farmgineer
@farmgineer@nord.pub
Software engineer and farmer living in rural Japan
- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 4 days ago:
I meant help people in the US get accurate information on what they’re consuming.
- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 5 days ago:
Yeah, here in Japan as well. I think really enforcing realistic serving sizes (no one is going to accurately do 0.25s) in labeling would also help the US.
- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 5 days ago:
Yeah, it’s rounding. Under a certain amount, it just rounds to zero. No one is actually using the recommended serving size. There should be legal requirements to always provide the information for the full amount in the package/container/bottle/whatever as well next to the other values (some countries at least sometimes do this).
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Do you know the roots of the word’s usage in this sense? “Correcting” it is far more cinge-worthy in my book
- Comment on is it weird to have your own religious beliefs system 1 week ago:
To me personally yes but I think any belief in the supernatural is weird. If you’re not hurting anyone or talking my ear off about your beliefs, then you do you to your heart’s content
- Comment on If you could use a Rube Goldberg like contraption on any task you find extremely strenuous, what would it be? 1 week ago:
Mental health/therapy.
Barring that, weeding my fields
- Comment on Housing prices 1 week ago:
I fully agree with the point but is “a erage” the right metric? I also have to imagine even the average house is much larger than in 1970.
- Comment on Is there a reason why toilets are made out of one of the most resonating materials possible while also being made in a shape that makes a small fart sound like a damn trombone? 1 week ago:
Especially before I knew I had gluten issues and was shitting 6+ times a day, I experienced a variety of materials across countries. Even toilets made entirely of plastic/polymers have basically the same issue. My second “real” rental in japand, and one of my in-laws, had those. Doesn’t really change much.
(The “real” above is because I lived in share houses a couple of times)
- Comment on Languages 2 weeks ago:
Is that seaux?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I think this wording is too strong, but I indeed ctrl+f for apnea. OP should do a sleep study.
- Comment on It really ties the universe together 2 weeks ago:
Pretty sure that’s just an old linoleum tile or faux granite counter with reflections of the overhead light.
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 3 weeks 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 🌸 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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! 4 weeks 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! 4 weeks 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! 4 weeks 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! 4 weeks 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! 4 weeks 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 🧓🏻 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Wait until you hear about the Gluten Free Tax Filing Service
- Comment on I prefer mine with the bone 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 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 5 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 5 weeks ago:
If I am only going to urinate and the place has a urinal, stand. Else, sit.
- Comment on Portlandia was spot on 5 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: 5 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…”