tiredofsametab
Fermented fish guts, but I suppose fermentation is just rotting with style.
I put modern fish sauce in all kinds of things, so I get it. 塩辛 Shiokara is also a popular food here and it’s fermented seafood parts/guts (squid is most popular, but it could be anything, I think).
Good News! Unless something has changed since I worked in healthcare IT, those systems are far too old to be impacted!
I’m half-joking. I don’t know what that kind of equipment runs, but I would guess something embedded. The nuke-med stuff was mostly linux and various lab analyzers were also something embedded though they interface with all sorts of things (which can very well be windows). Pharmaceutical dispensers ran various linux-like OS’s (though I couldn’t even tell you the names anymore). Some medical records stuff was also proprietary, but Windows was replacing most of it near the end of my time.
One place we had ran their keycard system all on a windows 3.1 box still. I don’t doubt some modern systems also are running on Windows which has interesting implications for getting into/out of places.
That said, a lot of that stuff doesn’t touch the outside internet at all unless someone has done something horribly wrong. Medical records systems often do, though (including for billing and insurance stuff).
About 10 years ago, I moved to Japan and don’t regret it. The only real downsides are that my family is on the other side of the world and the yen is doing poorly against the dollar. Well, that and being a US citizen trying to do something silly like use Japanese retirement vehicles outside of pension (iDECO and NISA) is basically impossible because everything is considered a PFIC by the US, but that’s true of many things in other countries as a US citizen.
Something expensive is spendy.
My dictionary doesn’t think so, heh. Webster seems to say “chiefly Northwestern US” so that may explain it. I remember rolling my eyes and thinking that it sounded like something a self-important jackass would say. (edit: the first time I heard it, I mean).
I don’t think I’d ever use it, but I also don’t see it as weird or wrong anymore. Melty is fine. Slippy still grates on me a bit, but I can let it slide.
Certain registers of a language do have different rules, but those also change and are still kinda whatever that part of society agrees with. Business letters that I learned to write in gradeschool in the '80s aren’t necessarily the same as I would write or expect to receive today. Ubiquitous, fast electronic communication also through a wrench into things a bit.