tiredofsametab

I found it funny as someone from the US. I think there were only a couple of things that relied so heavily on Australian slang.

I also don't recall ever getting stuck in level geometry.

Sounds like some church should not be tax exempt anymore...

When I sometimes talk about things in my past that make me nostalgic, cold war shenanigans never makes that list.

Everything* is just an on/off switch

* offer does not apply to quantum computing

Japan wasn't even disconnected. They traded with China, sent missions there, etc.

They were more disconnected during the sakoku policy, but they still had traders coming in (Chinese, Korean, and I think Dutch) even if they all had to trade from Dejima. Rangaku (the Ran here coming from hoRANda (holland) and gaku (study)) was quite popular even during this time and before the opening leading up to the Meji era.

The idea of being able to wear something like that didn't even cross my mind. When I was in high school (public school in rural Ohio), they'd just tell you to hand it (necklace) over until the end of the day or go home. I think high school is when they finally relaxed the hair restrictions for boys (not below the collar and only natural colors for all students) and I think that's because a student who moved from the city's parents were suing to keep their long-, dyed-hair son in school. I'm not saying I agree with things being that strict, by the way; I just didn't realize that was even allowed now.

In the late 1880s, not really all that long with fairly recent cameras. https://time.com/4568032/smile-serious-old-photos/

If you want to go on the Hebrew side, ha-satan (the satan) means something like 'the adversary' and it's arguably more of a title than a person. There are plenty of cases where actual charity would be against the pain the system is causing

If a person fell into the singularity of a black hole that had particles from our atmosphere, are we back to on earth again? (My vote is "s/he dead and no even if not", but I think it's interesting to think about).

I've been going down a rabbit hole trying to get to the source of the Japanese one. It's a marker at a shrine with the old name of the shrine, apparently, and no longer has the hexagram. That's all the further I could get before work, but it shows up in weird conspiracy-like blogs with arbitrarily-drawn hexagrams on maps (using the location of things today despite, y'know, the shrine variously having been purported to move, and some saying the thing was sealed away for over 2000 years which has a whole host of other issues). I'll report back if I get sufficiently bored. I have a feeling that, short of contacting the actual shrine, I'm not going to get very far. Even the various shrine and tourism websites are mostly dead links that I have to find by searching again on the base tourism site.

edit: This seems like a more sensible site explaining what a hexagram meant previously in Japan (basket weave pattern) https://cultural-experience.blogspot.com/2015/01/blog-post_8.html and addresses the "Japanese people came from the lost tribes" myth that was apparently dreamed up by a Scottsman in the past.

Ah, yeah; hat would make sense

I get the feeling, but if the business has no say in getting recommended, aren't you just punishing businesses that may not even know this program exists? That would suck for very small businesses.

Edit: my brain was thinking recommendations not paid ads so please disregard.