farmgineer

Immigration requires literally just got harder this year. Everything got more expensive and the requirements increased. Last/this year (I forget which because calendar vs fiscal years and such), they also changed the rules around buying property. Allegedly, this is mostly in response to Chinese buyers, though I don’t know that there’s any way to prove this.

There are bases all over. Okinawa definitely gets the short end of the stick, though. They need to get out of Okinawa to some uninhabited rock instead since they can’t control things.

I used to fish with my dad in a creak/river than ran behind a different Navistar location. Freaky perch were not rare. No idea what they were dumping in that water (or I guess someone upstream; I can’t prove it was them, but I don’t recall it from other parts upstream).

I’m from there, but I’m not voluntarily going back unless someone in my family is sick/dying. Even then, there’s zero chance I’d take my non-white wife who barely speaks any English in the current environment.

Statute Tit

teehee. (Why no period after what I assume is the abbreviated word ‘title’?)

town-gown

TIL about this phrase.

IIRC It messes with the beam guides. I’m not sure if there are cases/designs in which it would cause permanent damage in color TVs, but I seem to think I managed to permanently tint our older one green somehow.

I think that’s some major rose-colored-glasses thinking. They did break. A child with a magnet could also cause issues, at least on older ones (I say having been said child).

TL;DR news did a video recently showing the comparative completion of requirements for countries that applied and touching on Iceland and some other things.

Pretty sure it’s both in my case. I don’t want to do it anymore.

I just wanted to brighten things up a bit.

Heliobacter?

(homeboy, maybe?)

Thanks; I hate it.

It’s just four hose with some extra bits

they re-nihilated.

The rules clearly state that countries must physically be in Europe.

Cite your source. AFAIK, there’s a vague requirement that they must be “European” which is not defined.

Xennial here. Every time I eke out some sort of stability, the world takes it away. About to likely lose my job which would also end with losing my house and the ability to get another one. Nothing hiring in my industry in the area, no one wants a remote backend engineer in Japanese timezones, and I’m very much done.

If I live through this, I get the bonus of basically having no real retirement options at all, either.

All those 35-year-old gen-z folks are certainly weird.

I speak several languages but, when nearly cutting my finger off a couple years ago, “ow!” apparently came out in English according to the wife. I guess that makes sense as it was my first language but, even moreso at the time than now, I was speaking Japanese much more than English.

If Canada would join the EEA, that would certainly make my job-hunting much easier. Even if it increased the pool, the country I’m targeting general requires B2 proficiency in their language + English which should buy some time.

I’d rather have had that when I was living out of my car.