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Yeah, Japanese subtitles can have issues. Various broadcasters have been caught saying something else, though usually only when they overdub so one can barely hear the actual person.

are you saying that elderly people (who often need care themselves) should take care of the children

I have no idea where you’re getting this. I guess because a lot of the population currently in the countryside is elderly? If the people and the jobs move there, that won’t be an issue. The people at the daycare/preschool in my village are middle-aged. EDIT: and more to the point, I meant increased availability in the megalopolises not where I am now.

it’s just a very bad idea to move around people to get more favorable taxation

That’s not the point I’m trying to make. There are people who move to the super-populated areas because they feel it’s their only chance of advancement and job security. I’ve met plenty that would rather be back where they came from or with more space. Without the job security there, without good futures, people are only coming back to visit family and not living even when they want to. If the people feel supported and secure in their opportunities and the opportunities for their children, they will come back which also brings tax revenue and improvements.

tax laws can be changed much faster

I don’t think it makes sense for the central government to directly start shifting large amounts of tax money that no one is going to use. Sure, they could start improving infrastructure and stuff in many rural areas, but if 50 people live there and that number is declining, it’s a waste of money. It only makes sense to help do anything other than basic upkeep if people are coming or it could concretely be shown to increase the chance of people coming. Again, with jobs and future outlook, that’s not happening.

we could just build more housing

This only goes so far. Look at how built out Tokyo is (including into Chiba, Yokohama, Kawasaki, Saitama, etc. I already know people who commute 1.5 hours or more to work. The more affordable housing is further away, and often of very poor quality with paper-thin walls, causing people to lose 3-4 hours of their day in commute. That’s insane. It’s also not like public transit can be increased quickly enough to do anything about this either.

You might argue that the answer is more highrises. The problem is that those tend to go for more and price people, dis-proportionally the elderly and those on fixed income. They also take a long time to build and create new logistics issue with garbage management and other things. Not unsolvable, but I still feel like it’s trying to force many people to live where they ultimately don’t want to.

Re-populating smaller towns would give them more tax income to put money back into infrastructure and other programs. Having people move out of the megalopolises helps reduce demand on things like childcare and lower housing costs as demand cools.

Maybe if I make it to 80 I can wind them up like a rubber-band helicopter and fly back.

In my mid-40s, things are certainly going the way of the sweet chariot, but nothing my normal boxer-briefs don’t handle.

I’m reading the command to the tune of Du Hast

Maybe he is afraid of some ghost… his, so he refuses death.

That’s actually rather difficult to give one answer to, even if narrowed to one country/culture as the target audience.

For North America: central heat/air is not a thing here outside of commercial applications. A handful of private individuals do it, but it ends up costing a ton both directly (the unit/maintenance) and indirectly (more materials, ductwork, insulation, etc. that are less common and more expensive here). We just had building laws revised this year to require slightly higher building codes for energy efficiency and insulation, but it’s still well below the standard of other places. It’s somewhat a cost issue (Japanese houses depreciate to nothing after 20 years in most cases and land value only goes up in a handful of areas, so there’s additional pressure not to care a ton), and also a reaction to “sick home syndrome” that came from bad plastics/materials offgassing things like formaldehyde in the '80s in more tightly-closed homes. Here, homes that breathe well are still considered better.

Mel Brooks has passed

Is not the way one should start the headline.

We have a lot of good infrastructure in my village and I’m pretty rural (depending upon how big ‘urban center’ is in your definition, I’m between 20 and 45 minutes away by train).

A lot of the countryside that is depopulating is quite ugly, but there is no money to invest in that infrastructure when almost the whole population is pensioners. It’s a chicken-and-egg problem to be sure. I think the government needs to do more to get people out of the megalopolises. My area has campaigns that use our tax money to pay people to move here as well as subsidizing preschool and kindergarten.

I think it’s a tool to make OS installs require less space

Kernel Sanders

I put it in my machine, but it just kinda rattles around in there. Am I doing something wrong?

/ Physical copies should always be an option. I joke but I do have an external DVD drive if I need it.

We do, but most of them have something within cycling distance that isn’t on an 70+ kph road with maniacs (and the closer to civilization, they have public transit).

I don’t think I’ve ever seen パイセン written at all, come to think of it. It is slang, that much is true.

先輩 and 輩先 both mean a senior (as in rank relative to you) in Japanese. It was the only example of that which my tired brain could muster at the moment.

It seems like they mean ‘ancestor’ and ‘senior’ in Chinese per Google Translate.

I got an amazon gift card sent to my work email. I spent about an hour trying to create an account and failing captures. The thing is, they had some weird one I never had seen before and I somehow misunderstood what I was meant to do so it apparently thought I was a bot. I tried and passed several rounds of the audio ones and just gave up. It’s bonkers (and of course I can’t use the card on my actual amazon account).

Skyrim on the Namira cannibal quest.

Note to any learners: not all words do this in Chinese/Japanese; plenty are the same in both borrowed from the other country. (not that OP suggested it was, but I could see it being read that way)

I can’t think of any real examples. For letters, abbreviations can end up like that as others point out. I think that’s about the extent of anything meaningful. Adjective order differs, but that feels like cheating. There may be some compound words out there that fit this. In Japanese, a conveyor belt is called a belt conveyor (ベルトコンベヤー), but that also feels a bit like cheating.

I thought Duke Nukem 3d’s washington DC expansion had the reflecting pool and monument, but I can’t can’t find a screenshot if it did.

Fallout 3’s reflecting pool arguably looks better than the current real one