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Jordan Carlson
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Canadian postdoc in Japan.
Energy, sustainability, unrelated ramblings.
Ultraliberalism, you say?
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Clumsy had a twenty year sales record!
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 AM
November 11, 2025 at 5:08 AM
... I feel like two of these things are not much like the others, lmao
October 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
October 27, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Getting the true German television experience
October 27, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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)
October 24, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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:
October 16, 2025 at 1:02 AM
TFW the ruling party actively chooses chaos over internal divisions:
www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
October 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
>looking through Nextfest
>stumble upon this: store.steampowered.com/app/2362580/...
>look up the game website
>blinking white guy dot gif
October 15, 2025 at 10:20 AM
China is not a significant supplier of cooking oil imports into the US lol
ers.usda.gov/data-product...
October 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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)
October 14, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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?"
October 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
They do different damage, though? hollowknight.wiki/w/Damage_Val...
October 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
This might be headline of the year, lmao
October 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
drop this into Google Translate lol. you don't have to look too hard to find billboards like this in a lot of Japan
October 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Today in “I should read that later” self reminder setting:
September 29, 2025 at 6:06 AM
what if we replace the microtubules with macrotubes, containing vacuum chambers...?
September 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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.
September 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
this is perhaps the funniest book review of the decade:
September 16, 2025 at 6:28 AM
The route has always been Peace-to-the-coast.
September 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
We are only 3 years away from an equivalent:
September 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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)
September 9, 2025 at 8:52 AM
that every single one of these is contradictory and misleading is a new madness rune
September 7, 2025 at 1:43 AM
ftfy
September 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM