I read this too early and the crash blossom headline made me think someone was getting physically knocked over a taco truck. I got excited for a second to see a literal brawl happen between congress folk.

She’ll end up podcasting from her basement and irradiating her testicles with manosphere-branded red lights?

The World State is built upon the principles of Henry Ford’s assembly line: mass production, homogeneity, predictability, and consumption of disposable consumer goods. While the World State lacks any supernatural-based religions, Ford himself is revered as the creator of their society but not as a deity, and characters celebrate Ford Day and swear oaths by his name (e.g., “By Ford!”). In this sense, some fragments of traditional religion are present, such as Christian crosses, which had their tops cut off to be changed to a “T”, representing the Ford Model T.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World#The_World_State_and_Fordism

The wiki article says it was up from 2014 to the end of 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voat

Yeah voat was pretty much nazi central

Well especially them, but I’m pretty sure he hates literally everyone who isn’t actively polishing his orange BBs

While the revisions to the family registry act do not ban kanji – Chinese-based characters in written Japanese – parents are required to inform local authorities of their phonetic reading

Well this is fucking crazy to me. Almost every single form you ever have to write your name on in Japan also has a section that you have to write the phonetic reading of it as well. The fact that it doesn’t exist on the family register is absolutely bonkers. I know Japan hates updating things, but even back in the day there were multiple readings for the same kanji characters, and the government being ok with ambiguity on official documents is blowing my mind.

Even before the shiny names the article is talking about the names could be wildly different. We’re not talking about not knowing if Ashleigh is pronounced Ash-lee or Ash-lay, it’s like 里香 being commonly read as either Rika or Satoko.

Also Mononoke IIRC