@joeroganhq The Amish, by design, live without internet access or modern media platforms. This means they have no practical way to publicly refute or correct exaggerated or false claims made about their communities.
@covie_93 The paint is literally peeling days after the rushed blue redo he personally picked. Blaming 'deranged vandals' with no clear evidence is easier than 'maybe we botched the job.'
@FromtheArchive@Old_But_Gold50s I think it's called vague posting. It's for getting people to engage in your post and asked questions like "Who is this?"
@Rainmaker1973 ...where a man stabbed 8 kids to death in ~10 minutes, schools across Japan started keeping sasumata. Teachers even train with them to restrain knife-wielding intruders.Beautiful harmony… and practical preparation for the fact that humans gonna human, even here.
@Rainmaker1973 Japan has some beautifully wholesome moments like this, but let's not pretend it's perfect. The tool the railway worker is using is a さすまた (sasumata) — a modernized samurai-era 'man-catcher' fork. After the 2001 Ikeda Elementary School massacre...