Life tip: if you're at the store, and you see 1 box of yakitori with 8 skewers for 980 yen, and you see 3 boxes of yakitori with 3 skewers each for 298 yen each, if you do the math then 3 boxes of 3 skewers is without a doubt cheaper.
@ryo Life tip that will help nobody here. I don't even know what yakitori is.
@xianc78 Yakitori is chicken on a skewer.
https://wikiless.org/wiki/Yakitori
It will help if you replace "yakitori" for whatever other food you can buy that has similar options.
For example, McNuggets.
You can buy 1 big box or multiple smaller boxes, consider the amount of nuggets you get in each one of them, and calculate how much you'll be paying.
https://wikiless.org/wiki/Yakitori
It will help if you replace "yakitori" for whatever other food you can buy that has similar options.
For example, McNuggets.
You can buy 1 big box or multiple smaller boxes, consider the amount of nuggets you get in each one of them, and calculate how much you'll be paying.
@ryo @xianc78 I could have guessed that. From what I know, yaki generally means that it's fried or grilled, or cooked, or whatever (teriyaki, takoyaki, tamagoyaki. And tori is bird, and generally chicken is just called bird. Kinda fun to know. Though I think I'll never actually know Japanese, because I really question if it's worth learning at this point. I'll probably be dead in less than 10 years, and I will be in no position to enjoy any media way before that, so does it really make sense to make long-term investments at this point? I can't find a justification for that.
@TerminalAutism @xianc78 I don't recommend anyone to come here for the time being.
Not until most people drop the entire scamdemic altogether, because while most people are quite OK, you'll still find some random lunatics who will go out of their way to force you to wear a mask (which is actually illegal, and anyone doing so can expect PENALty of up to 3 years in prison + 5 million yen fine, according to the "law" that is, which even the governments are using as toilet paper at this point).
Not until most people drop the entire scamdemic altogether, because while most people are quite OK, you'll still find some random lunatics who will go out of their way to force you to wear a mask (which is actually illegal, and anyone doing so can expect PENALty of up to 3 years in prison + 5 million yen fine, according to the "law" that is, which even the governments are using as toilet paper at this point).
@ryo @xianc78 I don't intend to ever go to Japan anymore, and learning Japanese was always mostly for hobby enhancement. Though even if I did, it's definitely easier to get away with violence and vandalism when you're a tourist.
On the other hand, it would be even more tempting to go too far and to beat someone half to death with a chair and quickly break as much as possible before leaving, which is what I want to do every moment that I spend just about anywhere, because my life is fucked, and that is constantly on my mind, and I know that it's everyone's fault, and that I have every right to make them pay for it.
On the other hand, it would be even more tempting to go too far and to beat someone half to death with a chair and quickly break as much as possible before leaving, which is what I want to do every moment that I spend just about anywhere, because my life is fucked, and that is constantly on my mind, and I know that it's everyone's fault, and that I have every right to make them pay for it.
@TerminalAutism @xianc78
> Though even if I did, it's definitely easier to get away with violence and vandalism when you're a tourist.
You'll get detained for a half year or longer until you convict yourself, so by the time they let you go, you'll be tried for overstaying because your visa is only valid for 90 days, so you'll get deported and get banned from entry for 5 years.
Yes, the soystem is this retarded...
But the reason why I say I don't recommend anyone to come is because if you want to breath fresh air or even show them evidence written by a doctor that you can't wear a mask for health reasons, you're basically getting punished for funding the Japanese economy.
I don't want to support that kind of behavior regardless of country.
Give money to those who do respect you, and boycott those who hate you, it's that simple!
> Though even if I did, it's definitely easier to get away with violence and vandalism when you're a tourist.
You'll get detained for a half year or longer until you convict yourself, so by the time they let you go, you'll be tried for overstaying because your visa is only valid for 90 days, so you'll get deported and get banned from entry for 5 years.
Yes, the soystem is this retarded...
