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At my previous job, I made the robots that Toyota, Suzuki, etc use in their manufacturing lines and directly installed them inside their factories. My experience is, for the most p…

The interesting thing is Japanese companies generally manufacture cars they sell in America entirely in America, while “American” car companies manufacture their huge polluting mac…

> In countries with state controlled healthcare, service is rationed. Americans really love eating up this meme. I can get scans any time in Japan and I never wait. If doctors thin…

I’d say ask find out why they’re saying they don’t want to read and address all those causes. There are plenty of kids with great parents who are surrounded by awful peers at schoo…

Yeah, being a criminal safe haven right next to a country that has no problem supporting terrorists and dropping bombs on civilian targets is a wonderful idea. Can’t imagine why th…

The kid is the one in class choosing not to read. Parents can be destructive influences on kids, but kids also do have free will and destructive influences amongst their peers who …

English has one word answers for those questions. It’s just conversationally dry and people will assume you’re not interested.

Probably because every powerful economy of the past 6 centuries got there due to strong trade, which the US has gone out of its way to prevent Cuba from doing. No country with a st…

Japan doesn’t have a nearby superpower that makes sabotaging your entire economy a yearly campaign point in order to prove your country sucks. Cuba’s had that for well over half a …

My parents were straight D/F students and never helped me with classes at all. I would’ve appreciated help that would’ve let me go farther, but that’s at a point well past algebra.…

I was in Borneo last month and saw round lamps in a rainforest covered in swarms of ants at night, all standing equidistant and with their jaws wide open and raised. I picked up a …

I don’t trust that the infrastructure will always work. I’ve had my cards rejected randomly. Since I travel a lot and mainly use cards abroad, I’ve had my cards rejected more times…

I don’t think communist countries have a higher rate of trans people. Blaming random, irrelevant things on communism is a hallmark sign of believing media fear mongering.

> What's you explanation then for why literally nobody cared about adult trans people just a few years ago? Because it’s an invented political scapegoat, just like countless others…

A person who doesn’t believe in religion being sworn in on a religious book is probably just annoyed. They’re not going to feel loyal to it. Sworn statements as a whole are just en…

Every invented moral panic is about “the children.” Rock music, Jewish people “corrupting” the youth, satanists, trans people. It’s sad that people still buy into these stories mea…

Belief in mass hysteria is itself the most common form of mass hysteria.

Transgender people have existed throughout history and on every corner of the earth. They’re documented in basically any society with written records. But for some reason, in 2023,…

One thing I’ve learned is that unless the option absolutely disappears, people usually won’t search for alternatives when something goes to absolute shit. They’ll just complain and…

I’m really not sure if he should be given all the credit. Comics thrived in other countries, so even if American comics were seen as right behind porn, it was only a matter of time…

Mine required participation in at least 3 studies. I feel like undergrads who are participating in a study only because they’re told to will shift the results a bit.

There are loads of societies that eat rice and bugs together and have for centuries. It’s a well-rounded meal.

But there are still countless lines in use where you’ll see one person get off every 3 stops. It’s sometimes insane how lines are kept running in Japan.

Gaming as a whole is almost entirely multi platform these days, aside from a few first party published titles. Anything playable on MacOS also works on windows. Most mid budget ind…

And the average person buying a Deck is a little more technologically inclined and thinks “But the Deck does have Nintendo’s entire back catalog.” Valve even showed off Nintendo em…