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Jordan Carlson
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Canadian postdoc in Japan.
Energy, sustainability, unrelated ramblings.
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>have day off
>friends are talking about vampires
>someone uses the phrase "informed consent"
>my brain, 5 minutes later:
Activity Consent Form Title of Activity: Blood Kiss (a.k.a., “vampirification”, “get dem fangs in me”, etc.) Principle party: A. Vampire, Esq. Institutional contact: Your nearest unconsecrated graveyard, goth night club, or hospital refrigeration facility. 1. Introduction and purpose of the activity: The Blood Kiss will turn the receiving party into a vampire, ending their mortal life and granting cursed immortality. 2. Description of the activity: The principle party will bite the consenting party on the neck, piercing their skin and veins with the principle party’s vampiric fangs. This will drain the principle party of their blood. Through means that must not be disclosed (copyrights and patents are pending), this act will turn the receiving party into a vampire. 3. Receiving party’s responsibilities: Hold still, be bitten. 4. Potential risks and discomforts from participating in the activity: You may experience a slight pinch when the principle party’s teeth pierce your skin. You may feel lightheaded as the principle party drinks your blood. You will, technically, experience brain death before you awaken as a vampire. The principle party and their associates hold no responsibility for any legal complications arising from the change in your legal “living” status that may be questioned by public and regional authorities. 5. Potential benefits of the activity: The receiving party will become an immortal vampire. 6. Confidentiality: The receiving party and the principle party shall agree to uphold the sacred bond of sire and progeny. 7. Authorization: By signing on the below line, you agree to become a receiving party of a Blood Kiss. All legal rights and complaints about death and endangerment from the activity are waived through signing this form. Consent for this activity may not be revoked on any timescale, as vampirification is an irreversible process. Consenting party name: (please print) Consenting party signature:
November 21, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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he cribbed the book's premise, added a zero, and moved it south. also made the title worse.
he did it literally a year after Saunders' book.
the cover of Doug Saunders' book "Maximum Canada: Toward a Country of 100 million", depicting Canada outlined by tiny people, lots of them, on a white background
November 19, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Ultraliberalism, you say?
Joyce Messier from Disco Elysium: a middle aged woman with coiffed hair, red earrings, a tightly tied scarf, and a green overcoat
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Clumsy had a twenty year sales record!
On February 28, 2001, the album was certified Diamond in Canada. On July 12, 2004, Clumsy was certified Platinum in the United States. Between 1996 and 2016, Clumsy was the best-selling album by a Canadian band in Canada and the eighth best-selling album by a Canadian artist overall in Canada.
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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November 11, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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... I feel like two of these things are not much like the others, lmao
Nonetheless, Wallonia has some companies which are world leaders in their specialized fields, including armaments, glass production,[26] lime and limestone production,[27] cyclotrons[28] and aviation parts.[29]
October 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Attn: @legalminimum.bsky.social
A 3D animated Caillou being broadcast on German television
October 27, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Getting the true German television experience
A picture of a TV on a wall. The TV is showing an anthropomorphic loaf of bread in an astronaut suit is floating in space over the earth
October 27, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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I'll leave deeper comment to people who are better informed, but this one is a fun contrast (under the METI minister's section) to popular images of working hours in Japan.

(google translated for sharing)
(7) In cooperation with relevant ministers, we will promote a shift to labor that increases added value, encourage reskilling and the use of digital technology, and advance the transformation into a "profitable Japan" where people can earn more for fewer working hours. We will also implement reforms to support employment for motivated elderly people and eliminate unwanted non-regular employment. In addition, in cooperation with relevant ministers, we will promote dual and side jobs and accelerate the increase in the minimum wage.
October 24, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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It's a cross-sectoral thing; Japan's got the most privately-oriented energy and electricity markets in the (20th century) developed economies outside the US, too. 80s book:
The Business of the Japanese State Energy Markets in comparative and historical perspective Richard J Samuels A cartoon of a Japanese man in yukata hauling coal out of a very cramped, sloped mine by manual labour with a rope harness is below the title and author information.
