You’re describing every day but perhaps today even more than others.

My heart aches every time. Makes me more grateful I moved to Japan where this fear doesn’t exist.

2022: 19,592 gun homicides in the US and 4 in Japan.

You’re >150x more likely to be murdered by gun in the US than Japan.

This is a social and legislative failure of massive proportions.

I’ve only been there once but had chills the whole time.

Also got to the 9th inning in the daily trivia contest - room full of visitors. Anyone present could answer a❓fastest to get in the hot seat. I made it.

If I’d gotten the last question right I would have won a scale model of Camden Yards.

Saw him hit 3 HR in a game his rookie year in old Tiger Stadium on July 24, 1999. Did it out of the 9 hole.

A week later he homered off Roger Clemens.

I thought either of these games might have been his last batting 9th, but he wasn’t moved up until August 4th.

And now we watch a similar swing toward illiberalism within the American tech industry.

This book was published in 2008 as Obama became president. The future looked so bright.

Hard to believe how much that “hope” message has collapsed under the weight of grievance-driven populism.

Where things get truly dire is in how readily German industrialists bowed to the national socialists, providing the resources needed to finance their overthrow of the fragile Weimar Republic & usher in one of the darkest periods of western history.

This innovation is a blessing and a curse. It’s allowed humans to expand to 8.1 billion and counting when natural fertilization methods might have capped that at 4 billion or so. Of course, that’s also 8 billion of us contributing to an ongoing ecological disaster (my commentary, not the book’s).

I don’t remember him at all.

Beyond that it’s a global failure for climate change communication.

This is where beer and sake are definitely different. Nobody just does. It’s a highly traditional apprenticeship system.

Yes though the steamer runs for about an hour for a commercial batch. One particular nuance that can make it challenging is getting the moisture content of the steamed grain right for optimal koji enzymatic activity.

It’s not even a theory. Koji has been grown on steamed polished barely for hundreds of years to make honkaku shochu in Kyushu and nearly as long for Tokyo Shimazake, which received WTO GI status in 2024.

Not a bad choice if you’re in Kyoto.