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Posted in: Top court upholds 27-year sentence for Vietnamese man convicted of murder See in context

John, he almost killed two people. I assure you he would have gotten the good old rope 'n' swing treatment if the lady would have died of her injuries.

Also, everywhere in the world the manner someone kills is considered during sentencing. Stabbing someone more than ten timesv then following it up with stabbing another victim once the first one stops moving shows a particularly vicious character. He should never be allowed back in the society imho.

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Posted in: Samsung to add real-time translation to smartphone model See in context

Google pixel phones have it since a few years already...

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Posted in: Enter 2024 with a 'lucky' wallet See in context

Made under the supervision of Chisa Kato, a famous fortune teller,

That's where I stopped reading this.

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Posted in: New island emerges after underwater volcano eruption south of Tokyo See in context

What new island?! China has been visiting it since at least 1000 years and they have old documents to prove it!

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Posted in: Japanese consumers eating more local fish from waters off Fukushima See in context

During my 43 years living in Japan, I have never seen fish sold, or cooked that had a label of orgine. Have things changed?

All the supermarkets descriptions will mention if the salmon is Norway or Chile. They will also mention where the fish (saba, maguro, etc) was fished BY PREFECTURE. In your 43 years of living here you haven't seen this? I find it extremely hard to believe.

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Posted in: Japanese consumers eating more local fish from waters off Fukushima See in context

Chinese People have opinions of alarm. Those opinions don't take in the science of the release.

Chinese people couldn't give a lesser fk about the release. The Chinese government though finally found a loophole to interdict Japanese fish and enforce Chinese fish caught in roughly the same regions.

There I FIXED IT!

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Posted in: Toyota hikes annual forecast as first-half net profit doubles See in context

Remuneration for Chairman Akio Toyoda surged 46% last year.

This is immaterial. He own the whole thing. Read his name again and again, this time slowly, until you make the connection.

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Posted in: Toyota hikes annual forecast as first-half net profit doubles See in context

Asiaman - you comment is full of irregularities:

Who benefits most on a percentage scale from these huge profits? — likely the handful of Toyota executives who have pay, bonus, and stock tied to company performance.

For your information, Toyota employees in Japan (where the actual R&D mostly happens) get the best bonuses and salaries in the country, out of almost all industries. It benefits the workers too.

Cars are too high prieced? Compared to the similarly priced GM and VW crap?

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Posted in: Concerns mount for elderly as fewer Japanese under 40 donate blood See in context

Here are the rules - anyone living in Europe, UK included, for more than one month after 1980, is not eligible:

https://wa-magazine.com/en/living-in-japan/medical/donate-blood-in-japan/

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Posted in: Tokaido Shinkansen removing smoking rooms, going entirely smoke-free See in context

Hey, get a nicotine patch. Nobody wants to die of secondary smoking and nobody wants to smell your stench.

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Posted in: Man arrested for assaulting taxi driver and fleeing scene without paying fare See in context

What a loser! 3000jpy will pay you a 4-5 km ride? If you've drunken all your cash, like the loser you are, at least have the decency to walk home this distance, or sleep it off under a bridge or in a public toilet. Don't go around punching innocent people!

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Posted in: I was just trying to break the ice at the party, but as an elected official, I now realize I should be much more careful about what I say. See in context

He's not wrong and he expressed his own opinion and views. He would have gotten exactly the same reaction if he would have said the exact opposite. If you disagree and feel offended, good for you. You just learned about freedom of speech and freedom of thought.

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Posted in: Van Gogh Museum scraps Pokemon cards over safety concerns See in context

How naive must they have been too imagine this wouldn't happen. I don't think they were, I think they knew exactly what they are doing and everything was planned, including this press release cancelling the program (and therefore further increasing the value of a piece of paper).

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Posted in: 1st pretrial procedure for Abe shooter held amid tight security See in context

By killing Abe he took the lid off the cesspit, uncovering how Moonies act and how many families and lives that church destroyed. Abe and his family greatly benefited from Moonie money.

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Posted in: Kishida pledges to support AI development in next economic package See in context

To everyone complaining here about governmental support - this is done in order to avoid the situation occurring now in the US where only the extremely privileged very few have access to such technologies. Nowadays if you're not Google Microsoft or OpenAI you have absolutely no chance to every monetize AI - it takes at least 10 million dollars to train a neutral network model to a particular task.

So the government is helping those unable to access such resources.

