@VollBird @wonderparlour The UK has declined a lot over the last 30+ years. Towns are unrecognisable. Family owned bakeries have been replaced by Greggs. It's genuinely hard to find nice cafes and restaurants now.
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@MalekithMods @wonderparlour That's terrible. So terrible that I thought it was an American posting that. They're tea partying you domestically? That's an outrage!
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I reached out to many overseas travel agencies that cater to visitors to Japan, asking whether they would consider including our café as part of their Japan sightseeing itineraries.
Unfortunately, every single agency gave essentially the same response:
“Why would anyone come all the way to Japan just to visit a British-style maid café? At the very least, you should be serving Japanese tea. Hahaha…”
So please, especially if you’re from the UK or another country abroad, come visit our café.
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@VollBird @wonderparlour We don't even have many traditional tea shops left anymore. You have to visit tourist places to get them.
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@wonderparlour Same reason that Americans will go visit a Japanese honky-tonk bluegrass bar. There's something magical about the Japanese appreciate other cultures which reaffirms how you feel about yourself.
The American meme is: "Be the American the Japanese think you are".
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@LinusEkenstam My bills keep going up. Is this because of renewables or fossil fuels?
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Europe has passed the half-way point.
half of energy comes from renewables
EV’s outsold gasoline/diesel cars
Acceleration from here will bring energy abundance, no fossil fuels dependency.
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@Seramurai_ LMFAO. console peasants calling themselves gamers when they're restricted to a select few games that are approved by their overlords? Nope, You're not a gamer, you're merely a peasant.
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Sorry, but if a new console doesn’t get you excited as a gamer, then please stop referring to yourself as a gamer.
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𝙉𝙄𝙆𝙁𝙊𝙍@Nikfor_
Is anyone genuinely excited for this? Xbox just announced Project Helix as the codename for their next‑gen console. They’re promising top‑tier performance and full support for both Xbox and PC games in one ecosystem. I’ll still play their games on my PC since Game Pass already covers me there, but I’m curious what it would take for you to actually buy their new hardware. What would Xbox need to show for you to pick up their console instead of sticking with PC or PlayStation? A strong price? Real exclusives? Specs that actually justify the box over a high‑end rig? Curious to hear what everyone thinks.
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@Parisianaes1 Eiffel tower is a useless tourist attraction.
Colosseum was made 2k years ago by the second greatest empire.
Big ben is a bell
Need I go on?
China lol, that stuff is ancient too.
This really isn't a win when you can't name anything within the last 100 years.
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Europe has the Eiffel Tower
Europe has the Colosseum
Europe has Big Ben
Europe has the Acropolis
Europe has the Sagrada Família
Europe has the Louvre
China has the Great Wall
China has the Forbidden City
China has the Terracotta Army, etc
The United States has...?
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@CommonSense_FT I know aye, five tours and I don’t know the difference between Snackbars and Sikhs 😂
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Don’t worry lads, HMS Duncan is finally enroute, it’s equipped with missiles that don’t work, guns that don’t have ammunition in, and by the look of the press release, is manned by the fucking Taliban. 😂😂
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@EVCurveFuturist Oh right, so my energy prices must be really cheap right? I'm definitely not paying £200-300 a month to stave off frostbite and keep the lights on?
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UK grid didn’t collapse. Early March. Solar pushing ~3GW — double gas. Wind doing the heavy lift.
This is a country that once leaned heavily on fossil fuels. Now 0% coal.
70%+ renewables isn’t theory. It’s transition in motion. Wait till summer + storage scale. #Bettrification
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@heckadots @LNhistorian It’s a subversion of fantasy/isekai.
He’s taken and forced to be something he wasn’t in an entirely new place. That’s textbook isekai.
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Is it just me, or is Sentenced to Be a Hero getting a ton of hate for no real reason? 😭
Maybe it’s just my own bubble, but it’s honestly not bad at all.
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It’s incredible how the far right misunderstand LOTR, a story in which different species: Dwarves, Elves, Man came together and put apart their historic differences in order to defend against Mordor.
Against a centralised authoritarian regime, with a subservience to hierarchy, raw power & strength. Hellbent on conforming the world to their power.
BigBraveBalls 🏴@BigBraveBalls88
"And there in that pleasant corner of the world they plied their well-ordered business of living, and they heeded less and less the world outside where dark things moved, until they came to think that peace and plenty were the rule in Middle-earth and the right of all sensible folk." - JRR Tolkien
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@JohnBouras3230 @NXT4EU So, were you EU lot lying when you said there won't be an EU army during the Brexit referendum?
