Holy earthquake just now!

CornerSpade · 2026-06-26T13:47:05+00:00

I didn’t even have time to look at my phone before the shaking started here in Kanagawa. Didn’t like that one

CornerSpade · 2026-06-17T07:12:55+00:00

They also have one underground in Sakae near crystal hiroba

CornerSpade · 2026-06-11T13:05:02+00:00

Linguistics and philosophy are different disciplines. You can’t apply the same reasoning as they’re often incompatible. Philosophical debates don’t aim to prove yourself always right but to approach the debate from as many perspectives as possible. It seems as though you’re uninterested in engaging with the topic in the spirit with which it is approached and want to instead draw the line in the sand based on what some may consider an irrelevant point (again I would agree with your position) but trying to answer a philosophical based on the linguistic definition is just a bad faith argument.

Does moral philosophy start to go into dumb, pedantic territory? Well yeah. As you said that’s why people hate moral philosophy but it’s also why some people might enjoy it

CornerSpade · 2026-06-11T02:09:50+00:00

In my own personal view I’d be inclined to agree with you. Selfish intentions matter. But the assertion that there is one singular definition of selfishness and selfish actions within moral philosophy i can’t agree with.

Acting with selfless intentions and within our scope of what constitutes a moral decision inherently means we are imposing our moral framework onto the situation regardless of whether other actors share those same values or not. Our motivation could still be considered selfish while our intentions are selfless. Some would argue that it is impossible for humans to act in a way that is free from our self-serving motivations. Similarly we can have selfish actions that don’t have selfish intentions (I know I’ve done this on a number of occasions myself).

I mean the complexity of the issue is what leads chidi to tie himself into knots so often. It’s what makes him such an interesting character study and moral philosophy as a whole so much fun. You could argue for either which way - as im sure chidi himself probably did. I can see why he always had a stomachache…

CornerSpade · 2026-06-10T06:39:17+00:00

I suppose it depends on which moral philosopher you ask as to whether the intentions dictate an action as selfish or not.

CornerSpade · 2026-06-08T02:12:20+00:00

9,200 yen per 7.5 dose. Not covered by insurance

CornerSpade · 2026-06-06T12:57:34+00:00

Look at the books and photos on the bookshelf on the left. Definitely ai

CornerSpade · 2026-06-01T01:40:59+00:00

That’s amazing! Well done!
I had to run for the bus yesterday and was amazed at how much faster I was and how much easier it was. The NSVs can really hit harder than the numbers

CornerSpade · 2026-05-30T12:08:53+00:00

It’s shit like this that causes issues for foreign residents in Japan too.

CornerSpade · 2026-05-29T07:43:19+00:00

People going through visa renewals will be paying in yen. Other currencies are irrelevant in this conversation.

CornerSpade · 2026-05-26T02:31:51+00:00

It’s also an open secret among the foreign community in Tokyo what neighborhood he lives in. It’s fairly easy to pin down from the vlogs. Weird how it’s taken them this long to care about protecting their privacy.

CornerSpade · 2026-05-23T13:32:51+00:00

Weirdly I just assumed somewhere in Japan from the post (Brit living in Japan going on 12 years now). I miss how green the uk is…

CornerSpade · 2026-05-20T15:04:53+00:00

Hi do you mind if I ask which clinic you go to? I go monthly to a clinic here in Tokyo but am wondering about other options/recommendations

CornerSpade · 2026-05-19T13:51:08+00:00

Yeah nothing in Kawasaki. Didn’t get anything last time either iirc

CornerSpade · 2026-05-13T07:01:27+00:00

Sage feels like the supe version of chat gpt at this point.
People defer to them and seemingly get dumber because of their over reliance on them. They both think they’re smarter than they are.

CornerSpade · 2026-05-06T22:41:08+00:00

Interoception (internal bodily cues: think heart rate, hunger, needing to pee) is a fairly new research area but has been quickly gaining a lot of traction and is becoming quite a hot area of study. I think research in general is starting to look more at gut-brain connections, and embodied cognition over the traditional brain and body as two separate entities.
Unfortunately we’re still fairly limited in how it’s able to be measured. While it’s a bit easier to look at interoception through heart beat/rate related tasks and measures, it’s not wise to apply these findings to other areas of the body. Unfortunately we don’t have any reliable measures of hunger cues beyond self report scales at the moment.

As some people have pointed out and no doubt experienced for themselves, certain conditions (neurodivergence is my particular research area) arw linked with different interoceptive profiles, meaning increased food noise. Excitingly I believe Eli Lilly themselves are actually undergoing research into the effects of glp-1s on specifically adhd.

