I completely forgot about this video. Thank you!

What a fun question. Made me nostalgic for early social media days.

Early YouTube: Daft Punk Hands

Pre-Youtube: The End of the World

I must be sleep deprived because this stupid meme made me laugh

What’s the difference between a grandfather clock and a grandmother clock?

The ding dongs

Gonna cheat and say Alan Menken since he’s responsible for many of the animated songs I grew up with. Then I’d probably go with Ne-Yo, Odesza, and then Yiruma. All have different vibes so that should be enough for every occasion.

Megan from Bridesmaids totally stole every scene she was in for me. Such a fun chaotic character.

Not sure if this counts but Elizabeth from Bioshock Inifite was such a better and more interesting character than Booker. She’s not playable so I figure she’s a side character even if the entire plot of the game revolves around her.

Also not sure if it counts but Toph from Avatar the Last Airbender is one of my favorite characters in any medium. She’s not introduced until partway through season 2 (why she may count) but is part of the core group of main characters (why she might not count).

What does it say about me that I use one of those tubes that squeezes every last bit out of the tube from the end?

Screw the rules, I have money

The worse is when a solution seems obvious but doesn’t work. Then you lose your mind clicking everything until you get the actual solution.

Fry ground pork and break them into small pieces (like 1/2 cm diameter). Add minced garlic (and onion optional), salt, and Maggi seasoning.

Eat with rice, butter, and fried egg (optional). To make it more nutritional, add some sort of vegetable. I like stir fried spinach with garlic and fish sauce.

Everyone is saying home made and they’re right. But if you are too lazy, I’ve found that Mexican supermarkets will have fresh store made salsas that are good and decently spicy.

If you’re white, the pepper

Got it. Thanks for the super detailed instructions! What type of bread do you use? I’ll have to try making this some time since I love garlic bread

Oh that makes sense. I guess you’d need specific bread for that. I usually just have baguettes at home and that likely won’t work with the soft interior

How do you cut the garlic or do you put the whole clove as is?

I personally like to add pressed garlic with melted butter onto bread then add Italian seasoning and parmesan cheese.

Mavis Beacon was how I learned to type and it’s available for free. Not sure how this version compares to the old one but there were tons of different games to teach you all the different parts of the keyboard (like symbols or the number line).

As for breaking the muscle memory, maybe you can put tape on your middle fingers to try to make it feel difficult to type with just those fingers.

But you’re missing the point that the population of Japan specifically is on the decline and has been for decades.

Even if we take out the cost of pensions for the elderly out of the equation, if people aren’t having kids to replace themselves, there won’t be enough working age people to fill every job needed.

For reference, the Japanese birth rate as of June 2024 was only 1.2. If that trend continues, in say 20-30 years, there will be about 1/2 of adults then as there are now.

The easiest and most immediate solution for Japan (and South Korea which is also having the same problem) would be to ease immigration so that more people can come in to work. But that doesn’t help in the long run nor does it address the cultural and societal factors that have lead to this point. And even then, since both countries are so homogenous, it would be hard for natives to accept a huge influx of immigrants.

On the one hand, yes having a child with a higher quality of life is better than having many children.

However, there’s a good Kurzgesagt video about how the severe decline in birthrate can doom a population. Basically, if a population is not at the very least replacing itself, it will run out of young workers to keep the country going and vastly skew the proportion of elderly people to young workers. Small, rural towns will not survive since young people will flock to cities for work.

Though the video is based on Korea, the same concepts apply for Japan as well.

Grave of the Fireflies is a good one and has been mentioned a few times already.

Fox and the Hound has several tear jerker moments, though most memorable for me is when Todd is returned to the forest.

Land Before Time was my first parent death in a film that I can remember. And unlike Bambi, this movie shows more of the consequences of losing a mother at that young of an age.