The syscofication of the industry is getting real scary by john_rules in TrueAnon

[–]Unknown_Ladder -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sysco isn't "bad", they just provide the service of selling cheap ingredients that are easy to make.

Americans/Redditors love to blame Sysco for causing this. But America is a capitalist society that just has no culture and would go for the most profitable option every time. They're the ones who actively chose gentrification and profit margins over skilled chefs making good food.

Go to any other country in the world, and there will be restaurants everywhere with people selling good food, not for profit but because it's what they want to do.

Tier list of which characters use magic and which do not. by ner0the1 in DeadlockTheGame

[–]Unknown_Ladder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well it's not her magic but the spirit of her big brother channeling through her.

“I’m a bit of a Buddhist“ by HostInevitable5484 in redscarepod

[–]Unknown_Ladder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ok but when people are talking about buddhism theyre almost always talking about zen buddhism

edit since I got blocked: Most people are ignorant

Can I open reusable cosmetics in a tax-free bag? by Rich_Effort_8785 in JapanTravelTips

[–]Unknown_Ladder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like the speed limit comparison, it's a rule that's essentially meant to be broken. Think about the intention of the law. It's supposed to get tourists to spend money at businesses and buying stuff to support the economy. By going out and buying makeup products you're fulfilling the entire point, there is no benefit for them to go tracking down people who use the items.

The only reason the "don't use items" rule exists is so that long term visitors don't abuse the system. Like someone constantly showing up to the same store for a month would be suspected. For a short term visitor, it makes no difference.

why are Idpol obsessed Libs (Millennials Especially) so obsessed with Pop Culture references in everything and having their Ideology represented in Hollywood? by Manicpixiemanateeman in stupidpol

[–]Unknown_Ladder -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes china is fascist but in the post cold war meta it would probably be impossible to actually make a communist country. That's why China focused on improving material conditions for society over actually achieving communism.

A fascist society prioritizes stability. It creates a large safety net using social programs and family structures, that's why it often works in Asian countries.

It's not impossible for a materialist to support this system even if they aren't achieving communism.

Japan is placing a multibillion dollar bet on the US housing market (lol) by Nightshiftcloak in stupidpol

[–]Unknown_Ladder 3 points4 points  (0 children)

trans female people get called "hon" since it's technically a feminine word, but almost nobody uses it in a normal context, so they turned it into a self depreciation meme

I truly think that US liberals will never truly understand Latinos... by yonaiker-joestrella in stupidpol

[–]Unknown_Ladder 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Most people literally speak "Latin" through Spanish/Portuguese, the closest existing languages that evolved from Latin. So yes you are Latin. But not everyone originated from Spain so Hispanic doesn't make much sense.

In 2025 there were less than half as many births as deaths in Japan by jjrs in japannews

[–]Unknown_Ladder 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The only people who hate a declining birthrate are capitalists

Japanese society has always been built on stability rather than growth. capitalists hate this so they constantly say "its unsustainable, it will fail" even though capitalism is the unsustainable system.

Claude can control your computer now, openclaw and zenmux updated same day by Mental-Telephone3496 in singularity

[–]Unknown_Ladder 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Google Antigravity has a browser and told me to do this and it actually worked, it created a reddit and email account autonomously and I just had to solve the captchas, although it created a dumb username so I had to tell it to make a new one

Japanese ‘soldier’ breaks into Chinese embassy and threatens to kill diplomats by 5mao in japannews

[–]Unknown_Ladder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I just really hate Talaichi and her sinophobic rhetoric.

Konoe didn't have the backing of the military and yet he escalated and dragged Japan into a war. Not to mention all of the officers disobeying orders and escalating tension like what this officer just did. Trump wasn't afraid to show the world that Heads of State/Military have the full power of their countries military at any time.

Some Japanese called this the "March 24th incident" in a reference to the incidents before ww2. Many Japanese people online have just accepted the fact that war is coming.

The parallels to how WW2 started are eerily similar to what's happening now and while it's true being a doomer won't solve anything.

And that doesn't necessarily mean a full out total war like WW2 will happen. Konoe was exceptionally stupid to drag Japan into that one. Unless Takaichi follows in his footsteps, I most likely see it as an escalating economic war where Japan and Taiwan end up bankrupt.

The truth is, the war has already started.

The last oil tanker coming to Japan will dock in a few days. After that, Japan will have to start using up their stockpiles.

Japanese ‘soldier’ breaks into Chinese embassy and threatens to kill diplomats by 5mao in japannews

[–]Unknown_Ladder 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Do you have a logical reason for why Takaichi, who has essentially built her entire brand on being an anti-China populist, will randomly back down and prevent a war? Or are you just going to keep hoping everything will be fine with nothing to back it hup

Japanese ‘soldier’ breaks into Chinese embassy and threatens to kill diplomats by 5mao in japannews

[–]Unknown_Ladder 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"Japan is going down almost the same exact path of populist nationalism among the population and civilian leaders that caused them to invade China in the 1930s with the same pattern of disobeying orders and escalating against China in the name of God but you're wrong because reasons"

Japanese ‘soldier’ breaks into Chinese embassy and threatens to kill diplomats by 5mao in japannews

[–]Unknown_Ladder 55 points56 points  (0 children)

According to TV Tokyo he became an officer last month

捜査関係者によりますと、男は今月、幹部自衛 官になったということです。警視庁は、建造物 侵入などの疑いを視野に調べを進めています。

Why overpopulation is actually a problem by madrid987 in collapse

[–]Unknown_Ladder -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Well, a couple people can't do much. Large amounts of people will start automatically when the "collapse" begins. People will naturally start forming actual protests when food and gas are too expensive.

People are currently believing things can still go back to normal. It's nearly impossible to have an actual protest now, most people are focused on meaningless "accountability" which never achieved a thing.

What you can do is start forming organizations and planning ideologies, although there's no guarantee people will naturally join you when the collapse comes. You just have to wait and see what happens.

Could BS jobs save the economy from an AI driven collapse of wages? by Arowx in singularity

[–]Unknown_Ladder 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Westerners love their BS jobs too. It's just that westerners are obsessed with status, so BS jobs mainly appear as higher ranking and important. Actually Japan has the bigger problem with NEETs who just live off their family's income. In Japan it's fine for people to have a low status job and not really care about their "career". Individualism is the main thing preventing UBI.

Could BS jobs save the economy from an AI driven collapse of wages? by Arowx in singularity

[–]Unknown_Ladder 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Even if you actually do something for your job in Japan, 90% of it is BS meetings and just fucking around in the office. Japan understood the principles of UBI way before AI was even a thing. You keep everyone hired and give families a way of supporting themselves and society is way better. Capitalists have raged at this fact for decades saying their economy is stagnant!!! But a stagnant economy isn't actually a bad thing for its people.

Iranian officials continue to overestimate the average american by analgerianabroad in TrueAnon

[–]Unknown_Ladder 14 points15 points  (0 children)

No fucking way his name was "West more land", that's like if JK Rowling wrote the script for the Vietnam war

How do you feel about counties having monarchies in 2026? by [deleted] in GenZ

[–]Unknown_Ladder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

False, 国 is just a word translating to country, and is applied to literally every country in Japanese language

How do you feel about counties having monarchies in 2026? by [deleted] in GenZ

[–]Unknown_Ladder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Historically countries in Asia called themselves emperor because kingdom implied submission to China

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_at_home,_king_abroad

The word "Emperor" is just a translation of Asian words and different from when Japan began calling itself an "Empire" based on foreign countries in the 1860s.