dude i know this isnt what i normally post but i stumbled upon this channel of this 9 year old kid who’s apparently been running 118k usd worth of youtube ads with his dad’s BUSINESS CREDIT CARD 😭😭
An important part of "Incompetent Male Shopper" discourse is that many of these "male shoppers" are barely literate third-worlders but complaining about that is taboo so it all gets chalked up to them being men (a group you're allowed to freely insult)
Standing in line at the post office in Shibuya, old woman in front of me struggling with a package.
Clerk: This is too heavy. You need different box.
Woman: But this is only box I have.
Me: (without thinking) I have a box. You can have it.
Woman: (turning to me) You would do that?
Me: Sure.
ran to my apartment (5 minutes away), got a box, came back.
Woman: (nearly crying) You are very kind.
Clerk: Very rare. Most people don't help.
Me: It's just a box.
Woman: No. It's more.
she insisted on taking my address.
"To send thank you."
Me: That's really not necessary.
Woman: It is to me.
two weeks later: package arrived.
homemade cookies and a note.
"Thank you for the box and for restoring my faith in young people. -Yamamoto"
Me: (to roommate) This is very sweet.
Roommate: You made old lady's day.
forgot about it.
month later: another package.
more cookies and a note.
"I made extra. Thought you might enjoy. -Yamamoto"
Me: She's still sending cookies?
Roommate: Don't question free cookies.
became a regular thing.
every month, cookies arrived.
different types:
- chocolate chip
- matcha
- black sesame
- "mystery flavor" (still don't know what it was)
me: (to roommate) Should I tell her to stop?
Roommate: WHY? Free cookies!
Me: It feels like too much.
Roommate: Send her a thank you note then.
sent a note: "Thank you for the cookies. You really don't have to keep sending them, but they're delicious."
next package: DOUBLE the cookies.
note: "You said they're delicious. So I sent more. -Yamamoto"
Me: I'VE CREATED A COOKIE MONSTER.
year of cookies.
I was drowning in baked goods.
shared with neighbors.
they LOVED them.
Neighbor: Where do you get these?
Me: Old woman I helped at post office.
Neighbor: I WANT OLD WOMAN COOKIES.
Me: GET YOUR OWN OLD WOMAN.
two years of cookies.
then they stopped.
Me: (to roommate) No cookies this month.
Roommate: Maybe she forgot?
Me: She's sent them for 24 months straight. Something's wrong.
looked up her name, found an address.
went to visit.
her daughter answered.
Daughter: Can I help you?
Me: I'm looking for Yamamoto-san. She's been sending me cookies.
Daughter: (eyes widening) YOU'RE the box boy!
Me: ...yes?
Daughter: Come in! She talks about you constantly!
Yamamoto: (from living room) WHO IS IT?
Daughter: THE BOX BOY.
Yamamoto: (shuffling out) You came!
Me: I was worried when the cookies stopped.
Yamamoto: Arthritis. Hands don't work so well anymore. I'm sorry.
Me: Please don't apologize. I just wanted to make sure you were okay.
Yamamoto: (crying) You remembered me.
Me: Of course. You've been sending me cookies for two years.
Yamamoto: Because you gave me a box. And kindness. During very hard time.
Daughter: (to me) Her husband had just died. She was mailing his things to family. You were the first person who helped.
Me: I didn't know.
Yamamoto: That's why it mattered. You helped stranger for no reason.
visited her every month after that.
she taught me to make her cookies.
Yamamoto: So you can make them when I'm gone.
Me: Don't talk like that.
Yamamoto: I'm 83. I can talk however I want.
learned all her recipes:
- the chocolate chip (secret: miso paste)
- the matcha (secret: yuzu zest)
- the mystery flavor (secret: it was lavender, I just have no sense of smell)
Yamamoto: Now you carry on tradition.
Me: I'm not a baker.
Yamamoto: Neither was I. Until I needed to thank someone.
she passed away last year.
her daughter gave me her recipe book.
note inside: "For the box boy. Keep the kindness going. -Yamamoto".........🧵
So it turns out China was building a hydro electric facility by a glacier and all the construction caused a portion of the glacier to collapse, tumble down, and turn into a mudslide that killed like 2,500 Nepalese people.
But all you will hear about in the news is leftists claiming this was because of climate change
People having the IQ of a stale biscuit is a public health crisis. This person should not be able to drive a car on a public road with other humans. It’s like giving a toddler a gun and hoping nothing bad happens.
something they don't tell you is that if you get into making metal music in a small town you WILL encounter 80s-movie-villain-tier boomers who sound like one of those parents from School of Rock
Once scientists learned Covid was a bat virus with a furin cleavage site, suspicion fell on the WIV, which was doing research in this very area. Here’s Fauci himself reporting what 9 of 11 scientists told him on Feb 1, 2020: