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So it’s not fair that some cars can’t accommodate all passengers of all sorts with any various disability, but it’s fair to deny employment to those with some sort of disability (animal allergies). Odd perspective.

I learned simple reading, basic math, how to read a clock, and various life and social skills in kindergarten. There's certainly a lot of active teaching going on at the kindergarten level, although I can't speak for all schools.

Without kindergarten, I would've been way behind when I entered first grade. There was a presumption of foundational knowledge on day one there.

How else are you to evaluate an emergency alert from the government that disaster is about to strike?

People who think they're "good at evaluating information" and ignore emergency notifications can and do quite often end up dead.

Yeah, I saw the headline thinking this is just a feature every Japanese dictionary offers. Surely I must be mistaken, because there's no way yet another person remade this feature yet again.

But no. It's literally one of the basic features of every kanji/hanzi dictionary.

Google oftentimes doesn't.

One of my accounts requires a phone number to verify every single time I login. I have no clue why, and it accepts absolutely any phone number.

I have no clue what the purpose is aside from forcing me to give sensitive information to other people when my phone isn't available or I'm traveling (which I've been forced to do already).

You can expect anything you want. Doesn’t make your expectations realistic or absolve you of responsibility, though.

Nobody’s going to step in and change things if it’s easy money and people will keep buying it and shifting blame. It doesn’t work that way.

Vietnam isn’t, though.

>Japan isn't even currently granting long-term work visas for professionals who will contribute to the economy for multiple years

People are still able to move to Japan and visas are being granted. There's just a 2 week quarantine when people arrive.

I don't want to seem too accusatory, but this just felt like an angry rant without much research.

I've been to a few places on this earth, and while I know there are some Europeans who'll proudly talk about how paying for toilets helps keep them clean, I haven't noticed them being any better than gas station bathrooms in the US. Some are okay, some are total disaster sites. The only difference is someone or a machine standing at the door taking your money.

Meanwhile, in East Asia, I've never encountered a pay toilet. I've also really only encountered truly dirty toilets in the middle of very remote parks. Japan, Taiwan, and Korea all have excellent free toilets. Even China does pretty decently. Parks and urban areas across the country have toilets that are well maintained, and I noticed public bathrooms even in the middle of residential areas around Beijing that were hosed down a few times a day.

So no, I don't agree that the only way to fix things is to revert to literal nickel and diming. Learn from the countries that manage their systems better instead of giving up and saying it's impossible.