Buglepong

@haruka_no_yume It doesnt really resemble switzerland, but is still beautiful as it is

🇯🇵 This looks like Switzerland but actually it's Japan. Kamikochi is a remote mountainous highland valley located in the Hida Mountain range in Nagano Prefecture.

@newstart_2024 Same argument as plato saying an invisible bad man would get spiritual AIDS

Jordan Peterson drops a chilling clinical observation after decades as a psychologist: “I have never seen anyone ever get away with anything at all, even once.” He explains: You twist the fabric of reality with a lie, a betrayal, a hidden act — and it doesn’t snap back immediately. You think you escaped. Then 2 years later something unravels, you get walloped, and you cry “that’s so unfair!” But when you trace it back: This → this → this → oh… that’s where it went wrong. Reality always collects the debt — it just has longer payment terms than you expect. 59-second gut-punch — Peterson on why “getting away with it” is an illusion. When was the last time you saw (or felt) the universe quietly balance the books on someone who thought they’d slipped the hook? Your thoughts — drop them below. No judgment here.

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🚨 LMFAO HOLY CRAP! President Trump just dropped an INSANE one-liner in front of the Japanese PM in the Oval REPORTER: Why didn't you tell Japan before the Iran war? TRUMP: "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why did you not tell me about PEARL HARBOR!? Right?" 🤣🔥

湯布院きたー！ 何も見えねぇ(((

@SandyofCthulhu Totally not biased

7) Nagashima 1574. This was a campaign in which Oda Nobunaga finally defeated the Ikko-Ikki, an organization with a very different idea of how Japan's culture should work. If the Ikko-Ikki had won, the cruel shogunates would never have happened. 8) Sekigahara. This is the battle where Tokugawa Ieyasu become the undisputed shogun, and led to three centuries of decay and isolation. 9) Jinzhou. The battle that determined that the foul communist party would rule China and the Nationalists would flee to Taiwan. The Nationalists then weren't much better than the Communists, but the Communists got much worse over time, and the Nationalists improved greatly. Millions died that would have lived with a Nationalist victory. 10) Hastings. Hey. I got to take my shot.

Here are ten battles in which I believe the bad guys won, and it led to ill consequences: 1) Ain Jalut - Mongols defeated by Mamelukes. The Mongols had so much freedom of religion that their general was a Christian. He asked the Crusader states to help out, but they didn't to their everlasting shame. He might have won otherwise. 2) Poltava - Swedes defeated by Peter the Great. If the Swedes had won, they would have controlled the Baltic. While Charles XII himself wasn't a "good guy" Sweden has been benign, as opposed to Russia, which has been 90% a force of darkness in the world. 3) Manzikert. Look it up. 1/3

Can we rewind back to the Third Turning? This Fourth one is super gay

@JonMasterChief @TheReformRepub1 @jonatanpallesen No

@buglepong @TheReformRepub1 @jonatanpallesen Japan is historically one of the last ones to come to the party of the industrial age

It's an interesting fact of human history that we have these two similar sized islands, Japan and the UK that are close to a mainland, and have had outsized influence and power throughout history compared to their size. Having an island of a certain size or above separated from the mainland really seems like a powerful starting position. Both held their own historically against the significantly larger continental rival (France, China). Madagascar and the southern African mainland present a similar geographical arrangement, but it hasn't had the same historical importance.

@MaryLee99968217 @timothyjphelan But i dont agree

@buglepong @timothyjphelan I’m sure you know the distinction I’m making.

Three minutes from my house there’s a small shrine on a rise among the trees. For a long time, I didn’t think much about it. Now I do. It’s there to honor a local deity. In Japan, it’s easy to see this as cultural. It’s not. It’s a religious claim on the landscape.

@TheReformRepub1 @jwalesoutlaw @jonatanpallesen thats why i said give or take, because 1783 is also not far into the industrial revolution

You appear to have missed the significance of specifying the year 1783. “Total control” of the seas? No. But from the Seven Years War on, for about 20 years, the Battle of the Capes may have been the British navy’s only consequential loss. Trafalgar then put them in a heckuva position.

@TheReformRepub1 @jwalesoutlaw @jonatanpallesen the years can give or take. britain came off well in that conflict, but lost the 13 colonies right after. most importantly, britain did not have total control of the seas

@buglepong @jwalesoutlaw @jonatanpallesen The Brits did pretty well during the Seven Years War and came out of it in a very strong position that lasted until 1783 or thereabouts.

@jwalesoutlaw @TheReformRepub1 @jonatanpallesen they didnt dominate until defeating napoleon, however. and by that time it was the industrial revolution

@buglepong @TheReformRepub1 @jonatanpallesen Japan yes England no. England was a powerful empire prior to the industrial revolution

@TheReformRepub1 @jonatanpallesen Fair argument, and actually it can be said that these 2 island nations only really took off in the modern age, with the transition to capitalism and industrialisation earlier than the mainland.

I am certain you otherwise do not become confused by causation and correlation. You overlook that both Japan and England/Great Britain built navies that dominated the seas around them, are hereditary monarchies, and like whiskey. Canada has several very large islands close to the mainland. None came to have outsized influence over Canada or North America. Sicily, Sardinia, and Cyprus never held sway over southern Europe - or Northern Africa.

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🚨TLDW: PewDiePie put out a new video saying algos control your life and have infected your mind (he's right). He suggests 6 things: 1) Intent when you use the Internet 2) A separate profile/phone for social apps to create fiction 3) Self-hosting 4) Disable shorts 5) Don't follow anyone (AC is ahead of the curve) 6) DNS Blockers Don't let your mind be hijacked. Build protections for your sanity. Don't get algobrain.

@ThinkingUSD You too can lose all your money

All it takes is one asset, one thesis and one trade to change your entire life

@purelivn Well if you can afford it go ahead

i wonder why we gave up on houses with courtyards and why they’ve each turned into a luxury now

「河川が地形を作る過程」 河川地形について扱う際に使えそうな映像ですね

@PaulVanderKlay Hmm but he does mention "tian" and "dao" which actually arent too far off. You like to use the phrase "common religion" which is really just people some rituals with self serving purposes and not caring much about theology

Did you know most cultures didn't actually have a word for religion? It’s a purely Western concept that changed how we see global history. A fascinating deep dive into our past! #History #Religion #Culture

@MaryLee99968217 @timothyjphelan He is local as well, no?

@buglepong @timothyjphelan To Christ our only God and Saviour, not to local deities.

@chae042602 Kurobuta don for only 600 yen. Incredible!

朝の天文館もいいね