tiredofsametab

There is a lot of American pork (and some beef) in supermarkets here in Japan. I get mine from Costco which, at least for loins, is Canadian pork. Beef, of the non-wagyuu variety, tends to be Australian or American. Chicken is typically domestic in my experience.

“you kill it, you fill it”

Setting aside the topic, is this a common phrase? DDG had all of around 4-5 hits. I don’t think I’ve ever heard it before.

single-use plastic pod of coffee (or hot cocoa or tea) put into a machine that runs water through it to brew the beverage.

As a registered democrat (though only because my state requires it to vote in primaries for democrats and I’m certainly not voting republican): pound sand, DNC.

China nailed the “never interrupt your enemy while he’s in the midst of making a mistake” strategy. Trump absolutely weakened his position.

We never had our crons in source control, but I always saved it somewhere (usually on my machine and the target machine) so we had some history just in case of typing r instead of l for some reason. You can also create an alias called backupCrontab or something that runs the command for you and puts the output somewhere safe.

I don’t use it at all, even with various bank apps and such yelling at me to do so. Yeah, a $2 wrench could still eventually get it out of me, but you can’t just use my face/finger to do so.

I don’t know why people still give bethesda money; they’ve clearly not had the players’ best interests in mind for ages. Don’t buy their cash-grab bullshit!

It is possible to taste more than one thing at a time, but there are limits to that (at least for me). When the balance of anything is too far out, I lose the other notes of a dish entirely. Garlic, coriander, and certain other herbs/spices can cause that in my case.

Just eat garlic on its own if you’re going to go that route; I don’t know how you could taste anything else in the dish!

It might be the way Bing is tokenizing and/or how far back it’s looking to connect things when compared to Google.

A statistical model predicted that “in heat” with no upper-case H nor quotes, was more likely to refer to the biological condition. Don’t get me wrong: I think these things are dumb, but that was a fully predictable result. (‘…the movie “Heat”’ would probably get you there).

Defeat, doom, and giving up just makes it a done deal and accomplishes nothing.

I’ve used firefox on android for years now. The only time I do anything in Chrome is when I need to translate pages easily (Japanese translation only recently hit desktop version and it’s very poor quality and google lens is inconvenient).

Mid-40s and wrote several. Many places I lived only accepted rent by check or money order.

Dictators are known for keeping potential threats to their power around after they’ve outlived their usefulness so surely things will be fine, right?

// might keep 1 or 2 around in custody to attempt to prop up legitimacy later if needed.

As someone who lives in Japan, I’ve got some bad news for you…

The good news is that it’s mostly just the olds. The bad news is that it isn’t exclusively just the older generations.

Clean place to stand to change clothes without getting your socks/feet on the rest of the gross floor? I’ve seen those in some washrooms around the world.

I don’t think the two are fully related, at least not causally. If 1-3 are true, then there should be a large enough pool with things in common to avoid loneliness. If this specifically means sexual/relationship loneliness than, yeah.

Third spaces going away and moving a lot online has definitely had an impact on people hanging out outside of much more niche groups. I don’t care for organized religion much, but people of various backgrounds worshipped together. People had volleyball and other local leagues made up of all kinds of people who saw a flier for it. Men (not sure if women had something similar) went to fraternal order of the whatevers. Hell, dad and I went to Commodore computer enthusiast meet-ups. I think the loss of things like that has been bad for a number of reasons, including loneliness.

BRB – I have to tell the country of Japan they’re doing dates wrong /s.

For the things I’m thinking about, the year generally doesn’t matter. I’m thinking advertisements or even things that say like ‘Spring 2025 menu 2025年の春メヌー’ or something which preserves context. A lot are also written on shop whiteboards and such which are changed fairly regularly. In my own notes, in anything I may care about that far into the future, I do write the full date in ISO-8601