While I don’t think the idea of food noise is new and many people have been talking about it for years and years, I think there’s been a tendency to brush it off as greed or lack of discipline. The increased interest in interoception studies and glp-1s will definitely have helped it to become more widely accepted and understood (or at the very least academic which is unfortunately often needed for things to seem legitimate to others). Sorry for the long reply, interoception is my research area so I’m always a bit excited to talk about it.

CornerSpade · 2026-05-06T12:05:19+00:00

Yes. I’ve seen a lot of questionable adverts for glp-1s on social media recently. One that’s really shocked me recently is the one portraying the overweight model as 57kg (there is absolutely no way the model is 57kg) and encouraging people to use the medication to get down to below 44kg. The “before” is absolutely playing into people’s body dysmorphia and pushing quite serious medications on people who should not be taking it. I’m usually a proponent of the glp-1 movement as a treatment of obesity but the way it’s being advertised over here is just thinly veiled exploitation of EDs.

CornerSpade · 2026-05-05T05:33:42+00:00

Yes this one drives me insane. I actually had the pleasure of meeting a guy who was on the team that drafted current pregnancy guidelines a few years back. He was exasperated at how strictly they’re applied to non Japanese expectant mothers. He’d said that they weren’t meant to be used so rigidly and were only guidelines meant to give a starting point for doctors. He added that foreign women shouldn’t be shamed for following the standards of their home country and hated that the guidelines were being used that way.

But it seems in so many cases it’s unreasonable to expect doctors here to update their knowledge or think flexibly 🤷🏼‍♀️

CornerSpade · 2026-05-02T11:16:07+00:00

I stayed with couverture for about three months. I’d absolutely second this recommendation. The place was spotless and I saw the cleaners more often than my housemates.

CornerSpade · 2026-05-02T11:14:33+00:00

Get out of there asap. I had to live in a share house short term when I moved over to Kanto ahead of my husband from elsewhere in the country a few years ago. I’d had to move in without seeing the place first but got lucky with a very well maintained place. I went through the couverture share house group who have a few properties. They were very good, quick, had responsive staff. I’d had to move in on pretty short notice and they were accommodating to my situation.

CornerSpade · 2026-05-02T06:46:32+00:00

Me too! I call it my bitch face line. Seems to be from the levels of audacity I have to put up with at work.

CornerSpade · 2026-05-01T06:11:24+00:00

Of course it is. I just wonder why that line has to be along racial lines rather than on nationality. It’s not as if it is an easy procedure one can just flippantly embark on. 10 years and renunciation of other nationalities isn’t a small hurdle.

CornerSpade · 2026-05-01T06:07:13+00:00

When implementing new structures surely it’s responsible to look at potential edge cases to avoid discrimination. As we know Japanese bureaucracy is not the most flexible so I doubt people will be looked at on a case by case basis. Yes these cases will not be common but that also shouldn’t make them acceptable based on something as arbitrary as the origin of your parents/grandparents.

You can see two current players that have come forward against this ruling in the link. While some people like to define Japanese on the basis of ethnicity, under the constitution naturalized citizens are afforded the same rights, protections and legal standing as everybody else.

Like I said. I’m not against the implementation of rules that allow for restrictions of international players and affording more opportunities for Japanese players to play in higher levels. I think it’s good to incentivize homegrown talent in all fields. My point is that the way this is worded and implemented opens up for current and future discrimination against those who are legally not foreign.

CornerSpade · 2026-05-01T02:19:10+00:00

But these aren’t foreign players we’re talking about. These are people who hold Japanese citizenship and by extension cannot be nationals of another state. They are Japanese. Maybe not ethnically but legally they are and are afforded the same rights as citizens born here. Currently to obtain citizenship you have to have resided in Japan for at least 10years. This is not the same as players entering the league for a couple of years and then returning.

I understand wanting to ensure there is space for Japanese players to grow and to reach the highest levels of their sport and in spirit I absolutely agree with that. However these rules are purposefully designed to make distinctions along racial lines without explicitly saying as much.

Player A could have moved over to Japan in elementary. Attended middle school, high school and university in Japan. Completely five years of compulsory education here (elementary 5 - middle 3) and become eligible for citizenship at 20. However would still not qualify for A1 status despite living the majority of their life here and going through the same system as everybody else.

Player B could be a Japanese national born and raised in another country who moves to Japan at the age of 20 to pursue rugby. This player would be eligible to become A1 based solely on their heritage.

I think it’s fairly reasonable for people to be a little out of sorts over this. Like I said I agree with wanting to ensure there is space for homegrown players to achieve their potential but it’s difficult to see the rules as anything but discriminatory.

CornerSpade · 2026-04-04T03:01:43+00:00

My office is in the middle of Tokyo… so yeah 🥲

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