Japanese loves abbreviating english loan words to two syllables (see also: remote control -> remokon, personal computer -> pasokon), so I’d suspect it was called pokemon colloquially very early and then the international branding caused it to become official.

Wikipedia seems to agree but i didn’t check sources

I started being interested in japan because of anime, vns, and japanese music, so that naturally lead to an interest in the language. Personally I also just like the way japanese sounds, but don’t really like the sound of chinese. And because of those interests, it’s also more immediately useful.

Japanese also seems easier to me (both the pronunciation and overall structure) but that might just be a result of consuming japanese media for a long time.

And yes, there are chinese anime too, but they’re overall less well known even though there are some pretty good ones.

Nah, paws are specific types of appendages. Monkeys have hands. But it’s possible that back when the idiom was coined, it was different bc of that kind of logic.

There might very well still have been something else bad. The discontent was there, if hitler hadn’t been the one to utilize it, it could’ve been someone else. Same with trump. There’s still a good chance that whoever would win the power struggle if the orange suddenly croaked had none of the apparent charisma of trump (not that I think he has any but it clearly works on a lot of people). Fascism is a personality cult, and just replacing that isn’t a given, but the initial rise heavily selects for someone who is able to create one. So if not them, it’d likely have been someone else maybe a little later.

I just eat what I feel like eating in that moment. Though I don’t keep a large stock of anything other than noodles and cereal so anything else I usually plan to eat the day I buy it (or sometimes for the day after). I also eat at different times depending on when I get hungry. Eating just isn’t a very planned activity for me.

I think you’re missing the context where this is about resupplying gasoline to fuel stations. So the highway infrastructure is already there and you don’t gain anything by shipping a large load to a central place.

Tbh though if a rail line was built parallel to the road, it doesn’t seem prohibitively expensive to build a pump that can get the gas from a train. Though probably still not financially sensible for the gas station without subsidies or something.