tiredofsametab

Having known a lot of people working in kitchens here and having seen some kitchens here, I really wish Japan would step up random inspections and enforcement. The owner (at least, maybe others as well) are required to be re-certified yearly with courses (also available online since corona at least), but I’ve not seen much of anything to enforce the conditions on the ground after the test unless there are customer complaints. Rats and roaches are far from unique to Sukiya, especially in places like Tokyo.

I suppose q_a is an option (and why I purposefully skipped it above, heh)

Just do 3 letters for all: dev, uat, stg, prd, etc.

Yeah, USGS pagers are all read and the pictures coming out are not great, sadly

That’s terrible. 10km is quite shallow as well which has its own consequences.

I don’t know how that works considering they can fly directly to US bases. I guess it could potentially stop them going off base, but i don’t know how that would be enforced. I’m basing this off of some familiarity with military folks in Japan I’ve met.

Japan has various info on its website and, at least in Tokyo Metro, they send (or at least sent) a big disaster prep book to every household. However, we get earthquakes, typhoons, tsunamis, mudslides, and volcanic eruptions fairly regularly so we kinda need to be on top of at least the known/common threats.

A lot of cell towers (at least used to) have only hours of backup. In Houston when hurricane Ike tore through, cellphones were useless due to overloading at first, then various towers started going offline at 24, 36, 48, etc. hours. I think after Ike, at least some were upgraded to 72-96 hours, but I would not expect that to be the case at all in areas that don’t frequently see disasters.

I’m a dual citizen (and live in a third country). I wanted to show my wife more of the US museums and parks, as well as having her meet more of my family. It’s 100% off the table now. There’s zero chance, even for two weeks, I put my wife (who already speaks very little English) in that situation. Also, fuck giving the US any extra money.

I thought he was born in Arlen, TX?

Hell no; hard pass.

I would love to see more trade between Japan and Aus as well, especially if it reduces dependence on the US. I don’t know where most of the aluminum and steel here (Japan) comes from off the top of my head.

Ok. Thank you. I’ll go hunting to see if there’s already a PR or issue about it. Thanks!

I learned about it as the buttbuttination problem before I new it had a proper name, heh.

Should there be an image or a link to one? I’m wondering if there’s some kind of mbin compatibility issues with some posts (or some other shenanigans). Nothing jumps out in browser dev tools, but I’ve seen a lot of posts that are nothing but a non-clickable title for me. Thanks!

To be honest, your username alone puts me off from wanting to read anything by you. I don’t know what your actual posting history is like.

Paul’s drink apparently hit the shelves recently here in Japan (not in my rural corner but in urban areas). Because of japanese defamation laws, I can’t say anything (even saying something 100% provably true can get you sued here), but it sure would be a shame if people brought it up a lot in English and japanese on the internet a lot

As someone living in Japan, I’m angry at the limp punishment he got here. I hope he gets the book thrown at him

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.

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.