God bless #GrapheneOS.

End of an era.

Too many happy to take the KYC discount, not realizing the long term implications of registering their stack against their legal identity.

Inflation numbers are fibs. Real Japanese have no way to save. They attach themselves to big corporations the same way one would attach themselves to a great samurai house. Nihilism at all time high.

It's inflation. Read The Princes of Yen. The West confiscated Japan's future. This is the result.

Inflation is the cause of antinatalism, not the Japanese aesthetic, which is nature-like modernism rooted in cultural Shintoism.

They've gone really far down the tempered glass rabbit hole; I have 18 "hard strong" glasses by Toyo-Sasaki Glass Co for over a decade now. I even dropped one on the wood floor and it didn't shatter. Always amazed they are all still going strong.

https://umamimart.com/collections/vendors?q=Toyo-Sasaki%20Glass%20Co.

Wow. Had no idea.

One of the best SNES RPGs of all time is Tales of Phantasia. It was never released in the West, but fans translated it to English and made a ROM available online:

You can play it with SNES9X or any other SNES emulator.

Samson is a beast. Respect.

They'll be able to go to court now for damages, I imagine.

Bitcoiners and the truckers really made him unmask in front of the world, revealing himself as a lawless dictator.

This is a pleasant embarrassment.

I think Texas is earning some brownie points right now at the border.

Lots of interior states within the republic did decent during the false pandemic

Bukele and Milei are worth watching, too.

Visible textures are always decorative. Japanese handmade knives are always hammered; the finishing, technique, and metals vary. Visual texture = finishing.

Big fan of Korin's chef knives:

I've had a Togiharu Wa for maybe 15 years now:

Super Mario RPG is an extremely underrated game.

Kon Mari has a very accessible book on donabe for Westerners.

We like https://musubikiln.com in my household.

More that come to mind:

+1

We bought a top of the line cordless Dyson 4 years ago and have since had small parts repaired at a service center just last month.

Thing seems like it'll last a decade easily if you keep up with maintenance. Incredible machine.

Gentle heat with a butane table-top burner (common in Asia) is all you need. There are emissions, so keep the oven fan on or use outside.

We use the donabe for Japanese hot pot (nabe). It's basically thin sliced meat individually cooked in a communal table stock (shabu shabu) with fish stock (dashi) and vegetables resulting in a very delicious stock that folks transfer to their own little bowls while eating.

The leftover stock can be used to cook Japanese rice. Great tool to have to ensure nothing ever goes to waste.