Not sure if you've ever lived in Japan, but I have, and a night at a capsule hotel is much, much cheaper than cab fare if you live more than 20-30 minutes away. It's bonkers but true.

As a microbiologist I’ve been trying to get people to stop using that shit for years, but I think I finally gave up a little while back. Yay, FDA!

It's not semantics: it is a burden, by the definition of the word. Because it's something you do out of love doesn't make it less difficult or time-consuming (though it may reduce the emotional cost somewhat), nor is it less of an opportunity cost for younger adults of working age, who frequently have children of…

I’d like to think that the rest of us would have talked my mother into that solution eventually, but the terminal cancer came first.

It's unpaid labour. Yes, it is a burden. A financial, emotional, and physical burden. It's a burden many gladly choose to undertake out of love for their parents, true, but calling it anything else is delusional.

This is something I really should do with my brothers, because the one who could help the most probably won't (and I don't blame him - he has a terrible relationship with them as a result of them passively tolerating abuse from another family member and they've done absolutely nothing to make amends since, but he is a…

My grandmother did some thing similar to my mother. Never lived in the same city for her entire adult life, spent far more time, money, affection, and resources on her brothers, but moved out here to “spend more time with her daughter” (read: exploit her for free home care because her brothers sure fucking wouldn’t do…

He can stay pressed, I guess. Not only is her technique noticably different from her competitors', she's not even really that ripped, which tends to be the other telltale doping sign. Most of her competitors are more muscular.

Eh, she might by ignorant people, but when you look at her technique, it's essentially flawless. Every single stroke is perfect, from the first lap to the last. She doesn't have a raw power/inhuman endurance that the other athletes seem to lack in spite of their almost identical training (which is pretty much case…

I had more conventional girls’ toys shoved at me too, but I was allowed to get boys’ toys provided it was the “girl” version (i.e. Jinx, the Pink/Yellow Ranger, She-Ra, any of the female X-Men, etc.) In the case of GI Joe I didn’t mind, who wouldn’t want to be the red ninja.

The 90s? Hah, I shit you not, one of my coworkers - a female scientist, no less - in the year of our lord 20-and goddamned-02, told me that "a woman will never be president." Because, she declared, without a single shred of evidence, "women don't have enough charisma to be powerful leaders" and "men won't follow…

But what about Jinx and the Baroness? I was always Jinx. I loved Jinx, so I didn't mind. (This is when I realize belatedly that with 4 main female characters, GI Joe had 3 more than most of the other "boys" shows I watched as a kid.)

Why didn't they just go with "assaulter"? That's what the CAF did.

A stylized depiction of that view is featured on certain iterations of the 1000-yen note.

Scout?

I... really don’t get it. The gender-neutral terms sound cooler across the board. Firefighter > fireman, police officer > policeman, gunner > missleman, infantier > infantryman. Why would you complain about getting a cooler job title? And if it really ~~doesn’t matter~~ and if objecting to being called by the wrong…

Other English-speaking countries went through this decades ago. The answer you're looking for is "Aviator."

Very cool aesethetic, but why does Geralt look so much older than his love interests?

The woman who just turned around and walked away was the only real hero of that ad.

Valhalla, the cyberpunk-esque bar? White Knights, the elite military police? Somebody's played SMTII!