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The barefoot shoes definitely helped me figure out the strike. Am also full convert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JCB_(credit_card_company)

Japan also accepts bank transfer for online payments. So you don’t even need to leave your house.

No thanks. It’s not for me.

What are the alternatives to Visa/Mastercard?

Some surely know, they just don’t care.

Absolutely. I’d switch to other payment methods that aren’t those, if you can.

Good job, EU. I hope the rest of the world takes note.

Rules for thee…

The condition of being a billionaire is pathological, and should be dealt with in an appropriate way to pathology.

I’ve stopped caring about anything this waste of carbon dioxide says.

TIL

“I don’t want to release the server portion of the games my studios make.”

Yes, we know.

If you’d like a bigger sensor in a compact, maybe the Ricoh GRiii. It has a fixed lens, but for street photography it is absolutely brilliant at what it does while still being truly pocketable.

For landscapes and nature you’d likely want swappable lenses, water resistance, and things that let you take nice vistas, which means it’ll be unlikely to be as convenient as your phone.

The phrase Japanese First was meant to express rebuilding Japanese people’s livelihoods by resisting globalism.

This isn’t such a bad thing, by itself. For one, Japan’s entirely beholden to the American tech giants for its tech sector and really should start its own buildout.

I have had the same idea. Photovoltaic cells are sadly all quite stiff and/or fragile …

Is this all of Japan? I wonder what it looks like comparing just Tokyo with LA

This is why it is critical to contain memetic hazards. Has the Foundation taught us nothing?

Corporations are run like autocracies, too, so there’s some irony in that.

I think Moto is actually Lenovo now?