We call those foods you mentioned as "junky foods" as that's still a concept in Japan too. It's usually pretty clear based on nutritional content, but the main reason is how sick you feel afterwards.

There can be healthier options in fast food as well as better ways to prepare karage and tempura to be less unhealthy. And no, none of that appears more or less healthier than American fast food to us, but fast food also includes chipotle and subway which are not quite as greasy as what you have in mind.

Technically only a HIPAA violation of the doctor uploads stuff. Uploading your is stuff is just violating your own privacy, which at this point might just be a boomer national pass time.

I agree, I just have a friend who has 4000 hours on CK2 and 3 and... it's troubling. I'll hop on discord with her and get lots of out of context comments involving incest, lol.

Wife and I agreed that we needed to save during this summer, only to immediately have to buy a new bed for kids, get expensive dental work done, and repair the bathtub fixtures.

I'm grateful we'll manage but it's like it literally waited for us to want to save.

Hey I'm wondering what her team will be too, although I'm more of an expert pack Minecrafter myself (so probably factorio or satisfactory lol).

Watch her end up more a Crusader Kings 3 though like a friend of mine... Lol

Oh no. Did they have to actually read 50,000 slop books? Such masochism...

Yeah, I think that's well established but what was interesting was the way concrete walls funneled hot air certain ways but not others. But it's been a while since I heard the interview, the main discussion was on the heat of a conflagration vs a normal fire.

Why not both? Lol

My boy is really into cars by default, which is funny since I'd 100% be down with Barbies, too. Daughter though, she just wants Legos and jigsaw puzzles... at age 4. She's just not into gendered stuff, she just wants to build.

I know the recent-ish Palisades fire near me was an issue of both fast fires and limited exits, but even then most of it was property damage. What worked was early warnings of evacuation that people took seriously.

The part that struck me was they started calling it a conflagration because the structure fires were so much hotter than the bush fires that things were straight up melting, causing cars to stop working and so on. If you were still there when the houses were full burning, you were likely toast.

The best way to avoid deaths, therefore, is early evacuation and careful neighborhood design. There were some houses that survived the blaze because of factors like walls and gaps that helped reduce the spread, although I'm not sure if they cracked the code on that yet.

Honestly, I like this a lot more than the old death to America stuff I grew up hearing about. This new one is a unifying message, one most Americans can get behind.

There's an evolutionary reason we and other animals prefer to sleep facing the opening(s) of our rooms (for humans that actually means the top of the head is not same side as door).

That said, somehow bets are off as to which side we face once laying down; I prefer to face the wall I think because enclosed spaces make me feel safer, like a cat. Or maybe it reduces stimuli, or something.

Though lately I think my body likes sleeping on my right side since that side has more muscle, even though I'd rather sleep on my left for acid reflux reasons. Both are better reasons than the wall.