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  • Some people really hate the smell of any seafood being heated up. I live in Japan and, when I worked in a small office, it was entertaining to see how coworkers from various countries coexisted. Several hated seafood or even things smelling too oceany or the like. They were largely outnumbered and often left at lunch. Even dried fish being eaten could set them off just from the package being opened.

  • I wondered this the first time going to a temple or shrine in Japan. It's also quite common here. I wondered if maybe it came over with Buddhism and it made it's way into the now-mostly-unified Shinto practice (pre-meiji-restoration, beliefs and practices were a lot more local). It could also have come in at the time of christian missionaries, but that seems a lot less like especially since it persists after the christians were forced to leave, convert, or die (though hidden christians remained, often meeting in caves in the hills and such).

    I think one would have to search through what written accounts of people remain, particularly those of outside observers in a new place.

    I thought maybe it came from some older homo sapiens practice, but even things such as nodding for yes aren't consistent, so maybe not.

  • I honestly have no idea. I did my semi-annual playthrough of Skyrim (as a wizard for the first time rather than giving up shortly in) and finished everything I meant to last week. I have to look at my steam library, I suppose

  • Reece's peanut butter cup minis. Perfect ratio of peanut butter and chocolate to me. Best if kept in the freezer. They're not sold in Japan apparently because one ingredient used, so I only get them once or twice a year.

  • You've already got various services running on the same lines basically as close together as they can, so there's only so much wiggle room to accomdate something faster than all of them longer stops on existing services could do something, but that has other knock-on effects. Building a new rail and retrofitting every station would work, but it's also a nightmare to both get the land and do all that development.