Agreed!

Excellent points!

Yes, language is a wonderfully transient thing that always changes and morphs depending on what it's speakers think is nifty at the moment. Wonder what many of these quick-to-accuse SJW people think about that?

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Or once you've had enough coffee. ?

In that case I'm as guilty as you are of that. My son also has a pretty Japanese name.

Seriously though, "cultural appropriation", how do they even define it?

Depends. Can you perceive the very fabric of time-space, calculate multiple factors of Prime numbers in your head, or understand Doonesbury? If either applies, you might have had too much.

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It's when you start joking about SCSI that people get confused nowadays.

At least you didn't get terminated for it…

Partially, yes. Some stuff, like the brakes, is easy as heck and surprisingly cheap. Other things, like parts of the engine and the gearbox, I appear to need a visit or five to the local scrapyard.

And don't even get me started on the possibility of tuning equipment. :/

You have no idea how tempted I am to try to get a hold of an Alto Works with 4WD. ?

Planning the repair and upgrade path for my Suzuki Alto.