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Cake day: April 10th, 2026

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  • I live here, too, and I had a relative visit me from the states. He said the biggest shock was the information density of signage, so it’s not just websites lol. Living here it has become invisible to me, but him telling me that made want to formulate a theory, something like: separate from literacy rates, literate people in Japan are somehow more literate than their literate counterparts in the US, so designers trust their audience not to be overwhelmed by high information density. On the other hand, websites and signage in the US look clean and sleek and simple to the point of feeling dumbed-down.











  • Thanks, that’s a good one one. I was wondering where exactly you disagreed with the previous definition, and that’s reasonable.

    Not trying to gotcha or anything, I just think it’s fun, but niacin is an example of a substance that is a nutrient but can also produce a drug effect (“niacin flush”) when taken in large (non-nutritive) quantities.

    So for me personally, whether something is a drug or not depends less on the identity of the substance, and more on the specific interaction with the organism, and what effect is most salient to observers. I don’t have a pithy definition handy, though.