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Posted in: Japan faces dilemma over special-needs education See in context

It's not just special needs.

The entire education system is collapsing. Students are being stuffed into dillapidating buildings with poor heating in the winters and abysmal air conditioning in the summers. The children seem utterly miserable to me. Teachers are driven to absolute neuroticism with the level of expectations they have, the sheer amount of harassment and bullying in these work environments destroying what's left of their mental health. Even many foreign English teachers also often experience this. Large amounts of time and money are dedicated to endless research and workshops that aren't improving anything, just keeping up appearances.

The government isn't making any attempt to build new schools or modernize their education system. We keep on hearing the same excuses over and over and over again.

But unneeded, extravagant new offices in Minato-ku? Oh that's fine. Immediate rubber stamps for those folks.

Again - it is never going to stop until young people understand how hard they are being screwed, and simply start organizing, starting with mass walkouts. The conformist hierarchy complex must collapse or it will destroy Japan.

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Posted in: Tokyo’s Shibuya district bans public drinking on New Year’s Eve, cancels countdown celebration See in context

We don't need walls of text or philosophical discussions to understand what is going on here.

Ken Hasebe, the mayor of Shibuya, is simply throwing another tantrum, like he did in October. Anybody with any shred of common sense can understand how unnecessary and petty this whole thing is. He's not saving lives or reducing danger, as was proven the last time he did this; he is simply posturing.

There is no "Peter Pan" complex, there is no fair Itaewon comparison, there is no justification. It's clown behavior. Stop pretending it isn't.

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Posted in: Tokyo’s Shibuya district bans public drinking on New Year’s Eve, cancels countdown celebration See in context

I knew it. I called it. I was here, on JapanToday, telling you two months ago that immediately after the Halloween moral panic ends, they will invent a new crisis and drum up more public paranoia and fearmongering. This is what they do. They have been doing this cycle every single month for years now. This is what they have been doing since early 2020.

Imagine what it's like to be a young person in this country. For three years, you got screamed at and told to wear a mask even though Covid is not a significant health risk to you. You are endlessly warned about the life-altering dangers of cannabinoids and threatened with draconian legal punishment even though they are becoming legal all around the world. You have no retirement because even people getting their national pension funds today aren't receiving enough to eat and live. And these leaders have the audacity to try to kill the part of Tokyo where young people congregate and drink wherever they feel like. To try and paywall fun. Your only hope in life is to become an underpaid corporate drone who's life revolves around work, and occasionally entertaining your pig boss at the Izakaya or Karaoke parlor.

Nothing will change until young people start aggressively pushing back against the establishment.

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Posted in: Thousands of tons of dead sardines, mackerel wash ashore in northern Japan See in context

Yikes. Not looking good for the pro-Fukushima water release crowd.

I personally do not believe there is a correlation, but this is great optics/propaganda for the folks in Beijing.

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Posted in: Nintendo cancels its Live 2024 Tokyo event after persistent threats to workers and customers See in context

While threats of violence and harassment should not be encouraged, such backlash is to be expected when Nintendo engages in blatant anti-consumer behavior.

Cease and desisting prominent fan projects and threatening the creators, trying to destroy the retro game emulation communities, attempting to control the competitive/eSports scenes for their games... Nintendo is not a good role model in these regards.

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Posted in: Japan pledges $4.5 bil more in aid for Ukraine, including $1 bil in humanitarian funds See in context

That's 4.5 billion that could be used to build new schools, repair the national pension system, or even boost Japan's own defenses.

As usual, the people in charge have a misplaced sense of priorities.

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Posted in: Diet passes bill to legalize cannabis-derived medicines See in context

I still think it's wild how the media in Japan orchestrated an entire hoax to have HHCH banned, even though it was considerably less strong than ordinary cannabis at low doses. It literally took three people getting dizzy, and boom, no legislative process, no research, nothing.

I guess they really want to protect their Corporate collectivist hierarchy complex at all costs, as unsustainable as it is in reality.

But eventually it will all collapse anyway. While Thailand, for example, decided to cut their losses whilst demonstrating solid economic growth, Japan continues to burn money on foolish endeavors while also not innovating or allowing their economy to be more dynamic.

