tiredofsametab

I’ve mostly heard ‘yanks’ in English. I don’t know if Japanese slang specifically has a word for USian foreigners as most situations don’t really care about which country and, if more specificity than ‘foreigner’ is required, it’s usually going to be some adjective/descriptor (loud, rude, skin_color_here, etc. in the case of people being those things).

I think he just walks rather than being shipped.

Unfortunately for my sanity over here in UTC+9, I can’t just sleep through the whole thing. I’m hopeful that work will be busy enough tomorrow that I won’t have time to think about it. What I also know is that it’s most likely going to get drawn out longer, so I won’t likely be specifically watching anywhere, but just picking up occasional US news somewhat accidentally along the way (either here or via fark). I voted as soon as I could print my overseas ballot and get it in the mail so I’ve done all I can do.

I disagree, but I’m allergic to grass. However, if you like it, there should be no reason to pretend you don’t.

Add me to the team that at least almost never adds sugar to any pasta sauce. In very rare occasions, I might add a tiny bit of honey, but I can’t remember the last time I did that.

I didn’t have a car for a few years and the one I had was 2003 (with a slight stint from a similarly-aged car during a couple-month time I had to drive). I now have a car again and I HATE that my heat/air and such are all flat against the panel (not a touch screen, though). I literally can’t adjust anything without looking in my current car. Thankfully, I avoid driving it whenever possible.

I never really got into it. I did enjoy cowboy bebop and have seen a couple ghibli films, but never went out of my way to watch anything else. I suppose it’s funny since I now live in Japan.

Also, you should work on yourself including therapy, probably, as someone who had issues with depression for years

From the grocery store straight into my freezer as-is. So far as I am aware, none have been processed in any way other than harvesting.

I live on the ENEstern cost of the main island of Japan and the rain this year was crazy due in no small part to typhoons (and their remanents) either heading up the east (pacific) coast or crossing over from the west coast.

I’ve always liked the name Ruben for some reason and only ever known one that I can recall (whose brother was called Robin).

I also am partial to Ezekiel and they can have Zeke as a nickname which I think sounds pretty rad.

The X of this group of people all of whom are named Travis.

or

The travises X.

We freeze raw shiitake all the time. It works OK with button mushrooms as well. With the latter, the texture can suffer a bit so it might not be good for your usecase (or you might want to slice and/or cook them first, but I’ve never done that).

LORD vs Lord does hold some distinction in the source material. IIRC LORD is for uses of the divine name whereas the other ones are not. But then you have the whole, El, Elohim, tetragrammaton, god, lord, etc. mess with them probably not historically referring to the same entity to begin with, but that whole book is a mess.

Expected treasure, but safe contained a live panther; would not buy again.

apologies to XKCD

I hate to be a killjoy, but it’ll clearly be a single deposit layer dated to on or after the latest date-able item. The fill will all be the same and its own distinct layer against the rest of the area. If you have a long enough time to keep it open, want to dig more, and have different fills, you might be able to accomplish something, but the different fill materials would likely have no real match in the surrounding still making it obvious.

Mid-40s: it feels fine. It both complicates and un-complicates various things for later in life, but that’s life.

I do like kids, but never wanted my own (at least biologically; I never fully ruled out adoption). We have nieces and nephews we can spoil instead of our own, heh.

I eat the same thing several meals a week, mostly because I both like it and I cook in bulk. I do sometimes play with the seasoning.

Whatever meat I grilled, veg if any is handy, brown rice, cheddar cheese, and something spicy (I have more chili’s than I know what to do with and made Cowboy Candy for the first time so that gets tossed in; pickled jalapenos next, probably).

I do throw in oatmeal and salads on occasion

The LDP is huge and some people joint it even though not all views align (I assume there is some sort of loyalty/policy requirement, but I don’t know) to try to better their chances. So, based on my limited understanding, it’s one party but positions can vary to some degree.

Voter turnout can be pretty shit, for sure.

My area had two candidates run in the elections yesterday, but I don’t know which parties.

A lot of rural areas actually have decent benefits and subsidies for families and kids and they are broadly supported by most parties. One problem is people feel like there are no jobs or opportunities outside of agriculture, forestry, and manufacturing. They’re not necessarily wrong. Remote work is helping, but the anxiety of being recalled due of a new policy is there. I certainly live with that fear.

There are also worried about higher education for the kids and finding future partners (at least in the super rural areas in the latter case). Unlike Tokyo, for example, getting kids into public daycare and kindergarten is quite easy in the countryside so some do move in and later out for their kids.

It’s a complex situation and I don’t know that any party or group has a really good handle on it.

generally one at a time, sometimes 2 if I decide to grab a cup of coffee.

Per Wikipedia here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Communist_Party#Ideology_and_policies :

[. . .] it is, however, politically moderate and advocates a peaceful transition to communism.[69] Marxism–Leninism, which former party chairman Tetsuzo Fuwa had worked for years to make acceptable to the electorate, was abandoned in favor of scientific socialism in 1976.[70][71] According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, the JCP became a more traditional democratic socialist party after modifying its policies in the 1990s.[57] This analysis is supported by the Japanese political scientist Kōji Nakakita [ja], who is often cited as a specialist on the JCP.[72] The JCP follows a Marxist ideology,[73][5] stating that the theory of Marx and Engels is the foundation of their program.[74] The party sits on the left[75] to far-left[80] of the left–right political spectrum.

I suppose the real answer is to read the material in Japanese and look at their policy decisions, but I for one don’t have time for it (nor can I vote here in Japan anyway).