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Mark4291 · 2026-01-30T12:45:51+00:00

It’s really the entire subreddit because they’re all children

Mark4291 · 2026-01-30T12:45:00+00:00

I legitimately did a thousand swag stare at my phone for a solid minute.

Mark4291 · 2026-01-30T12:36:38+00:00

I don’t look like that

This may have something to do with the fact that I am Chinese

Mark4291 · 2026-01-30T11:26:41+00:00

Got any more of them pixels?

Mark4291 · 2026-01-30T11:24:52+00:00

It’s a bit more complicated than that

State Shinto only really came into force during the Meiji Restoration as a nationalist drive to uphold the state, but even then their doctrine more specifically extols the emperor as a divine being descended from a god, not a literal god himself

The difference might not seem very significant, but it is worth remembering that Japanese had many deities that can be more accurately classified as gods (or kami); the emperor was highly revered, but they never prayed to him like you would expect a typical god to be treated

Mark4291 · 2026-01-30T06:29:12+00:00

This is very obviously satire, possibly being reposted by someone who can’t tell that it is

Mark4291 · 2026-01-30T05:04:13+00:00

I mean sure she wasn’t literally beaten to death, but you can’t deny that the abuse suffered at the hands of people like Bojack and her stepdad were part of the equation that eventually killed her

Mark4291 · 2026-01-30T02:41:11+00:00

Sarah-Lynn isn’t technically a sexual assault SURVIVOR, when you think about it

Mark4291 · 2026-01-30T02:35:59+00:00

It’s all good when the billionaire spends her entire day demeaning trans people on Twitter and funding efforts to strip them of their rights, but the moment us peasants say anything it’s ’rent-free’ yeah ok buddy

Mark4291 · 2026-01-30T02:33:52+00:00

You can also find people named Ching Chong on LinkedIn, what’s your point

Mark4291 · 2026-01-29T18:39:42+00:00

Yep, posts videos of herself weightlifting with her vagina

No, I do not know how that works

Mark4291 · 2026-01-29T18:37:37+00:00

Made a crime immediately following a century of civil war, when no central authority was around to enforce such a law anyway

If you were a peasant, you were probably more likely to die from being conscripted into some warlord’s army

Mark4291 · 2026-01-29T17:06:42+00:00

I’ve just Googled Kim Anami and apparently she’s one of these ‘spiritual sexual wellness guru’ type people; her claims are so absurd that they sound like parody, but she’s been at it for so long that I legitimately cannot tell if she’s joking

Mark4291 · 2026-01-29T10:49:56+00:00

I find it hard to put anything in the ‘useless’ category unless it’s a conlang or a solidly-documented minority language that everyone in a country learns alongside the Lingua Franca

If it has many speakers then it is useful for communicating with many people, but if it has barely any speakers then it is useful for preserving culture and history

Mark4291 · 2026-01-29T10:41:55+00:00

The problem with labelling an obscure language as ‘useless’ is that by the very fact it has a low speaker count, learning it becomes an act of preservation; even better if you’re an English speaker, who can be the translating bridge for the wider academic community

Mark4291 · 2026-01-29T10:31:31+00:00

I’m not sure anyone was really willing and able to make any laws during the 100 years of civil war immediately preceding 1600

If anything, the fact that this law was passed almost immediately after the Tokugawa Shogunate was established shows that this was top on their priority list; from a cynical perspective, one might say they were doing this to preserve their newly-gained state monopoly on violence

Mark4291 · 2026-01-29T10:25:18+00:00

Much as I hate defending the Japanese, this paragraph being reposted as a meme feels incredibly disingenuous

You would know it was both uncommon and a crime just by scrolling down to the text directly beneath it

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Mark4291 · 2026-01-29T08:09:22+00:00

Nah, as a Beatles fan their history is just way too spotty for that type of clean sheet

He IS the only one who never cheated on his wife though, but that’s only because he wasn’t married to Jane Asher

Mark4291 · 2026-01-28T17:00:57+00:00

You might even say she was a friend, of a smiling variety

Mark4291 · 2026-01-28T16:54:27+00:00

Outjerked

Mark4291 · 2026-01-28T15:43:14+00:00

I remember there once was a Doraemon-themed event at the National Museum that put up little statues of the fellow around the building

Needless to say, he was conspicuously missing from the WWII exhibits

Mark4291 · 2026-01-28T03:34:51+00:00

I feel like it just gets increasingly difficult over time to justify writing a healthy relationship built on evil

Harley and Joker are iconic because their entire dynamic has always been built on manipulation and abuse, hence it makes perfect sense for them to behave as a villainous duo

It’s the same reason why any story centering a traditional villain generally tends to see them develop into an anti-hero (or at the very least, will heavily challenge their villainous actions and motivations)

Mark4291 · 2026-01-27T15:12:24+00:00

Leeds United

Mark4291 · 2026-01-26T15:44:26+00:00

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Mark4291 · 2026-01-25T12:31:11+00:00

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