farmgineer

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I support this⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder what Times in Hawai’i is; it’s a rent-a-car service here, heh. I imagine it’s called something different here. I don’t remember seeing it, but I haven’t been to Hawai’i since 2015ish.

  That said, I doubt it’s Japan, but rather making it more convenient for consumers to spend more than they intended by making it easier to have a basket handy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is South Korea "Over"? Is Japan on the verge of "Collapse"? Do these narratives have real evidence or just exaggerating/fearmongering?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, we’re in deep shit in Japan in a number of ways.

  More xenophobic people and anti-foreigner policies, higher costs of status renewal (they claimed to bring in line with Germany and other countries despite the fact that our salaries are way lower), etc. are driving foreigners away. Foreigners are taking jobs no one else is (it’s generally an immigration requirement for a work visa is that you can’t take a job a Japanese could do, roughly). Bus drivers, elder carers, hospital workers, etc. Rather than look at the actual issues and do something about it (voter participation, particularly among the young, is abysmal), they just keep voting LDP that keeps enriching the rich and powerful and not doing much to actually help.

  There are all kinds of systemic issues around working conditions, gender roles, and other things that hold families back. Almost everyone moves to Tokyo or another big city for university and never comes back because the only jobs outside are farming, fishing, forestry, and factories, more or less. People like me who do move to be a part of a small community have their companies say “oopsie, we didn’t mean work from anywhere; you have to be in the Tokyo office now” which is basically impossible (my union is fighting the company who retained a lawfirm, so who knows where this goes). There’s no stability outside of the city. This is driving up prices on a number of things. Childcare is also over-burdened in those areas so one parent often has to quit, at least for a while, if they want to start a family. This only gets worse (whereas where I live, they pay people to move here and we have free/subsidized daycare for kids with open slots).

  There’s still more that I could write about. Inflation is rampant and wages don’t keep up. Salaries were long flat, but so were prices until corona followed by Russia’s invasion. I don’t have much hope. It’s gotten me (over a decade here, permanent resident, etc.) thinking it’s time to go, which is not a statement I thought I would say; I had planned to retire and spend the rest of my life here. Now, I’m trying to get a job somewhere like Norway where I can do a silly thing like at least vote in local elections after 3 years, unlike Japan which is never in most places and the xenophobes are trying to remove it in the few places it does exist (despite us paying the same taxes, pension, and everything else).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I support this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Here in Japan it’s common everywhere I shop that’s more than a tiny specialty store. I seem to remember seeing it at least sometimes in the US when I still lived there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would you do if you got message that says "do not look outside"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Look at my camera feed which looks outside.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will the Democrats gerrymander every state they have control over?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They should make it fully illegal, require non-partisan committees to oversee districts, and redistrict everything based upon that. I think the that needs to be done at the state level in every state, so it does nothing for states like Ohio that are a clusterfuck.

  We should also axe the electoral college, move to proportional representation, STAR (or similar) voting, expand the house, and abolish the senate, IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come Lemmy/Piefed users seem to have a consensus of like "green mario" is the solution to this and that, but simultaneously oppose death penalty?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the reasons a justice system exists is to keep people from taking it into their own hands which leads to endless revenge/honor killings and feuds that last forever. It can also be less harsh, at least in some ways, then what the aggrieved may do on their own. However, when the justice system refuses to apply justice, expect people to start taking things into their own hands. This can manifest in plenty of ways (jury nullification, no witnesses seeing anything somehow, etc.) and has happened many times over the years.

  If people see great harm being done with no justice, they may take things into their own hands. There aren’t a lot of ways that are actually going to make a difference that an individual can do (a sociopath isn’t going to give a shit about a latter or petition). If the justice system will not do good by the people, their means are limited as they cannot inflict the type of legal and financial pain a justice system can. As such, they turn to the only thing they know might work.

  I believe we should abolish the death penalty. Half of me would really like to keep it for those in positions of power over others who abuse that (police, politicians, abusive caregivers, etc.), especially if there’s a chance they could get back out, but it’s better to be rid of it entirely. That doesn’t mean I’m not going to cheer if an arms dealer is fed to a woodchipper or those responsible for immense pain and suffering and death of others are no more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It was one time OK!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I love it when I watch one video debunking some conspiracy theory only to get flooded by conspiracy theory crazies’ videos (though I guess it makes blocking them convenient).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you cheat in games?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Single-player-only games? Sometimes (slightly more if you include something like no-clipping myself after getting stuck in the terrain or an object). Never in anything multiplayer.

