Stonger Zero

Lunch for under 500yen in Japan- drop a photo or link in comments!

@CacheThatCheque discount cinema tickets too

I like my Aeon stock and religiously use their yutai cash back at their shopping malls/supermarkets. People bash retail as low margin trash but families are always going to need to shop and hang out somewhere. Interesting fact about Aeon is that it is a real estate giant and they have 469 billion yen in unrealized real estate assets. Not far fetched to think that some of their real estate assets could be easily converted into data centers in the future

@Bakksisback sleep is massive. .

I would say I’m riding better now at 49 than ever. Basically three Z1 sessions with one “harder”shorter session (60min) moving through the zones. Sleep 7-8 hours. Massive focus now on pre-on-off bike fueling.

I'm old enough to remember when it was global freezing

Best tip I’ve found for getting back to sleep when you wake up in the middle of the night is something I saw on Japanese twitter: close your eyes and look left and right repeatedly, faking REM; your brain will go “oh yeah right we’re supposed to be asleep when we’re doing that”

@jaegermedia1 Instead of hoping he gets a better role next, time, you all should take a step back and see him in Banshee. Banshee is fucking awesome, and Starr is awesome as the protagonist.

@TokyoDeepValue use eight app instead

I have, over 14 years of attending the annual shareholder meetings of Japanese small-cap companies, accumulated 312 business cards from executives, board members, investor relations officers, and, on three occasions, the wives of founders who were attending in their husbands’ place. I store them in a custom-built cedar box, sized to my specifications by a craftsman in Kyoto, because I was told, very early on, by a Japanese friend who has since stopped returning my calls, that to store a Japanese business card improperly, in a wallet or a drawer or a shoebox, is among the deepest disrespects one can offer in Japanese business culture, and that the only correct method of storage is in a wooden box, of unfinished cedar, with each card placed face up, in the order received, and never, under any circumstances, thrown away. I have not thrown one away. I have not thrown one away in 14 years. The cedar box, which began as a small jewelry-sized container, is now approximately the size of a carry-on suitcase, and sits on the floor of my closet, where I retrieve it, every Sunday morning, to add the new arrivals from the previous week and to, in a small private ceremony I have never described to anyone until this moment, briefly hold each new card in both hands, bow once, and place it on top of the previous one in the correct chronological order. My wife, who I love deeply, has stopped asking about the box. She asked about it in 2014. She asked about it again in 2017. The third time, in 2021, she did not ask, but stood in the closet doorway for several minutes, watching me bow at a small piece of cardstock, and then closed the door slowly and walked away without speaking. We have not, since then, discussed the box, the cards, or the cedar, although she has, twice, in casual conversation, mentioned to friends that her husband has “a hobby involving Japan,” in a tone that I understand to be the linguistic equivalent of a white flag. I have, over the years, developed an entire research methodology built around the cards. The card itself tells you things the proxy statement does not. The thickness of the cardstock is correlated, in ways I have personally documented, with the conservatism of the company’s balance sheet. The font choice on a Japanese executive’s business card reveals more about the company’s internal culture than any 10-K paragraph ever has. The presence of an English translation on the reverse side tells you, with roughly 80% accuracy, whether the company has been preparing for foreign shareholder communications, which is itself a signal of impending governance reform, which is itself a signal of impending shareholder return. I have built positions in 47 Japanese small caps based on initial impressions formed entirely from business cards. I have closed positions in 19 based on the same. I have not, in any of these decisions, been demonstrably wrong, although I acknowledge that the sample is small and the methodology is, by any reasonable standard, the kind of thing that should not work and yet, in my private accounting, has. The cards are still arriving. The box is still growing. The cedar craftsman in Kyoto, who I have never met in person, has, through a translator, indicated that he is willing to build me a second box when the first one fills, which, at current accumulation rates, will be sometime in 2031. I have committed to him that I will, when the time comes, fly to Kyoto, in person, to receive the second box from him directly, because to receive a cedar box of that significance through the mail would be, I have been told, an even greater disrespect than storing the cards improperly in the first place, and I have, in 14 years of doing this, learned exactly two things about Japanese business culture, which are that the rules are infinite, and that almost nobody outside Japan is willing to follow even the first ten of them, which is, as it has always been in every great deep value trade in history.

“So you sucked the dick.” “What could I do? I sucked the dick, Jerry.” “And you ate the shit?” “I ate the shit.”

JUST IN: The Enhanced Games are set to debut this weekend in Las Vegas, with athletes allowed to use steroids, testosterone, HGH, & other banned substances.

“Suck the dick, Peter. Eat the shit.”

Inflation is 4%. Cost of living doubles every 18 years and triples every 30. $100K in 1996 = $324K today. In 2056 $1M per year will be middle class.

It's time to switch, Google users.

大阪アメイジング・ウォーズ２では狭いスペースながら、ロボットファクトリーでオリジナルカラーのケンタローを作ってくれる方が多数いらっしゃって、感謝でした。今後も継続したいですね、これは

My local area in Japan built more in 3 months. .

今週末 ソーセージロール ミートパイ クリーミーチキン ステーキチーズ プルドポーク ラムレッドワイン ブリスケット(4人制) アップルパイ チョコレートチャンククッキー キャロットケーキ クリーム入りのラミントン

@katakana_kurisu @NTA_Japan It was a more don't ask don't tell. . .

@stongerzeros But even then, you need 資格外活動許可 else it’s still a visa violation. @NTA_Japan don’t seem to have been actively punishing people to date, but with the new visa rules I expect this to change.

It is going to be hilarious to see the upcoming fallout here when a lot of foreigners on work visa start to get busted for having monetized Youtube or X accounts without having notified immigration first now that the NTA is more involved in renewals.

@katakana_kurisu can't they just get and keep the money outside of japan?

In case anyone reading this is unaware: if you engage in income-generating activities outside your visa category, including running a business or recurring side income, you need 資格外活動許可 from immigration first. Ignorance is not an excuse.

@shinobu_books banger

New promotion video for Kawasaki just dropped

@RealSpitfire Yep, one day is great fun the next is boring. Not complaining about my reach, complaining about what I'm being shown. It's trash

@SteveOnSpeed culture, habit, biology,

As a drinker, I will never understand those who get smashed every weekend. Complete waste of time and money. You’re an adult. Control your damn self.

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