Ah_so comments

NATO is our best defence against the Russian menace. It must stay strong.

Mid summer and it 35c ? Sounds normal and even up to 40c is normal. So why the hype. 

35C is normal, but hot.

40C is rare, but much more common than it ever used to be. It is not hype to talk about such extreme temperatures.

I’d say the mockery one is the one I most often come across.

Sounds like the unpopular teenagers and stunted adults you come across spamming social media.

I agree that mockery is the key one, I think it is a combination of all of them, but mainly the latter 3 points.

Climate change denial, and the rejection of science, has become a political mark of faith for many on the right. But not just denying it, because when it obviously is happening, they have the personal means (rather than societal means) to tackle how it effects them personally. They are all right, and that is all that matters, not people poorer than them, and not future generations that will curse our selfishness.

And to show they don't care, they will make it extra cold and wear a sweater, just to own the Libs.

IDK

I love reading the inevitable of posts on these threads telling us how they’ve got the Air conditioning blasting.

It's not like no one else has air conditioning. Everyone has it on. But the preceding post to yours mentioned setting it to 19.5C (not that I believe this number, given most find this to be uncomfortably cold and the shock stepping outside is even worse ).

While there are various motives for people telling us they've got the aircon on, I think the likely ones are:

self-absorption and the belief that others care.

boastfulness, in setting the temperature exceedingly low and showing that they don't care about the money.

power over nature - that they are immune to what nature can do, or what mankind has done to nature.

mockery - a huge middle finger to those who care about climate change - but only do they not care, safe in their hyper-chilled apartment, but they are are making things even worse. LOL.

I will put the aircon on out of necessity, but I'm fine with 27C or 28C - it's summer.

The results are disappointing and they don't represent what French people want," said Jocelyn Cousin, 18,

I think that Jocelyn needs a lesson on how elections work, as she seems to have a basic misunderstanding.

Its ALWAYS been like this.

Always.

And

Summer is here, as has been the case in every year past,

Why are people so keen to deny climate change? The fact that the temperatures are getting hotter is well-documented.

Since 1990, Japan has experienced a notable increase in summer temperatures. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) provides detailed records and analyses of temperature trends. According to the JMA, the average temperature in Japan has increased by about 1°C since 1990.

Specifically, during the period from 1990 to the present, the average summer temperature in Japan has risen by approximately 1.0 to 1.5°C. This trend is consistent with the global pattern of rising temperatures due to climate change, driven primarily by increased greenhouse gas emissions.

To illustrate:

The 1990s saw a series of warm summers, but the 2000s and 2010s have experienced even higher temperatures.

Record-breaking heat events, such as the 2018 heatwave, underscore the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme heat in recent decades.

This warming trend has been documented in various scientific studies and climate reports, underscoring the significant impact of climate change on Japan's weather patterns.

Don’t worry too much about people over 70 dying of heat stroke. It’s called survival of the fittest and natural selection.

As well as showing an uncaring attitude to the elderly, you wrap it up in a basic misunderstanding of natural selection. By 70, most will have already passed on their genes if they are going to.

Secondly, grandparents have a key role in human survival. While parents were doing their hunter-gathering activities, grandparents could look after children, increasing their chances of survival to adulthood and passing on their genes. If there no grandparents*, the human species would likely have gone extinct long ago.

*Of course, very few ever made it past 70 historically, but there were people in their 50s and 60s.

Maybe you are right. I am not arguing whether the war was justified or not; only that it was a civil war.

Your analysis is entirely correct in that it was a civil war, but it was also a war of independence - the two aren't mutually exclusive. About a quarter of residents of the colonists were on the Loyalist side, but were outnumbered by those who supported independence.

The idea that it was a revolution of all Americans against redcoats is an easy historical myth.

And even more kept their heads down and didn't support either.

In a world where politics is increasingly lurching to the far right, it is good to see a centre-left party win a large majority.

Blair and his New Labour got the title Conservatives Under New Terminology, or something like that.

Perhaps that's what it takes to win.

The reality is that Tony Blair is the only Labour leader to win a majority since 1966, 58 years ago.

Starmer will join Blair and Wilson as the only Labour leaders to win a majority in the last 60 years.

As ruler who cannot be challenged for near official acts, Biden needs to appoint ten new supreme court judges and reverse this decision.

