I don’t know if you can get them in America, but in Asia there are these waterproof coats that cover your entire body as well as your bike but still lets your head poke out so you can see stuff. Sometimes you can also get an umbrella holder on the bike as well. They might sell those things on Amazon or on Craigslist,…

Chinese investors would like to have a word with you when it comes to their interest in Ethiopia

And have you flown ANA or Qatar? Two of the best airline companies in the world? As for British Airways I’d hardly say it’s potato ranked when the other list has Spirit and American.

ANA British Airways and Qatar Airways are potato-ranked? What do you ride on, a goddamn private jet? Or are you one of those people who genuinely enjoy flying United?

A hot spoon is probably not hot enough to denature proteins. The temperature it needs to be at in order to denature a protein would end up burning your skin.

Nope. Go to a coffee shop in China where you can use QR code on WeChat to pay for the tab or for utilities, M-Pesa in Kenya as a mainstream alternative to transferring and storing money compared to traditional banks, the rise of Paytm in India, and the prevalence of Square and Venmo amongst the youth in the US to pay…

I think you’re forgetting that some people might have luggage or suitcases with them, or have bad knees if they’re elderly. Waiting for the lift can take a while and sometimes there isn’t one, which is why people take the escalator and stand. Standing in the middle or blocking other people’s path is rude, but standing…

You have it mixed up, 関東 region you stand to the left, walk on the right. 関西 you stand to the left, walk on the right.

Around 1.4 million Americans last year went abroad for medical care to places like India where quality is decently good and much cheaper than the US. Few Canadians actually go to the US for medical care because costs are so high, while the CDC estimates around 750,000 people Americans go abroad to get treated. The…

You can also just turn it into fried rice. Rice that’s kind of dried is perfect for it.

Or if you’re making a new batch of rice, just dump the old rice into the rice cooker after your new rice has cooked and leave it in there to heat up. It’s as good as new

I used to read RT quite a lot 4 years ago because I was quite tired of the biased reporting that I saw in American and BBC news sites when they reported world news, but I stopped after reading stories that had so much spin and was full of bald-faced lies backed up with no facts at all that it was too much for me.

RT…

Why do you, as an American, pay for other people’s unemployment insurance? Why should you, as an American, pay for some old person who couldn’t save enough and have to rely on their social security? Those things also aren’t in the constitution but I don’t hear you complaining about it.

I’m not sure. They always drive around, even when there are police nearby and no one ever chases them or flags them down. It could be that the police don’t care, just like how they’re technically supposed to stop people from cycling on sidewalks or using headphones on their bikes but they never do. Or it could be…

It’s a business that operates near Shibuya. You pay to drive around like you’re in a Mario Kart game. It’s pretty popular with tourists

Entertaining passengers through friendly conversation isn’t always considered civility depending on what country you’re in. Do that in Sweden and Japan and you would be considered annoying or possibly rude. Talking and being open to strangers isn’t as universally acceptable as you think. It just depends on who the…

It amazes me how much people get triggered by someone else’s feelings.
Getting offended at someone being offended is too common

The article was about how to be diplomatic, not how to burn bridges

Um, Japan and Seoul South Korea have sidewalk bumps and beeping crosswalks everywhere and subway stations are much much more accessible than in most countries in North America and most of Europe, I reckon. Even in Hong Kong and Singapore those systems are in place and much more common. It was one of the things that…

Not a liberal, but any legitimate proponent of free-markets or anyone who knows anything about economics can tell you that while tax incentives may do some good in the short term to bring jobs back and tariffs may protect jobs in certain industries, in the long run, the manufacturing industry will keep declining and…

And yea, you’re right it’s not just Trump. I was disappointed to see so many people jump on the anti-NAFTA bandwagon because that rhetoric was working, even with people who were libertarians and free-market advocates who started pandering to that crowd.