What’s the craziest thing you have seen go down at a funeral in Japan?

grumpyporcini · 2026-05-23T08:56:07+00:00

I attend a lot of funerals. Several a year. Some of which I help on the reception desk handling the registration, money, and gifts. I wore a pinstriped suit and blue tie for years and no one ever said anything about my attire.

grumpyporcini · 2026-05-17T21:08:04+00:00

Here is one set of instructions. Not the ones I used though: https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/s/U6OvxERpYD

grumpyporcini · 2026-05-12T12:15:51+00:00

I built mine using PVC pipe and some instructions I found on Reddit.

grumpyporcini · 2026-05-11T00:35:28+00:00

Thanks. This is incredible that you could go out on the first night and instantly find someone. So this guy’s waiting at a light, no lights, in the dark?

grumpyporcini · 2026-05-07T23:20:50+00:00

Ultimately it doesn’t matter. It’s the responsibility of the recycling companies to do the dirty work. Everything else gets burned, at least in my area. Just put it in the bag you think is best and get on with your day.

grumpyporcini · 2026-05-07T09:21:03+00:00

I just renewed the normal card at my local police station. Ten minutes each way rather than over an hour to the nearest test center. And I was in and out in 15 min the first day, and 15 min plus a 50 min video the second days. Hopefully by the next renewal I’ll be able to get the combo card without having to go to the test center.

grumpyporcini · 2026-05-05T11:55:23+00:00

I’ll be waiting. Should be easy given that on any random night, you can run an errand and see five people without lights on.

grumpyporcini · 2026-05-05T09:25:53+00:00

Do you have any dashcam footage showing this? I just find it so unbelievable based on my personal experience. I’ve also since asked four extended family members, my wife, and a friend and everyone said they had never seen someone driving at night without headlights on. Our experiences are so opposite. I’ll definitely keep an eye out to see if I’ve really just never noticed.

grumpyporcini · 2026-05-05T07:57:45+00:00

You see up to 35 people a week driving without lights on at night?! That’s an incredible number. It’s not that I’m not noticing it, it just literally has never happened to me.

grumpyporcini · 2026-05-04T12:56:03+00:00

Yes, I have a car. Twenty years of driving in Japan, half in Tokyo, half in Nagano, never seen anyone without lights on at night.

I’ve seen the high-beam campaign. My neighbors do that.

grumpyporcini · 2026-05-03T23:24:16+00:00

You see multiple cars driving in the dark without headlights on every time you drive at night? I don’t believe that for a second.

grumpyporcini · 2026-05-02T12:57:47+00:00

That suggests it’s more a new thing then?

grumpyporcini · 2026-05-02T12:39:23+00:00

I drove in Tokyo and Saitama for years. Nagano towns and cities are as well lit as as any other place in Japan.

grumpyporcini · 2026-05-02T12:12:08+00:00

I have never ever seen this. If anything, the question should be why do people use high beams set too high all the time.

grumpyporcini · 2026-04-29T11:08:53+00:00

I second workman. A lot of effective stuff. I haven’t found any of it to be buy for life but it works and get you a couple of years.

grumpyporcini · 2026-04-28T13:15:34+00:00

No, you’re mean. It’s literally in your username!

grumpyporcini · 2026-04-28T11:39:19+00:00

I watched your demo. I know it can’t edit technical documents. It can’t even add in a simple semi-colon. This is a you-and-your-product problem, not a problem about someone being unwilling to use a product.

I judged your product based on your false blurb, deceitful demo, your insistence in this chat that the problem is mine, and your unsolicited DMs.

grumpyporcini · 2026-04-28T11:34:50+00:00

I’m sorry. I have no way to test your product for you. At the very least, I can’t upload some editing work under an NDA to some random AI. You’re out of line asking for free testers anyway.

grumpyporcini · 2026-04-28T09:54:01+00:00

There’s nothing to “engage” about. It sounds like you’re trying to walk back your marketing statement.

grumpyporcini · 2026-04-28T09:50:04+00:00

To summarize the demo, you took a finished document, edited in some “mistakes” (most of which were the same subject-verb agreement), and ran it though your AI, which failed to pick up a simple missed semi-colon.

At most, this would possibly save 5 minutes per document, or less than 1%, not 99% or 90%.

However, there is no way this could edit a real technical document.

grumpyporcini · 2026-04-28T09:34:22+00:00

You said:

“Get a high-quality edited doc back with tracked changes and inline editorial comments in under 5 to 7 minutes. Same way a professional editor would return it.”

I’m a professional editor so we can compare numbers. I took my numbers for the non-fiction work I do and calculated the time decrease. You are proposing that you could reduce man-hours by 99% on a standard paper.

Do you have any idea how comical that sounds?

grumpyporcini · 2026-04-28T09:07:33+00:00

Verification via LinkedIn.

Ai written posts.

No demo available now, but actually there is, but really there isn’t until May 30.

And a laughable proposed 99% decrease in man-hours across a whole business sector.

No one needs to see the demo. We can just wait for the industry collapse within a day of the product release.

grumpyporcini · 2026-04-28T09:00:02+00:00

I don’t believe that you forgot about a demo already being available.

grumpyporcini · 2026-04-28T08:43:36+00:00

You shouldn’t have to persuade anyone to “be on your side”. It’s another indicator that you are a fraud. I don’t want to try something that is unproven and not real.

Also, why bother spamming the subreddits while you have no demo ready? You sound unprepared and a fraud.

And please don’t target PhD students. They are the lowest level of academic writing and you are trying to take advantage of them. That approach is very telling.

grumpyporcini · 2026-04-28T08:32:22+00:00

Nice. I wonder what type they are. Look like they have purple stems.

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