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Posted in: Diet passes bill to legalize cannabis-derived medicines See in context

While the possession and cultivation of marijuana are already banned in Japan, the country will prohibit its use as well, setting a prison sentence of up to seven years for violation.

Utterly unhinged behavior from Japan's ruling class. These people already lost all credibility during Covid. There are way too many bloated bureaucracies and programs costing the taxpayers trillions. Hysterical anti-drug enforcement is definitely an example of terrible malinvestment - slash and burn it all to the ground. I would start with the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare, probably the biggest leech in the whole system as of late; abolish it.

In any event, Japan is declining. The post-Covid recovery never even materialized for them, aside from tourism, which they had to swallow their pride to allow anyway. Although legalization sounds great, the more likely reality is that once the money runs out out and the economy has finally fully dried up, violent crime will increase, making it harder for them to even enforce their Alexandrian library of weed laws to begin with. Make no mistake, as economic conditions worsen, the cities will eventually become ungovernable. They want to pretend they're special and different from the rest of the world, they're not. It's just a matter of time.

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Posted in: One dead, two injured after man attacks tourists near Paris' Eiffel Tower See in context

France is a mess.

It's really sad that Paris, one of the world's most aesthetically beautiful and historically important cities, has been degraded to this extent. The French people, and especially Parisians, need to do some serious self-reflection. If they continue to treat their nation state as though it is some crackhouse all the local losers can congregate to, that will come to eventually define its entire identity.

The first thing they need to do is get rid of Macron. His leadership has been atrocious.

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Posted in: U.S. continues to fly Osprey aircraft in Japan, despite Tokyo's request not to See in context

Even after guaranteeing Japan's protection, even after the US locking down entire bases when Japan blamed them for Covid spikes, even after the goodwill gesture of purchasing their seafood after they got on China's badside, Japan is still absurdly ungrateful to the US military presence in their country.

At this point, maybe the US should just pull out, save some money, defend the homefront, and feed them to the wolves.

Japan is not a good ally and a terrible host for foreign laborers, IT professionals, abroad students, English teachers, military, ect. Japan is essentially carried and propped up by foreign influences and yet they act like foreign people on their soil are some kind of nuisance and are always in the way. It's absolutely disgusting and lacking in self-awareness. They are duplicitous and unworthy of trust.

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Posted in: Japan OKs 1st domestic-made COVID shots tailored for Omicron subvariant See in context

Unless you can prove this accusation it is still valueless and empty.

It's not a conspiracy; it's literally just how pharmaceutical research works. Pharma lobbies congress. Government funds research. Universities and labs get more grant money for research if their conclusions can generate profit.

Why are you going to such great lengths to deny this? Just acknowledge the objective fact, and argue for it's merits. But acting like this isn't the case is just silly and dishonest.

If you think this is possible that only means you don't understand scientific publications and post publication peer review

Modified Excel spreadsheets are exactly how Harvard got into trouble. That's how Francesca Gino got exposed. She literally modified spreadsheets containing data for studies. It passed the peer review process and wasn't discovered until much later on.

Within the field of data analysis more broadly, without even modifying data maliciously, information is so easy to manipulate.

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Posted in: Japan university to disband scandal-hit American football club See in context

I agree Attila. American Football is a wonderful and unique sport unlike any other, barring rugby, which still has it's fair share of differences.

I am always delighted to see and hear about what's going in the underground world of Japanese football. The X-League is a bit goofy but I still appreciate the fact that people here are actually playing this sport.

At the same time, I'd actually rather it not become a global phenomenon. It's best as it is, a cornerstone of American culture in the fall and winter seasons.

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Posted in: Japan OKs 1st domestic-made COVID shots tailored for Omicron subvariant See in context

Which is irrelevant when you are trying to contradict evidence produced by scientist that are NOT in the pharmaceutical companies.

It is relevant because the pharmaceutical industry and government (their pals) have bankrolled the studies and research through their grants. That's literally what Operation Warp Speed was. The funding needed to undertake such endeavors doesn't just appear out of nowhere.

Even Harvard University has been caught faking/manipulating studies and research. It is literally as easy as editing Excel spreadsheets, and that is the dumb way of doing it. Likely, the bigger players involved, the more sophisticated the tools and methodologies are. I imagine the reason they threw that Italian-American sociology professor under the bus was because the implications of her getting exposed were relatively low risk, and they needed a sacrificial lamb. But people in pharma? We're talking trillions of dollars at play, entire industries.

