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Fuck Pitchford and Take2 – sell the IP to someone who will do something cool and bring back Eddings.

This is very true. It’s very different to what came with things like mass-market smartphones and everything that followed. I knew plenty of people who just had a dial-up connection they used for mail or looking at recipes or stocks well into my 20s.

Ah but I have won… just not enough to do more than pay for about a year’s worth of tickets. It’s not an investment strategy; it’s entertainment. If I ever get rich (and I don’t expect to), nice bonus.

This could be interesting for another reason. Alienation of affection laws (i.e. breaking up a marriage) are a thing here. In the past, some have gotten out of the fines/penalties because this was clearly a transaction and not love. Not being able to legally pay anymore makes that interesting.

I seem to remember sex as being strictly defined as p-in-v penetrative action very narrowly thus allowing other acts to not count for those purposes. Soaplands aren’t technically that and host clubs don’t do any action on the clock or directly for cash.

Edit: clarity.

I know it’s easier said than done

especially since I’m an overseas voter who has zero desire to live in the US again, but still needs to maintain citizenship and thus has all kinds of dumb tax issues thanks to US bullshit.

I mean, I buy up to a dozen lottery tickets a year next door in Japan. Paying off the house would be first and, were I not already a homeowner, buying one would certainly top the list. Those lottery tickets amount to something like 3600 JPY a year which is probably like 20 USD or so. It’s not a financial plan, but I wouldn’t complain if I won. I used to spend more than that at starbucks in a month.

I don’t think sociopaths/psychopaths with no discernible ability for remorse or self-reflection are my biggest competition.

If someone progressive would run in my extremely-gerrymandered rural midwest district’s primary, that would be fantastic

Being haunted by memories of my own embarrassments and failures that still feel fresh sometimes would make me physically recoil and shudder.

/ Would still probably not win

We were going to destroy it in an oven after printing, but the whole “pre-heating” thing led to a not-yet-resolved argument.

I was thinking of giving piefed a shot. Any further reading on this?

Huh, I didn’t know that. Is that a US thing?

Having money for Macs but not for walls shows a priority which I cannot understand.

I don’t find emoji or even emoticons professional, but I’m also in my 40s so take that for whatever it’s worth. I imagine younger people would feel less of a taboo around them.

I grew up with US customary units and I still took a long time to get that compared to metric instantly

I doubt it purely because the resistance to any form of functional national ID there with the party in power traditionally being the ones that oppose it. Crazier things have happened, though.

US -> Japan. Mostly, I miss family. I have basically no love for the area in which I grew up nor contact with anyone there (half my family never lived there, the other half moved to another state).

I do miss some foods that are hard to find or very expensive here. Things like PC parts are (or at least were) much cheaper in the US since it was generally a niche hobby device outside of business use here until quite recently.

Assume that this is an apocalyptic Jew before rabbinic judaeism. That should frame thinks a bit better. The problem, at least as I understand it, is people doing commerce, particularly for a profit, in a sacred space. I do t think the money was the problem in and of itself, but rather the execution and motive. In another story, biblical Jesus tells someone of wealth and power that what he needs to do is give all of that up and he was quite miffed (in a very tldr telling)

That song is EVERYWHERE here in Japan each Christmas and it drives me nuts.