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Bloodnose posted:No you need the government to pay to learn about the toxicity of whiteness and the never-ending cycle of patriarchal oppression to really make sure the kids got that education 
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Bloodnose posted:No you need the government to pay to learn about the toxicity of whiteness and the never-ending cycle of patriarchal oppression to really make sure the kids got that education i don't say it too often, but you're right
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Jun 23, 2019 02:01
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I dunno what world y'all are living in, but my kids are gonna be majoring in long distance swimming and competitive road kill consumption.
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Jun 23, 2019 02:15
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Welcome to Florida
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Jun 23, 2019 02:41
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Bloodnose posted:No you need the government to pay to learn about the toxicity of whiteness and the never-ending cycle of patriarchal oppression to really make sure the kids got that education So shines a good deed in a weary world
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Jun 23, 2019 19:53
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Thanks for ruining my rear end in a top hat (hygiene expectations) Japan; just ordered a Washlet and waiting for it to arrive.
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Jun 23, 2019 21:44
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some heavy shitter posted:one bidet tip is not to poop and use the enema spray at the same time. They causes a giant poop back splash and dirties the toilet and the bidet nozzle I would add that you should spray the anus once prior to pooping, as this relaxes/lubricates the sphincter and softens the stool, reducing the risk of dry shits causing anal fissures.
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Jun 23, 2019 22:15
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Um ok i'm sorry to interrupt the fascinating anal fissures discussion but I wanted some travel advice. I'm coming up on the end of my year in Japan, so I wanted to schedule a nice farewell trip for a week or two when school gets out - so the first few weeks of August. On the thread's recommendation I went up through Suwa to Nagano, Matsumoto, and Takayama over winter break and had a great time. My question now is: does anyone have any advice for similar trips to areas that aren't too far? What kinds of places could I access with a Seishun18 pass if I need to end up back in Tokyo? I've already visited Nikko and Kamakura. As before I'm working on a college student's budget here, and my biggest priorities are enjoying nature, cultural sights, and as much good food as possible.
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Jun 24, 2019 15:09
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did you even see kyoto and hiroshima yet mate
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Jun 24, 2019 23:35
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I recommend Aomori, especially if you can get there the first week of August for nebuta festivals in a few different cities. It’s not extremely convenient by train, but the weather is temperate and the fests are fun.
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Jun 25, 2019 02:14
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aomori loving owns. get over to akita and take the resort shirakami up the coast to get there.
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Jun 25, 2019 02:36
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peanut posted:did you even see kyoto and hiroshima yet mate Aomori does sound cool but... this is a good point. For some reason I had it in my head that Kyoto etc. were absolutely inaccessible from Tokyo without the shinkansen. So I guess I'll ask the usual questions - what's a good balance of time between Kyoto/Osaka/Nara? I might like to do a day trip to Uji from Kyoto since I love matcha. And also there's a ton of stuff en route from Osaka to Hiroshima so do ppl have any particular recommendations for if I decide to go that way
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Jun 25, 2019 15:44
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For my next inaka trip I really want to fly to Hakodate, take the ferry to Shimokita and then rent a car and drive down to Aomori or maybe all the way to Akita if I can manage it.
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Jun 25, 2019 15:55
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Shibawanko posted:For my next inaka trip I really want to fly to Hakodate, take the ferry to Shimokita and then rent a car and drive down to Aomori or maybe all the way to Akita if I can manage it. hakodate is p boring so get out of there asap imo. aomori was cool as were all the small places around sapporo.
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Jun 25, 2019 17:19
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I think I am blind in trying to find an Olympics thread. The US tickets thing came through last night and I only got accepted to 1/10. Really wanted that opening ceremony ticket. Do I have chance getting one from a scalper or on July 2nd for the free for all.
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Jun 25, 2019 17:24
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Do I need a voltage converter for the 120 v to 100 v when going from the US to Japan? I only need it for charging phones and my laptop. I imagine they’ll be fine and just charge a little slower. Is that right?
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Jun 25, 2019 20:12
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No Also learn how to read the description on your transformers And nothing is grounded btw E: test time  what’s the input voltage on my laptop charger Phone fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Jun 25, 2019 |
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Jun 25, 2019 20:14
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Phone posted:No Thanks, some of the info online is a bit ambiguous as to this. I think our Air BnB has a hairdryer for the wife, which seems to be the only iffy product. I doubt she wants to lug one of those over anyway. I don’t think we’re taking anything that’s 3 prong.
