tiredofsametab @ tiredofsametab @kbin.social

Canadian-American software developer living in Japan since 2015. Into garde

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We have that here in Japan with wild boar already

Japan is YYYY-MM-DD, but when we talk about dates where a year is unneeded, we just cut it off which leaves it in the US standard format of MM-DD, much to the annoyance of non-US foreigners living here.

"beans on bread" I'm on board with; it's only on toast if you toast the bread.

There's this read to go through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ListofwarapologystatementsissuedbyJapan with the relevant bit being

Both stated that this agreement will "finally and irreversibly" resolve the contentious issue and that "on the premise that the Government of Japan will steadily implement the measures it announced", both countries "will refrain from accusing or criticizing each other regarding this issue in the international community, including at the United Nations".[56]

I think it will be better when the geezer ultra-nationalists finally die out, but there are of course younger ones as well that they raised.

On the other hand, this kinda goes against the "finally and irreversibly resolve" bit.

There's also the political theatre aspect. Korea likes to rile up the ultra-nationalist left as Japan does with their right for domestic political points.

Then, they wanted more people to join their death cults before the end came. Now, I just think they're less interested.

I haven't done UI work in years so I'm not sure how they do it these days.

Oh, that would make sense. My brain just didn't make the leap there for some reason.

170 degrees

Are you using a pressure cooker? Or a wizard maybe?

Solid black on all my devices.

Yeah, Japan has ruined me for public transit in the US and elsewhere. Clapping on a plane would just make me annoyed unless the pilot did something phenomenal in a bad situation or the like.

Ideally, to save bandwidth on both sides, the server would only want to serve you the JS and CSS you need. I'm not sure how frequently that optimization is made, however.

I would add old phone books and newspaper records at the public library.

laughs in fark.com

/ You'll get over it (tm)

I know several websites consider firefox's built-in privacy settings an adblocker in certain configurations. I get notices on many sites and use no adblocker. Not sure if it's the case here.

Focusing purely on the question in the headline, a party usually doesn't put forward other candidates when the president runs for a second term. Incumbents often have certain advantages.

Japan has traditional iron kettles (that are stupidly expensive) and they're often mentioned by doctors for use in people who have iron deficiency here. That or iron pans. They even make an iron ball to put in normal kettles and such, but that weirds me out a bit.

run is my personal favorite. Run for office, run off a copy, run out of something, run into something, run over something, etc.

I don't necessarily think this is uncommon in language (particularly with the most common 20 or so verbs).

I think liason is the harder part about trying to transcribe someone's spoken words as a new learner without a good grasp on vocabulary.

At least with French, a lot of those silent letters are a lot more predictable than English. English has French borrowings (from two different time periods), Latin borrowings (some of which were borrowed via Norman or Old French first), Greek, Germanic, etc. and we did various levels of preserving the native spelling. This is neat for etymology and maybe figuring out a word one doesn't know, but kinda sucks for spelling. A lot of words from Normal and Old French are now spelled differently in modern Parisian, but the more recent loans are closer. It's a hot mess.

Chinese grammar seems to me to be simpler than Japanese, though I studied Japanese for about a year and have lived here speaking the language daily (primary language at home) for the better part of a decade and have only scratched the surface on Mandarin.

English has no shortage of exceptions to "rules" (sometimes the rule only seeming such because it applies to the subset most frequently used rather than the whole set of whatevers). English's most common verbs are irregular. That's not necessarily too crazy (be, have, do/make are often weird in most languages because they resist change the most since they are most used). We have all kinds of things that aren't "correct" (prescriptive view) that native speakers get wrong all the time. "I have went" rather than "I have gone" is one that grates to me, but I accept that language changes. A lot of verbs are also losing their endings and patterns and gradually going to the dominant ed ending where previously they did not (Tom Scott has a good video on this).