If you want to be the last person on Earth defending mRNA shots, well, I guess that's your call. But from the way things look, public perception and reputation is at an all time low for the people that pushed these vaccines on all of us and got rich in the process.

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Posted in: Japan OKs 1st domestic-made COVID shots tailored for Omicron subvariant See in context

Daiichi Sankyo is a day late and a dollar short. Nothing new for a Japanese corporation.

Nobody cares about Covid vaccines anymore. Even people who have had several boosters are now saying, "Naw, I'm good".

The whole premise behind these things is incredibly bizarre. You take a shot which likely knocks you out for a day, some people have less severe side effects, some people get absolutely wrecked. It is supposed to grant you some undisclosed degree of immunity, but most people who take it still get Covid anyway. But Omicron is not particularly intense to begin with. Even original 2020 Covid, which I had before there were even vaccines, was generally a pretty uneventful experience for me. I don't think we will ever truly discover the real efficacy of the vaccines, as Covid had already declined massively in deadliness after the first year, then even more so the second year.

My guess is, as is usually the case, Daiichi Sankyo has a very nice relationship with the folks in the LDP. Most of the "scientists" in the pharmaceutical industry aren't even scientists so much as they business people, and most of the "science" is just advertising. The system is so unbelievably corrupt, and the lack of transparency is not surprising. What is surprising is the extent to which people aren't pushing back and demanding accountability from those that made this endless merry-go-round of cash possible.

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Posted in: Japan university to disband scandal-hit American football club See in context

Japan out there trying to make an example out of people that use cannabis, but if we're being honest, it's not working.

There are CBD shops on every corner selling legal highs. Every major train station in Tokyo has one nearby now. If these products weren't selling, how would these entities be able to expand to such a large extent?

Their moral crusade against HHCH, although successful in the short term, is also still a failure. They set up an entire elaborate media hoax to get it banned, but new alternatives became available the second they did that.

American Football is not a sacred cow to the Japanese, more just another foreign nuisance, so it makes sense they would sacrifice it at the altar of anti drug hysteria. They wouldn't do this if it were a soccer or baseball team.

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Posted in: Singapore, Zurich world's most expensive cities: EiU See in context

Sounds like another reason not to move to Singapore. From everything I understand about that place, it is very expensive, has an incredibly rough and competitive work culture, excessively strict on crime and punishment especially as far cannabis is concerned, and lacking in the realm of personal freedoms. The government is corrupt but often gets a pass because people tend to think of Singapore as though it is some corporate paradise. It sounds boring, as well. Not enough fun things to do for people in their twenties and thirties. It's like Japan in some ways, but somehow way more soulless. Just another concrete Asian jungle, but without any of the dazzle Tokyo or Seoul have to offer. More like Dubai if you ask me.

I do like Switzerland. At the very least, that country is breathtakingly beautiful. It makes sense why it is so expensive. Though, it seems like quite an inaccessible place.

New York is bleeding residents and tax revenue, but somehow prices never seem to go down. And the taxes are awful. I personally like NYC but that place is utterly filthy. That and every time you hop on the subway you're likely to encounter either a literal maniac or a clout chaser. A better place to visit than to live.

Hong Kong is basically just another Chinese city now. I've always wanted to go to Hong Kong but due to the circumstances, I just wouldn't feel safe doing so, let alone living and working there.

Tokyo starts to seem a lot more reasonable than all the others in comparison.

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Posted in: Japan, Vietnam to strengthen security and economic ties See in context

Foreign worker issues notwithstanding, Japan strengthening ties with Vietnam is absolutely a move that makes sense from an economic perspective.

Vietnam has demonstrated superb GDP growth in recent decades. I believe their economy has grown some sixty-fold in the past twenty years or so. There are echoes of Japan's massive growth between the 60s and 80s, or China's prior to Covid. This is a great time for Japan to make investments in the developing country, as returns are all but guaranteed. While Vietnam's status is still a far cry from some of the other East Asian giants, it's likely that it won't take very long before they are knocking on the doors of the one-trillion+ GDP club.

Now... from a military partnership standpoint, I think we should have tempered expectations.

