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tiredofsametab

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

  • Japan | An AI simulation of a Mount Fuji eruption is being used to prepare Tokyo for the worst

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  • I think there are some other areas that have a lot more to worry about than Tokyo. I don't remember for sure, but I think the expected path this time would be north in Yamanashi (I looked into what predictions were when I was house-hunting a few years ago).

    “Are there actually any signs of eruption?” said Shinichiro Kariya, a 57-year-old hospital employee. “Why are we now hearing things like ‘10 centimeters of ash could fall,’ even in Tokyo? I’m wondering why this is happening all of a sudden.”

    I'm shocked that this is news to anyone. Most schools send kids to a disaster prep field trip at least once where they would cover all this stuff. I guess maybe some part of Japan doesn't talk about it, but there have definitely been TV shows about it, even in the decade I've been living here.

  • Are there any non-US/China based social media companies?

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  • I think VK is still around which I also think is Russian.

  • Are there any non-US/China based social media companies?

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  • mixi might still just be owned by a Japanese company, but I wouldn't be surprised if some US company gobbled it up. You need a Japanese phone number (or maybe phone short mail address from a Japanese carrier) to use it and no one I know has used it in many, many years, but it technically still exists.

  • What's your country's version of the blue/green bubble?

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  • Japan takes baseball teams seriously to the point that some bars forbid anything but the most basic conversations like with politics and religion. I think younger generations care less, but ive seen conversations ended as they got heated.

  • Politicians Will Not Save Us.

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  • If trump is allowed to run again, then the constitution does not matter and, likely, the elections would not matter.

  • The U.S. Air Force will provide Ashli Babbitt with military funeral honors

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  • Fucking gross

  • What age gap is too big of an age gap if someone's in their early 30's?

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  • My wife and I are almost 10 years apart. We met right before her 30th birthday, I was also once the younger partner when I was 20 and my then-gf was 34. That failed for a number of reasons, but I don't think age was one of them. With legal, consenting adults, whatever works for you is fine, I think.

  • What do I do with a steady supply of styrofoam coolers?

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  • I agree with charity and giving them away as a first priority. However, have you considered building an igloo?

  • Graffiti seen in Barcelona, Catalonia

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  • Get rid of air bnb and similar. It's caused a ton of problems in Japan as well with people buying whole buildings and pricing out existing tenants. There are legal protections, but most tenants, particularly elderly, don't know about them and either pay new increased prices by the new landlord or move out. The government enacted laws requiring a minpaku (think lodging/hotel) license and putting maxes on time, but tons of people still run illegal ones.

    A lot of those people seem to be Chinese investors running them off of other sites which has furthered anger and xenophobia against all foreigners. One of the parties that skyrocketed in the most recent election wants to strip property rights from all foreigners and not just investment properties but ALL properties. It's a reaction to getting priced out and the government not doing shit about it. Granted, there are tons of other problems (prices rising weekly or monthly, wages not keeping up at all with inflation and rising prices, and overtourism more generally), but this is low-hanging fruit.

    As someone who just bought a house last year (on the market for over a year in the countryside with farmland for which I had to interview and get permits to buy and use), and volunteers in his community, this is terrifying to me. I had to go through tons of extra hoops just for being a foreigner to begin with and now, thanks to fuckhead illegal hotel owners and bad policy, now lots of people want to take the one little bit of stability I finally felt.

  • AI Killed My Job: Translators

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  • My company thankfully still employs simultaneous interpreters for meetings and has one translator on staff. I think, at least in part, because of how bad translation tools can be from EN <> JA.

  • Americans who live near state borders,how do you notice you've crossed the border?

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  • I used to live in the US and travel a lot by car. The infrastructure, specifically the roads, their striping, their guardrails, etc. could change drastically at state borders. They could sometimes even be of different quality and material at county borders within a state.

  • Highest temps recorded this year in each (US) state, as of August 7th.

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  • I missed "this year" in the title somehow. Oops.

  • President Trump says lawyers are drafting executive order to end mail-in voting

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  • I've been in Japan a decade and you couldn't pay me enough to live in the US. I have great work-life balance at my main job which is fully remote.

  • You guys have any conversation starters to offer a poor lemming?

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  • Do you want or actually need to talk? I know that places like the US love their smalltalk, but a lot of the world is perfectly content to sit in silence.

    If you need or want to for some reason, it seems like you got some good info in other comments. Do read the room for receptiveness, I guess. Realize that, as with any skill, it takes practice and building.

  • Let's hear it, little lemmings.

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  • I think Feynman would be interesting based on the videos of him I've seen. It probably also aligns best with where my knowledge is. Einstein is probably too theoretical and too much math I don't know (or have long forgotten in the decades since I learnt it).

    I have zero Polish and my French is mostly forgotten so Curie is out, though she would be my second choice of those listed (I don't recall if she spoke English off-hand).

  • less work and so much prettier 😍

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  • It's bamboo common here in rural Japan. We have two types, one of which has edible shoots in the spring so there's that at least. It does hold the ground together along the riverbank so I never plan on fully ripping it up; last thing I need is for a chunk of my property to slide off in the next big quake.

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  • I was out doing parking lot and road striping doing all the math in my head or on paper to make fit things in, make sure we were square to the curb occasionally, etc. as a young adult. IIRC, the spots were 7-8 feet wide (depending upon what the client wanted, but I think our normal was 8) so knowing your times tables (or, more accurately, multiples of 8) when running down the tape measure made things easier. Pythagorean theorum for checking square to the curb or some other fixed point. More fun math (that I now forget) for doing things on curves.

    This would have been 2001, I think, and we probably had a calculator bouncing around somewhere in the truck, but we never used it. No smartphones or tablets in those days.

    I still sometimes just go wherever without my phone (more often on accident, but occasionally on purpose), but I definitely don't find myself doing math on the fly too much, heh. Imma go be old somewhere else now.

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  • I see dead people (because movies and such exist). In person, though, you're right unless you've got a time machine hiding somewhere.

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  • Rural US in the 1980s and we learnt it starting at I think like 8-9 years old. At the time 9x9 was all we learnt and we were just expected to memorize our "times tables". I don't recall any song or anything.