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こい - a bit limp and early

Probably end up ‘same old same old’ in Japan with identifiably Korean cars.

In Australia Korean cars at a par with Japanese give or take, but cars from a bevy of Chinese makers - some pretty good - make it complicated.

One overlooked point is the huge surge in electronic vehicles from China, many kei-sized. Realising the existence of those would send lots of rats up the trouser-legs of Japanese and Korean car marketing people.

Of course if blokes had regular wiping or plugging issues, such ‘poverty’ would be far more addressed.

is only a matter of time before the Earth is hit by another geomagnetic storm

つちょう passbooks are useful

Cash is good

Gold is ‘golden’

And cryptocurrencies would not exist both actually and hypothetically

the utterly unique and singular trace he is leaving on the history of cinema"

Well expressed

Any travel or No travel.

Since ‘No travel’ isn’t going to happen, we are stuck with travel, if we hadn’t noticed.

Elections: people vote for people to make decisions for them. If they even vote.

Athens - women and slaves excluded had its yes/no stone system and Switzerland has its Canton-based referendum system for voting on issues.

And Australian states re-discovered their actual pretty authoritarian powers to close borders (even international ones) lock down citizens with threats of fines which can be taken straight from bank accounts all without recourse to debate. Not to mention self-righteous media which claim a voice of people but have money and clout to tell governments what to do on their front pages. At least compulsory voting makes some semblance to a democratic ideal, if enforced.

Democracy? Ideal and reality have never really coalesced or even coexisted.

Who do they wheel out for Alfred?

Daniel Craig?

JNR Yokosuka line Green Car, took it from Zushi in early 1987, for the hell of it.

Green Car to myself, wider but harder seats that reclined.

Keikyu line was always better, cheaper, faster, more regular. Wondering why it requires the traditional JR class treatment

But I wonder what the US Ambassador was doing taking the train there - hope he didn’t need to take a bus to the base.

Dress rehearsal for Taiwan

also has the potential to reduce the workload of staff in future

And reduce staff.

Oh well, I suppose they can retrain for the maintenance demand

In spite of competition from places like Tokyo, a good initiative and Good Luck!

Poor NK!

With COVID-19 and Ukraine these days, not getting enough attention.

Perhaps likely they’ll use up their stock of missiles in ‘tests’.

Even so, vigilance is prudence.

Battery swapping- good innovation

… misses the moment

!!

With current and recent machinations around Ukraine’s eastern frontier, and perennial Quixotic European obsessions over nations and nationals - current release of this film seems rather timely.

Good LUCK fencing.!

Like, some guy in the dimly lit back corner of the public bar offering,

Psss, do you want to buy a RAT?

Or online, on EBay traceable- good LUCK!!

What does ‘living with’ it mean?

Think ‘ virulent flu variety’ without stirred up naïve paranoia we live with now.

Circuit court judge

??

Actually (Australian) Fedeal Court Judge.

December is stressful, and expensive.

Vehicle looks like a gruff おじいさん

Until predictability extends beyond a few weeks, it’s not worth the effort and grief, strong reasons withstanding

Routine -eg. Weekly chat with driver.

Hmm - looking forward to needing fewer responsibilities and things and all the crap necessary for maintaining them. Just now envying Shima-san and Fujioka-san

“…a spacy 12-track collection with waves of synth and airy melodies …’

Nothing new here: try Hawkwind ‘Space Ritual’ from 72.

And ‘music of the spheres’, a line from ex-Hawkwind Nik Turner’s 2006 Space Ritual group album ‘Otherworld’.

At least Chris Martin’s ex-wife’s film husband spent some time in space in one of those Avengers movies.

The telling bits come at the end -

employers’ concerns and limits regarding overwork

Mitsubishi Estate using online monitoring of employees at their ‘second jobs’

Labour shortage withstanding, encouragement to do something besides work surely also needs to be considered.

Son as Dad’s secretary say all I need to know about this marriage.

What has love got to do with it?

Even so, may even be so.

TPP started with Singapore, Chile and New Zealand.

Now it is a monster.

Keeping bellicose tarif-ridden would-be members out can maintain some balance and civility.

One is more the last resort of a scoundrel

The other is the first resort of a fascist.

Reduced competition in air route travel that is not happening anyway!

can’t knock the companies for trying to get something ready.

But the market is getting used to not traveling on flights that cost 5-figure sums one-way (back) to Australia.

Yes - now we can stop hearing about them

Anyway, what’s done is done.

Just because we can, should we?

A moot question when someone like a Zuckerberg just will.