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@virusrex

What is an "instance of extreme heat"?

The text you quoted clearly describes it as temperatures of 35 C or higher.

I think they understand the part they quoted the question is more about the specific : like place and duration.

For example, if you choose Osaka on JMA website, it seems to record 5 observation points, if you change locality, you see that the record points change along (as to get a better accuracy) : so is it for only 1 point or several.

Also, for how long, it is not the same to go past 35 for 1 minute, than 1 hour, than 4 hours, ...

For that, I can not help, do not remember reading anything about it.

If it is recording tools, there are several tools :

https://www.jma.go.jp/jma/en/Activities/observations.html

The surface one is the AMeDAS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Meteorological_Data_Acquisition_System

https://www.jma.go.jp/jma/en/Activities/amedas/amedas.html

@OssanAmerica

Is racism OK now ?

Hong Kong people are not panda. Same for Chinese or people of any other countries who use this name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_storms_named_Shanshan

Names from the area are used. And I have no doubt you know it, you been there long enough, so ...

@Yrral

Western Pacific Ocean ones are also named alterning male and female name but by the Japan Meteorological Agency. But, there are also name issued by The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration.

For the people interested, here are the publications by JMA. It give explanation and data about the earthquake thus why the first level was activated.

https://www.jma.go.jp/jma/press/kako.html?t=1&y=06

Fascinating that some seems to not think it is natural to go to the official announcement when they want data and just complain it is not available in a newspaper article aggregator.

To the behalf of JT, I think they are being factual : the guy was arrested for the threatening as of now. The actual stabbing charge will fall later when he admit or in 23 days (or 46 if they expect to need a longer discussion thus go first for illegal caring of weapon or the like).

So I think, they should more like go for something along the line of :

Osaka : Man arrested for threatening woman with knife on street suspected of stabbing a tourist

In a free response section of the survey, respondents called for value-added services if foreign tourists are to be charged more, such as offering services in various languages, guides, enhanced hospitality or special gifts.

So the article already offer a good compromise :

charge a flat price for everyone

offer additional options everybody can request :

------- foreigner language personalized support (so not the menu which should be basic service)

------ cooking on table : you can learn how to cook japanese style / enjoy eating while someone else do the cooking

------- special brand gift : chopstick, towel, stickers, keyholder ... (you can create several set)

------ special japan gift : otaku stuff, city/prefecture character design, sanrio mascot, japan like stuff, ... adjust to your customer

...

I think it will solve most of the issue and gather to everybody. Afterall, there're shop which allow Japanese customer to practice their foreign language so they could also seek the service if it is offered by native or so speakers. Same for everything.

@virusrex

???

It was a joke.

Sorry to say that but the article look like a PR piece. Lot of app are missing and never heard/saw of the one listed twice in the table. So I had to search for it : seems it is a Russian service. The money you send end up in some companies which are then paying for you (to make it simple). If, for example the said company asset are frozen, your fund too (so you can feel it is like you are loaning money to a Russian company). Thus the app company will have to pay you. If you browse long enough (I got a monster of a wall of the company page) you can find complain about heavy fees on transfer including while getting your money back and the official FAQ say the same and neither to Japan nor to yen is an option.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebMoney

https://tass.com/economy/1401755

It is possible companies related to the system are on sanction list.

I would not recommend it for most foreigner.

quasi-forcible sexual intercourse

Could this be related to Japan considering rape only if the perpetrator exercised coercion strong enough for the victim to not be able to escape the rape ?

I think lot of us remember the famous case in which a judge acknowledged an incest victim was not giving consent but rejected rape as she did not fight back enough.

It could explain the evolution of the case : the ladies said they were raped and did their best to avoid it but the police think even thought they did not give consent and suffered coercion, they were not honest in the level of coercion or/and fighting back and the alleged perpetrator could have exercised a higher level of coercion.

@njca4

You are aware it is a false dichotomy, right ?

There is mountain of options between state sanctioned murder and freedom.

I think the best reason to be against state sanctioned murder is perhaps actually that there are people pro it moreover to the point of rejoice.

Putting that aside, I can not understand how they can actually go for state sanctioned murder when there is a bit of doubt. Giving perpetuity give opportunity to release if need be.

© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2024

bis repetita not placent

LR is not center right. They are right wing (and proud of it).

