Ricky Kaminski13 comments

Australia just sent a group of its own military to the region as well to help evacuate its own citizens to safety. Good to hear Japan was straight in there doing the same.

War zone evacuation. We are truly living in historic times.

But the responsibility needs to lie with parents, guardians, and educators, not Big Daddy Government. 

That’s the whole point of making it law and laying responsibility on the tech companies to make their products have an age authentication stage. That way parents will hold a much bigger stick to their tech hungry chidlings.

Sorry guys, sort of see the concerns but reckon the mental health time bomb affecting this generation is well worth taking a leap of faith and trusting the government to get this one right. A total loss of faith in our institutions is not the way to live either. Keep an eye on them , but also give people the benefit of the doubt, otherwise you become a fringe dwelling nut job.

Just listened to a podcast today in fact about this very issue. The situation is dire. Let Australia have a run at it and we will report back with the results.

https://podcasts.apple.com/jp/podcast/the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast/id1184022695?l=en-US&i=1000713627812

How social media is wrecking kids lives and stealing their childhood. The author of a long term study on youth psychology , fellow called Johnathon Haidt, was all for the Australian strategy.

If we're honest though, this is hardly about protecting kids. It’s about building the infrastructure for total digital surveillance.

Sorry Jay thats a bunch of trollop. Paranoia on steroids. Even if one in six kids can get through at least its a start. The research and data about this generation and the disastrous effects social media is having on them is undeniable. It may not be full proof or perfect, but at least its a standard and a launching pad that parents can try and use to protect their kids from their own unmitigated self destructive behaviors and habits. Young girls in particular seem to be in serious danger. This surveillance state mentality can be just as damaging to mental health as well by the way, both for young and old!

Have a run at it Australia, someone has to. Learn what works and what doesn’t then report the findings to the world. The goal being to at least try and give this generation a fighting chance to wire their brains the way they were designed to be wired. Depression, isolation, loneliness, self loathing and self harm are just a few examples of the widespread damage being done for profit to this young generation.

PS Love the word shambolic Jeffsan. Gunna pilfer that one. Will come in handy!

The worst bureaucracy in Japan is in the private sector, namely banks. Time-wasting, shambolic and irrational procedures. Purchasing $300 USD cash at my downtown SMBC took an hour, with my form inspected and analyzied by at least 3 different staff. Daiwa Housing, my landord, is really pathetic, too.

Very good points. I wonder if they outta get to choose a pseudonym! Wonder what all the complaints and monster clients' gripes are in Osaka, then? Osaka people are known for being rather outspoken!

practically Israel is using these foreign nationals as Human Shields

O.K I shouldn’t even bother but now Israel are apparently using human shields.

The hospital was damaged but the strike hit the building NEXT to the hospital. The Israelis did not disclose what this building was. I wonder why?

Now the hospital was not bombed, just waiting for the next obvious mind slip where Israel LET the bomb hit the hospital, in order to justify its evil Zionist plan and bloodlust.

The fact that the leftist are lining up like ducklings in support of the Iranian regime, one that shoots women for daring to take off their hijabs brutally suppresses their own people, sponsors terrorism and overtly stated that their ultimate plan was to wipe Israel off the face of the earth shows the skewed and deprived depths of misjudgment this particular mindset births.

God speed Israel, they are not starting a war they are finishing one and god speed to the Iranian people who now have the chance to be free of this murderous backward regime.

Now handing you back to the ‘evil Zionist’ mob.

This story, like most do, will push different buttons for different people. The doomsday folk will be happily given more fuel for their we are a cancer on this Earth mindset. Depopulate as fast as possible! Check

The know enough to know that they don’t know crew will take note, wonder what we are to do about climate warming, knowing quite well how difficult it is to get people to agree on pretty much anything , never mind aligning goals and cooperating, and on a global stage well good luck with that........but, still want to do the right thing.

Then there are those that allow themselves to be a bit of a cynic, have heard much of the rhetoric, politicising and also the debunking of the more radical sides of the climate doom activists.( which we can pretty all agree can be quite absurd in their claims, action and especially their behaviour ) They may even entertain the idea of a hoax, a massive ploy to push green technology that unfortunately doesn’t quite check out or add up when you consider our demand for energy, especially on the verge of AI. Theres also the developing world to consider. Perhaps, hoping for a break though in fusion technology or some other energy source eventually, but far from convinced that the sky is falling in or that we can actually do anything about any of this. Climate changes, change being the only constant of the universe!

