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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.

The trick must surely lie in the preparation. We aren’t Neanderthals and cook our food, and I’m sure we can find a way to make maggots or other insect larvae appetizing. As you mentioned, they are highly nutritious.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-50048760

Assuming 7 grams of protein per ounce of beef, you’d need roughly 1.21 kgs of beef for a 75kg Neanderthal.

4g per kg of body weight is still a tremendous amount of meat.

Rules for thee…

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

CNN article this is based on here: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/01/science/explorer-world-remote-nanoplastics-scli-intl

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

Thank you for that colourfully described nugget of information. Username checks out…

Personal gripe but I’ve never agreed with the term artificial sweetener, they are genuinely sweet, is it because they aren’t sucrose/fructose/glucose?

Either way I remember reading about Erythritol from a study on nature.com a while ago. It’s one of the unfortunate low-caloric sweeteners that are still linked to obesity and all the problems related to that condition. Best avoided to be on the safe side.

I think Moto is actually Lenovo now?

Doesn’t really seem like they’ll get rid of what’s already in the bloodstream and no real mention of safety yet, but it looks promising.

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.

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.

As part of the industrialized lifestyles, could it be the consumption of industrialized foods? Our bodies likely cannot deal with the externalities of industrial farming. Ultraprocessed foods such as industrially refined oils are entirely novel.

It doesn’t seem like such a stretch that human bodies then respond with inflammation to try to remove the unfamiliar, to me.