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In 2014 Sony sold its waterproof Walkmans in a bottle of water to prove it was really waterproof

Their menu is maddening. Changes often and things you like will disappear forever to be replaced by odd specialty items. The fish burger randomly turned into salmon burger. You can get a burger set with "potato fries" (wedges) or chicken nuggets but not with "french fries" which are normal fries

Mine still does... I typically use the chipotle hot sauce for fries and nuggets.

This is just payback for when LDP leaders were being called "radical right" despite their policies being (let me just check my notes here...) more immigration, more women in the workforce, and uh... Cool Biz I guess?

What… Shohei was like 16 when you posted this?

I love that they snuck a cigarette, jack-o-lantern, and various beer bottles into the kanji

YouTube video by Animagraffs How the Golden Gate Bridge Works

You should show him all of the videos on this channel. They are. Slow paced but I really enjoy watching them. m.youtube.com/watch?v=RjbJ...

Nerd Sniping

nerd sniping xkcd.com/356/

A sign reading "I have not read this Katamari book, and also I don't remember 100% what I told to L.E. Hall in the interviews. But I would recommend this book irresponsibly." -Keita Takahashi, creator of Katamari Damacy

The cover of Katamari Damacy by L.E. Hall, from Boss Fight Books. It shows a penguin being menaced by a giant sticky ball of tape

Still the greatest endorsement of all time

But most importantly, I think social media rewards extremism and punishes moderation within each party. You can see this dynamic at work in the response to the Young Republicans’ leaked texts. In the old days, when internal party debates mostly happened in private, it was possible to crack down on Nazis and other extremists. Now, thanks to social media, those debates mostly happen in public, where the opposition can see everything and potentially take advantage of any internal divisions. This makes right-wing leaders extremely reluctant to cultivate the appearance of dissension in the ranks, for fear of joining in a “left wing pile on”:

Sorry you're getting shit on. I wish we (collectively) were better at not forming circular firing squads. Noah Smith (don't @ me people... I know not everyone is a fan) just had a post that also touches on the way social media pushes people to extremism as well. www.noahpinion.blog/p/after-trum...

cute video... but maybe they can lobby the gov to put regular trash cans in public again. Omotesando has some nice compacting ones on the street and I think it helps.

I get the point that's trying to be made here, but it's actually inaccurate. The *MAJORITY* of actual practitioners in the tech industry have a position that is neither of these, it's merely getting drowned out by these two loud positions. The most common belief in the tech industry is simple:

oh shit... it's not? becuz I like a good workwear inspired look. Hard Ivy. Classic denim. Has this been covered in an interview?

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu." Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Ishiba's address on the eightieth anniversary of the end of the war is really worth reading:

japan.kantei.go.jp/content/0001...

The main things required to succeed at pop music:

1.) make catchy music that lots of people want to hear again
2.) get lots of people to hear it

Swift was always good at #1 and now #2 is a self-fulfilling positive feedback loop. She can print money for as long as she wants to do it

you chose the bird

It's a great game.

Maybe the rapture happened but nobody made the cut to get selected to go

I enjoy dunking on her as much as the next but those AI overviews are very very often wrong. This doesn’t feel like a quote from a 1981 novel…

lol yeah! It’s the one I thought of immediately because it has an annoying amount of vowels in a row. Gotta find to find consonants with something like three in a row, a double vowel and end it with an ed or similar.

I’ve come up with dozens now… this is going to bother me all day. Thanks.

I immediately thought of queued but I feel like I can do better.

What site/app is that?

Poor time management is a rite of passage.

Trigger a non-dismissable modal on the app to change and verify their email address to continue.

Sunshine and endless sunflowers
#TourLife

Rule 3 is pretty passive. We ask you not to use the bath if you have tattoos… it’s just a thing we’re gonna do. Who knows what will happen next.

Every karioki machine has country roads and it will be too uncool for them to sing up until at least late high school I think.

I’ve noticed Japanese construction often opting for untreated wood… it does look pretty nice. I suspect in America that would have had a few coats of varnish and would still look pretty new.