LR was created in 2015, Chirac's health was already not good enough for him to continue doing politic. LR was made by Sarkozy as the former UMP was now associated with judiciary issues. I do not get what is the point of go bother the dead when the alive are still in the picture.

Crepy-en-Valois is part of the fifth constituency of the Oise, a mostly conservative district that has been held by the right since 1993.

Fixed it for you.

Despite calls by Macron and rightist and centrist and leftist leaders for the French to vote for non-RN candidates, Vos was confident of a run-off victory.

Fixed it for you.

The party has sought to rebrand itself as a mainstream right-wing party focused on immigration and pocketbook issues, but remains a pariah for many in France due to its past and current association with racism and antisemitism added to their attack about French institution and value like jus solis and equality, as their recent declaration about depriving dual national to access to certain job.

Fixed it for you.

The poor showing of Macron's alliance, which came third in Sunday's vote, underlines the collapse of the traditional mainstream during his seven years in power, pushing voters to far-right and to the left.

Fixed it for you. You were 2 years late. Perhaps French will make it out of the extreme centrism without having to go throught extrem-rightism. Perhaps not.

Nevertheless, I think it could be good to start being more factual and include your bias to start so that readers are aware of it.

@moderator

Why are you even fishing exclusively from Thomson Reuters regarding a France election?

@moderator

I think you need to redo the image legend as it is not correct :

The store Au Val de Loire is not Place de la Republique,

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=au+val+de+loire+paris&t=ffab&atb=v320-1&iaxm=maps&bbox=2.3715930006927977%2C48.872275613131734%2C2.3760398552272193%2C48.869472661446224&strict_bbox=1

The picture was not from the 1st

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=au+val+de+loire+paris&t=ffab&atb=v320-1&iaxm=maps&bbox=2.3715930006927977%2C48.872275613131734%2C2.3760398552272193%2C48.869472661446224&strict_bbox=1

That is not a barricade but just a big box.

@Antiquesaving

Really a riot ? And no far-right news paper talking about these ?

© Thomson Reuters 2024

I think you forgot a quote or something pointing more clearly that is is by the word used by RN. LR is not center right and will get pretty offended to be called so.

If one feel strong enough, one should the hell out of these harassers/bullies/suicide propellers/.... The more cases won, the more people will understand freedom of expression is not freedom to harm. There are absolutely no need to go pester bereaved people, alleged or acknowledged victim, ... and so on (even to the other side of the spectrum).

Everyone can accidentally (deeply) harm another that is different to go to someone and pester them about how bad you think they are in an existential sense, how much harm you think they deserve and the like. One can feel it, one can say it but once one purposely go to someone face for that they are doing it for only one purpose : harm. It is not expression anymore it is violence.

I am free to throw punch in the air not in non consenting someone else face. Punch harm. Word harm.

@Fighto!

Not sure why they'd get an exception

I do not think they get an exception, they most likely play low enough to neither have reached a level where someone was actually knowledgeable enough of the rules (there seems to have a hijab focus from everyone disparaging the law, not sure why) or where the rules apply as according to the article it is only during tournament.

Sikh also complain to be concerned by the national ban of religious symbol in specific situation, so ...

https://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/France_turban_issue

"its commitment to gender equality"

[...]

"to publicly call on sporting authorities in France to overturn all bans on athletes wearing the hijab in French sport, both at Paris 2024 and at all times and all levels of sport"

So having rule which apply regardless of gender, show problem with gender equality commitment issue. But having a gender excluded from the rule will not. I think, they should perhaps reconsider their view of gender equality.

Rules apply to everybody and only during tournament according to the article so when the sportperson choose to be a representative of something else than themselves, if not accepting to be a representative of one country. Considering the country you choose to represent is secularist thus state is religious void, how is it logical you want to represent your religion also (moreover considering religion tend to be state like as it impose rules on its members potentially conflicting with state one) ? I do not think it is so difficult for someone which want to represent a country to put their religious identity down the second they stand on the sport ground then put it back on the second they stood out of it.

@ Bruce Pennyworth

Lol Russia is a far more useful ally then Ukraine that offers nothing but an open hand

Putin& friends Russia will never be anybody ally, so how could they be a more useful one ? They just want subservant countries which they can use to start their war (ask Belarus) and man it (ask Chechnia).

