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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.

Counting calories is inherently inaccurate, since the margin of error for measurement on food labels is 20%. Calories are a unit of heat energy and aren’t all that useful for the management of ones diet.

fail to meet our goal and rebound to the same weight - if not heavier

If calorie counting isn’t working, and there is a rebound, then perhaps there is something else in our bodies that underlie the condition of being overweight that isn’t just how much you eat, which I think you described well in the paragraph after.

rural village scenario

Unfortunately most of us are unable to go live in one of these, but in that scenario you described I do agree that the obese person would get a lot healthier. The removal of all processed foods would have done a lot of good by itself. Better sleep, good circadian rhythms, etc, would all contribute considerably too.

Rules for thee…

The condition of being a billionaire is pathological, and should be dealt with in an appropriate way to pathology.

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

I have had the same idea. Photovoltaic cells are sadly all quite stiff and/or fragile …

Is this all of Japan? I wonder what it looks like comparing just Tokyo with LA

I think Moto is actually Lenovo now?

Sleep is my go to when I’m tired!

Speaking grammatically without using any slang or jargon will get you most of the way there, I think!

How’s this compare against Moonlight?

Code reviews take up a lot of time, and if I know a lot of code in a review is AI generated I feel like I’m obliged to go through it with greater rigour, making it take up more time. LLM code is unaware of fundamental things such as quirks due to tech debt and existing conventions. It’s not great.

Did Synology forget what the I in RAID is?

My four year old low-end test device running Android had its assistant switched out from Google Assistant to Gemini. I was very surprised since I’d assumed that the vendor had stopped supporting it since it was so cheap, but it updated anyway.

Why are you being downvoted for this? In stock devices the user has no way to even start looking at what is being run. All you can do is trust the manufacturer.

Everyone who lives here plays video games all day and our healthcare isn’t even completely free, the burden is just shared by nationalization. Video games are such a menace to society!