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In no uncertain terms, the only guideline I've violated as far as I'm aware is the one stipulating no political battles. As far as that, I defer to your judgment with one contention: Everyone else who were and are also…
Just to clarify, when you said "this account" did you mean me or the person I was conversing with? EDIT: Seeing as I can post a comment I'm going to guess you meant the latter, but I would appreciate clarification if…
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Of course, why wouldn't I? So long as would-be immigrants obey the law they are quite welcome.
I tire of repeating that ad nauseum towards people engaging in bad will, so I'll just leave you some links: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/endi...…
That this is not "mainly an American phenomenon".
>Streaming video gets compressed to crap. That's because your source video is crap. I'm not sure if you realize it, but all forms of digital media playback are streaming. Yes, even that MP4 stored locally on your SSD.…
Quite literally any country with a government worth talking about controls entry of foreign nationals. It is a privilege to enter another country as a foreigner, and that country has every sovereign right to deny you…
At the risk of possibly sounding crass, the practical solution is to simply never tell them of the decedent's passing. Unless the matter of concern is a legal or financial one (eg: bank accounts, pensions, insurance,…
You might be interested to know that the Managing Director of the Fukuoka Stock Exchange was arrested yesterday[1][2] on allegations that he took upskirt shots of schoolgirls. He was caught because his tablet's camera…
The rejection of woke ideals goes well beyond the US. The Japanese people also hate elements of woke getting into their culture and they don't even speak English.
You might be interested to learn that Trump's cabinet has at least 9 women, one of whom was the Governor of South Dakota, another who was an Attorney-General of Florida, and another who is a reserve duty…
Pretty much this. Honda was all but begged by the Japanese government to bail Nissan out. Remember that the Japanese government had a role in taking out Renault and preventing a French takeover of Nissan, their…
>Americans selected a president who is against "equity", "inclusion" and "social justice" Indeed. Our American values are and always have been Equality, Pursuit of Happiness, and legal justice respectively, as declared…
>Who is even the creator here? People and countries who make and ship products. You don't make rules by writing several hundred pages of legalese as a litigator, you make rules by creating products and defining the…
I love the retelling of "I don't really care, Margaret." here. But politics aside, this also points to something I've said numerous times here before: In order to write the rulebook you need to be a creator. Only those…
>what is the actual cost incurred by the users here? Time. Every bit of JavaScript is more time to download, execute, and then render the page. Time is a valuable resource, users appreciate not being told to waste it.…
>Japan is one of the foremost funders of deep research. Perhaps they were once upon a time, it's questionable if they still are today. And anyway, that's not even the real problem Japan's R&D world has: The real problem…
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In no uncertain terms, the only guideline I've violated as far as I'm aware is the one stipulating no political battles. As far as that, I defer to your judgment with one contention: Everyone else who were and are also…
Just to clarify, when you said "this account" did you mean me or the person I was conversing with? EDIT: Seeing as I can post a comment I'm going to guess you meant the latter, but I would appreciate clarification if…
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Of course, why wouldn't I? So long as would-be immigrants obey the law they are quite welcome.
I tire of repeating that ad nauseum towards people engaging in bad will, so I'll just leave you some links: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/endi...…
That this is not "mainly an American phenomenon".
>Streaming video gets compressed to crap. That's because your source video is crap. I'm not sure if you realize it, but all forms of digital media playback are streaming. Yes, even that MP4 stored locally on your SSD.…
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Quite literally any country with a government worth talking about controls entry of foreign nationals. It is a privilege to enter another country as a foreigner, and that country has every sovereign right to deny you…
At the risk of possibly sounding crass, the practical solution is to simply never tell them of the decedent's passing. Unless the matter of concern is a legal or financial one (eg: bank accounts, pensions, insurance,…
You might be interested to know that the Managing Director of the Fukuoka Stock Exchange was arrested yesterday[1][2] on allegations that he took upskirt shots of schoolgirls. He was caught because his tablet's camera…
The rejection of woke ideals goes well beyond the US. The Japanese people also hate elements of woke getting into their culture and they don't even speak English.
You might be interested to learn that Trump's cabinet has at least 9 women, one of whom was the Governor of South Dakota, another who was an Attorney-General of Florida, and another who is a reserve duty…
Pretty much this. Honda was all but begged by the Japanese government to bail Nissan out. Remember that the Japanese government had a role in taking out Renault and preventing a French takeover of Nissan, their…
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>Americans selected a president who is against "equity", "inclusion" and "social justice" Indeed. Our American values are and always have been Equality, Pursuit of Happiness, and legal justice respectively, as declared…
>Who is even the creator here? People and countries who make and ship products. You don't make rules by writing several hundred pages of legalese as a litigator, you make rules by creating products and defining the…
I love the retelling of "I don't really care, Margaret." here. But politics aside, this also points to something I've said numerous times here before: In order to write the rulebook you need to be a creator. Only those…
>what is the actual cost incurred by the users here? Time. Every bit of JavaScript is more time to download, execute, and then render the page. Time is a valuable resource, users appreciate not being told to waste it.…
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>Japan is one of the foremost funders of deep research. Perhaps they were once upon a time, it's questionable if they still are today. And anyway, that's not even the real problem Japan's R&D world has: The real problem…