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Planar Magnetic headphones. Can’t go back.

Not as far as I’m aware.

There is the GFCI in the switch box, but yeah, both gfci+grounded would be preferable.

You’d think so, but the ground will either be at the bottom of the outlet, requiring a separate cable, or Type-B.

Yup. Japan also has grounded outlets, though, although they are comparatively rarer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JCB_(credit_card_company)

Japan also accepts bank transfer for online payments. So you don’t even need to leave your house.

No thanks. It’s not for me.

What are the alternatives to Visa/Mastercard?

Absolutely. I’d switch to other payment methods that aren’t those, if you can.

The trick must surely lie in the preparation. We aren’t Neanderthals and cook our food, and I’m sure we can find a way to make maggots or other insect larvae appetizing. As you mentioned, they are highly nutritious.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-50048760

Assuming 7 grams of protein per ounce of beef, you’d need roughly 1.21 kgs of beef for a 75kg Neanderthal.

4g per kg of body weight is still a tremendous amount of meat.

Harmless by themselves, perhaps, but if they make some ultraprocessed foods more appealing are they entirely harmless? I think it’s fine to make beet juice in the kitchen for our own uses.

Why not disallow all food dye, not just the bright ones?

Rules for thee…

I’ve stopped caring about anything this waste of carbon dioxide says.

Is it catatonic?

TIL

The phrase Japanese First was meant to express rebuilding Japanese people’s livelihoods by resisting globalism.

This isn’t such a bad thing, by itself. For one, Japan’s entirely beholden to the American tech giants for its tech sector and really should start its own buildout.