Vietnam is out for Vietnam's best interests, as they should be. As far as it comes to China, they don't want China to hinder or suppress them, that's for sure. But it's hard to say whether Vietnam feels they have a lot of skin in the game as far as Taiwan is concerned. Moreover, in the case of a war, it is very hard for me to imagine Vietnam directly aligning itself with the US. Relations have improved, but they likely have not forgotten what we did to their country, seeing as how the effects of agent orange and scattered landmines still negatively affect them to this day.

Hopefully the Japanese can make a good sales pitch, though - that the dream of wealth and economic prosperity is within their grasp, but China may try to take that away from them if Vietnam doesn't align itself with the West.

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Posted in: Six teenagers to go on trial over beheading of French teacher See in context

France is a disaster.

It's not just a problem of open borders and Islamification. It's also the fact that decadent and degenerate social practices masquerading as a kind of "C'est La Vie" liberal philosophy have caused their culture to rot. Paris is rife with oversexualization in media, adulterous behavior, drug abuse, homelessness, violent crime, frequent riots, obsessive consumerism, ect. Meanwhile, one has to ask themself: what actually constitutes "French values"? What does that mean?

Some predatory groups of people in the Islamic world, particularly former French colonies, see this crackhouse of a society as an easy target. Even the British, for all their issues, have done somewhat of a better job of preserving their cultural identity than the French have.

France is a good blueprint for how not to run your civilization. As evil as the actions of those teenagers were, the government is also responsible for their lack of concern for the safety of their citizens or the safeguarding of their nations ideals. Charlie Hebdo, the Bataclan Massacre, the killing of Samuel Paty - a generation of failure and decline.

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Posted in: Azabudai Hills complex opens in Tokyo See in context

It seems as though the area has opened to lukewarm reception at best, and outright mockery at worst. Pretty unceremonious overall.

I don't think it is a terribly ugly building - definitely have seen worse. The smaller buildings surrounding the skyscraper as well as the "green space" are ridiculously goofy looking, though. I think if you want to have "green space" you should just open a park. The messaging is really weird overall.

I think the long term success of the project depends on if it can attract dynamic global firms as tenants. The whole ad campaign seems to be a giant sales pitch for that. If it winds up as another Sumitomo satellite, one must wonder if that purpose couldn't have been achieved efficiently and cheaper some other way.

They also need to bring in cool shops and restaurants, because for those that aren't going to work in that behemoth, they're going to need to give people a reason to actually go there. Can Azabudai provide space for things that aren't easily obtainable in other parts of the city? That matters.

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Posted in: Hanshin, Orix players parade through Kobe, Osaka before 1 million fans See in context

Looks like local governments are certainly confident about their ability to conduct crowd control when it comes to one of their sacred cows. I didn't see the mayor of Osaka telling people to stay away. Guess Osakans should be relieved Ken Hasebe isn't one of theirs.

All that being said, I am happy for the fans - a well earned championship.

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Posted in: Japan to ban cannabinoid HHCH from Dec 2 after gummies make many ill See in context

That was quick. Can’t get them to investigate their own strange numbers for accounting but if it’s to look tough and decisive about a completely innocuous thing, super fast!

Yeh, it's insane how misplaced their priorities are. Though to be fair, it's not as though Kishida or the Diet are passing this edict down from above. That process might at least posses some legitimacy. Instead, they are not legislating and having their mad dog, the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare do it.

Moreover, with regard to said Ministry's title, they really haven't done very much in the "Labor and Welfare" realms of activities recently. Their agenda for the past four years has been almost entirely Covid hysteria, and now mostly anti-weed stuff. They really are not putting any effort into curbing issues like toxic workplace culture or overtime. Like I said, they're just a bunch of shills for the pharmaceutical industry, and considering how little they actually contribute to society... I say it should be abolished and everyone there fired. Or, at least, their funds massively slashed.

But why say many? It was like 9 people. 9 people dumb enough to take random candy from a stranger. And only had a tummy ache

So, from my perspective, this entire thing could also literally just be a hoax.

How hard would it be? Pay a handful of people to put on a giant show in the park, and have media people ready to run a story on it asap. Narrative is pre-packaged, and once it gets enough attention/reporting, then the Ministry can add another substance to their kill list.

These are not honest or good people. They are opportunistic and want control.

