Japanese can only end in ‘a’, ‘i’, ‘u’, ‘e’, ‘o’, or ‘n’. Rhyming in Japanese is boring because it has so few possible endings that tons of stuff rhymes. Haiku, tanka, and other forms exist with syllable*, rhythm, and even thematic rules instead.

IIRC, Anglo-Saxon poetry before the Norman conquest also wasn’t into rhyming.

* it’s technically not syllables but close enough for this usage.

As someone in Japan for a decade, there is no way Tokyo should be that high, especially post-corona and inflation

I use it for code reviews but that’s basically it. Looking at open job postings. Ton expect ai experience. I want to die.

Except when looking for a new job and now so are 8k other people :/

You can find videos of mudlarks in drained canals on YouTube. I can’t recall the names anymore as I stopped really enjoying the content, but there are videos out there.

Have you seen mudlarks in drained canals? Sucking mud, sometimes up to the knee. If you’re not getting stuck, you struggle to get footing and slip in regular shoes.

I left back in 2015 after realizing that, had I stayed in the US, I probably would have killed myself. I haven’t renounced so that I can help my parents (and, yes, I keep voting), but the punishing tax and retirement investing issues make things a huge pain. So much paperwork everywhere, can’t invest in things, potential double-taxation, hours of forms to fill out for a country I’ve spent ~15 days in in the last decade, etc.

Yep. Retirement investing is also a huge pain. Many things are PFICs which can take hours of work each to figure out how to fill in US forms for (and a punitive tax for your efforts), not all accounts are treated as tax-advantaged in both US and target country, etc. I will be renouncing when my parents pass (or I can convince them to GTFO, but that seems unlikely).

The hotel check-in system, called Tabiq, is maintained by the Japan-based tech startup Reqrea.

If it’s as popular as I think, I probably get to be part of another data breach. Yaaaaay.

I had to sign all kinds of documents when setting up my own small shop online about personal information handling and personal liability on leak just to sell some farm produce.

The Evil Dead Guy.

One Guy of Darkness.

Don’t know if it counts but stupid meat circus climb in psychonauts. Never finished that thing.

None in my village. I’m not sure if that’s fortunate or unfortunate. We definitely have bears that come within a couple KM of my house.

Heh, I was going to comment on my first being a C64 (technically a Vic 20 is the first I ever messed with, but I don’t really remember that one).

I use a couple of subreddits specific to Japan because that’s where the knowledge is for legal, visa, financial, DIY, etc. advice and people refuse to move over. I technically have a bluesky which I haven’t updated in around a year (it’s for business purposes anyway). I also have a linkedin for job purposes. All other social media (FB, insta, twitter, tiktok, whateverTheKidsUseTheseDays) I either never had, deactivated, or fully deleted my account years ago.

Edit: some people are mentioning YouTube. I don’t really consider it social media, but I do use it if that counts. I try to watch more Nebula, though.

It only bothered me because I saw that it was a school assignment and I thought it would be to a higher standard. In casual speech, I don’t really care unless the meaning is unclear.

I don’t knowingly use AI at all in my person life and projects (I say ‘knowingly’ since many products have it shoved inside now, but I disable all I see). At work, we have AI code reviews which, as a concept, I think is fine and useful.

Probably the Switch. It’s … fine, I guess? NES? Awsome. SNES? fantastic. GB? amazing for its time. Genesis was killer. Atari 2600 was huge in its day. The switch? Meh.

It doesn’t help that I’m generally unhappy with nintendo being a bunch of greedy fucks as I see it.

This is why I don’t use it for coding at all.

Shouldn’t it be ‘after having been together’?

What is ‘at the same time’ referring to in that sentence? They wanted to break up at the same time (as in both had the idea)? They wanted to break up at the same time on the clock to continue the theme of things being same-y?

The boy is due north of what? The place? The girl? Also, the girl should be wondering about her decision, I think.

(I don’t even speak English every day anymore, so I could be wrong).

I pronounce it ‘neesh’ as well, but we’re going to get into trouble if we pronounce everything with French/Norman/Latin routes the way it is (or was).