@heisei_ramen Excellent, I never see that in Japanese restaurants in the US
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Aedan Mac Lir
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Not sure if the trend of 🇯🇵🤝🇺🇸 food bonding is still going on, but there's one I saw no one talking about yesterday: Japan is OBSESSED with fried chicken.
Deep frying in flour breading was introduced by Portuguese missionaries in the early 1500's, which became tempura, but it wasn't until the 1920's that starch-breaded longer-fried chicken thighs (often with a cold beer) became a huge hit among urban workers, construction crews and nightlife enjoyers alike. By the '50s, Japanese fried chicken had become a truly national dish for lunch boxes, rice balls, bar snacks and dinner tables alike. Today, karaage, bite-size pieces of boneless fried chicken, are found absolutely everywhere, usually with a squeeze of lemon and a drink or two. It's also the official meal of the Japanese Air Self Defense Force!
Japan isn't alone in loving fried chicken, of course, with many neighbors also picking up the habit in the 20th century, but the sheer variety of types, regional variations, secret recipes, and ubiquity at any bar or convenience store make karaage a must-eat if you're ever visiting Japan!
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Today, the white Right wing respects Japan as a nation that, despite its problems, has kept intact its racial and cultural integrity and thus the potential for national renewal. That’s why we go to bat so hard for you when it comes to recent immigration issues
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The Japanese reaction of isolation was also understandable given the newly revealed power and colonial ambition of Europe; Japan was not conquered and its swift industrialization and victory over Russia in war confirmed its inherent “peerdom” with European powers.
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Speaking as an American right-winger, Japan has always received a particular respect in European eyes. The first Japanese emissaries to Europe were ennobled because a kinship was recognized between two martial cultures of honor, decorum, courtesy, and aesthetic refinement.
左翼@TANAKAKAKUEI512
外国人の極右の日本民族主義者の人。｢俺が対等な存在として完全に扱われない日本こそ、俺が望む日本だ｣とか言ってておもろい。日本人よりもはるかに気合の入った、ガンギマリ右翼思想すぎて最高や。
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@AmongUs_au_n Normally, in most places we need to notify the fire department if we do a burn that large, and they may say no if too dry and windy. But it’s a lot of fun. So hot you have to stay 10m away
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アメリカの焚き火デカすぎて最早火事🔥マジな話すると日本でこれやったら警察に怒られるんじゃなかったっけ。田んぼの野焼きも届け出が必要だったり。自由な国の豪快さは土地の狭い国の民からしたら羨望の対象だよね。
ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs@MorlockP
Japanese friends, we will teach you to enjoy American bonfires!
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My essay on fertility should indirectly explain why this isn’t the case at all
Quality Learing Center@qualitylearnc
The internet is going to destroy third world birth rates. Imagine watching this on your phone and going home to 300 pound Indian wife lol
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@OutsideView_ “College sweetheart” is a bit of a stretch these days, have you tried grooming a mentally ill teenager online into having your babies
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Gents, you can marry your college sweetheart, or you can spend 25 years leveling up so you can hand $50k to a staff of people unable to find a woman of child bearing age that cares you exist.
Blaine Anderson@datingbyblaine
Why is matchmaking expensive? To illustrate, here’s how I’ll lose money on a client’s $49,000 package. Client is 46, 6’2, exited tech founder. He’s looking for a woman 27-33, very specific criteria around match personality, appearance, and profession. Without diving into specifics, she: • Isn’t easily searchable online... • Isn’t likely to reply when we find her… • Isn’t likely to be single… • Often has a deal-breaker trait we can’t screen for without a phone call… • Isn’t necessarily interested in my client… I was expecting this to be a difficult search, so I quoted $49,000. I wasn’t expecting ~100 hours of labor to find each match, not including communication with the client! To date I’ve spent $45,000 on salaries for the women staffed on his search, plus $2,750 on styling and photos, and we still owe the client 2 matches... Before considering overhead (let alone opportunity cost) this will be a huge L financially. Things balance out though. Most engagements are profitable. Some engagements are quite profitable. For example, a new client in NYC paid $30,000 and paused after his first match, because he’s 99% sure we found his wife. That's still a new relationship, and engagements last 9 months (6 months of active matching + up to 3 months of pause), so we could be on the hook for more work in coming months. But you get the point 🙏
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The strangest dynamic in the early history of Zionism was the Orthodox Rabbinate denying the establishment of a Jewish state while Puritans & Evangelicals supported Restorationism, and the Rabbis did so partly as a consequence of internalizing the Catholic myth of the Exile.