But the reason why I say I don't recommend anyone to come is because if you want to breath fresh air or even show them evidence written by a doctor that you can't wear a mask for health reasons, you're basically getting punished for funding the Japanese economy.
I don't want to support that kind of behavior regardless of country.
Give money to those who do respect you, and boycott those who hate you, it's that simple!
@ryo @TerminalAutism Even before the scamdemic, I didn't like how Japan treats tourists. Last time I checked they require and ID card that you have to carry at all times and to have your fingerprints scanned. Even James Corbett still has to carry his ID all around him despite being in Japan for almost half his life.
I really wish I could go and try to wake up as many Japanese as possible, but I know that foreigners aren't allowed to spread political messages in Japan, even though a lot of them did participate in the BLM protests. And even then, most of the people there are braindead sheep and definitely won't take what some crazy gaijin says seriously.
I really hope the Japanese will one day wake up and uncuck themselves, but at this point, it seems like the Chinese or even North Koreans are more likely to wake up than the Japanese.
@xianc78 @TerminalAutism Tourists would be carrying around passports, as there's no ID card for those.
Us citizens neither have to carry around a national ID, simply because there's no such system (yet), so when we need to identify we're generally asked to bring a drivers loysense or a passport or a certificate of residence (an A4 sheet printed by the city or ward office).
Foreigners have a residence card (在留カード), basically a visa that looks like a plastic card.
I'm not a foreigner, but I heard from foreigners that they have to carry it around at all times, or face a fine of up to 200,000 yen when caught without one.
But among them I hear different stories, one person said he was never stopped by police, so he just doesn't carry it around unless he knows he has to show it on that day (like when taking a phone subscription, renting a DVD, or selling stuff), while another person told me he gets stopped by police at random quite a lot, so he carries it around all the time.
But then again, the former lives and works in places with a very low crime rate, while the latter hangs out in just about the most shady places of Shinjuku quite a lot, so that alone explains a lot.
They're really pushing the MyNumber card soystem hard over here, that one is basically like the European ID card soystem which is valid in all the Schengen countries + Airstrip One + Turkey, and only for European citizens (so foreigners excluded).
The difference with MyNumber card is that it's only valid within Japan, and everyone can get it whether you're Japanese or a foreigner, as long as you have residence here.
Oh, and MyNumber card is currently "optional".
Us citizens neither have to carry around a national ID, simply because there's no such system (yet), so when we need to identify we're generally asked to bring a drivers loysense or a passport or a certificate of residence (an A4 sheet printed by the city or ward office).
Foreigners have a residence card (在留カード), basically a visa that looks like a plastic card.
I'm not a foreigner, but I heard from foreigners that they have to carry it around at all times, or face a fine of up to 200,000 yen when caught without one.
But among them I hear different stories, one person said he was never stopped by police, so he just doesn't carry it around unless he knows he has to show it on that day (like when taking a phone subscription, renting a DVD, or selling stuff), while another person told me he gets stopped by police at random quite a lot, so he carries it around all the time.
But then again, the former lives and works in places with a very low crime rate, while the latter hangs out in just about the most shady places of Shinjuku quite a lot, so that alone explains a lot.
They're really pushing the MyNumber card soystem hard over here, that one is basically like the European ID card soystem which is valid in all the Schengen countries + Airstrip One + Turkey, and only for European citizens (so foreigners excluded).
The difference with MyNumber card is that it's only valid within Japan, and everyone can get it whether you're Japanese or a foreigner, as long as you have residence here.
Oh, and MyNumber card is currently "optional".
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@ryo @TerminalAutism Yeah, James Corbett talked about MyNumber. I'm glad that you guys are refusing it.
But even then, the worst they could do is forcing people into getting the card and phasing out the old decentralized (and still properly functioning) hell insurance system, and merge it into the MyNumber card.
Luckily, even then there's still resistance, so now they're looking for a 2nd soystem for the people who don't have a MyNumber card.