  I usually play with zero cheats on the easiest difficulty of something, at least for the first play-through. I’m generally more there for the story and some light involvement in things rather than being there for combat or something (even as someone who was in a few FPS tournaments back in the early 2000s).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it uncommon for kids commute to & from school in the US on their own?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My journey would have been a multi-hour one-way walk down a road without sidewalks for most of the way with speed limits of 80+ kph depending upon where. I did go to one school for 3 years that was 5-6km away on ~50 kph road also with no sidewalk, poor visibility, etc. but that also would have been dangerous for someone 8-10 years old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill Gates: People saying AI will create more jobs don’t understand what’s coming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wealth will continue to concentrate to those who already possess it and rights and quality of products will generally go down. That will continue until people do something about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do millennials keep looking significantly more youthful than previous generations?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no idea who she is. She looks like she’s in her 20s on the left and 35-40 on the right to me. I’m in my mid 40s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MMO players (past and present): what is your attitude towards "forced" group content?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hated it for anything related to story completion. For all cases where it was optional in the scope of the story, no problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Show me what slimed you.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Work slack message. This tracks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You all know someone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on the products. Some are made domestically, but it really depends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Japan is not a place I’d expect this from.

  I have bad news for you about all kinds of things in Japan that are the way someone decided and now is impervious to thought, criticism, oland change because reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. … 11, 0, 13 … 23, 0, 1

  Some places will mark AM/PM (午前・午後), but some don’t which makes it more odd.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If someone could make a hair trimmer that could 3d scan your head well enough to give you a taper on the edges, how much would you pay?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m probably just going to go back to shaving my head. I have no trouble growing hair, but can’t really be bothered. My wife doesn’t care either way which is probably the thing I most care about

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  12 makes sense to me and I prefer 24-hour-time but, yeah, the lack of the consistency is the maddening part to me.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you able to tell which language is which by looking?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can tell the difference, at least with simplified hanzi vs kanji, most of the time. When I was in Japanese language school, a lot of Chinese students would end up with small mistakes in Japanese as there are some other fairly minor writing differences. I can’t remember if it was that Japan was more strict or the writing was taught slightly differently.

  Across language, there are some fun coincidences in completely unrelated languages that have words that mean (nearly) the same thing with (nearly) the same spelling, though of course I can’t conjure one from the depths of my not-yet-awake brain; I’m sure wikipedia or something. I think ‘Interlingual homograph’ is the term related to those. I still like Japanese letter (手紙 lit. hand paper) -> Chinese toilet paper and other fun ones in non-alphabetical scripts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a colorblind guy with aphantasia and zero visual artistic skill. I pick a frame of video and sometimes add markings/text. The default used to be google doing that for you if you didn’t feel like it, but I don’t know what the default behavior is these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why dont we say "WWW" in front of website URLs anymore?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In Japan, many still do and, if you forget, you often don’t get automatically redirected but rather get an error page.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech hobbyists, How are you avoiding the crazy prices for computers and newer tech?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t bought anything new. I want to get a laptop and switch to that as my main PC (so beefy enough graphics card both for gaming and video editing) and also because I want to move countries in the near future, however nothin’ doin’ right now. I would potentially be open to certified used, but not sure on that one in Japan for something I want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it hard for native speakers of languages that use 漢字 to learn ABC as it's different to their own?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought do-support was thought to have come from the Celtic influence?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it hard for native speakers of languages that use 漢字 to learn ABC as it's different to their own?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve met plenty of Japanese who speak fantastic English. Everyone had to study it from Jr. High here and, starting a couple of years ago, starting in elementary school. Pronunciation is very hit or miss since many of the teachers in Japan can’t even hear the difference between l/r and the like sometimes and ALT (assistant language teachers, typically native speakers of English) are rarely allowed to drive things and push more from what I read.

  Many Japanese who went to uni had to pass an English test section to do so from what I understand. You can look up sample questions on the web. As such, many can read English to a certain degree, but output and listening are often issues.

  My wife hated English class and never paid much attention. She’s working her way through a textbook now and she finds various aspects difficult (looking at you do as in do you like potatoes – WTF is the do doing there? Why not like you potatoes?!) The alphabet portion, though, is not an issue in itself. Pronunciation requires a lot of work but I think that’s because English orthography sucks. However, if you grow up where a whole range of sounds just map to one in your language (l/r problem again), you don’t learn to differentiate between the various points in that range and can’t hear that difference without a lot of work. Definitely so for sounds that don’t exist at all. Many people going into Japanese have trouble differentiating germinate consonants and tsu vs su.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do East Asian men barely get thick facial hair?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  non-stinky sweat

  Not exactly. Those with the mutation have fewer apocrine sweat glands which bacteria that make smells tend to like. The other sweat still smells like sweat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do East Asian men barely get thick facial hair?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I grew up in the US and I always used “Asia” on its own to mean East Asia and think everyone else I knew did as well. Anywhere else just was called something else (India, the Middle East, South-East Asia, and so on). I don’t think it hit me until I moved to Japan in my 30s, but I definitely see it a lot still in USAmerican-heavy online groups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you want to live forever in an infinite game?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely not. I didn’t want to be alive in the first place, don’t particularly enjoy being alive, and would certainly not want to do it again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can one individual get Nestle, Amazon, Google, Apple, Disney, and Blackrock to go out of business?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Start an all-out nuclear conflict that renders the earth uninhabitable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I move out?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  whenever I cut somebody off majority of the time I explain why in a respectful way without arguing with them.

  If you are regularly cutting people off, there’s already a problem. I wouldn’t associate with anyone who did that.