October 16, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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TFW the ruling party actively chooses chaos over internal divisions:
www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
Q: Would you have left the coalition if Ishiba remained in office? A: Under Ishiba, we held a party head meeting that also included the opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan. Ishiba took an extremely aggressive stance regarding the issue of political donations from companies and organizations. If he remained in office, there would have been no need for a new policy discussion, so we would not have left the coalition.
October 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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>looking through Nextfest
>stumble upon this: store.steampowered.com/app/2362580/...
>look up the game website
>blinking white guy dot gif
Do I need to know how to code to play Typhon? Yes, basic programming knowledge is required. Players use Python to program their bots’ behavior for missions. The game is designed to help you learn and improve your coding skills through hands-on challenges.
October 15, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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China is not a significant supplier of cooking oil imports into the US lol
ers.usda.gov/data-product...
These oils comprised the top three imports in 2022 led by canola oil at $3.6 billion, palm oil at $2.2 billion, and olive oil at $1.7 billion. U.S. vegetable oil imports originate from a few major suppliers. In 2022, 96 percent of canola oil imports came from Canada, 82 percent of palm oil came from Indonesia, and 78 percent of olive oil came from the European Union. USDA forecasts vegetable oil imports at $11 billion in fiscal year 2023. This chart is drawn from the Outlook for U.S. Agricultural Trade published by USDA’s Economic Research Service, May 2023.
October 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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More or less the ideal thing for the people being ordered to shoot civilians to be saying to cameras, generally speaking.
(I do not know enough about Madagascar to comment on any of the rest of this)
On Saturday, some Capsat soldiers had posted a video to social media saying: “Let us join forces, military, gendarmes and police, and refuse to be paid to shoot our friends, our brothers and our sisters.” “Close the gates, and await our instructions,” they added. “Do not obey orders from your superiors. Point your weapons at those who order you to fire on your comrades in arms because they will not take care of our families if we die.”
October 14, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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I never spent much time with it but this phrase always makes me laugh because only in 1991 could you put this as a tagline and not get immediate "what are you, 12?"
"An Epic MegaGames Production"
October 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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They do different damage, though? hollowknight.wiki/w/Damage_Val...
October 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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This might be headline of the year, lmao
“Macron reappoints outgoing premier Sébastien Lecornu as French prime minister”
October 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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drop this into Google Translate lol. you don't have to look too hard to find billboards like this in a lot of Japan
a billboard advertising company airsoft retreats with very clear military theming and full combat kit visible
October 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Today in “I should read that later” self reminder setting:
A calendar notification set for 6 PM that says “read the wank post Cat shared”
September 29, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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what if we replace the microtubules with macrotubes, containing vacuum chambers...?
a series of vacuum tubes of varying size arranged in a line
September 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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If you keep it in one thread, "mute thread" will mute it; if you post random stuff, use the tag and people can mute it.
screenshot of the post interaction drop down menu showing "Mute Thread" and "Mute words & tags"
September 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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this is perhaps the funniest book review of the decade:
Writing for The New York Times, Stephen Marche said the book "reads like a Scientology manual" and that it "evokes the feeling of being locked in a room with the most annoying students you met in college while they try mushrooms for the first time".
September 16, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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The route has always been Peace-to-the-coast.
A map of Coastal Gaslink's pipeline route from between Chetwynd and Dawson Creek in the northeast out to Kitimat on the west coast
September 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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We are only 3 years away from an equivalent:
That '70s Show is an American television teen sitcom that aired on Fox from August 23, 1998, to May 18, 2006. The series focuses on the lives of a group of six teenage friends living in the fictional town of Point Place, Wisconsin, from 1976 to 1979.
September 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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In contrast (image from google)

(leave aside that anyone paying green car price for Shinagawa-Tokyo is insane, which you can determine from the times shown)
a picture of an automated ticket machine for the shinkansen showing "ordinary car" and "green car" options for the selected Shinagawa-Tokyo train route with various departure times
September 9, 2025 at 8:52 AM