@JJE

Moscow might establish a buffer zone to protect those islands. The large island to the south would be suitable for that purpose.

If the world come to that you understand that China could disagree with the idea.

No, thank you.

Hope that vampire company and the others operating the same way will get kicked out too. And when they at it, the government could start cleaning the big WTF that independent contract become with a significant being de facto employee for whose employer do not have to fulfill their legal obligation toward to.

@ garypen

Actually for this year it was but not in the past where only ladies saw their name omitted.

The Imperial Household Agency is not able to say when the change happen.

So I guess we will to wait and see if someone manage to find out thanks to pictures. I wonder if they will be a case in which the spouse name do not match to see how they handled it, same as if the spouse was actually famous too.

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15277710

@Desert Tortoise

The native Kanaks have been made a minority on their own land by immigration from France and to a lesser extent from some other southeast Asian nations.[...]

You should review your source : Kanak, even excluding the one presenting themselves as half or caledonian are the majority group as more than 40% (thought not absolute). And more precisely considering the one allowed to vote, far more than the absolute majority was Kanak : 63% moreover to ensure every Kanak could vote they were automatically registered, after obviously nobody actually forced them to vote but there is just no way to claim they were not able to vote nor were made in minority. By looking at the map of Kanak repartition and vote repartition, you can confirm the situation : if majority Kanak area were more likely to choose independance, there was a gap so Kanak choose to remain french or to not vote, and in that last case they should have perhaps woken up at some point : there was 3 votes. It was not Brexit were they can at least say they did not imagine it. There were 3 freaking vote.

Regarding ressources exploitation , you are aware that independantist actually requested (and got) more signifiant control of nickel production.

@factchecker

Perhaps you should read the article more carefully. The article you linked is the same than the one you are responding to, just an updated version about arrested people. The 10 years change is already here :

Kirsty Needham

Updated May 15, 2024 — 8.24pmfirst published at 7.29pm

Rioting broke out this week before lawmakers in Paris voted on a bill to allow French residents who have lived in New Caledonia for 10 years to vote in provincial elections - a move some local leaders fear will dilute the Kanak vote.

@owzer

Are you really complaining people are not gambling their life on the chance the driver will :

be paying attention

be able to accurately estimate distance including emergency stop in case

be in a good mood enough to not road rage over them

be humble enough to consider other people have the right to exist on their pass

be driving a car whose accelerator and brake pedal do not kept switching each other, making it difficult to not make a geniune mistake

Personaly, I will not. Guess I am not the only one.

@wallace

Hamas neither.

No more that they want any help for Gaza people :

Hamas fired rockets at Israeli troops positioned on the border with Gaza near Israel’s main crossing for delivering humanitarian aid

@WoodyLee

It is not a genocide. By claiming it is you are insulting all people which were victim of it.

Not all crime war (/or terro by autority) are genocide.

@muzukashi

You should consider reviewing your history or dictionnary (or booth). Gaza was given independance. Israel totally withdrawed from it 17 years ago. The, de facto, country was put on blocade (like Cuba) by all its neighbor. During that period the government did nothing to improve relationship with neighbor, worst kept attacking one of them (and then claim victimhood), the government did nothing to improve the situation of its citizen (I hope they saw them as citizen but the last one with them purposely attacking the crossing for humanitarian help so that it will be closed kind of prove otherwise), ... it can be even said that the government endanger greatly its citizen as it has discouraged them to move before the start of the ground operation of the war they launched, they refuse getting out of area with heavy population to protect it, they refuse to aknowledge them as civilian and kept going that there are no civilian in Gaza, ...

@Chabbawanga

Are you discovering than far right like far right ?

The situation is utter s. and was for decade if not centuries. None of us can be sure of a good solution partly because we have a bunch of far right on both side which pretty fine with erasing the other side one way or another. It would be good if people tryed to be more pondered, factuel, ... and article stopped using clickbait article : nobody has actually any idea about the contact of the ceasefire Hamas claim to have signed and, I think we need a better explanation of how the negociation goes on, as its seems that actually neither party attending it can make a decision (on the Hamas side, the potential cliff between the armed branch and the political one, is a concern ; on Israel side, Netayahu is ... well Israeli have several time protested about him but since Hamas&friends enjoy attacking Israel at these time, that do not help)

So the Hamas is saying Netanyahu is refusing a ceasefire proposal by Hamas aknowledging the terro attack, offering the release of all otages and remains of the one unfortunately dead and handing out of the criminal responsible for the terro attack ? Because, they actually put that on the table right ?