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@NXT4EU We need one EU army with Canada one single unified command NATO is too slow to react. Plus Europeans and Canadians are done taking Americans orders.
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There are literally no Europeans that are against European unity.
89% support more European unity, quite likely even a Federation. What are we waiting for?
Aurore Lalucq 🇪🇺@AuroreLalucq
One word: Federalism.
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@ShwayNorris @fadlynoers @scratchthatout Yup. Game of Thrones is a prime example. It was the most pirated media in history. HBO then started simulcasting it which drastically reduced piracy.
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@fadlynoers @scratchthatout Incorrect, anytime any form of media becomes easily accessible the majority of piracy of that form of media dwindles to almost nothing. Crunchyroll killed fansub and anime piracy by making official ones easy to access, Netflix did the same with film. Then their greed reversed it
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The mathematics of this will always be messy because if you read, say, an unlicensed series like H2, scanlated into English, what money is the company losing, realistically? There's no English license whatsoever, so it's impossible for them to be losing money, right?
Dexerto@Dexerto
Anime and manga piracy reportedly cost Japan $38 billion in 2025, up from $13 billion in 2022
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@fadlynoers @scratchthatout Wrong. It is the "pirates" that bring in fans to the franchises which ultimately lead to people then buying stuff etc. Western Publishers also look at what's popular on pirate sites to buy licenses to then officially translate the media (mangas and LNs)
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@Masuto_Hansen @zkurishi Well said. I'd hate to think how many of these tourists think Felix from Re:zero is trans despite him clearly cross dressing and heavily implied to be gay.
All the western franchises catered towards them have flopped massively so they're trying to hijack successful franchises.
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I don't understand the reaction to this. In Japan, what the author says is 100% absolute, at least within the context of the work. Is it different overseas?
AniTV@AniTVOfficial
Gachiakuta Author KEI Urana: "They're saying things like Tamsy is Transgender, i don't think that's the case at all."
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@SystemsTng @MOCS_Gov @JeevunSandher Your solution is to spend even more money on that shit? The cheapest solution is to scrap wind power and build nuclear... not build more wind power.
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@MOCS_Gov @JeevunSandher Perhaps you should get a personal Wind Turbine in your garden, or solar panels on your roof, and utilise Time of Day tariffs with load balancing in order to bring your electricity down.
I run my dishwasher & charge my Tesla overnight at 6.5p/kwh.
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Wind Power: Affordable and British-made
So why does Farage want us to use expensive fossil fuels supplied by Putin? 🇷🇺
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@federalists Proving that Denmark is incapable of defending Greenland without other countries spending huge sums of money to defend it for them. Give it up, you'll be begging the USA for assistance if its ever invaded and expecting US troops to die for it without reward.
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Denmark calls. Europe answers.
European troops have arrived in Greenland.
Not to escalate tensions — but to defend sovereignty, deter intimidation, and send a clear political message.
👉 Greenland is not for sale.
👉 Denmark is not alone.
👉 Europe stands together.
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@DI313_ If America think they can win a quick military conflict with Denmark and all Scandinavia, they’re fools! The US spent 8yrs in Iraq and the Iraqi army was nothing compared to Denmark’s
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‼️The Nordic Foreign Ministers stated:
Greenland is not alone.
The Nordics are united.
Issued in response to recent remarks by former US President Donald Trump, the joint declaration dated January 6, 2026 reaffirmed Nordic unity on Arctic security, increased defense cooperation, and made clear that matters concerning Denmark and Greenland remain the sole responsibility of Denmark and Greenland.
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@Lilnickyg187L @HPsiEqualsEPsi @JordanEVGuy If they can't even muster a counter argument, then you've already won. So they move to discredit you instead. These people aren't just dumb, they're insane.
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I'm not the one across multiple social media accounts claiming I do so i have zero idea what you're response is trying to get at when the point i was making is that he claims it's all about the benefits to the environment and everything else inbetween when that's simply not factual true.🤦♀️
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@wyattreed13 Are you sure you're a US citizen or are you just dumb? It's a federation. The Federal government has very little control over what happens in states, let alone cities.
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Before commenting “democrat run city,” consider:
- I am not a democrat
- The city above is in the United States
- It is under the jurisdiction of the US gov’t
- Venezuela is not
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Trump: “We’re going to run Venezuela to make sure it's run properly”
The country he’s supposed to be running:
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MrBeast is now just randomly giving out money
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