kibousha comments

I kid you not, if I can screenshot my office's teams chat I would.

The UI/UX (user interface) "expert" in my team literally write on chat "for Japanese/Asian version of the software, we picked these bright colors. For US/western version dim the color by 30%~40%, because westerners are more sensitive to lights"

I re-read the chat log a few times, thinking maybe I missed the lines where they started the joke ? ... nope, it was the official chat for "design doc" discussion, so not allowed to be filled with "chit chat".

If a Japanese UI designer says he needs dim lit room so lighting doesn't wash out the monitor's color, he'll praised for "dedication". Replace Japanese with a foreigner, they go "ah foreigners have sensitive eyes!" ...

We need local energy sources if we want to be profitable, but our American masters won't allow it.

Private jets swooshing the globe, accelerating climate change is very tangible, you can feel it even now, just go outside.

It depends, we're no longer living in the middle ages, many criminals get caught red-handed by cameras. The proofs come before the arrest. For those cases, get arrested = guilty, otherwise innocence until proven guilty.

The problem with Japanese prosecutions, they're so up their arses with 99% conviction rate, once they've indicted you, they make sure you get sentenced.

When something/someone is super submissive of you, it's either you're a tyrant, or the thing is made to profit off you.

Either way, it's not good.

Just with everything in the US, "health conscious" will be labeled "liberals" and boycotted by the other 50% of the population with "beer and bacon".

When you live in a democracy, you get front seat view of the story trope "voters have the memory span of a gold-fish".

The solution is very simple, and we all know what they are. The problem is, corporations and politics who have tasted sweet nectar of "population bonus", now when it comes for their turn to fork out the money, they don't like that, nope, it has to be cheap-labor immigration, the cheapest solution for no-one except themselves.

But, it's the baby that wants to be isolated, he mumble it all the time, Me first! Me first!

"deep sorrow" = "deep dip in stock price"

They knew about the dreamliner's problems, still they sold it.

Most people only see what they can see and touch, iphones, cars, but that's just the tip of the supply-chain "iceberg". Japanese companies have major market shares below the tip.

SUMCO and Shin-etsu for example, without their silicon wafers, you won't have your nVidia to train the newest model for generative AI porn.

Sony, without their CMOS image sensors, you won't have a phone that can take pictures and feed that as data for your generative AI porn.

The biggest of all, INPEX Corp, developed the tech for every step in the supply-chain of LNG. Extraction ? Japanese tech. Storage ? Japanese tech. Transport ? Japanese tech. Without it ... well, you get the gist.

It's not realistic for China to attack and try to colonize Japan. The amount of resources China will need to maintain control over Japan's geography is enormous.

The best way for China, is to keep buying lands in Japan, keep sending its people here, when the ratio between immigration/local population reaches some threshold number (20% or something), it will be much easier to take over the country. First, through local elections for example (which many political parties are suggesting), then national elections.

"There is a serious labor shortage willing to be payed 2.4 million a year to work 18 hours a day" - FTFY

You can criminalize it, but you can't stop it.

Maybe the Muslims are right, cover your women head to toe, to avoid their pictures taken and use as data for generative AI.

As someone who grew up in hot-climate area, that waterfront is an abomination of a design.

It's still water, there's no flow coming and going to the Ocean, a perfect recipe for bacterial build up. Not to mention, now summer is coming, mosquito's breeding haven. Who ever designed it was not an architect who cares about harmony with nature and yet they plaster "SDGs" or "ESGs" all over the place.

logout of social media, the less you read/watch annoying people online, the emptier you keep your "annoyance" glass as a buffer for non-online annoyances.

I can already predict the result of the "meeting".

Some vague goals for 2050 that the politicians "agreed" to bring back to their countries and try to persuade their billionaires to buy one less yatch, go less cruises, less flying on their personal jets, etc. etc.

I was joking, they made sure the blame falls on us normal people, eat less meat! drive less cars!

Hollywood slowly mixing "Karate" into "Kung-Fu". It's to prepare for the time when China say Okinawa is China, Karate is Chinese.

Hollywood has become nothing more than Chinese propaganda machine.

Japan needs to escape from extremist perfection mentality.

I still see this at the company I work even today. New technique, we should use it to improve efficiency! NOPE, old Bucho always have excuse "what if it fails to work for 0.1% of rare case ? Our reputation will be down the drain! We can't risk it!".

It's the literal opposite of American business, "if it works 60% of the time, ship it!! we'll fix the rest as we go along".

This is why the opposition can't never win.

When LDP is doing something "reasonable", opposition parties, out-of-habit, just can't help themselves but to find "fault" in it.

They've done it so many times, they don't seem to learn.

You know what they say "villains don't have allies".

Peace is a state of always-ready-for-war.

Build Jurassic Park

Don't make me laugh, he is also part of the group that never buy rice.

Also, when this waste-of-oxygen was "environmental minister" he sold coal. Now that he's agriculture minister, he'll sell you something non-rice related.

I'm in favor of letting crap companies die

Incompetence middle management all the way to higher ups, engineers always get the axe, being a worker is a big risk today, because management get bonuses after axing workers, it's about the only job they can perform flawlessly after all.

This is what happens to a company in which one engineer is "managed" by 5 useless middle managers.

Nationalism = all talk no actions

Patriotism = Nationalism backed with selfless act for the greater good.

The politicians and the business leaders, we all understand the reasons.

The solution is simple, but they don't want to do it, because after decades of taking advantage of "population bonus", reaping easy money, ever-increasing taxes, this time it will COST THEM, and they don't want bear it.

This is what happens when you outsource your software to IT companies that outsource it to multiple other IT companies who then pay multiple personal-outsourcing-companies for their employees to work onsite, then disband the team after a year.

You get software whose code no one knows how to maintain, and if something goes wrong, the only way to "fix" it is to restart the servers.