Can I have a factor reset? I seem to have gotten anxiety, depression, possible OCD, and such instead of ‘dance’.

Huh? In driving, the slow lane is left and passing is on the right. On escalators (except in parts of Kansai), it’s stand left and walk (pass) right. Even in subways and train stations, walking is generally left (though some stations swap this in some/all sections for whatever reason). There is signage about this, though people routinely ignore it.

For those in poverty and without cars, trying to get somewhere to get an ID made can take a large amount of time and non-zero amount of money (even if just in trying to get to a DMV/BMV/DPS office) that they may not otherwise have.

The cleanout of that will be fun, I’m sure.

Wexner does not surprise me at all having known people who worked for/around him and his properties.

I have to use Mac for work and hate the window management. So much of it feels counterintuitive, especially anything with two instances running and switching.

It’s interesting. The one UX thing that felt unintuitive to me is I have to go back and click the same ‘make guess’ button to guess. Maybe changing the text once the map opens or otherwise giving some visual indicator might make that more clear to a new player?

They feel only ultra-nationalist conservatives will defend them well against NK & China.

By all indications, cost of living and stagnant wages are the highest priority across the board. Overtourism is usually second or third. NK is hardly a consideration. China (and even Russia) are higher but mostly among ultranationalists due to territory disputes and Chinese investors buying up property.

Don’t open this one. Close the Canadian side of the ambassador bridge. Fuck that guy

Fully remote for years now and never want an on-site job again. I don’t mind going for a couple of events a year, though.

I can take my “smoke break” to change loads of laundry or do something else around the house. I have no commute time nor expenses. I am always here for deliveries. I regained so much of my time that I can use for study or entertainment. (Assuming a 1-hour commute, even if most of that is on a train, that’s 10 hours a week back from that alone).

For success, your company and you need to have good communication and planning. It’s also not for everyone, especially more social people.

I’m in my mid-40s. I moved for my final year of highschool, so it’s a bit weird. When Facebook came out, I did reconnect with some, but I quit it around 8 years ago now and lost contact mostly. When I look up my first (rural) school classmates by name now and again, I get so many obituaries. Some freak accidents, many cae accidents, some military, and others still drugs and violence (not much else in tiny truck stop towns). My graduating class was like 180is people and easily a tenth of them are gone (it feels more like 1/5 even).

Yeah this move was essentially to reset the counter to a full 4 years in the lower house. The ldp loves scandles, though, so she might step on a rake and we see some sort of pm election and another general

I was terrible at standardized tests. I was in gifted and learning disability classes at the same time in middle school (basically because of ADHD and losing my homework, forgetting it at home, etc.) I’m a successful software engineer who learns foreign languages as a hobby and also run a second business (a small farm) while volunteering sometimes in my village. I think I did OK in that regard(at least in the booksmarts sort of way which is what this presumably measures).

If standardized tests aren’t working for Gen Z, we should find a better way to measure things. I doubt the sky is falling.

Nah. I’m ~40 hours a week (very rare overtime) + an on-call rotation about once a month (zero calls in months) + fully remote except for a couple events a year (though I’m welcome to go to the office more). Even if I make ~50% of whatever they’re paying, that’s still fine with me. I worked my ass off, including multiple jobs, when I was younger.

I guess the asterisk here is that I did start my own farm business on a small farm, but that’s also monetizing a hobby.

I’m using mbin in a browser so, er, nothing yet?

Pray you’ll have elections come next time cause they’re going to be “fraudulent” with a need to be “reformed”

She does want to reduce the number of reps in one of the houses, but that’s all I’m immediately aware of. Another party wanted to restrict naturalized citizens more, but I don’t think that made its way to the LDP platform.

The “next time” for elections in Japan is also a little less set since the PM can dissolve the lower house whenever triggering an election a couple weeks later. There are also other elections on other schedules. I don’t see it going that far at this time, personally.

Cult of personality + foreigners bad. LDP went further right since Sanseito and other anti-foreigner-spewing parties took a chunk of their voters in the last election. This correctly showed that they would go back to LDP (though Sanseito still lives).

The main opposition, CDP, merged with Komeito, LDP’s former coalition partner, to form a new centerist party (mostly to the right of the former CDP). Komeito has ties to Sokka Gakkai which, in my personal opinion, is a cult. This put off people voting on any of their new candidates. They also didn’t have time to really solidify things since the election came so fast (I suspect this was either very last-minute or not fully baked by the time the election was called).

Some other parties did get more seats. Team Mirai was one, though they seem to also have a bit of a vague platform in some regards and, at worst, may turn out to be DOGE-like techbros. Time will tell.

For parties left of center, with the CDP being gone, there are only a couple. The JCP (Japanese Communist Party) is not actually a communist party anymore but stubbornly refuse to rebrand and people are still scared of them (they’re more social democrats or somewhere thereabouts).

I would much rather the win XP start menu

Legal trouble with the FCC (which I believe is a federal level crime) as another poster mentioned.

OSM is good for some things, but is missing a lot in Japan last time I checked. It also has no transit, sadly. It also has no English (edit: for map labels, I mean) which is a problem if one’s Japanese isn’t native level (and even my wife who is native doesn’t know how to read place names in some areas, particularly in Hokkaido).

That does remind me that I should see if there’s anything I can add again, though.