farmgineer

Now the hunt is on for skeletonless heads!

Most of Japan’s cities are 20-30. There are some bigger, multi-lane roads that are 40 or 50. It kinda depends on road size, curvatures, and how residential the area is.

I’m in rural Japan.

That’s more than enough speed in an urban area. Safety is more important than speed.

I cut down a tree yesterday for a few reasons. One was that these bastards were way too interested in it and it’s right next to my house’s door (the other was roots damaging the house as it grew bigger and blocking light in my window). I had one in the house the first year we moved here and that was not a fun experience.

I live in coastal Japan and was really confused when I felt no quake and got a tsunami advisory.

Generally neither. I live in Japan so if wife watches something, it’s usually in japanese.

You should try 盛岡冷麺 (morioka reimen) if you ever get a chance. It’s a japanese version (the best, imnsho) of Korean cold noodles.

Which is funny because many non-japanese living here complain about finding good burgers (which is, of course, subjective to begin with).

They could have briefly sent a fax to a Samurai, in theory. Technically not one in Japan since no cables, but a Japanese embassy in the UK (as in a group of people rather than a building) could have sent a commercial fax.

My shower has a thermostat and I can just set the temperature and go.

… the fuck is “crater-sized”? 0.5mm? 1.5km?

2 if it’s the same tip size I have at home but something else if it’s thicker. My handwriting is not great so thin = more definition = better chance of reading whatever I scratched.

As someone who reads Japanese, that font always makes me want to punch the designer. It’s like someone writing in a foreign language with letters that kinda look like the alphabet, some exactly some not, and your brain cannot figure out WTF is going on.

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.

It’s also worth pointing out that self defense in Japanese law only covers getting out of the situation. If someone hits you and you hit them back instead of getting out of the situation, you’ve just gone from a victim to a participant in a fight.

I’m happy to go back to IRC and curated forums (and I guess usenet if I must). I still belong to some smaller forum sites. As long as a way to find those sites exists, it’s fine.

English and in 21 other languages

It would be nice to know what those were.

Look at the stroke order here: https://jisho.org/search/正 %23kanji

This is very common when someone is taking an order by hand to show how many of which drinks the table wants.