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Nice! I hadn't really thought of fennel.

Cucumbers and okra have been our two most successful things so far. Most of my herbs are doing OK as well, I suppose. We've hit 35 a couple times this year. The forecast has us mostly in the upper 20s and low 30s for the next few weeks. I just got second planting potatoes in, so we'll see how that goes. I planted a bunch of daikon radish, it came up nicely, then died a couple of days later. I'm not sure if it's the intense sun and heat or if I needed to get water to them again sooner. I've still got more seeds, so I might try planting them again later in the season.

I no longer live in the US in part for reasons I wouldn't have a child there.

• inequality increasing
• education costs increasing
• low employee protections
• ridiculous and expensive healthcare system
• few or poor social and community programs (not just social safety net but also libraries, public transit, etc.)
• environmental and other protections backsliding

Because of many of those, I left. The secondary reasons for not having my own biological kids are some medical issues I have and, by the time I was stable enough, I was already coming into my 40s. I had considered adoption, but ultimately decided not to do that, either.

I live in a rural area in northern Japan.

We just started a few months ago (we were supposed to get the house last year but, due to various factors, we couldn't take possession and get moved in until just before April). We're definitely learning a lot about farming and what works for our land and environment but, because of the time we got the house, we've been super rushed. I think we'll do better next year.

My goal is to position myself to deal with a lot of products foreigners living in Japan want and have trouble getting. That's a lot of peppers, different types of beans, etc.

This is not correct. It's 20ish days (23, I think?)

I list n to podcasts about science, space, farming, linguistics, and literature. They're actually rather interesting. I don't think I could do just random bullshit

But that has nothing to do with the average japanese person nor business.

A buddy wanted to play board games and there was a shop not far from where I lived with a lot of them, including some in English (I live in Japan, Tokyo at the time). We played games and I wanted to introduce him to my favorite bar. The place next to it was also somewhere I went often and had two open seats. We sat down and started talking with some others I didn't know and some regulars. Well, I hit it off with one of those people I didn't know and we've now been married almost 3 years. I wasn't actually looking for anything at the time, having more-or-less given up on the whole dating thing after a couple of relationships (mostly looking on LTR/marriage-focused apps here). So, basically, very lucky.

It's not 100% but it's super high and, yeah, they usually don't prosecute unless they think they have a really solid case. That said, some of that also includes confessions that some have argued are under duress (and, in the case of foreigners, people who aren't exactly sure what they're signing, though I have no idea how that's legal).

In some countries, it's unfortunately the main source of customer interaction. In Japan, it's been trending more towards Instagram lately, but that's basically just as bad. Still, it's often the only way to know if a business.is open that day, hours, etc. at least it's not Facebook anymore.

How to get average Japanese to adopt something like Mastodon is a whole other thing.

Edit: mobile hates me (and spelling, apparently).

Nice! Thank you!

I will learn to build a mouse and write my own damn drivers first.

Yahweh was a storm/raiding god fairly similar to, and later competing with and overtaking, Ba'al in the same domain but from the northwest (IIRC) semitic pantheon. The YouTube channel Esoterica has some great vids about it.