I have no basis for this but I think Host/Hostess clubs are an evolution of tea houses/brothels or something?
I dunno I don’t want to look it up
I think one difference is that for something like host clubs or soaplands, there is more of an implicit understanding about behavior on the part of the client. The woman is deciding if she's offering you a handy or sex or whatever else, the guest is supposed to still act properly. Whereas like a brothel gives much more of the impression of the power balance going the other way, I paid for sex and I'm gonna get it. That's a bit nebulous, but I think it's a big reason why like most soaplands and host clubs etc don't allow foreigners, because they're running way outside of the cultural playbook.
Tea houses are complex since like, there were lots of tea houses with lots of side businesses, but yeah tea houses were a frequent place for prostitution. But that was more of just straight up, traditional, here's some money gimme my sex prostitution.
Oh while we're on the topic, in Tokyo during the Tokugawa era the top male prostitutes made about twice what the top female prostitutes made. Top tier male courtesans were basically national celebrities, with woodblock portraits that tourists could buy and bring back home with 'em. The Shogunate outlawed prostitution 3 or 4 times in Tokyo... They never reversed the laws, it just never stuck, they'd make it illegal and Tokyo would keep doing it and then they'd announce it was illegal again.
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Man it’s bad enough finding out someone isn’t as into you as you thought they were, but being robbed/scammed on top of that is just brutal
I think it’s most shocking when it’s something super obvious, but then again it’s probably a lot like cults where it’s a self-selecting system built only to entrap the most credulous and uncritical.
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Oh 100%
And tbh they do generally make fun (if broken) games!
But they also shit out games with the implication of "Yeah, it's broken. Also half assed. But that's what we do. So fix it for us. For free. You useless girls/boys. You know you like it.
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i cap my companionship budget to just below 1000 usd/week as to not become a poors
Okay so it's apparently not just me: everyone has noticed Google Maps now makes utterly braindead navigation decisions. For some reason it seems to think random side streets can totally be driven at exactly there speed limit, and there's no costs to corners.
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Okay so it's apparently not just me: everyone has noticed Google Maps now makes utterly braindead navigation decisions. For some reason it seems to think random side streets can totally be driven at exactly there speed limit, and there's no costs to corners.
They don't want you to use it because it gives you too much non advertisement engagement. They are clearly sinking the app slowly.
Okay so it's apparently not just me: everyone has noticed Google Maps now makes utterly braindead navigation decisions. For some reason it seems to think random side streets can totally be driven at exactly there speed limit, and there's no costs to corners.
They don't want you to use it because it gives you too much non advertisement engagement. They are clearly sinking the app slowly.
I'm honestly circling paying for something else, since I actively dread going places in the city because I know Google Maps will give me an idiot routing decision these days.
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Sucks how suddenly when they started being actively terrible you notice that a lot of google has functionally been like a public utility for society. Search, maps and email. Very important stuff, maybe not as important as water and electrical utilities but still very important.
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I tend to use the built in navigation now whenever we borrow a car (either MIL’s Toyota or the Kia that some of our friends have). No idea what gps they’re using but I imagine it’s one of the paid ones.
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Must’ve been using Google since like 7th or 8th grade? I remember using a mix of search engines before that. Then exclusively Google. Until now I’m creeping up on 40 years old. That’s a wild stretch of a run, until the last two year or so I have again started using many different search engines again.
Okay so it's apparently not just me: everyone has noticed Google Maps now makes utterly braindead navigation decisions. For some reason it seems to think random side streets can totally be driven at exactly there speed limit, and there's no costs to corners.
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Okay so it's apparently not just me: everyone has noticed Google Maps now makes utterly braindead navigation decisions. For some reason it seems to think random side streets can totally be driven at exactly there speed limit, and there's no costs to corners.
Or…you drive faster than the speed limit, and slow down to the speed limit to turn.
Okay so it's apparently not just me: everyone has noticed Google Maps now makes utterly braindead navigation decisions. For some reason it seems to think random side streets can totally be driven at exactly there speed limit, and there's no costs to corners.
