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Japan-based backend software dev.

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Cake day: August 14th, 2024

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  • A parent has Celiac’s and I know I’m a carrier of one of the associated variants related to it from an old DNA test. For unrelated reasons (positive for blood fecal occult of yearly health check), I had cameras in basically all of me and they found no indications. However, I had been mostly gluten free for months. Before the stomach camera, I did eat gluten for a few days, but nothing interesting showed up. I was told I could do some blood tests off insurance at a high price (probably not too crazy since this is Japan and not the US), but it wouldn’t actually be useful; currently there are no medications approved for use in relation to celiac’s in Japan and it would just make my life insurance more expensive and have other potential weird side effects.

    My mom and her side have always had issues as well, being diagnosed as IBS among other things. I chose to get sterilized so at least the problem, whatever it is, ends here, heh.


  • BRB – I have to tell the country of Japan they’re doing dates wrong /s.

    For the things I’m thinking about, the year generally doesn’t matter. I’m thinking advertisements or even things that say like ‘Spring 2025 menu 2025年の春メヌー’ or something which preserves context. A lot are also written on shop whiteboards and such which are changed fairly regularly. In my own notes, in anything I may care about that far into the future, I do write the full date in ISO-8601









  • I have been online since the days of BBs in the late '80s. Poe’s law is a real thing. I’ve seen dumber (IMO) and more extreme opinions so much, I can no longer reliably know from some short text alone if this is a thing the person really believes or they’re taking the piss. Sometimes, with enough context, it’s clear, but sometimes a single sentence or two in a response leaves me know real way of knowing (and I don’t feel like trying to read a poster’s entire posting history which may also have more sarcastic remarks in that vein cloaking their real intent/feeling).





  • In Japan I got stopped, asked for my documentation, and asked to empty my pockets once. Was about to fly back to the US within a day or two and was trying to use up all the loose change I had accumulated during my 3 months. I guess a passing cop thought it was weird when I was counting it up outside (didn’t want to do it inside in line and hold everyone up).

    Later, after living in Japan several years, got asked for ID, everything taken out of my pockets, and my backpack searched. I had gone from a bar to the convenience store and was headed back to the same bar. It was humiliating and infuriating. I’ve never been an English teacher, but I can’t imagine how that must feel to be a teacher and have the kids or parents go by. They had apparently received a tip that there were drugs in the area so were searching people. Apparently not only foreigners, as I ran into a Japanese guy who got the same treatment. They were polite and all but it was incredibly violating and basically put me off from wanting to interact with law enforcement here again (and I had previously turned in lost items to the closest police box on two separate occasions for people to claim).