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by pigsty 3y ago
At my previous job, I made the robots that Toyota, Suzuki, etc use in their manufacturing lines and directly installed them inside their factories. My experience is, for the most part, first hand. The vehicles Japanese companies make for th
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by pigsty 3y ago
The interesting thing is Japanese companies generally manufacture cars they sell in America entirely in America, while “American” car companies manufacture their huge polluting machines in Mexico and maybe add one final part in the US so th
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by pigsty 3y ago
> In countries with state controlled healthcare, service is rationed. Americans really love eating up this meme. I can get scans any time in Japan and I never wait. If doctors think it’s an emergency, they’ll do whatever scan is necessa
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by pigsty 3y ago
I’d say ask find out why they’re saying they don’t want to read and address all those causes. There are plenty of kids with great parents who are surrounded by awful peers at school and media that glorifies being uneducated. Then you leave
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by pigsty 3y ago
Yeah, being a criminal safe haven right next to a country that has no problem supporting terrorists and dropping bombs on civilian targets is a wonderful idea. Can’t imagine why they never tried it.
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by pigsty 3y ago
The kid is the one in class choosing not to read. Parents can be destructive influences on kids, but kids also do have free will and destructive influences amongst their peers who they choose to associate with. It’s a compounding problem an
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by pigsty 3y ago
English has one word answers for those questions. It’s just conversationally dry and people will assume you’re not interested.
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by pigsty 3y ago
Probably because every powerful economy of the past 6 centuries got there due to strong trade, which the US has gone out of its way to prevent Cuba from doing. No country with a strong economy got there by being forcibly isolated from the w
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by pigsty 3y ago
Japan doesn’t have a nearby superpower that makes sabotaging your entire economy a yearly campaign point in order to prove your country sucks. Cuba’s had that for well over half a century.
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by pigsty 3y ago
My parents were straight D/F students and never helped me with classes at all. I would’ve appreciated help that would’ve let me go farther, but that’s at a point well past algebra. Parents are part of the problem, but it seems like we’
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by pigsty 3y ago
I was in Borneo last month and saw round lamps in a rainforest covered in swarms of ants at night, all standing equidistant and with their jaws wide open and raised. I picked up a leaf and poked one in the mouth and it immediately clamped s
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by pigsty 3y ago
I don’t trust that the infrastructure will always work. I’ve had my cards rejected randomly. Since I travel a lot and mainly use cards abroad, I’ve had my cards rejected more times than not. It’s pretty troublesome to be stranded somewhere
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by pigsty 3y ago
I don’t think communist countries have a higher rate of trans people. Blaming random, irrelevant things on communism is a hallmark sign of believing media fear mongering.
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by pigsty 3y ago
> What's you explanation then for why literally nobody cared about adult trans people just a few years ago? Because it’s an invented political scapegoat, just like countless others. Trans people were out and about 10 years ago and n
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by pigsty 3y ago
A person who doesn’t believe in religion being sworn in on a religious book is probably just annoyed. They’re not going to feel loyal to it. Sworn statements as a whole are just entirely symbolic and don’t really guarantee loyalty or honest
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by pigsty 3y ago
Every invented moral panic is about “the children.” Rock music, Jewish people “corrupting” the youth, satanists, trans people. It’s sad that people still buy into these stories meant to outrage people and seed divide, anger, and violence. A
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by pigsty 3y ago
Belief in mass hysteria is itself the most common form of mass hysteria.
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by pigsty 3y ago
Transgender people have existed throughout history and on every corner of the earth. They’re documented in basically any society with written records. But for some reason, in 2023, people (mainly Americans) think it’s something new and they
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by pigsty 3y ago
One thing I’ve learned is that unless the option absolutely disappears, people usually won’t search for alternatives when something goes to absolute shit. They’ll just complain and accept it. It’s more likely that roads will be widened and
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by pigsty 3y ago
I’m really not sure if he should be given all the credit. Comics thrived in other countries, so even if American comics were seen as right behind porn, it was only a matter of time until they eventually made their way into mainstream popula
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by pigsty 3y ago
Mine required participation in at least 3 studies. I feel like undergrads who are participating in a study only because they’re told to will shift the results a bit.
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by pigsty 3y ago
There are loads of societies that eat rice and bugs together and have for centuries. It’s a well-rounded meal.
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by pigsty 3y ago
But there are still countless lines in use where you’ll see one person get off every 3 stops. It’s sometimes insane how lines are kept running in Japan.
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by pigsty 3y ago
Gaming as a whole is almost entirely multi platform these days, aside from a few first party published titles. Anything playable on MacOS also works on windows. Most mid budget indie games on Windows also have switch ports. Bigger budget on
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by pigsty 3y ago
And the average person buying a Deck is a little more technologically inclined and thinks “But the Deck does have Nintendo’s entire back catalog.” Valve even showed off Nintendo emulators in press material “accidentally”. Basically every St
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by pigsty 3y ago
There’s a non-zero chance Russia pulls a Crimea and needs to defend Russian speakers in some remote region of Hokkaido, or starts seizing Japanese waters as their own. And that’s ignoring the islands Japan claims but Russia has controlled f
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by pigsty 3y ago
The dollar is insanely strong right now and global Mac prices raised in accordance with that. In places that don’t use USD, prices shot up by tens of percent overnight while the US prices are the same as ever. Japan, for example, got a pric
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by pigsty 3y ago
Flights are cheap. Hotels in Europe in tourist areas are insanely priced because they’re reliably booked.
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by pigsty 3y ago
So 72 cities got burnt down meaning no place is safe. That doesn’t seem like a fair warning and they could’ve avoided the bombing if they want to—that means civilians are being actively targeted and will be massacred no matter where they ar
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by pigsty 3y ago
The museum in Hiroshima specifically notes that the claim that America notified people in Hiroshima before dropping the bomb was 100% fiction. Nobody expected the United States to specifically target tens of thousands of innocent civilians

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