You had me in the first half, not gonna lie.

If you do 5 Metro journeys per day—which is very reasonable if you're a tourist—at the bare minimum of ¥160 per trip, you would save money by buying the Tokyo Metro Ticket for 72h.

The Tokyo Metro Ticket (24h/48h/72h) is very convenient, though. I just looked at the prices and the longest one went from ¥1500 to ¥2000 since November 2025 but I think it's still very valuable, especially if you've never been to Tokyo and want to travel between a lot of places.

JR is better if you go to the countryside of Tokyo but for the city itself Metro is much more convenient, IMO. Perhaps it depends on the station you commute to, though.

When I travel to Tokyo, I usually do at the very least 4 Metro trips per day, and let's say the minimum fare is ¥178,it would come down to ¥712 daily.

Yeah, what bit me was the place we were staying was off a JR line. Oops.

You just cited most cities in Europe. Except the one you want to live in is probably one of the ones where Europeans wouldn't actually want to live (due to, but not only, pollution).

> it clearly is financially worth it to have a job

Yes, for the company.

Yup. Premiums change depending on the deductible you choose[1] and your age.

[1]: If you have the CHF2500/year deductible, premiums are cheaper but you have to pay that amount out of picket before the insurance company reimburses your expenses

Obama tried this and America lost its mind.

Vast majority of adults consume alcohol in moderation, so clearly it is possible. It's really not that addictive if you don't have some physical or psychological predisposition to alcoholism.

Sorry, I was talking about sugar.

I mean, it is. We give it a different name and highly control it, but if you're getting end of life treatment for cancer or whatever, they give you powerful pain relievers in the hospital, under tight control.

I agree with you that the author of this project is catching a stray bullet, but I also have to agree with GP that `curl | bash` got way too out of hand.

I don't know where that came from but it should definitely disappear.

At least the developer includes the binaries for all platforms in the GitHub release page.

And in the GitHub release page they include compiled binaries anyway... Why would you advertise `curl | bash` as a way to install if there's a binary available?!

Download it, put it wherever you like (probably `~/.local/bin/`) and you're good to use it.

Sometimes I truly wonder...

It seems to have become "the thing" to do. I can't figure out if it is bad as it feels. Why would I run `curl | bash` on something that could be doing literally anything. It feels crazy that all the lessons we've learned just get thrown away.

On the other hand, just because I run `brew install someapp`, it somehow feels safer, but why? That app could be doing anything too.

I just learned these two:

1. If the connection dies mid transfer, bash will still execute it.

So `rm -rf ~/.local/bin/whatever` can become `rm -rf ~`

The author can avoid this by wrapping everything in a function. But you wouldn’t know if they did so if you aren’t outputting it to a file first.

2. Say the link points to an S3 bucket and it gets compromised, there’s no record of the payload to analyze.

I’m sure there’s a plethora of other subtleties, but I’ve always had the same question as you and thought I’d share.

Convenience. That's usually the answer.

One thing I dislike is that the installer wants super user permissions. That’s a big no-no with JavaScript apps installing global components. All global machine state should be managed with package managers, preferably only one package manager.

The project is vibe-coded slop and coding LLMs are not famous for using obvious or minimalistic approaches.

Are you not using uBlock Origin?