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Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada spoke about the contradictions of human nature: “Some people dream of having a swimming pool at home, while those who have one hardly ever use it. Those who have lost a loved one feel a profound sense of loss, while others often complain about their living relatives. Those without a partner long for one, while those who have one often don't appreciate it. The hungry would give anything for a meal, while the satiated complain about the taste of their food. Those without a car dream of owning one, while those who have a car are always looking for a better one.” The key to happiness is gratitude: truly seeing and appreciating what we already have, and understanding that somewhere, someone would give anything for what we take for granted.

This guy used AI to put himself in Game of Thrones and fix everything

@BSAT_Properties Japanese when your flight is cancelled. 😭😭

I was on a train in Tokyo. We stopped between stations. Announcement in Japanese, then in English: "We apologize for the delay. We will resume shortly." The delay was maybe 3 minutes. Not a big deal. When the train started moving again, another announcement: "We sincerely apologize for the delay. We were stopped for 3 minutes and 20 seconds. This is unacceptable. Thank you for your patience." Three minutes and twenty seconds. They measured it exactly. And called it unacceptable. When I got off at my stop, there were station staff on the platform bowing and handing out delay certificates. I took one out of curiosity. It was an official document stating that the train had been delayed by 3 minutes and 20 seconds, signed and stamped. The staff member said in English "for your employer. So they know the delay was not your fault." I said I'm a tourist, I don't need it. He looked confused. "But the delay affected you. You deserve an apology." Three minutes. They were treating a three-minute delay like a major incident. Later I mentioned this to a Japanese friend. They said "oh yes, delay certificates are normal. Trains are supposed to be exactly on time. If they are late, they must apologize." I said three minutes isn't late, it's nothing. My friend said "in Japan, three minutes is late. On time means on time. Not approximately on time." They said the train company probably investigated why there was a 3-minute delay. "They will find the cause and fix it so it doesn't happen again." I kept the certificate. It's framed in my apartment now. A reminder that somewhere in the world, people care about three minutes. © 6IX.

@extradeadjcb Imagine you are being held hostage by a kidnapper. He's not a particularly wealthy guy. To keep you alive, he feeds you scraps. If someone were to make his life harder, the scraps would be fewer and worse. But no matter how good his life gets, he will only ever give you scraps.

Cuba is >1/3 highly fertile arable land that can be cultivated year-round They need food imports because they're communist

@GRITCULT To be a good writer, you need talent. To be a great writer, you need to SUFFER.

Dostoevsky was 28 when they stood him in front of a firing squad. Blindfolded. Hands tied. He could hear the rifles being loaded. At the last second a messenger on horseback arrived. The Tsar had commuted the sentence. The entire execution was staged. Psychological torture designed to break him. It worked. He had a seizure on the spot. They sent him to a labour camp in Siberia. 4 years. Freezing. Starving. Sleeping on wooden planks next to murderers. His epilepsy got worse. He had no paper. No pen. Nothing. When he got out he was broke. His first wife died. His brother died. He inherited his brothers debts. He was so desperate for money he signed a contract with a publisher that would have given away the rights to everything hed ever write if he missed the deadline. He wrote The Gambler in 26 days to make it. Dictated it to a 20 year old stenographer named Anna. Married her three months later. Then the real work started. Crime and Punishment. The Idiot. Demons. The Brothers Karamazov. The greatest novels in the history of the Russian language. Maybe any language. The man who stood blindfolded before the firing squad, who convulsed on the ground while soldiers watched, who slept next to killers in Siberia for 4 years, who was buried in debt and grief. That man wrote: "every minute can be an eternity of happiness." He earned the right to say it. its never over. never give up fren.

@IGN She's playing the Heel, not the man.

Elliot Page as Achilles? Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy? These are the Odyssey characters we need to know more about now. bit.ly/3Ip31bW

@BasedTuber One downside of having a strong racial identity is that if you take pride in a group’s achievements, you should also feel shame for their crimes.

@ok6ixx Very few places.

I Lost my wallet in Tokyo. Like completely lost it. I had all my cards, my cash, everything. I was freaking out. Went back to every place I'd been that day. Nothing. Went to the police station to file a report, not expecting anything. The officer asked for my name and address where I was staying. Went to check the lost and found. I came back with my wallet. Everything is still in it. All the cash, all the cards, even receipts I didn't care about. I was shocked. Asked where it was found. He checked the report and said "Family Mart, Shibuya. Turned in by an employee 20 minutes after you left." I went back to that Family Mart to thank whoever found it. The employee who turned it in wasn't there, but his coworker said he'll pass along the message. I asked what the person's name was so I could come back. The coworker looked confused and said "he doesn't need thanks. It is normal to return a wallet." Like it was the most obvious thing in the world. Of course you return a lost wallet. Why wouldn't you? I'd been living in the US too long, I guess. Forgot that some places, doing the right thing is just... normal.

@movinsturdyy @LeanandCuisine 🤣🤣

Nah somebody gotta draw this in JoJo style as a person with their stand lmao cause that’s the energy this photo is giving

@EODHappyCaptain Oh, can’t bend down? Then KNEEL. 😭😭

Curse the person who put the back pain Relief on the bottom shelf:

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"The idea that a woman can be as powerful as a man is something that our society can't deal with. But l am as powerful as a man and it drives them crazy. " - AOC

@poicipensoalnik This MF:

Amici di tutto il mondo 🌍🌎🌏 se dico Napoli 🇮🇹 quale è la prima cosa che vi viene in mente?

@ocaionomichi They also have a strange affinity with bears:

@ocaionomichi Don't fall for Putin's propaganda. This is what Russians are truly like. This is what defeated Napoleon and Hitler :

os russos são muito legais, a real é que a propaganda estadunidense durante a guerra fria fez o ocidente achar que os russos eram frios, esquisitos e escrotos, mas a verdade é que eles são tipo latinos do inverno, a tradução automática “humanizou” os russos pra boa parte do mundo

@sietlov Sink their ships, take no prisoners. dolphinproject.org/campaigns/save….

Уважаемые японцы, каждую неприятную вещь, которую вы пишете про пиратство, я естественно воспринимаю как персональную атаку. Ваше поведение неуважительно и вопиюще. Уже завтра мы собираем совет пиратов семи морей и будем обсуждать возможность введения морской блокады.

@Olweiss This Tower of Babel thing is going to end up just like the Bible says...😭😭

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@0fem_15 Venezuelan Regent Thragg. 😭😭

This is how jacked Thragg should’ve looked.