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@fallaffel

Many? Would you believe all cities build infrastructure related to the climate of the area they are situated in.

I am fairly confident that every city in Japan has straighten the rivers, built dikes and dams and installed pumping stations to reduce the risk of flooding and it was done 70 years ago.

Most people, everywhere, particularly young people worry about how they look and some get obsessed by it.

Generally, the rules against wearing cosmetics in high schools in Japan, as uncomfortable that period of life is, forces girls to not try to hide their faces behind a layer of make-up and for most they learn to accept how they look at an early age, develop self-confidence and move on.

Look around, you will find a lot of woman in Japan who use no cosmetics or only a minimal amount.

@Moonraker

Your heart should bleed for the elementary school boys who are not part of any "patriarchy."

Equality, if you have any sense on what that means, does not mean punishing innocent boys because of what a 90 year old might have thought.

@dbsaiya

Hezbollah has been declared a terrorist organization by a lot of well meaning countries. More than half of the citizens of Lebanon strongly oppose Hezbollah. Hezbollah did not comply with the UN resolution to disarm to bring peace in 2006. A foreign government, Iran has continued to fund and arm the terrorist organization within long-suffering Lebanon against the wished of most Lebanese citizens.

A foreign funded militia of 100,000 on its soil will bring bad results.

Lebanon has been weak in trying to appease the terrorists.

If your country harbours a terrorist group funded by a foreign government things are guaranteed to go badly.

Lebanon needs to get series and start taking out their own trash.

@Moonraker

In countries where there is more equal opportunity people self sort so in the Nordic countries, the majority of nurses are still woman.

In North America, the education system, particularly at the elementary level is made up predominantly of woman and the system now has a strong anti-boy bias. It is problematic as the percent of post-secondary graduates that identify as male is only 40%. There is a generation of young men who were pushed down by the female dominated education system who will forever be excluded from high paying jobs.

Japan needs to improve and has an opportunity to create a system that truly offers equality to all students.

"Unlock hundreds of billions of dollars."

Those hundreds of billions of dollars come from taxpayers in other countries.

Stay the heck out of my wallet!

All slopes are slippery and Japan's slide into poverty continues.

@Banthu

We will never know the names of who was attending these parties and victimized woman.

Everyone else will get and pass and it will be swept under the rug with the names of all the folks who travelled to pedo-island.

@GDBD

How are the countries that were colonized by the Ottoman empire doing?

How are the folks in Tibet, colonized by China doing?

How are the indigenous Uyghur folks in China doing?

Western freedom and democracy has enabled the highest standards of living in the history of humanity.

Countries that have adopted freedom and democracy are all doing a heck of a lot better than the people in countries that have not.

Palestinians-Israeli citizens are doing a heck of a lot better than the people in all of the other countries in that region.

As long as the people in Gaza allow themselves to be governed by a terrorist organization, the longer they will suffer. They should throw off the terrorist shackles and adopt freedom, democracy, the rule-of-law and equality.

These are not "pro-Palestinian rallies. They are hate filled antisemitic woke gatherings.

The educated, hard working, smart, dedicated, honest, democratic, rational people of character have fled Haiti and been given refugee status in other countries leaving the opposite people in charge.

There is a high price to be paid in the fight for freedom, equality and democracy.

Martin Luther King Jr was killed, he gave his life to make his country a better place and improve the lives of his fellow man, he did not seek refuge in a foreign country.

The irony of providing safe harbour refugee status for people fleeing Haiti is that the best and the brightest that the country despertly needs are absent leaving the country in the hands of the worst and dullest, perpetuating the never ending violence and corruption.

With that many woman added, it should mean Zayn Malik wins everything.

All of the arguments from the unions and their "allies" are exactly the same arguments made by the Luddites 200 years ago. The Luddites were proven wrong and the unions and their allies will be as well.

Luddites!

Ugledar is a real game changer and not the type the supporters of this proxy war had hoped for. The path for Russia is open in the south and west.

Zelensky knows he is done and there will be no exile for him as he knows where all the money went and he can't be allowed to have that information.

It is past time for woman to work harder and get the skills to contribute more.

@Jayszee

You need to find another employer.

If you want to see the problem, go to a park early in the morning.

The basic problem is that Japan has a huge dependency ratio that gets worse every day.

There are only 2 workers for every senior in Japan. Organizations like the Japan Post and Asahi have pension benefits that must be paid, they need more money.

Workers in Japan are in for 20 years of "poverty" as wealth is redistributed to support boomers, the majority of which are physically and mentally healthy enough to work and contribute to society.

Other countries are trying to address their dependency ratio problems through mass immigration which is currently creating social cohesion problems. Those problems are likely to dissipate as immigrants are integrated.

An easy solution for Japan is to immediately raise the retirement age to 70 or even as high as 73 while allowing for an increase in the number and monthly stipend for a "senior disability benefit" for older folks who's bodies and minds fail before reaching the age of 70.

Obviously, the prices have to increase to ration the supply of goods because all the foreign tourists are drinking all the Calpis. Right?

@wallace

I am with you. I don't consider things backed up unless I have 3 copies, a local drive, I drive updated regularly and stored at a family's home and a copy on flickr, which also allows me to retain the copyright.

If I'm not mistaken, if one posts an image on some popular social media sites the TOS gives copyright to the SM media company.

But if I just post a link to my image on flickr, I retain the copyright.

@wallace

I understand but I would never trust my images to the google resolution downgrade.

Flickr offers unlimited full resolution image storage for US$72.99 for a year which includes video files up to 10 minutes long. Why would anyone pay Google or Apple to back up their photos?

One thing they are certain to find, besides useless biodegradable forks, along the Saint Lawrence River is raw sewage. Between 2012 and June 2024 the City of Montreal only recorded 66 times out of 500 when fecal coliform counts fell below the safe threshold.

In Canada, the left have made "plastic" their signature issue regardless that only 2% of plastic waste ends up in the environment. Just like everything else 2% of people cause 98% of the problems and that number is not going to change. There will always be people in the cities who dump their old tires, old clothes and junk out in the countryside and that is not going to change.

The easy low hanging fruit to improve on in Canada is to stop dumping poop into the Saint Lawrence River.

Also this article is disingenuous and full of misinformation as it is clearly about Canada but brings in stats and "facts" from outside of Canada and tries to apply them to Canada creating a very false, what some might call fake, impression.

I wonder if Zelenskyy's "victory plan" includes the loss of 8 F-18s in the past 2 days and the complete encirclement of 1,500 troopers in Vuhledar?

One hour of benefits for one hour of work. Make a law that "irregular" workers must receive 1 more worth of benefits for 1 hour of work at the rate at which the salaried staff receive benefits.

Enough of these large corporations employing 2 classes of workers!

Ishiba defeating the Aso faction is positive news.

It is probably a late night at Toyota HQ as Robby Starbuck has targeted Toyota America. Toyota America will follow his other targets and change their DIE policies or sales will collapse in America.

Macron is being impeached by the far left he encouraged and Trudeau is busy putting money in certain pockets before he gets booted out of office.

Canada has run out of other people's money and is at risk of dropping to a GDP/capita that is 50% of the US.