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.
I moved to Japan a decade ago and there are not time changes (though I’d argue that, at least for eastern Japan, we’re in the wrong timezone). It is much easier on my body not making that change twice a year. I have a really sensitive sleep schedule so this is very important to me.
I thought I was going to get drafted just after 2001-09-11 as a young man in the US and nothing has really felt quite at that level since. I did buy a dosimeter when Ukraine was invaded. I don’t know what the future holds. I’m glad I don’t live near any US military bases nor in the US anymore.
I instinctively clicked away at ‘researchmaxxxxed’ (or however many 'x’s the thing had). Do I need to go yell at a cloud now?
Don’t forget your FBAR as well if you have basically any non-us bank accounts, securities, etc.
In Japan, it’s common to hear comments on weight and such. Pressure to conform and, sometimes, genuine concern about health. I think aging is unavoidable so it makes it less of a target. Even calling someone tired-looking can be an insult here if done in the wrong way (despite a greeting being お疲れ様です which is often used)
When I lived out of my car, peanut butter was my main staple since it would survive well at about any temperature. I survived off that, bread from a bakery outlet, and, when the weather was cool enough, cheese.
Edit: for non-food, grooming/hygiene supplies are generally good.
Yeah, I could be making triple what I do in Japan had I stayed in the US. It’s not always about the money. Retirement is certainly a harder thing with all the idiotic IRS rules (PFICs, specifically). I don’t regret moving at all. If I had it to do again, I may have picked somewhere else instead, but this is home now.
I left before Trump was elected the first time, but I never thought he would be elected. That was certainly an interesting time in my life when everyone started asking me what was going on. Zero chance I move back now (and I will be dropping citizenship once I no longer need to have access to take care of aging family). I have to file taxes (don’t make enough to pay), can’t touch certain retirement investments, and you’d better believe I vote (not that it matters in my illegally and heavily-gerrymandered, sadly).
If possible, you could try to get the requirements and design to those and write something new.
If that’s not possible, I would start flow-charting. I always do it by hand in whatever tool you have handy. Some languages have tools that can do this for you (Go and Java and I think PHP to name a few) if it’s that big of a mess. From there, find your inputs and outputs and go back to the “rewrite it” part.
You also have a lot more contact with English speakers and media to consume in it. Japan localizes everything and there are few jobs where being multilingual actually matters (and those are usually specialized roles outside of hospitality). There are a lot of problems with the way Japan does its English education which does factor into it, but people do not see it as useful, don’t want to use it, and almost never use it (very little overseas travel with most going to Hawaii and Guam which have Japanese language support all over the place).
I say this as someone working on his 5th serious language (with a smattering of Spanish, Albanian, and Hebrew I just puttered around with a bit) and strongly believe that teaching kids languages is a good thing for a variety of reasons.
I have zero faith that the national, state, county, and municipality levels could come together to have something that is justified, works, and is properly-implemented. Tax-payers would also not want to foot the bill for what many would consider useless. Not that many people in the US have passports, either, and a lot that do travel to Canada where English is widely spoken, the UK, etc.
You don’t need to share everything you see on the internet, particularly if it gives views and clout to terrible corporations.
Glad I could help. I guess the one gotchya here might be if some state has a board of education with more strict requirements, but I doubt that (especially in the era of national standardized tests and teaching to pass those).
In my generation, yes. I doubt that’s changed in the last 5 10 15 really? 20 ohno 25 30ish years.
Edit: Rural Ohio for the first part of my schooling, but not really different from what I could tell in the big city when I moved for my final year.
At least in my time, people going the “college prep” route generally were expected to take two years of a language in highschool. I moved for my final year to a bigger city and more affluent area and they had French, Spanish, Latin, German, and Japanese, though at least some of those were being phased out the next year (I think Japanese may have been phased out the year I moved there, but I had already had 3 years of French and was more focused on music classes as I thought I wanted to be a music teacher).
We didn’t have any foreign language classes until highschool. We had one month in 5th grade (~11 years old) where we went over some French, Spanish, and German like once a week. By the time I got to highschool, the only options were Spanish and French and I was only able to get into French due to the way they sorted people. That was fine for me, though, since I went to Canada basically every year. These were not, however, required. Some tracks would have things like Ag Sciences and more vocational classes instead. I graduated in the late '90s.
Japan tries to teach everyone English and it does not work well. Most people don’t want to learn it and the way they teach it is also to a test not to communication. I have no faith that the same wouldn’t happen in the US.
That’s gonna be a big ‘nope’ from me. I wonder if that’s US-only, though.
Ebay used to have valid values by shipping method and some names were wonky/overlapping. I wonder if something like that happened.
Spring into early summer and autumn. In the summer, I may open them early on, but it’s best not to let the crazy humidity in.
Zelda OOT. The controls, especially when first using the slingshot and such, with the camera just sucked. I never got far with that after I finally tried it in my mid-/late-20s. It’s one of those I found much more enjoyable watching someone else do.
Played Goldeneye for the first time at a barcade in my early 30s and I didn’t really enjoy that much.
As I think about it, anything on N64 and maybe Gamecube that I would try once I had time and money later in life just were not great. I had been playing better PC games, even in the same years, and have zero nostalgia for it which probably doesn’t help.