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tiredofsametab

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Reddit - Beehaw until I decided I didn't like older versions of Lemmy (though it seems most things I didn't like are better now) - kbin.social (died) - kbin.run (died) - fedia.

Japan-based backend software dev and small-scale farmer.

  • Trump threatens to bar the new US-Canada bridge from opening, demands talks with Ottawa

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  • Don't open this one. Close the Canadian side of the ambassador bridge. Fuck that guy

  • Do you like working from home? Yes or no, gimme some reasons.

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  • Fully remote for years now and never want an on-site job again. I don't mind going for a couple of events a year, though.

    I can take my "smoke break" to change loads of laundry or do something else around the house. I have no commute time nor expenses. I am always here for deliveries. I regained so much of my time that I can use for study or entertainment. (Assuming a 1-hour commute, even if most of that is on a train, that's 10 hours a week back from that alone).

    For success, your company and you need to have good communication and planning. It's also not for everyone, especially more social people.

  • Which high school friend took a path you didn't expect?

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  • I'm in my mid-40s. I moved for my final year of highschool, so it's a bit weird. When Facebook came out, I did reconnect with some, but I quit it around 8 years ago now and lost contact mostly. When I look up my first (rural) school classmates by name now and again, I get so many obituaries. Some freak accidents, many cae accidents, some military, and others still drugs and violence (not much else in tiny truck stop towns). My graduating class was like 180is people and easily a tenth of them are gone (it feels more like 1/5 even).

  • Japan's Sanae Takaichi wins a supermajority after gambling on a snap election

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  • Yeah this move was essentially to reset the counter to a full 4 years in the lower house. The ldp loves scandles, though, so she might step on a rake and we see some sort of pm election and another general

  • Gen Z is the first generation dumber than their parents, neuroscientist claims

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  • I was terrible at standardized tests. I was in gifted and learning disability classes at the same time in middle school (basically because of ADHD and losing my homework, forgetting it at home, etc.) I'm a successful software engineer who learns foreign languages as a hobby and also run a second business (a small farm) while volunteering sometimes in my village. I think I did OK in that regard(at least in the booksmarts sort of way which is what this presumably measures).

    If standardized tests aren't working for Gen Z, we should find a better way to measure things. I doubt the sky is falling.

  • AI gold rush sees tech firms embracing 72-hour weeks

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  • Nah. I'm ~40 hours a week (very rare overtime) + an on-call rotation about once a month (zero calls in months) + fully remote except for a couple events a year (though I'm welcome to go to the office more). Even if I make ~50% of whatever they're paying, that's still fine with me. I worked my ass off, including multiple jobs, when I was younger.

    I guess the asterisk here is that I did start my own farm business on a small farm, but that's also monetizing a hobby.

  • What made you switch from Reddit to the Lemmy app?

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  • I'm using mbin in a browser so, er, nothing yet?

  • Japan's Sanae Takaichi wins a supermajority after gambling on a snap election

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  • Pray you'll have elections come next time cause they're going to be "fraudulent" with a need to be "reformed"

    She does want to reduce the number of reps in one of the houses, but that's all I'm immediately aware of. Another party wanted to restrict naturalized citizens more, but I don't think that made its way to the LDP platform.

    The "next time" for elections in Japan is also a little less set since the PM can dissolve the lower house whenever triggering an election a couple weeks later. There are also other elections on other schedules. I don't see it going that far at this time, personally.

  • Japan's Sanae Takaichi wins a supermajority after gambling on a snap election

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  • Cult of personality + foreigners bad. LDP went further right since Sanseito and other anti-foreigner-spewing parties took a chunk of their voters in the last election. This correctly showed that they would go back to LDP (though Sanseito still lives).

    The main opposition, CDP, merged with Komeito, LDP's former coalition partner, to form a new centerist party (mostly to the right of the former CDP). Komeito has ties to Sokka Gakkai which, in my personal opinion, is a cult. This put off people voting on any of their new candidates. They also didn't have time to really solidify things since the election came so fast (I suspect this was either very last-minute or not fully baked by the time the election was called).

    Some other parties did get more seats. Team Mirai was one, though they seem to also have a bit of a vague platform in some regards and, at worst, may turn out to be DOGE-like techbros. Time will tell.

    For parties left of center, with the CDP being gone, there are only a couple. The JCP (Japanese Communist Party) is not actually a communist party anymore but stubbornly refuse to rebrand and people are still scared of them (they're more social democrats or somewhere thereabouts).

