From an outsider’s perspective, Japanese culture seems to foster a mutual respect for one another as well as for one’s community and environment.

On the contrary, America seems to idealize treating people with contempt unless there’s something you would want from them. Our society is very transactional and if you have nothing of interest to show for yourself then you have no worth to anybody and deserve no respect.

I know this is all a big generalization of two societies consisting of millions of people and this isn’t to say that everybody behaves the same way across both societies. But when you have a general behavior across a society then it’s no surprise that a significant portion of that society will adapt that behavior.

What a sniveling little bitch

I propose we get CO and they can have WI, MI and PA

I’m not a Christian and I’m not sure whether she is either. But when I think about what Jesus would be doing if he were around today, I imagine the situations in which I see Greta putting herself in.

What are you interpreting from this meme? That men aren’t fit to lead because they are generally emotionally unstable? Because I don’t think that’s what this is suggesting at all.

Just that the same argument against women being too emotional is bullshit because we’ve got two men in powerful leadership positions acting like emotion-driven children.

How did their commander in chief put it? Suckers and losers?

They could be sleeping comfortably in their own beds but instead they’re sleeping on a hard floor in a place devoid of any charm at the whim of a tyrant to do his bidding.

You think they care about their children’s well being? It’s all about their own status and legacy to them and their children are just a part of that.

How can we as a society tolerate this?

“My Lord, is that… legal?”

“I’ll make it legal!”

They’ve been jerking themselves off to deploying the military against California for decades. This is their fantasy come true and they can hardly wait.

“Dangerous to drivers”

Because you’re going to give yourself an aneurysm over a minor inconvenience? You’re in a giant suit of armor. You could hit every single one of those cyclists without sustaining even a scratch.

If the cyclists were actually dangerous to drivers, do you think the diver would be accelerating aggressively towards them?

If I’m driving in an area where pedestrians can be present and my view of a walkway is obstructed, I slow down. A speed limit isn’t an obligation nor is it a right to travel at speeds that have the potential to be unsafe. I treat every blind spot as if there’s something behind it ready to jump out at a moment’s notice and I adjust my speed to anticipate it. I do that because I believe operating within legally defined parameters doesn’t exempt me from the responsibility of my actions causing harm to another person.

We as a society are far too lenient toward drivers who take for granted the fact that they’re in control of high-velocity heavy-machinery that can and do kill people on a daily basis. Traffic deaths aren’t an inevitability, in most cases they’re caused by overconfidence.

Anything to shift accountability away from drivers, huh? Cars and the people behind the wheel of them are just an unavoidable force of nature now?

Somehow I read “execute” and had fully accepted my fate before I realized it said “excite”

Ironic that the man convinced he was going to take humanity to Mars just set back humanity’s interplanetary expansion by a generation.

Maybe what we’ve lost with this mistake will balance out by teaching us that autocrats/oligarchs don’t serve us but it’s hard to imagine it at this point.

On one hand, this would be hilarious. On the other hand, the affirmation Trump would get out of exercising that kind of power over the richest man in history would be terrifying.

Legacy media: he was shot after an argument

Same here! Though I took a 6-month break in between quitting Reddit and joining Lemmy. I remember hoping it would amount to a feeling of liberation but in reality I just felt out of touch with world events and started scrolling through my Google feed instead, which sucked…

Stressed. It feels like the world is falling apart around me. It’s like we’re speed running our own destruction. I’m ready for some peace.

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