Never come to South East Asia lmao. China, SK, Japan have been taking measures, like its banned in most hotels and restaurants now, but theres so many restaurants in Japan that are grandfathered in and literally everyone smoking, hotels in China that are technically apartments or something to skirt the law, and people smoking in the streets even when its banned.

He wasnt advocating you vote for conservative dems after they ratfuck their way to a general election.

“We had to destroy the village in order to save it.”

Alternately: I can cook 4 iems at once and have a weeks worth of food!

Day 2 update: I ate it all.

I dont think so, the material in this pillow was physically hard

Idk, it was in a cheap hotel in Osaka or Nagoya whose walls were yellow from smoke and had barely been remodeled since the 80s.

Protip: moving to a place where it takes effort to understand the language turns ads into a dadaist experience.

Best pillow Ive used was full of like uncooked rice or ball bearings or something. It wasnt very soft, but you could make it conform to the back of your head perfectly.

In Japan, people literally line up around the block at pachinko parlors before they open.

Somehow the vibe is slightly less gross than watching 20 retirees just pressing the slot machine button over and over.

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??? That’s not how it worked at all.

They still had the same length of time per day; 24 hours was equal to 10 french hour, each french hour was 100 french minutes, and each french minute was 100 french seconds. So noon arrived at 5 every day.

The french:

You really don’t understand context do you?

Here in Japan, it’s one of the few restaurants that’s often open at 4 AM and has free wifi and phone charging, and is the same across the country. Kinda like wafflehouse, I rarely eat there, but it’s nice as a last resort.

The food is still mid, and kinda expensive at 2/3 or less the cost in the US.

No, he is acknowledging he doesn’t know anything about North Korea because he only has 2 completely unreliable sources.

You know even less because you don’t even have a second source, and lack the critical thinking to realize it.

A lot of chinese people on XHS post about their vacations to DPRK

It’s about the dude’s fear of committing to a relationship with a girl he’s been dating.

https://archive.is/k6hU4

For those who don’t have a plugin to bypass WSJ paywall

Here in Japan, a chain has a cheese burger with beef from Kobe, caramelized onions, and gravy made from the drippings for 7.50USD Half that if you want it with regular beef.

I investigated why things are so cheap and businesses can have the weirdest hours (there’s a bar in Tokyo that’s only open for 5 hours a week on fridays), they tax unused commercial property (for certain definitions of unused, like in rural areas just throwing some gravel down and letting your neighbor park there for a few bucks can be enough to dodge the tax), so companies offer extremely competitive rates to get businesses in. The .4% interest rate and very cheap remodeling costs (except plumbers for some reason) serve to keep startup more accessible, so places don’t have to be super profitable to exist. The taxes work in conjunction with the interest rates to keep banks and capital firms from just buying everything up with the free money to establish a local monopoly and drive up prices. There’s probably other things driving down home and commercial property costs, it’s mindboggling to see a 3 floor+attic, 800sqft/floor building in the center of a city with 10 million people and have the business owner say he’s renting it because the owner wanted 2.5m to buy the whole thing, and that was too much.

I know China manages to keep commercial property somewhat cheap by having 5 year plans and SoEs/universities guarantee the commercial sectors have the inputs such as steel, concrete, and skilled labor they’ll need at a specific price point, but I’ve never managed to talk to someone about tax policies and the like.

Nope, when you poll on individual policies, they’re way to the left of the democrats.

The democrats showcase healthcare bill wasn’t “subsidies for employer-based health insurance, that you have no idea what it’s going to cost and have to buy at a specific time of year by going to one of 50 sites provided by your state at a specific time of year and filling out a bunch of forms or face a tax penalty, with a sliding scale based on income, marriage status, and other factors” because that’s more popular than “free healthcare”.

Same if you ask americans about Biden (and Harris’s) policies of “loan forgiveness for PELL grant recipients up to X dollars depending on age, loan repayment status, income, parent’s income, and whether you were born on a prime-numbered date” vs “free college”

The democrats compromise their bills, not because there’s a bunch of “moderates” who are exactly between democrat and republican who will vote for democrats if they promote garbage versions of progressive bills that don’t actually help anyone, but because they know those versions are less likely to pass and be easier to chip away at, and therefore won’t piss off their billionaire patrons.