You don't like your taxes used like this? Nobody forces you to live here - lead, follow, or get out of the way, baby!

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Posted in: U.N. forum on internet governance begins in Kyoto; focus on AI See in context

Kurisuripisu

What does Taro Kōno know about Information Technology?

Among other unreasonable things in your comment, you asked this question. You'd be surprised by how much he knows about this.

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Posted in: Chemical leak on bullet train leaves 4 injured See in context

Read the article before commenting... not just the title!!!

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Posted in: Germany bets on hydrogen to help cut trucking emissions See in context

Fuel cells are grossly inefficient, with well-to-wheel efficiency of less than 40%. That makes them twice as bad as EVs. On the other hand hidrogen tanks are very quickly charged and such vehicles can use high power Li-Ion batteries (not high energy density), which cost less and have a far longer life.

If, on the other hand, at some point, someone comes up with a very high power, high energy density Li-Ion cell, that does not degrade as quickly as they do now with use, fuell cells and hydrogen will make no sense whatsoever.

THAT's why nobody is rushing in either direction.

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Posted in: AI Vincent Van Gogh says you're wrong about his ear See in context

Very dangerous and slippery path - AI is not bending historical facts, making them digestible for 21 century sensitivities. This should become illegal ASAP (in fact EU is working on a law in exactly this direction).

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Posted in: Man arrested for beating up girlfriend in parked car See in context

John (and others thinking like him):

how did you decide the man was awful without knowing the reason.

Only psychopaths justify aggressiveness like this. She will require two weeks of hospitalisation because he gave her internal bleedings, but "he might have been justified"? WTF?

If he wasn't in self defense (and the article doesn't say he was) then he attempted murder and anyone supporting him has huge mental issues and is a danger to society.

You might be confused, but Japan is not some middle East country where "regular wife correction, using a stick not thicker than one inch" is an accepted behaviour.

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Posted in: Japan to accept 2 more wounded soldiers from Ukraine for treatment See in context

Sakurasuki

Anyone who experienced being admitted hospital in Japan know that you need to fill many form hospital, many confirmation and need to wait weeks for proper appointment. Hope those things won't happen to those people in this article.

Stop spreading false information here at who knows what government's orders! I got the necessary checks and appointments within the same day I requested them and there were close to no documents to fill. What many weeks are you babbling about?!

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Posted in: TikTok hit with $368 million fine under Europe's strict data privacy rules See in context

EU, once again is leading the world in privacy, fairness and child protection. How mentally deranged one has to be to side with Tiktok's sick tactics for luring in and manipulating children?

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Posted in: Patients need doctors who look like them. Can medicine diversify without affirmative action? See in context

Americans should stop projecting their issues (generating out of severe lack of education), to the entire world! It is racist to write Black but write white, it is racist to say: "I need a black doctor". It is racist and unfair to others to claim that only a black doctor can heal black people.

Can you imagine the opposite situation? What if I start saying I need white blue eyed doctors to feel safe? That would look like myself.

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Posted in: More female lawmakers key to elevating women to leadership in Japan See in context

More female lawmakers key to elevating women to leadership in Japan

How did this sentence actually pass the reviewers? What would those female lawmakers do that we don't have now, to elevate more women? Change laws in women's favour? That would breech the Constitution.

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Posted in: What is USB-C, the charging socket that replaced Apple's Lightning cable? See in context

I lost a few million neurons just by reading the comments here. Are apple users so brain-dead?

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Posted in: EU announces an investigation into Chinese subsidies for electric vehicles See in context

Chinese do the same with everything - last big one was the solar panels scandal in EU - cheap, bad quality stuff from China flooded the market causing all other manufacturers to collapse, only to fail far sooner than the advertised lifetime.

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Posted in: Swarms of tourists causing crisis for Mount Fuji See in context

This article and the people interviewed for it lack common sense and intelligence.

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Posted in: New hunt for missing Beatles bass guitar See in context

Another proof that it's not the instrument but the player. That bass was basically a cheaply made, low-end one (really, nothing very special about it and its sound) and Paul used it to completely re-shape how bass is to be played in rock music.

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Posted in: Asahi Super Dry to get new low-alcohol spinoff See in context

I guess most of the GAI-koku-JIN here saying "I had it once, gave me the runs" actually had the cheapest happoshu and confused it with real beer. If this one made you sick, you shouldn't be drinking at all, and perhaps you should visit the doctor.

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