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25 Things Foreigners Admire About Americans
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1. My partner’s American and whenever we travel to the States I’m always struck by how ridiculously friendly everyone is. I’ve had long conversations with people I’ve only just met who are just genuinely interested in what life is like in other countries/how I’m finding America etc. And people tend to be very giving of themselves as well. In Britain the standard response to ‘How are you?’ is ‘Fine/great’ whatever, whereas American’s can give you a complete breakdown of their life at the moment (including an in depth medical history id you’re not careful). It’s nice though.
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The Bleak Reality Faced By The Japanese Youth
There used to be a legal concept and now there is a de facto concept known as “lifetime employment.” Basically, when you begin a career with a company, you would have to egregiously fuckup/commit malicious deeds to lose your job. However, businessmen who fail publicly on a major project that they took leadership of, or businessmen who piss off the wrong people in the firm, are often shipped off to undesirable locations (remote countryside, foreign branches, less-than-desirable departments, etc.) or just have their careers turn into a living hell.
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What Did Edward Snowden Actually Reveal About the U.S Government?
Imagine, if you will, a world where your every move, every communication, every digital footprint is being monitored, collected, and analyzed by an all-seeing government entity. This is the reality that Edward Snowden, a former U.S. intelligence contractor, brought to light in 2013 when he leaked a trove of classified documents exposing the shocking extent of government surveillance programs.
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“I regret buying a new car”
I (25F) recently bought my first car and dropped 50k as a down payment for a brand new Lexus. (a really dumb decision, I know.) I feel super regretful because I let myself succumb to the pressure from my mom and friends to finally buy a car since I landed a higher paying job. I hope to have a family and buy a house one day but I cannot help but feel like I put myself in a poor financial position where I will probably never achieve that. Am I still doing okay financially?
“My chess rating has become my identity.”
I’m an avid chess player, and over the years, my chess rating has become more than just a number—it’s become a part of my identity. Whenever I win a game and see my rating go up, I feel on top of the world. But when I lose and my rating drops, it feels like a personal failure. These fluctuations have started to impact my mood, self-esteem, and even how I interact with others.
Lately, it’s been getting worse. I find myself obsessively checking my rating and replaying my losses in my head, wondering what I could have done differently. I compare myself to higher-rated players and feel inferior and stupid. This has led to anxiety and a lack of enjoyment in other areas of my life. I’m caught in a vicious cycle of self-doubt and pressure to perform, and I don’t know how to break free.
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Linkage
7 Ways to Lead Effectively in Your Relationship with Confidence – Knowledge For Men
24 People Having a Worse Day than You – Ned Hardy
Beware of the Venmo / Zelle / Cash App Scam – Shield and Fortify
If you like drip coffee, consider this for its ease of use and the exceptional flavor it extracts from even regular beans. They are also beautiful machines that will last many many years – Amazon
It’s Hard to Be a Moral Person. Technology Is Making It Harder – VOX
A Groundbreaking Scientific Discovery Just Created the Instruction Manual for Light-Speed Travel
12 Incredible Movies Like Good Will Hunting – Snip Daily
Social Security’s ‘biggest myth’ leads people to claim early, expert says. Even a slight delay can boost retirement income – CNBC
Instagram’s desperate move: Gen Z is fleeing the social media platform. Meta has a dumb new plan to win them back – Business Insider
OpenAI pulls its Scarlett Johansson-like voice for ChatGPT – The Verge
Target to lower prices on thousands of basic items as inflation sends customers scrounging for deals – AP News
Iranian President, Foreign Minister Killed in Helicopter Crash – WSJ
The Games That Defined The TurboGrafx-16 – Den of Geek
Art Uncovered: ‘At Eternity’s Gate’ by Vincent van Gogh – Ned Hardy
Is it worth getting an OBD2 scanner for your car? Totally, they are not that expensive and it will give you a general idea of what’s wrong with your car – Amazon
Road Trip: How to Beat Boredom in Six Fun Ways – Family Proof
Why you should think twice before posting that cute photo of your kid online – NPR
How to Stop Prioritizing Everyone and Everything Else at Your Own Expense – Tiny Buddha
The Most Polluted Cities in the U.S. – Visual Capitalist
Where every cent of $1 goes at one L.A. restaurant, explained – LA Times
The Dumping Grounds
What Happened To Prison Guards Of Concentration Camps When It Was Liberated?
Walenty Lenarczyk, a prisoner at Dachau, stated that following the camp’s liberation "prisoners swarmed over the wire and grabbed the Americans and lifted them to their shoulders… other prisoners caught the SS men.
The first SS man elbowed one or two prisoners out of his way, but the courage of the prisoners mounted, they knocked them down and nobody could see whether they were stomped or what, but they were killed."
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What Is Dating And Sex Like In Japan?
Flirting in Japan
Flirting seems like a misnomer. It’s more like an absense of flirting. If you like someone in Japan, there are a couple of different ways of showing it and/or approaching them, none of which really resemble flirting in the west.
1. Nanpa (the “pickup”) First off, only guys do nanpa; in the rare case that girls do it, it’s called gyaku-nan (“reverse nanpa”), but I never heard of gyaku-nan actually happening, it always seemed like it was more of an amusing theoretical idea, rather than something girls really did.