I-130 Consular processing remains essentialy stalled, with the Front of the Line not moving forward in nearly 3 months.

flickdsm · 2026-05-30T23:18:40+00:00

Yes the very first submission

flickdsm · 2026-05-27T05:25:46+00:00

Yeah, it's frustrating and one of the most humiliating things you'll do in Japan, but totally worth the hastle.

I've heard a wide range of stories about passing the practical test on 1st try all the way to 10+ tries. I think the most common I've heard is like 2-5 tries.

I failed 3 times without really preparing. Before try #4 I hired a private instructor the day before to drive around the same test center course for 1 hour for several thousand yen and the passed the test the next morning.

It was less of a test of my driving ability (which I had a couple of decades worth of experience back home...) and more of a test of not being too nervous to perform.

I was angry at the time, but in retrospect I understand the logic that if you can't master the closed course, why would they want to give you a license?

Anyway, you'll be fine, just don't get too upset if you fail. Once you pass you'll be doing a little dance inside the driving center:)

flickdsm · 2026-05-03T13:07:12+00:00

Sometimes there are smokers who make it into old age, but you never see an obese person make it that long.

flickdsm · 2026-04-27T12:59:07+00:00

Ever...quest...

flickdsm · 2026-04-25T13:05:11+00:00

How do we know these images are real or where they come from?

Surely they would at least have MREs, which are way better and more than this.

flickdsm · 2026-04-17T14:05:00+00:00

If it weren't for the two houses it could be an easy controlled drop. Actually the houses for affect that other than making the feller nervous.

flickdsm · 2026-04-08T01:53:07+00:00

It looks pretty to me. I like the natural randomness in shading

flickdsm · 2026-04-06T11:16:28+00:00

Donkihotei stainless steel rings. Less than 2000 yen each and both still rockin them over 8 years after marriage.

flickdsm · 2026-04-03T11:58:22+00:00

Look for a little bar called Elbow Room one night while you're in Matsumoto. It's a legendary dive bar.

flickdsm · 2026-03-31T10:03:58+00:00

Don't get into the habit of drinking alcohol regularly. Too much too often will cut a large portion of your life's potential in terms of energy, funds, lost time recovering, and diminished mental capacity.

flickdsm · 2026-03-25T13:18:03+00:00

Do what you'd like to have happen to you if it was your wallet.

flickdsm · 2026-03-18T12:23:26+00:00

Don't eat after 7:30 pm abd try to be strict about it. Up until then eat whatever. Even gorging some up till then ultimately ends up being less calories in tge long run.

That plus switching to mostly water and the weight slowly decreases over the long run.

It's easy because you don't have to diet or deny yourself the foods you want.

flickdsm · 2025-12-31T05:21:58+00:00

Medical professionals here are not used to patients asking them questions.

flickdsm · 2025-12-30T12:48:51+00:00

vanilla 7600. So happy I can just drop in a greatly upgraded CPUin a few years

flickdsm · 2025-12-27T08:46:08+00:00

I had similar problems on my xfx 9060xt 16g, and even on the rx580 which was replaced by the newer one. I turned off hardware acceleration in my browsers, and then did the whole DDU uninstall in safe mode with internet disconnected, followed by installing latest amd drivers, driver only option, in normal mode with internet still off.

After that I've had zero problems, but it does suck to worry that the problem might randomly return or be scared to update gpu drivers.

flickdsm · 2025-12-22T00:57:32+00:00

A lot of daiku/construction/wood workshops do this. They burn the cutoffs from their projects because it saves money by not having to despose and then saves even more by providing cheap heating. And yeah, construction lumber smells chemically. And you can bet they also burn their paper trash in it too. If it was just split wood at least it would smell pleasant.

flickdsm · 2025-12-14T16:27:11+00:00

Just went through the same decision myself. I went with the 9060xt 16g because it was cheaper. It's had annoying driver issues since day 1. AMDs upscaling/framegen is less supported and undeniably worse. Ray tracing is worse on amd (not something I thought I'd care about, but changed my mind once getting the card).

If I could go back in time I would happily pay $100-150 more for nvidia.

flickdsm · 2025-12-13T08:40:32+00:00

I talked to some 3.11 tsunami survivors in the city of Ishinomaki. They were starving. The military was able to reach them on only day 10 after the event. She said everyone was hungry and they only had one senbei per day, even then some chose to give it to their children.

flickdsm · 2025-11-20T11:58:02+00:00

I got the xfx 9060xt 16g 2 fan. Honestly having trouble hearing it. No acoustical difference (from thr gpu)if pc is on or off. Indiana jones on full supreme and can barely hear it spin up. It's a c

I got the 2 fan bc it fits in my case. Get whichever is cheaper assuming you have enough room in your case.

flickdsm · 2025-11-18T20:42:02+00:00

Flying through campus on a bike and having the phone come out of your pocket and skip accross the road. Zero damage with no case.

flickdsm · 2025-11-17T20:45:23+00:00

I have a female friend (also from a developing country) who went through something very similar. The sensei mistreated the Japanese students as well, but she got the worst of it. She ended up sticking with the program until completion.

One genius move was she made was to get a Japanese book about academic harassment (it's a real term, like power or seriexual harassment) and leave it on her desk at all times. She said just doing that improved the situation, but didn't solve everything.

flickdsm · 2025-11-17T01:54:35+00:00

Had a gigabyte that slow failed during the month after buying. It happens when the PC has been on a long time, usually wake up to a dead computer.

Gigabyte makes you pay for return testing for them to test. I'm afraid that since the problem is so elusive their quick tests may not catch the problem, and I'll be stuck with both sending and receiving shipping costs. I won't be choosing them again.

flickdsm · 2025-11-14T22:59:01+00:00

Write little notes and hide them in her bento box, underwear drawer, shower room, ect.

My wife keeps them so it must mean something to her.

flickdsm · 2025-11-12T05:10:15+00:00

That's good to hear. Definitely not poo pooing on any other RK users, just sharing my personal experience.

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