shawn1122
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- Comment on Real Height 📏 3 days ago:
I think you touched on how social pressure can make it toxic.
By no means advocating for a change in how we define adulthood but a recent paper looking at topographical turning points in the brain identified adolescence as extending from 9 to 32 years of age which explains a lot in my view.
- Comment on Game over 3 days ago:
Might be a good time to learn about the curry leaf.
- Comment on Real Height 📏 4 days ago:
Most people don’t really know what they want until they’ve had their perspective is broadened.
Filtering people out based on specific physical attributes is wild in my opinion. So glad I found my partner before that became ‘normal’.
That being said I’m speaking for full fledged adults. We have research now that suggests adolesence extends to age 32. I wouldn’t be suprised if people in their 20s were trying to optimize ear or nipple size in their search for a partner, just from my memory of living through that age.
- Comment on Stereotyping is wrong. 6 days ago:
If we’re going off election results it would be two thirds of white men and more than half of white women.
- Comment on Stereotyping is wrong. 6 days ago:
For which party and why?
- Comment on Anon disrespects their elders 1 week ago:
This must be devastating for the Switch which also happens to be nearly tied for best selling console of all time.
- Comment on Why does most American's give shit to the French when if not for them we would have lost the revolution? 2 weeks ago:
France has no US military bases on its soil and has refused to be entirely vassalized by the US unlike most of the rest of Europe. It’s one of few Western countries that has managed to maintain strategic autonomy in the face of US hegemony. Refusal to participate in the war in Iraq is an example of this, while countries like the UK followed blindly like a good little lap dog.
- Comment on Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards 3 weeks ago:
The article makes the claim that homes have been broken into.
- Comment on Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards 3 weeks ago:
Great insight.
- Comment on Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards 3 weeks ago:
Being accustomed to bad infrastructure means they won’t use good infrastructure if it’s right in front of them? That’s an interesting assumption to make of those of lesser means.
Yes, I can see that being a problem. But it comes back to Japanese infrastructure not having the capacity so I’m glad they’re doing the responsible thing by shutting it down. Hopefully they can come up with a solution so that businesses that see a lot of revenue due to this festival don’t get hit too hard.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
If you talk to locals, yes, this is the stereotype.
- Comment on Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards 3 weeks ago:
Lots of narrative building going on in this thread. I’m in another comment chain where the case is being made that Japan has the best maintained and widely available toilets in the world and yet people are still choosing to break into homes to use the bathroom and defecate in the open despite this. Hard to believe anyone can genuinely buy this so one can only assume that the underlying intentions is, rather than having a discussion in good faith, to pit this one one group of people while absolving Japan of any reaponsibility.
Which is their prerogative but it’s important that they acknowledge their bias. Japan is headed towards an alarming demographic collapse with 40% of its population being pensioners by 2046. Tourism is one of the few industries that will keep their economy and social services functional so I do genuinely hope they figure this out, for their sake.
- Comment on Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards 3 weeks ago:
You genuinely think a person would forgo a functional (let’s take udon’s word for it - world class) toilet to break into someone’s house in a foreign country just to use their bathroom? That doesn’t seem like a stretch to you?
- Comment on Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards 3 weeks ago:
Feel free to make a counter argument based on your personal experience, if you have one. What would be the reason?
- Comment on Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards 3 weeks ago:
For whatever reason? What could possibly be the reason? If the toilets are as remarkable and pristine as youve shared, it’s hard to imagine any reason someone would choose to do that. Unless you’re saying the tourist is doing it out of spite which still leaves us with the question of why.
- Comment on Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards 3 weeks ago:
The already existing infrastructure may be of good quality but it doesn’t really matter if the capacity isn’t there to meet the volume of people.
In fact, let’s agree that your point is absolutely true. Wouldn’t it then br most likely that people would want to use those facilities and the only reason they may not be is because the wait is too long?
- Comment on Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards 3 weeks ago:
Worth reviewing what type of sanitation services are available. If people are completely ignoring adequate public recepticles and bathrooms then that can be addressed a variety of ways but that seems relatively less likely in my opinion.
- Comment on Anon goes to the ball 3 weeks ago:
I’m not a woman but will speak on what little I know from life experience.
From a woman’s perspective, an offer to share intimacy is not necessarily validating in the way a similar offer may be received by a man.
For some, perhaps many, women there is the looming question of whether an offer of intimacy is simply a man looking to make them the object of their sexual gratification. Many women are not interested in that.
