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Full name with maiden name and a note that it’s my wife (in case I’m hit by a bus or something).

If you learn French, you will already be able to read and understand some bits of Spanish and can learn it without a ton of effort. A bit harder the other way around.

Norwegian. I’m already working on it, but magic would be nice

It doesn’t taste soapy to me, but more like bug spray that I accidentally got in my mouth as a kid. Weirdly chemically

I’m not sure I know what you’re asking. Many people use established engines and many of those engines are still under active development to add features, tune performance, etc. Some people also choose to write their own, either for learning/fun or for more specific usecases.

Also read the whole recipe including the method and notes; some love to just slip things in that aren’t in the ingredients list (something to grease a pan, etc.) and knowing times and temps is very useful.

I mean, whole milk is fine and what a lot of the world drinks. Did you mean raw (unpasteurized) milk?

If they do, I’m sure this will be particularly fun as an overseas citizen (planning to renounce when my parents pass or I can convince them to GTFO… which is not happening while either of my Trumper step-parents are alive).

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?

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).

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

I would much rather the win XP start menu

I am right-handed and grew up driving on the right side of the road (so wheel on left). I now live in a right-drive country. It makes no difference. I haven’t driven manual here so it might be weird learning to shift with my left hand (I drove manual in the US for 15+ years), but I could get used to it. If I ever needed to joust or shoot someone from my car, having my dominant hand be closer to the window is generally helpful (and why some say that driving on the left with the driver at the right became a thing).

Bought n95 masks, gloves, and sanitizer. Also bought full-body covering (used by care workers and such to avoid being covered in various fluids) though those never got used. I mostly stayed home except for once every two weeks or so (groceries, etc.)

Thing is, my friends and I all think we got it before it was officially in Japan and, indeed, I was a close contact of someone who got it and was immune so it seems plausible.

As the article points out, we’re also in an election (voting is today (Sunday Japan time)) so the cynical side of me worders if the timing is coordinated since fear and “foreigners bad” are successfully distracting from actual issues of rising prices and stagnant wages leading to a lower quality of life

Some people think the cost savings of installation, maintenance, and salaries are the reason they’'ve not returned

No, but we’re a village of ~11k people spread out over a fairly large area.

I had sea cucumber for the first time the other night (along with 鮟肝 (ankimo - monkfish liver). Sea cucumber flavor was fine but texture wasn’t my favorite (I also don’t like crunching on cartelige). Ankimo was smooth and delicious. Shiokara is also great. Shirako (your fish jizz) is great battered and fried, but I’ve never had the guts to try it raw.

Can you define when “the internet” starts for you? I’ll go over my own anecdotal experience and what I can remember being the rough progression and milestones.

So, when I was growing up, we could dial into other computer systems with a basic, text-based bulletin board system and send and read messages. A bit later, Compuserve came along where we lived and there were various areas and activities. We didn’t have HTTP yet, but you could connect with other people, check stocks, etc. I think there was some rudimentary shopping, but I might be mis-remembering. There may have been trolls around but I was rather young and don’t remember much.

Somewhere in here, we get things like Archie, Veronica, etc. that could find different things on the pre-web internet. NNTP newsgroups came to be (you can think of these as sort of proto-forums, I guess, but that’s not an exact thing). These were generally fairly unfiltered and could be wild. Trolls, of course, existed here and I think it’s where we get the terms flaming and flame war (which no one seems to use anymore). You could find porn and such with a bunch of message each containing chunks of data you had to stitch together. Downloading a single picture and assembling it could take minutes to hours depending upon what you were working with (rural, slow dial-up in my case).

IRC also comes to be somewhere in here. You would connect to real-time chatrooms. I used this to communicate with coworkers up until ~2013 as we had a work IRC server.

Starting in the early (IIRC) 1990s, we had things like AOL, Prodigy, and other services that kinda built on the Compuserve premise (and indeed AOL would buy Compuserve). AOL would also at least popularize instant messages. Remember at this point, we had no phones to text on still. There were certainly trolls and lots of child predators (and cops trying to catch them, eventually). AOL eventually started adding access to the early web which is mostly how I got there, Universities and such had much better internet and other internal and external systems (when I got into Uni a bit before 2000 we still learnt Archie, Veronica, and the earliest search engines with Yahoo being the best at the time IIRC).

The early web was mostly people posting static pages for other people to load and look at. Amazon would get started as a bookstore in '95 (I think) and there were some other businesses, but a lot of people were a bit scared to try to buy anything online without seeing and handling the product first and over insecure connections. This would change rather rapidly. There were some early forums which could be pretty free-for-all but some were quite moderated. Pages would slowly get comments and guest books.

Commercial interests increased and increased, but we still got things like the iCQ messenger, Friendster, Myspace, etc. as well. Moderation and legal policies evolved. Fan sites were pretty awesome and, as forums evolved, many people could talk about their interests. Myspace blew up into a phenomenon and we start to get web 2.0. You probably grew up with this and as we transitioned into web3. Enshittification really took off in the early 2010s and began getting worse and worse.