Sounds similar to people trying to get me into alcohol, never liked it much, but everyone always keeps pushing it as if I need to "learn" to drink it.

Fucking no. It's disgusting. I like my occasional light alcohol drink but I ain't chug down litres and piss it, and my money, away because it's "cool".

I know a 5 year old who shoved a crayon up his nose.

Thanks!

That's exactly why I was looking at these comments.

Sounds like it's essentially the same process you'd use for any other fish, except for the potential consequences of a mistake.

The UK doesn't have real sushi? Like you can't even buy sushi grade fish from a local mart and try making it yourself?

I tried it. It’s fish

I've heard it's not the taste. It's a combination of thrill seeking and also even the meat has a bit of ttx apparently and microdosing gives a little tingle or buzz of sorts that is desirable.

I've had it. I didn't go out of my way for it--it was served to me as something special.

It doesn't taste like much. It's not bad by any means, but not very flavorful.

It's mostly all edible, it's about not rupturing the glands that are toxic

My guess is not many. You just need to remove organs you'd likely want to remove anyway.

I bet it was a "i'm going to freak the hell out of my friends by eating this poisonous fish lol" moment

Where's the fun in that

Most adults are functionally retarded and can barely drive a car. These kids are the exception. Most humans are incredibly stupid.

like the dumb mfs that own cars like ford mustangs or dodge challengers and end up totaling their cars because the believed that they were the reincarnation of Ayrton Senna when in reality they can barely drive a shopping cart

The reason is to protect the physically or mentally weak from the strong while also having rules that are easy to follow and to enforce, that don't require psyche exams, which depend on the examiner.

Age might not be a good metric of evaluating maturity, but it is the best and most practically useful we have. (I use "maturity" here as having reached certain physically and mental level where they can operate, think and decide independent, and the risk of being manipulated is low.)

Because age is not a good metric, that means that we have false positives and false negatives on a maturity tests based on age, which we need to balance. And I would rather have more false negatives (wrongly ascertained immaturity) than false positives (wrongly ascertained maturity).

If someone comes up with a better and still practical maturity test, that would be interesting. "Solutions" like every citizen has to do a yearly physical and mental exam in order to keep their rights as an adult, seem much to harsh and easily manipulatable. Especially around blurry lines like disabilities.

Wherever certain thing needs a maturity test or not and where that should be, I cannot say. Just if the age limit is too high, then mental decline will raise the false positives, which would be bad as well.

After how Japan mangles names and words into katakana I can't get too worked up over languages without (formally transcibed) vowel length forget a macron or double letter in publications for non-speakers.

Besides, I don't think the h thrown into Ohtani is gonna make Dodgers fans say his name any different than without it. It would be similar to trying to get a random Japanese person to use vowels outside the five sounds they have.