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I'm from the US but haven't lived there in a decade so maybe I count? I also use mbin and not lemmy, but close enough. I like the various science communities most, I think. I actually don't really use subscriptions and just block communities that I have zero interest in so it's a bit tougher to say 'I always go to xxxx'.

I've used firefox on android for years now. The only time I do anything in Chrome is when I need to translate pages easily (Japanese translation only recently hit desktop version and it's very poor quality and google lens is inconvenient).

And, for the most part, humans' lungs don't have bees!

I somehow forgot about bees not having lungs. I knew some other small things didn't.

What grandchildren? I guess it's not impossible I'd have to remarry in my 50s or older to someone with kids, but I sure hope I don't have to.

Mid-40s and wrote several. Many places I lived only accepted rent by check or money order.

Dictators are known for keeping potential threats to their power around after they've outlived their usefulness so surely things will be fine, right?

// might keep 1 or 2 around in custody to attempt to prop up legitimacy later if needed.

I grew up in rural Ohio, USA. We had sex ed in 5th grade ('91, maybe?) that covered the very basic biological stuff. I think the following summer, we were supposed to go to a waterpark but had to cancel because my step-sister was on her period. Mom came in to talk about it, I showed her the pamphlet that school sent me home with, she read through it, then said to ask her if I had any questions. That was the first and last time any of that came up.

My company's accountant: if there is no receipt, you had no doughnut, you get no reimbursement.

My two cents with a decade in Japan under my belt:

• work-life balance needs to be fixed (there are recent laws helping this, but not enough enforcement)
• sexism in work (salary gap and gap in leadership is one of the highest in the world)
• do more based on merit than seniority in a number of areas
• more jobs and good universities need to be moved outside of the big city centers; daycare availability is a HUGE problem for people I know with kids or looking to have them (whereas in the countryside where I live, they have free daycare slots available but far fewer jobs and opportunities). This would involve some investment in infra to make things happen as well
• better investment in education and some revamping of the education system; kids are almost never held back here and once they get into uni it's often seen as a free ride to graduation at many schools; this is not the best system for producing the best innovators and Japan needs innovation
• better progress toward digitization; we're woefully behind the times even as many are dragged, kicking and screaming, into more things being online. I still have to send faxes and postal mail to accomplish many things relating to government and taxes. This has a number of costs such as taking time off work to accomplish things in person. Banks are also only open 9-3 M-F with some occasionally having weekend hours. Same with all but an area's "main" post office and other things that just eat into that work-life balance problem by requiring use of time off.
• better education in and participation in government and civics; very few people vote in Japan and I'd like to see that change as I think more engagement would help the people better determine what is best for their future.

Edit to add that the above excludes anything related to immigration as I don't really know the right answer/balance there; the above are things that could help immediately without as much handwaving about "destroying our cultural values!" that some complain about by suggesting such daring things as married Japanese couples having separate surnames (illegal in Japan; if both are Japanese, they must unify to one name).

Edit 2: just saw this elsewhere talking about some changes coming: https://leglobal.law/countries/japan/looking-ahead-2025-japan/

One also can't even get a working visa to work some place like a cleaner or convenience store; those people are all on: student with parttime job permit; spouse/family/dependent; PR; and working holiday visas.

Source? I live in Japan and have no idea what you're referring to here. Japan already has its share of xenophobic fuckwits, particularly the old right-wing guys, but I don't think people are generally trending that way. The one exception might be people living in places inundated with tourists who are tired of that aspect.

Seconding as someone in Japan

Many places allow two visits totalling 180 days, but I'm not personally aware of any one-shot half-year. That's also largely on the waiver program and immigration is not obligated to let one into the country if it looks like they're trying to actually live there (visa runs for a couple days used to be a huge problem here).

In some contexts intentionally yes, in some accidentally yes, and in others absolutely not. I've been in Japan 10 years.

Vacation > Student Visa > Work Visa > Spouse Visa > PR application in place (in my specific case)

Doesn't help what? Dealing with the systemic issues of work culture, sexism, etc. would be a good start to helping.

As someone who lives in Japan, I've got some bad news for you...

The good news is that it's mostly just the olds. The bad news is that it isn't exclusively just the older generations.

Clean place to stand to change clothes without getting your socks/feet on the rest of the gross floor? I've seen those in some washrooms around the world.

A parent has Celiac's and I know I'm a carrier of one of the associated variants related to it from an old DNA test. For unrelated reasons (positive for blood fecal occult of yearly health check), I had cameras in basically all of me and they found no indications. However, I had been mostly gluten free for months. Before the stomach camera, I did eat gluten for a few days, but nothing interesting showed up. I was told I could do some blood tests off insurance at a high price (probably not too crazy since this is Japan and not the US), but it wouldn't actually be useful; currently there are no medications approved for use in relation to celiac's in Japan and it would just make my life insurance more expensive and have other potential weird side effects.

My mom and her side have always had issues as well, being diagnosed as IBS among other things. I chose to get sterilized so at least the problem, whatever it is, ends here, heh.

I don't think the two are fully related, at least not causally. If 1-3 are true, then there should be a large enough pool with things in common to avoid loneliness. If this specifically means sexual/relationship loneliness than, yeah.

Third spaces going away and moving a lot online has definitely had an impact on people hanging out outside of much more niche groups. I don't care for organized religion much, but people of various backgrounds worshipped together. People had volleyball and other local leagues made up of all kinds of people who saw a flier for it. Men (not sure if women had something similar) went to fraternal order of the whatevers. Hell, dad and I went to Commodore computer enthusiast meet-ups. I think the loss of things like that has been bad for a number of reasons, including loneliness.