CaptDingleheimer comments

It's going to work, and it's not going to have a big impact on the economy. There probably aren't more than 1,000 "drivers". Still, that kind of sucks. Safer? Sure, perhaps, but there's never been a death from an accident.

It sucks because that's traditionally been a well sought after job, something lots of kids aspire to be, as a dream similar to the kids who want to be pilots (another profession likely to automate in coming decades.

Only 10 years?!?

I hope someone shanks her in the throat in prison.

I don’t know man, people with blue hair don’t wash their hands after they take a dump.

Smart enough to make $2M, but not to keep it.

I like the idea, but good luck policing that one...

Stay home if you don't like it.

The New York Times wrote this big long piece about how racist this TV show because the series is about Japan, but focuses on a white male.

That was a bit puzzling, seeing as it's based on a book all about a white male in Japan.

100% of the twenty 'professional' critics on Rotten Tomatoes gave this movie a thumbs-down score of "rotten".

Meanwhile, 98% of the unwashed masses who voted for the 'audience' score on Rotten Tomatoes called it a great movie.

Who takes these clowns seriously? Being a "progressive" has become a religion for people who think they hate religion. It bleeds into every aspect of their lives, so much that they can't even enjoy a good movie; about a guy who was president before many of them were even born.

Have fun driving your Priuses to Whole Foods to fill your NPR tote bag up with organic quinoa with the rest of your tribe, you humorless, hyper-sensitive liberal "critic" losers.

There's nothing wrong with a prime minister going to visit a shrine to a million dead farm boys. But whoever thought it would be a good idea to toss a few dozen war criminals in there was an idiot. They should reinter those dead jackasses somewhere else and then there will be no controversy.

This begs the question of how these people are ultimately ID'd from CCTV footage. Most random street crimes reported where the suspect was caught, it was examining footage.

Are they running facial recognition software against drivers licenses, passports, etc.?

Are they so good at daisy-chaining footage so as to follow them home? This would be a huge logistical challenge.

Why would he admit to the other 10 times? Japanese people seem to crack pretty easily under interrogation.

I hope they serve him some whale in prison.

Too bad.

Foreigners should not own US national security assets. We're not talking about the Cheerios factory here. We're talking about the material that battleships are made of.

I don't give a damn how small their market share is right now; in wartime, it would and would be ramped up big time. It needs to remain in American hands.

Full stop.

Similar problems in the Caribbean. Brought in to combat snakes, but have pretty much wiped out certain species of ground-nesting birds.

B.S.

I lived in Akita but I never heard of the dragonfly thing, however grasshoppers were eaten there. There's an izakaya snack up there called "inago" that's basically teriyaki grasshoppers. It's pretty good with a beer, crunchy and sweet. You don't really taste anything weird.

How dare she pose as my sister!

Steel production is critical to national security.

The United States should not allow foreign control of any of its steel production infrastructure and capability.

Full stop.

"The most amazing thing is that he found a Japanese woman in her 40's who actually wants to have sex."

-CaptDingleheimer

(a man in his 40's married to a Japanese woman in her 40's)

All the generations after his have packed up and gone to Tokyo. There's nobody around to take their keys.

I've noticed that our Boston-area Japanese supermarkets have had a much smaller selection of rice from Japan in the past year. We're rice snobs so that's what we eat, and my Akitan wife has had to go without her cherished Akita Komachi rice since 2 harvests ago.

Oh no. I have 4 of those things. Where am I gonna get parts? And one of ‘em is due for a tuneup.

Yep. The Yanks are obnoxious tourists for sure.

I'm going to France in a few weeks. A 'seasoned' France traveler told me not to give myself away as just another annoying American tourist by wearing a baseball cap. Apparently that's a stereotype they like to get their noses in a snit about.

I said "Thanks for telling me, I'm gonna wear a baseball cap everyday there now".

It also made me consider going to Walmart to buy some of those shirts that say "LAND OF THE FREE" with American flags and bald eagles or Harleys on it. "GOD, GUNS, AND FAMILY" might work well, too.

Yeah, thanks for the airfares, dudes.

Only in Japan.... would a man actually comply when a shopping mall rent-a-cop demands he show him the contents of his phone.

I used to watch that 'Whale Wars' reality show that followed Watson and his marauding gang of hippies on their boat as they harassed Japanese whaling vessels in Antarctic waters.

I started out kind of on the side of Watson, but the hippies were so annoying that I soon found myself hoping the Japanese would harpoon a whale right off Watson's bow and flay the sumbitch on the deck right in from of them.

God forbid a bunch of 48-year old salarymen think she isn't single and ready to mingle...

These days they can often ID someone from video. Are they using facial recognition? Just curious.

I'm not sure I would cal AI a "craze" at this point.

To everyone saying "but she was born a woman!"

Says who? Him? His coach? Why are we just supposed to take someone's word for that and run with it?