Reddit -> Beehaw until I decided I didn’t like older versions of Lemmy (though it seems most things I didn’t like are better now) -> kbin.social (died) -> kbin.run (died) -> fedia.
Japan-based backend software dev.
I’m from the US and still have family there. There’s zero chance I go unless someone is dying and, even then, I dare not bring my wife who speaks very little English. I’m glad we went before this shitstorm happened so she could at least meet my surviving grandparents once.
The olds expect women to quit basically when they marry or get pregnant. Worker protections are better these days, but the view is still there with some. Some couples do have to have one spouse quit because of the whole daycare thing in some areas, though.
There is a wage gap between men and women and fewer women are in positions of power, though the latter at least is slowly getting better.
Not having a child won’t cancel societal expectations of the older generations. Women are often still expected to serve tea and do other things in older/traditional companies.
My company is a westernized Japanese company and we do have a number of women including in higher roles (though none on the board, I think). I’m in a remote IT role so I don’t generally hang out after work with non-IT staff to hear real opinions or the rumor mill, though.
My wife was treated well and fairly by her small japanese company, but she has experienced some discrimination previously.
In our village, we do have work we do in the community every month or two (mostly cutting grass, litter picking, and maintaining shared spaces). Some things are definitely typically done by the men or women with women doing the inside cleaning and cooking at events with men doing the outside work. We’ve already broken that mold some as I’m also the cook (I baked things to bring to our last event).
Inflation, daycare, and work-life balance are the complaints I hear most. A ton of the jobs and good education are in Tokyo so people want to be there. This overloads all the daycare and other systems. Since corona, the floodgates have opened on price increases and inflation. Since 3/11 energy costs have been rising and things with Russia also hit (after nuclear, tons of fuel is needed and is imported, often from Russia).
Having more things in other parts of the country that still paid well would help. Where I live (in Tohoku) daycare slots are plentiful and there are all kinds of subsidies for kids. The only jobs here, though, are fishery, forestry, agriculture, etc. My town is less bad because a lot was rebuilt after the tsunami, but the lack of people also means a lack of tax which also means infrastructure suffers. Rust and crumbling things everywhere.
Fully mine? 286SX16 IIRC, followed by an Amiga 500. Shared would be a Vic 20 followed by a C64.
I’ve drunk with some people who did voice acting of animes here in Japan. They generally work a lot and don’t get compensated nearly well enough. Salaries here are generally lower than somewhere like the US, but people in entertainment and arts often have a rough time.
Is your garbage little endian or big endian?
We generally refer to organic waste as “garbage” and inorganic waste as “trash.”
Who is this ‘we’? Is this regional, maybe? In the regard you mentioned, I use them 100% interchangeably. I’m trying to think of any case where I don’t use them interchangeably, and I can’t come up with anything. I grew up in the Great Lakes area.
I’m on board so long as we switch to a language that’s actually pronounceable like Norwegian or something.
I might be tempted to as long as the destination was “into a lake”.
Edit: as soon as I wrote that, I realized: I don’t wanna pollute a lake so nevermind.
Hrm. Maybe I should pull some money out of my US account tomorrow morning. Not sure what, if it happens, would do to the exchange rate
There definitely is/was a Polish instance.
Shitty japanese government and some private apps only work on windows (some to a limited degree on smartphones and Mac). Sure, I could (at least theoretically) run a windows vm for that as someone helpfully mentioned before, but that kinda defeats the purpose (and isn’t really great for less technical folks).
I imagine some other gov/biz apps also have the same issue.
I think it meant the main city of the breakwat region, not Moldova, but the wording isn’t great
I’m wife’s hometown and we’re meeting her childhood friends in a few hours at an izakaya for sushi, fish, and all sorts of stuff. Please have a moment of silence for my liver this weekend.
Fuck this company.
They’ve been awful for many, many years at this point. I’ve no idea why people keep giving them money and expecting them to not be awful.
Kick the US out of Nato and any special status in the UN. Sanction the everliving fuck out of everything US. This will destroy the retirement I was at least partially expecting to get, but fuck it.