Before I had to stop working because of the serotonin syndrome, I had mainly stopped relying on the route given by maps in the delivery app and just went on my knowledge of the the city streets. I'm guessing like with everything else at google it's not allowed to just work, somebody has to keep poking at it making changes to justify their job.
The slow rot of Google has been depressing to watch. What was the last usable product they actually made? All their core apps feel like abandonware at this point.
The slow rot of Google has been depressing to watch. What was the last usable product they actually made? All their core apps feel like abandonware at this point.
Google Keep isnt bad
Lens works okayish and is quick
Translate still works nicely and has offline support
Sheets continues to improve
Authenticator is pretty solid and theyve added secure backups finally (yay)
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Autocorrect is totally fucking mercurial about when/if it's going to switch any given instance of "in" to "I'm" and vice versa.
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the English wedding was so weird
I cannot wait for a good old fashioned Irish wedding to get the taste out of my mouth
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I think one difference is that for something like host clubs or soaplands, there is more of an implicit understanding about behavior on the part of the client. The woman is deciding if she's offering you a handy or sex or whatever else, the guest is supposed to still act properly. Whereas like a brothel gives much more of the impression of the power balance going the other way, I paid for sex and I'm gonna get it. That's a bit nebulous, but I think it's a big reason why like most soaplands and host clubs etc don't allow foreigners, because they're running way outside of the cultural playbook.
Tea houses are complex since like, there were lots of tea houses with lots of side businesses, but yeah tea houses were a frequent place for prostitution. But that was more of just straight up, traditional, here's some money gimme my sex prostitution.
Oh while we're on the topic, in Tokyo during the Tokugawa era the top male prostitutes made about twice what the top female prostitutes made. Top tier male courtesans were basically national celebrities, with woodblock portraits that tourists could buy and bring back home with 'em. The Shogunate outlawed prostitution 3 or 4 times in Tokyo... They never reversed the laws, it just never stuck, they'd make it illegal and Tokyo would keep doing it and then they'd announce it was illegal again.
I think it’s most shocking when it’s something super obvious, but then again it’s probably a lot like cults where it’s a self-selecting system built only to entrap the most credulous and uncritical.
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The resource cost? Sucks.
The building? Sucks in a perfectly janky Bethesda kinda way.
The management? Sucks because it's somehow both arduous and obtuse.
Just an impressive failure from top to bottom.
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*goes out to look for more god damn things to scrap for fucking wood AND WHERE IS ALL THE ADHESIVE*
Haha damn this is true, I never thought of it that way.
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Tuesday would have been mom's 70th birthday.
I am anticipating an absolute disaster day emotionally.
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Oh 100%
And tbh they do generally make fun (if broken) games!
But they also shit out games with the implication of "Yeah, it's broken. Also half assed. But that's what we do. So fix it for us. For free. You useless girls/boys. You know you like it.
any sensible person would understa
It's also the same day as my high school graduation.
So I get to see all my classmates going "omg it's been 25 years!!!!"
And I'm like
Yeah. Yeah. My grandmother and mom were both there that day.
Sorry y'all
I'll try to stop being a bummer about little brain things
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There’s really no winning is there.
I'm honestly circling paying for something else, since I actively dread going places in the city because I know Google Maps will give me an idiot routing decision these days.
Have you discovered our Lords and Saviours, Abom79, Cutting Edge Engineering and Clough42?
Rip the Ebrake in 30 seconds
I prefer Waze
You’ll be arrested
the Brits are still at it
a weird people
Before I had to stop working because of the serotonin syndrome, I had mainly stopped relying on the route given by maps in the delivery app and just went on my knowledge of the the city streets. I'm guessing like with everything else at google it's not allowed to just work, somebody has to keep poking at it making changes to justify their job.
Google Keep isnt bad
Lens works okayish and is quick
Translate still works nicely and has offline support
Sheets continues to improve
Authenticator is pretty solid and theyve added secure backups finally (yay)
I cannot wait for a good old fashioned Irish wedding to get the taste out of my mouth