But if Trump is elected President, that is the end of the USA as a democracy given what he will do. Those who celebrate the decision today will rue it in the future.

these self-entitled individuals that were raised after the war era.

A 56 year-old would have been born in 1968, and would have been only 32 in the year 2000, and in modern parlance, part of "generation X". He wasn't exactly part of the post-war baby boom generation.

Where's all this money coming from?

Why is this an issue for you?

But given that it was announced by the government, I imagine the government.

Or is it perhaps that the “far right” moniker is perhaps just nonsense propaganda?

Good question. Let's look at the article:

a party co-founded by a former Waffen SS membe

And there's your answer. The "far right" moniker is fully justified.

There is only one candidate that Biden could beat, and that's Donald Trump. The latter being the worst possible outcome for the US and the world.

But even so, Biden had better go after that.

As another poster pointed out, this climber had a long-standing heart condition. Can you cite any medical studies that show "perfectly fit young people" are increasingly dying due to heart issues over the past couple of years? Nope?

I didn't think so.

I think that OP was trying to refer to a well-known conspiracy theory linked to the COVID vaccine. But as you noted, there is no evidence for this.

So they wants to divert everything to one point.... ABORTION... is this the BIGGIST issue of US voters now????

NO HELL no ..

Taking away women's bodily autonomy is a huge issue. The Christian right has been celebrating this for months and Trump regularly refers to it.

The US is now in the tiny minority of developing countries in the world that don't guarantee a right to an abortion.

 It seems like you’ve lived in Japan but you haven’t bothered to learn much about your host country.

In his defence, not knowing a fairly esoteric part of Japanese election law doesn't seem to be that big a deal. You could be very well informed in Japan and not this.

I doubt my wife or my in-laws know this despite being Japanese. It probably has not occurred to them one way or the other.

Personally I hate door knockers, be they electoral candidates, salesmen or God botherers

Japan should build an extensive freight rail network like the US has done.

If you live near a railway line you'll see that there's a vast amount of freight moved by train in Japan.

PC has been around as a concept since the early 90s and it hasn't killed comedy.

There is a reason most people don't know the 10 Commandments, and that's because they are silly. Let's take #2:

You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

No pictures of any animals whatsoever, whether you worship them or not. And if you do draw a picture of an animal, your great grandchildren will be punished.

And people want to put this poppycock up in public schools?

This is ridiculous. The individuals involved obeyed the local laws. How is this even news?

Japan needs to grow up, relax and stop behaving like this. It makes thr country look a silly.

It’s a little bit of the theater of the absurd at this point, right?

Anything involving Trump is a theater of the absurd.

These religious fanatics are the best thing that came along for the Democrats. Whenever they try to restrict women's right to bodily self-autonomy, democracy springs into action and defends their human rights.

Climatewise, Japan has a lot of months that are pretty bad for visiting. Too hot, too cold or too wet.

The little princes look ridiculous in those suits. The little princess looks just like her mother, which is for the best, rather than looking like princess Anne, like the rest of the royals.

Since when is making sweets considered a skill?

Can you make sweets? If it's unskilled work, I'm sure you can, even without training.

Here's Trump's latest ramblings about sharks and batteries:

“So I said, ‘Let me ask you a question, and [the guy who makes boats in South Carolina] said, ‘Nobody ever asked this question,’ and it must be because of MIT, my relationship to MIT —very smart. He goes, I say, ‘What would happen if the boat sank from its weight? And you’re in the boat and you have this tremendously powerful battery and the battery is now underwater and there’s a shark that’s approximately 10 yards over there?’

By the way, lot of shark attacks lately. Did you notice that?

So I said, so there’s a shark 10 yards away from the boat, 10 yards or here, do I get electrocuted if the boat is sinking? Water goes over the battery, the boat is sinking. Do I stay on top of the boat and get electrocuted, or do I jump over by the shark and not get electrocuted? Because I will tell you, he didn’t know the answer. He said, ‘You know, nobody’s ever asked me that question.” I said, ‘I think it’s a good question.’ I think there’s a lot of electric current coming through that water. But you know what I’d do if there was a shark or you get electrocuted, I’ll take electrocution every single time. I’m not getting near the shark. So we’re going to end that.”

And there are people, millions actually, some otherwise quite normal, who would vote for this raving lunatic and make him the world's most powerful man. If it weren't so serious, it would be laughable.

To me "snakku" means "gaijin not welcome, but this will be very expensive either way."