Overzealous staff at a chain chuka restaurant decided to offer me a fork because I wasn't eating my super-hot gyoza fast enough or something. I told them I had been living in Japan for seven years.
I guess the "o-hashi ha jouzu desu ne" I occasionally get is coming from a place of genuine belief by some people that visible foreigners couldn't possibly know how to do something like use chopsticks, colliding here with the belief they need to anticipate my needs. I've always wondered about that.
RE: https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/116304296612633497
A thing that my years working in the software industry have taught me is that sometimes people just want information. Not good information, not accurate information, not useful information. They just want information.
If you are traveling to or through Hong Kong, here is a new thing to consider when you are deciding whether or not to take your devices with you and how you should set them up.
On this day, 69 years ago, six countries took a leap of faith and signed the Treaty of Rome. 🇧🇪 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇱🇺 🇳🇱
They chose cooperation over division, laying the foundations for what would become today’s European Union.
From a shared market to shared ambitions, that vision has grown far beyond economics. It’s about connection, opportunity, and celebrating what makes each member country unique.
Different languages, cultures, and histories, one common journey.
United in diversity, then and now. 💙
Who wants to buy a castle in Hokkaido?
Serious question: why is everything moving to rounded corners?
They waste screen space, are harder to code and reason about than square corners, and, at least for me, are harder to visually navigate. In the physical world, paper with rounded corners is mostly used for children's books.
Now Firefox for Android has finished rounding off all its boxes and I can't visually distinguish it from Chrome any longer.
How far back in time can you understand English?
It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post.
"... as his post goes on, his language gets older. A hundred years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words, and his attitude gets older too, as the blogger’s voice is replaced by that of a Georgian diarist, an Elizabethan pamphleteer, a medieval chronicler."
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english
Paul Cantrell
evacide
European Commission
Ken Scambler
Baron von Klar Esq ✠🛩️
Natasha 
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