It has to be an authentic samurai sword since they’re kid of a national treasure. If not, there’s specific rules about transporting it to and from your dojo and stuff.

Source: got my shit help up in Japanese customs when I had a very NOT ahthentic katana in my household goods. Went 3 months without my stuff

I’m sorry but CNN being center right is definitely an indication of your own bias in our Lemmy echo chamber. Relative to the masses, it’s about center left but still shows significant pro-left coverage.

Say what you want about there being a former no-kidding US communist party or that other country’s police systems make the whole US system right wing, but relative to the US (which mediabiasfactcheck is designed for) it is left. I was so impressed by the site many years ago when all the things I thought were centrist turned out to be biased toward my political beliefs. That’s what truth feels like

Probably regionally dependent. $23 in the Midwest but $50 in the big cities

Oh wow. That makes sense

Why is it mirrored?

Yeah but only the white dudes

Yeah it’s also super toxic to empathy, compromise, being not a extremist psychopath, etc. Ot trains your brain to be the opposite of logically charitable

The more accurate allegory I like is tricking yourself into believing that will have to live the life of everyone who as ever lived (like reincarnated once at a time). It still means that you have to kill hitler because you would want to protect all of your other reincarnation experiences, but you’re not necessarily going to torture them alive for fun… maybe for deterrence though.

It’s the most true to the fact that everyone has the same experiences we do, we’re just numb to them. We would act as if the first paragraph were true if we could somehow tap into the consciousness experiences of everyone else. Selfishness is just ignorance

Finally internalizing how much nicer it is put in a little bit of effort in advance rather than stressful scrambling after procrastinating was literally life changing. I don’t think I even realized how much subconscious stress I was under during the procrastination. But my kids are just like “shut up dad”

Can confirm food in Japan is just better even at the same fast food restaurants.

McDonald’s is the one restaurant that I will eat at internationally because they have different menu items. It is interesting to see what is popular in that country and the local interpretation of American culture. But even then it’s one and done and only if I absolutely have to eat a quick meal to make a reservation or something

Ah. Pre-NRA America

How is he saying that when his tongue is melted away?

The shoes add 5 cm

Hey I know aureate from the Red Riding series! (DAMN good series btw)

Man etymology is so neat

Uh… wut? I’m from the west coast but since I’m military and met my wife on the south

My wife is white southern and is passionate about black culture Mac n cheese

Yeah I think that’s a perfectly valid interpretation

You’re not wrong, but this is art. It’s more about the sentiment of being the minority that doesn’t want to wake up early when every else does

Now that just makes me curious as hell about the original work for bear. Maybe something more similar to the Latin “ursa”?