john b comments

"what should i do? what should i do?" seems a bit strange. i hope they checked her for alcohol, but i bet they didn't.

at the time i write this, it seems six people disagree with you. on the other hand, the other 124,999,994 probably agree.

The cars are going too fast, the drivers aren't paying attention, and a lot of the school routes I have seen are chosen with no consideration of that. Bad results will follow.

at 89, sadly he'll be giving nearly half of it back in inheritance tax before too long. japan is a world leader in that.

time to codify, amplify, and apply the monroe doctrine. it's strange nobody is even talking about that.

carnegie had inscribed on his mantle:

he who can't reason is a fool

he who won't reason is a bigot

he who dare not reason is a slave

it would be unreasonable to abuse the first, a waste of time to abuse the second, and very difficult not to abuse the third.

a lesson will be learned here:

if you do something the ICC won't like, you can't let an election remove you from power.

overall, the world will be worse off for this.

my comment got cut off:

i'm trying to wrap my mind around what i quoted above. is this possible?

Some 1.2 million residents in a total of 12 cities and towns in the prefecture have been urged to refrain from using the sewage system since Tuesday, according to the prefectural government.

the only losers here, and sad it is for them, are the 1700 workers. amazon and all its customers (essentially everyone) win. i would have done what amazon did without hesitation.

the only possible mitigating factor i can imagine is that there are other initials carved there. can anyone nearby verify that there are NOT? if not, hang 'im high! like with graffiti, a culture can tolerate it all over or demand it be totally absent; good luck trying to navigate a middle ground.

that there is only one other comment suggests that everything will be fine, at least with respect to public relations.

to anyone who is against dual nationality, try living half the year in two different countries for a few years. it is very complicated. also try being married to someone from another country and planning for the future. it is very complicated. then imagine the same scenario with children, in a pandemic, and all the other permutations.

people should be able to marry people wherever they are from, spouses should be able to have the same citizenship, no one should have to give up their birth citizenship, ergo dual citizenship is a human right. throw in children, and the argument gets only stronger.

the US is 50 separate laboratories of democracy. when you have no state income tax and few regulations, like Texas and Florida, businesses and rich people will flock there. similarly if you decriminalize drugs, like Oregon did, drug users will flock there. advocates for the law surely hoped to benefit the current drug users in the state, but they probably ended up attracting drug users to the state. common sense would dictate not making your state the easiest place to buy or use drugs or the easiest place to be a criminal or the easiest place to be homeless or the easiest place to be sick or the easiest place to be chronically unemployed. people will go where they get the best deal, and each state will get the people they offer the best deal to.

maybe someone could call the UN for assistance

'Sounds like a defect in the steering."

maybe you meant:

'Sounds like a defect in the person steering.'

i lay on the horn whenever i see a car cross the center line. i also lay on the horn when i see an oncoming driver using a keitai. if everyone did this, the place would sound like india. perhaps the third world noise levels would suggest to people that we are heading toward a third world safety situation.

" It is also believed that he had developed an adjustment disorder just before his death."

can anyone translate this all the way into english for me? this may be how 'they' try to shift some of the blame.

"but it's just basic common sense that wheels and legs do not belong on the same paths"

if you have only road and sidewalk and you have a pedestrian, a cyclist, and a giant truck, do you really think the cyclist belongs on the road with the giant truck?

i think you're on to something

this should be or is illegal; i wish i knew which. if businesses can't make money from the extra business, and i guess many of them can't, it is because they are so INEFFIECENT. productivity here is laughable and the cause of many problems like low salaries and a weak yen. punish the visitors, watch them flee, then tell me if that solves your problems.

this makes a big difference where i live, if it is enforced. i have have no problem calling 110 EVERY DAY!

"He said tourists, not local tax payers, should pay for local projects like air-conditioning schools."

well, of course!

if i were running the us or israel, i'd be firing on the houthis for FIRING at me, not for HITTING me.

"Japan plans to increase jet fuel production and imports to address a pick-up in demand from flights amid a boom in tourism, according to a draft government plan presented on Tuesday."

"The draft was presented by the industry and transport ministries to a panel of specialists discussing the fuel shortage issue."

language like this might cause one to forget that this is a capitalist country.

Japan plans to increase jet fuel production and imports to address a pick-up in demand from flights amid a boom in tourism, according to a draft government plan presented on Tuesday.The draft was presented by the industry and transport ministries to a panel of specialists discussing the fuel shortage issue.

one more ask!:

is there anyone out there with a child in elementary school, a child who most likely has not come to understand sexuality, their own or that of others, who thinks it is either necessary or beneficial for their child to understand some or all of the lgbtq+ options in the world before they even feel the inevitable pull of these questions?

i want to hear this person's reasoning, because i want to understand. my thinking is so completely different; i can't even imagine the argument on the other side.

is there anyone out there with a child who if they later learned that their child had somehow sexually transitioned, perhaps even in elementary school, would support the teacher who knew but chose not to tell them?

i want to hear this person's reasoning on this issue; and focus specifically on elementary school, please. i acknowledge that by high school, children should have some sort of privacy.

without being able to see the situation, it is impossible to really judge. to the first driver i would like to ask, 'you saw an accident up ahead: did you move over? did you slow down? did you pay more attention? to the THIRD driver i would ask: how close were you to the second driver? were you far enough behind that you could deal with anything that might happen?

whenever multiple vehicles are involved, the initial accident doesn't explain why the other 49 cars crashed. the explanation of that is the way of driving on that road, and if the way is not good the police need to be trying harder BEFORE THE ACCIDENT HAPPENS.

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Biden SAID he would choose a woman before he chose Harris, and he SAID he would choose a black woman for the supreme court before he chose Jackson. He didn't just CHOOSE these two women and leave us to infer that they were DEI hires; he SAID he would nominate them because they were women and black and then he CHOSE them. Is remembering that and reminding others 'DEI labeling'? Can you really condemn me as a racist for making a clear connection between what Biden said and did?

While writing about DEI here, I can't stop chuckling about the 'first openly gay transportation secretary' and what that might mean, and I'm not chuckling about what it might MEAN because I can't even guess?! Any guesses? What have we accomplished here?