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Proof? There are other (some equally creepy) ways that it could get this info. Depending upon how the DVD player is connected, it could simply be getting info from that. It could also be taking occasional screenshots. There are other things as well.

Edit: poster below links to Roku and they use screenshots.

JAXA hasn’t stopped inflation and wage stagnation yet! What’s wrong with them?!

Yep. In Japan we all use LINE with a small fraction of (largely Western foreigners) using whatsapp. Korea has kakaotalk with some (also?) using LINE. I’m not sure what’s most popular in Chinese circles these days; WeChat, maybe?

I signed up to an insurance company here in Japan with first.last+something@domain.com and they later changed their rules and I couldn’t sign in at all. They told me to open a new account. I didn’t want to pay them once let alone twice. Never doing business with them again.

In many ways yes. Japan has its own brand of racial superiority which is why I just found it a bit weird they’re going for nazi shit. It could also just be that they heard and liked a song, but I kinda doubt that this is the case.

Weird. Lots of purchasers in Japan. All have Japanese-looking names, but who knows if some of those are real.

I miss not having social media and news that, at least generally, tried to be actual news and not ‘JusT ASkinG QUeStioNs’ and disingenuous bullshit. It was a wild ride being on social media almost since its birth, but I think it generally was a huge mistake. Things should have stopped at IRC and UseNet.

Absolutely not. They type, amount, and location of material would not cause this.

People aren’t not having kids here because of university. Fix work-life balance and daycare access in the bigger cities if you want more kids. Better, try to incentivize spreading out from Tokyo and revive the old towns out there. Edit: also, stagnant wages and inflation

What a weirdly arrogant, condescending response. I also started on basic on a vic20, had a dad who worked in IT for the government, and have done all of that except the physical wiring on any noteworthy scale. This is utterly unhelpful.

I stopped at 2.5e and did recently start learning a bit about pathfinder.

If that’s a problem for some reason, they make bags that fold down to nearly nothing and you can stick in a pocket as well.

Also, “Loss Prevention” for anyone else who needs it.

just bring a backpack or some other bag.

Good. In my wife’s day, she had to wear skirts even in awful weather (she grew up in an area in northern Tohoku where they got enough snow to have heated streets in some places) and had to change before entering school or risk getting in trouble. She wasn’t allowed to wear tights or leggings under her skirt. Now, at least from the couple of younger people I’ve seen and talked to, around here some (all?) school at least let all students wear slacks these days. There’s definitely pressure that some young women feel to wear skirts even if they don’t want to (not just based on gender identity, but pressure to fit in with the group, etc.) but that’s probably another topic.

Same. I grew up in rural Ohio (USA) going to churches talking about the “synagogues of satan”, people at school saying “that’s Jewish” for something lame, lots of words I won’t repeat here about a number of ethnic and sexual minorities, etc.

It all basically never sat well with me. I moved out when my mom remarried which was a bit before my senior year of high school. Bigger city, bigger school, more diversity, etc. quickly proved what I had long felt: humans are humans and neither their religion nor ethnicity nor gender identity changed that. This would have been in the late '90s.

I now live on the other side of the world from that place (Japan, of course, having its own issues with things like gender and racism, but that’s (a) mostly the older generations and (b) a story for another time). Before I quit facebook years ago, I did catch up with a couple of people. Most of them did not change, but many of the bad ones got worse (this would have been around 2016) and emboldened by far-right groups growing in popularity. Living as a minority in another country also taught me a lot of about privilege and accidental racism.

This headline broke my brain. I know what Spotify is but not “Spotify Wrapped” so I kept reading it like my Spotify had wrapped something but “Place” next to it just would not compute.

If not a screenshot, you do realize that things other than phones take pictures, right? Have people forgotten that cameras exist?

I’m not racist but buying a bidet toilet seat was one of the better choices I’ve made.

“beans on bread” I’m on board with; it’s only on toast if you toast the bread.

There’s this read to go through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan with the relevant bit being

Both stated that this agreement will "finally and irreversibly" resolve the contentious issue and that "on the premise that the Government of Japan will steadily implement the measures it announced", both countries "will refrain from accusing or criticizing each other regarding this issue in the international community, including at the United Nations".[56]

I think it will be better when the geezer ultra-nationalists finally die out, but there are of course younger ones as well that they raised.

On the other hand, this kinda goes against the “finally and irreversibly resolve” bit.

There’s also the political theatre aspect. Korea likes to rile up the ultra-nationalist left as Japan does with their right for domestic political points.