tiredofsametab

looks at the chunk of earth and other body orbiting us I think we’ve been hotter /s

Looking over my finances, I have three things I still directly pay for:

Steam (though I last bought a game months ago), Nebula, and various google services. Google is really hard to get around for a number of reasons in my current situation. I rely on voice for 2fa for my banks in the US (though I’m hoping they eventually support authy or something). Losing those US accounts is not possible right now (in the worst case, using a US payment method and address may make steam revoke my entire existing game collection for being outside the rights/distribution area I bought from).

Nebula feels bad. I really like supporting several of those creators and love their content. I may continue to support them.

I had one other thing I’m letting expire.

Other than that, my domains are already through a European registrar and I think everything else is Japanese.

“I don’t care what the judges think”

So this means you’re voluntarily outlawing yourself, right?

Except when the government is immune to this and passes things off as real since it isn’t marked as AI.

I’m also taking the person at their word for it. Only squid knows, presumably, and isn’t around.

There was a post in powertrippingbastards the other day that referenced him, though I don’t recall which. Some person mentioned an argument with them on discord/matrix and they chose to step away.

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.

A lot of people overseas also rely on social security. I certainly would hope to collect something in another 20ish years as well.

To me, the storage isn’t the impressive part; it’s the logic, “thinking”, fine motor control, etc.

Some of it is rose-coloured glasses. Even my grandfather (born in the 1920s) once remarked to me whilst watching the news: “you know, this has always been happening; we just didn’t used to talk about it”, in response to some kind of crime/violence. It’s also generally one of the goals of parents to let kids be kids and shelter them as best they can from some of the actual hardships and shit that is life, so a lot of us think back fondly on those times (at least who are lucky enough to have similar experiences; not everyone had adults in their lives that would or even could do that).

Spying has been around forever, but the creative jobs thing is apt. Instead, it was the threat of manual work getting taken over by robots, hating Japan because of their miracle economy basically made possible (at least at first) due to the US but then nearly overtaking the US, etc. that defined a lot of what I saw (which is humorous given that I have been living in Japan for the past decade).

I’m a xennial and I’d say I’m doing pretty good at keeping up, but I’m also a software dev so that probably skews things a bit.

I think what the person meant is a lot of people in the US are one or two paychecks from losing their housing and have virtually no savings.

India is the one that I know of that differs in some way. I’m sure there are more.

Avoid caffeine in the afternoon (how late depends on each person’s caffeine metabolism). Don’t eat within a few hours of bed. Don’t drink right before bed. Go to bed at the same time every day. Try to avoid screens within an hour of bed. If you must, it should be something passive.

Doing some of those is better than none of those; not everyone can do them all. I found I was more sensitive to caffeine than I thought and that making my bedtime the same +/- 30 minutes every day made things a lot better for my sleep. I take a hot bath about an hour before bed, get into bed, put on some background music (nothing too interesting or I won’t sleep), and then fall asleep pretty well.

Japanese and full of law references and the history of laws that needed to be memorized. I’m going to take the online US licensing test and convert.

I know it’s true about anyone way, waaayy too into their hobby, but some anime fans in particular need to chill way out, especially where it intersects with coming to Japan and being super creepy to others, particularly after a few drinks.

I grew up in the US and have lived outside it for 10 years now. I would agree with this. Voting and representation have never been total and is definitely less available for many groups. Further things are being stripped away.