This canal was created in the seventeenth century to supply drinking water to the Fukagawa area. In Hiroshige’s time a regular passenger-boat service emerged as a pleasant shortcut for Edo travelers heading northeast. This was the only towboat canal in Edo, and hence it enjoyed some distinction. Although the canal followed an absolutely straight line, Hiroshige depicted it with artistic license. The dramatic curves lend a sense of Western perspective seldom encountered in the series.

Source: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/121647

Is this the recently extinct bird?

Fuck that

Frank made a deal with the devil 😈

Your math is off. It would take 8.5 million people donating $5 a month, to equal the 510 million a year from Google.

My math (please correct me if I am wrong):

$510 million / 1 year

$ X / 1 month?

$510 million / 12 months = $42.5 million / 1 month

$42.5 million / $5 per person a month = 8.5 million people a month

Did someone just say “weaboo”?

A “sticky wicket”.

This is funnier if you imagine the line spoken by Peter Sellers in Dr Strangelove. “Now Dimitri…” https://youtu.be/VEB-OoUrNuk?si=KZfOvIxpl1XbJ97k

This could have been an episode of Reply All, from their “Yes, yes, no” segment. It would go down the Backrooms rabbit hole and back up reminiscing about cheap Little Caesar’s.