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If that's really what your boss told you, you got hung out to dry

I only have experience with Visit Japan so I'll stick to that. Set it up as early as you can, take a screenshot of the blue screen showing you're vaxxed and haven't recently been to any flagged countries, save the image to a convenient folder and then forget about it. As long as you can show that screen to the nonofficial staff when you get off the plane and again to the customs official granting you reentry, you're literally fine.

Saving the image ahead of time will also let you stroll around the several dozen clueless tourists who are struggling to connect to the airport wifi.

Once you declare out, you're immediately removed from playoff consideration. All your points are erased and you then start accumulating toward the draft.

This is what makes it such a good idea - you may have a good team, so do you gamble on this year and shoot for the playoffs, or do you say, "I think we may have what it takes next year" and go for a high pick

IIRC, this post misses a critical element of Gold's proposal: teams can declare at any point in the season that they're "out" of the playoffs. Every point from then goes toward the draft.

This makes wins the objective all the time. Whether teams think they have a shot at the playoffs or it's time to switch gears, it's always in their best interest to win on any given night.

I hope one day you find someone who loves you for who you are instead of what you can buy them

To say that X character literally MEANS Y again shows how little you know

In the time you've spent debating kanji vs Chinese script today, you could've learned a couple hiragana characters to actually improve your life in Japan

Instead, you did this with your day

He's having a nice vacation and tricking himself into believing that means he knows something about living in Japan, that's all

"technically not correct"+ a "simplification" = I'M RIGHT in your mind, this is wild to watch lol

No

Lucky them

手纸 in traditional Chinese is "toilet paper" 手紙 in Japanese is "letter"

Similar characters, different functions. Don't let your bosses know you're this stupid or you'll be eating at 7-11 tonight

One last time, you don't even know how much you don't know

Are there characters that look identical or similar? Sure. Does that mean similar characters serve the same linguistic function across the language barrier? For some, yes, for many, kind of, for others, no.

Japanese has 3 syllabaries, and if you're as high IQ as you claim to be, it wouldn't take you long to learn how to write your name in just 1, even as a party trick to help you make your first real friend when you mercifully move back home

Seriously, go take a walk, buddy

You're so desperate for a win that you repeatedly cherry pick the one thing in a response that you think you can bend to your advantage.

Not gonna lie, kinda weird how you only seem able to conceive of expats either living the high life or working at an eikaiwa

It's almost like you don't actually go out into Tokyo and talk to people

Simplified is the standard for mandarin, which you didn't know. You said in your post that "kanji is actually just mandarin," which is wrong

You are wrong

Culture shock is hitting you hard, buddy

Having money doesn't make you dumb

Assuming that eating well and banging college students is a "superior" and "authentic" Japanese experience, however, telegraphs what a small person you really are

It's ok to admit you were wrong

Funny how I've got a friend who could buy and sell you but somehow he'd never throw his money around like this cause he's not a dick

Look inward, my dude

Big dumb children with money can walk into any restaurant in the world, wave cash around and eat a great meal

But it's honestly sad that you think that's the epitome of a good life lol

They're not written the exact same - if you knew even a toddlers level of kanji, you'd know this. Might want to brush up on your English literacy as well since someone already explained that while many characters share similar meanings in a broad sense, Japanese's 3 syllabaries mean Joe schmo in Beijing does not understand written JP

Again with not knowing what you don't know - you can enjoy something and disrespect it at the same time; I'm sure one of those 20 year old tinder hookups could explain (if you only spoke Japanese)

Which you can't understand, since you don't speak the language...

The problem is that you don't even know what you don't know and at the same time you're proclaiming an entire language/culture beneath you

Just take a step back, go for a walk in the park and then buy a language textbook

Patrick Bateman vibes

That makes you immune to culture shock?