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So, most probably it's Biden vs Trump, right? Question for all Americans here, how do you feel when your country can only produce these presidential candidates, of Beavis and Buthead quality?

To the people here claiming Japanese language understanding and that xenophobia occured in this video -really?? It seems to me you didn't understand a word from what was being said - especially the comments around 9:50, etc. It was a pretty objective analysis of the dangers posed by having tourists doing this activity. In the end it was clearly said that Japanese themselves aren't respecting the driving rules carefully, thus can't suddenly start blaming foreigners just because they're foreigners and must look deeper into reasoning.

REALLY???

Okasa's ranking is somewhere around the 120's. Nishikori is much worse. Japanese tennis is in a pretty sorry state if they don't find anyone in the top 50!

To be frank, I learned tennis as a child in a European country, then took some lessons as an adult in Japan. The strategy is purely robotic - learning to return standardized shots in standardized ways. Any tendency to increase strength or return difficulty ended in a berating from the instructor. I have very little positive experience, but no wonder they're that bad...

Yes, vote Koike! Her small mistakes in managing the Olympics only cost the taxpayers a few tens of billions of coconuts. Let's give her another chance at wasting more money! Vote Koike!

Of course, part of that is because it is full of old people who grew up with such roles, and most of the youth has escaped to town, but that would be much the same in Serbia or Romania.

Just check where both of the countries you just mentioned ranked. I bet they're in the first third. It's pointless to find excuses and apologies instead of strategies to improve.

a rapid change in gravitational force

I assure you the gravitational force did not change :) . The g-force the passengers felt did. That's something completely different.

given their safety and efficiency why place it in such a pristine natural ecosystem lime Wyoming?

You have absolutely no proof they are unsafe. Their very principle of functioning makes them orders of magnitude safer than water cooled reactors - they can't "boil off", don't produce highly explosive steam, don't produce even more explosive hydrogen, are less corrosive and work under lower pressures.

"Given their safety" is a pointless question without any proof of them being unsafe.

Provocative enough yet?

https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-olaf-scholz-calls-consequences-following-islamist-rally/

Constant pushes for accepting indiscriminately Muslim immigration, with all the bad consequences now seen all over Europe because out of it, combined with extreme pushes for "ecology" and other "minority" agenda has caused for the people to retake control.

I mean - there were recent pushes for adopting a Sharia variant in the EU Muslim communities (who, by the way, speak no other languages but Arabic) - like, how about NO?

To people replying to my previous message with "yeah, but I have a happy life with my spouse and my X kids" - of course! - but the laws of statistics (which govern these matters) say you can't apply your particular case and extrapolate it over the big picture. Which is obviously very different from your happy case - otherwise we would have better birth numbers..

Strangeland - congratulations - I'm not dismissing that many would do this for love - like in your case. But the obvious truth (given the birthrates) is that you are in the minority here, and many won't ever find such good reasons to give away their current life because of society pressuring them into building a family.

As a young male, WHY would you want to get married and see your anyway pretty small income, suddenly split in three? Not that it would matter, as you would lose immediately control over ALL it and you will hand it all over to the stay-at-home-wife. This is the scenario in sight for the vast majority of males between 18-30 in Japan.

The same for a female - you've spent 16 years in school and are about to start a good career - some are engineers and doctors - WHY would you want to stay at home and become nothing more than a baby-making machine, as the visions of stale, know nothing ojiisans from the LPD dictate?

The only reason would be love. That's not so easy to find behind smartphone screens. Just go to a nice restaurant and watch the first time daters not talking to each other but browsing away on their iPhones, to understand how this is not going to work. LPD thought, in their utter incompetence even of that - so they made yet another useless omiyai app :) .

Anyway - Japan is too overpopulated as it is.

Haha - is the expectation that we behave now like robots? Let's now allow all kind of mentally deranged people rule how WE should behave through such fake threats of "you're harassing me!"... This is crossing the line.

Slow summer grinds on? Haven't we just entered the summer there days ago?

The nanbanjin invasion.

Make no mistake about it, NOTHING happens in Japan without Japanese involvement regardless if it's Good Or Bad.

Really? In Japan you can usually find extraordinarily nice bonsai in people's gardens - many aren't even protected by a fence. Do you really think the Viets need any yak's approval to steal these and sell them online? I don't think so.

They were giving condom counts even 20 years back - how sad of a life must over have to scrap the bottom of the barrel to produce an article like this every four years?

Nobody but some perverted, frustrated-in-life journalists, really cares about this idiotic story, popping out each and EVERY Olympiad.

Hey China, suck on this for a while! They're releasing three times the contaminants from only a single plant, but make the distinction that their own ones don't come from a nuclear disaster. Like it makes any difference?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/25/fukushima-daiichi-nuclear-power-plant-china-wastewater-release

The hit was strong enough to cause him to momentarily collapse. That after playing a game (so with high blood tension) can easily cause brain damage. It's not an "excuse" nor is it "drunk tennis".

Most probably people hate Djokovic for him coming out of East Europe and being better than any other player out here.

Here is the hit, in case anyone cares to joke about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBRtBJdmf2k

Airbus and Boeing have manufacturing constraints in part because the two companies are not so much aircraft makers as “aircraft assemblers”

Really? Who wrote this thinks that aircraft designs and the plans for those parts to be assembled come out of the sky, given by God?

As long as your underwear (and anything else) says "Made in China", you have no right of an opinion on this. You've already approved China's behavior and voted for it with your money.

He forgot taking his meds. Voters, take note of this next time and vote with your brains.

Banning Trick Tok for good is one area where both partied agreed. 24B USD is a small sum to pay for the priviledge of not having your life spied uppon by the Chinese government.

Yet seems curiously un-self-aware regarding its international reputation,

It cares about one thing only, and that is $$$ Money $$$.

A politician pledging for MORE censorship. Who would have thought? Of course he will, those videos only showcase the incompetence and inefficiencies of the systems under his command.

Sounds like what they're doing to Trump

Yes, and the similarities are obvious - both Baldwin and trump are in the "authority without accountability" phase of theirs lives - and both are shocked that someone dared calling them on their actions and their consequences. Because of trump at least four people died in the Capitol. Because of Baldwin's cowboy cosplay with a real gun someone died. Very similar indeed.

You understand this is against the law, right? If someone is affected by the false reviews they may force google to give up information to identify you and sue.

Not if you give positive reviews! Who are you to tell me not to write "I really loved the place, highly recommended!" on Google Maps. That is not against any laws.

I got teeth colored fillings using my national health insurance. What are you talking about?

You get the rosin ones, that change colour within 3 years and cost nothing to produce. You DON'T get any ceramic (powder or monolyth ones. You also don't get veneers or actual teeth replacement unless they're metallic with the national health insurance. Do a quick check about the standards in EU and compare them with Japan.

Or you can get a filling done for about 6000 yen.

IF you problem is solved with unsightly metallic fillings, that is... Most people try to avoid having all the metal detectors sounding the alarms in airports. It is impossible for me to comprehend why insurances don't support teeth coloured fillings and (well) teeth, while the costs are about the same as the metallic ones. No wonder they get bad Google reviews, a hard look at the Japanese dentistry shows you they're easily 50 years behind the modern standards!