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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.

  • Anti-foreigner sentiments are on the rise as Japan faces a population crisis

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  • Everything in your "fun fact" is not fact. I actually said "what the fuck" when I read it. I've been in Japan for a decade, both Tokyo and rural.

    Where also are these magical stroller-only elevators? Certain people are supposed to have priority (and, yes, some assholes ignore this which is not a problem unique to Japan), and there are also people who don 'look disabled" but need help (I can be one of them sometimes as my left leg and ankle are as much metal as anything else, though you wouldn't know by looking at me).

    Japan has problems and had places.to.improve but your post is just wild wild to me as a long-term resident.

  • IT'S A TRAP

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  • First, I start moving people to hotel rooms...

  • GOP push to restrict voting by overseas U.S. citizens continues before 2026 midterms

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  • The Proving Residency for Overseas Voter Eligibility, or PROVE, Act would require overseas voters to have a "current residence" in the state they're registered, or a spouse, parent or guardian with such a residence.

    Fuck all the way off. You make me file taxes every year. You have rules that make investing for my retirement much more difficult because of PFICs. Your asinine IRS rules stop foreign banks and brokerages for even wanting to touch US citizens. You want me to not vote? Do what the rest of the world (minus I think 1 country) does and drop all that shit.

  • Anti-foreigner sentiments are on the rise as Japan faces a population crisis

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  • I wouldn't, personally. Just read around on basic etiquette, don't litter, etc. If you're planning on going to Kyoto, it's been a zoo for years now and the people there always hate it (but also some ridiculous part of their economy is tourism as they found out during corona when the money dried up). Oh, and a lot of smaller places are still cash only so carry cash.

    I always encourage people to consider places other than just Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto, especially these days where technology helps any language barrier.

  • Anti-foreigner sentiments are on the rise as Japan faces a population crisis

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  • In exit polls from the last election foreigner problems (which lumps tourists in with residents) was still only like 3rd. And for the foreigner issues, overtourism and people buying property and pricing out locals are big issues (and sometimes running (often illegal) guesthouses).

  • More for folks from walkable environments, my question is: would you walk an hour and 15 minutes to go to say, the library?

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  • No. I would walk ~5-20 minutes to a bus/train station that would take me there.

    Edit: for < 4km I would walk. Why does Google think that would be such a long journey in terms of time (which my first response was based upon)

  • What language/culture/origin is your name from? Do you like your name or names from that culture? Have you ever met someone with a same name (either the given or family name)?

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  • Extant in Latin and roots in Proto-Indo-European presumably. I've met many with my name.

  • The Programmer Compass

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  • We're stuck on Mac at work and I hate it.

  • Just got this flyer in the mail today.

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  • I think a/c is mostly (entirely?) a north-american naming convention. It's been "aircon" in the other places I've lived in traveled.

  • Imperial Wastes So Much Time

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  • My point is, if you're using feet and inches you maybe want to divide by that. We in the metric world don't so it's not that big a deal. Our woodworking is done in CM and MM and we rarely need fractions of mm.

  • if we all lived within close proximity of sock processing facilities we'd have fewer problems with socks

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  • How do y'all have so many sock problems?! O.o

  • Imperial Wastes So Much Time

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  • In metric, the 12 really isn't important anymore which kinda invalidates that. We normally go to the nearest mm or, if needed, some fraction of that (not normally needed in my life at least)

  • Imperial Wastes So Much Time

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  • We were taught it in my rural red state elementary school in the '80s. Maybe because metrification seemed like a more real possibility, I guess.

  • How do Europeans use their digital ID cards if they are not using stock android or iOS?

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  • Japan apparently has the same problem. It definitely has that probably using a phone to scan the id card to use various services (which is why I run stock android, mostly, with transit passed and banking being the other reasons).

    I say apparently because I have zero interest in having the id on my phone itself.

    Rooting apparently makes FELICA not work which is super inconvenient in Japan.

  • Would you date someone who worked in the sex industry?

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  • I dated a former sex worker before. The biggest problem in it was her alcoholism, really.

  • USUAL in your country but NOT anywhere else.

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  • Seconded. Not just Tokyo, either, but even up in sendai

  • Man decides to keep box of cables he’s had since 2002 for another year

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  • 2002? Pfft, amateur (and I moved mine across an ocean!)

  • What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025?

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  • I don't use a smartphone enough to worry about it. If I am using my phone, most of the time it's either Anki, Google Maps, or, like you mention, banking/government stuff.

    Texting via SMS (or whatever it is these days) isn't really a thing in Japan, either, which makes things more difficult especially as I despise talking on the phone. If, for example, I'm at the supermarket and wife remembers something she needs, getting that message is good

  • Stock Android users, are you considering switching your phone to another OS such as /e/os, GrapheneOS, LineageOS?

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  • I'd love to at some point but, last I heard, it breaks the felica and wallet integration which I need to do japanese government stuff (and use the train and such)