nihonthrowaway
Re:Garry Tan's vulgar tweet prompts reports by supervisors to SFPD
on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @11:40PM (#39199999)
The two supervisors that don't want to prosecute crime are getting butthurt over someone getting salty in the internet.
Re:Fujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known "from t...
on Friday January 19, 2024 @03:46PM (#39060900)
As a Christian, I have learned to be in my guard when business partners tell me about their Christianity.
Or any other way of signaling their self-proported ethics.
Re:Sports Illustrated's Publisher Lays Off Entire Staff. Future Unclear
on Friday January 19, 2024 @03:04PM (#39060366)
Swapping out your customers for people that are will never be customers doesn't seem to work.
Re:The teen mental illness epidemic is international
on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @01:19AM (#38936877)
Malmo has some now
Re:Japanese TV Reconstructs JAL A350 Evacuation From Passenger Footage
on Monday January 08, 2024 @09:19PM (#38921412)
This would have been a disaster in the USA with a few plus sized people blocking the whole operation and everybody taking their overhead bags.
Re:America Is a Republic, Not a Democracy Is a Dangerous and Wrong Arg...
on Friday December 29, 2023 @09:46PM (#38812454)
It's dangerous, because many immigrants reflexively vote for the Democratic party because "America is a Democracy"
Mentioning that "America is a Republic" may cost votes.
Re:Homicides in U.S. set to drop by record numbers this year
on Friday December 29, 2023 @03:09PM (#38809608)
Now do fentanyl overdose deaths.
Policies of letting crime run rampant are killing us.
Re:Meta's new Threads, a rival for X, is now Apple's most downloaded app
on Sunday December 24, 2023 @07:51PM (#38758556)
Xbox - prototype name for ActiveX game box.
Re:US Visual Approaches: Lessons from the LH458 Incident
on Sunday December 03, 2023 @07:42PM (#38512393)
ATC doesn't have time to fuck around.
This whole thing is Lufthansa fault for mandating that they so special that they get an ILS approach while everybody else can do a visual approach.
Their drama, their problem.
Re:Why Life Does Not Really Exist (2013)
on Sunday December 03, 2023 @10:16AM (#38507625)
I don't needlessly kill bacteria, only when they threaten someone I love more than them do I kill them.
So yes there is a hierarchy, but they are on the list of things that are alive.
And if I first found bacteria in Mars, I would probably dedicate my life to preserving them depending on how abundant they are.
Re:How to identify ugly mass tourism places before you visit them?
on Sunday November 19, 2023 @02:49PM (#38337062)
For London: A map of mosques that don't allow women is a good contra indicator.
Re:A homeless man built a life underground Hampstead Heath
on Saturday November 18, 2023 @12:12PM (#38321786)
It also requires decent morality Living in close quarters is impossible if someone insists on smoking fentanyl and using their Bluetooth speaker at 11.
Re:How the GOP muzzled the quiet coalition that fought foreign propaganda
on Friday November 10, 2023 @10:53AM (#38220382)
How the GOP stopped Government and Business collusion on political messaging.
Re:Shinzo Abe's Assassination
on Saturday November 04, 2023 @12:53PM (#38142786)
They don't get to either. The English speaking world can't handle almost every Vietnamese person being Nguyen.
Re:When the natural gas industry used the playbook from Big Tobacco
on Saturday November 04, 2023 @11:54AM (#38142188)
As a gas enjoyer for wok cooking, having a crazy burst of power would solve this for me.
Re:Shinzo Abe's Assassination
on Saturday November 04, 2023 @11:47AM (#38142117)
As someone who speaks Japanese to be polite, and will dutifully follow all honorifics while in Japan:
Japan doesn't get to change English naming conventions in English speaking cultures and civilizations.