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@vapor_waif Have you ever had sex with a woman endowed like this?
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controversial take: these boobs are too big. they are no longer aesthetically pleasing. boobs this size should only be on a figurine in a mexican teenager's room that he shares with a younger brother
athenakami@athenakamii
what’s better than 2 goth girls
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@nius_v Tolkien sends any educated person to a thesaurus far less often than even pulp fiction writer Jack Vance, it’s not even especially elevated prose
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it really is crazy to think how light LOTR is by comparison. The only thing I can think to justify this phenomena is the fact Fellowship starts off quite slow and Tolkien's verbiage is more "academic" than modern pop books.
Conan, Esq@conan_esq
I’ve harped on this to death already but my favorite factoid is that the entire word count of LotR is roughly comparable to one (1) flagship modern fantasy series entry.
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@conan_esq This is the most flowery Tolkien’s prose ever gets, spending a single page to describe the flora of Ithilien; it exists where it does to evoke a sense of joy in the living world, in contrast to the loathsome desert in front of Mordor which the protagonists just left
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@conan_esq Tolkien’s prose is rock-hard, excellent modernism, conveying a huge depth and clarity of information with relatively laconic word count. People without ability of visual imagination tend to hate it.
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I’ve harped on this to death already but my favorite factoid is that the entire word count of LotR is roughly comparable to one (1) flagship modern fantasy series entry.
Kendric Tonn@kendrictonn
@conan_esq The "Tolkien spends pages and pages describing a leaf or single tree!!" meme is the most baffling, when his actual prose is generally spare, direct, distant-covering, and has more than a little similarity to his rough contemporary, that avatar of verbosity, Ernest Hemingway
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@fandompulse There’s far too much moral ambiguity in Tolkien. For example, Frodo questions if the Indian-coded southrons are all evil and deserve death. Today we know the answer to that with perfect moral clarity.
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CBR writer Ajay Aravind on why he thinks The Lord of The Rings trilogy is tough to watch:
"There's far too much moral clarity in The Lord of the Rings for the story to feel authentic and relatable. With very few exceptions, the heroes are always good and the villains are always evil. And yet, the 21st century has no place for black-and-white perspectives."
How does one come to this kind of conclusion?
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@conan_esq It’s a Renaissance humanist work, there’s no mythic force in it
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They wrote the pagan version of LotR. It’s called The Worm Ouroboros by E R Edison and it’s also great.
Human Events@HumanEvents
.@JackPosobiec: Lord of the Rings is overtly pagan.
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Not a single piece of productive property anywhere in that Appalachian holler- pure and noble life of highway robbery and cattle rustling
Steve Sailer@Steve_Sailer
@BamaExpat #1: Irate Puritan beauty would eventually leave me for a Boston Marriage with another woman in Amherst #2: Quaker: Happy wife, happy life #3: Scarlett O'Hara's grandma in Ol' Virginny: Rhett Butler's grandpa would mog me #4: Scots-Irish songbird: Fatal clan feuds get old quick
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A young white man having vigor, responsibility, authority, is so far outside the living memory of these washed millennial transformers it sends them into hysterical rage
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The last thing a wizened hindoo elder sees before the nineteen year old British cavalry officer lazily strikes his head off with a saber
Adam Gilbert@AdamGilbert__
we made “almost a school shooter” into a government job
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we made “almost a school shooter” into a government job
VacksceneGaming@VacksceneGaming
LOLOLOL What a fucking joke
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@theBasedPrince @bronzeagemantis This belongs to the “Artemesian” generative force… when it is absent women mysteriously fail to become pregnant, carry the child to term, and have that child survive to adulthood. But yes birth control frustrates this
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@ChevaucheeN @bronzeagemantis Neither BAP nor you bring it up this time, though others have before, but often couples not really thinking of babies, but only sex, therefore pregnancy, biological/spiritual kicks in, parents therefore love their child and are happy to have him. Birth control prevents this.
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Okay I write essay in response to @bronzeagemantis fertility article, some may find interesting, posted below… like I said before I don’t have platform anymore for this sort of thing
Aedan Mac Lir@ChevaucheeN
This is worth a full-length essay and I’ll write one but despite what a lot of BAP saying being true- especially the “ice cream causes drowning” of “religiosity”, the fly in the ointment is that sexuality does not belong to “nature” in opposition to civilization and nomos…
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