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
Do you have any special sous vide equipment or recommendations? It seems like you can go all in but basically need a new setup for it. I don't feel like buying a ton of new stuff but I'm also curious about it
True, although I was at a dollar raise a month. The framing in the story was purposefully "I just ask for sth. very small" so that's how I read it. Dollar raise per hour is much more meaningful, but quite a significant increase
If you spend hundreds of thousands once, you could instead spend a dollar each on 100 employees for ~80 years. They don't work that long usually, but just in case
I recently newly "discovered" soups, though, and it's crazy magic food! If you don't overuse oil for searing onions or so, they are very low in calories, high in fibers, and with some chicken also high in protein. Basically you can eat as many portions as you can possibly fit in yourself, roll back to your room and snooze for 3 hours before repeating 😄
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!
Buy a bunch of silicon containers or boxes that are both freezer and microwave safe. Take the biggest pot you have and make a massive portion of food. Eat 2-3 times, freeze the rest in individual meal portions. Repeat 1-2 times and you have a massive storage of cheap, healthy, delicious food.
Suitable dishes:
Indian curry
Thai curry
Japanese curry
any other curry, just experiment
soups
pasta Bolognese etc.
Big upgrade for your nutrition and kind of fun to cook such massive portions, while also allowing you to be lazy 9/10 days
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.
Snowden revealed a lot of this, but surveillance is an important part of the typical repressive action. You have to identify the relevant people before you can do anything about them.
A concrete example would be surveillance (and then regulation) of bank transactions. Another is video surveillance of protesters.
In contrast, today we see blocking of people's bank accounts out of pure vibes
No, it's a picture that represents a tree