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Jun 25, 2019 20:21
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Electrical engineer here, most electronics designed for use in the states can handle the undervoltage of Japanese distribution. There's no real danger, since if anything goes wrong the item just won't work (as opposed to overvoltage which may potentially fry stuff). As advised previously, don't take 3-pronged items, and certainly don't use cheater plugs unless you're ok with taking on electrical fire liability. Make sure your transformers/wall warts/whatever is explicitly labeled as being able to handle 50-60Hz, as that's the big catch when it comes to japan
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Jun 25, 2019 20:54
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youcallthatatwist posted:Aomori does sound cool but... this is a good point. For some reason I had it in my head that Kyoto etc. were absolutely inaccessible from Tokyo without the shinkansen. osaka has great cheap places to stay and eat, and is a nice friendly fun city, although if you've been living in tokyo it might be less exciting. nara is a day trip. uji is a nice day trip or half-day, less crowded, i liked it, there's a street full of tea-related shops that are rather pricy and tourist-focused but fun to browse and chat to staff if you're into tea. fushimi-inari is on the train from kyoto to uji and nara and is a must-see and also completely free, someone was saying itt you can even just wander up the mountain after dark which sounded fun. kyoto ... depends how much you like temples and crowds and shuffling slowly through crowded temples while everyone blocks your view with their selfie sticks. i guess there's some neat architecture around too and you can avoid the worst crowds by timing things carefully? i like the station building. honestly one of my favorite things i did in that region when i was out there in the spring was to hop off the train at shin-kobe and just walk up the mountain right behind the station. it's nothing mind-blowing, but there's some nice trails that hardly anyone goes up, and you can walk up a ridge underneath the cable car and wave at folks going past above you and get nice views of the bay and stuff. good antidote to spending too long in kyoto.
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Nanigans posted:Do I need a voltage converter for the 120 v to 100 v when going from the US to Japan? bring 3 to 2 prong converters for your laptops if they are 3 prong. The bricks you have will work fine in Japan. Avoid bringing the following: 1) Hair dryer, since they will be weaker. The Japanese ones are better anyway. 2) Rice cooker, even if it's from Zojirushi, as those are rated for US voltage. 3) Refrigerator 4) Bidet toilet seat 5) Drill 6) Power tools
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7) Hair clippers
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ntan1 posted:bring 3 to 2 prong converters for your laptops if they are 3 prong. The bricks you have will work fine in Japan. This post made me lol for real. 1...okay...2...weird, but sure...3...ohhh
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Jun 25, 2019 23:22
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Old electronics that use the AC signal for timekeeping can get hosed up by 50/60 Hz
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The voltage difference frustrates me. I live in the US Midwest and in the winter I would love a kotatsu. I'm just worried if I import a real one from Japan the extra heat will make me go from toasty to crispy (along with my apartment).
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Jun 26, 2019 02:13
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i mean you could buy a transformer for pretty cheap if you're worried
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Jun 26, 2019 02:20
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mikeycp posted:i mean you could buy a transformer for pretty cheap if you're worried Don’t cheap out on transformers because they do sometimes fail and burn the house down. I used to use them when I was a kid to play the famicom but thinking back, I lucked out. I would rather wait for a universal plug kotatsu or get a chinese universal voltage
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Jun 26, 2019 02:27
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mikeycp posted:i mean you could buy a transformer for pretty cheap if you're worried Cheap voltage transformers are a fire hazard on their own. Even good ones will have a ton of waste heat.
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I run all sorts of expensive old japanese stuff in the US without a stepdown, never had a problem (also a cheapo kotatsu which did not get too hot). When I bring my laptop to Japan I use a 3-2 prong adapter I got in bic camera or something that has a ground pigtail you attach to the screw in the center of the wall plate: These are perfectly safe BTW, as long as they come from a major shop/manufacturer and not like, alibaba.com. Mine said "made in japan" on the package and yours should too. I've heard lots of weird poo poo about Japanese not using ground for electronics, or buildings not being grounded. They do and are, it's just that the stuff that needs to be grounded has a separate lead, or a place to attach a separate lead that you manually attach to your building's ground. It is true that they leave some stuff floating that we see grounded a lot in the US, like laptops. But if you look at any larger electronics (like a desktop PC) you will see a place to attach a grounding lead. How many people actually do it I have no idea but the infrastructure is definitely there on both ends. e: authentic nippon grounding screw: 
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The only outlet in my house with a grounding screw is designated for the clothes washer.