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Posted in: Japan to ban cannabinoid HHCH from Dec 2 after gummies make many ill See in context

We were told the taxes on the pot would make our state rich.

According to the data, your state collected half a billion dollars in taxes from cannabis. If your state government is distributing that money poorly, that is not the fault of legalization.

We were told it was NOT a gateway drug.

There is no such thing as a gateway drug. There are gateway lifestyles, gateway behaviors, certainly gateway personalities that may lead people down the path of drug addiction. But there is no concrete evidence that people try cannabis and then rush off to do heroin or meth.

Billboards all over the place advertising weed and pot shops on every other corner.

So what this essentially comes down to, is you being triggered? I am certainly okay with stricter regulations on how these kinds of products are marketed, but let's face it, the advertising of cannabis in popular culture predates legalization.

There is no disaster. I would be willing to agree with you that the United States has deep cultural and societal issues, and drug addiction certainly factors into that. But the necessary actions needed to stop the opioid epidemic have repeatedly been stonewalled by people in the state and federal governments. Also it doesn't help that the pharmaceutical industry literally does not care how many die, as long as they can continue getting richer off of it.

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Posted in: Kishida questioned over LDP revenue underreporting claims See in context

It's not just Kishida or the LDP! The whole system, the entire bureaucratic apparatus, is corrupt from top to bottom. Meanwhile the economy is collapsing and Japanese people should seriously be concerned about their country's future. Even Germany is beating Japan right now, and they have as many if not more problems.

As is the case with poorly performing sports franchises, wherein talent is wasted by office drones, middle managers, and owners, there is only one solution:

FIRE EVERYONE!

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Posted in: Japan to ban cannabinoid HHCH from Dec 2 after gummies make many ill See in context

Wolfshine, may be I missed it but there didn’t appear to be any plan to ban CBD only the synthetic equivalents to THC.

Many of the CBD shops in Tokyo did sell HHCH. I can't speak for all of the entities that exist. But at one of the CBD shops I support, they told me that they would only sell HHCH and not other analogs because the others may be too strong for new users. It's not like they haven't considered the risks involved. These aren't stupid or irrational people, they run legitimate businesses. I would argue, they have probably done more scientific research than the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare has.

Admittedly banning psychoactive drugs without addressing the psychological causes or other stressors and problems leading to people seeking this route to cope with their situation is pointless and ultimately a failure. The Portuguese model should be applied far more widely.

I mean, I could understand them strictly enforcing penalties, but only on actually hard, dangerous drugs. The most widely used drug in Japan still remains shabu (meth), not weed or the analogs.

The thing is that isn't really their true goal. Their goal is controlling young people. Keeping them in line. Keep them chasing a fake path up the corporate ladder that will supposedly, eventually, lead them to prosperity. Don't rock the boat, respect authority and hierarchy. In reality, this is a terrible lifestyle. Quality of life is declining here and the economy is shriveling up.

Has anyone else noticed the monthly pattern of the media and bureaucrats finding a new moral crisis for the sake of drumming up public paranoia and hysteria?

In September, they went on a crusade against THC-B and THC-V. Then, in October, Ken Hasebe spent an entire month making him the center of media attention and harassing Halloween enthusiasts, telling them not to come to Shibuya, even though he has no right or authority to make such commands. And now, they've found the new object of moral panic: HHCH, even though it is a relatively weak substance, all because a few people who mistakenly took a high dose had a weak tolerance and didn't realize that if you lie down or go for a walk, any anxiety will eventually subside? That's how stupid this whole thing is. Next month, it will be a new stupid controversy that makes the front page even though there are seriously bigger issues and concerns in Japan and in the world.

People in the media also need to be held accountable for their role in doing the bureaucrat's dirty work. All it took was one minor incident, a ton of dishonest reporting, and the Ministry can immediately make major, massive changes that negatively affects a growing industry in Japan.

It will not change until the young people realize how hard they're being screwed, and start making some noise.

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Posted in: Japan to ban cannabinoid HHCH from Dec 2 after gummies make many ill See in context

Abolish the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare! It is nothing more than a worthless, bloated institution of bureaucrats lining their pockets with funds from their friends in big pharma. Their policies have not reduced the risk of drugs and are as ineffective/foolish as their Covid ideology.

