This is awesome! I had no idea about any of this! Thanks for the explanation and food time example. And yeah, by not using QWERTY I'd think the first other option would be an alphabet, but it's something completely different! Now I wonder if there is a similar "code" for typos in other languages.

I'd like an explanation, please!

You mean don't kirk-shame?

Holy shit, I never expected to see the company I worked for (as Apple support) in the news, you go Conduent! But honestly, yeah, the amount of personal data we used to deal with was absurd, and the security was almost non-existent. The only account that was prohibited to even look up was Tim Cook's one. You could be easily fired for that.

Basically, we could see the whole purchase history of any account, bank info, address, phone numbers, etc. and we used to tell the customers crap like "oh, no, I don't see anything, we cannot identify payments or block/unblock your iphone", even though we could easily do all that and way more in a few clicks.

Anyway, my NDA is over now, so I guess it's fine for me to share all this.

Nice.

So Apple paid for the same thing a couple of years ago, and Google pays for it now. Two of the biggest "phone/os" companies do spy on people and now it's a confirmed fact.

The top left picture is like: "gotta get her some flowers, but gotta tip those feet too."

Born in Russia, moved to Europe after graduating, then moved to Japan. I would never go back to any of the places I lived in. Of course, Japan is not perfect; no country is. But I realized it's about the compromises you're willing/can deal with. At least here, my family and I feel safe and as comfortable as we've never felt before.

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Say whatever you like, blame whatever you want, but it actually does look like it's an attempt to ride on the original brand's popularity. It's obviously easy to assume that the two are related.

Just passed my driving test. You're legally obligated to drive bellow 10 km/h or stop completely if there are pedestrians on roads like this.

Judging by the increase by 43%, it means at least 100 cases. Which is already too many for such a thing.

I started questioning our role in the World War 2 during a history lesson when I was in, like, 4th grade. I'm from Russia.

I really hope they're all under 1 kilo

I'm 0% Japanese and can say that so far, aside from some annoying paperwork, it's a bliss compared to the countries I used to live in before. Maybe the difference is that I didn't expect people to truly love me behind their smiles and politeness. Just being friendly (as it is in 99% of cases here for me) is enough, and way above my experience in Europe when people jumped to being rude and sometimes hostile right after hearing my accent after trying to speak local language.

Including onions, that's 3 out of 4 for me. Feels like being targeted a bit lol

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Depends on the country I believe. I've got a refund for my sixth eye surgery a couple of months ago thanks to my insurance.

I guess with some exceptions. In the last couple of years, my wife and I finally started to live very comfortable lives for the first time in about 15 years of struggles. We were even able to afford to move to Japan, where with our income life is even better and safer.