Have you read Mein Kampf? Would you recommended it to an intellectually curious person?
Yes. I read the Finnish translation in my fcucked-up teens. My impression was that this is a rant of someone who is undeniably intelligent but completely fcucked up. It…
Trump Voters, are you happy with how the Trump Administration has performed so far?
YES! IN JUST ONE MONTH THEY HAVE:
Is Japan pretty much dead now?
There are a great many political, international economic reasons and I am sure most answers will centre around this. However the real reason is that the Japanese culture…
As an American, when I visited Britain and Germany, I was shocked by how people in Britain spoke my country’s language but Germans didn’t. Why is this?
A Spanish friend of mine was stopped by a patrol on a road in Texas. The policeman inquired about her nationality. She answered, “I’m Spanish.” He quickly replied,…
Why can’t Donald Trump stand straight up? Why does he always stand leaning forward?
Apparently French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot once gave a lecture (in 1888) in which he described Trump’s very posture as one of the main symptoms of so-called “frontotemporal dementia.” Other symptoms…
If 99% of humanity goes away, how long could survivors scavenge to survive?
If 99% of humanity simply disappeared, the remaining eighty million humans would mostly be able to get by on the available resources. The biggest problems would be fires…
In Australia, the freeway between Melbourne and Sydney is 800km long but has a relatively low speed limit of 110km/h. Do Australians really enjoy driving this slowly when they have 800km to cover?
As an American who has lived here for 24 years- yes the speed limits are slow, and no, I don’t think ANYONE “enjoys” driving at the slow speeds…
Trump has an absolutely abysmal business career. Why do some people think of him as some business genius?
John Wayne. John Wayne explains it, and is maybe the best example. There were Hollywood actors who were actual war heroes. John Wayne wasn’t one of them. In…
Do Yakuza mess with foreigners?
If you are just a visiting foreigner, you’d probably need to mess with them in a serious way. I don’t claim to be any expert on it, but…
What is a cardinal sin in a fine dining restaurant?
I took my mother 70 year old mother to Las Vegas. We dined at an Italian restaurant. The server was snobbish and borderline rude to us and other…