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Almost every shower I’ve seen in Japan has it on a movable hose rather than fixed, so at least there’s that. I forgot when I went back to the US for a visit for the first time in ~6 years and was super annoyed, heh.

I’ve even living in Japan for almost a decade (probably closer if you count times I visited for months before living here). If you have specific questions, I’m happy to answer them.

To me, it looked like she said ‘no’ and he was a shitbag and told her to GTFO

B, but only their bellies; the portal is above most of their bodies, and their heads and ankles will get cut off for being off even the track.

I still have a box full of all kinds of male-male, female-female, and female-male adapters somewhere for serial, parallel, VGA, etc… I’m trying to recall the joke about them at the time, but there really aren’t that many that I can think of. I think I heard the odd “I’d pay to see that” or “don’t mention that in [location]”

The life of the wife was ended by the knife in that GIF!

I guess, technically, if I had had a kid at 18-20 and my kid had done the same, maybe it would be possible. Then again, a younger step-sibling is already a grandmother.

We were still supporting navigator and/or communicator when I was working in my first IT job doing tech support for a dial-up provider.

The bigger problem was that IE was involved in a lot of things and uninstalling it could break a lot. IIRC some versions would not even allow actual removal.

Drat, I’ve made coffee instead of paint again. One day I’ll get it right.

Yeah, it was definitely up during corona. All domestic abuse was up then (and in a lot of the world).

For your first link, it states that the abuse found is more extreme, but the source they link to doesn’t work. I do remember the horrible story of that poor child from the news here. It then goes on to just give numbers with no citations or sources whatsoever. The whole publication also seems a bit weird.

Abandonment of infants is definitely a thing that happens and I’m glad that a baby hatch solution now exists.

I do agree that often abuse goes unreported and/or un-prosecuted (as do rapes and many other crimes in Japan). I just don’t see anything here stating that it’s on the scale I seemed to think you were saying.

Things for single mothers does need to get a lot better; making women more equal in society and actually enforcing the protections on their jobs and family leave could go a long way to this.

I’ve been living in Japan the better part of a decade. I’ve had friends from all walks of life. Some did open up to me about abuse (I was also an abused child for a good chunk of my childhood and have sometimes talked about it), but I’ve really heard no more here than in the US. There are two problems with this. (1) it’s anecdotal based on the experience of one guy in Tokyo and (2) what some people would call abuse, others would not making things even more sticky.

I do think that, whatever the scale of abuse, non-zero is too much and that should be addressed, but I also don’t think it’s some super-regular thing which is what I think you were intending to write,

assuming you can even find childcare

I think this needs an ‘affordable’ thrown in. The free and cheap stuff is really hard to get into, but there are other, more expensive options (though out of reach of most).

plenty of Japanese adults grew up being abused and/or neglected by their own parents

Do what now? Source?

Neat! I didn’t know that. Is that common in other Slavic languages?

or　だ or some other ones, but yes.

Last letter of definite article endings deR diE daS diE etc.

Some languages also consider different numbers in different way. I have one ball, two balls, and zero balls. Zero might not be plural like in English. Also, some language have a dual distinction that changes thing when there are two of something (not just singular and plural, but singular, dual, and plural).

Some companies are still like that. Moreover, some people are just like that… and that’s the crux of the issue. Social pressure is huge in Japan, so it’s hard for people who want no part in that to stop when others keep doing it (even if no one orders or even expects them to).

I live and work in Japan, but I’m still in this picture and I hate it… Though my work-life balance has progressively gotten better. I don’t, however, let my subordinates do that; I want them to have real time off. If they answer a slack or something, it’s helpful, but I’d rather they didn’t think about work in their off time. I try to be the leader I wished for.

When I grew up in rural Ohio, my neighbor grew corn, soy, and had a bunch of pasture for haying. He rotated the positions (and thus the amounts) of some crops so it would depend upon the year as to which was in greater quantity.

Born and raised in Ohio; I’ve no idea either (though I’ve been living in Japan for the better part of a decade now).

What I can say:

The extended warranty thing relates to robocalls trying to get one to buy some kind of (probably scam) extended vehicle warranty.

“Virginia is for Lovers” - slogan of Virginia (US State) and I think found on license plates.

This might be related to Ohio and North Carolina battling over whom was “First in Flight” (Wright Brothers), but probably not.

eight, five, four, nine, one, seven, six, ten, three, two … ew