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That why all the black bus crew was at Ueno Station yesterday…I was wondering.

Nah, they always seem to be hanging out around there. Most Sundays.

The ironic thing is that countries that have abolished it generally have a lower murder rate. It's called progression.

Are there any other means of making international phone calls similar to Skype, that is not using your mobile plan?

I know you cant call landlines on it, but for me Whatsapp is still just good enough, even though Meta is trying its best to enshittify it, similar to how MS enshittified Skype and ran it into the ground. Like most software these conglomerates aquire.

The story should be that 120,000+ abortions were performed (offically) last year vs just 720,000 births. An ad for Linepharma?

From what I've heard from a few friends working in TV, he kinda liked to put his hands on places he wasn't supposed to (mostly 女子アナ's bodies).

女子アナ = I see what you did there.

Please to inform us how it is the poorest nations have the highest birthrates...when you are implying "money" is the issue.

Among other things, due to the low social status of women, poor education and high child mortality rates. Elementary, my dear Watson.

All valid grants to help fledgling businesses to get off the ground. I don't know why anybody would complain about this.

Has to be sarcasm. Has to be.

If mere kids can do this kind of stuff whith AI then one wonders what other nefarious stuff is on the cards.

Yep, nothing unexpected here. Fertility rate peaked in early 70s. Can throw more money at it, but won't change a thing.

People: please lay off the global warming stuff. This happens often in winter in Japan with a few warm ones.

A pity. An amazing museum. Been multiple times. Love Kanazawa. If could relocate to once place in Japan, this would be it.

Boeing? Seem to be dropping our the sky a lot recently. Then there are the suicided whistle blowers.

I could give them several bottles. Got lots from an old japanese guy who used to collect it at duty free shops when traveling around the world during the bubble years. Never had a thing for Cognac.

@kurisupisu

The narrative is that the temperature is becoming higher each year yet polar ice is actually increasing.

Ok... How about a citation?

There are plently of citations if you just look. And if you looked to a comment above somebody mentioned Al Gore's film, for"historical" evidence that they got it wrong. People conveniently choose to forget.

Another massive snowstorm, another tragedy. Either try and clear the roof or potentially be buried alive. Got to feel for people up there.

But the government keeps on sending money to the Ukraine and funding military expansion, and then there are the endless white elephant projects. So it is not a question of not having enough money give retirees a comfortable retirement. We need a version of DOGE here in Japan.

Amazed something hasn't happened in central Tokyo yet. The whole city is just a disaster waiting to happen. It's basically a network of canals paved over, crisscrossed by subways and other underground infrastructure. And much of it's sinking.

But consumer prices outpaced wage growth with a 3.2 percent rise in the reporting year, although the pace decelerated from a 3.8 percent increase in 2023.

My situation: a 0% pay rise VS a 30% rise in the price of everyday goods, when including shrinkflation.

Somebody is telling porkies.

The horror!

Making more money a week then most people have for disposable income in a year.

Hardly.

https://spojoba.com/articles/1059

It was not the slowness of the response what saved people but the complete cooperation of the people with the science backed measures. 

Rewriting history right before our very eyes.

And their "fee collectors" are like cockroaches - annoying, hard to get rid of, and nobody wants them in their house.

Yeah, they were phased out during Covid. You just get notice in your box demanding you pay now.

To be fair she does look quite frail in that photo. Could have something to do with it. Proper nutrition is very important in building a good immune system. Poor lady.

If someone is nonstop on their computer or phone, your cafe doesn't even become a communication space. You might as well just set up tiny booths.

Indeed, most cafes here are treated as places to silently study, with the tapping fingers on keyboards the only sound to be heard. Was given the look for daring to talk in one Starbucks. Never went back.

In other news, Sam Altman recently said: "I still expect, although I don't know what, and this is over a long period of time, not a next year or year after that kind of thing. But, over a long period of time, I still expect that it will be some change required to the social contract given how powerful we expect this technology to be."

Another billionaire who thinks he should determine our future "social contract". Sounds like a Bond villain intent on total world domination.

Aren’t we supposed to be moving away from fossil fuels due to the fact that… Well, the end of the world and all that.

The sky isn't going to fall in your head due to you consuming a little fossil fuel. Stay warm!

You should have opensourced OpenAI from the start, Mr. Altman. And you should have diversified your business while you could. As it is your business model is doomed.

Who would've thunk? The sooner the EU is disbanded and countries allowed to set their own laws and have their own currencies again, the better. Talk about a failed experienent.

Japan should start by placing a huge tariff on US-made EVs.

American EVs are hardly a thing here. EVs in general are not.

And was just at the supermarket and saw a massive stack cabbages for 299 yen. The article title is disingenuous. More climate change nonsense.