Dunan

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by Dunan 9y ago
Automobile-related bureaucracy should have no place at all in anything related to voting. Why should a disabled person who can never make use of the DMV's real purpose have to go there just to exercise a Constitutional right? If peopl
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by Dunan 9y ago
It should, but English lacks a suffix for "addicted to...", so people have taken the "-holic" of "alcoholic" and reinterpreted it to fill that void. The genie is out of the bottle now, so to speak, and we will
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by Dunan 9y ago
I've never understood the whole "doctor's note" thing. When you're sick, the last thing you want to do is go out in the cold or rain, ride the train with other possibly-sick people, sit in a doctor's waiting r
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by Dunan 9y ago
My Japanese company does this. Their "solution": don't get sick. You should be taking vitamins and getting enough nutrition. Miraculously people manage it. Somehow I never get sick on the weekdays and then I can feel my bo
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by Dunan 9y ago
I work for a company like this (a direct rival to Amazon, aping many of its policies) in a country infamous for its workaholism, and given the intense pressure to never get sick (not becoming sick is considered part of one's personal r
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by Dunan 10y ago
Japan is like this, only most regular employees never have to do a thing. Our employers take care of everything and our December pay packets are adjusted so that the correct amount of tax for the year has been paid. Banks also take tax ou
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by Dunan 10y ago
Reading about this reminds me of my favorite folktale from Yonaguni, which shows off how ingenious these embattled islanders were: "It is said that from the top of the hills on Yonakuni, one can see Formosa and sometimes can even notic
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by Dunan 10y ago
Right; I wouldn't call them "Japanese ancestors". The Okinawans of today are descended mostly from migrants from the mainland, and even these people are not necessarily the same ones who came to the islands from Taiwan many