tiredofsametab

I've only been twice in the last decade: once the year after I moved and summer 2022ish. It's just crazy to watch. My family just offered to pay for us to fly out for vacation but I declined. My non-white wife that doesn't really speek English + immigration now means we're not going near the place.

There is a totalization agreement with the japanese govt, so I could theoretically do something before renouncing, but I've never looked into it. I liked the idea of having both for diversity and safety

I don't know either. I imagine it just lives on. I can't put money in them now from Japan anyway (well, unless I want to pay some taxes in the US on top of what I pay here; no thanks). I can't use Japan's equivalent either since the US tax authorities will massacre you with paperwork and fines (PFICs). If social security still exists, I worked long enough in the US to get that and it doesn't matter for that if I renounce.

I was considering trying to cash out my 401k and ira in the US (I bought my first house and I think that's one of the allowed cases), but hadn't worked out the details yet. Guess that's not happening right now. I no longer live in the US and will probably renounce citizenship once my parents go.

I looked at my other investments this morning based on this post and.... Lol. Granted, I only one a handful, but it still hurts. My stock that was worth only like 40 cents moved up 5+% so yay for that, I guess.

Just make turning at all on a red illegal. Many countries do this and we get by just fine. I went to the US a couple summer ago and wife and I got nearly taken out while walking across a street by this woman only looking left and not planning to stop at the light coming off a highway.

As some who first tried Linux in the '90s, uses it at work, and has it on at least one device at home, I disagree. Linux got easier, but so did windows. I do t daily drive Linux because software I need just will not run on my current distro as-is and would take hours of my time to troubleshoot and maybe get working.

When I went to upgrade that distro (Mint) it also had all kinds of stuff that required manual intervention that someone without Linux knowledge would have had a much harder time with

Depends on how they are cooked. I hate popcorn because I always end up with little bits of hull Stu k in my throat. Same goes for shrimp. If it's cooked well enough that that doesn't happen, I'm fine to eat them

I don't like lawns in general. Grow something useful; food for you or rewild for pollinators and biodiversity.

Anything to do with a paper check you wrote sounds good enough for me, but I'm just one random dude on the internet.

0; am old. What's funny is that it's 2025 and anyone trying to get internet in Japan with one of the only two fiber providers (NTT) still has to send a fax to set it up.

65 per 100 of the 100 largest.... nope, I've got nothin'.

His end goal is to increase his wealth, status, and power as well as punishing those who dare to disagree or make him feel smaller.