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I wasn’t totally sure of 2 yellows but everything seemed relatively obvious anyway

At least go with Nietzsche, famous for saying god is dead.

I found an article saying they burn the fuck outta their beans so you can still taste the coffee through all the sweet crap they dump in. I tried getting a black coffee there the one time I went bc that’s how I drink coffee in general and it was undrinkable swill.

Who did riker boink in the Naked Now? All I can remember is picard-crusher and data-yar.

Even though permanent DST makes more sense, I’d take either.

I wouldn’t. Sun comes up at 4:30 in the summer in Japan and you can see first light at 3. They really need to move ahead an hour, and if the US did permanent standard time instead of DST it’d be the same. Time zones in the US are already pretty big though. In the western areas of some time zones the summer sunset is at 9 PM (which I don’t mind, but most people probably wouldn’t want that so much).

While we’re at it nickels and dimes are pretty stupid too

Is that not Data? Can’t place the scene but I wouldn’t think Lore would be acting so awkward as he’s had plenty of time to adapt to emotions.

Kobos are already owned by a giant megacorp, but because it’s Japanese most of the west hasn’t heard of it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakuten

Gonna take awhile though. Reagan fucked the country pretty hard and he never showed up in my HS textbooks.

there’s a lot more hitting

I remember being surprised by that as well. As long as it’s open hand they’re allowed to absolutely go to town on each other, so there’s even the rare blow that knocks someone out. The sumo association has been criticized in the past for not having sufficient medical care in place for the sport, but it’s run by old Japanese men so of course change is slow (although at least not non-existent).

I’m just trying to learn who’s who and some of the basic terminology

It’s easiest to start with the guys on top, but unfortunately both champions (yokozuna) are absent this tournament with injuries, along with one of the 2nd ranks (ōzeki), but fortunately the remaining ozeki named Kirishima is currently winning so make sure to track his progress in the last two days of the tourney (basho). Just yesterday he maintained his winning record by pulling off one of the most difficult throws with the tightest execution of it I’ve ever seen. He’s one win ahead at 11-2 but there are 3 guys at 10 wins so it’s not in the bag yet.

Otherwise I’d say to look out for matches involving either Ura or Tobizaru, who showcase a lot of unconventional techniques and move differently than anyone else these days. Ura especially has incredible flexibility and even this tournament has been able to dodge incoming strikes by bending his back further than should be reasonable. @sergio@piefed.social clipped a pic of it, and here’s a link to the match from day 8 (actually against Tobizaru, coincidentally).

Also take a look at Yoshinofuji and Fujinokawa, both relative newcomers who kind of exploded onto the scene and have been putting up some highly energetic sumo. Here’s their match from day 8

So make the toilets as outlined above, but on the last two doors in the row mark one male and one female.

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Couldn’t get purple

I didn’t say “banks good”, I said “crypto bros (also) bad”. You don’t think the ones running the crypto schemes are also “greedy corrupt pedophiles”? Maybe you’re “heavily misguided”.

There are currently ~5 sumo fans on the fediverse. My current contribution is doing brief writeups about daily matches, but I’m sure with new voices in the mix we could expand to discussions about whose jockstrap smells the worst (jk, they don’t wear anything under their belts).

!sumo@lemmy.world

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Saw green first but didn’t think the Times would actually go for

how tho

Fuck it, if the dems get the house but not the senate, impeach him for every single thing he’s liable for. Do it 20 times a day. By my calculations the senate wouldn’t have time to vote on any other bill.

I don’t understand why anyone goes to Starbucks

Me neither. I still can’t figure out why they burn the fuck out of their beans, or who likes that flavor. Outside of some bottom of the barrel instant shit it’s literally the worst coffee I’ve ever had.

banks managed to convince everyone

I don’t think banks have been in charge of the countless pump and dump crypto schemes in recent years. And Bankman-Fried (despite his name) wasn’t running a bank.

MTG’s track record on Israel is getting more and more reliably correct.

I don’t believe her for a second. She started off with space lasers and now that there’s something real and obvious she can blame on (((THEM))) she’s taking the opportunity. But even if AIPAC exploded tomorrow she’d go back to pushing racist conspiracy theories because she’s a massive racist piece of shit.

Unless I missed it she said she got fooled by Dump (never mind that it took her a decade to realize that raping kids was bad, good job Marge, here’s your fucking cookie), not that she was wrong about her past racism.