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I live on the ENEstern cost of the main island of Japan and the rain this year was crazy due in no small part to typhoons (and their remanents) either heading up the east (pacific) coast or crossing over from the west coast.

The X of this group of people all of whom are named Travis.

or

The travises X.

Overseas voter who voted for Harris. The US keeps requiring I do taxes and basically has policies that fuck me out of using any of the retirement plans (think IRA/ISA/401k) here in Japan, so I keep voting. Not my ideal candidate and I hope for ranked-choice or similar voting in the future, but better her than that other jackass.

Maybe to a half inch, but it’s not super popular (except for kids who ALWAYS are proud of that half inch they grew in x period of time). At least, that was the case before I moved to the sanity of metricland.

It “works” for me, but if you want to put in xxx in CM, it might not be there because they stick to inches and you need to round up/down :/ For example, it goes 170cm to 173cm

square-cube law means height, diameter, and weight are all going to be issues.

Isn’t algae more effective per volume?

Yeah, I thought of that a few minutes later and was too lazy to edit. I also thought maybe it’s semi-auto and someone needs to verify it manually before allowing the UI to show

So, based on

Every programmer knows that ‘A’ in [‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’] would be the 0th item; the first item is ‘B’

You’re saying I can’t be a programmer because I speak English?

I’ve been a software engineer for almost 20 years now. ‘A’, at index 0*, is the first thing in the array.

* well, unless you’re using some language that actually is not zero-indexed. I think LUA is one?

There are a few options off the top off my head

1. the route/connection between the monitoring and you is OK; between the company and the monitoring is OK; but between you and the company is not OK – this means that, so far as the monitoring can tell, the site is up.
2. The status checks run at some interval and you’re hitting it before that interval
3. There’s some threshold of errors that needs to happen first so tiny hiccups don’t register as full-blown outages.
4. the monitoring/metrics are poorly-designed

There are probably other cases. I don’t know the architecture in this case, so I won’t speculate at any others.

A, B, C1 ,C3, C4, C2, F, E2, E1, D

You realize that birth control, plan B, and abortions are very much a thing here, right? These “we need them to drink so we can impregnate them” posts always creep me out a bit.

Japan? Liberal Paradise? Since when???

My thoughts exactly. It is left of the US on a few things like social safety net and healthcare, but mostly the same (which, compared to much of the western world is still quite far to the right).

hating of foreigners, especially gaijin

Wat? What do you think that word means?

would be fairly ostracized unless they spoke perfect Japanese.

Source?

There are growing trends in the youth, but their conservative patriarchy is still holding strong for now.

Getting them to vote would help. Obviously anecdotal, but a lot of young adults I knew didn’t vote.

I’m from the US and have been living in Japan almost a decade. I don’t speak perfect Japanese by any stretch, but I can generally handle myself unless we get into certain medical jargon or legalese. I own a house and a small farm. Your premise on being ostracized is false, however; racists gonna racist so policies or people that exclude others aren’t generally going to give a shit if the person speaks flawless Japanese. On the other hand, I think the internet has a kinda warped view of what living here is like and how foreigners are treated. There is racism, particularly in trying to get an apartment. I’ve also been treated like a normal person more than I’ve ever been treated like some outside or zoo exhibition.

We definitely have issues with alcoholism here. I think part of it is that a ton of small businesses (as well as larger ones) are ones that survive on alcohol revenue. I remember when I lived in the US, a lot of bars and breweries would fight legalization claiming it would hurt their business. I think they are stuck in the mindset that no one will leave the house or something, but that’s just speculation on my part.

While Japan’s suicide rate isn’t the lowest, the rate in the US (where you live per your comment response) is HIGHER than here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate

I also don’t understand how you get Nazi from Japan. Japan is both left and right of the US on a number of issues (though being left of the US position in some things isn’t a high bar). Do I like the government here? Not particularly (and neither that of the US as both make some pretty bone-headed decisions in my opinion). Is it a Nazi hellscape? Absolutely not.

I’m originally from the US and have been living in Japan for just under a decade. I have universal healthcare (including dentistry and vision), own a home, run a small farm, and have amazing neighbors who largely treat me like anyone else (wherever you are in the world, there’s always that one person). I have good worker’s rights as a full company employee and more legally guaranteed leave than the US (and yes we’re allowed to use it).

Generally yes and generally no, in that order. At least in the call centers I worked where one could wear about anything. At my shirt-and-tie job, generally yes and yes.

I should note that I haven’t lived in the US in years, so I don’t know what things look like today.

I worked in an actual call center in my 20s and, aside from the interview where it’s advisable to dress somewhat nicely, we were mostly free to wear whatever we wanted as long as it kept all the appropriate bits covered enough.

Maybe OP is from some place with a high Vietnamese population so there were rumors about this? TX, LA, or CA maybe.

As someone older than the public internet, these people and positions always existed. The difference in my opinion is that the 24-hour news cycle and online echo chambers combined with less in-person meeting, particularly with others in the community different to oneself has just further isolated and polarized people. There’s also an argument that heavily-biased cable “news” (which is oftentimes more “opinions” and sometimes “outright lies”) going unchecked has further polarized and divided people.

The EU is big and varied so I think that’s a pretty broad question. I did visit a few countries but was too poor as a young adult to move to any. I moved to Japan later in life. If I had it to do again, I would probably pick Norway or maybe Finland.