JillyB

@JillyB@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Mighty Pillow⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, we were also talking about girls

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I worked there during the pandemic. Summer 2019 to summer 2021. I never heard about any reforms but a lot was happening around then and I’m sure I missed a lot.

  One thing that did change during the pandemic was that my company went optionally remote. Working from home was even more unheard of in Japan than in the US before the pandemic so that was crazy. And they even reduced the number of desks in the office so they couldn’t have all the workers in at the same time. A lot of US companies have since rolled back those policies. No idea if my old company stuck with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know them from frequent guest spots in Dropout comedy shows. Very funny person with big energy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AccuWeather, National Weather Service add “Lake America” to maps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I vouch for Breezy. Been using it for years. It’s very easy to use and clear and I think more accurate than a lot of my friends phones. Though that depends on your weather source.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I worked for a large Japanese manufacturing company. For sure my employer was more old school in a lot of ways simply because it was a big old company. I bet some of the newer industries are less like this. However, I would still be surprised if they were that much better. I had friends in different industries and heard similar stories.

  A Japanese citizen sees the full breadth and complexity of the Japanese economy. They would naturally perceive foreign media as oversimplifying and unresponsive to more recent changes. It’s true that Japan (government and industries) are attempting to move away from this style of work but, like many things in Japan, it’s extremely slow, mostly symbolic, and plagued by inertia. Us salarymen clocking in and out was probably implemented with good intentions at first. I never asked but I bet it was enforced at one time. One of the big reasons they’re trying to change is because men that work all day can’t find a wife and have kids. Japan is in a demographics crisis. The cultural xenophobia makes them reluctant to let immigrants in to help with labor shortages. I remember government sponsored dating programs which is funny to think about.

  This cultural inertia isn’t all a bad thing btw. It makes institutions very stable. My company had hordes of procedures and burocracy for everything which was inefficient but you could count on them to do what they planned to do. I remember finding out about a government plan to stimulate the economy by giving some money to some companies so they could invest in growth. They had the problem of the companies just giving the money to shareholders in big dividends. They don’t have the expectation of explosive growth like we do in the US.

  The thing they really do well though, is soft power. Any time I bring up that Japan is a very racist, sexist, xenophobic, or homophobic society, an army of anime fans and sushi lovers are ready to defend them. Japanese society is complicated and no one person fully fits a generality but I couldn’t keep living there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the norm in Japanese offices. I worked for 2 years in Japan in an office. Officially we were a white company and weren’t allowed to work overtime. However, we would get monthly emails from the office manager detailing everyone’s exact amount of overtime. Even though we were salary, we had to clock in and out to make sure we didn’t work overtime. The nominal reason for these emails was to tell people to lower their overtime since it wasn’t allowed. Those emails had the actual effect of ranking everyone by how much overtime they had worked and pressuring people with lower numbers to work later. People would regularly leave the office around 9 or 10pm. All hiring is done April 1st when a large cohort of college grads come in and they are expected to work there for life.

  To be classified as a black company, and be named and shamed by the government, you have to like…cause a high profile suicide or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should i include this in my assignment? ',:)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time keeps marching forward⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Luckily the first gen Audi TT managed to avoid it. I had one that I bought for cheap and all my coworkers though it was much newer and more expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time keeps marching forward⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I learned to drive stick in an e30 BMW. I have a real soft spot for boxy 80s cars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I guess we doin UAVs now⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  CCAs or collaborative combat aircraft are the new hotness in military aviation. Basically smaller unmanned fighter jets that work alongside a traditional manned fighter. The idea is that you can have maybe 4 or 5 fighter jets worth of capability but only one of them has a human pilot on board. So the manned fighter can hang back and tell a farther forward one to fire a missile. Is it a wunderwaffen? Is it a boondoggle? Idk man