As men, we’re not used to getting offers. So much so that when we get one it makes our day, week, month etc. For many women, the challenge is not getting offers, but there is a looming question of whether the offer genuine. What is the intention of the person showing interest? It’s not that men aren’t also concerned with these questions. It’s just that, for a variety of reasons, the stakes are lower for men. So they spend less time thinking about them and more on just being excited someone noticed them.
- Comment on Anon gets nostalgic 4 weeks ago:
An unsurprisingly one sided perspective on gentrification with no attention given to the displacement and economic destruction it causes the people already living in those ‘ghettos’ and
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 1 month ago:
Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Wish you the best on your journey of better understanding our world.
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 1 month ago:
Many of every other nation, race, culture and creed do too.
Not in the way that Indigineous cultures do, see the sources listed by fossilesque above. Indigineous peoples often find themselves in a position where they have to protect the environment from Western corporate interests.
No, there is value in sperating out the West here. I refer to the past 500 years of human history as the reason why. You can claim that my approach is binary ie. western by seperating them out as an entity but the reality is it was their binary view of the world (ie. white people being superior) that has left us with that division. They had the economic and tchnologic leverage to make that binary our lived reality. Ignoring that would be naive at best, disingenuous at worst.
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 1 month ago:
Many indigineous cultures uphold sustainability as a crucial part to their culture.
It is actually a common logical failing of Western culture to assume that everyone sees the world and interacts with it the way they do.
- Comment on What should the next President of the United States do? 1 month ago:
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Immediately reverse domestically regressive policies.
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Foreign affairs? I’m afraid cats out of the bad. No ones trusting the US the same way again. Start the process of patching up relations but it’s going to take much longer than one term.
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Find a way to actually improve the material conditions of the average American. Trying to use laws to prevent another Trump is not going to work. Demagogues thrive in an environment, typically defined by unease or insecurity. If people feel that their lives are improving they don’t fall for it as easily.
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Be competent.
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- Comment on Anon questions some decisions 2 months ago:
True. What’s also true, and adds context to the clusterfuck, is that the Taliban wouldn’t exist if thr US didn’t fund and arm extremists 50 years ago in order to prevent the spread of communism in Afghanistan.
- Comment on Anon questions some decisions 2 months ago:
I wouldn’t include India in that group (the relationship has soured a bit recently) but your point on the effectiveness of their propoganda is certainly valid.
- Comment on Anon questions some decisions 2 months ago:
America had a positive perception among the countries it offered loans to help rebuild (Western European countries, Japan). Keep in mind that a lot of the colonial and slavery based wealth that Europe accrued was essentially transferred to the US during WW2. By the end of world war 2, the British empire was essentially bankrupt with most of the world’s gold reserves now in the US and greater than 50% of global industrial output being US based so the economic outcome was immensely positive for America. It makes sense that your allies would gong your drum when you are offering to finance their reconstruction.
- Comment on If WW3 breaks out, who is going to be on which side? 2 months ago:
India US relations have gone cold since Trump. Particularly with the +25% tariff for buying Russian oil which they perceive as unfair since
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India followed the US in sanctioning Iran in 2019 which is why they increased purchases of Russian oil.
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The West had set a price cap on Russian oil after the Ukraine war as everyone understood that completely banning its purchase would drive oil prices up undesirably.
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The Biden administration was explicit in acknowledging and accepting that India buy Russian oil. It was seen as necessary to stabilize the market.
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China buys more oil than India from Russia and faces no specific additional tariff.
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The EU continues to buy gas and the US buys uranium from Russia (which also allows them to continue to finance the war).
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The IMF (which is seen as an American/Western institution) continues to bail out Pakistan and the peception in India is that some of those funds will reach non-state actors who will perpetuate violence in India.
There are actually more reasons but India recently hosted Putin for a state visit and rolled out the red carpet for him. India and Russia have historically had good relations (the Soviet Union used its UN security council position to support India against postcolonial Western interference on several occasions) but this was friendlier than many were expecting and it is in large part due to the current US administration being inconsistent on trade policy and incompetent at diplomacy.
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- Comment on If WW3 breaks out, who is going to be on which side? 2 months ago:
Middle East/Africa would likely become its own sphere just based on geography. I assume Europe would be in Russia’s sphere.
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 2 months ago:
Needs?
- Comment on It's always been women in STEM. 3 months ago:
This is cited from 2012 according to Wikipedia. Archived versions can be accessed in the citations.
en.wikipedia.org/…/University_of_al-Qarawiyyin
This article from BBC in 2018 also makes the same mention with no correction: