I didn’t know what premature babies were my first time in the maternity ward. “Eww why those babies so ugly‽‽‽” I said out loud (no filter lol) to the embarrassment of all my companions.

Its cause they’re all pocket computers that just happen to be a phone too.

Even this phone only mobile phone from punkt still has that form factor so it can fit in your pocket.

Uncensored Version here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XNFokmDKrE

I’m pretty similar in the console to PC shift. Pretty much had all consoles and handhelds through Xbox 360/Switch/PS3.

I still miss the Wii controls (I hate moving my neck for anything VR) but I don’t think with Switch 2 motion controls/mouse will get me back on Nintendo. Twilight Princess and Metroid Prime Trilogy were awesome on Wii. Only reason I bought a Switch was for Zelda but I didn’t care for it and eventually gave my switch away, never finished BoTW. I don’t think Metroid Prime 4 is enough for me to justify buying a whole console. So I’m planning to get a steamdeck instead of the switch 2.

If we ever see a world where nintendo games are on steam and you don’t need a nintendo account to play them, I would totally buy up all my favorite games and play them on PC.

Otherwise I really don’t care for the business model of re-buying the games I already own, just re-released on the latest console. Don’t care for paying for online access. And the few games they have really aren’t compelling enough for me to justify buying a console when I have hundreds of unplayed games in my steam library. (my humble bundle subscription snowballed my library lol)

please do. I stole the term myself from the japanlife subreddit.

The most dangerous part of living in Tokyo isn’t the typhoons, earthquakes, or tsunamis these days, its the mothers on electric assist e-bikes ‘mama-chari’ mid-afternoon on their way back with the whole family.

Toddler in the front, middle schooler on the back, she has pedal assist and is booking it on the sidewalk while looking at her smartphone because its legally permissible to ride with the pedestrians when you feel unsafe on the streets. The bike lanes here aren’t separated from traffic. And the bike lanes here are de-facto 15-minute loading parking spaces for the massive trucks, drop off points for taxis, and uber eats scooter parking spots. So you either have to merge into traffic due to all the parked vehicles, or ride on the sidewalk.

If you ever come to Toyko, walk on the left and look over your right shoulder so you don’t get run over by a whole family on a modern day chariot.

Yup, everybody looking down at their pocket computers and fucking up their posture.

Tokyo is full of meanderthals walking and biking while looking down at their phones. Standing still while waiting for the lights to change is tame.

There’s even a word for it here: aruki-sumaho

Notable sightings so far in 2025:

• A pack of middle school boys all playing a mobile game while walking with their faces in their phones and blocking the sidewalk. Three abreast in marching band formation, maybe 15 of them.

• Salaryman holding a laptop and on a conference call while rushing towards a train station.

• A few face-in-tablet while walking, that always gets a smirk out of me.

• Lady in heels, approaching the upward stairs while watching a video on her phone in landscape mode, arm fully extended and airpods in. Misses a step and eats it, goes full scorpion. I was impressed she managed to hold onto her phone and keep all her teeth, she just missed chomping on a concrete step by a few cm.

Its extremely common here. Enough that I usually have to stop walking on the sidewalk and just wait for them to notice me to look up and move out of the way, you can’t always side step them because they’re frequently not walking straight and they’ll wander across the path anyway, hence the term meanderthals.

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I’ve only ever heard Autumnal used for the equinox. Otherwise Autumn and Fall are also used as adjectives in American English. Fall colors. Fall planting. A cool autumn breeze.

In most of these sentence examples, an American would use fall/autumn interchangably where autumnal is used.

I propose a combined American, British, Australian vernacular only using the word with fewer syllables. (New Zealand and Canada are welcome too)

British Wins:

• lift not elevator
• chips not french fries
• bin not trash can
• torch not flashlight
• loo not toilet/restroom/bathroom
• pram not stroller/baby carriage
• tap not faucet
• petrol not gasoline
• chemist not pharmacy
• sweet not candy
• jug not pitcher

American Wins:

• fall not autumn
• hood not bonnet
• truck not lorry
• pants not trousers
• cart not trolley
• subway not underground
• eggplant not aubergine
• sink not washbasin

Australian Wins:

• thongs not flip flops/slippers

Try this brand https://www.sceptre.com/

Time to invest!

Only ‘Third Place’ we have left is starbucks. Where Have All the ‘Third Places’ Gone?

And horoscopes

https://mntre.com/index.html

https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next

How climate change threatens coffee production | DW Documentary

There’s some great documentaries about stenophylla, resdiscovering a forgotten strain of coffee that’s resistant to heat.

Coffee and climate change: rediscovering stenophylla

In the video Dr Aaron Davis describes coffee as the “canary in the coalmine, as the litmus for climate change, particularly for woody crops like coffee, cocoa, tea, wine. Crops that have to stay in the ground a long time. And what we’re seeing is that the issues facing coffee also affect many other woody perennial crops”

Tasting The Lost Species That Might Save Coffee - James Hoffman

Saving Coffee From Extinction | Planet Fix | BBC Earth Science

We’ll probably see some issues with stonefruit too:

A couple of years ago, no stone fruits grew in New England. Peach, nectarine, plum, and apricot trees in the region had been fooled into flowering in February because of record warm weather. When winter resumed for another few weeks, the buds died, ruining the harvest.

Gonna block this community, I don’t care for screenshots of tweets.

same

touches every laptop screen, tv, monitor… “the touch screen is broken” “what’s a keyboard and mouse?”

I loled

Kept a hand knit wool scarf (they made for me) for around a decade. Outgrew the style but it was a damn good scarf.