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I thought I was going to get drafted just after 2001-09-11 as a young man in the US and nothing has really felt quite at that level since. I did buy a dosimeter when Ukraine was invaded. I don’t know what the future holds. I’m glad I don’t live near any US military bases nor in the US anymore.

They both belong in the trash. Actual headphones all the way.

You also have a lot more contact with English speakers and media to consume in it. Japan localizes everything and there are few jobs where being multilingual actually matters (and those are usually specialized roles outside of hospitality). There are a lot of problems with the way Japan does its English education which does factor into it, but people do not see it as useful, don’t want to use it, and almost never use it (very little overseas travel with most going to Hawaii and Guam which have Japanese language support all over the place).

I say this as someone working on his 5th serious language (with a smattering of Spanish, Albanian, and Hebrew I just puttered around with a bit) and strongly believe that teaching kids languages is a good thing for a variety of reasons.

I have zero faith that the national, state, county, and municipality levels could come together to have something that is justified, works, and is properly-implemented. Tax-payers would also not want to foot the bill for what many would consider useless. Not that many people in the US have passports, either, and a lot that do travel to Canada where English is widely spoken, the UK, etc.

Glad I could help. I guess the one gotchya here might be if some state has a board of education with more strict requirements, but I doubt that (especially in the era of national standardized tests and teaching to pass those).

In my generation, yes. I doubt that’s changed in the last 5 10 15 really? 20 ohno 25 30ish years.

Edit: Rural Ohio for the first part of my schooling, but not really different from what I could tell in the big city when I moved for my final year.

At least in my time, people going the “college prep” route generally were expected to take two years of a language in highschool. I moved for my final year to a bigger city and more affluent area and they had French, Spanish, Latin, German, and Japanese, though at least some of those were being phased out the next year (I think Japanese may have been phased out the year I moved there, but I had already had 3 years of French and was more focused on music classes as I thought I wanted to be a music teacher).

We didn’t have any foreign language classes until highschool. We had one month in 5th grade (~11 years old) where we went over some French, Spanish, and German like once a week. By the time I got to highschool, the only options were Spanish and French and I was only able to get into French due to the way they sorted people. That was fine for me, though, since I went to Canada basically every year. These were not, however, required. Some tracks would have things like Ag Sciences and more vocational classes instead. I graduated in the late '90s.

Japan tries to teach everyone English and it does not work well. Most people don’t want to learn it and the way they teach it is also to a test not to communication. I have no faith that the same wouldn’t happen in the US.

Ebay used to have valid values by shipping method and some names were wonky/overlapping. I wonder if something like that happened.

What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix?

A warning that what you’re about to eat is not chili?

Actual vegetables and spices. Ditch the bloody mary mix and use stock instead. I would add beans because what most of the world calls chili has them and I like them, but you do you, I guess.

Do you think a child who skins his knee is allowed to cry? I mean, he wasn’t shot or tortured, after all. The answer is all pain and struggle is relative to what the person’s experiences are.

As the article points out, we’re also in an election (voting is today (Sunday Japan time)) so the cynical side of me worders if the timing is coordinated since fear and “foreigners bad” are successfully distracting from actual issues of rising prices and stagnant wages leading to a lower quality of life

Some people think the cost savings of installation, maintenance, and salaries are the reason they’'ve not returned

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.

For one, redundant systems. For another, lots of sensors. Electric generation also has a whole lot of important things going on that take tons of cabling. Burning the coal is the easy part. Grid phase alignment and a host of other fun things need to happen quickly and in a coordinated way with failovers and data lines to multiple separate places.

Just arranging it the last time in person. Mail worked just fine to confirm or cancel a bit before since the same city. If you needed things more quickly, couriers was one way. There were also a lot third spaces and people met out and about more and more often. They might see each other every Sunday at the same church for instance.

Up until I was in uni, even payphones didn’t matter most of the time since there’s no guarantee both parties are going to be near one and no normal person had a pager. If you were going to a business that had a phone, you could look up their number and call them to put one of your buddies on the line or at least send a message (see the running gag on the Simpsons where Bart calls the bar to ask for someone).

We also just waited a bit and if they didn’t show, we went on with our plans.

Not the GoP. Not the green party, at least with Stein still around. Not the dems after all their nonsense. So… I don’t know; we’ll have to see who runs. The “good” news for anyone disliking my selections is that the (heavily-Gerrymandered) district means my vote will almost certainly mean fuck all anyway (assuming they don’t come up with some bullshit to throw out overseas votes to begin with since I can’t really do anything about that).

Iet one really drunk Russian guy years ago, but the bar was so loud everyone basically had to yell so I can’t really count it

Sure. The post asked specifically about Americans and, perhaps by virtue of living in East Asia, I haven’t run into that many loud Europeans lately.

Americans are mostly super loud. You can hear them from forever away like they’re competing to be the loudest in any space. ~ someone originally from the US that had this pointed out to me.