r/interesting • u/angel_knight79 • 1d ago

Intriguing Kiyoshi Kimura and his effect on Somali piracy

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He was, and is, the owner of Kiyomura Corporation, which runs the Sushi Zanmai chain across Japan. In Tokyo he is known as the Tuna King, because every January he buys the most expensive fish at the first auction of the year at the central market.

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u/Repulsive-Whole-4101 20h ago

how does that has so many upvote ?
Reddit is just as fucked all the other socials

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u/judgeholden72 17h ago

People here, of all persuasions, believe words over images if it makes them feel good. They only require an article if it doesn't. 

Why is few ask for articles backing up random images baffles me

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u/bs000 17h ago

when someone does post an article, everyone just automatically accepts the image as the truth, even though there's nothing in the article that corroborates the image except for maybe a couple of small, barely related details that the lie was derived from

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u/glassnumbers 9h ago

So, we're supposed to accept anonymous reddit comments as the truth, then?

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u/haustorcina 5h ago

Plus its a fucking article that can lie and twist the fact and not a trustworthy document or body of scientific work?

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u/Soggy-Bluebird-537 15h ago

There were at least two others I recall seeing here with this format image that I knew were out of context or misleading.

I should just mute this subreddit.

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u/SpaceBearSMO 12h ago

this is just social media in general

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u/glassnumbers 9h ago

So, maybe you're right, but, what we're supposed to do here, is believe anonymous reddit comments over an actual real person we can google? See the problem there?

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u/EntireFriendship517 8h ago

Absolutely not. "Person you hate did a bad thing" infamously never requires elaboration or proof at all.

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u/Sparktank1 5h ago

They were trained by their mothers and aunts posting similar things on facebook without any further citations.

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u/Cultural-Elk-8346 12h ago

The average person is thick as pig shit.

Came straight to the comments because this was (hopefully to most) obvious shite

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u/West-Audience-478 7h ago

Idk why but I read that in Joe Wilkinsons voice and laughed

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u/Elegant_Increase9319 10h ago

Check OP, 2 month old account, 10k karma, they are here to farm

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u/NoTeslaForMe 11h ago

Here are some things that people on Reddit firmly believe - and get consistently upvoted for saying - in spite of hard evidence to the contrary:

  • "The customer is always right in matters of taste," was the original phrase.  (It wasn't.)
  • Men leave their wives after a cancer diagnosis at high rate.  (See
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8959852/ for the reality, that cancer diagnosis is indicative of a decrease in divorce rate.)
  • Natural diamonds are as common as dirt in South Africa.  (They aren't, although with synthetics that doesn't matter as much as it used to.)
  • 200 corporations are responsible for most of the pollution.  (Check Snopes for how far this was from the original statistic, that most oil is sold by the 200 largest oil companies.)
  • Billionaires have most of the money.  (Easy to Google that they have maybe 3%.)
  • Americans are dumb (which, considering how many people saying both this and the above myths are Americans, might be more of a confession than an accusation).

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u/The_Aspector 6h ago

On your billionaire point, sure, but the top 1% of the global population own more than the bottom 95% combined. So with billionaires + multi-millionaires it's true, and I don't think that changes the point much

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u/Jsc_TG 3h ago

Yes, you have it right, hes ignoring part of the argument. Its an exponential thing. A link to a source that shows this.

I didnt validate the data but it lines up with my past research enough. Sorry, tired.

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u/haustorcina 5h ago

You are repeating the lie.

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u/NoTeslaForMe 4h ago

Yes and no. I think the words are technically true but phrased deceptively.

The top 5% owns about 72%, so that means that the bottom 95% owns 28%, almost exactly 10x what billionaires own.

Sliding in "multi-millionaires" can fix that but is a sly trick. That's going to include a lot of people whose "wealth" is the company that they depend on for work and/or the home they depend on for shelter. In an inflationary world with high-cost-of-living areas, "multi-millionaire" is nowhere near "billionaire"; it's just average, if that. Unless you want to force these people to move away from their family and friends or to downscale radically, they'll just be paper multi-millionaires.

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u/haustorcina 4h ago

How do you categorize goverment owned assets?

Are you counting all assets or just commercial assets?

Liquid or total evaluation value?

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u/alternatemosaic 4h ago

Dang I guess Ukraine missed a data center

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u/NoTeslaForMe 4h ago

Found another fact-hater.

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u/mattdamon_enthusiast 12h ago

Beep boop bop boop robots.

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u/LetterheadFun1824 11h ago

Reddit is just slightly below Truth Social in popularity and honesty

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u/PastRelease8757 10h ago

People are dumb.

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u/reddituser86101 10h ago

Post…Japan

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u/SomewhereExtreme924 9h ago

Because people like reading feel good stories. They don't care if its real or not, the headline is what they read and thats all that they needed.

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u/Hanzimer 8h ago

Because the whole reddit vote system is a joke. Majority of serious sites removed the downvote and the positive votes are generally hidden.

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u/Mr_pessimister 5h ago

What are you talking about? Somali Piracy definitely isn't a thing anymore...

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u/Jsc_TG 4h ago

It has been for a long time. Did you think we use reddit because its really any better? Scroll “all/popular” and theres a ton of shit like this, there is an actual story behind this but not so sensationalized like this.

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u/DonScipio 14h ago

Bec Japan is mentioned

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u/MAGAHATESTHEUSA 13h ago

What’s wrong with it? He did help. Supplied boats and gave them a buyer.

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u/Nersius 12h ago

One bad habit I had was using upvotes as attention raisers.

If something sounded interesting, yet I knew it was likely BS, I'd still upvote it so that the claim could be elevated and fact checked.

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u/One-love-brahhh 11h ago

Thats pretty dumb

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u/breeathee 8h ago

Here’s a downvote

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u/MuchoCoco 11h ago

Why do you care?