farmgineer

@farmgineer@nord.pub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cool Japan 🌸⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Not the same person, but ability to speak the language. A lot of the places don’t care what your background is so long as you speak the language. This should not be confused with me agreeing with this policy, which I do not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cool Japan 🌸⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Japan will put signs out saying they’re full and to queue from x position. Some will list an approximate time. If they take reservations and are full for the day, it will usually say that. Especially in urban areas, we can have some quite small restaurants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not paying for a game that doesn’t allow changing difficulty if I want/need. I work two jobs and have to do most home cleaning and maintenance. I used to game competitively back in the early 2000s, but I don’t have time for that shit nor gatekeeping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My 98 Oldsmobile⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My step-uncle had one of these. He almost never pulled it out and certainly would not have let icecream anywhere near the thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll take it to all 2 place it goes!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mostly grow hot peppers since they were hard to find fresh when I came here. I have a full English website and support for people who want/need it. Of course, the year I bought the place and started farming, another site revamped and added English support which kinda destroyed the advantage I thought I would have, heh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll take it to all 2 place it goes!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to think that way. I live in rural Japan now so basically have to have one to do anything useful (especially buying farm stuff). But I lived without one for like 6 years, had I not moved so rural and begun to farm, I probably would still not have one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll take it to all 2 place it goes!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s kinda horrifying. Signal system problems? Other equipment problems? Staff problems?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll take it to all 2 place it goes!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Flying pre-9/11 was a whole different ballgame. Flying domestically in Japan is pretty close, especially at the smaller regional ones. My closest airport doesn’t even fly to Tokyo because everyone just takes the shinkansen (bullet train)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll take it to all 2 place it goes!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have. Bus in Columbus, Ohio. Took my wife (Japanese) to the US to meet the family with a stop in DC to see the Smithsonian first. Her first US train experi nce was a woman sleeping it off in a puddle of piss right by the doors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fair Trade off 🧓🏻⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Asia has a population of billions and includes all kinds of ethnicities, diets, beauty standards, etc. Trying to represent that in one image isn’t going to work. Even within east asia, this isn’t anywhere near universal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Republican Party used to be very big on smaller government. What caused them to turn into the party of big government over reach? When did it happen?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Their goal (as is that of many politicians, CEOs, etc.) is to structure power, using whatever they can to make that happen. They then do whatever they need to to keep and expand that power, changing issues when the previous has run its course (either by being ‘solved’ or so clear they don’t care that they must pick another).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I prefer mine with the bone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait until you hear about the Gluten Free Tax Filing Service

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I prefer mine with the bone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have family with Coeliac and friends with other issues. Cross-contamination is real problem for some.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’ve been remote for most of the last 20 years. Some people seem to lack object permanence and organization skills and completely forget that their remote coworkers/subordinates exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Head⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re shot in the heart, you get to think about what’s going to happen for seconds until your blood pressure drops and you lose consciousness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I agree with don⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  North American? Water in toilets there is way higher than anywhere else in the world I’ve been.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I agree with don⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I am only going to urinate and the place has a urinal, stand. Else, sit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Portlandia was spot on⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We made Jam two days ago (blueberry from our own bushes). We have some ume (plum) from last season as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have Reese's peanut butter cups at home:⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would use powdered sugar if that’s the route you want to go. I was making buckeyes and tasted them before the chocolate dip and thought “hey, that’s familiar…”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guess the game (#008)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I never played it, but I saw a video of it (LGR, I think?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Censorship" ☠️⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything -con in japanese is a complex and almost certainly up to no good. I just checked with my wife (native japanese) and, yeah, that’s not necessarily wrong translation.

  She carves out the exception for jokes with a younger partner within reason (her specific was example was a couple/few years younger in a piss-take (like someone might say “she’s robbing the grave” but the counterpoint would be “no he’s robbing the cradle!” In English banter)), but it’s almost always not a good thing.

  My personal take is that if it’s specifically referencing the ~loli fashion or the piss-take version from my wife, that’s probably ok. Anything else is getting into dangerous territory.

  I’m a guy in his mid-40s originally from the US and not generally into manga or anime at all, my wife a late-30s japanese who is very into anime and manga

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We normally do budget hotels which thankfully are far cheaper than that for where we go. We have to stay (or hire someone to drive our car followed by a taxi to take the driver on) whenever we go into the city since it’s a ~50 minute walk to our station mostly in the dark and in an area with bears.

  For people in the city (or nearer stations, I guess), it’s a lot easier than for those of us who live further away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d rather it be zero. Walk, public transit, or taxi your way to drinks. Stay in a hotel.

  I say this as someone who grew up driving home from the club and such when I most likely should not have been. I know a lot of people who got OMVI/DUI/DWI/whateverYourJurisdictionCallsIt and nearly lost my bandmate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They were right all along...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s plenty of grey between those. Also, presumably less oppressing, rape, and inbreeding (more to some old order groups)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Settle a debate can potato's and noodles go together and taste great with sauce and other things? (I say it can) However my mother says two starches should never be cooked because it's too much.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can it taste great? Yes. Is it too much starch in one meal? If your portions sizes are too big, also yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well you see, uh...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d definitely go with pressure over water-bath.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally started Cyberpunk.... I can't stop climbing everything.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just picked it back up last night to do a new playthrough. I did one playthrough as a corpo before they reset all the perks and later released Phantom Liberty. Picked a streetkid this time. Only had a few hours to throw at it, but I’m quite enjoying playing again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The same adult daughter who has trouble loading a dishwasher efficientlyly...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember that those are designed to cover asses and cater to people with many different levels of working immune system. You may or may not need to actually be anywhere near that strict in your own home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the weirdest thing in english?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say orthography and/or the great vowel shift. Or, further, that it’s very weird as Germanic languages go. Or, even further, the mix of old Norse and the various Saxon/jute/angle languages before the Normans came along (itself Norman french with old Norse admixture). Then throw various Celtic languages on that mess

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Japan sells both an international version and a domestic version which is language-locked (and region-locked?) and I don’t think can get support outside of Japan. Pretty sure it will only work with a Japanese Nintendo account which, at least in the past, only worked with a Japanese credit card, though I’m not sure that’s true anymore. I don’t think it’s worth the hassle.