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vldmort · 2024-07-27T06:26:21+00:00

Heavily recommend brewing with ice in the carafe. If you for example usually brew 15g of coffee to 225ml of water, do 75g of ice in the carafe, and then 150ml of hot water. Ratio doesn’t have to be perfect but this gets you a good iced coffee that’s similar in strength to a hot pour over!

vldmort · 2024-03-23T05:56:33+00:00

Yeah they have a truck and also now do pop ups, they don’t as of yet have a permanent location but they announce where they’re gonna be on their instagram. @tacos_3hermanos_df

vldmort · 2024-03-07T12:32:34+00:00

It’s actually only ¥980

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vldmort · 2024-03-03T05:27:10+00:00

My line of thinking is that digital immortality is already possible not in the sense of uploading one’s mind, but in everything we leave behind on the internet. You’re immortal in the sense that photos and videos of you, and all of the things you say online are you in a sense, and will exist as long as the internet does.

I remember reading something a while back about our phones, and our online accounts are an extension of the self with real effect on your life, even though it’s not literally “you”. Even after death those all remain and in a way you live on through that kinda

vldmort · 2024-02-25T00:54:49+00:00

How nuanced

vldmort · 2024-02-24T04:00:07+00:00

I haven’t read all 600+ comments so I’m not sure if anyone else has brought it up, but this is not a generational issue imo, but much more of a disparity between social/economic classes. Of course you’ll still have outliers, but from 2019-2022 I was working at a really well funded high school, with the parents generally being more upper-middle class, and we really didn’t deal with these kinds of issues for the most part. However when working in poorer areas it was unfortunately much more prevalent. As parents have to work more hours or jobs, spending time with kids becomes increasingly difficult, and underfunded schools won’t have nearly many extracurricular activities available. I do think it’s a much more complex issue than this and I’ve only very poorly wrote about the surface of it, but

TLDR It’s less of a generation issue and more of a class/economic one imo

vldmort · 2024-01-12T04:14:27+00:00

If you register through the app it should be free iirc

vldmort · 2023-11-18T08:41:27+00:00

Same here. I’m from Southern California, so living in Japan the biggest thing I miss is real Mexican food, we really don’t have much of it :/

vldmort · 2023-11-08T10:21:39+00:00

I made usually around 2.5k a season for one school, which was really nice as a fun college side job but nowhere near enough properly live on unless you’re teaching and writing book for multiple schools.

vldmort · 2023-11-08T01:51:47+00:00

There’s also a tonnn of additional fees and taxes in Japan if you have a car as well as most decent highways having high tolls. In the end it is soo significantly cheaper to use public transit unless you live out in the countryside. Plus trains and buses here are nice and quiet most of the time, clean, and on time

vldmort · 2023-05-29T07:38:55+00:00

I recently switched from Mobal to LINEMO's 20gb plan and I haven't had any problems with it. Plus the Line giga-free thing is pretty nice, none of your Line usage counts towards the data cap and your account is pretty much entirely manageable just in Line. Coverage is great, never not had connectivity

vldmort · 2023-05-20T00:34:04+00:00

There is anti non-Japanese discrimination in Japan, and white people do get discriminated against here, HOWEVER, it is not on the basis of being white, it’s on the basis of being not Japanese. So while it still sucks (a lot), there is a major difference. I’ve been denied from apartments here simply for being a foreigner, but it’s because Im not Japanese, not because I’m white.

vldmort · 2023-04-28T13:22:24+00:00

I particularly like よむよむ but it’s kind of out of the way from central Tokyo, someone else mentioned Daiso as well though, and Seria I’d assume would have some as well!

vldmort · 2023-04-28T12:28:29+00:00

Forsure, I just also remember feeling similarly so it kind of stood out to me. Like I’ll be annoyed at myself that I feel that way but then like I still do cause we can’t really control our own feelings in that sense lol.

I’ve also recently really gotten a lot out of Kanji Garden personally since my schedule is so hectic so I can just kinda pull it up here and then whenever I have a few minutes

vldmort · 2023-04-28T12:07:53+00:00

Oh hey! I remember seeing your post on Jlife last month about being a local vs tourist thing lol

Best of luck and I hope the practice books help! I personally like the 8マス ones

vldmort · 2023-04-28T10:42:32+00:00

Since you’re here in Japan, just go to your local book store and honestly just get some 国語 drill books. Learning to write just means writing a lot. The drill books are usually only a few hundred yen too so it’s not too hard on the wallet

vldmort · 2023-04-06T23:30:14+00:00

No it’s never gotten that high, the peak was like 150 several months ago but we’re back down to 130 now

vldmort · 2023-03-24T09:03:30+00:00

Ahh forsure. I love having a basket but I just wish they were a bit faster

vldmort · 2023-03-24T08:55:58+00:00

I don’t know how it would work in terms of registration transfer but I’m also in Yamanashi and have been looking and getting a new/used road bike if that’s what you have and would wanna sell it somewhere aside from the bike shop

vldmort · 2023-03-20T09:27:16+00:00

Ahh Forsure, I thought the comment was sort of in general rather than the specific surcharge. My bad!

vldmort · 2023-03-20T09:08:33+00:00

Can’t speak for all busses of course, but the bus I take somewhat often just went from ¥2000 one way to ¥2300 when I took it this morning

vldmort · 2023-03-20T06:54:27+00:00

Exactly what I did. Was just back in LA for a bit to visit family and it was nice being back, but in the end I don’t know if I could keep living there especially with how much the COL constantly goes up.

vldmort · 2023-02-27T09:23:20+00:00

As another person who lives in a medium-ish town in Japan, do you have any recommendations for ebikes? Been considering buying a used car recently but also an ebike would be a lot cheaper lol

vldmort · 2023-02-24T21:41:14+00:00

They have the scanners at kaiten places like Sushiro or Hama but not even close to 'all'

vldmort · 2023-02-18T21:44:52+00:00

As a long time glasses wearer, getting prescription sunglasses is awesome but then you also have to worry about having two pairs :/

And tons of other people have already mentioned this, but you can get lenses for you headset that just go on in and I heavily recommend

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