  • Windows 11 has a new Start menu — here's how to unlock it

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  • I would much rather the win XP start menu

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  • Legal trouble with the FCC (which I believe is a federal level crime) as another poster mentioned.

  • that

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  • There's also truncing, but some scanners support that. I imagine the op was referring to baofengs from Amazon or something which opens another can of worms

  • Would you drive differently as left-handed if wheel was on other side?

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  • I am right-handed and grew up driving on the right side of the road (so wheel on left). I now live in a right-drive country. It makes no difference. I haven't driven manual here so it might be weird learning to shift with my left hand (I drove manual in the US for 15+ years), but I could get used to it. If I ever needed to joust or shoot someone from my car, having my dominant hand be closer to the window is generally helpful (and why some say that driving on the left with the driver at the right became a thing).

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  • I don't think that's exactly right as someone in Japan for more than a decade now.

    Overtourism is a separate problem. With the yen weakening compared to other currencies, it made things more affordable. A lot of the tourist industry also collapsed around Corona and the strict (to those external) lockdowns here. That meant there also were fewer accommodations, tourism staff, etc. here. This compounded the problems.

    With Corona also came increased prices of a lot of goods and salaries were largely staying stagnant. Having a bunch of extra people buying things up on the cheap yen also meant those things were harder to get for locals. Add to this the JA (basically an ag cartel) and bad weather causing bad rice harvests and people can't even get the staple that has defined Japanese life for centuries. There's a lot of simmering anger there. The additional influx of tourists also means that Japanese can't even travel domestically as cheaply. Hotel prices in some areas have more than doubled since corona and peoples' salaries have not.

    There's a whole lot going on. I could add a ton of (often illegal) short-term rentals (think Air BnB or similar) pricing people out, foreign (largely Chinese) investors buying land and buildings pricing out the locals is also causing issues. A lot of this boils over to stronger anti-foreigner sentiment that was a real hit in the last election last year and somewhat carried forward this year.

    The LDP's former coalition partner broke off with their rightward turned and formed a new party combining with the main opposition. This meant the main opposition party shifted to the right and also now had ties to Sokka Gakkai which also made them unpalatable to at least some voters. Allegedly, there's still Moonie money and involvement in the LDP, but I haven't followed that news much. The LDP's rightward shift, though, did pick up those tired of the "foreigner issues" (lovely that they rarely distinguish actual residents from tourists, innit) voters who went to other parties. I'll certainly shed no tears for the more racist parties losing seats, but this is still worrying overall.

    Team Mirai, a new party of young people, did pick up votes. They claim to aim for transparency and come from mostly IT backgrounds. The worry here is they're a bit too into the Dodge type of thing in the US, that they may be very tech-bro types, and they want to use AI for stuff. I don't know yet. I am no fan of AI and certainly don't want Dodge tech-bro bullshit coming in. Who knows.

    I can't vote as a non-citizen anyway. If things get bad, I'll just have to uproot my whole life and move again, but I certainly hope it never gets there.

  • Japan's Sanae Takaichi wins a supermajority after gambling on a snap election

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  • It more accurately happens like every second or third PM and then things swing to another faction of the LDP (or, historically rarely since WWII ended, another party though the last times that happened they faceplanted pretty quickly and it went back to the LDP)

  • What additional concepts should I learn before starting to learn rust?

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  • I've been a developer for over 20 years now and I've never done anything meaningful in c or c++. My c was mostly working through an old book as a kid and later 1 uni course and my c++ mostly some limited game modding. I had no particular issues learning rust and writing stable production code in it. I don't think there's a wrong time to start

  • What are things you did during the early days of the COVID pandemic to try to keep from contracting the virus?

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  • Bought n95 masks, gloves, and sanitizer. Also bought full-body covering (used by care workers and such to avoid being covered in various fluids) though those never got used. I mostly stayed home except for once every two weeks or so (groceries, etc.)

    Thing is, my friends and I all think we got it before it was officially in Japan and, indeed, I was a close contact of someone who got it and was immune so it seems plausible.

  • Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards

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  • As the article points out, we're also in an election (voting is today (Sunday Japan time)) so the cynical side of me worders if the timing is coordinated since fear and "foreigners bad" are successfully distracting from actual issues of rising prices and stagnant wages leading to a lower quality of life

  • Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards

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  • Some people think the cost savings of installation, maintenance, and salaries are the reason they''ve not returned

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