diagonalslip comments

danToday  05:08 pm JST

@fighto shame we can't fix the beautiful home we already have.

indeed! shame of it is that it's feasible for humans to do so.... but there's no financial profit in it, so....

be nice if they all just stopped the political theatre and told the truth..... but then, I'm sure it's much more fun to play the V.I.P jetsetting game to 'save the planet'. who ARE these people? （⌒▽⌒）

I remember years ago, back in the 90's I guess, when Shibuya would cordon off the whole area from the Scramble, up past 109.... on some Saturdays.... for people to party. there were bands playing, various activities, food and drink.... a real festive occasion, and great for people-watching. I guess Ken Hasabe wasn't around then.

LOL I rest my case Fighto.... （＾＿－）

Fighto!Today  04:19 pm JST

I'm interested to read independent reporting. (on this or anything else)... please tell me what/where it is to be found. thank you.

You need another person online to help you find reporting that is balanced and not simply propaganda?

yes, you.... go ahead, please inform me of these sources of balanced reporting....

no mention of the effects onn the man he intentionally sprayed, only the collateral damage, as it were. wonder why.

Fighto!Today  03:19 pm JST

The rest of us will follow the independent assessments. 

I'm interested to read independent reporting. (on this or anything else)... please tell me what/where it is to be found. thank you.

Fighto!Oct. 17  05:37 pm JST

Shocking, sickening crime. 

Every man in the area should have been regarded as a suspect - and been voluntarily DNA tested at the time - and been made to provide a solid alibi. 

did/do the police have DNA evidence from the crime scene? even if they did, and lots of men voluntarily got tested, what about all the others? and what if it wasn't someone from the area? test every other man in Japan and make them give a secure alibi?

I've heard of 'missing the boat', but.... 'missing the flying taxi' ?

at a meeting of corporate, academic and political leaders in Tokyo

AND

One attendee at the forum, secretary general of the 56-member Commonwealth of Nations Patricia Scotland, urged the food and agriculture sector, a huge emitter of greenhouse gases, to become a major contributor to carbon capture and sequestration

all sounds rather theoretical... not to say fanciful....

that's a LOT of personnel they're sending....

so many experts on geopolitics.... if only you lot were in charge..... we'd be in just as much of a mess as we are now! （＾＿－）

factcheckerToday  07:12 am JST

If only the locals would stop treating us as dumb tourists and assuming we know nothing.

never in 30+ years here been treated as dumb, or tourist, or dumb tourist....

a sort of 'live' MTV then? 5+ months' tour is pretty gruelling I imagine.... wonder how many gigs that is. and what the 'carbon footprint', one way and another.....

The text, agreed by G20 finance leaders gathered for an IMF-World Bank meeting in Marrakech, noted deep anguish at the loss of life and destruction in natural disasters in Libya and Morocco and said they stood in solidarity with the people there.

a pity they didn't think to forego the bunfight in Marrakech, do it by Zoom instead, and donate the HUGE munny thus saved for rebuilding and recovery.... （⌒▽⌒）

in a Guardian blurb the other day:

“Look what you genuinely made me do,” the singer wrote on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, on Wednesday.

“Due to unprecedented demand we’re opening up early access showings of The Eras Tour Concert Film on Thursday in America and Canada. We’re also adding additional showtimes Friday and throughout the weekend,” Swift said.

" .....and I'm not thinking about the megabux at all " she added breathlessly

"It's just gonna be one of those cultural phenomenons that you can look back and say 'I was a part of that.'"

(◎-◎；)

Like they say in Japan, gambare!

....or..... Fighto （＾＿－）

....and so?

applying for a passport renewal recently, there was the option to choose: male, female, other..... and I've come across this in other contexts too, so it's getting to be mainstream.

personally, I think that if someone (anyone) relies on a label for their identity, then they're none too secure in that identity. certainly no-one should be expected to surgically alter their 'parts'.... some choose that path anyway of course. the people I know and hang out with are all at perfectly ease with who they are, and make no issue whatsoever about labels.

not enough lucre, and the shinkansen wouldn't be completed in time..... still, they ran the '64 Olympics with an incomplete Haneda Monorail line (ever wondered why it stops at Hamamatsuchō rather than Tōkyō?)

.....and all the delegates and staff and security and hangers-on and Meeja-people and everyone.... will make their ways there and back.... with zero emissions. great! good to see the powers-that-be setting a good example.

so where is all the munnee people have been paying into the 介護保険 kaigo-hoken 'scheme'.... ???

I also wonder if all these jokers never read the news.... doesn't it occur to them they might get caught?

in any case, in quite a few recent stories in this genre, bystanders have been the ones to call out the perpetrators and call the officials..... good one!

piskianToday  04:50 pm JST

Morning wood.

today's belly-laugh..... thank ou! you naughty boy!

imagine if they would use the internet for their, ummm.... internet forum. think of the munny saved, not to mention the kinder approach to the 'climate crisis' by way of fewer jetsetters..... of course, the 5-star hotels in Kyoto would suffer, but hey....

Tsuji, who counts Antoni Gaudi, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier among his favorite architects.

in theory （⌒▽⌒）

" patroling? When’s the last time you saw a pair of cops here, “patrolling?” "

in Shinjuku, frequently..... foot patrols, in pairs..... but at night, so no shades, regulation or otherwise....

I always think, when I'm crossing there, and elsewhere, how vulnerable people are to an out-of-control, or a loony hater-driven, vehicle. no-one pays atention to their surroundings. and now that there are even recorded announcements to inform that the light has turned green (for pedestrians), people don't take their eyes of their 'smart' fones for even a instant. mind you, even out here in the sticks, it's a daily occurrence to see people cross roads without looking. absolutely boggllng to me.