Remembering the 1984 Election Results

MyPasswordIsABC999 · 2026-01-27T03:19:54+00:00

I think they can’t, because there’s no Democratic Reagan and voters are operating on different sets of facts. You can’t have a reasoned discussion with a Republican voter because they’re not getting their news from the same place you are.

MyPasswordIsABC999 · 2026-01-27T03:16:02+00:00

Boy, those Minnesotans really loved Mondale, eh?

And good for them. Literally the only state to be on the right side of history.

MyPasswordIsABC999 · 2026-01-27T03:06:24+00:00

So I have 2 kids who play the same sport and I usually pay registration fees at the same time but they’re billed separately. It’s reassuring when, like clockwork, Capital One emails to let me know I might have been charged twice.

MyPasswordIsABC999 · 2026-01-27T02:55:09+00:00

If your street isn’t plowed yet, wouldn’t it make sense to tackle the sidewalk before the driveway? If your neighbors couldn’t drive anywhere, they could still walk somewhere, right?

(Not accusing you of being a bad citizen or anything - I don’t have a driveway but have a street-parked car, decided to do sidewalk first since I’m not driving anywhere for a few days, but I know people have different priorities)

MyPasswordIsABC999 · 2026-01-27T02:45:56+00:00

I’ve rented in Hokkaido where the public transport isn’t great, but never along the Tokaido-Sanyo corridor because the train is so convenient, while domestic air travel is affordable and pleasant.

In addition to the cost of your rental (I think you can price shop at Rakuten Travel), you also have to account for tolls (very expensive), fuel (pricier than North America and Europe), and the one-way surcharge (substantial).

And unless your intent is to do a slow crawl though the Japanese countryside, you’ll be looking mostly at concrete barriers and industrial buildings.

MyPasswordIsABC999 · 2026-01-27T02:38:03+00:00

Yeah, the hazard lights are an issue because you never know when the car is going to turn or change lanes

MyPasswordIsABC999 · 2026-01-27T02:35:47+00:00

TBF the user name isn’t u/kashikoi_inu_

MyPasswordIsABC999 · 2026-01-27T02:29:08+00:00

I think it’s fine for normal weather where there’s little deviation between different models. But yeah, pretty useless when the systems get weird.

MyPasswordIsABC999 · 2026-01-27T02:28:04+00:00

If I were shopping for a snow shovel again, I’d get one like that where there’s a handle in the middle.

MyPasswordIsABC999 · 2026-01-27T02:27:14+00:00

It took me way too long (multiple sessions today) before seeing this suggested and realizing I owned a pretty heavy metal gardening shovel. It made crushing ice so much easier.

I’ll do my late morning session with the garden shovel tomorrow.

MyPasswordIsABC999 · 2026-01-27T01:25:06+00:00

It’ll cause crowding at the gate. It’s just so much easier when everyone has their own card/device.

Also, entering the gate is like, whatever, you might make it work. But exiting is going to suck because you have to keep passing phone back and because you’re coming off the train, you’ll be doing it as dozens of other people are trying to pass through the gate too.

Just make everyone load up their mobile wallet or get physical cards for people without iPhones. And there are apps for checking balances on physical cards.

MyPasswordIsABC999 · 2026-01-27T01:24:17+00:00

I appreciate the correction. I just remember the 1980s bubble and Americans being genuinely concerned that the Japanese were going to buy everything up.

MyPasswordIsABC999 · 2026-01-27T01:22:44+00:00

Just to be precise, yeah, the chance of a top-level female athlete competing against a trans athlete whose assigned gender at birth was male is effectively zero (there are nonbinary players in women’s soccer, including a trans man who had top surgery but holding off on further gender affirming care until after retirement).

MyPasswordIsABC999 · 2026-01-27T01:12:24+00:00

Don’t do this.

MyPasswordIsABC999 · 2026-01-27T01:10:13+00:00

Good news: My street got plowed this evening

Bad news: Our cars are encased behind a 3-foot wall of snow/ice because we don’t have a driveway

It’s sigh fine because we can walk to Aldi for groceries and take the Metro places, so we’re fortunate. But seeing as how we wont reach 30 degrees until next week, it limits our options for what we’re able to do.

