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Do you both already have passports? Visas? Travel insurance?

How are you getting there and back? How are you getting around in-country?

How will you spend money in that country? Is it one that requires cash? How do you get that cash if so?

Can you speak the language? You may want a phrasebook.

How will your phone work or will you turn it off completely to avoid roaming charges?

Will you be doing laundry? Do you know how to buy detergent and such?

Edit: also, how will you charge things? Are outlets and voltage the same? Do you need an adapter (fine if voltage same) or converter (such as when you’re form a ~100v country going to a ~200v country that would fry your electronics with just an adapter).

I think the pitch accent is also different so they’re not even homophones, but I don’t have a dictionary handy

“run” is my favorite.

Run a marathon, run for office, fun a business, run off a copy, melt (like makeup running), and a ton more

Random mutation. If it reproduces successfully, those genes pass on. If successful enough, it could become the dominant variety. If not successful, that variety will be a small population or die out. That’s all there is to it.

I think you can use existing software to do that. If your store has wifi (even if you can’t access it, I think), you can geofence an area and have some action (such as popping up a reminder app) trigger. I’ve not used software like this myself, but I remember people describing behavior like this at least on Android. If it might be useful to you, you should give it a search.

I have an app that’s meant to schedule things, but I just use it as a checklist and preface each action with the location. So long as I check it (second home screen on my phone, so not a huge barrier), I’m usually good.

Example

• costco: chicken
• costco: paper towels
• Cainz: sunscreen
• grocery: milk
• grocery: eggs

I had maybe one that would actually fit your specific terms (though he preferred <adjective> Black Billy with the adjective usually being big or sexy). One of my good friends living in Texas was black, but he’d call himself a Black American or Cuban American rather than African American. In Japan, my black friends were (I moved to the middle of nowhere recently and don’t use social media, so friendships tend to fade) black men from Africa (mostly Tanzania).

I think African American is one of those terms that (a) is super American-centric and (b) isn’t something everyone would call themselves. You can actually read into how “Native Americans” feel about that term (many don’t like it, apparently, because America (the country being the US)) wasn’t the place they came from; they came from the land that their ancestors settled, not some stolen version of it. Some actually prefer “Indian” while others favor something more like “aboriginal peoples” or “first nations”.

I’m a white guy who moved to Japan and it’s funny sometimes that a handful of people think we all must know each other (and all speak English though that’s true in my case).

I think some people grow up in some very ethnically homogeneous places. When I was a kid, I think we had two black families, one that came from Pakistan when we were in elementary school, and a couple of people form Latin America that moved in when we were in middle school. My (rural Ohio) town had a lot of super racist and anti-Semitic people.

Clearly, if my years on the internet taught me anything, the killer app ID is an app that hack’s ex’s socials with bonus functionality for changing their school grades

Ah yes, the unknown minerals… that you know about.

Probably just sit and wait for what happens next and hope all the people around me don’t freak out.

I lived in Japan for years without knowing about the whole isekai thing; I’ve just never really been into anime/manga.

That looks really nice! I want to build a root cellar but it’s just not feasible for my climate (humid subtropical) and location (no mountains or hills on my land to go into and water table too high to dig down). I would have to do mechanical cooling and ventilation on whatever I build at which point it’s basically a walk-in cooler.

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I was hoping someone would get a kick out of it, but it’s sad that my mind even went there when reading the initial comment.

I was thinking it was a t-rex, horse, or Pikachu. Other comments indicate otherwise.

I chased down some other sources for this. It’s a win in that area, but it seems like the supreme court needs to actually strike down the surgery requirement fully for it to be fully decided nationally. At least as best I can make of it. https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASS7B35CZS7BPTIL00GM.html?iref=pc_national_incident_list_n

I mean, I like complete microservices in principal, but I think they design of your software and organization, its style of operating, size, and budget all play into the decision. I think the issue lies in presenting it as a binary rather than a spectrum. You can have something that is largely a monolith, but some bits of it are split out into microservices. The opposite is true as well.

My company tried to do the “microservice all of the things” approach and we’re already back to combining a handful, but definitely not back to one monolithic app.

If someone really wanted to find the person, I imagine they’d find where the signal is coming from for that device, and just narrow from there. If it always goes to/from where John works and lives, it might well be John’s phone.

In Japan, a lot of things don’t take calls from VoiP (+81-050-xxxx-xxxx) numbers. Certain businesses and such won’t accept them as contact info, either, as I discovered trying to rent my first apartment by myself.

FOR DAMN FREE.

It’s NoT FReE yoU PaY WITh yoUr Ta… -er- sorry. Not sure what came over me there. Must be reading too many healthcare threads.