It’s never Lupus. 

Surprisingly good. Worth a watch.

*sniff* Oh Duff McWhalen,. You were too good for this world...

Welp, we’re boned. Or no, wait. Didn’t conservatives say it was super-important never to confirm a Justice during an election year?

Nevermind, it’s clear you’re just looking for targets, not discourse.

Dog whistles are intentional.

I’m afraid that’s not at all the argument. First, please note that it doesn’t contain the n-word. As you can see, it differs by a letter. Second, if dog-whistling racists have used it, you can’t stop them from doing it any more than you can stop someone from calling somebody a “mother-trucker”. Third, if you’re a…

Pretty sure you’re just making shit up now. Cheap isn’t a stereotype that gets tossed at minorities unless you’re Jewish, because by its nature it means you’re well off but stingy. Now you’re just conflating ‘poor’ with ‘cheap’ when they’re nothing alike. There’s nothing wrong with admitting a mistake, but you seem…

Uh, well it does sort of matter. ‘Niggardly’ has no link to racism in any form, it’s just a coincidence. Yet people have been fired for using it, and forced to apologize to the public for the public’s own ignorance concerning it.

God, he’d be certain to say it then... 

AMERICANS

I was going to use the board-game example myself. I think the technical term for this is that the a game situation creates an “undefined state”, something we also use in computer science. It basically means, the rules, the laws, or the stated functionality of the program do not say what is going to happen from here on…

Can I ask you your opinion on something that occurred to me after reading your post? I wonder if Japanese attitudes toward responsibility also play a role here. (Disclaimer: I am an American and so I may make many mistakes with what I say. If so, please correct me and know that any mistakes are due to my own…

Well put. This is why I think our two cultures can really learn a lot from each other.

The only graffiti or vandalism I saw when I went to Japan was in English. :(

There is a larger reason people don’t rise up en masse and eradicate inequality. Americans in general no longer believe the actions of individuals can meaningfully change society. Or maybe people all over the world believe this. “My vote won’t matter.” “Shouting down some idiot on the internet accomplishes nothing.”…

This sucks. When we went to Japan last year we rented a house in Kyoto and it was fantastic. Any move that reduces the amount of houses available and drives up prices is going to suck balls.

A thousand times this. A kindly old Japanese gentleman taught us this when we went there last year.

I’m calling BS. There aren’t 50,000 deer visible in this photograph.