Google is not the arbiter of knowledge, but the combined search engines are certainly a decent indexer of it. To claim something is ‘common knowledge’ when we’re unable to find a hint of it anywhere online, and is based solely on something you read a couple decades ago, is pretty ridiculous.
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Honestly if it was something you read 20 years ago and there’s nothing about it to be found today, there’s a chance it was nothing but racist nonsense. (Not saying you’re racist or anything, just that the source might have been and you got taken in).
Do you have a link I can read? I’m referring specifically to the part about centuries of built up excrement.
Is that actually a thing? I can find results on Google about their crappy sewage system being overwhelmed, but nothing like what you’re mentioning.
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World News@quokk.au•Cambodian PM says Thailand occupying territory after ceasefireEnglish
1·6 days agoYeah well maybe you shouldn’t have nuked the political career of the previous Thai leader who was trying to work out a solution with you?
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Buy European@feddit.uk•Canada has officially joined the EU's loans-for-weapons programEnglish
6·10 days agoSorry, as an Asian I honestly thought Mexico was in South America. I don’t think we touched the americas more than one day in geography class.
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Buy European@feddit.uk•Canada has officially joined the EU's loans-for-weapons programEnglish
1·10 days agoSo like, 50%?
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Europe@feddit.org•Food firms urge Europe not to ban calling non-meat products ‘sausages’English
12·11 days agoThere’s definitely some bad actors in food packaging, though. In some countries, it’s insane how hard it is to differentiate between butter and some non-dairy spread at the grocery.
‘Just look for the port that fits the cable!’
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World News@quokk.au•‘Takaichi fever’ grips Japan: The ultraconservative leader becomes a phenomenon that transcends politicsEnglish
7·14 days agoShe has received the explicit support of U.S. President Donald Trump: on Sunday, the tycoon immediately congratulated her on her “landslide victory.”
Really tells you all you need to know about her right there.
Japan “is heading for an economic and fiscal catastrophe, but Takaichi doesn’t seem to understand it,” Koichi Nakano, a professor of political science at Sophia University in Tokyo, observed last Thursday. He warned political spectrum was shifting to the right and predicted that Takaichi’s “bet” to “personalize politics” and “create a system for which she is barely accountable” would likely win. He was alarmed by Takaichi’s intention to cut consumption taxes while simultaneously increasing defense spending, which would in turn “antagonize China and militarize the tension.” What’s more, Tokyo has agreed with Trump to invest $550 billion in the United States. “It doesn’t make much sense in terms of security and economic policy,” said Nakano.



So not the American diplomats, then.