Destin Skye comments

Every power has a limited time..

Russia, which is more than twice the age of the United States, definitely has very limited time remaining. Putin will get his wish in being the last ruler of Russia before it ceases to exist. Then the world will be better off. Then Kamchatka can be returned to Japan, it's historical owner.

By chance, did you know that in 1920 Lenin sought to provoke a war between the United States and Japan by offering a 60-year lease of Kamchatka to American capitalists to exploit? Ultimately, the USA foolishly rejected the offer. When WWII happened, the USA would have been given permanent ownership of Japan through its saving of Russia from annihilation, as historically happened, but then the USA would have handed Kamchatka back to Japan because the USA has never been as greedy as Putin.

Unsurprising since Russia was then, and still is, an Axis power than has never atoned for nor repented for its many war crimes and atrocities it committed in WWII. Naturally, the Axis power of Russia still considers itself to be in a state of war with both Japan (Russia waited until August 8, 1945 to finally leave the Axis Tripartite treaty less than a month prior to Japan's surrender due to US and British action. Russia waiting till the last minute for easy land grabs. For example, the current Korean Question of hositlities between North and South is because Russia demanded half of the Korean Peninsula despite the fact not a single Russia soldier died defending the Korean peoples. It was an outrage then, it's still an outrage now. Whether the name is Stalin or Putin the results are the same, betrayal and oppression.

People are quick to rush out the excuse, "A gun by itself has never shot anyone."

And yet, an unarmed human by itself has never shot anyone either.

Maybe we should separate humans and guns so that one cannot use the other to shoot someone.

wallaceToday  01:07 pm JST

Both Trump and Biden are too old for a second term. There needs to be an age limit of 70 when taking office for the first term.

Had President Thomas Jefferson gotten his way, there would be a maximum age of 65 to hold -ANY- public office in the United States. Needless to say, he didn't get his way. Just like Republicans call for term limits but then vote against the bill to impose term limits.

I'm always interested in why people say Biden is too old, but Trump is not, when in fact they are literally the same age with many of the same problems concerning age. Trump is the one whose health has been in free-fall ever since he passed a military physical in 1967 with flying colors only to be stricken down just a year later when he produced a letter for the draft board who drew his number which showed that he had paraplegia from massive bone spurs in both feet. In more modern times, Trump's rapidly deteriorating health has even affected his hobbies such as golfing. When he was still president in 2020, Trump averaged 72 holes of golf per day. Here in 2024, he's barely averaging 9 holes a day. How can he even justify having a club membership at this point? He's over, finished!

isabelleToday  11:10 am JST

Apart from female gamers like me and millions of others, at least.

Good to see this kind of comment. I met my fiancé 20 years ago in the video game Star Wars Galaxies and, after a long-distance relationship for 9 years, we've been a couple now for the past 11 years. And we're still gamers. And our phone bills are significantly lower, haha.

But it was through knowing her, and some other women gamers, that opened my eyes to the abuse they go through. I had to play my girlfriend's account sometimes while she was at work in order to help grind for in-game stuff. And, OMG, the constant stream of messages that I would get on her account, most of them vulgar. Yeah, I know all about "guy talk" as I'm a guy, but as a guy I also know that men are the problem.

Mr Kingpling Today 06:50 am JST

Keep throwing your money after a lost cause....

Wasn't the United Kingdom and Finland considered a "lost cause" in 1939 too?

deanzaZZR Today 08:44 am JST

US military intelligence, an oxymoron of the highest (bloodiest and most dangerous) order

And yet, you are perfectly fine with Russian military intelligence carrying out targeted assassinations around the world, some of which has unleashed WMD in public areas due to their bloody and dangerous agenda?

One thing I would like comment sections to stop doing, because it feeds into exactly what this poll is about, is to stop displaying how many likes and dislikes a comment has. Sure, allow people to continue liking/disliking, just don't show the total. That simply encourages people to jump on bandwagons and try to upvote the narrative they want to be valid, whether it's true or not, whether it's right or wrong, whether it's harmful or innocuous.

