Even then, the vast majority of people taking taxis regularly are business people going to and from business meetings and expensing it away, as evidenced by the heavily targeted ads for BtoB SaaS playing on the screens in the back of Tokyo taxis.

The vast majority of old people working these jobs, e.g. construction site security, do so because they would likely starve without it.

I work for one of the top datacenter companies in the world and we run 8TWh on 96% renewable energy.

Phone chargers have already been made universal for years, they're all USB-A or C. Stop saying we're revolutionizing the charger industry, we're just standardizing the fucking cable.

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Go see a Donki in a residential neighborhood and it'll be full of locals. I live in Shirokane, an upscale highly residential neighborhood off of Meguro station, and even if it's reputed as one of the richest place in Tokyo there is a Donki and it's packed with local families shopping.

And in the old analog days, even if you're an expert with keys and stroke counts, it was still much faster to search a roman character word in a dictionary than a Japanese word you don't know the pronunciation of.

The main issues I see with this is, rather than just "I don't trust the government":

1. They'll do a scan of all devices then ask the ISPs to provide customer information for the vulnerable IPs found so that the government can contact them. So now you'll end up with a big fat list somewhere with names and addresses next to known vulnerability and that list is bound to leak sooner than later. See "My Number" (Japanese equivalent of social security numbers) leaks recently.

2. This makes for great phishing. All newspapers and TV channels have said you might receive notice from the government about security. Now you just have to send emails or letter claiming to be the government, saying "we have found your network to be vulnerable, please run this program to clean it up" and it's way more likely people will run your malware. FREE Advertisement provided by public funds!

While taxiing to take of, the front landing gear broke so we had to go back to the Phuket airport (still airside) until another plan could be made available. Since we would not make the connection in BKK, they collected everyone's passport to stamp them with a temporary transit visa as we'd need to go to a hotel in Bangkok to wait for the next connection.

After 2-3h the new plane arrived, we flew to BKK and upon deplaning at the gate, a flight attendant came in holding a trash bag filled with all of our passport and proceeded to dump it on the floor and let the 100 or so passengers sift through the pile to find their own passport...

Good times.

Also, once you're in, you'll have to pick the kid before 6pm in most daycares which means you must leave the office at 5pm and since a lot of companies do not have flex time, that single hour will push you to a part-time position. Then the daycare will refuse to take your child if they have a fever of 36.8℃ and do regular temperature checks during the day and force you to drop your work and come pick the child straight away if they go above 36.8℃.

Unless you work close to home and have a very flexible and comprehending employer (or have grand parents close by and ready to help), even with a lucky spot in daycare it is extremely complicated to continue working.

Let's not even talk about elementary school where mandatory partake in time-consuming useless PTA activities basically assumes one of the parent does not work.