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@cstarkjp @GaijinMommy Assistant professors don’t have tenure.

Ah, the benefits of tenure

@Skellis13 Can’t get the room at the university so I’m finding space in various Kuminkan. So pizza isn’t the same place anymore. It’s not too bad. Trying to get the same space every month is hard.

@Skellis13 Having fun at TWW now. We’re meeting in person lately.

@Skellis13 Standing up (At least in my case) I worry less about others’ reactions, so I tell people more when they’re being jerks. In the past, I’d feel the same way, but say less.

@theyokohamalife I used aruhi (aruhi-corp.co.jp -Nobody paid me for this endorsement) Flat loan has been great. I dunno how they can afford it. Variable rates seem good but BoJ already hinted they’ll let long term bond yields increase(which will tell you where mortgage rates are going)

@hikosaemon Sure, I guess I was trying to say that most laptops are poor substitutes. Maybe my phrasing wasn’t as clever as I’d hoped.

@meta_seanovan Don’t want to carry my desktop in my suitcase

Thinking if I travel for a few months I might finally get a Macbook and make the big jump. Then I saw no Fortnite... So... What's the best Windows laptop for gaming and video right now? Razer?

@hikosaemon Too few companies are profitable enough for this to work.

If the govt was serious about finally getting businesses to raise wages, they'd link company tax to cooperation on having wages match inflation, and give the company the choice between paying up in wages to workers, or to the govt (with a bit extra) in taxes.

@yurikageyama Apple protects its pricing, so you won’t see discounts in other stores. The only discounts you can look forward to are for older models where they need to move the excess inventory.

Are Apple products coming down in price after Christmas? This is for those (i.e., me) living in Japan? And is it better to go to the Apple Store, a general electronics store or just go online? Anyone? Please?

@David_Leheny I think your joke fell flat because your language doesn’t have a word for funny

@hikosaemon 1950’s sci-fi is good but dated

I've not read Foundation, but admit since I enjoyed the series and the next season is not until late next year, I'm tempted to pick it up now.

@scalzi D

@scalzi More white, add mayo

@drinkintokyo @hikosaemon If you worked that hard to get into ToDai, and you could retire at 25, you’d do it, too.

@hikosaemon First day in new grad training at a foreign investment bank in Tokyo. Japanese woman colleague hired into investment banking, a very competitive role, graduated from Todai etc. tells me within 20 minutes of meeting her that she's just there to find a husband and quit asap 😱

Interesting to see continued comments on the high rate of women aspiring to be housewives. FWIW, many many years ago when I was the bachelor about Chibaragi, I'd say more than half the girls I met at gokons would straight up introduce themselves as aspiring to become housewives

@scalzi A

Sky over Meguro this afternoon.

@japanese_lunch Yeah, but, um… you just said it in a large public forum. No?

@myhlee Congrats on your well-earned success

If I had a dollar for every time someone says to me in Korea/Japan "But you look too young to be bureau chief," I would have enough money to go into retirement today at 34 and live luxuriously, traveling the world, staying at 5 star hotels, eating multiple-course meals every day

@lesleyito This is well known. 1- JP is the largest creditor nation. When econ seem risky, creditors unwind debt (buy yen). 2- some foreign investors borrow yen at near zero rates and invest at high rates elsewhere. Econ seems risky, unwind the deal (buy yen). Buying yen drives cost of yen

@mizunocaitlin I have no problem with that unwritten rule. I don’t eat while walking because I know it’s frowned upon (lived in JP 23 years). It’s a politeness. The problem is that visitors don’t know it. And you can’t expect people to read minds. The street vendors should let them know.

This Zip segment is so busybody grandmother. There are TOURISTS in KAMAKURA buying STREET FOOD on the STREET and then eating it STANDING and WALKING ON THE STREET. *clutches pearls*