An example of this kind of groupthink is something I've experienced many times. It starts off as a debate/argument between two people. One person, almost always it is the person who is wrong, will then tag 3, 5, or 10+ "friends" to then come jump into the conversation to back them up. It then turns into a bully pulpit where 10+ people are ganging up against a lone individual. 10+ people are still wrong, but they're trying to win through intimidation by sheer numbers.

I see comment sections like this, and public comments on social media, as being the same thing where gangs of people will rush in and like/dislike comments, news opinions, etc., all so that they can then hope to "win" through sheer numbers and intimidation. And that's what it boils down to. It's never about right vs wrong, it's about who "wins". It needs to stop.

Putin has already cancelled Russia's elections for next year by preemptively declaring himself the winner.

Ignorance and arrogance mixed with laziness is primarily why the US won't switch. Americans won't even wear masks to save their lives, how can someone expect them to bother learning a new system? Many Americans don't even know a second language. Russia is exactly like the US, but opposite at the same time. Many Russians learn a second language, almost always English, to better themselves because they know there's no future at home, much like Americans don't learn a second language because they think their home is the future. Russia and the US are inextricably linked in what seems to be a futile race to the bottom borne out of pure pettiness and contempt. China? A close second, hoping the US and RU eliminate each other before the Chinese economy crashes in the next 5 years, as it will.

Since we, the users of social media, are the content creators that make social media companies popular enough that the companies are making Trillions off of us... I think all of us users should go on strike until they pay us. Without us users, the social media companies are nothing.

There should be no news aggregation or sharing on social media, period.

Since Musk took over, twitter has gotten so much better.

For whom? Name an example of better. Allowing hoaxes and conspiracy theories does a disservice to the public. There are also no little green men walking around Tokyo right now either.

This is one of the reasons everyone hates NMPA. They're the holes that have scared off schools from using some childrens songs in their classes due to the fear of these music nazis.

Well, that's what socialists get for wanting everything for free without having to pay to use it. I bet you don't get on the JR green cars without paying.

Never used ChatGPT but I've been using Microsoft's Bing AI quite a lot lately and it'll do a lot of work for you like creating forms and outlines, even generate corresponding artwork so that if you need to put together a multimedia report on something you can get it done quite faster by just asking the AI to grab the forms/outline and artwork and you just fill in the rest.

Musk is trying to position himself as the next Julian Assange who works with Putin to throw another election in Putin's favor.

It should be regulated to do no harm, regardless of the application. And doing no harm includes requiring it to weed out misinformation and propaganda when providing information. There is no "right to lie" in human intelligence, so there should be no "right to lie" in artificial ones either.

I agree international rules must be respected.

It starts with the US ratifying the unclos.

Actually, the United States has been a signatory of UNCLOS since 1982. What they haven't ratified are amendments to it. Meanwhile, it is China who operates several hundred miles from its nearest soil while seeking to claim total sovereignty over an entire sea. It is China who is in violation of UNCLOS, not the United States.

Because of Alexandr Dugin and his worldwide movement of hate that uses a chaos symbol and seeks to divide and destabilize societies in order to make them easier to pick off by an authoritarian strongman who will then oppress them and bring them into Putin's fold.

"When the "scientists" warned about the coming ice age, I believed them and was really worried for a while."

You're talking about the Nuclear Winter of the 1970s. That isn't the Climate Change being discussed here. Besides, the winter part would be very short-lived with "age" being inappropriate as the age of fire and oppressive heat that followed would last thousands of years.

Some commenters don't know Japanese and Russian history. Russia signed a non-aggression pact with Japan in 1941 after Germany invaded Russia. The non-aggression pact stayed in place throughout the war, with Russia deliberately refusing to assist the Allies in the Pacific, until August 8, 1945. Only then did Russia declare war on Japan at the last minute in order to then sue for Pacific islands.

We can only be thankful that Japan has the strictest gun laws in the world to keep everyone safe. Imagine if he had a semi-auto rifle to attack the trains like Americans do.