Baradzed comments

A lesson for other countries: don’t rely on any agreement and never give up your nuclear program. 

So you support Iran and N Korea?

Of course not. What I am saying is that US, UK and Russia are to blame why nobody will ever give up their nukes.

Does it not demand that the people of Donbas get to decide their own future - self determination of peoples (UN Charter).

Nobody really asked their opinion. This territory is de-facto under Russian control. People living there are getting Russian passports. It is not like they have many options.

Germany Has Little Maneuvering Room in Ukraine Conflict

Sounds familiar. Most of Western Europe behaved like that before and during WW2, aren’t they? No lesson learned.

A lesson for other countries: don’t rely on any agreement and never give up your nuclear program.

That is some great news isn’t it? The democratic part of the region is steadily growing and the forecast is positive.

I suggest to move this article from ‘National’ category to ‘Entertainment’.

Let’s remember these stories and try our best to avoid it now and in the future. One important lesson from WW2 is that we need to restrain any country with imperialistic/dictatorship agenda as early as possible before its too late. It may cost money now, but if not act, it will cost money and lives later.

What Russian “leaders” care less about is Russia itself. The best action against Russian hostility will be to block all the foreign assets of Russian “elite” and their families.

I think it is very naive to do analysis based solely on numbers and statements provided by Chinese government.

After these threats it will be wise to withdraw athletes too. It seems dangerous to go to China if they demonstrate hostility to your country. Not very aligned with the official values of Olympic movement either.

Again just partial data. How can we know how many companies don’t have male executives? Maybe its 67%? :) I am just kidding.

Ha-ha, you can clearly see that oil prices were too high for too long :)

I am not sure why some of the commenters immediately started to blame men, but the article gives zero information about the distribution of gender of harassers and especially their quantity. Currently, Australian parliament has about 38% of women. If we roughly assume that harassment event usually includes participants from the opposite genders, then each man harassed on average about 0.39 women and each woman harassed approximately 0.24 men. However, realistically, it can be just one or two men and women who are doing all the harassment for the entire parliament.

South Koreans might be just pretending that they hate Japan in hope that propaganda and nukes of North Korea will be targeting Japan as the main enemy. Otherwise I am out of rational explanations to what is happening.

Whether any military show of force by Japan, or any country, will contribute to the solution of conflicts in the long term is, in my opinion, very doubtful.

We didn’t have major wars since 1945 only because some countries demonstrated such a military force which makes any large scale war meaningless for anyone.

It’s all waste of money unless they are put into nuclear weapons. Everything else is just some kids toys. The best is to stop paying to USA and use saved money to develop own nuclear capability.

I think it will be only article I will roughly remember from the whole japantoday series.

I don’t understand half of the words in this article :) but beautiful illumination is always welcomed.

I could understand the issue if the complaint was about his performance as a conductor. Otherwise it is questionable what is better: sleepy zombie-like passengers-hating conductor or a motivated conductor doing his job extra well to have a spare minute to progress in his game.

@as_the_crow_flies

If car sales were to keep shrinking, it would cause short term pain, but would be great for the environment. 

I am not so sure about that. Shrinking sales doesn’t mean less cars on the streets, but rather higher percentage of old inefficient cars.

Cool, but what exactly here is the world’s first?

It feels more like a desperate move to jump ahead of a time and get back into the stream. Facebook lost it to TikTok and they know it.

Do your homework, sport. Life under the theocrats in Tibet wasn’t free. It certainly wasn’t tolerant.

The problem with this logic is that it directly compares countries with 70 years time difference (Tibet in 1950s before it completely lost independence and China in 2020s).

The problem with poor countries is that the majority of them are poor because of corruption and inadequate governments. Giving them money is just a waste and will have mostly negative impact.

Larr Flint,

…they collect too much personal information.

I will be switching to some other brand I suppose.

Please let me know if you were able to find such brand.

This professor is not connected to reality. The main role of sports competitions is entertaining people, not results and scores. If you dress sportsmen in functional plastic bags I am not going to buy tickets to see them.

Ideally, if you in charge of guns, you have to make sure that your guns are safe every time, and to make sure that nobody can touch them without your supervision. If it is organized differently, then such accidents are inevitable.

Two kids… Or perhaps it is some kind of game before elections in 2022 (for both of them).

I don’t see another explanation to that other than China and Russia are LDP’s puppets making a show to help them to win elections and raise the military budget at the same time. :)

Bobsleigh is an example how fun simple activity for everyone can be converted into something boring, ridiculously expensive and not accessible at the same time.