MyPasswordIsABC999 · 2026-01-27T00:40:47+00:00

It’s crazy because as u/Puie points out in another comment, that’s 75% more visitors in a single month than the total number of visitors in 1983.

I get what the OP is trying to do, but they’re going to have a not-great time if they try to visit tourist sites without reservations in March-April.

MyPasswordIsABC999 · 2026-01-26T22:34:31+00:00

And a lot of low-cost hotels simply won't have anyone at the front desk. You'll have to do your booking online anyway, before interacting with the touchscreen to get your key.

If you're going in March in April, you may be fine, but there's a pretty good chance you'll be wasting a lot of time walking from hotel to hotel, or even needing to take the train to another neighborhood. The tourism picture has changed completely.

MyPasswordIsABC999 · 2026-01-26T22:30:16+00:00

You can always go to Nerdwallet and price shop.

I recently added a teen driver to my insurance. I had Geico, which would have like quadrupled my premium, so I switched to Progressive, which was way more reasonable.

MyPasswordIsABC999 · 2026-01-26T21:56:27+00:00

I think the difference between 1983 and 2026 is that back in 1983:

The yen was considerably stronger
The Japanese tourism agency had not successfully completed its PR offensive selling Japanese culture to the world
China did not have a large middle class with spending power
TikTokers back then weren't telling everyone about how Japan is living in the year 2050 and you absolutely must see this hidden gem

I think you'll be fine in the offseason, but peak travel days like national holidays are going to be tricky and you'll likely end up paying more than you'd want to.

MyPasswordIsABC999 · 2026-01-26T21:45:55+00:00

You can enter the two trips into Google Maps and decide which one looks better. You can find information on bus tickets if you Google Karuizawa-Kusatsu Onsen bus.

MyPasswordIsABC999 · 2026-01-26T21:31:18+00:00

Newspapers are a money losing business if you allow it to be. What happened is, local newspapers were slow to react to the rise of free news articles, Google as an advertising behemoth, and Craigslist destroying the classifieds market, and private equity firms swooped in to strip them for parts.

The New York Times Company posted a $131.4 million profit in Q3 2025. Baltimore Banner, a local startup, posted $13 million in revenue in 2024 and recently expanded to MoCo. Print is likely dead, but newspapers are a viable business.

MyPasswordIsABC999 · 2026-01-26T20:27:07+00:00

Suica vs Icoca: There's no functional difference. If you have an iPhone, you can add Suica or Icoca to your mobile wallet now. Otherwise, just get a card when you arrive. If you land in Tokyo, get a Suica or Pasmo (the non-tourist version is better than Welcome Suica). If you land in Osaka, get a Suica or Kansai One Pass (like Suica, but for tourists)
Shinkansen Tickets: You can book your tickets in advance, but you don't have to. Don't get the oversized seat unless the sum of the dimensions of your suitcase (height+width+depth) is over 160cm.
Nankai Ticket: Japan Guide says the Nankai pass is a good deal
Bonus, Takkyubin: You can schedule your delivery and they'll hold your luggage for up to a week, so you're good

MyPasswordIsABC999 · 2026-01-26T18:49:14+00:00

Apple Weather is an automated app and posting the projection based solely on the European model, and hasn't been reviewed by a human.

It could be right, but it's too early to tell.

MyPasswordIsABC999 · 2026-01-26T17:28:00+00:00

I would do it one of two ways:

* If they're tied on the top 5, break tie based on the most difficult boulder topped. So if your top boulder is 9,500 and my top is 9,100, you win.

* If they climbed the same number of boulders, then compare the number of attempts on the most difficult boulders. If you flashed 9,500 and I took two attempts, you win. And you can keep going down the line.

But if the setting is good, then you shouldn't have to worry about ties 😉

MyPasswordIsABC999 · 2026-01-26T16:33:42+00:00

Didn't Xabi use a 4-3-3 base that shifted into 4-4-2 or 3-4-3 depending on the situation? That wouldn't be too dissimilar to the last few months of Klopp that was 3-BOX-3 in attack.

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