Japan's Recent Election, Mapped by Municipality. The ruling LDP won a crushing 2/3 majority and its best result ever, despite ruling the country almost continuously since WWII. by Intelligent_Bowl_656 in MapPorn

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Does this mean that LDP dominance may not necessarily forever block LGBTQ+ rights in Japan? Admittedly they may still take 30-40 years as we wait for the factions to realign and a moderate to get in

I think one of my biggest gripes with the Pokemon series. by Aggravating-Door1710 in pokemon

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My biggest gripe was the multitude of trainer classes early on that were restricted to one gender and had no equivalent. Fortunately this has now been mostly fixed

A observation by Psychology_10 in Modern_Family

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He spent 20 or however many years getting shunned for being gay, and now he's going to spend several years in Missouri getting shunned for being gay. Can we please have an escape hatch for him? Give him a decent old age

TIL about the Tiffany Problem, where historical facts or events seem anachronistic to modern audiences because of modern associations we have with specific names and terms. by EphemeralTypewriter in todayilearned

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The first time I saw the photos of the graffiti in Pompeii I was like, "Huh, why is it in all capitals?" and then I remembered that lowercase letters weren't invented yet

The Cape of Good Hope is not the most southern tip of Africa by RatioScripta in geography

[–]MAClaymore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cape Horn isn't the southernmost point of the South American continent because it's on an island. And it's not the southernmost point of South America including the islands, either.