@for_yield Asahi had planned to use the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as its hard launch to global export markets but Covid overshadowed the games and limited travel… It’s nice to see it’s working out for them all these years later.
@fleshsimulator These things can, and often do, change quickly. French Canadians were once genuinely second class citizens. When bilingualism became law, they became the gatekeepers of bureaucracy/government/commerce with a pen stroke.
@rmcentush Some of the same people who say GDP is irrelevant or at least a flawed metric will use GDP or similar metrics to assess Europe.
American YIMBY transit enthusiasts, for all their faults, seem to have grasped the vibe of Euro productivity.
@liamvenfaxlavin@Maxargues247@plzbepatient “Behold, my son. He has a non-verbal, non-visual, non-auditory, non-olfactory, non-etc learning disorder. And by that I mean he can do all those things without issue. You may be wondering what is wrong with him. To which, I am going to ask you to stop picking on my disabled son.”