jezebelkat

jezebelkat, 2 days ago to random

I dunno folks, maybe that is uhm... not the verb you wanted in that headline?

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240510/p2a/00m/0na/023000c

jezebelkat, 5 days ago to random

So... 90% of PR holders DO pay their taxes and social insurance?

I bet 90% of Japanese citizens don't. I bet it's a lower percentage.

Almost like if you want PR in Japan, you're probably pretty reliable.

jezebelkat, 22 days ago to random

It's really sad that music has been dead for decades because of all that home taping we did. I really miss music. We should have listened to the recording industry. We'd still have music today if we did.

jezebelkat, 26 days ago to random

I'll give you three guesses on which solution isn't even mentioned, let alone considered, and the first two don't count: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VZwI7hDrbw

jezebelkat, 1 month ago to random

Now Listening:

I honestly can't believe this album was 2022 and not... 2002. You know what you're getting here, it's Avril Lavigne. But, like, if that's what you want... There you go.

jezebelkat, 1 month ago to random

@davidaugust

Sharing this one with the union comrades.

Become ungovernable.

jezebelkat, 2 months ago to random

Today I learned FamilyMart has a limit of 30 coins to pay for anything. This is incredibly annoying as I only ever pay in cash for bills that require it, and over years I have attained a bag of coins I need to dispense with.

Legal tender is legal tender, and either it should be accepted or the government should eliminate it.

jezebelkat, 2 months ago to random

Best New Mexican food is best triangulated this way:

New Mexico
Southern New Mexico
Doña Ana County
Las Cruces
Missouri Avenue
Little hole in the wall called El Jacalito (The Small Adobe House) with the best gorditas on the planet. The place is a greasy spoon, heavy on the grease, limited number of spoons.

I absolutely survived on those as a latchkey kid living in the overtly Mid-Century Modern neighborhood.

Explains a helluva lot about me does it not? Ain't no Modern like Desert Modern.

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jezebelkat, 2 months ago to random

Yay, IKEA sent the estimate, and it turned out cheaper than initial guestimate. Here's the kitchen layout:

jezebelkat, 3 months ago to random

Starting to use Homebrew for backporting Linux apps to macOS, further ensuring that when the day comes I must give up macOS forever, except for MS 365 Desktop (because Microsoft), I'll have the same suite of apps on both platforms.

jezebelkat, 4 months ago to random

ただいま

jezebelkat, 4 months ago to random

Although Linux has come a long way in the 25 years since I started using it with Red Hat 5.2 or whatever, there are still those squirrelly things that means if you install X, it breaks Y, and even when X is removed, Y remains broken, and you just have to bypass it.

I borked my keyboard layout and it seemed the layout applet (the Japanese flag in my previous screenshot) and the full screen app dashboard I installed did not play nice. In the end, I had to remove both.

jezebelkat, 4 months ago to random

I'm officially done with macOS on my personal machine.

Given the age of my MacBook Pro (2015) and the demands of running Ventura or Sonoma via OpenCore Legacy, it's time to move on. The errors on macOS given the hacked nature are impossible to deal with.

Linux Mint XFCE runs well enough these days to eke out one last year on this thing--and then I go with a custom Tuxedo laptop.

jezebelkat, 5 months ago to random

Okay, given the expressed interest, I'm looking at launching a D&D Campaign through Foundry starting maybe late January.

The party will be limited to Famichiki participants for a couple of reasons: keeping party numbers manageable and providing some assurances the party members know each other or at least know of each other.

Please let me know your interest by the end of the year.

jezebelkat, 5 months ago to random

If next year I tried to figure out how to run a D&D game virtually, would anyone on the chicken snack be interested?

Might even look into hybrid if some people would be willing to come out during the warmer months to Kujukuri...

jezebelkat, 6 months ago to random

"79% of Japan survey respondents want to join year-end parties after COVID downgrade" reports Mainichi.

I never wanted to join year-end parties BEFORE COVID existed. I hate the things.

jezebelkat, 6 months ago to random

31C at 51% humidity in my house now. Wow.

This is summer.

jezebelkat, 6 months ago to random

Me on October 31st 🎃 vs Me on November 1st 🦃:

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jezebelkat, 7 months ago to random

Something that I think will always leave me unsettled about being in Japan: the casual use of foreigner (or in Japanese 外国人, 外国の方) in conversations or in publications in ways in which I consider awkward at best and offensive or insulting more often.

Sometimes it is completely irrelevant, yet said anyway. And other times there are nicer, more informative ways to talk about someone's immigration status when it is relevant.

jezebelkat, 7 months ago to random

Japan: We have four seasons!

Climate change: Not anymore you don't.

jezebelkat, 7 months ago to random

I genuinely recommend Crime Pays, But Botany Doesn't.

There's just something incredibly soothing about his overt working class accent and lexicon, fundamentally challenging the nature of academic and scientific community tropes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TkI0LJkVAA

jezebelkat, 7 months ago to random

Hey uh, @TomatoGrilledCheese it's uh... it's a funny name.

jezebelkat, 8 months ago to random

I have questions.

jezebelkat, 8 months ago to random

Guess I have a pet 🐸 now.

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jezebelkat, 8 months ago to random

This house in in the outskirts of the DFW suburban wasteland is $650K.

Jesus. Fucking. Christ.

Where do I even begin with this monstrosity?