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globe⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey me too. Got that locked in early and then they just gave me free YouTube premium a few years down the line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Philips shouldn't exist. Torx plus is the best fight me⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tool steel screw and mild steel bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely. I would have loved to take a train that last leg. I also think trains should hook into the same booking system as flights so you can book your whole trip in one go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve done it as the last leg of a long flight from a major hub to the small town I was going toward. Nobody has a direct flight from Osaka to Greenville, South Carolina, turns out. So I had to fly from Atlanta.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expectation Vs Reality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A strong net wouldn’t be burned away that quickly. A regular explosive would still clear it away faster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The offline messaging apps challenging internet shutdowns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not that knowledgeable about this stuff but I think meshtastic would have better range due to running over lora. That’s the whole reason you need a separate radio for the communication to a node. Also the nodes require very little power. You can set up one with a small solar cell for cheap and just leave it somewhere. Black Flag Civilian and Benn Jordan both have plans to make your own nodes. There are plenty of others out there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boy George pulled from West End performance run after releasing pro-Israel song⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hamas was also financed by Israel in order to sink the efforts of the PLO. The secular PLO looked like it might actually get some peaceful recognition of statehood and Israel knew a violent Islamist leadership would torpedo that. Israel has been fighting against Palestinian statehood, limiting movement of Palestinians, controlling resources, supporting “settler” bandits that colonize and kill Palestinians, etc.

  Israel has been slowly taking over Palestinian land and killing their people for decades. The Palestinians can’t vote in Israeli elections. Their statehood has been blocked by Israel so they have limited diplomatic solutions. What peaceful option do you propose they should have done?

  The Oct 7 attacks killed about 1200 Israeli civilians and soldiers. In response, Israel has killed 1200 Hamas militants and 82,000 civilians, wounded a further 174,000, blocked humanitarian aid, leveled apartments, hospitals, schools, etc. Acting like both sides are bad when one is fighting for survival, and the other is committing a genocide is just arguing in support of genocide. If you’re somehow still ignorant on this topic, I suggest you do some more digging into the history of Israel and Palestine. If you have learned about it and still support Israel then go fuck yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Spoiler 👁️⃤⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to do a bunch of my own learning about the gulf war. Similarly, it happened before I was born but recent enough that history teachers didn’t consider it history. I now think it set the stage for a lot of the US geopolitically and I really should’ve learned about it in school.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cool Japan 🌸⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s both. I knew a guy who was half black, half Japanese but he was born and raised in Japan. Despite being native born and culturally Japanese, he still faced a lot of discrimination because he was black. Among the expats, we were all discriminated against due to being foreigners, but the black people got it the worst.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cool Japan 🌸⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And the literacy tests of the Jim Crowe era were just making sure people could read well enough to vote. It was educationalist, not racist. The purpose of this sign is to exclude non-native Japanese people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cool Japan 🌸⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to live in Japan. When I would go to a rural or off-the-beaten-parh izakaya, it was a coin flip. Either I would be told they are full (a lie, like this sign). Or the owner would be super excited to show a foreigner their culture and would personally serve me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cool Japan 🌸⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I lived in Japan for 2 years. I had several expat friends with stories of going to the hospital, being told they were full, their Japanese wife showing up, and suddenly they have space. Other stories of legal disputes between a Japanese person and a foreign immigrant will always go to the Japanese person. Japanese culture is very non-confrontational, but don’t think their brand of racism is safer. If we’re comparing racism and deciding one is less bad than the other, we’ve already partially accepted that it has a place in society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tasting the Smell ☣️⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or gone to smash tournaments. Luckily the weekly I run doesn’t have a lot of stinkers but there have been a few over the years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo are excellent marksmen when it comes to their customer’s dicks. They have been for a long time. -smash competitor

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Health yeating⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bug Gazpacho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suggestions for Multiplayer Browser Games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure if it’s still active, but tagpro.gg was my first online multiplayer game that I actually got good at. It’s just played with the arrow keys and you controll a little ball playing capture the flag in teams.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey look, it’s me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Electricity and magnetism got me to change my major from physics to mechanical engineering. I thought I loved physics. Turns out when it’s a bunch of pixie bullshit that I can’t feel or see, I don’t like it so much. Vibrations is the E&M of Newtonian mechanics though. Had to take that one twice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Y’all just need sharper knives

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨340 Local News Outlets Now Blocking The Internet Archive⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anna’s Archive offers a paid service for large dowbloads specifically for AI training. Maybe they’re concerned the Internet Archive will offer a similar service.