Say he resigns. Which sterling example of humanity should take his place? (Just pretend I linked to articles about all three people in that government’s line of succession, there.)

It’s only stealing if it belonged to you in the first place...

This should take about 1 minute. Two officers didn’t identify themselves. Told the suspect (I’m being generous by granting them this) to put his hands up. Then fired 20 shots at his back.

...And? This feels like a ‘slow news day’ story. No one died, no one got hurt, the cop got punished for it, and it’s all open and shut. I can’t remember the last time you could count off all four in a single incident - and it’s a sign of the times that it just feels like good news now.

There are two possibilities here. The first is that, 8 months ago, that man lied to you about who he was. The second is that, 8 months ago, that man did not lie to you about who he was. Knowing which one it was requires knowing “what’s in his heart” or whatever BS gets peddled over stuff like this.

I can’t say I’m shocked by this...

Ten years of National novel writing month, meaning ten 50k novel-starts. But now I whine about things in the comments section, like the Japanese take on race and/or black(ness).

I also linked to a video (suggesting the comments under it) and a book summary, before and after that article. Aren’t you able to read them?

...how many Filipina/Japanese relationships did you miss while you were there? Or are they not ‘black’ enough, and therefore less important?

And I grew up thinking this wasn’t hard to understand.

The artist is still part of the discussion, and never stopped being part of it I thought. But it’s a commercial, not an anime like what’s in your gifs - and I’m pressing this point because it’s relevant, if a little esoteric. ...There’s a 1977 movie called ‘House’, directed by someone who to that point specialized in…

No one asked you for yours, but thank you so much for putting it in the spotlight. And we were talking about a black woman’s experience in Japan already, clearly a completely different one from the black men in the article(s).

I feel... joy? Is that what this feeling is? For the first time in a while: joy.

Like I said...

I’ve lived there. Your experience is neither special nor unique (particularly since it’s SE Asia), and you are an outsider who can’t be arsed to do basic research on the person you claim to feel for.

Sorry, I just don’t see how an article about a longtime male resident of Japan (who’d written a book concerning the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa eras) can’t be fully comprehensive about a Heisei experience in Tokyo.

That would be a problem only if she was an immigrant and wasn’t so Japanese that it’s reflected in her name.

*nod nod* The ‘your Japanese is excellent’ thing is also a feature, not a bug, of Japanese culture; it happens no matter what skill level the obviously foreigner’s Japanese is actually at. It’ll always be genuine, but it stops feeling like a compliment and starts feeling like small talk after enough people say it.

I’ve noticed that Splinter focuses on the end result more than the events that led to it. It’s what Voltaire would come up with while satirizing FiveThreeEight.

If Ted Cruz offered to take a punch from anyone in the Senate, he’d get punched 99 times...