tiredofsametab

The US largely voted for what is happening and would vote for more of it harder and worse. A new admin does not change what a large chunk of the population feels. There are systemic issues that would take generations to solve, if it is even solvable in any peaceful way.

They may want to keep that infrastructure for quick post-war activation and use for their own purposes. That should be cheaper and faster than having to rebuild a whole thing.

I moved further north in Japan from Tokyo. I think we hit 38 as a max last year. So far, I’ve seen 35 this year, but I’m afraid where we might end up. We had weeks without rain at my place finally ending a few days ago. I’m scared.

escape goat

Just in case you didn’t know, it’s ‘scapegoat’; the goat isn’t, at least voluntarily, escaping anything.

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Continued doing bad things, more like. They seem to like supporting nazis from what I can tell.

I’m with “yes”. I hate background sound I can’t control or prepare for a lot of the time. Anything with words fully ruins my hearing and concentration, particularly if it’s right in that range where I can kinda, but not really, hear it.

For high-concentration tasks, it’s noise-canceling headphones with music I’ve heard so many times before there is nothing that could possibly get my brain interested and I can hit flow state on a task.

At around 20:45 JST last night, they finally removed all of the evacuation orders where we are (and I think in the rest of the main islands, at least). Definitely this morning, we’re all down to anything from an advisory to nothing at all (per the JMA website). Trains are still not running up here in parts of Tohoku, though. Some people voluntarily remain in evac areas this morning in my prefecture. A lot of people in the on the border of Iwate and Miyagi prefectures got wiped out in the 2011 tsunami, so I imagine there is an amount of fear/PTSD there.

So far, there were a couple of minor injuries in people over the course of evacuation (probably due to panic and running or something). 4 whales were beached in Chiba prefecture which is maybe related to the quake and/or tsunami. I haven’t heard of any real domestic damage or injury this morning, but we might hear about some boats being damaged.

We still have only seen 1.3m (70cm where I live) thankfully. Looks like Hawaii got 1.7m in one area. Thanks to all for the kind words and I hope everyone outside of Japan is also safe and this is the worst we see from this event.

So far, it seems 1.3m is the max we’ve seen here in Japan. Most of my area is under evacuation order still and trains are all canceled.

So far, the only waves that have hit have maxed at half a meter, but they’re still warning us that more and bigger may come. I live about 3km off the eastern coast of northern Japan and we’re just barely outside of evacuation area in my part of the village.

Exactly. This is why the non-standard parties did so well, racist and otherwise.

We’ll have to see what happens with the upper house and then the next elections. The LDP have failed to many, especially younger, voters. They see overtourism, falling wages, etc. the young groups get a lot of info from SNS, a lot of it less than the full truth. A lot of disinfo on what we get/do as foreigners in Japan (I’m a permanent resident here for a decade).

Thankfully, not all went far right. Some went for the dpftp which is another non-traditional party. The cdp is the main opposition, though they didn’t do spectacularly either.

I guess the question is if this is a blip or the new normal and how much impact they will have in the new government. If Japan doesn’t do something about misinfo and disinfo, I think things will get very bad.

Edit: some more I forgot. There’s a big issue with (often unlicensed and illegal) short-term rentals. There have been news stories lately about people, often rich Chinese, buying buildings and jacking up rent to drive people out to turn the whole thing into rentals for Air BnB and the like. This is not super common but it is illegal (can’t just unilaterally raise rent like that and also there are licenses required to run the rentals). When Japanese are crunched financially, stuff like this hurts a lot. One thing sanseito mentioned was foreign property ownership which, for reasons like that and rich foreigners in general coming over, buying property, and causing prices to rise, resonated.

To clarify rumors about foreigners, it’s that they’re not paying pension and insurance, using more welfare, etc. Historically, this was an issue with some not paying pension and insurance (both legally required) but most still did pay. However, it should also be noted that some Japanese don’t pay and the welfare and similar usage isn’t super different and not high. Status of Residence renewal procedures even added more stringent checks on this and recently, even PR holders can be kicked out if they willingly stop paying anything after the process of obtaining it.

Not exclusive to English, but English definitely has a ton of things that just follow no pattern (even by root language, though if you know that, when it was borrowed in, and what vowel shifts it did/not have, you might have a chance).

This did immediately make me think of “Simone Giertz” from Sweeden whose name’s pronunciation sounded like ‘yecht’ to me.

I got one that uses the same battery system some other tools (lawnmower, strimmer, drill) uses and oh baby it’s nice.

Come to Japan where they like to make everything images instead. Can’t select it, can’t copy it, can’t translate it without a camera, can’t preview the text of something, is bad for accessibility, etc.

I wonder what the Japanese source is. I thought we recycled PET and burnt all the rest for power here. I guess not.

When I was still a fairly small human, giving me a screwdriver was a great way to find disassembled appliances (and a somehow-not-electrocuted gradeschooler).

No more tax exemption. Even better, ban them.

People mostly, from what I understand, hire those companies to avoid harassment and trying to be bullied into continuing to work for shitty companies.

It’s hard to get fired as a permanent employee, but not impossible. That said, the idea of “lifetime” employment is definitely not what it used to be.

This is for full-time “permanent” employees known as 正社員 (seishain). There are cases where a long-term contract worker gains those same protections (I think after 5 years, but I’m not too up on that).

Various other types of employment have their own restrictions and freedoms to varying degrees on both sides, but I’m not super knowledgeable there.