tiredofsametab @ tiredofsametab @kbin.social

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

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Try not to do that again; it's very bad for the space-time continuum.

Keep an eye on your health. Yearly checkups, bloodwork, etc. as well as paying attention to what you eat and how much you move.

Be thinking about retirement and what you can do/invest to prepare. What this looks like depends heavily upon the country in which you live.

Living will and will if you haven't already.

If you are not paying for some service, you and your data are almost certainly the product. It was true then, it's still true today.

Disney is more popular than Anime

I don't know that I agree with that, necessarily, but I suppose it might be how you define "popular". Tons of people are going to Puroland and stuff (Sanrio/Hello Kitty) if we're talking about theme parks. Every Japanese kid I know still talks about Anpanman, etc., though all my nieces and nephews definitely do know some Disney (Frozen in particular for the gals at least).

Japan doesn’t have pork broth

I'd generalize that to liquid stock that isn't dashi. I can at least find chicken stock at Costco, but that's about it.

Almost every shower I've seen in Japan has it on a movable hose rather than fixed, so at least there's that. I forgot when I went back to the US for a visit for the first time in 6 years and was super annoyed, heh.

I've only worked at two Japanese companies. My wife has worked at several in her life (and loves her current company and job). I've also read stories of people in bad places asking for advice. I'll answer based on that, but realize that it is not a huge sample size.

"black companies" are very much a thing and take advantage of those that either can't (or feel that they can't) find other work. Recent years have seen laws to reform the number of hours worked and against various forms of "power harassment" (you can google that for what it is, but basically managers/superiors cannot do certain things). My first company in Japan kinda waffled between a company with a ton of overtime, got quite nice, and then went back the opposite direction.

Some of it is just social pressure, which is a big thing in Japan. People don't want to rock the boat, so they will, for example, clock out but keep working, not leave before the boss, etc. Corona causing a lot of people to work from home has changed things, though, and a lot of people who have gone back to the office have a much better understanding of how much useless BS there is and how many hours of their lives they're missing out on. We'll see how it plays out in the future.

Midoriyama (mount green mountain, heh). They do Sasuke once a year usually, but you'd need a translator to participate. I don't think they really have an audience open to the public (it seems they're all related to the contestants in some way), but I'm not sure about that

I think maybe older abroad in Japan might be fine. Rachael and Jun is another one I used to watch. I consume that type of content less the longer I live here. If you're into outdoorsy stuff Go North Japan is really nice

Yeah, 建前 and 本音 are definitely a thing to get used to, heh. I agree, specific questions are definitely helpful to answer

I don't know of any Japanese who really know of Lemmy and I've never seen it mentioned online (though mastadon is at least somewhat known, but not by the average japanese). Also asking in English is going to limit the pool of respondants quite a bit. I'm not japanese but I've been living here since 2015 and speak japanese on a daily basis with my wife and family.

• really depends upon what you're into and where you want to go. English ability can drop pretty rapidly outside of the cities, but I got by with and handful of words and gestures when I started visiting
• not really. Some old building are tough, but you can duck. I have a buddy who's 194cm (I think) and he's fine (born and raised in Japan)
• not really. I did fine as mentioned it point 1 with some very basic words and I've met plenty of people who knows zero and enjoy their visits

Having been to many a hot spring, yes (but only in my head).

Edit: seriously, though, sitting in an outdoor bath in the mountains as snow slowly falls is one of life's great simple pleasures

I've even living in Japan for almost a decade (probably closer if you count times I visited for months before living here). If you have specific questions, I'm happy to answer them.

It's dangerous to anyone directly by it as it happens and in the form of pumice rafts if any where created, but that's about it.

Depending upon the composition and how much material gets built up, it will likely erode away fairly quickly and may pose a hazard when not visible but still just under the waves or something.

They were updated as you requested. You did not ask for a loading functionality. Please open a new feature request.

There are still all kinds of things a company can do to mitigate at least some of this. New browser, new location, forced two-factor auth, etc.

Thanks for the additional context/info! :)

I mean, I found the "fuck me" part surprising. I wasn't trying to attack you or anything. To me, there are steps between things and disease/disorder and I wanted to make sure it was clear; that's all. Yours was I think the second from top when I looked which is why I commented on it. I actually haven't finished going through them all yet

? I'm confused by this reaction. I offered another possibility. I also pointed out that 'full night' wasn't in there because jumping straight to a disease/disorder seemed a bit strong when there might be other posibilities.

Constantly differing shifts can also keep the body confused because there's no schedule and it doesn't even remotely match the light cycle outside. OP also didn't say 'full night of sleep' in their post.

Good sleep hygiene to start. After that, always go to sleep and get up at the same time (or as close to it as possible). do not use snooze and get out of bed when your alarm goes off.

That's what helped me, anyway.