Tbh I mostly just survived because I was vegetarian back then, I went vegan some time after I got back. You can definitely do it, just use happy cow and plan well. Also you can live on kombu and pickled plum onigiri from 7/11 lol.

Also if you get out to Kobe, you should visit a place called "Vegan Cafe Kiu." One of the best meals I had on the entire trip and the coziest cafe I've ever been in, pretty sure it's just a house.

My accoustic guitar, I desperately hope, I love it way too much to ever be without it.

It was super hard to be vegan in Japan, but not impossible. If anyone goes to Osaka you need to check out OKO Takoyaki, it's one of the coolest places I've ever been to and their food is some of the best I had in Japan. If you look hard enough, you'll find my name on a couple of the walls

Without any context, this seems entirely reasonable. Basically just saying don't victim blame

We're both at the same time

I'm probably not exactly what you're looking for, but I went from considering suicide after I was diagnosed with an incurable disability that turned my life into an existence of pain, with next to no medical support or advice beyond "do yoga about it" to doing suprisingly well in life. I was also depressed before all of that, a shitty person and still trying to escape a really awful person in my life.

I turned it around gradually, but the two biggest things were getting the right meds (and being absurdly lucky to be one of the rare few who respond to it at all) and starting with a psychologist. Years of dealing with trauma and learning to accept and change the bad parts of myself eventually led to reading leftist theory, becoming an anarchist and meeting some incredible people. At some point in that journey I got on HRT and that did wonders for the worst of my depression too.

I'm at a point where I don't think I resemble the person I was two or three years ago one bit. I used to deal with all the bad shit going on in the world by just trying to ignore it and only caring about myself and those close to me, but actively trying to improve the world is infinitely better.

I absolutely agree, getting your Ls should involve a short course and test like it does for motorbikes. Just scanning the road and looking out for danger properly is a whole skill that people need to be taught.

I'd say the biggest thing we can really do for road safety is to just reduce car numbers, so of course more trains and a bunch of HSR between the cities. Going 130 can reduce your travel time by a tiny amount, but going 250-300 on one of the safest modes of travel is something else entirely.

Dr. Stone is amazing and really scratched a nerdy itch for me, haven't watched all of the anime but from what I have seen it's a solid adaptation of the manga

Trans inclusive radical misogyny

Personally I don't, I can see someone not hating that kind of humour as much as me thinking it's funny, in which case I guess it would be.

Power move

I'd totally do this on purpose

That's a great salary even if divided between 10,000 people.

Fuck billionaires, leeches