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Our first trip to Japan is in just a couple weeks. I'll be arriving at Osaka-Itami but leaving from Tokyo-Narita after 11 days in Japan. Any recommendations on pocket wifi options if I'm changing cities? I recall there being someone in this thread that had a link for cheap pocket wifi rental but it seems most companies assumed I was renting to/from the same airport. Or should I just get a travel sim card? I'm just not keen on draining my phone's battery hot spotting to my wife's phone all day.
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caberham posted:Don’t cheap out on transformers because they do sometimes fail and burn the house down. captkirk posted:Cheap voltage transformers are a fire hazard on their own. Even good ones will have a ton of waste heat. i didn't mean get a cheap one i meant you can get a decent one that's relatively inexpensive especially if it's just that tiny step down i paid more for mine because it also doesn't look like a piece of industrial hardware sitting on my counter
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peanut posted:The only outlet in my house with a grounding screw is designated for the clothes washer. Yeah I should have explained, the majority of outlets don't have them externally (and actually have no screws at all) but there is ground wiring throughout so they can be added when necessary (just exchange the outlet for one like this). I think they think this is "safer" or something, or just "this is how it's always been done" type thinking, though I accidentally stayed at that fascist business hotel chain and most of the outlets were US-style 3-prong aside from a set directly on the bed headboard (???). There is just this weird thing I see repeated online that japanese buildings are straight up never wired for ground at all and they don't have any concept of it and that's completely false, it's just not in your face normally because most consumer electronics there (and increasingly in most places) are designed to float, but when they aren't they make it real clear in the manuals etc and japanese actually do go out and buy a special outlet for their special gadget, because japan. d0s fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Jun 26, 2019 |
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geese posted:Our first trip to Japan is in just a couple weeks. I'll be arriving at Osaka-Itami but leaving from Tokyo-Narita after 11 days in Japan. Any recommendations on pocket wifi options if I'm changing cities? I recall there being someone in this thread that had a link for cheap pocket wifi rental but it seems most companies assumed I was renting to/from the same airport. Or should I just get a travel sim card? I'm just not keen on draining my phone's battery hot spotting to my wife's phone all day. https://rental.cdjapan.co.jp/index_en_jpy_7.html They will mail it to your hotel to pick up and you return it by dropping it in one of the mailboxes at your departure airport. Couldn't be simpler. No reason to get anything other than the cheapest one either, it throttles you a little but it's not noticeable.
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I use a transformer to play Japanese Saturn games in Europe, so I have to convert 220v down to 100. I never trust the loving thing and I always leave it unplugged when I'm done with it.
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What would be the best way to get my desktop computer to Japan? Dissassemble the fucker and ship it to my new address piece by piece? Wrap the entire thing in bubblewrap and mail it in one piece?
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I'd remove the storage from it and bring those along in carry-on, then carefully pack the rest in one piece.
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Archer666 posted:What would be the best way to get my desktop computer to Japan? Dissassemble the fucker and ship it to my new address piece by piece? Wrap the entire thing in bubblewrap and mail it in one piece? Unplug and bubble wrap all the components, pack them all in the case and just ship the case? Worst case you're just out the case and/or motherboard. Just guessing, but that's probably what I'd try. *edit* Wrap and box the case, obviously. Stringent fucked around with this message at 10:30 on Jun 26, 2019 |
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Jun 26, 2019 10:28
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Archer666 posted:What would be the best way to get my desktop computer to Japan? Dissassemble the fucker and ship it to my new address piece by piece? Wrap the entire thing in bubblewrap and mail it in one piece? I brought storage separately and unhooked/removed the graphics card as well. Otherwise I wrapped it in bubble wrap and stuffed it full of clothes.
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geese posted:Our first trip to Japan is in just a couple weeks. I'll be arriving at Osaka-Itami but leaving from Tokyo-Narita after 11 days in Japan. Any recommendations on pocket wifi options if I'm changing cities? I recall there being someone in this thread that had a link for cheap pocket wifi rental but it seems most companies assumed I was renting to/from the same airport. Or should I just get a travel sim card? I'm just not keen on draining my phone's battery hot spotting to my wife's phone all day. I could be wrong but I don't think that wifi rental agencies actually have offices in airports. When you pick up from an airport it's just a package they ship to an in-terminal generic logistics company, as you would pick up luggage, etc., and returning all wifi rentals is as easy as dropping the prepaid envelope you get into any domestic mail slot before you go through security. That's been my experience twice, I expect it's probably the same for most.
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