Let me guess they did not. Refusing to do anything on their side but claiming it is the other one not making effort.

I hop people will stop with their binary world. Hamas is good little victim. They were, de facto independant, thought in blocade by all their neighbor. For all these years they did nothing to improve their relationship with their neighboor worst they attacked to make it worse. They recevied billion in international help but failed to make their country less dependand of their neighbor, worst they freaking destroyed plumbery or so to make rocket to launch at their neighbor. Hamas is no better in this conflict no matter which side you are part of.

Fascinating, already the 2nd article about the subject but still most of the posters do not bother even looking into the subject (like the video shared several times in the previous article), not even in the pictures enclosed with the article.

People will still be able to take their proof of conformism Lawson in front of you-can--not-see-it-because-it-was-cloudy-or-not mount Fuji picture. They will just have to use the Lawson side of the street instead of running in the middle of a busy street and putting themselves in the way of any people trying to live their daily life. After, how will the Lawson react, as tourists could prove a pain to their customers and staff, is to be seen. We are talking about people which will go to a place where work construction is done with barrier and so in order to take a picture ignoring the security staff. Get real. Everybody can proove themselves a stupid selfcentred f., so sometimes this kind of reminder can help us kept ourselves in check.

BTW, where are the foreigners in the photo. Appears to be all Asians.

I think some people should perhaps consider reviewing the definition of xenophobia.

@Ed,

Relax, even if one can easily label at sight, most are well aware that only a fraction are real pain. So by acting as you do, the people around will quickly remember that fact and be pleased to have you as a visitor/customer/...

An article in japanese with a video quite illustrative of the issue at hand.

「富士山を遮断」人気撮影スポットに幅20メートルの黒幕を町が設置へ　観光客の“マナー違反”に「最終手段をとらざるを得なかった」 観光客・住民から様々な声【news23】（TBS NEWS DIG Powered by JNN） - Yahoo!ニュース

@gogogo

Who are you talking about ?

Google is not a mere search engine.

Google LLC (/ˈɡuːɡəl/ ⓘ, GOO-ghəl) is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google

Google search is a search engine powered by google search engine. So, if I understand clearly, was also powering Yahoo but in a way which negatively impacted Yahoo adverstisment income. And/or Yahoo was using Google online advertisment technology but same issue, the way the use was made possible by Yahoo was affecting it.

@WoodyLee

I think you are messing up several thing

@David Brent

Bing autotranslate page is pretty convenient. But the program seems to have issue closing properly.

Personaly, I recommend Duck and Go : better result, less spying. Everyone do according to their taste and confort so if it work for you...

Drivers, barbecue people, people wearing perfume, people drinking coffee and/or alcohol, people having noisy children, children, noisy people, pollen allergic, ill people... must be so sad to ear they are going to be banned to park. Because they are right alongside smoker, if we are talking about protecting other health/wellbeing/confort/... we have no choice.

We all know how unhealthy are automobile or so gaz. And the barbecue such a big amount of smoke/olfactive pollution. Perfume is an know allergen. Coffee smell is insufferable for several. Alcohol can make you dizzy just from it emanation. Noise pollution is a serious problem which could bring severe physical and psychological damage. When someone cough/sneeze they eject lot of bacteria/microbe/... even worse if they are actually ill, endangering all the people around. ... Targeting smoker moreover with a totally unaffordable fine is just easy bulling.

Ban smoking where it is actually logical, work on education, issue warning and ticket but progressive fine only for repeated offender (you can offer class as a way to educate), create nice and easily accessible smoking area, ... cut salary of the people which came with the idea of a 50000 fine, they really seems like they have lost sense of reality ; start looking into the city expenditure, they seems to have some issue understanding value of money.

@dagon

I think it is in good standing to check your reading comprehension before attacking other :

she had no choice but to say she was quitting of her own initiative, which would affect when she could collect unemployment

[...]

“Some companies are resisting the pressure to let employees go,” he explains. “But as business conditions continue to deteriorate, they are prioritizing the retention of full-time employees at the expense of nonregular staff.”

https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/g01025/

man who is searching for work as he lives on welfare. After he was dismissed from a vehicle parts factory in autumn last year,

[...]

