@tanpukunokami Hunt Brothers pizza. American chain found mostly in rural area convenience stores.
10 toppings. Savory and slightly spicy flavor profile.
One of my favorites.
Every summer morning in Japan at 6:30 a.m., something special happens.
Kids โ half-asleep, summer vacation in full swing โ walk to the nearest park or schoolyard by themselves.
They line up with their neighbors: elderly couples, office workers, even toddlers holding their dadโs hand.
A familiar piano melody starts. Everyone moves in unison.
Three minutes later, itโs over. The kids get a stamp on their card.
This is radio taiso (radio calisthenics).
Started in 1928. Still going strong today.
In America, summer vacation means total freedom.
In Japan, it means the whole neighborhood makes sure the kids arenโt sleeping it away.
A piano. A park. Your neighbors.
A country that decided community is worth waking up for.
A German guy living in Japan said
something Japanese people can't say
without getting cancelled:
"Japan has no obligation to accept me.
I'm a guest here."
No outrage. No politics.
Just a foreigner reminding everyone
what respecting a country actually means.
The most Japanese thing I've heard
all year came from a German. ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต
https://t.co/NJU60RzMYU
People say โthatโs not fair,โ but often what they really mean is โmy status feels diminished."
People care deeply about fairness, especially when it comes to how material resources are distributed. But often the concern is not really about the resource itself. It is about something underneath it. People say they care about fairness, but what they are really asking is: do you respect me? Do you see me as equal? Are you granting me the status that matches how I see myself?
Take a common example. You find out that others at your job, in the same role, are being paid more than you. You are still doing well. You are comfortable. By most objective standards, you are fine. But the moment you learn that your peers earn more, the reaction is immediate: something is wrong. This feels unfair.
Now imagine your boss responds, โYouโre already making good money. Relax.โ That does not calm the situation. It makes it worse. Because the issue was never just the money. It was the signal the difference sends. The gap suggests that you are valued less, that you occupy a lower rung, even if your absolute income is high.
The anger that follows is not about deprivation. It is about status. It is the feeling of being diminished, of being treated as less than others who are, in principle, your equals.
Important information for anyone, including @nicksortor, who may be on the ground tonight: a different group is reportedly organizing this eveningโs Delany Hall protest activity, one with ties to DSA.
This is organized by Palestine Solidarity Working Group, not Cosecha. These are not the institutionally trained "nonviolent" activists like with the prior protests. These are far-left, revolutionary-minded activists who have foreign terrorism sympathies.
Of course, that it's being organized by extremists wasn't enough to deter other NGOs (we suspect National Lawyers Guild) from offering "jail support" to them. They always stick together.
Pray for the safety of all tonight.
Japan sends first-graders to school alone.
Thirty minutes. Intersections. Train platforms.
Six-year-olds.
No bus. No parent drop-off.
Just small groups โ older kids up front, youngest in back.
They call it tลkoban. It's worked for decades.
The idea isn't "Japan is safe."
It's this:
Children become capable
by being trusted with real things
before they feel ready.
In the U.S., parents get reported to child services
for letting a 10-year-old walk to a park alone.
Same planet.
Different idea of what a child is.
Would you let your six-year-old walk 30 minutes to school โ
and if not, what age would feel okay?
Bro, this is actually insane.
Japanโs Children and Family Agency decided that people on welfare can get IVF (in vitro fertilization) for free as part of their โanti-low birth rateโ measures.
Now foreign welfare recipients โ including young people in their 20s โ are flooding fertility clinics and demanding expensive IVF treatments right away.
Meanwhile, young Japanese couples are struggling with the high costs of fertility treatment and many are giving up on having kids.
So let me get this straight:
Japanese taxpayers are funding free IVF for foreigners on welfare, while actual Japanese people who work and pay taxes canโt afford it themselves.
This is the โsolutionโ to Japanโs declining birth rate?
Weโre literally using Japanese tax money to help non-working foreigners have more kids, while making it harder for Japanese people to have children.
How is this not completely backwards?
๐ฏ๐ต Japanese person:
โOur country uses taxes taken from its own citizens to support even foreigners who cause problems.โ
๐ฐ๐ท Reaction from Asia:
โYeah, same here.โ
๐บ๐ธ Reaction from America:
โSame here too.โ
๐ช๐บReaction from Europe:
โSame here.โ
Seriouslyโฆ what the hell is happening around the world?
Kittens know.
Low-elastic biological tissue
doesnโt reject pressure.
It receives it, disperses it,
and responds with a slight delay
through viscoelasticity.
What comes back
canโt be measured.
Comfort.
Tokyo.
8 AM rush hour.
A train packed shoulder to shoulder. Nobody talks.
A phone rings. Three people flinch.
Foreigners who actually live in Japan say the same thing again and again.
Race barely registers here.
Not avoided. Just absent.
Bump someone and walk past in silence.
Talk loudly on a quiet car.
Skip a clean queue.
The temperature in the room drops in seconds.
Race is faint.
Manners are sacred.
The Holodomor proves what free market economists have been saying for a century: when you kill price signals, you kill people. Soviet central planners deliberately starved 5 to 7 million Ukrainians and other Soviet citizens in 1932-33, all while exporting grain to maintain their political image abroad.
Stalin's regime had already collectivized agriculture, destroying the kulaks who actually knew how to farm efficiently. Without private property rights or market prices to coordinate production, Soviet agriculture collapsed into chronic shortages. The party then doubled down and seized whatever grain remained from starving peasants.
You can see the pure evil of central planning in the details. While Ukrainians ate bark and grass, Stalin exported 1.7 million tons of grain in 1933 alone. His officials knew exactly what they were doing: they confiscated seed grain needed for the next harvest and posted guards around collective farms to prevent anyone from leaving to find food elsewhere.
The Soviet state created artificial scarcity through price controls, production quotas, and the systematic elimination of private farming. When reality conflicted with their economic plan, they chose to let millions die rather than admit that markets work and socialism kills.
Yet you still hear people today defending "democratic socialism" or claiming central planning just needs better implementation. Every single time someone argues for price controls or government management of food distribution, they're advocating for the same mechanism that murdered those 7 million souls.
Several serving and former Hampshire Police Officers have told me that โwe had it drummed into us about our white privilege and unconscious biasโ.
Training was outsourced to a third party company and the trainer โwas deeply hateful of white people and our culture.โ
Officers have reported to me about being furious but unable to complain out of fear for their jobs.
This is exactly why I blocked the Race Action Plan as Home Secretary.
It is disgraceful that this stuff went on in policing. And the PCC and CC need to be held to account.