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- Comment on Where should I ask for help deleting an account for a Japanese website? 4 months ago:
I didn't see it in the search. They may use other terms like 閉める or something, but we have no legal requirement here that I know of to allow for account deletion. No company I worked for did until we wanted to do business where things like GDPR (I think it's called) is a thing.
- Comment on Where should I ask for help deleting an account for a Japanese website? 4 months ago:
It can mean delete in some contexts.
- Comment on Where should I ask for help deleting an account for a Japanese website? 4 months ago:
last I checked, FF doesn't have support for full-page translation of Japanese. It's basically the only reason I still use Chrome sometimes.
- Comment on Where should I ask for help deleting an account for a Japanese website? 4 months ago:
You could try looking for 消去 but I didn't see anything with a google site search. I'm not going to visit the actual site.
- Comment on Looks like paradise 4 months ago:
There could be a major road just out of frame. The trees are probably for a combination of windbreak (especially if this is amidst long stretches of open land), shade, and maybe privacy.
- Comment on The US population only accounts for 4.2% of the world. 4 months ago:
And are surprised when the other 95.8 don't understand US Customary Units, but you saw this gag coming from 3 Rhode islands away.
- Comment on Why English language is sometimes "lazy", sometimes not 4 months ago:
A lot of the top set come from latin and/or french (sometimes borrowed from one into the other first). Lots of words around the legal system, government, nobility, etc. come from those roots. Many from the Norman conquest but some earlier. Some even got borrowed in twice (not french but both shirt and skirt are borrowings of the same word at different times).
A lot of diplomacy was also french be cause that was the language for diplomacy for a long time. For some sciences, it was German.
A lot of the more working-class, I guess, and later words follow the old Germanic patterns (the base of a lot of old English coming from Anglo-Saxon and, to a lesser degree, old Norse)
- Comment on Is it generally safe to walk through a field of cows? 4 months ago:
If I have to give only a binary yes/no answer, the answer is no. In reality, there are lots of variables ranging from breed, pen size, herd makeup, season, socialization, hunger, weather, and even more that would factor in. That's without considering the other variable of you as a person they don't know.
- Comment on Common printing questions 4 months ago:
I want to get started 3d printing, partially because I bought a house and farm and need to replace some little bits and bobs that don't necessarily need to be super strong. It just seems a bit too much to try to figure out right now.
- Comment on Tea Time 5 months ago:
As the other person mentioned, the base of pho is the stock which includes steeped plants. So it's tea with some other things thrown in it.
- Comment on Tea Time 5 months ago:
Pho is just animal oil/juice suspended. Everything else is like milk, honey, lemon, sugar, etc. that people do consume in tea.
- Comment on Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter 6 months ago:
Same. Something I can play, save anywhere to deal with life, and pick back up when time allows. I was one of those weirdos who really enjoyed Doom 3 when it came out (with the ducttape mod; that was one mechanic I didn't like) and grew up on old Commodore, Amiga, and PC single-player games and NES/SNES/Genisis RPGs. I want that again.
- Comment on xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas 6 months ago:
I'm mostly just commenting on why it was such a big deal in the time that it happened rather than today. Today, we do have more machines, easier access to knives, and generally less domestic work to do than was the case in this era. I do own a breadknife, though I rarely eat bread and it's mostly denser loaves when I do (a kind of sandwich bread the wife prefers or something like Baurenbrot for my tastes).
- Comment on xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas 6 months ago:
For some types of bread, the machine can do it much more uniformly and without crushing. This can be difficult for humans.
- Comment on How often do you use the small pocket inside your jeans pocket (if you have it) ? and what for ? 6 months ago:
Sometimes I'll toss a Zippo lighter in there if I'm going out drinking or something. Otherwise, it's unused. My pockets only have my wallet (which has its own change purse), my phone, and a handkerchief (living in hot and humid areas means lots of sweat wiping). Keys get clipped to a belt loop. I'm generally not carrying anything else and it will likely end up in a bag of some sort if I am (especially when I lived down in Tokyo and was away from home generally unless sleeping and was taking public transit).
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 6 months ago:
I think my phone plan (in Japan) charges for outgoing SMS. I don't think it's much. I think some plans maybe include it. We all use LINE here (like much of Europe uses Whatsapp) so most people aren't sending text messages regularly if at all.
- Comment on Car-size asteroid discovered 2 days ago flies 30 times closer to Earth than the moon 7 months ago:
Hrm, so there's a third interpretation.
- Comment on Car-size asteroid discovered 2 days ago flies 30 times closer to Earth than the moon 7 months ago:
I know that's not how the phrase is meant to be read, but I can't unsee it as it flying separately by the earth and the moon and deciding to buzz one of the two a bit closer.
- Comment on don't tell iceland 7 months ago:
Many (most? I'm not sure) cheese are not hard cheeses. A lot of delicious cheeses can be very creamy (sometimes in a shell that's more solid).
- Comment on I used to be with it, then they changed what "it" is 7 months ago:
Bully!
- Comment on How does the day-to-day work of not wearing shoes in the house? 7 months ago:
I have outdoor-only sandles by the door and pop them on to run outside. Many people are just wearing shoes/boots that are easy to slip on and off here. Inside, I use slippers in the cooler months with socks, then just socks, and then barefoot as the weather gets warmer. Basically all of Japan functions this way. Many dentists/doctors offices require taking off shoes as well (though this seems to be fading somewhat).
- Comment on Daylight saving has 80% support in Australia and a majority in every state 7 months ago:
I spent the first ~30 years of my life in the US and we changed time twice a year. I moved to Japan and grew to love not confusing the hell out of my sleep schedule and productivity by not changing time. Depending upon the season, I just do stuff at different times if I really care about being in/out of the light/heat. I hope Japan never starts changing times.
- Comment on Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day 7 months ago:
Not that I've found, actually. Certainly not on any that I set by default. Also, if I don't know how long the washer will run, I can't just set an alarm for it, now can I?
- Comment on Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day 7 months ago:
My phone can send alerts to my watch up to like 30m away, so I would still get notifications anywhere inside and many places outside my house.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Xennial (or gen-x, if you use the old one that goes to '82 instead of '80) here and same.
- Comment on Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day 7 months ago:
- I rarely carry my phone at home unless I'm also going to be outside.
- Washer can be variable on time and such (and mine's not even an IoT/"smart" one)
- Comment on Apex Legends streamers surprised to find aimbot and other hacks added to their PCs in the middle of major competition via anti-cheat software 8 months ago:
Fyi, it's "no holds barred" as in no type of hold is disallowed. "no holes barred" is a decidedly different sort of event
- Comment on Appreciation / shock at workplace IT systems 8 months ago:
I've been in IT for a couple decades at this point. I stopped doing almost any swlf-hosted stuff years ago as I just don't have the time or energy to deal with things. There's a lot to keep up on with technologies, security, etc. not to mention all the constants of keeping things up-to-date, back-ups, troubleshooting issues, and more
- Comment on I hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace. 8 months ago:
I was taught in the '80s that you shouldn't use 'and' in a number that isn't followed by a decimal portion (e.g. 23 and 4 hundredths). I've seen various back-and-forth on that topic over the years.
- Comment on I hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace. 8 months ago:
I have never heard anything like that. "twenty 'til two" is what jumps to my mind. I've never heard <some relative time> and x minutes