Aren’t these the kind of people who’d get mad at immigrants in the US if they don’t speak English? Why don’t they learn proper Russian and integrate?

I find that a bit funny given that in the last 15 years or so Japan has officially done a lot to attract tourists. Wanting to become a tourist destination, branding themselves as a place for holidays. I’ve seen so many “Visit Japan” campaigns, usually sponsored by the Japanese government, in the last decade or so. I get that it sucks for the people living in those cities and good for them that their city council does something to help, it still feels weird after years and years of campaigns to attract more tourists to Japan.

There’s this café in Nagoya, Japan, that serves sweet spaghetti: the spaghetti are flavoured with strawberry or chocolate and then you have fruits and sauces on top. It’s delicious.

Edit because I just went through old photos and found one of the sweet spaghetti:

They already won several positions and majorities in some cities and broke all promises they made. Still growing in numbers.

I had a coworker who told us every winter that “There always used to be winters with little to no snow, the alarmists just make that into a big deal.” and every summer that “There always have been hot summers.” When pointing out that he is saying that every year and when did he have 3-4 hot summers in a row in his childhood, he’d just say “oh it’s just 3 summers. Shit happens. It’s no big deal and doesn’t mean anything.” (And the year after that it was just 4 summers and the year after that he denied it was even that hot 5 years ago.)

Complaining about “redditism” on a website that is built to look and feel like old reddit is a bit weird. Oh no, someone made a post and another person commented. That’s just like reddit.

How about we don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater and if something from reddit was helpful we have our own version of it.

The name and character are from a children’s book and for that it’s a fine name.