If California just built Japanese homes using their methods and their materials, homes that are already multiple generations into being built from the ground up to withstand earthquakes, fires, and floods, it would severely curtail suburban destruction without doing anything else.

“But Japanese homes are designed to be torn down.”

The ramshackle construction during the bubble in the 1970s and 1980s were not built with longevity in mind, yes. Modern Japanese homes are very different and can easily last for generations.

In 30 years Japan is going to be nothing but a patchwork of pre-war and post-2000 construction.

If you’re doing right by the child, fuck everyone who is hung up on your age.

I’ve wanted children since I was 14. I finally had my first child less than three months before I turned 40. Sometimes life takes its time.

Live a life that makes authoritarians want to cancel you.

When I was little my mom had an electric cookie press that made jet-puffed cookies. Why it was electric, and had to be plugged in, I have no idea. It was almost exclusively used to make Christmas cookies (trees, presents, snowmen, etc.) and the smell of the dough and the finished cookies was so unmistakable and unique that I cannot describe it exactly but can immediately recognize it decades later.

Another smell is the combination of coffee brewing and a classic American breakfast of bacon, eggs, and toast being made by my grandparents. The kind of smell that instantly wakes you up and makes you stumble down the stairs half awake. I don’t ever drink coffee but the combined smell is intoxicating and always reminds me of them.

*mutilating

“It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.” - George Carlin

Because the seek bar overlaps the video as it is playing, and because the drag button is huge whenever you mouseover it, it is much harder to locate chapter marker visually.

Change for the sake of change is not good.

At the very least people who were born AFTER color television.

There are a number of roads like this in Japan as well.

Groundgrooving.

Tesla: “SHHHHH!!”

It’s just like the ‘What’s the best camera?’ Question.

Unless the instance your account is on has been defederated by a bunch of people and/or .world, the best account is the one you already have.

They used one in Star Trek Enterprise as well.

The people who can’t understand how you know your own body better than they do are the same people who can’t see why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. SMH

I hope to all holy fuck it’s not conscious.

I’ll bet the build quality is higher on that thing.

I ain’t seen nuttin’, officer.