan, where that might make sense, but even if your train doesn't stop at all stations, you're still behind the ones that do until a track split to allow passing.

Japanese bullet trains had to get a redesign due to something akin to sonic booms when leaving tunnels that annoyed the hell out of residents several times an hour.

I'm wife's hometown and we're meeting her childhood friends in a few hours at an izakaya for sushi, fish, and all sorts of stuff. Please have a moment of silence for my liver this weekend.

I don't have to fully imagine since northern Japan has gotten alerts thanks to a certain neighbor. As for us, there's that can be done. Nowhere has basements. I do t know if anyone nearby even lives in a concrete building. Wed likely then make our way to the municipal office at some point as it's our closest designated disaster/evac point.

I actually prefer not laying over when flying to the US East coast, but I also only use japanese airlines which tend to have higher quality food and service.

My wife and I both miss the convenience of Tokyo and walking or taking trains everywhere, but we don't miss how tiny and packed things were. Now, we basically have to drive everywhere in our rural area. When the weather is nice, we can cycle, but it still takes quite a bit of time

As someone doing IT for over two decades, I guess I'm somewhere in the top half of the image? I don't care for anime that much so no bottom right and fursuits creep me out so not bottom right.

I had it for the first time around '90 in a financially struggling family and, while it was something of a treat, I never wanted to go back. To me then, I think it was just weird in terms of flavor (to me at the time), so maybe I was just off to a bad start. Today, I love in Japan and grow my own ingredients to make the tex-mex (and sometimes more traditionally Mexican) food I would later grow to love

Maybe there's some vestige there but I asked upwards of 20 people and no one could explain it. Texas did historically have german-speaking communities and even cities, but I wasn't aware of any Dutch nor had I heard anyone mention it. It's interesting?

This year the government (at least national; not sure on more regional and local) updated their systems to allow submitting data on something other than literal 3.5" floppy disks so there's that!

I'm not sure exactly how rail will continue to evolve here. Some argue the maglev stuff is a waste of money. We also have our own infrastructure issues going on here, particularly in the more rural areas.

I just gave up.

I don't care for it, personally, and never have.

Japan is only living in the future in very select and narrow areas. Source: a decade in Japan sending faxes, having to use a physical stamp on hand-written paperwork, and working with/at japanese companies whose IT practices are still sitting around 2008.

Hno. I do say 'historical' rather than 'istorical', but that's the only one I can think of in the global English-speaking world that has any number of adherants off the top of my head.