Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "Why Japanese Avoid Sitting Next to Foreigners on the Train" video.

People don't take a seat right next to strangers in my country as well if there are other seats available. We value personal space here. If the train or bus is packed and there is nowhere else to sit, we'll take a seat next to a stranger. But if there are plenty of seats available, it would just be awkward to purposefully take a seat right next to someone that you don't know.
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Your Majesty, Dude, the Finnish completely yeeted a numerically superior soviet force that had more tanks, artillery and planes than the finnish did. "Wrecked" is definitely appropriate in this context.
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Nobita, you should seriously consider running a tourist firm. I think you could be very successful acting as a tour guide or managing a team of tourguides helping foreign tourists to both be able to see the sights and places they are curious about, as well as helping the tourists understand and adopt the manners expected by other japanese people. It's the kind of service I would want when visiting Japan. A native Japanese person, proficient in english that I can travel around with, asking questions, going to restaurants and bars with and so on. I know i'm not alone in finding Japan a little bit intimidating as a travel destination. So a forthcoming and helpful Japanese tourguide would really help.
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Your Majesty, Have you even checked the casualty ratio of the winter war?
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Your Majesty, Doesn't matter who is the attacker or defender. You can still "wreck" an attacker.
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@Saltcrystalis No, but winning one is.
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@Saltcrystalis Of course you can. By crushing your enemies.
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@Saltcrystalis That's where you're wrong kiddo. To the victors goes the spoils. Usually in the form of new territory, but also captured military technology. Also nothing spurs technological and medical innovation as much as war does. Without war and the preparatiob for war: you would not have personal computers. Nor would you have the internet. Nor would we have several medical treatments for things like hypothermia and various diseases and parasites. Many of these technologies are derived from research that originally came from the defense industry. And it makes sense that war makes such innovators of people compared to peace time. The reason is that during peacetime, not being as innovative as your rivals only means you risk losing what... Market Shares? Whereas during a war, not being more innovative than your rivals means risking to lose your very life, your society and culture. The incentives to perform are far stronger during war than during peace. This is also proven through history where the more warlike regions of the world (like the European countries since ancient times) ended up developing their technology much faster than more primitive and less war-ridden tribal communities like in Africa and the Americas.
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@Saltcrystalis That's just your opinion. I got the facts on my side. You just "assume" these inventions would've been created without war, with nothing to back it up.
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