WilliB comments

Actually, it is gobbling up jobs as we speak. The limit for this thing will be energy. Consumption is increasing exponentially with every new generation, similar to the crypto mining situation.

Fighto!

"Stink bomb" is a rather innocuous and biased way to describe what really was thrown by Watson : super dangerous butyric acid. This could have easily blinded one of the whalers.

Err, really? I remember handling this in chemistry class. It is extremely stinky, but not particularly strong or dangerous in contact. No idea what you have to do to get blinded by it. Maybe you can elaborate.

Wasabi

He caused damage to one of its whaling ships in 2010 in the Antarctic and causing injury.

I thought those were whaling research ships. I seem to remember Japan circumvented intl whaling restrictions by labelling it as research. Are you saying these researchers were actually whaling?

GDBD

From my experiences, Non-muslim Indonesians living abroad somehow keep bashing Indonesia at every conversation even when not specifically asked about.

...and you think that is surprising, seeing that there is constant low-level discrimination against non-muslims, despite Pancasila? Fwiw, I have Indonesian friends to converted ("reverted" in islamic terminology) to islam, just to make life easier for them.

Fwiw, you might also consider a trip to Aceh, where you see what Indonesia without Pancasila looks like.)

Wasabi

Of course his religion do not have any religious extremism... of course!!!

Catholic religious extremists can go to a monestary and become monks. Suicide bombing is not one of the paths to paradise for them, last time I looked.

WoodyLee

Dear Pope, how about travelling to Israel and preach to them to guard against religious extremism. Indonesia is NOT at war or conflict with anyone as far as we know.

How about travelling to Gaza and preach to Hamas about religions extremism. Have you read the Hamas charter?

Remember, Hamas can end the war any time by surrendering and releasing the surviving hostages.

CrashTestDummy

Still human created climate change has not been proven beyond a reasonable doubt

Indeed. Of course human activity has an influence (as does an unlimited number of other factors), but the claim that it is the only influence is phantasy.

and still no proof humans can lower the global temperature, reduce natural disasters, and control the weather/climate. 

...and even if you accept the claim that humans can control the climate like a thermostate via the carbon emissions, there is still no line from here to there, as it is irrelevant if a few Western governments limit their emission, because the vast majority of mankind is not in on this scheme. For example, in 2020 China put into production more coal burning power plants than the entire European plants in existence. Even if the US and Europe magically disappeared from the planet, that would still not freeze or stop human carbon emissions. So the rethoric simply does not match reality.

virusrex

You misremember, even at the time scientists were clearly saying the trends in the changes pointed to the opposite of cooling,

https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/89/9/2008bams2370_1.xml

Really? Check here for example:

https://longreads.com/2017/04/13/in-1975-newsweek-predicted-a-new-ice-age-were-still-living-with-the-consequences/

And that was not an isolated article. I clearly remember how global cooling was all over the media, and my parents bought warm clothes and even installed a wood-burning stove in the house, just in case...

Re-writing history a la 1984 a bit?

No children = no future. In the short term, demographics is nothing, in the long term it is everything.

If the summary of this paper by Professor J. Sean Curtin is accurate, this would be an absurdly simplistic, childish paper. I have difficulties believe a university would produce something as ridiculous as this, but these days one never knows.

Read old articles. This has been predicted for decades, and each prediction has been wrong.

I did not realize there is something called an illegal haircut.

Haaa Nemui

Agree. Start with removing Putin, Kadyrov, Lukashenko.

Why? They are reacting to Nato expansion and the violation of the Minsk agreement, which was supposed to prevent all this. (Both Merkel and Macaron have admitted in recent interviews that they like and never intended to follow up on Minsk. You missed that?)

cleo

They are also continuing to shell evacuees from the area around the Dnipro River flooded by the Russian destruction of the dam.

Russia blowing up its own dam, that is used for water supply to the Crimea and the nuclear plant down stream? That makes as much sense as the claim that Russia blew up its own Nordstream pipeline. (Then again, possibly you believe that too)

I do not believe propaganda from either side, but fundamentally I would like to know what the point of this "counteroffensive" is. Is it to march all the way to the red see and separate Crimea from Russia? Or even to re-occupy Crimea itself? There is no world in which ANY Russian government could accept so an existential threat. If the US and its European followers keep pushing this, we will get nuclear World War 3. It is time to put some responsible leaders in charge and stop this reckless behaviour.

While I believe that everyone has the right to a legal defense (to keep a check on the justice system), I can not imagine how the defense lawyer feel, trying to find an angle to excuse this murderous creep.

wallace

It took a very large amount of explosives to blow the dam.

Not necessarily. The dam was already weakened by previous Ukrainian shelling, and it is not sure how well the turbines were maintained. Note that not the whole dam was destroyed (that would have had a massively bigger impact), but only the top part of one section. So for the moment, the nuclear plant downstream still gets some cooling water, and the Crimean still gets some water supply.

TaiwanIsNotChina

Offensive's not over yet. There is still the possible of removing terrorists from more of Ukraine.

You mean the Azov regiment that is embedded in Zelenskis military? Yes, removing them will have to be a condition for a settlement.

Cogito Ergo Sum

. Japan and Co keep throwing fuel in there but not pursuing peace..

Exactly. Without US funding, this war would stop tomorrow, and the issue could be resolved (fundamentally by implenting something similar to the Minsk accord again, but this time with guarantees). The US posturing about supporting the Zelenski government "as long as it takes" is completely irresponsible, and that the J government goes along with it is sad.

CCP money speaks loudly and clearly. By the way, before American politicians start pontificating about the issue they should remember that the US also switched diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to Peking.... in 1979 already.

That crime stinks

Sweden joining Nato is a terrible idea, and Japan has no business opining on it.

What is next? Japan wants to join the "Northern Atlantic" treaty orgization and participate in the next US proxy war?

Michael Machida

This would not be a thing if China never indicated they were going to take Taiwan by force. Remember that.

That comment would make sense if the US actually recognized Taiwan as an independent country. But they do NOT, ever since Nixon signed the "one china policy" in 1979. So the US is trying to having it both ways... on one hand profitably outsourcing cheap production to the CCP and on the other hand arming Taiwan as a vassal state. This contradiction had to erupt eventually. Remember that.

I am sure shooters were all legal gun owners, and not affiliated with any criminal activity. Otherwise, the article would surely have mentioned that. Cough.

He thought he was at the Oktoberfest? Injuries from beer steins are one of the typical cases in the Red Cross tent there...

I like Japan, but the corrupt justice system is one of its dark sides. This is ridiculous.

China seeks dialogue, says clash with U.S. would be 'unbearable disaster'

No friend of the CCP, but he is simply stating a fact here. The current US warmongering against the other major nuclear powers is totally irresponsible.

Ken Holcomb

Low birth rate coupled with a seemingly high infanticide rate bodes poorly for Japan's future.

The birth rate is even lower in neighboring Korea and China, so Japan is not alone in this pickle. Actually, Europe is in it too.

The demographic future belongs to Africa.

Prigozhin has been a drama queen for a long time. No surprise he continues this.

The US government has no money for its own citizens, but endless money to finance its war in Eastern Europe.