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Posted in: Did cuts to shipping emissions spur more global warming? See in context

For hundreds of years we have been burning coal to power our factories. The result has not been global cooling, but global warming. To think otherwise is beyond foolish.

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Posted in: Trump administration fires CDC 'disease detectives' as bird flu fears rise See in context

Making America stupid again, as rapidly as possible.

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Posted in: Japanese foreign minister asks Rubio for exemption from Trump tariffs See in context

Mr. Rubio is not known for his critical thinking skills. Good luck in conversations with him.

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Posted in: Nearly everyone in the world breathes bad air. This is what you can do to lower your risk See in context

The title is not wrong, since most people (60%) live in Asia. Air quality here in South Cal is still tolerable. We got rid of our coal burning power plants, passed strong anti-smog rules for vehicles, and are making the shift to EVs.

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Posted in: TikTok returns to Apple and Google app stores in U.S. See in context

Was lifting the ban in response to a hefty "campaign donation" made to Trump? Wouldn't surprise me at all.

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Posted in: Trump's tariff tactics may reshape global trade: analysts See in context

Western leaders need to realize that Trump is doing whatever he can to weaken the Western democracies, and thus make Putin stronger.

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Posted in: Woman diagnosed with stage-4 cancer at 26 sends hopeful message See in context

Our son-in-law was in stage four, and an experimental treatment resulted in him having no detectable cancer today. That is pretty close to a miracle, but I attribute it to modern medicine.

I have nothing but admiration for the young woman in this article, and I hope a miracle is able to help her, as well.

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Posted in: Trump's tariff tactics may reshape global trade: analysts See in context

Steel tariffs are a tax that the American people will have to pay, reducing employment and increasing inflation. The American steel industry is not currently in a position to replace the steel imports with increased production, which will be a further push toward higher inflation.

Former national security advisor and former UN ambassador John Bolton today said that Trump's declarations about the Russian invasion of Ukraine could have been, and may have been, written in Moscow, and are catastrophic. One could say the same thing about Trump's economic plans........in that they are likely to have a very, very bad effect on the American economy, and thus on the world economy. This will also satisfy Putin.

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Posted in: Trump's tariff tactics may reshape global trade: analysts See in context

I keep thinking about the comments from Ford's CEO today, that the effects of the trade tariffs will be the opposite of what Trump is claiming, in that they will be counterproductive, to say the least.

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Posted in: New 'Captain America' film flies into Trumpian headwinds See in context

I am really tired of the super hero movies.

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Posted in: Woman diagnosed with stage-4 cancer at 26 sends hopeful message See in context

A son-in-law was in stage four, with a 2% chance of living past a few years. They offered him an experimental chemical treatment, and today he is cancer free. Modern medicine is beyond amazing.

Positron radiation treatment is used often in the last few decades, and has done wonderful things.

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Posted in: Japan gets its first foreign tour bus driver under specified skilled worker program See in context

Reminds me of our trip to Alaska, and how they import workers from the Lower 48 during the tourist season. The young tour guide I was talking with told me that her roundtrip air fare and her food and lodging were provided gratis, on top of her hourly wage. Not a bad job for a young person wanting to see a different part of the world. Apparently the young people who live in Alaska are in high demand in the fishing industry, where they can make as much as a thousand dollars per day. Unfortunately, fishing season and tourist season overlap, so there aren't enough locals for the tourist industry.

I imagine the labor shortage in Japan will necessitate allowing many more people to immigrate.

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Posted in: Japan seeks exemption from U.S. steel, aluminum tariffs See in context

Japan produced about 87 million tons of steel in 2023, and about 2 or 3 percent of that was exported to the US. In the scheme of things, neither country is a big supplier of steel to the other, nor a big consumer of steel from the other.

Since the US does not have the capacity to replace the steel it imports, tariffs will hurt all countries concerned, in more than one way. Prices in the US will go up, hurting inflation. The amount of manufactured goods in the US will go down, due to the lack of raw materials. Tariffing all steel imports to the US, which make up about 25% of steel used, without having anyway to replace that steel from US sources, is likely to hurt the US more than Japan.

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Posted in: Japan seeks exemption from U.S. steel, aluminum tariffs See in context

Shipments to the US from Japan of aluminum are negligible.

Roughly 4% of the steel imported by the US is sourced from Japan. One could argue that much of that steel is used in Japanese auto plants located in the US, providing jobs and cars for Americans. Raising the cost of steel is probably going to cause the layoff of American workers and reduce the number of cars sold. Just today the CEO of Ford said that Trump's plans for the economy will have the opposite effect of what he is claiming.

Whatever happens, neither Japan nor China are big suppliers of steel to the US.

One wonders, is Trump really this dumb, or is he perhaps intentionally trying to destroy America and the world economy?

