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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.

Good job, EU. I hope the rest of the world takes note.

Rules for thee…

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

TIL

The phrase Japanese First was meant to express rebuilding Japanese people’s livelihoods by resisting globalism.

This isn’t such a bad thing, by itself. For one, Japan’s entirely beholden to the American tech giants for its tech sector and really should start its own buildout.

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.

Corporations are run like autocracies, too, so there’s some irony in that.

I think Moto is actually Lenovo now?

Sleep is my go to when I’m tired!