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“The ancestor of Santa…” or something would probably work around it well enough to keep those people happy.

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My grandfather was, but it does seem rather unlikely he’ll be able to do it again now that you mention it.

Sold out. Tetrapod Vomit Divot is still playing down the street, however.

a $50,000 reward

So the cost of an asprin, a bandaid, and 3 jellybeans in a US hospital?

I am forced to file taxes every year and being a US citizen fucks my ability to invest in the retirement plans here because they all end up being PFICs which the IRS heavily penalizes. Fuck you, you’re not taking my rights away. Forcing me to travel to not only the US, but to the state where I’m registered is not OK as that is thousands of dollars and days to accomplish.

There are a lot of different dryer designs as well, some of which are much more friendly to breeding bacteria than others.

I’ve either driven over the one pictured when I moved from Tokyo to where I live now or a very similar one, and have also driven in Austin. I can 100% confirm it sucks less here. As a bonus, no gun-flashing roadragers here!

The sign at the right is a no-parking for bikes/cyclists. Thanks to Google Lens being able to read smudges better than me, it seems like it’s signed something hisamatsu police chuo ward, so I think the intersection is here: 35.68359477844466, 139.77831927150842

I expected some of those to be rail rather than all expressway. If it’s any consolation, all of those are toll roads so at least people are paying to use them.

EDIT: I was off by a couple hundred meters, it would seem by another post above (or below, I guess, depending upon your sorting). That one is also all toll roads so far as I can tell.

In Japan, that would be considered a motorcycle so anyone wanting one would need a license of at least however many kw the motor output is. I got pedal-assist bicycles for both my wife and I when we moved out to the country and, although they’re not cargo bikes, they are rated for enough weight to work in that regard to a degree. We just drop the batteries in the charger whenever we need. They’re legally capped at something like 12km/h (so the assist will cut off if you go faster than that; you can still ride faster if you pedal faster).

I’m still not ready to buy an electric bike. I’ve thought about it if my wife ever showed interest in riding (I got my motorcycle license about 18 months ago and have a 400cc bike), but companies aren’t sticking around long enough to give me any confidence in the future for parts and maintenance. I also don’t have a great sense of what charging would be like where I live (rural northern Japan), but that seems like a more solvable problem and we mostly use bikes for errands that don’t fit walking/cycling and don’t require my bigger vehicle (kei car 660cc).

pre-smoking-ban stale ashtray or post-smoking-ban piss and mold?

I think that’s more hubris leading to death by misadventure. Ikarus got a little too warm.

‘Nobody panics when things go “according to plan.”’ – as a software engineer, I assure you this isn’t completely true. If things are too smooth, something is definitely, probably horribly and sneakily, wrong.

As a former alcoholic, doubt. I do occasionally drink, but I have to be very, very careful because it can easily spiral to an every night thing, particularly when I’m otherwise suffering with stress and/or depression.

Wife saw two shooting stars in short succession a few days ago. I wonder if it was little grains preceding this guy or just random junk.

rice cooker, slow cooker, or pressure cooker.

I literally had none of these at the time I mentioned. I had I think two pots and a frying pan.

over 90% of the American population live within 15 minutes of a Walmart (with three quarters being within 5 minutes from one)

Citation? I sure didn’t.

if they don’t already have more than one grocery store in their area.

We had one and that was anywhere close. Again, remember gas money and travel time were issues for me. Like every cent of gas and food money.

Please don’t diminish someone’s ability to really improve their life with very little effort

But it’s fine for you to tell the working poor to basically ‘git gud’ and find money to spend on things, places to spend it, and time to do so? Particularly the ones without vehicles? The ones who deal in cash and don’t have debit or credit cards to order online?

there really is no such thing as a food desert.

Again, there are people who do not have bank accounts or cannot regularly access them to spend money online and most places these days aren’t going to do CoD. This is also just misinformation.

"The consensus established at the NIH workshop was that food insecurity and unhealthy neighborhood food environments contribute to diet-related chronic diseases that worsen health disparities. Addressing these challenges would help tackle nutrition security, a growing priority for the USDA and other federal agencies [83]. Several factors, including social determinants of health such as employment, housing, and education, severely limit access to affordable, nutritious food among various racial/ethnic minority and rural populations. " from the conclusion/summary of https://ajcn.nutrition.org/article/S0002-9165(23)66352-X/fulltext which also mentions food deserts elsewhere in the work.

The worst thing we can do is convince people that they are powerless

Of course they’re not powerless, but your “solutions” are blind to just how shit the situation is. I’m telling you this as a very annoyed person who lived it. You’re telling people to come up with time, means, and money out of nowhere. “It’s just $10” is insulting to some people who are choosing between food and medicine or heat or electricity. You are saying to empower yet victim-blaming by saying they’re not doing enough.

I love to cook and always have. When I was working 2 jobs (and some additional freelance/part time) to keep a roof over our heads, there was zero chance I had the time, money, and energy to cook. Living in a food desert, I would have to spend gas money I didn’t have to go to a proper store to buy things and that would eat about 50 minutes more of my already-sleep-deprived day. Don’t even get me started on when I lived out of a car for a while. And I’m fortunate that I even had the car. Public transit was terrible where I lived at the time and basically useless unless you want to spend 3-4 hours a day commuting. There were no sidewalks and multi-lane roads with high speed limits. The social safety net is also in terrible shape, moreso today than back then.

“Only $10” also shows how out-of-touch you can be for the real situation that people have, particularly in areas of the rust belt and coal mining areas where the employers frequently left. I also worked in worker’s comp in healthcare IT and let me tell you that people with lifelong problems from the mines frequently get denied care as the mines fight just about everything, so there are people who have a really rough time and need more care for their families which is still more time and money in places with few jobs left to go around. These people also don’t have the resources to “just move”, either. This doesn’t even go into the opioid epidemic that also is an issue from overprescription in those areas and other confounding factors.

I live in Japan and am overweight, though slowly dropping it. Two years ago, I went back for the first time in like 6+ years and was shocked and horrified at how huge people were.

Depending upon ventilation, if they succeed in drying it enough and not having it overflow getting it in, they might not have to worry about getting it out.