I borrowed one (I can’t even tell you what the make/model was) in the early 2000s. The pics were OK, but the thing took forever to save; there was no quick shooting by pressing the button again.

but most MAGAs I know personally believe that Fox news betrayed Trump, and they’ve switched to watching Newsmax.

I definitely have family that think this.

Most soy sauce contains gluten and almost everything contains soy sauce. So, it’s actually somewhat difficult if that tiny amount causes issues. The good news, though, is that food labeling laws are pretty good for stuff you buy yourself, so looking for 小麦 on labels to avoid them works. A lot of people do struggle, though. Most of the Japan-focused subreddits never moved over here, but they do contain threads about the topic as well if you search.

This and they’d have to stay that way for at least a year first (though I’m more interested in the powerwall than vehicles).

or you’re just hanging out with your friends re-creating scenes from your favorite movies outside (or LARPing).

We weren’t allowed to say something ‘sucks’ because of the sexual connotations; things were limited to stinking (at least within adult earshot).

Things I remember people complaining about at various times (I don’t really recall gradeschool having any)

• overuse (or use at all) of dude
• doy
• [no] duh
• dweeb
• overuse of awesome
• various “surfer” slang (we all saw the TMNT movie)
• at some point, maybe around high school, “my bad” became a thing. I still don’t really like the phrase much.

I’m sure there are more locked somewhere in the recesses of my brain, but those are the ones that jump to mind. The internet was only really becoming a thing when I was in highschool and I lived in a very rural area for most of it so things spread much more slowly.

Not just unionizing, but getting legislation put forward and passed that protects workers’ rights.

In Japan, the barrier to firing workers is much higher than in many other places. Even layoffs for financial reasons are tough and can be challenged. This is one reason companies sit on hordes of cash here is to weather financial issues, but it also has negative economic impacts as well. That said, Nintendo are a bunch of greedy cunts IMO, and I try never to buy anything new from them anymore (just buying used where they don’t get a cut).

Nah. I’d rather they make something with the size, scale, mechanics (referring for combat and such but not same abilities, etc.), and storytelling of FFVI. Optionally some fancier graphics and preferably no grinding anywhere.

In Chinese yes, in japanese, no (8 would be hachi, 300 is sanbyaku but that n before b is pronounced as m)

Me, over here in East Asia, looking around confused.

US citizens are required to file but, depending upon income, don’t need to pay anything. It does make contributing to US retirement vehicles a lot more difficult since many need to be contributions on taxable income. Citizens also need to be super careful about trying to use foreign retirement schemes like ISAs and the like because of PFIC rules.

~ US citizen living in Japan.

Nah, definitely happens at 300 with 三百

Edit: in japanese, but I didn’t list my language since OP didn’t bother.

to add: caves, caverns, and very interesting native american history.

First-past-the-post and not wanting to see the conservatives win makes it seem not super strange to me (though I live overseas so my understanding may be incomplete).

In public highschool in the '90s in rural Ohio. A bunch dressed in western/cowboy gear and brought guns to a football game and there was some other ‘gang’ as well (maybe same fashion but different belief? I don’t remember). One person got found with a gun and arrested, but nothing else came of it. Yeehaw, I suppose.

I question why this person still has a valid license if they care so little about everyone else that they couldn’t stay in their own lane.

Gluten free. It’s not confirmed fully, but I probably have Celiac as one of my parents does and a DNA test said I was a carrier of at least one known mutation. In Japan, there’s not treatment so getting it fully verified would involve adding gluten back to the diet for weeks, being miserable, and getting nothing but higher life insurance premiums. I miss good bread.

I also don’t drink much dairy as it upsets my stomach in large doses. Cheese is mostly fine (at least for ones without a ton of lactose). I pay for, but still sometimes eat, ice cream on occasion.

Other than that, I try to avoid most processed things. Not 100%, but a lot of what I eat is single-ingredient or homemade.