George Chen

@signulll Because of early investor like @Joi early involvement in 2008 and targeting early adopters in Japan.

why is x huge in japan? what structural properties make it fit well within the japanese culture? is it anonymity as a core part of the platform or something more?

@shinobu_books I think you are referring to 九龍城寨 and not the entire Kowloon Peninsula. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_W…

Japan's very own Kowloon is the Yoshida dormitory in Kyoto. The university (and the gubment) have been trying to get rid of/ tear down this "hotbed for various kinds of conflict"since the '70s. Now temporarily (?) shut down for strengthening against quakes

@TheIntelFrog 🥲

@georgechen 5 now. The other 2 available are on task in Alaska and Japan. The other 8 are in maintenance.

Photos have surfaced showing extensive damage to US Air Force E-3 Sentry #AE11EA 81-0005 following the drone and missile attack at Prince Sultan Air Base yesterday that also damaged several KC-135s.

@PoltFan69 They actually don’t care because they have TikTok. Westerns did “invade” XiaHongShu during the TikTok shutdown. It was fun couple of days as well. Most normal Chinese netizen are just like us, apolitical and just want memes and do shit posts.

What's even better is all this good will from Japan is purely organic and you KNOW China is seething about it. They've been trying to buy soft power with the west for almost a century and couldn't match the pure unfiltered cultural appreciation of trucks and beef.

@INVESTMENTSHULK You know, the Japanese audience tends to be confused as fuck by the show, right? Their historical drama tends to be hyper-accurate, but Shogun, being fictional but also taking inspiration from historic characters, was a real mind bender for a lot of people.

NOW THAT THE ALGO IS LETTING EVERYONE IN JAPAN SEE MY POSTS I AM GOING ON THE RECORD THAT THE SHŌGUN ADAPTATION FROM 1980 IS BETTER THAN THE SHŌGUN ADAPTATION FROM 2024.

@koinu0925 Hang in there. Full recovery soon!

抗がん剤再開の副作用が思ったよりしんどく、なんとか耐える日々になっている。 今日も負けない！！ 完璧じゃなくていい。 ギリギリでも生きていればいい。 だから負けない。

The current cultural exchange between Japanese and US Twitter reminds me of US TikTok users “invading” XiaoHongShu. It’s fun to get outside of our own information bubbles.

Paintball isn’t really popular in JPN. Instead, the Japanese channel their firearms obsession into airsoft due to the pacifist stance of post-war Japan. However, the best shooters in Japan likely have more range time & weapon manipulation skills than average shooters in the US. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@georgechen @IterIntellectus Fair enough, I gauge the European cuisine caters mostly to the locals yet the dark curry with hint of yellow curry flavor, seems universal. The airsoft austist is akin to paint ball players…basically a sports game.

> 俺だが > アルゴが変わる > TLが急に神日本のポストで埋め尽くされる > 電車8秒遅れただけで車掌が謝ってる > 5歳児が一人で電車通学してる > コンビニ弁当が俺の国のレストランより美味そう > 深夜3時に女が一人で普通に歩いてる > スクロールすればするほど同じ結論になる > 他の「先進国」が全部セカンドワールドに見えてくる > mfw 日本基準にしたら地球に先進国1つしかない

@boneGPT They are interested in money too, but their expectations are just much lower because of their unique economic and social structure. They are super competitive as well, and 100% try to build a personal brand.

The Japanese are less interested in money and politics than Americans. The way we hustle is uncouth to them. They aren't all working on their personal brands. They don't climb over each other like us. We should be more like the humble Japanese.

@Ryo_Saeba_3 "Road Safety Campaign" - you means the marketing campaign for Patlabor EZY.... Which is coming out in about two months.... ;)

Si vous voulez voir le AV-98 Ingram de Patlabor taille réelle (8 mètres), il sera visible le dimanche 5 avril 2026 au temple Takahata Fudoson à Hinoo, en banlieue ouest de Tokyo, dans le cadre d'une campagne de sécurité routière #Japon #Patlabor x.com/Ryo_Saeba_3/st…

Japan has amazing French, Italian, and even curry - as you'd expect from a culture that obsesses over getting food right. But decent Mexican is genuinely hard to find. On 2A: sure, it's mostly an American thing. Though it's funny that Japan's 'no guns' culture somehow produced an entire nation of Airsoft autists.

@georgechen @IterIntellectus Japan food cuisine is Japanese, why would you want Mexican food? Not many countries have 2A rights, perhaps not having that right is the norm as Japan has one of the lowest crime rate, substantially below USA.

Major LLMs all have problems working with Cloud Drives (ie: Google Drive due to security and prod. reasons). - Gemini - Hallucination couldn't even find the right Folder. - Claude - can see all the files but refuses to work with CSV and asks me to change everything into Sheets. - ChatGPT - can open the folder but somehow can't read the content.

@masakadokun Sawano - 🎶Xi/NDA🎶in my mind....

5月に静岡か東京で観れないかなぁ潜降の…じゃない、閃光のハサウェイw

@infantrydort No experience in arm services here, but that dynamic is the same in private companies and large corporations. Senior management or the Board tends to trust well-respected SPVs of GMs even if they royally fucked up but keep failing to the Top.

One last Afghanistan related thought. I’ve been watching dozens of hours of congressional testimony after the withdrawal. The senate and house interviewing generals and cabinet secretaries. What strikes me about it is the contrast to today. For the most part, the elected politicians are statesmanlike. Both political parties aren’t grilling the leaders THAT hard. There’s a civility there when discussing the worst foreign policy disaster in U.S. history. By contrast, today, those same encounters are highly vitriolic. And for far less dramatic subject matter. Specifically I noticed the way Lloyd Austin was treated. Both parties respected him and never pressed too hard. It made me realize something profound. You can be part of a failure of epic proportions. You can be a big part of embarrassing your nation on the global stage. You can do all those things. As long as you have the credentials behind you, you’ll be forgiven by those in power. Conversely, if you win campaigns. If you snatch rogue heads of state in their sleep without a single loss of friendly life, you’ll be eviscerated for it. Why? Because you’re not credentialed enough. Or if you are, you’re not aligned enough. The staggering difference in treatment of Lloyd Austin versus Pete Hegseth is noteworthy. I can’t unsee it. And in my mind, it’s yet another footnote in the battle of credentialism. You can fail and be forgiven as long as you have the right pedigree and you’re civil about it. Using flowery bureaucratic language to deflect blame. But if you speak bluntly so the common man can understand… if you point out problems with toxic levels of common sense….. Bring your metaphorical body armor, because the hysterical among us will fire for effect.

JPN Twitter is so nice and like-minded” lol yeah, we know. It’s leaned right/conservative for years and you just realized that? IRL Japan is closer to 60/40. In fact, I’d argue the JPN internet has always had a strong conservative voice, which is kind of the opposite of the West.

@factorydoge69 食油(cooking oil) pronounce rhe same way as 石油oil/petroleum. Clever pun.

chinese state broadcast on america and iran, episode 2

@jumpinjonnydee I found the archive. Enjoy. I know I will… 🤣 archive.org/details/RSRVid…

@jumpinjonnydee FIXEDIT on YouTube used to have a great DCS-based video series of which Clancy’s book was narrated on top of some sexy fighter plans for us aviation nerds. But the whole series got removed for copyright reasons, sadly.

I want a movie based on Clancys Red Storm Rising