Women have to protect themselves from weirdos somehow.

This is a good time to remember:

If it bites you and you die; venomous
If you bite it and you die; poisonous

Huzzah! Can’t wait. I’ve never liked the idea of eating brains, now it’ll be my favourite meal

Username checks out?

Those parts might be centred around your family kitchen, much like the northern lights

This tufted titmouse was the winner

This isn’t something I’ve seen online either tbh. But the UK thing was certainly very popular having talked to people in their 30s-40s, though admittedly this was about 25 years ago. Nowadays life is much harder so just the idea of maybe one day affording a house and having survivable wages is more of concern! The dream of owning a pub is so far above what current 30yos could reach. Plus, pubs are all owned by breweries these days so the of the old freehold pub has died.

In Japan, it’s something I’ve seen several times in Japanese documentaries on NHK, which have been translated. Again, I don’t know if this is still the dream of the younger folks - it was 50yos that wanted to do that previously. The US equivalent was “the American Dream” that people still wish for, even though it’s unlikely. It’s a similar feeling, or hope, that for most won’t come true, no matter what they do. These aren’t “specific online spaces”. These are the hopes and dreams for a better future - if you need to have those, you’re making a statement.

You don’t need to read the language to understand what they’re meaning by it (I don’t speak Japanese) and there’s examples in other countries of this too, including English (in the UK it used to be the dream to run a pub). Anyone who “has a dream” where they escape the rat race and/or becomes their own boss and/or moves to “the country” or even out of the country is making a political statement with every one of those thoughts/dreams.

THAT is the subtext, not the actual text. It requires no deep understanding of verbal/written language, just an understanding of human communication which is more nuanced than simply what we say or write.

Everyone complains about their own country. The Japanese complain about Japan all the time too - the whole “salaryman running off to start a ramen shop” dream is a complaint about th country. Just because you can’t see it means you’re not understanding subtext.

It’s not about the physical size, it’s about its oversized influence especially in online spaces. Plus we’re all writing/reading English at this moment so there’s an anglosphere bias.

They do. But not at 3am when he’s on the shitter which is when he does the rants/literal shitposts

All movies with a manic pixie dream girl seem to have the point missed. 500 days of summer, eternal Sunshine of a spotless mind, garden state, Scott Pilgrim etc.

Right-wing architecture?

visiting an english store, in a broad Scottish accent

“IT’S LEGAL TENDER”

Uniforms my dude. Nothing to do with the person wearing it

He’s an Aussie. That’s the way our soldiers still wear their hats.

There’s very good reasons for the birthright citizenship dating from post-slavery. However, most countries don’t do birthright citizenship. They do have a statute that allows for citizenship if you were born there and lived there for a certain period of time though - which would/could arguably be a more sensible approach overall as long as the removal of birthright citizenship isn’t being done for bigotry reasons, which, unfortunately, the US has proved time and time again that is the main reason it exists in the first place and why it shouldn’t be removed. Once it eventually grows up past its racial-predjudice stage, it might be able to rectify this.

I had to update my Elgato Stream Deck software and it pointed to their new product - the Stream Deck + Lever.

Admittedly I did do a WTF at first but then remembered what day it was. I didn’t check more, but I have to assume! There’s no way it could be real.

Oh, that and today was the first I heard about the scope of the Artemis II mission, but it turned out that actually was real even though it seemed like an elaborate joke. Cue the conspiracy theories

Vance-style preferably.

Southern Italian families about to have a hard time