They have lied repeatedly about the risks of these substances without doing their due diligence via research and testing. There is a legislative process that should be employed for the prohibition of dangerous drugs. Allowing an incompetent body to frivolously make changes to the law whenever they want goes well outside of the bounds of reasonable and responsible governance.

All CBD shops and dispensaries across the country should lawyer up and sue - I think they have a good case.

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Posted in: Sunak reportedly said 'just let people die' in 2020, British COVID inquiry hears See in context

I am sure that he is either being taken out of context, or being misquoted. Outright fabrication is another possibility.

In recent years, there is no group more self-righteous, embellishing, opportunistic, and downright morally vacuous than the quarantine warriors. Their philosophy ravaged a generation of culture, economic stability, and the notion of individual rights.

So having done all that, why wouldn't they just lie or exaggerate their claims? They were willing to make use of just about every other dirty trick in the book, so why stop at those?

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Posted in: Japan eyes banning cannabinoid HHCH after gummies render many ill See in context

They can ban HHCH but another way around will be soon found.

That's true, although, I think at a certain point, the government will probably get bored of playing whack-a-mole with derivative substances, and eventually just try going full on draconian. As in, anybody could be arrested at any time under the suspicion they are intoxicated not under the effects of alcohol. Anything that could be perceived as a mind-altering substance can be treated that way from a legal perspective.

The silly part is, the government already opened Pandora's box by legalizing CBD. Many CBD vape carts, particularly the terpene flavored ones, smell like weed. So if someone is hitting a vape that may have something other than the typical ingredients, what do they plan to do, test every single person they come across vaping?

For those that want to employ harm reduction strategies while also discouraging stoner culture, ultimately the best compromise would be legalizing THC-containing products, while prohibiting the smoking of cannabis. In other words, people can be allowed to responsibly do it, but in a way that is discreet, unnoticable, and doesn't promote it's use.

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Posted in: Japan eyes banning cannabinoid HHCH after gummies render many ill See in context

Once HHCH, or hexahydrocannabihexol, is designated as a psychoactive drug, its possession, use and distribution in Japan will be illegal, health minister Keizo Takemi said in a press conference.

The really crazy thing about this is that HHCH, unlike THC, especially at low doses, is barely even psychoactive in my opinion. Unlike with straight cannabis, which does very much induce psychological effects, HHCH does not strongly affect mood or put the user in an altered state of consciousness. Rather, the feeling of HHCH is comparable to that which one feels after spending half an hour on the treadmill.

The health ministry is also considering banning all substances with structures similar to HHCH, which can cause hallucinations and memory impairment.

It does not produce hallucinations at low doses. You could probably make yourself hallucinate from drinking ten cups of coffee, that doesn't mean that coffee is dangerous.

I reject the notion that this substance poses actual danger. The health ministry is on a power trip. What gives them the power to wave a magic wand and make things illegal whenever they feel like it, without any reasonable testing or analysis? Abolish this worthless bureaucratic institution and all their works; I guarantee you all these problems disappear.

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Posted in: Argentina elects 'shock therapy' libertarian Javier Milei as president See in context

Electing this far-right nutjob, a studied, clownish mishmash of Trump, Bolsonaro and Bullingdon Boris, but smarter than all three combined, exposes the Achilles heel of democracy, as did Germany's 1933 election.

This is so unbelievably unhinged. Is it really necessary to compare every election result you disagree with to that which brought us Hitler?

In any event, regarding Argentina's future, the most important thing here, we'll see how it goes. I've learned from past experiences not to get my hopes up too high.

However, more often than not, it is pretty obvious that the end result of socialist policies is that eventually the people in charge end up abandoning socialism. You can look to China, Vietnam, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere. Centrally planned economies always fail right on cue.

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Posted in: Japan's teamLab readies renewed digital museum in Tokyo mega complex See in context

I'm definitely glad this is back. I'm hoping they are able to fit even more exhibits into the new complex. It is kind of sad though that Odaiba lost a lot of it's appeal after so many attractions have closed down. I basically have no reason to go there anymore. Also, the official redevelopment plans for Odaiba aren't exciting in the slightest.

It was a pretty smart move for the people behind Azabudai to get their hands on TeamLab, considering in just about every other regard, nobody seemed interested in the project.

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