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In most cases socks then shows. My shoes are by the door so it doesn’t make sense to do anything else; shoes are gross and not wearing them inside is better.

Exception: I injured my back and doing sock+shoe was easier but, still, by the door

I prefer to think of it the other way around and isekai stories are Ozzies.

East Asians good at planning

This is already just patently false by painting with a huge brush. I live in Japan and I know plenty of people who are bad at planning. That said, Japanese society tends to value planning a lot and, because of strict work schedules, little time off, etc., people often do plan things way in advance.

I don’t think kanji have anything to do with this. Korea doesn’t use kanji (hanja) anymore in any regular way, so that would invalidate the theory.

There has been some debate about them being better at math because kanji for numbers are more straightforward, but I think that’s been disproven IIRC.

“Please just end it and make it quick”

ハムを治まる?

Well, if things progress as they do, the end state is either feudalism/slavery at one extreme, UBI or something like communism at the other. It will also vary by state, but I would expect oligarchs to want more (even if there is no other endgame) and war (state, corporate, both, or the corps and states cease to be distinct) to follow. Does that ever end in a united earth? I doubt it.

No. I’m such a pessimist that I wouldn’t expect it to actually happen.

• salty black licorice (starting in maybe my late 30s)
• a lot of organ meats are fine (though liver can cause texture issues for me depending upon source and prep)
• whole fish (including some where the bones, guts, etc. are all eaten)
• the same thing every single day for at least one meal (shorgrain brown rice, sriracha, raw red onion, raw jalapeno, freshly-sliced cheddar, and protein (almost always chicken))

I hated (and presumably still do) US commercial mayo, but Japanese mayo is fine for me.

I’ve been in Japan over a decade now. I still can’t do it in real detectable amount; I will gag. I can sometimes survive very mild 納豆巻き (nattou maki) or something.

I’ve disliked it nearly every way I’ve had it. Not because of the flavor, but anything squeaky on my teeth makes me involuntarily shudder.

I’m left of many in my family, several of whom are in the christian nationalist side of things (as best I can tell), one of whom basically worships trump, and others who are mostly right of (US) center. However, they’re all on the other side of the world from me.

Rural Japan is interesting. Japan’s politics don’t fit neatly in the same platforms that would be familiar to those in the US. Even “conservatives” are overwhelmingly in favor of social programs that would be anathema in the US. People in the countryside here range from ultra-conservative to live-and-let-live.

I doubt any would be for legalization of cannabis (where even speaking too positively of it online can get someone in trouble), nor for removing the koseki system (TL;DR every Japanese citizen has a koseki. Families can have exactly one name except in cases of foreign marriage where citizen can keep their name. non-citizens cannot have a koseki. Marriage must be between someone with a vagina and a penis (whether those are from birth of surgical doesn’t matter) to have the same koseki and the same rights).

I doubt most people would care much about same-sex relationships nor trans people in general as there’s a long history of things like that in Japan.

Exposure to foreigners in general tends to help dispel myths and racism generally and most people in my immediate area realize I’m a decent guy who cares about his family and his village. I’m sure some people hate me because of my skin color, but nothing I can do about that, but I think that would be people in the village rather than my immediate neighbors.

Rural Japan in some areas and demographics votes more for parties to the left. The JCP (Japan Communist Party whose name no longer really fits IMO), has been pushing hard in my area. We’ll have to see how things shake out.

Too many choices. My knee-jerk reaction is to seconds after the big bang (though I’d also need to be able to move through space since I think it was pretty empty here, if here even existed -er- here.

A second choice would be Kyushu around 300CE. There are tons of interesting places and times I’d like to see.

Pay off my house (or most of it depending on what the exchange rate is doing)

I meant help people in the US get accurate information on what they’re consuming.

I don’t do any self-hosting anymore, but when I started I only had a couple uni classes that were related (I quit after about 9 months as uni wasn’t for me when I was 17). I somehow got recommended Gentoo linux back in the early 2000s and stood up my first server not long after (and got a lot of lessons in dealing with email servers). Now, I just don’t have the time to do it as a hobby and certainly not the money for any hardware in this economy. I thankfully never had any real security/hacking issues thanks in part to good guides even back then. It actually taught me a lot about both linux and many other things. I’m now a software engineer for a living, but mostly just doing backend work with little exposure to the infra side.

activityPub needs to add support for a specific “angry/groaning upvote”.

Yeah, here in Japan as well. I think really enforcing realistic serving sizes (no one is going to accurately do 0.25s) in labeling would also help the US.

Yeah, it’s rounding. Under a certain amount, it just rounds to zero. No one is actually using the recommended serving size. There should be legal requirements to always provide the information for the full amount in the package/container/bottle/whatever as well next to the other values (some countries at least sometimes do this).

No. I never understood the point of having dishes that get used a few times a year. I suppose that, for people like my grandparents, they got more use hosting bridge nights and the like but even my parents didn’t host that much. As someone in his mid-40s, I definitely haven’t done much of it.