Moonraker comments

It is by far a majority of women or female groups that the article talks about. Check for yourselves. And the "purity and 'girliness' are not the ideals for BTS or Park Joon-hyung.

Yes, the enviable reputation for recycling extends to 74.6% of municipal waste being thermally recycled, aka incinerated.

Not only are the girls marketed to male social inadequates, they provide the role models for thousands of young girls. It's like a conveyor belt for creating a nerd fantasy. If I may say so, I think Japan is even worse for this since the outcome is rarely anything but an adolescent puppet.

If you really are a talented employee, please be advised that you would have many opportunities to work overseas. If not, then I guess you are confined to Japan.

Or spaced out watching it move.

Can't deny there is something fascinating about watching ants. But my point is that if I am doing no harm to anyone then nobody should care. But, of course, there is harm to profits because I don't conform to the prevailing exhortations to find happiness in mindless consumption. And that is likely the main reason pleasure or meaning should not be found anywhere else.

Oh for God's sake, it's my body so I get to decide what I put into it. I heard that a million times from vaccination resisters. I have never harmed even an insect after smoking. I have always been a productive member of this utterly rapacious and destructive system. So, where is the argument to ban a rather nice, relaxing alternative to the miserable grindstone. Sure, I don't get my identity from ostentatious consumption, as many have been trained to do and as is "good for the economy", and that is because the best things in life consist of things like watching a stunning orange sunrise over a turquoise sea with a gentle breeze over my skin. A small toke or two even enhances that incredible beauty to the point you can cry with joy. Yeah, crazy, isn't it? Maybe more people should feel that and then the world would not be so screwed up.

A Trump supporter has to wonder if it’s worthwhile to continually ... be forced to account for every wild statement the former president makes, GOP consultant Alex Conant said.

Must be hard for anyone in any capacity, even in everyday life. Makes you wonder why they can't take the next blatantly obvious step and become apostates from the cult.

But NHK World told me that Japanese always take their rubbish home. Every foreigner on the panel was amazed.

Five days later than average. It seems like just a couple of weeks ago that the climate alarmist crowd was screaming that they would be early and offered that up as solid undeniable proof that it was exactly what experts and their fancy models had "predicted" would be caused by the "climate crisis." Well, the "experts" were wrong again. This must be proof that the earth is cooling??

Screaming? Who is screaming?

They were bowing and scraping before Xi. These are very sick men.

Exaggerate much?

Were you here in the 80s? It seems like you were not.

Thanks for your lecture on cultural relativism, Chikatilo, but, if you look a little more closely, I am actually portraying the world from the point of view of the atavistic types who enjoyed the fact they could behave like cavemen in the 80s and never really grew out of it. Do you recognise the type?

The old Charisma Man routine probably doesn't work as well nowadays. It was probably what kept many foreign men in Japan longer than they intended.

Now some are still around, railing against signs that Japan is importing "wokeness", losing its chauvinistic traditions and less a heaven for their prejudices.

Every prosecutor going after Trump is a lib

Probably because "libs" believe and invented the modern rule of law, while others, such as Trump, believe in violent overthrow.

The old Charisma Man routine probably doesn't work as well nowadays. It was probably what kept many foreign men in Japan longer than they intended.

We typically underestimate pure luck in all aspects of our lives. Is there really a signal over the random noise of chance? I guess AI is more likely to find it. But then we may not even know how it did it. Fascinating stuff.

China's latest EV is a 'connected' car

Connected straight to the Ministry of State Security.

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said most of the reports of people experiencing ill health after taking the supplements related to those made since September last year.

A shareholder in his 70s voiced his anger that it took the company two months to go public about the issue after it was notified about the health problems in January, saying its actions came too "late."

He seems to have a good point. Something is starting to smell here.

There is precious little information about what goes into food in restaurants. And, to be honest, I don't really trust any restaurants because of this. Cheaper restaurants buy in most of the food pre-prepared and cook it on-site and few of the employees will know what has gone into it, especially what additives or taste-enhancers. The human sense of taste is so easily deceived and there are scientific industries out there whose purpose is solely to deceive it. In any case, we have no idea what goes in the food but, unlike in packaged food, there is no obligation to tell us. It's just BS marketing speak on all the menus. Expensive restaurants try to fool the customers with foreign words (I have seen "togarashi" for chillis in Australia, and not even a Japanese restaurant, for example!), when there are perfectly good English words, and it's pretty much proof they are pretentious and so in it to deceive. I make a point of asking waiting staff what the hell it all means. Calorie counts? If only that were the worst of the problem. Luckily I can cook a wide variety of foods myself and prefer my own over almost anything.

Well, only 30 years behind but it will be better than when I first got to Japan and females were mostly just decoration, nodding their heads theatrically and squeaking to anything the authoritative male newscaster said.

That picture is pretty depressing.

As ever in China, business leaders will leave their withered consciences at the door if the promise of profits is held under their fat chins. We have much to denounce them for over the past 30 years. And China has played them for all they are worth.

I shudder to think of a world where China and Russia and the opposition that holds the West accountable are no longer here.

Aaah, you were doing ok until this point. China? Russia? Those sticklers for the truth (with Chinese and fascist characteristics)?

Definitive proof he has absolutely no shame.

But, of course, a good many of Trump's disciples can understand him whatever he says because they deludedly imagine he is speaking in tongues, praising their god.

Lock him up.

Using Nvidia chips, of course, to reinvent the wheel. Of course, this is bound to appeal to Japanese who have been taught to believe everything is uniquely unique in Japan but isn't the whole point of AI that it is a universal software that can be trained specifically? Do we need a different software for each individual language and culture in the world?

approximately 0.99 grams

Approximately 1 gram then.

If the guy can interpret Trump's incoherent stream of consciousness then he is a modern-day Dr Dolittle.

It's another sordid episode in which the UK comes out stinking whatever happens to Assange from now. The less said about the hypocritical US the better.