But for the first theme is it really some Heian court poets cooked so hard they got an entire island nation addicted to transience for a thousand years counting? I mean I get that it's also related to the Buddhist influence, but the focus on it does seem a bit more distinctively Japanese AFAICT.

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CHAZ was 1/2 stupid LARPing college students and 1/2 vigilante murders it is not the model for anything beyond what not to do or reference.

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descriptive, not prescriptive: in like a week and a half I’m going to see a post begging people to understand that the situation in Minneapolis is still awful even though the media isn’t reporting on it and I will dissociate

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As far as having bodies, they do and they don't. It isn't 1951. Every PLA grunt is the retirement plan of at least two seniors. If they lose a single division Korean War style, people will be out in the streets.

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Some of the stock phrases in the Canon are funny to me. Like most of the time when the Buddha introduces a smile, he says "For by means of a simile some sensible people understand the meaning of what is said." And it comes off kind of passive aggressively? Obviously that's not the intention tho

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