Reddit -> Beehaw until I decided I didn’t like older versions of Lemmy (though it seems most things I didn’t like are better now) -> kbin.social (died) -> kbin.run (died) -> fedia.
Japan-based backend software dev and small-scale farmer.
im not sure how true that is considering that they can always just open a gate for fish to pass
That’s not how that actually works. Damming has huge impacts on downstream, now much drier, ecosystems. Even if there were a way to “open a gate for fish”, that wouldn’t solve the problem that their habitat is now gone. This is among reasons people have fought for dam removal. This also ignores the flooding of the environment that becomes the reservoir.
Over a certain percentage, I bite into chocolate and it just sucks all the moisture out of my mouth and is just terrible bitterness. I think 86% was the last one I tried, but even 50% is getting to be too bitter for me. I was always super sensitive to bitter compounds as a kid, though, so that may make sense. I do actually like black coffee of some beans/roasts, but it doesn’t have nearly as much bitterness.
You have to file federal taxes. Maybe state taxes. You don’t necessarily have to pay depending upon how much (in USD) you make. Things also depend upon per-country tax treaties. The shitty part, at least for me, is that I can’t use the ISA and similar programs here in Japan for retirement because the US considers them all passive foreign investments (PFICs) which require copious paperwork and punitive taxes wiping out any tax-advantaged retirement savings. Also can’t just invest non-taxed income in many things in the US either.
Voting being at the state level also just fucks all kinds of other things up with taxes and the like.
I moved to Japan back in 2015. If I had it to do over, I might do Finland or Norway.
Humans required tribes and close-knit communities to survive up until extremely recently in our evolutionary history. The last few hundred years massively shifted how where and how we see our identities and tribes, and what information is available. Modern social media and algorithm-based content has taken advantage of this in a huge way. People are not taught proper critical thinking and are not immunized against disinformation. Our ancient brains still think losing our tribe as being sentenced to loneliness, danger, and death. The opinions and actions of many are now more public than ever and there is more pressure there as well.
In my case, in the sense of “hearing” then yes. I still have thoughts and my mind wanders and whatnot; it just doesn’t need something else overtop of that
… Are you suggesting we are incapable of thought? My mind wanders just like anyone else’s.
We have a lot of non-management whom are all-in and drinking the kool-ade. I’m still highly put off for a number of reasons, but an outlier.
Basically the handful of countries in western Europe that I visited after graduating highschool in the late '90s. I haven’t been back since and would love to see it again as someone who’s not a very sheltered 17-year-old. The trip was also cut short because there was a huge storm off the US East coast or something that had us end up flying up to Canada, spending the night, and then flying over.
I used to have a PDA, even back in the late '90s I got as a hand-me-down. I used to play games on that and my first several phones. These days, though, if I’m using my phone it’s never for gaming. If I have free time, I’m using a flashcard app to study or watching previously-downloaded youtube vids for downtime. I guess the one exception was when I was doing the prep for a colonoscopy, I fired up ALTTPR on a SNES emulator on tablet to kill time. That’s the only time I can think of in the last probably 2 years I’ve played any games on anything mobile at all.
Well, if you have to build all kinds of stuff to win (or even survive) things like environmental regulations go out the window. You can expect factories, many not meant for it, to start running 24/7 and producing all kinds of pollution. People will need to get to those factories and it’s also all using more power. All of those things also need to be shipped around, both to temporary storage and to staging areas for wherever they’re destined.
During WWII in the US, a lot of old mines were also re-opened to get what was left of lead, copper, zinc, etc. and mining can have a huge environmental impact. I suspect we’d see that again along with rare earths mining and refining which is not great for the environment. I suspect we’d see more coal mining, facking, and other things as well to meet energy needs at home and abroad.
There will be tons of fires pumping carbon and I’m sure plenty of nasty materials into the atmosphere as well. Lead is going to end up all over the place in some areas and probably depleted uranium as well (you can see what that’s done over time in various parts of the Middle East).
Probably not. Iron is way more abundant and better for a number of usages as well as being easier to work. Bronze requires sources of multiple metals for the alloy, but may win out in some limited applications
Pokemon. I was in highschool when it came out and had no time for it followed by being too poor and busy trying to survive directly after it. With no nostalgia for it, there seems to be no reason to try it. I gave pokemon go like 20 minutes and I was over it (though I did play dragonquest walk for around a year)
I started Korean a few days ago. I am still in the “learning how this all works” phase. I’m frustrated by my slow reading speed and inability to find something to help that readily.
… why on earth would anyone want emails in their notifications to begin with?
Well, it was an old way of pronouncing it: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/people-have-been-saying-ax-instead-ask-1200-years-180949663/
I’ve said that, if I had it to do over again, I might choose to move to Norway or Finland instead of Japan, but birth? I don’t know that’s possible to answer. Even if my family were the same people, they’d probably be culturally different having been born and raised somewhere. Even if we assume my parents were just plonked down there, I probably still wouldn’t be the same person due to my environment. Some of that almost certainly for better, but I wouldn’t be me.
Dragons of Autumn Twilight was one that set me on quite the Dragonlance collection and reading journey
That wouldn’t generally be needed here, though. At least in the cities where most people live, they are walking and using public transit just to live, eat, etc.