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/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 8h 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.