Mike_Oxlong comments

Fugu is not delicious, it's a brag for wealthy businessmen and greasy politicians. Like going out for some whale.

The Northern part of Okinawa. Right where they are relocating the Futenma Marine Corps Air Station. The base that the perps of the rape of a 12-year-old by three black marines in September 1995. Happy anniversary!! The move of Futenma MACS was supposed to alleviate the rapey marine situation. Ha ha. There are people in Northern Okinawa too. Potential victims just waiting...

I bet no-one here remembers the Japan Coast Guard ship escorting their factory ship running over the Sea Shepherd speed boat, cutting it in two in icy Antarctic waters.

Five or six days after the typhoon?

The underwater eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano on Jan. 15, 2022, sent 146 teragrams of water vapor into the stratosphere, four times more than Mount Pinatubo in 1991. This could affect atmospheric chemistry, ozone depletion, and surface temperature for several years.

We're warming slowly, at a cold time in the planet's history, where far more people die of cold than of heat, and where we're safer from both heat and cold because of energy from fossil fuels.

He and his crew were the only ones to do anything about Japan hunting whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. It's one thing to do whaling in your own country's coastal waters and EEZ, quite another to use the scientific research trope to hunt there.

Germany has a four-day workweek. Look how it turned out for them. Major economic decline. Things will not fare any better here if we go that route.

Last year was no hotter than any other. Data rather than unsupported statements.

If they could only manage to punish drivers for those same infractions. Here on Okinawa, we have double the drink drive rate the rest of the country does, and that is with extremely few check stops. And everyone uses their phones while driving. Studies have shown that phone users on the road have the same impairment drunk drivers do. High school and college students often ride bikes recklessly, but it's not due to intoxication or phone use. And they are a drop in the bucket compared with all types of impaired drivers.

The typhoon tracker I use states the winds might have been that strong around Amami Oshima, but are currentlt 155 kph.

Summer is hot. Some are hotter than others. Some are a bit longer or shorter. Sometimes we have tornadoes and typhoons, sometimes not. Some years it rains more and in others less.

Heatstroke can be prevented by taking sensible precautions. Like keeping hydrated, taking electrolytes, wearing wide-brimmed hats and taking occasional breaks out of the sun.

It's funny seeing this right before harvest. As if everyone forgot the shinmai will be in in about a month. For some reason this sort of thing gets hyped for all kinds of things. The dam reservoirs being low in Okinawa right before monsoon season starts, it being hot in summer, there being wild animals in nature.

The government is directly responsible for this. The lemmings will do what they are conditioned to.

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It's a pustular rash, common in both ivermectin poisoning and v a x injury. The "outbreaks" cover the cause of the problem.

Acreage reduction policy to keep prices high.

I read another site's story about the same topic. It stated that even if every tourist ate rice at three meals a day (an unusual occurrence) it would only account for 0.5% of total rice consumption in Japan. So the rising tourism is not the issue.

Lay judges might be subject to logic and reason. Banish them!

This is yet another government scam foisted upon the people. Initiated by the Americans post-war to help feed a starving population, perpetuated by bureaucracy to support amakudari moves into lucrative jobs for retired politicians. Many years of whale meat lies in cold storage, markets for which do not exist.

I've hiked and camped all over this country for three decades. Zero tick troubles.

Bill certainly had his share of scandals. Let he without sin cast the first stone.

So I still have a chance

Masked in the height of summer four and one half years into the plandemic. Lord have mercy.

All computer modelling. Crappy inputs = cruddy outputs.

Don't they usually identify place of residence and profession in crime reports on the news?

Toxins always win in the end. Ingest them over the long term, expect to pay a price.

Very much a symbol of the decay of the country. Decades old financial problems unsolved and worsening. Population collapse. Stagflation and recession. No solutions to longstanding issues. Punt yet again and add to the list of excuses.

Of course the autopsy will include a covid swab.

At closest approach, it will be 150-200 east of Tokyo, and then veer to the northeast. Otherwise known as Friday.

Europe has a huge crime problem. Its image in tatters. This sort of thing has become the norm. Sad.