I’m a colorblind guy with aphantasia and zero visual artistic skill. I pick a frame of video and sometimes add markings/text. The default used to be google doing that for you if you didn’t feel like it, but I don’t know what the default behavior is these days.

I voted (whether or not it will “get lost” before arriving or somehow be invalid is yet to be seen), and everyone else who can should as well; I don’t care what any pollsters are saying.

In Japan, many still do and, if you forget, you often don’t get automatically redirected but rather get an error page.

It plays to the base. It distracts the base from its actual problems. It attempts to scare those opposed. If people really protest and riot, martial law and no elections.

I did. My company was pulling shady shit more and more and I joined.

I unsubscribed from him some time before and I’m fairly sure it was over AI bullshit.

Someone watching some Maruhi Academy? Heh.

Three, sir; three!

Thank you!

That’s interesting! To me, it reads as ‘if I (have) belief’; false cognates are fun!

Edit: s/toe/to me; I hate typing on mobile

Thinking of this later, isn’t our English usage of ‘please’ contracted from ‘if it pleases you’ as in French "s’il vous plaît’? This would be closer to the Norwegian ‘vær så snill’ I mentioned in a previous post, I think? Looking at one source on old English, though, shows ‘Iċ þancie þē’ which looks like ‘I thank thee’ to me. It’s interesting.

In the words of the great poet: wherever you go, there you are.

There are some things that can change. Some thigns can be measurably worse or better just based on various aspects of the place. However, if you’re running from something, and that something is mostly or all you, nothing will have sustained improvement until you fix the ‘you’ part of that equation.

I moved around the US and later moved to Japan. I learnt this lesson the hard way. While moving to a place that fixed some things I hated about my life, the problems that were caused to me by me weren’t helped until I worked on that part; it’s still a work in progress.

Norwegian has ‘x, vær så snill’ which is functionally ‘x, please’ so far as I can tell. Adding ‘takk’ (thanks) at the end of a sentence is another way.

In that case, this just sounds needlessly complicated. Much like US health insurance, why is the business involved here at all at this point? Just make it socialized, taxpayer-funded housing to ensure all have basic housing. People can opt out and live somewhere else, but they still owe the tax to keep the program going.

You have 2 other roommate

Absolutely not.

Japan does have some employers who pay for housing. It ends up a nightmare when they are fired or otherwise leave.

it’ll become acceptable to us

Speak for yourself. This is fully unacceptable.

Japan has a very shit reputation for security. No one wants to take the time or money to do it properly and every year shit gets hacked. I’ve been impacted by several breaches here. And yet shit doesn’t change.

As a small business owner (I sell extra veg I grow), I had to sign my life away about authentication practices, data storage, 2fa, etc. just to sell a few orders a year. Giant companies can just fuck off on security and not face meaningful consequences.

State has multiple meanings such as in the phrase ‘sovereign state’. It doesn’t just refer to subdivisions of other areas (which I think is what you’re thinking here?)

Japanese black company bullshit. Removing WFH after telling me it was fine, I can move away, etc. Revoking my side job permission (I sell extra veg that I grow on my small farm). I keep applying to jobs in the EEA and even remote US and Canada jobs. Nothing is biting. No one wants Japanese timezone or dealing with cross-border stuff. Japanese remote jobs are going away more generally, especially for someone like me who’s a non-Java (recently, at least) backend-only engineer. There are no local jobs either that are enough to support us. If I did take anything, I wouldn’t have any time to look for anything better and have a miserable commute. Due to back and leg issues, there’s only so much resembling manual labor I can do.

My previous company did it as well. It’s all great in the beginning then management or something changes and they decide to treat employees like shit. Many rely on having a job to keep their visas so they are too scared to try to fight back. I planned to retire here, and maybe it will be better years later, but I desperately want to get to Norway for work. Instantly better working conditions and rights, ability to get PR in 3 years and vote, ability to get citizenship without giving up my existing a few years after that. I don’t even want some big relocation package. Just support the visa, get us there with a couple suitcases each, and help us get started (I heard it can take a while for the tax authority and everything to straighten out leading to slow/reduced paychecks at first).

This is the very TL;DR version. There’s a lot more shit.

Other countries should sanction the US as a result.