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school drop off and pickup for three kids

When we were in Japan my son walked to school when he was 6. Parts of the walk close to the school were supervised. It wasn't just allowed, it was expected.

The address would need to be looked up in some cases due to different delivery costs and time estimates.

Somewhat related, I saw a Reddit post of someone who got a tattoo of 木漏れ日 and the native speakers in comments generally thought it was an odd.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Japaneselanguage/comments/16b8r7c/p...

As mentioned by others, things have changed - I used credit card 90% of the time on my last trip earlier this year.

If you have lots of luggage going to the airport, the "limousine bus" services (they are just coach buses) are a good option if you're near one of the pick-up locations.

Allowing two bags per person, it was cheaper for us and didn't need to send it two days in advance.

A few notes to be aware of:

- if you're sending your luggage to the airport, check the deadline for sending, depending where you are sending from it could be 2-3 days before your flight

- hotels I paid at were cash only for this service (one of the few things I paid in cash, but likely depends on the hotel)

- some hotels did not take payments for sending, only supporting cash on delivery, so if you're sending to another hotel you should check if they will accept it

Sending from a convenience store is another option if those two last points are problems.

Another thing I thought of, the two times I needed it, the hotels sold cardboard boxes (a few hundred yen) and provided packing tape for free.

DX is Developer eXperience

With ts-node or Deno there is no compile step you have to do yourself. For frontend, bundlers can be setup where it is pretty transparent.

"Studies indicate that some cultures may be more sensitive to this phenomenon than others; one study found that there is little evidence that people undergo midlife crises in Japanese and Indian cultures, raising the question of whether a mid-life crisis is mainly a cultural construct."

I thought this was interesting.

I was checking out one of the suggestions in another comment for background remove and they seem to have this functionality to increase resolution: https://clipdrop.co/apis/docs/super-resolution

I think the poster making a sweeping generalization on such a large group of people is poor form.

My opinion, based on living in Japan and spending a lot of time around Japanese people, is the generalizations likely applies to a large portion of the population, but I have doubts whether it even applies to the majority.

I'd love for sucralose to be used less, just because it really irritates my throat. Something I only found out after moving to Japan and a long process of elimination. Turns out a lot of dental products use it and in packaged food - and not just low calorie products, but also in some things like ice blocks/pops and instant cup noodles.

For anyone coming here now, the comments there got moved here, so no need to check that link.

I was curious about this too and wondered if it could then relate to my description of a giraffe so put in "legs of a yellow mammal with a long neck and spots" and it still nailed it.