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In principal, I 100% agree. We do have food banks here, especially as the yen has dropped against the dollar making imports more expensive (and tons of things here are hit with that even secondarily as fuel and such is largely an import), inflation, and the economic shake-up during and after corona.

The issue specific with ehonmaki/sushi is the raw fish component and the way they're held during the day (not in closed coolers for the most part, but the open type which can be much more variable in temperature). I don't think they should give away potentially dangerous food. The other stuff, yeah, 100%

My gut is that food safety rules here probably make that difficult (though I don't know for sure). They have a pretty short shelf life being raw seafood (in many cases) and are already steadily discounted as the day goes on before being tossed.

Edit: the article also mentioned things like Christmas cake that do last longer but can't really be turned into anything else. I bought a Christmas cake a day or two after once

Yeah, I had never seen a connector that looks anything like that, but I figured I was just behind the times (since it didn't look like Ethernet plugged into it to me)

I moved from social to run a few months ago after being fed up. I like it.

The japanese article mentions some of it is sent to recycling companies with the one example using it for pig feed. The numbers are also probably higher because some had been thrown away before the volunteers/workers did their survey

As a programmer, I don't even know what we're looking at. A switch, I would guess, but I haven't seen hardware in years. In any case wouldn't "port 21 <bottom|top>" been better?

I just assumed we already were (well, was, in my case, having moved to a place with septic). Several of my family worked in wastewater treatment. It doesn't bother me

Plants for now. Chickens will be next but not until next year sometime (we want to do some travel before we have animals we need to care for and potentially to find a farm sitter). Maybe something to eat all of the kudzu and stuff we get in the future, but I'm not thinking that far ahead. Japan has really strict laws on butchery even just for personal consumption. I think goats are OK to self-butcher, but I also don't know that I really want a goat.

My primary job is IT, but I am starting a farm and worked on one as a teenager.

Could you also please allow those of us overseas to use silly things like retirement accounts without having it all be considered PFICs? I just wanna contribute to my current country's equivalent of an ISA/401K type of thing.

Can confirm as someone who lives in Japan. It's an oft-dis used thing in foreigner groups when the new arrivals show up and notice

Reduce to a sane number. Like less than 20.

I have an m3 now (I had an m1. I later found out about 3 other laptops had issues around the same time so I actually suspect something weird in remote management, but I don't know mac well enough to assert that more). They decided that since I technically, however frustratingly and measurably more slowly, can do my work, it's not worth the "security risk". I still bring it up at basically every opportunity and I'm not the only one. I live in a very remote area of Japan and remote jobs are hard to come by, so, at the same time, I'm not making too much noise.

We do that in English as well in some cases.

q: "Where's the beer?" a: "fridge".

say them aloud

Wait 'till you learn about pitch accent :)

At least most things are pronounced like they are written but not all.

n -> m is a common one such as in 新聞 because Japanese doesn't have standalone m.

Japanese also has 7 vowels: standard aeiou and devoiced i and u. It's the reason people say です (desu) like 'des'. A fun example of this playing out is 靴下 (kutsushita - socks). My wife (native Japanese speaker) didn't even realize this until I was watching a video about it.

I had some success with this, but ran into some issues as well that also made it annoying. The first laptop the gave me died and I lost all that progress and haven't tried again since.

That really depends on the person, I think. I last used mac in like 2003 until last year with my new job. I hate almost everything about it. Nothing works the way I expect it to. I love clicking on an app in the dock just to have it... not show up? It gains focus and, wherever it is, will have input if I'm typing. Same with command+tab sometimes. I also can't switch between fullscreen windows of the same app without installing something, apparently (my coworker who uses mac at home couldn't figure it out either). It has slowed me down and made me less productive. Work won't let us have linux laptops for whatever reason which, as a developer, would be so much nicer.

Yeah. Super drunk dude who got thrown out of a bar decided everyone was on his shitlist. Apparently, he was known to the cops. I was standing outside and dude ran up in punched me. I hadn't said a word to him the whole night. Not sure why he picked me. He appeared to be coked out, so there's that. He was arrested for something else (DV, I think) not long after.

Because I don't use apple products and don't keep up with the news? My work laptop is Mac, but that's work's problem (I hate that thing)

https://genius.com/Mrs-green-apple-columbus-lyrics with google translate should get you there. I tried to listen to the song to verify but it's awful and I'm not subjecting myself to that.