I mean we literally had people losing fingers to Elon’s ‘obstruction detecting’ frunks in the cybertruck, this basically isn’t even hyperbole.

‘having a normal one’

…but with this most expensive and dangerous set of toys that have ever existed.

Inshallah, there will be a fatwa against every existing ‘Live Laugh Love’ piece of art, and they will be mandated to be replaced with this.

On the other hand, if your dad actually does work for Nintendo, you may in fact be quite fucked.

Oh my fucking god.

He must have fired Noem because some part of him was afraid of being Ole Yeller’d.

There has never before in history been such a grandpa who really needed to just go to bed now.

Well, there’s this:

https://www.statista.com/chart/32350/greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-mode-of-transport/

… but a ferry is not a cruise ship.

I would imagine they would be lower on this chart than the cruise ship, cruise ships are kind of notorious amongst ship types as being just obscenely resource intensive / wasteful…

… but basically outside of WA/BC… there just aren’t that many ferry systems in North America, whereas they are more common elsewhere…

Maybe there are more/better studies done in Japanese, Korean, etc, that focus on the kinds of tech and ships and fuels used in ferry systems around there?

The number you’d get out of the kind of calculation there, it could change a lot based on the overall design / route / intended speed of the ship, the kind of engine used (it could potentially have a hyrbid electrical drive system), the blend of fuel used, etc etc.

The funnier part is the idea that you could just… report a well established and ingrained element of a society… to that society’s ‘police’… and thinking that they would do anything other than laugh at you.

It is really funny to me that, in general, medical professionals in the US still think people do or should broadly respect them.

… Why?

Nobody cares that you’re just following orders, that’s not a very good excuse.

Nobody cares that you have a boatload of debt you need to pay off… most people do these days.

None of that gives ya’ll societal permission to engage in possibly the most elaborate gaslighting fraud system that humanity has ever produced.

Ya’ll are supposed to have ethics, ‘first, do no harm’, yet you violate this routinely as a matter of course, “professionally”.

With few exceptions, you’re all hypocritical liars with God complexes.

You should know, better than most, that your intentions do not matter at all, outcomes do.

They are legitimate military targets, they are acting as comms relay servers for military strikes/operations against Iran, and are very likely also being used to do threat analysis / kill chain assignment tasks.

This is what you get for becoming part of the military industrial complex, tech bros.

TIL Doctors cannot write legibly nor manage a basic queueing process.

Are you talking about platform exclusive content?

I didn’t play very many old school fighting games.

As best I can tell, Vega was a boss in SF2, but a playable character in later iterations of the series.

If your complaint is that… games in popular IP /series will do fairly regular releases with not really too much substantially different between each one…

This is a thing that went on 20 years ago, and still goes on today.

Mario Kart 8… 9? 10?

Are we at Call at Duty 24 now, I think?

Hey, are you intetested in Madden… 31?

Pokemon versions… latest silly pair of opposing concepts?

Yeah this is dumb and stupid, but its not a thing that is different between nowadays, and ye olden days.

How in the fuck has no one yet said:

No Microtransactions.

No Gacha Games (literally 50% of current year gaming).

No Games As A Subscription Service.

No Games With Perpetual DLC (that are each as expensive as other entire games).

Exactly.

The… the norms here are bullshit, both from the PoV of ‘I am a consumer’, and also from the basic professional etiquette of ‘this is a business meeting/exchange’.

Fuck, like… I got a statement from my insurance the other day, saying they didn’t cover 1 of the two sets of glasses I got.

Called em.

Do I owe you money?

No, your optometry provider might bill you later though.

Ah ok, cool, thanks!

… and its been 6 months and the optometrists have yet to send me a bill.

Not my problem! Bank Health Cabal Error In Your Favor!

It is a… comical approximation of:

どういたしまして

Dō-i-ta-shi-ma-shi-te

Roughly:

Dough Ee Tah She Ma She Tay

… but all said rapidly, together.

It means “You’re welcome”, but is maybe slightly more formal than it is casual.

The joke is that it is maybe what a native English speaker would hear, when a native Japanese speaker says “You’re welcome” in Japanese.

… It does not hardly make any sense in text alone, it makes a lot more sense if its actually spoken aloud.

The reverse of this kind of thing… is how a bunch of English terms /phrases have been oddly/poorly translated or transliterated into ‘Engrish’.

Most Japanese people I have met have a very good sense of humor about this kind of thing, they think its funny that, without a lot of practice speaking English, they suck at speaking English, and vice versa, native English speakers with no practice speaking Japanese, suck at speaking Japanese.

Like, uh, ‘Engrish’ itself as a term… is a thing, because in Japanese, they do not have such a distinct difference between ‘L’ and ‘R’.

They use a sound that is roughly in the middle, in between L and R, they usually never learn or use the two as distinct sounds, if they grow up speaking only Japanese.

(Though this could be changing somewhat due to modern internet culture / communications?)

So… they often struggle to learn these two distinct phonemes, sort of how a native English speaker would struggle to learn maybe some of the phonemes in other languages, that either are not present or are very rarely used in English.

You tend to learn phonemes, the building blocks of words, distinct mouth sounds… you learn them best when you are young, its much more difficult to get your brain and mouth to learn new phonemes when you are older.

Oh, your bureacracy is complicated?

Cool, I don’t care.

Tell how much this is gonna cost before I obtain the service.

Can’t even come close to doing that?

Fraud, as far as I’m concerned.

Ah that works!

Yes a… reverse weeaboo, hahah!

I mean the guy I met had different facial hair, was maybe 10 to 20 ish years older than this person, but … maybe?

Maybe there are more ‘Ameriboos’ than we realize.

EDIT:

I should probably clarify that the guy I met in the bar, and the guy I met on the hill were totally different people.

Don’t know much about hill-sama, but bar-kun was… well lets just say most of our conversation was about karate, he claimed he was a fifth dan black belt… i am a first dan black belt, a novice in comparison… and he demonstrated his credentials rather convincingly.

He also said was exiled/former yakuza. Had a busted knuckle, told me that he’d fucked something up, and that his boss, instead of taking the finger, hit him with the blunt side of the… presumably a wakizashi… and then basically exiled him from Japan.

My nickname for him was ‘yokai’, which he found very amusing.

Seattle is wild place if you just walk around everywhere.

Oh my god, ‘Eat a duck I must’, I’m using mouthwash atm and that almost made me do a spit take, that’s amazing lol!

Unfortunately I cannot see the image, ita not loading/displaying right for me, and I’ve also not heard of Rawhide Kobayashi.

… Is there any kind of way to translate the uh, intent, of the phrase ‘brother from another mother’ into Japanese, without it being extremely literal, lol?

I doubt that the sing-songiness of the phrase can be kept in translation… but maybe that is possible?

Don’t touch-y my moustache!

(I’d never actually heard that one untill a Japanese guy I met at a bar said it, and then explained it to me as a joke, after I attempted a tiny bit of actual Japanese with him).

Also, barely related, but kind of related:

A month before that, I’d gotten a tan hat in the style that Japanese soldiers hats were made in WW2, and was wearing some other clothes that vaguely had a somewhat similar style, but not the same colors, as the rest of the Japanese … summer/hot weather outfit during WW2.

So I’m a white dude, walking up a hill to a store one day, and a guy walking down the hill…

Is Japanese, but wearing basically a full getup of 80s/90s era US milsurp stuff, even a helmet (or at least the liner).

We got to each other, noticed each other at about the same time, fully stopped in our tracks, realized the absurdity of the situation, laughed for about 10 seconds, then went on our ways.