tiredofsametab

A friend told me about rust around 8 years ago and this was very much my first experience (at least with &str and lifetimes and borrow errors).

You have to file federal taxes. Maybe state taxes. You don’t necessarily have to pay depending upon how much (in USD) you make. Things also depend upon per-country tax treaties. The shitty part, at least for me, is that I can’t use the ISA and similar programs here in Japan for retirement because the US considers them all passive foreign investments (PFICs) which require copious paperwork and punitive taxes wiping out any tax-advantaged retirement savings. Also can’t just invest non-taxed income in many things in the US either.

Voting being at the state level also just fucks all kinds of other things up with taxes and the like.

I moved to Japan back in 2015. If I had it to do over, I might do Finland or Norway.

We have a lot of non-management whom are all-in and drinking the kool-ade. I’m still highly put off for a number of reasons, but an outlier.

Either way, I’m allergic, so that checks out.

Basically the handful of countries in western Europe that I visited after graduating highschool in the late '90s. I haven’t been back since and would love to see it again as someone who’s not a very sheltered 17-year-old. The trip was also cut short because there was a huge storm off the US East coast or something that had us end up flying up to Canada, spending the night, and then flying over.

I used to have a PDA, even back in the late '90s I got as a hand-me-down. I used to play games on that and my first several phones. These days, though, if I’m using my phone it’s never for gaming. If I have free time, I’m using a flashcard app to study or watching previously-downloaded youtube vids for downtime. I guess the one exception was when I was doing the prep for a colonoscopy, I fired up ALTTPR on a SNES emulator on tablet to kill time. That’s the only time I can think of in the last probably 2 years I’ve played any games on anything mobile at all.

Probably not. Iron is way more abundant and better for a number of usages as well as being easier to work. Bronze requires sources of multiple metals for the alloy, but may win out in some limited applications

Pokemon. I was in highschool when it came out and had no time for it followed by being too poor and busy trying to survive directly after it. With no nostalgia for it, there seems to be no reason to try it. I gave pokemon go like 20 minutes and I was over it (though I did play dragonquest walk for around a year)

I started Korean a few days ago. I am still in the “learning how this all works” phase. I’m frustrated by my slow reading speed and inability to find something to help that readily.

Well, it was an old way of pronouncing it: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/people-have-been-saying-ax-instead-ask-1200-years-180949663/

I’ve said that, if I had it to do over again, I might choose to move to Norway or Finland instead of Japan, but birth? I don’t know that’s possible to answer. Even if my family were the same people, they’d probably be culturally different having been born and raised somewhere. Even if we assume my parents were just plonked down there, I probably still wouldn’t be the same person due to my environment. Some of that almost certainly for better, but I wouldn’t be me.

Dragons of Autumn Twilight was one that set me on quite the Dragonlance collection and reading journey

Yeah, I’m not a fan of those. I’m fine with licorice.

Peeps. I’ve never like marshmallow anything, really, and definitely not those abominations. Most cinnamon-flavored things. Edit: forgot one: chocolate-covered cherries. I don’t know why. I have a cherry tree and will eat the cherries off it and don’t even mind most artificially-cheery-flavored things. I also eat other fruits covered in chocolate (even durian).

Taiwan is just barely visible on a good day from Yonaguni (it didn’t even really show up in the picture I took as anything). I don’t think the reverse is true; nothing on Yonaguni is all that tall whereas Taiwan has mountains in the east. Those ancient navigators were amazing at their trade.

I care much more about things being clean and orderly than my wife, like, by quite a lot. I do a lot of cleaning.

I did find that site last night, but assumed it was not the original. Now, actually at a PC, I see this:

If you are thinking, “I’ve seen charts like these before,” you probably have and they were probably mine! The original version of spurious correlations was published on the web in 2014, and in book form in 2015. I am that same guy. These charts are also frequently used in class materials, textbooks, and elsewhere because they are not copywritten.

In January 2024, I released a big update to the project based on user feedback. I added 25,000 new variables, improved and expanded the discover feature, and added a sprinkle of GenAI (including spurious scholar). Thank you to all the teachers, students, and other nerds who provided input on this version!

Disappointing.

I wonder if the old spurious correlations website is still around

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.