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   Rachel Thorn (rachel_thorn@queer.party)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 18:42:00 JST Rachel Thorn

   Just read this in the Washington Post and it was one of those moments where I felt I really no longer understood my home country. How is it at all strange to ask to use your friend’s diaper changing table to change your own child’s diaper while visiting? What the hell else could one do? Please tell me the last line is a joke.

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     Rachel Thorn (rachel_thorn@queer.party)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 21:43:24 JST Rachel Thorn

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     • Justin Sevakis

     @WorldOfCrap It's kind of embarrassing that I can apparently no longer reliably recognize American sarcasm. (Sarcasm is rare in Japan, even as a form of humor.)

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     Justin Sevakis (worldofcrap@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 21:43:26 JST Justin Sevakis

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     @Rachel_Thorn It’s a subtle jibbing, but they are asking them to do something clearly ludicrous, so I think it’s plain. The US has fallen off the deep end on a number of fronts, but this isn’t one of them. ?

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     Rachel Thorn (rachel_thorn@queer.party)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 21:43:27 JST Rachel Thorn

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     • Justin Sevakis

     @WorldOfCrap So this is Miss Manners teasingly telling the reader that they're overthinking things? Well, that's a relief. I thought maybe some new "one table, one baby" rule had been formed in my (long) absence.

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     Justin Sevakis (worldofcrap@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 21:43:28 JST Justin Sevakis

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     @Rachel_Thorn I think this is a joke in reply to someone who is clearly very socially neurotic.