Take your pick folks. Somewhere amongst it all is the truth.

Of course don’t try and get to the root of the problem, why people become angry and frustrated with civil servants and bureaucracies in the first place. And heaven forbid you use all of those human resources wisely and try and upgrade, streamline and make your services smoother and more efficient.

Instead

Let’s change our names , chuck the masks on, dodge responsibility and accountability.

Sorry guys, it’s lame to hide. Own your work.

Canada will never miss an opportunity to virtue signal to the world ( it’s sort of their brand now ) , despite the stark state of disarray that their own country is in.

We all feel for Zelensky and his cause, and that’s 100% true sentiment, ( they have been incredibly brave and effective, inspirational too ) but what’s the road map to end this particular disastrous war. Both sides seek total victory, which just means the continuation of the death, destruction and carnage. Putin seems quite happy to do that , has zero issue sending his youth to die, so do we too sacrifice all the young men of the Ukraine for sentiment and some sort of western moral higher ground. All good when it’s someone else’s son/ daughter dying and someone else is paying.

Anyone that dares ask this simple question gets labeled as a Putin shill by the absolutists, when nothing could be further from the truth. What’s the plan then Mark Carney? Can Carney deliver anything but an opportunistic back patting session? Are the Europeans in for the long hall ?

Trump leaving the table was bold and boss. Other actual rather pressing issues to attend to. Bye now, good luck with that.

Seems danger coming from rockets/bombs from Israel, the "only democracy in the ME....with an indicted war criminal as Prime Minister

Say it over and over, like an Orwellian mantra guru, and if its works inshallah, you can spread your ( actually their ) warped constructed reality to other weak minds who cannot separate their toes from their fingers too. Early birds chirping away.

https://youtu.be/yxkVDyA31MI?si=yU8DVVoQjNrGu-50

Here’s the calm headed version of our side of the fence.

dozo

belief whatever they say at your peril. The Chinese economy is in a constant decline.

Apparently if you believe really, really hard you can even convince yourself that it’s true. Reality is a construct remember. Wink

The nuclear proliferation must be stopped.

The ayatollahs' regime has one and only one raison d'être: Exterminating the tiny Israel and murdering its people.

However, they will also distribute their nukes to their proxies, thus putting the whole world under a grave and unprecedented risk.

NB the rest of it was bang on as well. ( excuse the pun ) 0-7 downvotes on the actual truth though. You got my one.

Why dialogue is meaningless at this stage. Israel will do what has to be done and the rest of the birds will chirp in blaming Trump for the evils of the world in order to feed their low resolution righteousness and feel good about themselves. They seek, nor can handle, the truth about what had to be done, and despise anyone that actually does it. Better to be a bird apparently.

So Taiwan doesn’t get a letter?

As for Ishiba who represents a class of politicians allergic to anything but expediency and paltry pretend actions, empty fist pumping gambaruisms, well not much sleep will be lost over his ‘condemnation’ I imagine.

God speed Israel. Hit them hard, fast and then it’s done. You simply cannot talk to those that want and plan for you and your entire nation to be wiped out. It’s rare in this life you get to see such a committed and bold action against a vile regime, Israel’s sworn enemy the Oranian regime ( not the people ) , one that sponsors terrorism and sows so much hatred and chaos in the region and around the world and that lines up so many dark, bitter, lost souls. The desire to destroy the state of Israel has been imbedded in the principals of Irans regime for a long, long time now. Many here would line up and agree with those principles too, though they do not say it explicitly. But at this stage the sentiments are fairly clear. It would be better if you guys just admitted it. Some were yesterday, I even sort of respect that. At least you are honest.

So this is where we are at. It’s an existential threat and Israel had the goods, the will, the intelligence and the balls to take direct action. Any war historian will tell you that these in and blitz strategies are the most effective and even reduce carnage, misery and death in the long term. It’s a gamble yes, and all of the free free Palestine folks, those already keen to riot, and the other mobs brought together by their low resolution grievances and world views will be whipped up into an overweight, entitled, frenzy of emotion. The global left will unite, and it will make little difference to what has occurred. I am even happy for you guys to have found some meaning to your lives. Knock yourselves out.

