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Every time anything asks for a DOB or anything like that, I enter the earliest date their system allows. Been doing it for decades.

I guess that might make me more trackable?

Probably a third of workers (in workplaces with such potential accidents) are over 60.

I follow many creators who only post a handful of times (if that) a year. They get tons of views, because the content is well made.

Stuff Made Here

Bobby Fingers

Boy Boy

Michael Reeves

..to name a few off the top of my head

(Of course, theses are mostly HUGE channels)

I had that PLUS a mini-disc player, all stock on a dirt-cheap car.

Mine would cut the last few second and first few seconds of each song with some terrible "meld together" business, like the world's worst DJ.

Japanese menus do overwhelmingly include photos, and most of the bigger restaurants have moved to tablets with, of course, images.

The plastic 3d models are mostly in tourist areas.

There are so many restaurants in Japan (especially sushi, soba, tonkatsu, ramen, and izakaya) that have no images whatsoever. Often a handwritten menu or even wall-mounted menus are all that are available.

It's a confirmation bias thing: people come to Japan and go to restaurants with photos on the menu and food models, they think it represents all of Japan. They don't read Japanese, so they may not even know that they walking past a great restaurant without any food displayed outside nor images on menus inside.

Odd, in central Japan for over a decade, I have never seen the blinking 888.

I used a dark blue sharpie to cover up some scratches; works fine and I touch it up every few months.

Fun, somewhat related, fact. For a long time (not sure about now), the high-voltage connectors in Tesla were made by (but not labeled) Yazaki. Made in Japan.

But the QC tests to Yazaki's deisred level didn't exist yet, and Tesla did their own tests. And Tesla was maximizing it's "Made in the US" stance, which either goes by weight or components.

So Yazaki was secretly making unlabeled high-voltage connectors in Japan, selling them to Tesla, who could then test them themselves and claim falsely the source of production.

If you live in New York City or San Francisco, you really shouldn't own a car.

Probably a mix between oil-ties and the fact that decisions in Japan are made slowly.

Edit: I also think there's a fear of this: wide acceptance of EVs open the door to BYD (or similar) huge takeover of the car market.

I used to follow it closely and be in the industry, but it still seems like Japan is gonna be the last "mostly ICE cars" of the developed countries.

Which is a shame, because it has a perfect combination of short-range needs (I mean, look at kei-cars), tons of wonderful places to hang out while charging (toll-way rest areas are so good), rare sub-freezing temperatures in most of the country, mandatory vehicle inspections (which could collect great safety data as well as preventative maintenance), general love of new cars and brand loyalty, lack of political or individual divide of "big gas trucks are manly", mobile-power-station earthquake preparedness (a nice bonus), generally cooperative nation-wide infrastructure...

I guess we just have to hope the main automakers can hold on long enough for solid-state batteries and move faster than a snail's pace when it does.

Thanks for the wonderfully thought-out response. I definitely agree on the not-self-diagnose-yourself front. I'm somewhere in between your two possible reactions to such books, leaning closer to the "Whoa, whoa, whoa" one.

However, I live in Japan, where simply finding a doctor qualified and willing to diagnose someone over 20 years old is super rare. Short of expensive monthly trips to Tokyo or something just to be diagnosed, and then having a prescription that has to be received in person monthly. And the medication is highly controlled.

So I have just kinda accepted to keep applying these techniques (as well as being aware of my own created mechanisms), keep trying my best, and just live a happy life. It's been working so far!

I dunno if that is connected to ADHD, and I dunno if I have ADHD (though by reading the textbook* on it, it kinda seems I do)... but I genuinely don't remember my childhood either.

*Taking Charge of Adult ADHD

Yeah, I had a Canadian friend who was in a motorcycle accident. He could see the hospital from where he crashed. He begged the paramedics to let him walk, but they judged he should not.

He was billed 600$.

The paramedics' judgment as to whether he should or shouldn't have isn't the debate here. They likely made the safe call.

It has always been ridiculous, but getting more and more since everything much match each other perfectly. MyNumber, bank, credit card, residence card and passport... There are a few services I outright can't use because my name doesn't fit in their system, and this is after weeks of phone calls with real people. (Note, it's Rakuten iDeco I'm talking about here)

Is it okay if Mom teaches the lessons about respecting the rules?

I told my elementary-age child that they can have a phone when they are old enough to sneakily buy one without me knowing.

Hmm... I think the majority of people working jobs are mostly just there "for the paychecks."

It'd be rather beautiful if all jobs were purely passion driven, but that is simply not the case. Nor could it be. And yeah, there are programmers with jobs that are mostly driven by passion, but most would pack it up and go home immediately if there was a sudden "we have stopped paying you" announcement.

They might be able to find a few retired-aged people locally, should they keep the non-automated version.

I'd walk with my CRT monitor and tower (stuffed all cables, mouse, keyboard inside) over to my friend's to play games/mess with computers a couple decades ago. We called it the "sneakernet", too.

You do you, but this "organized fun" is not for me. I completely get using tools to efficient-away the boring parts and maximize limited times and resources... but the joy of planning and traveling and taking things as they come (even with a little one) is absolutely part of the point of holidays.

I recently joined a part of a friend's holiday that was mostly planned by AI, and the most exciting parts were the when we accidentally strayed from AI's plan.

Mind you, everybody's different. I don't even like looking at reviews for restaurants; it spoils the surprise.

I'm not trying to create conflict for conflict's sake; I use AI daily for (mostly) work. Good stuff with tons of potential.

The post is well thought and put together. I hope the trip is awesome, and I'd be interested to hear your feedback of this AI plan after the trip.

Some of the health tests in Japan that elderly people take include a "standing to sitting on the floor and getting back up all unsupported" test. Scores are based on time, effort, emitted sounds (like grunts), hands-on-ground and whatnot. I don't know the specifics, but it is used as a "health measure."

I live here, but some of the online places are fairly gatekept, such as r/japanlife where non-residents can't post.

It might be worth checking out some travel discords (https://discord.gg/uwTxWekyS) or subreddits do get some initial traction?

And the Shindo system is best described as "what it feels like at the specific location"

So an earthquake can be a 4 at the epicenter, a 3 a little further away, a 2 even further away, and so on.

Common online conversation with a friend in a different prefecture may be something like, "Last night's earthquake was a 3 here, how about you?"

I wonder if they can feel the air pressure change while submerged.

I've been commuting with a mirror for 5 years; it feels SO dangerous the odd time I commute with my non-mirrored mountain bike.

I don't have strava or anything. I don't even know how long my rides are, my best times, my altitude. I just go for a ride; successfully capturing the exact feeling of riding since I was a teenager.

Kei cars can comfortably go up to about 60mph. Not great for an 8 hour drive, but I regularly do 3-hour-drives with a loaded kei-van. Yep, same 660cc three-cylinder engine that those kei-trucks have. It'll hit 70mph, but not comfortably. 50mph is easy.

And on the highway, I see tons of other kei cars, too. Light weight class cars even get a toll discount!

Those were hobbyists, audiophiles, professionals, artists (recording, performing, etc.).

They are talking about a much larger group of people.