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Posted in: Japan, U.S. eye defense chiefs' meeting in Japan in late March See in context

As long as Xi is in power China will be a threat to all of its neighbors, except, for reasons that escape me, Russia. With Russia in a drastically weakened state, thanks to Putin's incompetence and Ukraine's willingness to fight for itself, this is a golden time for China to get back some of the land Russia took away from it.

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Posted in: Japan, U.S. eye defense chiefs' meeting in Japan in late March See in context

Stock up on Sake and Geishas for Hegseth. Making America Corrupt Again, one bad treaty at a time.

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Posted in: What would happen if Japan is attacked? See in context

It is ironic that those who wish to avoid war must be prepared to fight one.

As for the obese convicted felon sitting in the Oval Office, he is so busy destroying our alliances that nothing can be assumed.

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Posted in: Top climate scientist declares 2-degree C climate goal 'dead' See in context

I read that for the past 25 million years CO2 levels in the atmosphere have never exceeded 250 ppm, until today. The level of CO2 is now at 410 ppm and rising. Global warming is guaranteed for the next several hundred years, no matter what we do, unless a radical new way to quickly take CO2 and other greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere comes along.

Aren't we lucky to have a convicted felon in the White House who doesn't believe that global warming is real?

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Posted in: Soaring egg prices in U.S. piquing interest in backyard chickens See in context

For a long time we lived in an area where we could have all kinds of animals, even horses. Fresh eggs from chickens and ducks were a pleasure. The duck eggs are not good for omelettes, but ok for use in things like cakes and pancakes. The chickens ran loose except at night. They seemed happy, and the eggs were delicious.

Where we live now the zoning laws were changed a long time ago so that chickens are not allowed. We also have a lot of hawks and coyotes, so that would be a problem.

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Posted in: Crypto investors brace for bumpy ride under Trump See in context

Sure, I wish I had bought some Crypto when it was cheap, but it still sounds like one big scam. I hope it doesn't cause a huge world wide economic crash.

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Posted in: Trump says U.S. Steel will get investment from Nippon Steel, instead of being bought by it See in context

Sony bought Columbia Pictures in 1987, with no ill effect. As long as the brick and mortar stays in the US, what is the harm?

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Posted in: Trump and Musk's dismantling of government is shaking foundations of US democracy See in context

It turns out that putting someone who is certifiably insane in the White House has a downside.

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Posted in: Trump fills his government with billionaires after running on a working-class message See in context

A simple google search will show that he got less than 50% of the popular vote. For those not in the know, that includes candidates other than the top two.

He is a convicted felon.

More than two dozen women have accused him of sexual assault.

A court fined him almost $100 million USD for defaming a woman who said he raped her.

Most of the businesses he has ever started have gone bankrupt, except for those in partnership with Russian or Saudi oligarchs.

So, someone who can't vote in many US states, because of his felony conviction, and who can't own a firearm, and who arguably should be in prison, and who can't travel on a US passport, is allowed to sit in the White House and intentionally carry out policies designed to ruin the world economy. Anyone else worried about this scenario?

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Posted in: Trump fills his government with billionaires after running on a working-class message See in context

How is it that a convicted felon who got less than 50% of the popular vote is sitting in the White House?

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Posted in: Human use of fire has produced an era of uncontrolled burning See in context

There was an article in Scientific American magazine about this very subject. The authors pointed out that after the Black Plague epidemics in Eurasia in the 14th century, when about 1/3rd of all humans perished, so much farmland reverted to forest that the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere decreased enough to cause the Little Ice Age.

In those days people tended to blame the Devil, or Witches, the Jews, or God, for terrible events. I guess they had never heard of Chinese bio research labs.

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Posted in: Human use of fire has produced an era of uncontrolled burning See in context

Currently reading "When Humans Nearly Vanished," about the Toba Volcano explosion about 74,000 years ago, by Donald Prothero. He mentions that at no time in the past 50 million years, until today, has the level of atmospheric CO2 exceeded 250 ppm. Today, that number stands at 410 ppm, and is steadily increasing.

I would hazard a guess that it is not so much the human use of fire that has changed the atmosphere, but the human burning of buried fossil fuels over the last 300 years to power the Industrial Revolution.

Not to worry. Trump doesn't believe in global warming, so I'm sure he will do whatever is necessary to save the planet.

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Posted in: Trump says Japanese PM will visit him next week; talks about Abe See in context

All bow down to the Felon-in-Chief.

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Posted in: Donald Trump: Air crash investigator-in-chief? See in context

I still can't believe we elected this fool to sit in the White House.

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Posted in: Casio to release G-SHOCK commemorating 30th anniversary of DW-6900 See in context

IMO, the Casio G-shock is the most practical watch available. Has all the features I want, and is cheap. I used to wear one, until the smart phones came out.

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Posted in: Japan, U.S. defense chiefs agree to boost alliance in phone talks See in context

The Felon-in-Chief is doing everything he can to ruin our alliances. Japan cannot count on the US for much of anything anymore.

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