Magnet comments

They should expand to other countries. Family Mart in Sydney would be amazing!

I'd say they contribute to the wars more than anything. NATO in particular.

Democracy doesn't work. You need a highly educated population for democracy to work, and even then, you get nupties like Trump getting elected. The whole system is a lie.

History should be remembered so we can learn from the mistakes made and so we can appreciate the "here and now". On the same coin, whilst we should all remember, we should also move on. Learn and move on.

When was Japan made part of North America? Hell no to NATO!

I cancelled mine too. The content they've been dumping (or lack thereof) has been sub-par at best. Not even going to get into the discussion about their all their "woke" agenda fueled recent movies.

You can't change biology.

Nailed it @wtfjapan. Those are collector gold at the moment. Not to mention how cheap they are (relatively speaking) in Japan. Serious money to be made from import/export.

Well deserved! Congratulations Japan! (I'm in Australia now... REALLY missing Japanese bakeries.)

They'll need to encourage the businesses employing those people to move too. Nobody will move if they've got an unreasonable commute to work.

If they're gonna fund defense, taxing the tobacco industry is an excellent way to do it! Increased defense, less smoking, yes please!

If people honestly think this political ritual / tradition will ever change, they're delusional. This is not something we foreigners (at least some of us) will ever seem to understand, let alone have a right to dictate. Getting mad at symbolism is a futile exercise in frustration and anger. Let it go. Let them do their thing. The point is that somewhere in all this madness is respect, mostly for the deceased. I see nothing wrong with this.

There's a reason religions refer to their followers as sheep.

The world's biggest global threat, ironically, is America.

China only wants Taiwan back and to keep Western "Democracy" out. The US is really the antagonist in all current global conflicts.

I'm one of the 300,000 current cases. It is NOT just the flu. Wear your masks and get vaccinated people. Day 6 and it feels like I just climbed Mt. Fuji. The government needs to step in. People can't do the right thing to save themselves (no surprises there).

Check my comment above... Called it. Thanks NATO et al for really sinking us into a global recession.

Much as I absolutely love my home cinema setup... Not everyone has the wall real estate, funds, or desire to invest in a quality projector (I can strongly recommend the Epson LS500 UST) and sound system. Personally, I abhor the public cinema experience. Filthy and loaded with distractions (couples making out, kids giggling or throwing stuff around, old people trying to keep each other up to speed on what's going on on-screen). But public cinemas will never die. People love the experience, I'm just not one of them.

It's amazing how many people seem to think that this tit-for-tat form of politics with North Korea, China, and Russia will somehow yield a positive outcome. We're already in major global recession that will only get worse, thanks to the West's sanctions against Russia. China's already on edge with the US presence in the region and the former Australian government's taunting and overall stupidy. Do we really want to keep poking at nuclear North Korea with their Napoleon-complex leader? Not saying what Russia, China, and North Korea have been doing are correct, but let's face it, the West hasn't exactly behaving any better.

They got off cheap!

I hope Albanese patches things up with China. Australia should have deeper and closer ties to its Asian neighbours than with the US. The US is only looking out for its own interests, at the expense of its allies across the Pacific.

Geopolitical destabilisation is America's meal ticket.

Setting up the Pacific equivalent of NATO. Who's the expansionist now?

Team America World Police still at it.

May she rest in peace. What a life to be celebrated! Kinda wish she left behind a memoire or journal.

You know the world's headed in the wrong direction when YouTube gamers make the news for their views on world changing political events.

Didn't know about this place before this article. I'm a car enthusiast and I'm sure I'm not alone. Hopefully people reading this article don't join in on the irresponsible photobug behaviour.

Of all of the most pointless ways to waste police resources... SMH.

Team America: World Police. They seem to be able to dictate to every other country on Earth who's "good" and who's "evil".

No. Much as most won't want to admit, Russia is a necessary part of the global economy. Cut off Russia and we ALL pay the price. Literally.