TIL Mishima was gay. Such a shame about him. I really loved his writing until I discovered the whole, well, everything about him.

And earthquakes!

Shame it took so long.

Still learning that more than one thing can be true at a time?

Also, people fear soon having no money -> people spending less money.

I'd planned to spend tens of thousands of dollars to replace a crumbling retaining wall this year. Noooope. Maybe next year.

History is littered with examples of property destruction as protest — from the Luddites smashing weaving machines to the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle.

omg we're famous

This is a predictable outcome when the world's most desired good faces global shortages.

belief in fan death persisted to the mid-2000s in South Korea

The implication that no one there believes this anymore is false.

How does this author not bother to mention the question of whether these voters will have their registrations restored?

I don't know about other places, but this has been happening here in Seattle.

Sanewashing nonsense.

Atheism is a lack of belief in deities, not a criticism of religion. The two tend to go hand in hand, but this post doesn't have anything to do with atheism specifically.