Did you know they did the whole soundtrack with actual instruments? I can't seem to find it on yt right now though, only the main theme. Worth trying to track down though if you like the music that much
Japan's changed in the last few years. Chain restaurants there's a separate air tight smoking room or you can't smoke indoors at all. Local places might allow it but I feel like I don't see it much even then. The only places left that have it seem to be bars or izakayas.
Is this a US expression? I never heard it growing up so I just assumed it was from the UK or something
I legit had no idea ginger ale was supposed to taste like ginger until I was in college and had ginger beer for the first time. Ginger ale is a normal unassuming soda-- ginger beer (the right version anyway) is better than pretty much any other soda.
Interview w some r&d guy from suntory
Hey, I don't criticize your hobbies...
Do they sell the 500 ml version? The cans in this pic are 330, which is a bit smaller than the standard 350 in Japan as well.
I had this happen IRL, when my friend was helping do some super tasks in his small apt building to get a reduction in his condo fees. The boiler needed to be reset for some reason I can't remember, so he headed down and pushed the obvious buttons that seemed to be for turning it off and on. About 30 minutes later it seemed like the apartment was getting colder and he got some calls from other people in the building. This was in the middle of a pretty cold winter, so a boiler guy had to be called to come out. It was probably 8 or 9 PM, so I'm sure he was charging some exorbitant rates to be there, and once he arrived he went around the side and pushed a tiny unmarked metal slide in and out once, which fixed the problem.
If you zoom in on the can it says 6%. Japan went through a phase of increasing alcohol percentages on these types of drinks ~10 years ago when the govt was raising taxes on beer a few times in a relatively short time period. They first came out with the "strong" versions which were 9%, and I think that wave peaked at a 13% lemon drink (which tasted like licking a robot, btw).
More recently Japan's been a little more health conscious about booze in general, so there's been an increase in types of non-alcoholic versions of drinks, including pale ale type beers and cocktails. The companies making cheap options like the -196 and the zeros have subsequently put 6 and 7% versions in the stores. There've also been studies showing young people drinking less overall, so it'll be interesting to see what the next moves are.
I got frustrated a couple years ago trying to run a very old windows game so I ran win 3.1 through DOSBox and it worked.
The NH libertarian party also produced this greasy weirdo comparing car licenses to a license for making toast at home. Gary Johnson got booed for saying a drivers license wasn't a bad idea.
They're a party of clowns
No, you use the fascist power granted by fascists to abuse the fascists who granted it in the first place. Power is the only thing that stops fascists. Start with a few nights in a black site for the justices who thought granting absolute power to the president was OK. If scotus already accepts fascism from their team it's already too late for your plan to work.
If you know the Sinatra version you might also know it was done by tons of other people, like Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Mel Tormé, etc. Sinatra wasn't even the original.
Dunno, better call in an etymologist to study what bugs the birds are eating.
Where did you get it? The internet archive link from the article said "item not available".
First season Wesley is sad to hear you didn't like him
I'd already been doing contact juggling by the time the fushigi came out, but the ads implied that you could just... perform a skill by buying their product. It'd be like a company marketing the "mystical multiball" that shows people juggling 7 objects and implying you too could do that if you only owned their particular set.
I agree with you that a large part of the problem is that destruction is easier than creation, but it wouldn't be hard to get a lot of progressive things in if there were the political will for it. Appoint tons of progressive judges and start putting through huge increases in wealth taxes, climate and social programs, workers/union rights, scale back police power, etc etc.
But even if there were hundreds of leftist judges waiting in the wings, the dems are too corporatist to support stuff like that, so the best they can offer is some social programs that won't upset the status quo too much.
Getting Sync's internal browser to default to Firefox?
Links that open natively in Sync (like news articles) are often riddled with ads. Is there any way for the Sync shell to open through a Firefox based browser, which includes native ad block?
I'm not sure if this is related to what browsers I have on my phone. I do have one chromium based browser (kiwi) installed, and if getting rid of that would fix the problem I could look into deleting it and leaving only FF on my phone. But I'm not sure if it's related.
the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project is a good resource about a few regionalisms in N America
Ever wanted to understand where the phrase "needs washed" comes from? This is a good site to check out maps and explanations of local phrasings
Hey, have you met my jirlfriend?
(hopefully someone with more AI experience can pull this off better but I couldn't get it to replace all of a person's skin with denim no matter how many iterations I went through)
Disabled keyboard shortcuts on a particular site
I was on a streaming site and fumbled some keystroke that popped up a menu where one option was "disable keyboard shortcuts". I accidentally clicked on it and now the arrow keys don't scroll, space doesn't pause, etc. I can't figure out where that menu is to restore functionality to the keyboard, even after a browser restart.
As far as I can tell, this is site specific, as the keyboard works for youtube and other streaming sites. Any ideas? If it helps, the site I was on is fmoviesz dot to
strange order of credits
Was watching From (horror series from MGM) and one of the episodes had the credits listed in a strange order. I know there's some politicking in who gets listed in what order, but this was odd because it was for very minor parts.
There's a gaggle of 7 scary children who are basically there to look creepy, and while they technically have speaking parts, they all just say the same gibberish word over and over. In the credits for S02E10, after the one guest star, the next screen lists (among other cast) "ghoulish child" #5 and #7, then the screen after that lists #2, 3, 4, and 6 (one of the kids is called "ghastly child" and I guess is more main, though I couldn't really see a difference).
Any idea what could cause this? Could kids 5 and 7 be related to the director or something? What possible reason could there be for listing such minor parts out of order? And if they wanted a couple kids featured more prominently, why wouldn't they just call those kids 2 and 3 instead of 5 and 7?
edit: here's a link to the imdb cast page
Why would certain comments or threads on other instances not show up?
I still don't really understand how the fediverse interacts very well, so this might be something basic. When I access this post through the original lemmy.world, there are (currently) 44 comments showing, but when I access it through lemmy.zip, only 9 comments show up. This entire comment thread, for example, doesn't appear through .zip. When I go to that thread's OP's profile through .zip, the comment is missing there as well.
As far as I know we're not defederated from lemmy.world, but that's the only reason I was aware of that a user's comments might not appear. Does it have to do with the fact that it's a new instance or something?
Trauma Trooper - PBF Comics
Ever since the comic stopped regular updates I forget about it for awhile then I have a few random updates to go back through. Glad Gurewitch is still making new material, even if it's infrequent.
How the fuck is this my problem, ticketmaster?!
Apparently they won't sell you seats if you leave a single seat next to your order. Fuck this shitty monopoly
Riker's always thirsty
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