Don’t necessarily agree that this is “cringe shit”, but [the author]'d need to stick to a specific year to have any chance of creating an accurate representation of anything.

* Treibsand :)

Tyksland it is! Thank you, @cholesterol.

Just imagine how much bigger they must be before drying

I didn’t realize but it makes sense. But even that is solved with different, often chlorine-free gels elsewhere.

Thick Bleach

A couple of years ago, I’m sure I’ve seen a map of places in Europe that use bleach vs. less strong cleaning products for mopping floors etc. Does anyone have it?

(France, Spain, UK are definitely bleach Europe.)

These trams are so pretty. We used to have a version of them here too. Unfortunately, they’re not accessible, so they were removed from service throughout the the 2000s & 2010s.

What’s the QR code? Dominion?

I demand this be overlaid against the potato/tomato map!

I’ve been to Tokyo (and it’s awesome!) but I don’t live there.

I’ve only glanced at the headlines of the article you posted and most of the factors appear to be in the article. There are a few things that are missing though, afaiu, and it really is a bag of mixed blessings:

• fairly relaxed building codes which means building gets cheaper
• average houses, especially if they’re on the smaller side, are only a couple of decades old – the Japanese demolish and replace their relatively cheap housing fairly often
• less space for motorized traffic
• not a lot of greenery

Cursorily related to the final point: I was also really shocked at Japanese parks. On the plus side, they’re extremely neat. However, most of them have super-wide ways, so half the park is just paved over. And of course there are opening hours, usually they’re open until 6pm but they have all kinds of alarms and announcements going off in the 30 minutes prior.

Let me tell you about Tokyo.

The picture is from a yarn company. I guess you’ll have to knit them yourself.

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