A lot of medical labs still use analyzers and stuff from the '80s and only replace them when they die, so a lot of people getting healthcare might be using older tech than they think :)
Whilst I'm being cheeky, spoon and probably bowl technology remains relatively unchanged for a huge amount of time.
I guess the oldest thing I regularly use is my tractor from the '90s. I do often wish I hadn't accidentally killed my Amiga 500 as I'd likely still be gaming on that occasionally.
Tons of structures in Tokyo are wooden. I lived in a steel-and-block place (which is apparently quite rare with most being steel-reinforced concrete), but all the apartments and single-family homes around me were wooden. Moreso when I moved further out of the city center.
I now live further north in Japan in a classically-designed wooden home and it's still terrible in these temperatures (and we're not nearly as hot as Tokyo up here).
I actually talked to an architect about this a couple of years ago and, though structures here are meant to breathe (mostly for airflow to avoid mold and later because of big problems with off-gassing and "sick house syndrome" when they tried to build more sealed structures with mechanical ventilation), they were not meant for the sustained hot conditions we face here today.
I do better with light-based over-stimulation than I did in my early 20s, but I have a lot more trouble with sounds. There's a retailer here in Japan that has its store music (loud), various TVs and other devices playing separate ads at the same time at high volume, and just people noise that leads to a cacophony that triggers my fight-or-flight. I can't go in there for long without noise-cancelling headphones. My brain I think tries to listen to everything at once and can't separate things out leading to issues; I hear them all so I can't listen to or discern any one of them (which is a more general issue I have that gets worse as I get older trying to hear people over any background noise).
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It's just before 8am here, so: oatmeal, tbd (maybe Cincinnatti-style chili over genmai), and tbd (probably grilled chicken, genmai, veg, and various pickles). I don't typically snack.
Noon update: yep, cincy-style chili over genmai with freshly-shredded cheddar cheese and raw red onion. Had a few chocolate chips (fresh out of the freezer) for something sweet. Dinner is probably going to be something very small as I ate too much and am not really moving a lot today.
Dinner update: we had to go shopping so I got a 10-piece sushi set (and stole two of my wife's tekka hosomaki) that was discounted for dinner and had a couple bites of chocolate icecream for dessert
"currency carry trade" was something that came up in a lot of discussions I saw.
Modern dialectal ax is as old as Old English acsian and was an accepted literary variant until c. 1600.
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=ask
So older, yes, but also possibly a separate phenomenon unless certain people happened to still use that variant when enslaving people.
Language Jones is a great channel!
I had to go back into Tokyo the other day from where I live in the countryside. The air definitely has some kind of smell. We do burn a lot of trash for electricity in Japan, but I'm not sure what it actually is. The diesel exhaust here bothers me a lot for some reason even though I think I liked the smell of it as a kid in the US. Not sure what that's about.
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That's not generally my experience. I still try DDG first, but probably 20-25% of the time, I have to switch back to Google. Oddly, not for the stuff in Japanese or related to Japan, but more tech and other such.
As a kid in the '80s, it was just the way some things smelled. Neither of my parents smoked by the time I was born, but lots of neighbors and others did. I later became a smoker and couldn't smell it anymore. When they finally banned smoking in Ohio, I quit and we learned what bars really smelled like (as I mentioned in a related thread: body odor, mold, and piss).
Edit 2: I worked at a fast food place in '95 or '96 and we had a smoking section, but also all the employees smoked in the tiny break area as well so it came from both sides. I would start smoking not long after this.
It's not the most popular but it is eaten. My local supermarket sells it.