In the meantime the real business will be done by hardened pros with solid resolution who have their own personal and clear moral integrity in tact. You will hate them for it too, but they are used to that. Plenty of experience there.

Life ain’t a picnic folks. Things just got dialed up to 11.

Protect and perve.

Imagine the world going to war for these maverick top gun idiots. Deliberately provoking, flying way too close ( did they wanna get that wave in? ) and then trying to point the finger at Japan. Grotesque arrogance.

Bring on autonomous vehicles and self-driving cars, which thankfully by all accounts are coming soon, especially with this rapidly aging society!

TamaramaToday  08:25 am JST

If my calculations are right, this incident was around 150-170km outside of Japan's EEZ in International waters.

So, if the Japanese are flying their surveillance planes close to the Chinese aircraft carriers, who is provoking who?

Nice try , but if you brought a bunch of goons over and parked your mini van at the gates of my house, I’d go out and have a word. Most with any metal would.

Simon, true and true.

CDPJ chief Yoshihiko Noda has not ruled out the possibility of using a no-confidence motion against the Cabinet, saying that he will decide "appropriately at the right time."

There never seems a right time for the opposition party who have failed time and again to have ( maybe they do, but it certainly isn’t well known ) a coherent counter plan to the LDP juggernaut nor any real vision for the future of the nation. They spend their time criticizing and scoring cheap political points. This is not the way. People want to be inspired. Talk policy and people will listen, the rest is just bluster.

All It takes is one incident for things to kick off and escalate. With all of the provocations, flexing and showboating going on it’s not hard to imagine something as simple as a midair collision leading to temperatures rising to very dangerous levels. It may not even take the invasion of Taiwan.

China has learned the power of narrative twisting and playing the aggressive victim like a boss, and has even drunk its own cool aid enough to believe they could make a case that the West is the aggressor at the start of a widening conflict.

Have two rescue cats as well that we love dearly. This was a a house of horrors. Takes a demented , twisted , pathetic excuse for a human to hurt or neglect our feline overlords! It’s pretty obvious for anyone that has one that they are gods!

Is this one of those Onion-style "we asked ten truckers at a rest stop in Nowhere, AL" kind of polls, by any chance?

Check the latest CNN polls on immigration. Was just watching this one. In 2020 dems held a 32 point lead on which party IMMIGRANTS trusted on immigration. Latest one has and 8 point lead for republicans for the same demographic. CNN baby.

This message will resonate with both camps, but in a very different way. To the dems they will hear their prophesied dictator president overstepping the line and becoming the boogeyman they have feared all along. Military state, minorities in danger, authoritarianism, the whole shebang.

On the other side of the fence they will see a president willing to make good on his promises to secure the border, support law enforcement and to come down heavy on the illegals, especially the dangerous ones, the bad guys who have been allowed to chip away at the foundations of the nation unchecked, represent a real threat to national security and have been taking advantage for way too long.

Politically, socially and spiritually this is fast becoming a clash between these two ( both actually necessary by the way ) mindsets. Chaos vs order, left vs right, dems vs pubs, emotions vs logic call it what you will, just hope it doesn’t lead to too much carnage. Stay safe folks. I’d be advising your young folk not to destroy their lives by catching a felony trying to act tough for the mob and to stay away from the fire. Order will prevail under this administration and the look in the eyes of those suited up to try and keep the streets safe tell the story that I see. It’s resolute.

Sounds like it ticks a lot of boxes. Good luck to them.

The United States has never apologized for the attacks.

Couldn’t help yourself could ya guys? The article was almost verging on balanced too.

Cash handouts are a sign of a party that has no idea what they are doing to steer the economy and society. It’s a band aid fix for an internal problem.

If only these 37% would have the good sense to go and vote they would be quite a powerful force.

It's probably a bit mendoi mate.

In the 60.s and even 70,s the US military felt"communism " was akin to a cloud that could waft in and indoctrinate people.

Stupid then, stupid now.

From the USA, one of the most stupid places on earth post WW2

Blind we are, to the truth right in front of our eyes. A guy clearly indoctrinated hook, line, and sinker into the anti-American pro-communism talking points, claiming that there was never any threat back in the 60s and 70s of the very mindset that possesses him now. The irony is stark.