tiredofsametab

I wonder if the old spurious correlations website is still around

Possibly. It's rather complex in terms of availability in the region, number who need/want it, and urgency based on diagnosis. I currently live quite rural, but can be in Sendai in about an hour. I had a medical scare from a routine test and had appointments to get checked out basically a couple business days later. For more cosmetic stuff, I've waited a couple weeks (though that was back in Tokyo)

It really depends. A medium bell pepper is 198 yen now in my countryside area. The minimum hourly wage here is roughly 1000 yen of which maybe 20% goes to tax/insurance/pension. A stick of celary is that or more. On the other hand, cabbage is usually cheap.

Anything grown locally is cheap when it is in season. Transport costs, bad harvests, etc. can make anything expensive (due to weather and impacts of fuel costs, cabbages went to like 4x regular price last year and that's the main green).

Anything imported, niche, and/or off-season is going to demand a high premium. My second job (starting this year) is as a small-scale veg farmer in rural north Japan.

People who can't walk? People for whom walking is painful? People with toddlers in tow? People who live in places that are 30+ degrees with 70%+ humidity (today that was me, though I also qualify for the first for half a year after being injured walking and the second almost every since). The carbrain insult is just tone-deaf, especially for people who have no choice but to not walk

Now Japan, you’ll get anything you need within two weeks

That's definitely an exaggeration, particularly for elective or even preventitive things in busy areas. That said, I've never waited long for anything urgent.

Eat fewer calories and move more. I expect life expectencies to drop judging by overweight office workers eating fried shit and Maccas every day in Tokyo. The old way of life that created those long lifespans is fading quickly, particularly in the cities.

Granted. You remember nothing different about the past but, all other things being equal, autocorrect is about to be invented.

(I think you meant: "I wish there were never a need for autocorrect")

If the Japan life/visa/legal/finance subreddits would fully move over, I could finally be rid of reddit. Sadly, they have not. Some subs exist, but it's worthless without the institutional knowledge that some of the people have; Japanese legalese be tough.

Analysts have compared the 2025 boycott to previous consumer movements, including the renaming of french fries to "freedom fries" in the United States during 2003 when France opposed the invasion of Iraq.[4]

As someone who was an adult in the US at the time, these things are not remotely comparable in size or scope. Freedom fries was as a concept was mocked even within groups that were in favor of the war and angry at France (at least where I was).

"I'm going to put a device in my pocket and have it cause me pain over events that don't impact me or if they do impact me, will almost never be improved or helped in any way by that alert" sounds like a really dumb way to be to me.

Ah, Usenet...

With net fishing, they're still out of the water quite a long time whilst being hauled up, dumped, and sorted before being thrown in their sorted holding tank.