She said that she meets many people who sign Japanese-language resignation notices that are presented to them by the company, without understanding what is written on them.

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230130/p2a/00m/0li/025000c

people who have been fired or not had their contracts renewed

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14327121

As you see in these article that you quoted : people could get government subsidy in the form of unemployment benefice or welfare. And, companies use temporary workers and resignations as leverage to manage the size of their workforce.

Regarding Kyugyo Teate, my memory served me wrong the subsidy seems not covid related and not 100% : https://generalunion.org/5300/

Regarding the stimulus payment ? Are you talking about the 100000 yens ?

Suga and BOJ policies had it all going to large, medium and small business; in that order.

How does that justify claiming that giving subsidies to small and middle sided company is capitalism for the rich ?

I remember you, it is what you are claiming.

"Too big to fall" is socialism for the rich. Not : giving subsidies to mom and pop restaurant or so.

So that you will perhaps start to grasp a bit more of how Japan work, I have a big surprise : Japanese government prefer giving loan than money. I will let you meditate about the implication, enjoy.

https://www.whitecase.com/insight-alert/covid-19-japanese-government-financial-assistance-measures

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/1991/

@dagon

So you are assuming all these companies actually had workers and laid them off and the said workers got nothing. I think you got the wrong country :

the article clearly state that laid off worker are eligible to government subsidies

among these small companies there are freelancer

it is not so easy to lay off people in Japan, so companies will try their best to have you quit or use temporary worker

there is a system in Japan in which an employer can have an employee not work and pay them 60% of their salary. It was actually subsided by the government during covid to prevent lay off.

...

And do you really think that anybody having property and/or capital is rich thus should not receive any government subsidies, like for example : worker which dare to own their house/car/shoes/... ?

I think you should be the first one I meet claiming "petite bourgeoisie" was among rich. They are even seen as victim of the system along with poor since they are powerless.

Sorry, I will be blunt : do you even try to look into the term you use and the subject you are talking about ?

@dagon

Financially supporting little business owner so that they do no go bankrupt during an international crisis is socialist for the rich ? I think we do not have the same definition of rich.

@JeffLee

The issue of Japan regarding labor is not shortage but mismanagement including by not offering attractive working conditions.

Perhaps you should reconsider who is responsible of the wages stagnancy.

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15198290

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15197291

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15198773

Government by deregulating market and employment ?

Big companies by being greedy thus squeezing all they can from their supplier and low standing worker ?

Small business owner by trying to not lost everything and putting their worker at risk of unemployment/slave employment/... ?

In a country were lot of companies (including major one) kept claiming suffering from labor shortage while never improving working conditions, as pointed by others, it will just end up throwing lot of people into precarious situation and increase power of companies to offer bad working conditions. And that will most likely will not help countryside.

@Yrral

At the bare minimum, Wikipedia is your friend. It was an apocalyptic totalitarian sect. It got a problem with anybody and everybody which was not a perfectly subservient member.

Perhaps you should try more careful wording.

https://www.nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/aum_chrn.pdf

https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/the-lessons-from-aum-shinrikyo-tokyos-terrorist-cult-5e5213c1d0e4

@ itsonlyrocknroll

Perhaps, it is time you start looking inside yourself as to why you are so scared to share a bath with someone which was deemed man at some point in their life is so much of an issue for you.

What about non-penis XY holder ? what about gay men (with or without penis) ? what about lesbian ? what about biological woman having to take hormone to be allowed to compete in women category ? what about woman which were reclassified without any surgery or so as they were deemed to be have been misclassified at birth ...

The list is long.

Mr Kipling's among other is a perfect example or hypocrisy : they should not be forced to accept Shirley interpretation of what a woman is but Shirley (along with the whole world) should accept their version of what a woman is (and the one not fitting it being hammered down until she does, see female athlete forced to take hormone instead of a simple rethink of the category like for boxing &co).

I have no idea what make a woman or what make a man, so I do not care. Everyone should feel safe but that go with increasing safety not throwing the blame over a whole group, like the misandrist usual rant about trans : men are sexual predator so they will just claim being trans to sexually predate on women if not for that they will never ever predate on women, yeah sure.