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Bernie Sanders. Christianity spun out of a Jewish apocalyptic sect, so why not, in some very small part, bring it back toward its roots?

I think for me, like 5% of total lyrics is my limit; if it’s all so screamy/growly/distorted that I can’t understand it, I’ve lost interest.

Farming. I worked on the neighboring farm as a teenager. Then, after a long series of jobs and education, became a software engineer. Being a software engineer taught me something: I miss working on a farm.

Does it feel like that? I know some bits of space are super hot but there’s not enough stuff there to get that energy to a person suspended in it. I guess being right next to the ISS might do it.

At least in Japan, a bicycle is legally a vehicle. It has some special carveouts compared to even scooters and the like, but it’s a vehicle

Machinae Supremacy - Sidology 3 – metal covers of songs from old video games actually also using a SID chip.

23 in a lot of the winter (though I think the thermostat is wrong since that gets us to 20.x or 21 according to actual thermometers in the room) and usually 26 in ‘dry’ mode in the summer. Right now, we’re going for days without using them at all but, if not the heat, then the humidity will put an end to that by late May or early June.

I got on FB when it was still only for students. I quit something like 5 years ago. I never had insta. I quit twitter partially pre-corona and fully deleted it a couple years ago. I mostly just read things, especially during Corona when local governments posted a lot there (until recently, twitter was king in Japan. I think Insta has since dethroned it somewhat).

5: English, German, French, Spanish, and Japanese.

I’m from the US but haven’t lived there in a decade so maybe I count? I also use mbin and not lemmy, but close enough. I like the various science communities most, I think. I actually don’t really use subscriptions and just block communities that I have zero interest in so it’s a bit tougher to say ‘I always go to xxxx’.

What grandchildren? I guess it’s not impossible I’d have to remarry in my 50s or older to someone with kids, but I sure hope I don’t have to.

Vote to play stupid games, win your stupid prizes ~ a small-scale farmer (originally form the US, but not farming there now)

I grew up in rural Ohio, USA. We had sex ed in 5th grade ('91, maybe?) that covered the very basic biological stuff. I think the following summer, we were supposed to go to a waterpark but had to cancel because my step-sister was on her period. Mom came in to talk about it, I showed her the pamphlet that school sent me home with, she read through it, then said to ask her if I had any questions. That was the first and last time any of that came up.

A parent has Celiac’s and I know I’m a carrier of one of the associated variants related to it from an old DNA test. For unrelated reasons (positive for blood fecal occult of yearly health check), I had cameras in basically all of me and they found no indications. However, I had been mostly gluten free for months. Before the stomach camera, I did eat gluten for a few days, but nothing interesting showed up. I was told I could do some blood tests off insurance at a high price (probably not too crazy since this is Japan and not the US), but it wouldn’t actually be useful; currently there are no medications approved for use in relation to celiac’s in Japan and it would just make my life insurance more expensive and have other potential weird side effects.

My mom and her side have always had issues as well, being diagnosed as IBS among other things. I chose to get sterilized so at least the problem, whatever it is, ends here, heh.

Yeah, wife and I are talking about going to Taiwan. I’ve seen it before (from Yonaguni on a clear day), but never been there.

I really want to go to Xi An and some other historical/archaeological sites. Shanghai is also on the list as I’ve met some cool folks from there over the years. I used to watch a YouTube channel about cooking that I think was short there (日食記 or something similar).

I really liked unless in perl; especially as I get older !length or something makes that bang really easy to miss. I use !(length) or something instead to visually set it aside. unless made this much more visually clear.

In the late '80s, I remember people being pissed at Japan as its economy looked to overtake that of the US. They felt somehow betrayed because the US, and its monetary policy, had helped Japan get to where it was. With the effects of the Plaza Accord and following things, Japan’s bubble would pop. In something young me could never imagine, I’ve been living in Japan a decade now.

Growing up in the '80s and '90s in rural USA, here’s what I remember:

• poverty and starvation are big problems (also how moms got kids to eat all their food)
• it was mostly extremely rural and undeveloped
• they were communist and not to be trusted
• they are not welcoming of outsiders at all

I have a couple of Chinese friends today and would love to visit at some point, but I’m not a huge fan of what’s been happening in governance in the last decade and change so will probably hold off on that.

I have been online since the days of BBs in the late '80s. Poe’s law is a real thing. I’ve seen dumber (IMO) and more extreme opinions so much, I can no longer reliably know from some short text alone if this is a thing the person really believes or they’re taking the piss. Sometimes, with enough context, it’s clear, but sometimes a single sentence or two in a response leaves me know real way of knowing (and I don’t feel like trying to read a poster’s entire posting history which may also have more sarcastic remarks in that vein cloaking their real intent/feeling).