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BG3. I moved after I started playing and haven’t had time to really go back to it and, at this point, kinda forget everything.
BG3. I moved after I started playing and haven’t had time to really go back to it and, at this point, kinda forget everything.
I mean, a lot of people do jump in with little or no research and try to spend their way out of problems. That is definitely not good, particularly when animals and animal welfare is involved.
It’s really an acreage with a garden and some animals, but they call it a farm, and aren’t really interested in the actual farms.
I mean… are we gatekeeping farms now? I’m trying to feed my family and hopefully have enough to sell (starting next year, anyway; we moved here too late this year and I’m still learning my land). In my case, no animals for now (though chickens are in the cards for next year and maybe we’ll do something else the following year).
I do plan to commercially farm, though I also plan to keep my day job for the foreseeable future. Market gardeners with a good market can make quite a lot off of the ~5000sqm of farmland like I have, but there’s no market that’s going to be good for that in rural Japan. The best case scenario for being commercially successful in that way would be to network with chefs in the bigger cities, but I have neither the talent nor reputation for that (nor would I want to commit to that until at least another year or two when I can confirm stability). I do have friends who run a restaurant who are willing to pay for some of what I am growing if it works out, and another lead in the nearest big city (~1 hour away), but that’s it.
I’m outside nearly every single day preparing, cultivating, sowing, harvesting, etc. and treat it like a job. I just harvested ~15kg of potatoes this morning (literally one of the first things I did when moving here was get those in the ground) and a few kilos of green onions. Am I not at least a part-time farmer? The local government says I am, in any case (buying registered farmland in Japan is a process, lemme tell ya).
Simple, repetitive work that doesn’t follow any predictable schedule
I have multiple spreadsheets, have to monitor and adjust to a lot of different conditions, have to actively monitor pests and plant growth and react to those (and predict for the next year and be proactive), and a bunch of other stuff. Farming tends to very much follow a predictable schedule insofaras you know in any given season what you will be doing and what you need to be getting ready for.
I think that really depends on both the IT role as well as the type and scale of farm. If someone has a really stressful workplace in IT but makes enough money to buy a farm and semi-retire, it could just be that having the farm supplements their food and doesn’t need to turn a profit. It’s very different to, say, a subsistence farmer or one who has to make a lot to pay for mortgage, retirement, etc.
As a software developer who started a farm this year, I’m getting a kick…
/ Still keeping my day job, though.
I imagine data security and what the government would know is putting some off. It is part of the reason the national ID (My Number) faltered.
Off the top of my head, and I’m sure there are more, people use: tinder, bumble, Pairs, Zwei, Zekushi, and probably more. Pairs and Zwei, at least, are geared toward long-term and marriage. Pairs had a very bad UX and, of course, a cost. I did meet some people on there, but nothing lasted (one nearly did, but I wasn’t doing another LTR with a barely-functional alcoholic that otherwise was a great match).
In principal, I 100% agree. We do have food banks here, especially as the yen has dropped against the dollar making imports more expensive (and tons of things here are hit with that even secondarily as fuel and such is largely an import), inflation, and the economic shake-up during and after corona.
The issue specific with ehonmaki/sushi is the raw fish component and the way they’re held during the day (not in closed coolers for the most part, but the open type which can be much more variable in temperature). I don’t think they should give away potentially dangerous food. The other stuff, yeah, 100%
My gut is that food safety rules here probably make that difficult (though I don’t know for sure). They have a pretty short shelf life being raw seafood (in many cases) and are already steadily discounted as the day goes on before being tossed.
Edit: the article also mentioned things like Christmas cake that do last longer but can’t really be turned into anything else. I bought a Christmas cake a day or two after once
The japanese article mentions some of it is sent to recycling companies with the one example using it for pig feed. The numbers are also probably higher because some had been thrown away before the volunteers/workers did their survey
I just assumed we already were (well, was, in my case, having moved to a place with septic). Several of my family worked in wastewater treatment. It doesn’t bother me
Plants for now. Chickens will be next but not until next year sometime (we want to do some travel before we have animals we need to care for and potentially to find a farm sitter). Maybe something to eat all of the kudzu and stuff we get in the future, but I’m not thinking that far ahead. Japan has really strict laws on butchery even just for personal consumption. I think goats are OK to self-butcher, but I also don’t know that I really want a goat.
My primary job is IT, but I am starting a farm and worked on one as a teenager.
Can confirm as someone who lives in Japan. It’s an oft-dis used thing in foreigner groups when the new arrivals show up and notice
We do that in English as well in some cases.
q: “Where’s the beer?” a: “fridge”.
say them aloud
Wait 'till you learn about pitch accent :)
At least most things are pronounced like they are written but not all.
n -> m is a common one such as in 新聞 because Japanese doesn’t have standalone m.
Japanese also has 7 vowels: standard aeiou and devoiced i and u. It’s the reason people say です (desu) like ‘des’. A fun example of this playing out is 靴下 (kutsushita - socks). My wife (native Japanese speaker) didn’t even realize this until I was watching a video about it.
Yeah. Super drunk dude who got thrown out of a bar decided everyone was on his shitlist. Apparently, he was known to the cops. I was standing outside and dude ran up in punched me. I hadn’t said a word to him the whole night. Not sure why he picked me. He appeared to be coked out, so there’s that. He was arrested for something else (DV, I think) not long after.
https://genius.com/Mrs-green-apple-columbus-lyrics with google translate should get you there. I tried to listen to the song to verify but it’s awful and I’m not subjecting myself to that.
I could also imagine the missionaries that were coming over described the American Indians in such a way and it just kinda went from there in collective memory.
Work for my retirement because you forgot that :P
I would travel a bit and concentrate more on farming. I do enjoy my software engineering job and was writing code as a hobby long before it paid the bills so I’d want to keep up something like that.
If I have to give only a binary yes/no answer, the answer is no. In reality, there are lots of variables ranging from breed, pen size, herd makeup, season, socialization, hunger, weather, and even more that would factor in. That’s without considering the other variable of you as a person they don’t know.
Edit: that’s not even to say the cattle or a bovine would intentionally hurt you. They’re big, sometimes clumsy, have horns, etc. I follow some youtubers who have been raising cattle anywhere from a couple years to most of their lives and they still are very careful in a lot of their movements and interactions.