Also if a child hides under your front wheel and a puppy climbs in your engine while you’re in the store, you’ll never see them without undercar and in-engine cameras. We should stop driving until cars put those in place.

I wouldn’t exactly say common. I really needed one when I was in Tokyo about 10 years back and had a hell of a time finding one. And in the countryside you can pretty much forget about it these days

What do you propose we cut in favor of calc?

edit: core class, because calc is already an elective

When I was new to anime I watched Naruto. Made it about 150 eps before everything felt like it was repeating itself, and that was the last “endless” anime I ever watched.

Still maintain that an anime over about 100 eps can’t be good–maybe ok, maybe amusing enough that you’ll watch it, but not good good. There’s simply no way to sustain a decent story for that long.

I never quite understood why the Pythons made those characters Australian. Was the alcoholism of the Brits not famous enough to be funny?

Japan sorta did this, but it was with malt percentage rather than alcohol amount. Beers were taxed under laws that taxed any drink malted more than 67%, so beer companies got around it by dropping the malt percentage. Then a new tax category was created and less malted drinks followed. Long story short they now make a beer type drink malted less than 25% called happoshu.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happōshu

The populace didn’t vote for her specifically. The last general election was in 2024.

I like the first one so much that I read it multiple times as a kid, but then I read the second one and decided that was as far in the series as I needed to go.

If young people anywhere would see floppies, I’m guessing Japan would be more likely than a lot of other places. They’re notoriously slow about getting rid of old tech. I think Sony was still making VCRs until 2016, and faxes were ubiquitous even like 10 years ago.

I saw people in the mid 2000s plug in USB floppy drives so they could work with whatever records they still had on floppy. I have no idea why that was easier for them than just putting the files on a USB drive.

Maybe you should try “medium talk” so you don’t get bored and other randos don’t get weirded out. After a comment about the weather you can say that bc of the nice weather you were hiking/sportsing/otherwise hobbying in [location], and wondered if they’ve been there recently. Or if the weather was shit that you were indoors doing whatever hobby and ask what they tend to do in their free time.

Hobby talk can basically be as superficial or deep as you need it to be, so the conversation can progress from there as needed.

Interesting what languages go with, as Japanese keeps the save part but drops the protect in favor of hurry/emergency, so it’s the “hurry up and save you car” 救急車

Even ambulance itself comes from the French phrase walking hospital, and then the hospital part got dropped. We still retain the word ambulant to mean moving in English

Even more than the compound words I really like the kanji that have basically pure pictograph meanings, like mountain pass being “mountain up down” 峠.

Side note my favorite mnemonic is for the word (hospital) patient, where a person (者) ate too much meat on a stick, and now the problem is in their heart 串 + 心 --> 患者

Valerian had a lot of interesting stuff going on visually but they did the classic thing of trying to cram the extensive story of the book (from what I saw about it, i haven’t read it) into a movie run time, so it ended up being a bit of a shallow jumbled mess.

I thought all vampires were sexy

https://youtu.be/iXpxnxAL62A

Yeah but if you drop your can on a random rock it won’t fling metal shards around everywhere

Bubbler is mostly only used in parts of New England and WI

https://brilliantmaps.com/linguistic-maps-that-divide-americans/

What, no lolerskates?

Berry

Why bother? Sanrio already peaked in shows with Aggretsuko

I dunno about China but in Japan they sometimes have segments where they ask guests to read obscure characters, and other ones where you’re supposed to write the character they name. Writing kanji is somewhat comparable to spelling words in English.