slippyferret

I’m really bad at arithmetic so it took me two years to do the calculations, but the math does check out.

When I first moved to Japan over twenty years ago they were already about a hundred years ahead of typical US toilet/bath technology. For me, using one of these faucets where you can just set the temperature by number was like Liko getting beamed from her hut directly onto the damn Enterprise.

Can they add a little speaker and have it play some smooth jazz when unzipping?

I need to see a Mio-Osaka manzai scene, or a Tomo-Yukko teamup.

It’s the same soap and water either way, right? What about sex toys? Am I supposed to wash those in the toilet or something?

I feel like even AI will be able to emulate this kind of speech, but the upside is people with dementia won’t feel so alienated anymore.

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I just got back from visiting my parents who were struggling to fix an unreliable dishwasher that keeps clogging, fails to dry, stinks, etc. This is PERFECT timing for that video!

A similar machine also plays a role in the 1997 movie Contact.