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I am older, many video calls overseas, fewer locally, so not a good person to ask.

Better to ask who still use FB or WhatsApp -lots of channels coming and going in the social media world

Blast from the past before moving on.

Been a spike in costs of cars in Tonga recently - 95%+ are mid to late 平成 Japanese models in reasonable to wheels-falling-off condition. Lots of Voxys

Maybe Mr Son’s and other used car ‘subscription’(!!) ventures have had this effect.

Brainbox

Latin - for English and other languages

Times tables to 13 and mental arithmetic

That after school you are suddenly without input, just what you get on your own.

System goes down and we’re back to barter - until a medium of exchange is established and we start again

European lifestyle support wake-up call.

Like oil in 1970s, things change.

Adapt, Europe, and btw, welcome to the future.

Yes, social media help

Yeah - link to traditions, custom, even if reimaginedand even if the so-called institution becomes downplayed.

Then there are also attitudes, policies, processes and rules of that more tangible institution called government.

Besides tangible ‘appearance’ - for instance not too long ago Putin would rock up too when they toyed with ‘G-8’. Not there now.

Yet, things get achieved, people/contacts are met.

But so much of that is never revealed or seen by punters like you and me - which makes unseen thereby intangible.

‘North Atlantic Treaty Organization’ OR

’North Pacific Treaty Organization’ OR

‘West Pacific Treaty Organization’??

Well, only the first has a mutual defence clause and trigger. And the US has bi-partite treaties with all the other listed nations anyway - for what they are worth.

Post-1945 Japan traditionally prefers softer solutions than regional sabre-rattling. However underlying that, they prefer to be linked to all options, including military links, and keeping good relations with partner nations is even more important than facing off would-be adversaries.

So, in the end, the question just reflects strategic business-as-usual for Japan.

Pandemic as coercion excuse - basically a reminder of who is boss.

Taiwan is, or has

Autonomous:

currency and economy

polity

defence force

jurisdiction

international recognition (albeit mostly unofficial)

and so on.

And a significant indigenous native demographic, not that KMT or anyone else would let them get in the way

Meanwhile the world’s biggest producer of microchips gets on which ameliorating the current worldwide shortage.

Continuations OK

Adaptions of vid games too, to a point

Otherwise no originality any more.

Disney live action remakes of its animated works epitomise the state of Hollywood - though MeToo fallout over a remake of Snow White would be interesting to watch.

Plus the sucking up to the Chinese market.

In Japan, yes.

Best to ask the insurance companies for their data first

Already happens with brand labels on items. Think Ralph Lauren, and even Coca Cola.

’Cup Noodle’ backpack anyone? sorry, not so simple: ‘Cup noodle’ Stchar backpack anyone?

Um, we pay Stchar or Stchar pay us?

Physical pain as punishment; violent disposition as power display.

Hypothetically just one more mode in a repertoire, if the most lacking in reason.

Point is loss of rational and emotive control by instigator. Then some empty justification rooted in past practice and tradition.

Bottom line is it didn’t work so well then, and is likely not to now.

one or two hours every Thursday afternoon

Some places here have first hour every morning for aged or handicapped only. This seems more suited to preference for more often than weekly shopping.

Good idea though

People’d come around.

Sth Korea at 70-odd%! Not surprised at that. A reality and daily part of the culture (eg. In Japan for comparison, think ‘earthquake’)

Easy -

you want a pet, dog (can’t look after self)

you want convenience, cat (lots oks after self)

The rest is up to you.

Takara Tomy have missed something - like everything that goes with the voice: proximity, non-verbal interactivity, visual image, olfactory and touch

Another transient toy.

“… meet in person sometimes”

For reasons mentioned above.

Even Trump, maybe because of rather than in spite of being a monstrous narcissist, met Kim Il Jung in person twice. And Kim meets nobody.

And it’s a good reason to ensure that our leaders do wear pants sometimes.

While the lawyers ratchet up their fees and expenses…

While in Japan, regarding the PRC’s Premier’s congratulatory message, Albo should verse up in East Asian concepts like ‘Seiji’, ‘tatemae’ and ‘hone’ - which are less common only to East Asia than people would think.

Still message is better than no message.

The cost of a fine house,「オンライン　カシーノに」I heard.

Well, somebody lost!

Sick of Netflix as lifestyle. And actually limited choice considering range of title on other providers also to pay for.

Missing スカッパ and WOWOW - actually liked the randomness of things I could choose to watch.

As article alludes: Cruise as brand.

Chronologically Age becomes an arbitrary period.

Artistic merit and interest are one thing, but if you are 6 or 60 there are vastly different quantities of cinema to choose from.

Scocese’s observation is pertinent though.

So, nach Der Himmel über Berlin und The End of the World kommen wir zum Toiletenwaschenkraft oder.

Which means something like, the zen of toilet cleaning latterly transcends Heaven and the end of the world.

I wanna watch!

Last two positions:

first work great, job sucked (organisation and most people thereが困った)

second work sucked job great (people great; admin tasks in triplicate, performance indicators and compliance as de facto work goals more than anything professional or ‘customer/student-centred’)