There’s another future where Yugoslavia is the birthplace of a free software movement, and homebuilt PCs lower the barrier of entry to anybody with some time on their hands, with software distributed by radio and powerline until the advent of internet.

Japan has made baby steps, while they still wrap individual bananas, many stores charge for a plastic bag, discouraging use.

The younger folk here in Cambodia seem to care about the environment, old folks just throw trash wherever.

Nuanced yes, but it largely being driven by a Japanese guy who wanted to sell US software and US companies who didn’t want to compete by actually selling compatible hardware is no less damning.

You missed the point of the question entirely. Are you just playing dumb here?

Teach the kids to use a scooter properly, all across asia children ride electrics without incident, but I am constantly hearing how dangerous they are back in America where barely anyone rides scooters.

Drug use is a social problem. If I offered you a huge bag of fentanyl for free right now, would you take it? What conditions in your life would make you more likely to accept it? Lets address the things which cause those conditions for other people.

They add so much sugar too, which slows absorbtion, so once you feel like you’ve had enough, you still have a half hour of alcohol that hasn’t reached the blood stream. Its like it was designed to get teenagers blacked out.

It would be less dangerous if they just put 4oz of whiskey with 150mg of caffine.

The caffinated booze is a different hazard, it allows people who would otherwise go to sleep keep going, now with even worse judgement.

I will pick those up next time I’m in Japan. I don’t smoke, but everyone else in asia does, I found foreign cigerettes make a good gift if someone helps me and it would be weird to give money.

Can’t pay with credit card??? Only weixin pay

You put your credit card into wechat/alipay and you can use weixin pay.

You can get a local number for like 1USD/month for receiving sms.

Theres people who have very strong perceptions about food, like they don’t like mayo but like the exact same thing if called aioli. My mother will eat a tuna sandwich, but hates the idea of a fish taco. She thinks she hates tofu and is suspicious that any Asian food is secretly tofu, but has had stir fry with chicken and tofu and liked it. No she cannot identify tofu. Conversely, she thinks she loves mushrooms, but doesn’t know you need to cook them so she will add them to eggs or salads raw or nearly raw, and enjoy it. She thinks MSG makes her sick.

Its kinda like a placebo effect. She got sick at a chinese place once, and soneone told her “Oh its the MSG” and it was just cemented into her mind. Maybe she had raw tofurkey in the 1980s when it was peddled as a drop-in meat replacement.

It was Tsutaya in Cambodia.

Is Fully Booked popular? I’ve never seen a bookstore do this, but its the first one I’ve seen in Cambodia so maybe lack of competition lets them get away with it.

He analyzed capitalism (and religion), and his model predicted regular worsening crises when the market couldn’t expand further, leading to its eventual abolition.

He was employed as a journalist and published books on history and economics.

I swear libs just make stuff up that sounds right and then believe the shit they fantasized