Yeah, that was a "wait what?" moment for me...thankfully they didn't dwell on that too long.
AernaLingus
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I was so confused by this and then I remembered...lmao
Alternative theory:
扱く（こく） means "to pull through one's hand, as when separating grain from the stalk".
By extension, コキ is used in compounds like 手コキ ("handjob") and 足コキ ("footjob") (although crucially not "blowjob", which is just フェラチオ/フェラ borrowing directly from fellatio)
Since machine translation these days is just a huge black box of nodes and weights based on a gigantic text corpus, I'm guessing it effectively takes コキ to be a completely general suffix for -job. Blowjob probably appears far more in its dataset than any of the actual words using コキ as well as more than any other English -job compounds, so even though there isn't a preceding character to give it context it just hallucinates the highest probability -job word based on its model.
If anyone's curious about the train naming convention, I found a handy-dandy page explaining everything (it's HTTP-only, so I've also included a Wayback Machine link):
http://sunny-life.net/train_symbol/trainsymbol.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20230401013043/http://sunny-life.net/train_symbol/trainsymbol.htm
I was very grateful to go to a high school where our football team sucked so bad they were a punchline--I honestly couldn't even tell you who the quarterback was. I can only imagine the psychic damage I would have incurred had I attended one of those Texas schools where they spend more on the football stadium than the actual school
edit: I accidentally a word
Sorry, I wrote a response like hours after you replied but didn't post because anxiety, and then as the days passed by I was like, "Well shit, now I have to have something really good to say if I'm gonna comment!". Anxiety brain, not even once. 
...anyway! I've already read Hello, Melancholic! and loved it (I see that you've posted about it before and that's probably how I found out about it). I went ahead and binged Ayaka is in Love with Hiroko and really enjoyed it! Ngl, my patience was wearing thin with the repetitive neutron star density antics in the first ~1/3, but once it got past that part into the meat of it I was totally hooked. I'll also be sure to give Utena another shot--I watched the first few episodes and really vibed with it but for some reason I didn't continue (think it was just a timing thing with stuff going on in my life). I'll also check out Otherside Picnic; tbh, I'm not usually one for fantasy manga but I read the first few chapters and it seems pretty neat.
I basically don't read novels of any kind these days even though I used to devour them in my youth (I remember going on a family vacation with an entire suitcase full of books and running out halfway through, to give you an idea), but that premise seems too good to pass up.
edit: also I just saw that you've also posted about Ore ga Watashi ni Naru made and I feel very seen. It's one of those works that I would feel like a complete asshole for liking if I just told someone the basic premise, but the way it's executed makes it very compelling. Which reminds me, I need to get back to reading it! The high quality scanlations gave way to speedscans when I was reading it so I switched over to the raws because I felt it deserved the effort to get as much of the subtext as possible. My Japanese is decent enough to get through it generally speaking, but since my kanji knowledge is lacking it's pretty effortful so I think I just lost the will to soldier on. Looks like Skye/Kurisu and her team are back on board (she is the absolute GOAT) and have published like twenty-odd chapters since I last checked so I'll definitely get back into it.
or more optimistically
This was really interesting as someone not in the military, and definitely valuable and detailed info for people who need it. The stuff about going AWOL as a last resort was especially eye opening! I'm sure I'm not the only one who assumed going AWOL was a one-way trip to military prison.
Nope, it's an old article and really doesn't say anything of substance:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/09/14/violent-antipolice-memes-surge/
Yeah, if OP can spare the cash I would definitely recommend investing in some microspikes. I went with the Stabilicers Maxx 2 a few years back and they've worked great when I've needed them, but I imagine any decent pair will do the trick.
Lmao, I was gonna come in here to mention this but you beat me to it. Obviously people have whipped themselves up into a frenzy and are lashing out at anyone and anything at this point, but it's still funny to imagine some nerds genuinely being upset by some milquetoast cracker jokes
mfw I saw that thread about favorite seasonal anime