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but we've had close to 150cm in four days

Wow, Apocalypse Pow. Where is that?

We had 150cm in 2014, on top of 80cm a few days earlier in an area not really set up to cope with such snowfalls. Best week of my life.

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Especially the early to mid 80s plus anything with Phil Hartman, RIP. Some seminal music performances over the years, too.

SNL has always been hit or miss (more often than not miss), but the critical conversation about it is part of the fun.

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Japan has run a trade surplus in tens of billions of dollars for decades with the USA. A quick search shows that Japan had a trade surplus with the USA of $70 billion in 2023. Increased tariffs are inevitable with Trump in office.

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It's looking pretty much over now, but we've had close to 150cm in four days. Officially its much less, but that's what fell at my house and all I care about. A decent chunk of it is still sitting on my lower roof, so there'll be more and heavier shoveling when the sun hits it and it comes down. At one point, we had 30cm windpacked on a 45 degree roof with no support from below, which is the most I've ever seen. It normally slides off before it hits 10cm.

(Its 20C above normal at the Arctic. The massive low that has driven this snow looks like part of the polar vortex that has meandered south, hence high temps at the pole, but don't quote me on it)

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old hands don't know what they don't know.

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words are fun, but execution is very difficult

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Step one of raising the age to get your pension cause “people can still work until 70, see?”

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You need both the young talent right out of university and the grizzled veterans who have been there and done that. I just retired from a software intensive R&D environment and don't think the older engineers are somehow out of date. They are not ! The new engineers bring the latest knowledge to the table but they have no experience in the simulation labs, no experience in a test and evaluation environment and that is where experience comes in. They come in brimming with ideas but lack an understanding of how to make it all happen. The old hands know. They know how to avoid many mistakes saving time and money in development. The old hands understand what has to be accomplished to bring an idea someone has to fruition as a usable product. The old timers know how to implement and from my experience they are happy to integrate the new tech and new ideas the young grads bring to the table.

And that is where you are precisely wrong.

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How is that AUKUS submarine deal looking now @Peter14?

Just forked out 1/2 bill USD yesterday to go towards that deal. Still should go ahead. Shhhh Dont make waves and stay as still as possible.

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I distinctly remember when Biden won, liberals told us to deal with it regardless of what was said about Biden, well, now it’s flip mode time.

Biden has no criminal convictions, trump does.

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wokeness continues

So, it’s not ‘dead’ then. All those people who care about human rights didn’t just disappear or all change their minds?

Well, well. What a shocker.

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It's all too late now that Biden & Garland let the orange genie out of the bottle (jail). The humiliation of losing his security clearance is just a fraction of the karma Biden richly deserves for his mishandling of the justice system that dumped Trump on America and the world.

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What happens to people with failing health problems at 65, and they have had enough of working? Will they loose out on pension rights if they step down? Will the co medical care stop? Why can't they officially retire at 65, how about his as a suggestion, still remain on the Co books as an advisor, this way the retirees can come and go as they feel fit to do so, yet still give vital skills and information that he co requires

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the Osaka expo will cover various topics including women's empowerment

HAH, is this a new thing of the future?

Because outside of Japan and Mid Eastern countries, it's the norm.

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How is that AUKUS submarine deal looking now @Peter14?

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he didn’t. He had a clearance still in Dec 2024

Ok fair enough....I hope President Musk knows what he's doing. Let's hope Chief Executive Musk makes the right decisions.

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How can he have a conscious getting fatter and obese while his people starve and scavenge?

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I could use a little global warming. I've been freezing all week!

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Trump has no understanding of diplomacy, and very limited knowledge of business. It is true he has a healthy knowledge of bankruptcy and court cases due to his own many instances of both.

Minimize dealings with Trump and America for the next four years, they are turning into a nation run by con men and grifters. As much as i love my American friends, right now their country is literally being run by a criminal.

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OssanAmerica,

On the way back from Uraga in Tokyo Bay to pry open the closed doors of secluded Japan, Matthiew Perry's fleet came to Naha, Okinawa and investigated every detail of the island's topography, etc. Perry recommended Washington to take over Okinawa (Ryukyu) by force, but Wasdhington didn't listen to him at the time due to a political turmoil there. Perry's imperialistic, outlandish recommendation was realized 60 years later in 1945 when Japan lost WW II.

To invade and occupy Okinawa has been the U.S.'s decades-old ambition, and so, the U.S. seems to not easily part with the hard-won war spoils. Is the U.S. on the side of justice or evil (imperialism)?

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Well, that’s all in the past now. He’s back so all that’s now in the past

Sure, if you think it's fine for a convicted fraudster and sexual assaulter to be President, with a criminal record that would preclude him from flipping burgers at Wendy's.

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Trump was clearly happy to announce the sale of a billion dollars of new weapons sales to Japan during the press conference. Same as it ever was.

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My neighbor has a pretty big yard that can be easily blocked off for it and for its freedom of movement but they keep their dog in a tiny enclosure off to the side w/ no blankets on the concrete ground during the freezing winter.

Sorry, but many Japanese either treat their dogs like crap or overindulge them.

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Don't do it. Don't invest money in a sinking company that you can't control to make it profitable. This'll be throwing money.

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owzer,

option #1: booooooo him until he voluntarily leaves

option #2: punish him with disregard

option #3: show no respect

option #4: a multiple flipping off!

option #5: block him and his entourage from entering the arena

See, more then enough options and even more, I assume!

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The minority government led by Ishiba's Liberal Democratic Party has not yet determined when to implement tax hikes to fund the higher defense spending

There is an assumption here that hiking tax rates will lead to higher tax revenues.

This may be a false assumption.

The best way for Japan to boost tax revenues would to be to boost economic growth rates, and taxing residents more is not exactly conducive to that.

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Thank you for visiting Rick and its great to hear you also found this wonderful region of Japan.

Yes Megan this tour also visits Mt. Haguro where guests can be guided up the mountain and visit the shrines here with a Yamabushi and local guide.

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One circus replaces the previous one..

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Sounds like the Academy is politically doubling down because of the election result.

Ya think?

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