I don't mind it as long as the air isn't fouler than hell

Now I'm curious... What site?

Me too. And the incessant pig noise has caused my niece to emulate them.

I've noticed that. It looks like at one point in this decade (2011 - 2021) the divide of the rich and poor became the White Vs Black. It's been rebranded, sensationalized, and made it about 'race' but in reality it's still the rich vs the poor. It doesn't help that the populace is easily manipulated or made to believe a lie; also people now don't even fact check and seek to win an argument, by any means necessary, going so far as trying to justify wrong things.

I've never understood that whole white argument from the west. Japanese are white skin toned, Chinese, Koreans, and Mongolians too; North of India has many white skinned Indians.

In a way the first world war would still happen, due to the generation then being born in a period of relative peace (Pax Britannia) and the old generation that enforced that peace, because they've witnessed the horrors of the Napoleonic wars, we're dead or dying. If I traveled back in time, I can only influence events in such a way that the first world war would end rather quickly; but that would mean that the colonial powers would still be strong (Relative to other nations) and with likely growing unrest in their colonies due to war and the desire for independence, would form an alliance to keep themselves in power. Yours might actually be better, the people who would see the mushroom clouds would see it as God smiting the wicked, calling for peace, and end all hostilities.

He tried to talk to her, but no words could come out of his mouth.

The Meiji constitution wasn't written in such a way that the military didn't have dominance over the civilian government. Hirohito, being more courageous, would be more assertive in his rule and prevent the military from invading and occupying Manchuria without his consent. (He was actually more of a pacifist but because the military had control of the government; he and his family were more like prisoners in their own empire.)

Harvest is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of fruit picking, and actually sounds more direct than 'gather' when we are talking about food stuff.
Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Pangasinan. They're old languages from the time before the Spanish came and colonized my country, it's honestly hard remembering them all so I tend to just forget them altogether when I'm not talking to someone or a relative who speaks the language exclusively.