The oval table looks like a gamepad

It was a major motivation for me at the time, but mostly in the sense of forcing me to radically change my diet

Check out poor Lot whose evil daughters plot to get him drunk so they can rape him. The poor old man, I’m sure there was no redaction going on in post production.

I always thought hot dog speed eating was somewhere up there

Isn’t American football the game where the second half basically consists of the leading team wasting time on purpose until the game ends? So he’s not too wrong

Are you an academic? These job types are attempts by administration to precarize academic work.

Adjunct is a last resort option, you can still stay in the system but have very little prospect of ever getting a permanent job. It signals to others that the uni doesn’t really want you but takes your labour if you work hard and cheap enough, so it’s harder to apply elsewhere. Some universities try to pivot into this, so that most of their staff loses negotiation power and is easy to get rid of and replace.

Visiting is code for limited contract or unpaid locally with funding from somewhere else. The university doesn’t complain if they get free labour with no strings attached, but it’s not like the majority of people do this out of choice. Sure, if you’re full prof somewhere, your can also visit your bro in a nice city for a semester, but that’s the exception.

Given that they set up a new repo from scratch, this is a missed chance to just migrate to codeberg

Help your friends

Yes, guix should be in there. Not sure if it was the crippled gnu at the bottom, but belongs in chad level

Thanks for the notice

No matter my diet, I’m not so sure I’d survive that either. Anyone who’s been up there and found it easy can have a laugh though

Who’d’ve thunk that an attack of < half a hobbyte is enough to own sauron and his entire army

Shit, now I’m stuck in this forum with insane but who knows maybe true theories. What’s next? Earth turns out to be flat after all?

No, it’s a picture that represents a tree

working in addition to teaching

As a teacher this made me chuckle

Edit: I guess what I’m trying to say is: teaching is easily the hardest part. Noone in academia except for some masochists want to teach more than the bare minimum. Everyone wants to do the “work in addition”.

Job negotiations revolve around how much of your life you have to spend in the classroom and how much you can do your other work. The other work can be academic research or industry collaborations or consulting, but that just depends on individual preferences. I prefer the academic option because I can do whatever I want, others prefer industry because it can pay better

Seriously though, Japan has the best toilet infrastructure in the world as far as I can tell, in terms of maintenance and quantity. Tourists don’t shit in people’s gardens in other countries as much, or at least it doesn’t get scandalized. I assume it doesn’t happen all that often here either, probably those were 1-2 cases that get hyped up. But toilet infrastructure is really the last thing you have to worry about.

Also, it’s not like all of a sudden 1000 people spawn in the same spot and all have to take a shit within the next 2 minutes. I expect tourists, especially adults, to be able to plan their dumping schedule at least 10 minutes ahead in regular times. If there are a few emergencies, the Japanese toilet infrastructure can accomodate for them. There are not 1000 emergencies at the same time. Just walk for 2 minutes or across the street to the next convenience store and take a shit there.

Other than that, the star architect toilet tour through tokyo is one of my recommendations for friends coming to visit. It’s really an experience!

Bro has never been here and thinks he can make a reasonable argument

I agree that most people wouldn’t opt for that, but most tourists also don’t behave like that. The vast majority behaves very well, they are somewhat aware of Japanese manners and try to adapt (sometimes in sweet, dorky ways, but who am I to judge, I probably look the same).

There are a few people who do this and they ruin the image for everyone.

The issue is not the infrastructure, really. It is excellent and in excellent condition, across the country.

Imagine you have perfect toilets, some even designed by star architects, free to use for everyone and clean. And some fucker just decides to take a dump in someone’s garden, for whatever reason. Is that the problem of the infrastructure?

My impression overall here is that most tourists try to behave very well. I see people from my home country offer gentle gestures like carrying an elderly person’s bag up the stairs that they would not do at home.

The problem are the 3 fuckers among 10000 who behave like shit, and the fact that there are so many tourists especially in high season.

You have never been to Japan, have you? If any country in the world has excellent public bathroom infrastructure, it’s Japan. Always clean, generally free, and within 1-2 minutes walking range.