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Product manager on Google Maps driving + walking, and that little bit at the end that says you've arrived. I dream of a beautiful place in the mountains to call home. 日本語でもたまには書きます 📍Tokyo by way of Boulder and Zurich
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Here's an English syllable-maintained version of うれしいひなまつり that as far as I'm aware doesn't exist anywhere and just proves the power of Gemini

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It feels like Apple marketing kinda gave up on this one

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

proof we're getting dumber

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I'm a bit surprised that Clubhouse still exists

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

One of the best side effects of being a parent is being able to relive your childhood by ostensibly buying them gifts you actually want for yourself

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Tokyo is grungy and dirty but comes alive at night

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Will you believe that these are unaffiliated with each other

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This isn't actually that bad of a deal. Consider the home completely a loss, 83-year-old tenant has maybe another decade or so, so that's $800 loss in utilities per month, so that's another $96,000 lost and a decade waited for maybe a $600K net profit?

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Adobe requiring you to sign into Creative Cloud just to uninstall apps is that proverbial nail in the coffin experience that reminds me why we all love the app and hate the company

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Again wtf am I doing reading Business Insider, compendium of the obvious

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

All this feels like is "man in ivory tower" syndrome. As more employees have fewer means to express honest dissatisfaction, those in leadership are far more disconnected about the realities on the ground. techcrunch.com/2025/02/13/m...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

lmao I can't access doge.gov

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

this is both: 1) an extremely stupid situation caused by a deeply unserious individual and 2) 100% the correct product call by google they do this all the time for disputed names, and even change borders depending on who's viewing, e.g. the disputed border between India and Pakistan.

submitted 27 days ago • 7 comments

As an outsider all I'm learning is that Congress is basically powerless as an institution and all our hopes lie in judges www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Here's your timely reminder that not everyone on here watches the Super Bowl (or its ads) or is based in the United States for that matter

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

I'm honestly a bit surprised Trump would even go anywhere close to reviewing military spending defensescoop.com/2025/02/07/t...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Why do I have to sign up to try out Kagi

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I'm sure self checkout theft happens here in Japan too but it's so refreshing (and obviously far more efficient) to live somewhere where the systems aren't designed to prevent you from stealing

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

All I can say is that yes many people I know who use MapQuest do print their maps

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

OK you got me

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

When I said citation required, I didn't mean "cite Breitbart, Daily Caller, Washington Examiner/Times and Daily Mail" (I kid you not)

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

wtf are you talking about

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Even my most trivial PRDs have more citations than this executive order

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

A fun little toy has arrived

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Newsflash: this piece isn't going to do favors for the author also why tf am I reading these trashy articles

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Gotta go buy Canadian maple cookies oh wait no I live in Japan and have a sane government

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

As this whole sinkhole debacle extends into a fourth day I can't help but imagine that anywhere else in the world the driver would have been rescued by now www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/202...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Hugely dismayed but not entirely surprised that Red 104 aka Phloxine is an approved red food dye in Japan (and only in Japan) and has been known to cause tumors in mice pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8045456/

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Oh hello here's another of my launches in the wild 9to5google.com/2025/01/30/g...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

This is so... meta

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

WTF "Moreover, these vulnerable youths’ medical bills may rise throughout their lifetimes, as they are often trapped with lifelong medical complications, a losing war with their own bodies, and, tragically, sterilization."

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

If you're bored or looking for something rather dystopian to read, look up the Reichstag Fire Decree

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

You've not been to Davos if you haven't told the world that you've been to Davos

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Even Grok agrees

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

As of today, almost all of FAA's DEI efforts has been unceremoniously removed. I worry for other adjacent programs like Federal Women's Program, which cuts across national organizations.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

The thing that differentiates good from great PMs is who asks "what are the necessary next steps or make a decision here"

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

When Mt. McKinley was renamed to Denali, the Sec. of the Int. signed it into effect, pushing GNIS to update its database (and most map providers follow). The reason for the change was that "McKinley never visited, nor did he have any significant historical connection to, the mountain or to Alaska."

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Rescinded, revoked: Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for Americans (EO 14087), Promoting Access to Voting (EO 14019), Supporting [...] Operation of Schools and Early Childhood Education Providers (EO 14000), [...] Strengthen Americans’ Access to Affordable, Quality Health Coverage (EO 14070)

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Fuck

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

This should create a chilling effect felt across all strata of the United States, and sadly, the world too

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments