You generally don’t go into the police force if you have intellectual curiosity

All the surplus American people in Japan are employed being the “American guy” in the office who is kept on to tell the boss his idea is stupid because he’s just a clueless gaijin who doesn’t know that you don’t do that.

Which language has a word/abbreviation that can translate as either chicken or something to do with data storage?

5½ days a week, generally until 19:00 or so on weekdays. And just search for anything starting with “system”; the one of which there are several around you is the state liquor shop (which is more like an upmarket booze supermarket than any image the phrase “state liquor shop” would conjure up to most people from outside Scandinavia).

It has been since the dawn of the recording industry

Unless they choose a life of crime, in which case, video evidence against them is inadmissible.

Babies are a renewable resource.

Germany appears to be regressing to the Biedermeier era of apathetic conservatism that followed the crushing of the upheavals of 1848

Enterprising Texan pervert invents a dual-function gun-dildo that is constitutionally exempt from sex toy laws.

Corporate wellness has a new look for the Trump era

The whitewashed curry came to Japan via the British Royal Navy.

I heard they were caught flipping a grunt.

like “what is Linux”, “what’s the deal with all the Star Trek references” and “I’m not sure those cartoon animal pictures are suitable for children”

in Minecraft

Bertolt Brecht could probably come close

Feels bad man

Failure to find joy or embrace the little moments of delight may result in termination

They own a big chunk (possibly a majority) of Spotify and extract hefty licensing fees from it. (Spotify moving into podcasting was apparently intended to find a market in which they could keep the profits.) The majors get far better licensing terms than indie labels or small artists would get, because they have the whip hand: Spotify has no choice but to pay up as not to become a platform without Taylor Swift/Ed Sheeran/Baby Shark/etc., which would effectively wipe them out.

Make no mistake, the three major labels (Warner, Sony and Universal) are reaping the vast majority of profits from Spotify.

Given how threadbare the NHS is after over a decade of underinvestment and privatisation by stealth, I doubt he or any C-suite officer would ever set foot in a NHS clinic.

The rat: “ohshitohshitohshitohshitohshitohshit!”