@AllieJade1 Some people did this out of laziness, decision fatigue, or embarrassment about handing the item to a cashier due to budget problems, and they dumped it nearby to avoid perceived judgment
It had to be temporarily relocated to make way for the huge underground development.
The buildings are the Huayanli Shikumen complex which was super typical of urban middle-class living back in the day and built in the ’20s and ’30s.
Shanghai just moved an entire warehouse complex like furniture. Engineers used 432 robots to slide the whole block across the ground intact to make way for underground development.
Mind blowing engineering.
A 7-year-old boy gets on a train in Tokyo. Alone.
No mother. No phone. No adult watching him at all.
He bows to the driver, finds his seat, and folds his hands in his lap.
He is going to school. By himself. Across a city of 14 million strangers.
And not one person on that train thinks anything is wrong.
A businessman glances up, then goes back to his paper.
An old woman smiles at the boy and looks away.
Nobody films him. Nobody calls anyone. Nobody is afraid.
Because in Japan, a small child alone is not a victim waiting to happen.
He is just a kid going to school. Like every kid before him.
I grew up being told the opposite. Lock the door. Watch your back. Trust no one.
Never let them out of your sight, not for one second, or the world will take them.
And somewhere along the way, I started to believe that was simply the truth.
Then I watched a 7-year-old ride home alone through a city of millions.
And step off at his stop. And walk the rest of the way. Safe.
We had this once, too.
A street that watched your kids. A town that brought them home.
Japan didn't find some secret. They just never stopped being decent to each other.
Quietly. Every single day. While the rest of us forgot we ever could.
That little boy will get home tonight.
He always does.
Is it true that Persian carpets often feature a deliberate mistake or "perfect flaw" in their complex designs? Some say weavers believe that only God or the divine can create true perfection, so they purposefully weave in a tiny error or alter a color to remain humble and avoid hubris
🇮🇷 Why are Persian carpets so expensive? Here’s your answer. 4 master weavers working side by side on a large living-room carpet.
They look at the pattern and tie thousands of knots every day with perfect precision. It takes more than a year to finish a piece like this.