tiredofsametab @ tiredofsametab @kbin.run

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Nothing has really caught my eye so far. I have a handful of wishlisted games, some of which are on sale, but I just don't feel compelled to get them. I'm actually considering trying to dig up my old SSI gold-box titles and see if I can get DOSBox or a VM working instead (though housework and farming generally eat up my non-main-job time at the moment).

Keep it to yourself and don't hurt others. So long as that's the case, what someone else believes is generally not my business.

I was raised in various evangelical protestant denominations of Christianity, went through a Neopagan period, and landed in atheist-leaning agnostic.

We bought a house with some farmland and moved in a few months ago. My farming ventures have been hit or miss ("learning how not to do it" as some might put it), but we had some fruit trees/bushes. We now have ume (plum) jam and are still into fresh blueberries and biwa (loquat). It's really nice to be able to eat things from our own land when they are most fresh and delicious.

Probably a wood chipper, but that's not going to get very far compared to the overall price here.

Xennial. I'm X depending upon which number you use as the cutoff (the '80 definition vs '82 definition)

Same except keys are clipped on a belt loop and I have a handkerchief with my wallet in my right front pocket (Japan is super humid so a lot of sweat-wiping happens). Also right-handed, but I hold my phone with my left and enter the passcode with my right hand (I don't use the fingerprint scanner)

.... KEVIN!

Pre-wiping is just smearing shit around. You're almost certainly better to start with the spray.

Wiping first is just going to smear shit around and, if you have a hairy ass, get it more into the hair. Skip the pre-wipe and it will be just fine.

My bidet is a Japanese washlet and I wipe with toilet paper to dry.

Honestly, I feel like if districts are gonna be drawn, it'd make more sense to just choose some algorithm and have a computer do it.

Like, if you want to have non-partisan oversight of the algorithm selection, great, but I'm not at all sold that partitioning up the election map requires anything beyond a simple, mechanical process.

Agreeing on the algo, its params, etc. is going to just be another never-ending fight. It now also requires teaching any oversight committee about all of this. Even if it were left to some "non-partisan" (I'll believe it when I see it) engineer, each successive government would just replace the algo and/or engineer.

In my opinion, an algo should be legislated with its implementation forced, but I'm not holding my breath.

So the biggest problem, particularly with the currency and economy, is that Japan lacks a lot of resources so a ton of things are imported. This means that a ton of things used by normal people are going up in price, especially since corona opened the floodgates on that (Japanese makers were really resistant to changing prices but corona gave an excuse and momentum came in). For most Japanese, that's just going to impact goods and services. For most foreigners, they want to go home to see their family sometimes and their wages mean much less and flight prices get higher. Overseas vacations in general are an issue here. If there's an emergency, it's even worse.

Two types of long-release ADHD medication are currently allowed for adult ADHD in Japan. Instant release and other varieties are very illegal. Concerta was the only option until fairly recently, but now another one is allowed (though English documentation is probably behind).

A company can sponsor an IT worker quite easily. The recipient needs to have a degree or 10 years of experience (though degree is strongly preferred due to paperwork) and can't have a criminal record (to simplify a bit).

They (employee being hired) should be prepared to make 1/4 to about 1/2 what they would make in the US, almost certainly have full in-person office time, and the exchange rate to USD is the worst it's been in over 30 years with no sign of recovery (my salary converted to USD is worse now than when I made far less gross salary), etc.

In the case of Americans, the added bonus that the Japanese versions of retirement accounts (iDECO and NISA) are basically off-limits because the IRS taxes them punitively. Several investments are off limits for the same reason (PFICs). They can't contribute to a 401k unless they have US taxable income which would mean double taxation. If they make over the IRS's minimum (which is hard with a Japanese salary and exchange rate at the moment outside of FANG and certain fintech), they do get the pleasure of being double-taxed. Either way, they still have to file US taxes every year and likely FBAR as well.

Oh, and if they want to work for any of the major game studios, they will need to read, write, and speak a certain degree of Japanese.

Few banks, medical institutions, etc. have much if any English support (though it is getting better).

If they like weed or anything, it's still super illegal here and will result in detention for up to 23 days before charging, serving a jail sentence, and being banned for anywhere from 5 years to life from Japan. This could also happen if their family/doctor in the US happens to send them a medication they can't get here (for example, many types of ADHD drugs are fully illegal here).

Edit: another one! If they want to keep voting, they may need to pay state taxes as well enough if they do not live there and will not set foot there again; it depends upon the state how that is handled.

Edit2: I'm a software engineer (and, as of recently, small-scale farmer) originally from the US and living in Japan for nearly a decade now.

My guess is somewhere in South America.

For fuck's sake, I was make a tongue-in-cheek joke about not wanting to believe how shitty people can be in hopes of someone getting the tiniest little chuckle out of it.

Without reading the article, I'm just going to pretend this is about fighting climate change to keep things snowy in the winter and not racist fuckheads.

66億5000万円

yeah, the way of writing numbers can trip people up.

66 * 100,000,000 + 5,000 * 10,000 -> 6,650,000,000 JPY -> 41,340,682.60 USD (as of this morning)

I didn't see it in the search. They may use other terms like 閉める or something, but we have no legal requirement here that I know of to allow for account deletion. No company I worked for did until we wanted to do business where things like GDPR (I think it's called) is a thing.

It can mean delete in some contexts.

last I checked, FF doesn't have support for full-page translation of Japanese. It's basically the only reason I still use Chrome sometimes.