It's CHEE-tahn. Japanese doesn't really have any ambiguities in its pronunciation, so if you're familiar with Japanese and its romanization, you can tell just from the spelling.
This is an interesting case of selection/observation bias, because as someone who worked in a casino for 11 years, you would witness anyone whose life was ruined by something like this, but never get any followup on anyone who smartly took the W and didn't get addicted.
Cooking for a single person is pretty rough unless you want to eat leftovers or the same thing all the time. Food infrastructure and packaging is designed for large family meals. Both the cost and time investment come out a lot more favorably when you split it 4-6 ways.
Me, always: "Biden can't do half the stuff people say he should, not without Congress passing a law"
Internet: "But he could put pressure on Congress!"
Biden: Tweets about a thing he wants Congress to do
Internet: "lmao does this guy not know who the president is?"
There are significant differences between the 2 major political parties with regards to both of those issues, so if you actually cared about them, you would make the obvious intelligent choice between them instead of leaving it up to others to decide, yes.