udon
@udon@lemmy.world
- Comment on We really need to bring back the 70s conversation pits 2 weeks ago:
The oval table looks like a gamepad
- Comment on Veganuary 2 weeks ago:
It was a major motivation for me at the time, but mostly in the sense of forcing me to radically change my diet
- Comment on Praise Be 2 weeks ago:
Check out poor Lot whose evil daughters plot to get him drunk so they can rape him. The poor old man, I’m sure there was no redaction going on in post production.
- Comment on We are not the same 2 weeks ago:
Are you an academic? These job types are attempts by administration to precarize academic work.
Adjunct is a last resort option, you can still stay in the system but have very little prospect of ever getting a permanent job. It signals to others that the uni doesn’t really want you but takes your labour if you work hard and cheap enough. Some universities try to pivot into this, so that most of their staff loses negotiation power and is easy to get rid of and replace.
Visiting is code for limited contract or unpaid locally with funding from somewhere else. The university doesn’t complain if they get free labour with no strings attached, but it’s not like the majority of people do this out of choice. Sure, if you’re full prof somewhere, your can also visit your bro in a nice city for a semester, but that’s the exception.
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 2 weeks ago:
No matter my diet, I’m not so sure I’d survive that either. Anyone who’s been up there and found it easy can have a laugh though
- Comment on Still alive? 2 weeks ago:
Shit, now I’m stuck in this forum with insane but who knows maybe true theories. What’s next? Earth turns out to be flat after all?
- Comment on We are not the same 2 weeks ago:
No, it’s a picture that represents a tree
- Comment on We are not the same 2 weeks ago:
working in addition to teaching
As a teacher this made me chuckle
- Comment on Where *does* the money come from? 2 weeks ago:
True, although I was at a dollar raise a month. The framing in the story was purposefully “I just ask for sth. very small” so that’s how I read it. Dollar raise per hour is much more meaningful, but quite a significant increase
- Comment on Where *does* the money come from? 2 weeks ago:
If you spend hundreds of thousands once, you could instead spend a dollar each on 100 employees for ~80 years. They don’t work that long usually, but just in case
- Comment on Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards 2 weeks ago:
Seriously though, Japan has the best toilet infrastructure in the world as far as I can tell, in terms of maintenance and quantity. Tourists don’t shit in people’s gardens in other countries as much, or at least it doesn’t get scandalized. I assume it doesn’t happen all that often here either, probably those were 1-2 cases that get hyped up. But toilet infrastructure is really the last thing you have to worry about.
Also, it’s not like all of a sudden 1000 people spawn in the same spot and all have to take a shit within the next 2 minutes. I expect tourists, especially adults, to be able to plan their dumping schedule at least 10 minutes ahead in regular times. If there are a few emergencies, the Japanese toilet infrastructure can accomodate for them. There are not 1000 emergencies at the same time. Just walk for 2 minutes or across the street to the next convenience store and take a shit there.
Other than that, the star architect toilet tour through tokyo is one of my recommendations for friends coming to visit. It’s really an experience!
- Comment on Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards 2 weeks ago:
Bro has never been here and thinks he can make a reasonable argument
- Comment on Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards 2 weeks ago:
I agree that most people wouldn’t opt for that, but most tourists also don’t behave like that. The vast majority behaves very well, they are somewhat aware of Japanese manners and try to adapt (sometimes in sweet, dorky ways, but who am I to judge, I probably look the same).
There are a few people who do this and they ruin the image for everyone.
The issue is not the infrastructure, really. It is excellent and in excellent condition, across the country.
Imagine you have perfect toilets, some even designed by star architects, free to use for everyone and clean. And some fucker just decides to take a dump in someone’s garden, for whatever reason. Is that the problem of the infrastructure?
- Comment on Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards 2 weeks ago:
My impression overall here is that most tourists try to behave very well. I see people from my home country offer gentle gestures like carrying an elderly person’s bag up the stairs that they would not do at home.
The problem are the 3 fuckers among 10000 who behave like shit, and the fact that there are so many tourists especially in high season.
- Comment on Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards 2 weeks ago:
You have never been to Japan, have you? If any country in the world has excellent public bathroom infrastructure, it’s Japan. Always clean, generally free, and within 1-2 minutes walking range.
- Comment on Your teenager AND your husband 2 weeks ago:
Friday here
- Comment on You are allowed flavor 2 weeks ago:
Is it healthy? No.
But does it taste good? Also no.
- Comment on If a person assassinates a king or queen its called Regicide. What is the killing of a leader/president/head of state etc? Why is it called that way? 3 weeks ago:
Disenshittification
- Comment on Can't block this 3 weeks ago:
It’s a classic
- Comment on Can't block this 3 weeks ago:
We’re just having a totally sincere intellectual deliberation here about the Tongue of Theseus conundrum
- Comment on Can't block this 3 weeks ago:
Am I the twin of myself 7 years ago?
- Comment on Can't block this 3 weeks ago:
The cell next to the cell that touched ass touches the cell that touched ass. So indirectly it also touched ass. One the cell that touched ass gets regenerated, it touches the cell that touched the cell that touched ass.
There is no escape short of cutting off the tongue.
- Comment on The Truth Is Out There 3 weeks ago:
19% believe these two statistics
- Comment on I would also be confused 3 weeks ago:
this is the fucked up comment
- Comment on I would also be confused 3 weeks ago:
this is the correct comment
- Comment on I took a picture of the back of my pizza box for you guys just in case you were stuck home because of the snow and needed something to do. 3 weeks ago:
Hm, instructions unclear but I guess if you eat the whole pizza you already covered 72% of your recommended daily fat intake. OTOH, at 1320 kcal you still need ~500-900 kcal. Is that the correct answer?
- Comment on Lobster feast 4 weeks ago:
Or else pretend they did something like that to you
- Comment on target demographic 4 weeks ago:
Cold times ahead, better be prepared for it
- Comment on What's it like living in 2? 4 weeks ago:
Just because its shape vaguely resembles a 2, that doesn’t mean that the country is called “2”. It’s actually called 3.
- Comment on Mafs 1 month ago:
Yeah, also April 20 is some dude’s birthday that we don’t celebrate