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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • Like smoking, alcohol is a huge industry in Japan. It’s “normal” for Japanese companies to addict their employees to their products and because the companies ARE the government, they enact incredibly protectionist laws like this to prevent external competition.

    Their economy depends on it. It’s super gross. Like America and guns, or Sweden and flatpak furniture (the last one is a half joke)

    If Japan starts being a cannabis producer, they’ll 180 so fast you’ll get vertigo.


  • If this isn’t sarcasm I’m really sorry for this person.

    A core value of scifi is re-contextulizing real life moral, ethical and social situations into fantastical settings where we can look at them without all the baggage.

    Here’s the thing. Trill aren’t real. The whole thing is made up… but it is a great example how someones outside appearance and personality can change… even a major part of their biological makeup… But they are still THEM.

    it’s called allegory and it’s everywhere in scifi