Mate, the flag-shaggers are never going to accept you as one of them, why not grow a pair and using your MASSIVE PARLIAMENTARY MAJORITY valid for FOUR MORE YEARS to ride roughshod over this whole right-wing crapfest?
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Mate, the flag-shaggers are never going to accept you as one of them, why not grow a pair and using your MASSIVE PARLIAMENTARY MAJORITY valid for FOUR MORE YEARS to ride roughshod over this whole right-wing crapfest?
Does this out-of-touch billionaire tech-bro pay you to amplify what passes for his thoughts?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
bsky.app/profile/anil...
A whole generation of people are growing up who will never know what these mysterious empty shelves were used for, back in the olden days.
I just saw the chilling phrase "I did the math with the help of AI" in a blog-style article...
Eww.
I was wondering about the price tag of JPY 7 million, but on further squinting it's a timeshare vacation home. Close to the Enoshima shore, but also close to the Enoshima shore, so those nice high walls might provide some tsunami protection if the front door is sufficiently waterproof.
Not today, please.
Enjoy the coolest summer of the rest of the Anthropocene.
[T.Y. Harbor]?
I'm still well below "retirement" age, but my local authority was handing out vouchers for reduced-cost vaccinations (not sure if it's a regular thing or one-off), so went ahead and got one.
Seiyu was part-owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts for a while after Walmarts sold it.
Though come to think of it, in an earlier iteration of this job, a regular event was emergency rebuilds of the servers of a well-known-ish video streaming provider, which I presume they found in a dumpster or something.
"library"...????
Follow the (benign, non-invasive no software installation required) instructions on the below site for mansplaining relief. tenbluelinks.org
Quite likely, but those are the areas I have direct experience with...
and by volume, about 90% of its code is for preventing the end user (i.e. the person managing the computers which manage the money) shooting themselves in the foot (I have stories...), and only about 10% for doing the actual thing it is supposed to do.
Just so you know where we are on this, said software helps cement this situation... bsky.app/profile/clue...
She knows what she's doing, after all we're talking about someone who was accepted to Stanford University at the age of 16. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
They already have their best LLMs busy on the marketing material.
Especially given that Dyson's speciality is vacuum cleaners and hand dryers, so the move into massive space structures is quite a surprise.
Fnaargh, someone at GlobalCorp has sold the Legacy Zombie Product to a Big Customer (US people will likely know the name), and despite my efforts to distance myself from the damn thing, guess whose plate it is landing on...
> "hyper-exponential rate” This is a hyper-unique concept.
I am from Softbank's VC division and would like to invest many billions of US dollars in your company.
> "hyper-exponential rate” This makes about as much sense as building a Dyson Sphere around the solar system.
Have you seen the size of the Dyson Sphere that Sam Altman is building around the Solar System?
By the "US administering Gaza" do they mean "Gaza will become corporate territory of Trump Crime Family Luxury Mediterranean Resorts, Inc."?
(checks date) fair enough...
Even has eyes and a smile.
"Thank not me, but my master who made me in his laboratory". Happy Monday, to all who celebrate.
+1 bsky.app/profile/clue...
My Japan-centric brain auto-expanded "yak" into "yakuza" and was momentarily boggled.
It's the commonly-used Mercator projection (fits the entire planet into a nice regular rectangle) which gives scale maps a bad name...
From the about the same age, map zoomed out a little.
Yes, it was something like that.
Very 初耳 for me, but the existence and attempted consumption of an 鬼盛りホイップ is a running joke between myself and my wife.
See; tenbluelinks.org
He's still alive?
Village People's "YMCA," Sinead O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U" and "Memory," from the musical "Cats." www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
This bit here: maps.app.goo.gl/RkfStembGRJa...
Though seriously, if I had to pick a spot I know will still be recognisable next week, I'd go for the walkway between the Shibuya Scramble building and the Shibuya Stream complex which has been done up to resemble the old Tokyu station. Bit of a mouthful to describe.
How about in the middle of the crossing? Or in front of *that* Family Mart in Center-Gai?
Will there be sombre music played on all TV and radio stations?
Rethinking my plan to get the winter futons out of storage this weekend.
1. Giant duck pond behind the factory. 2. Unending stream of old ladies.
A little bit of plague never hurt us, except the ones who died.
North Korean regime, surely?
Well you start from the circle of green dots and the straight line of orange dots heading west... Not all of it is strictly accurate, of course.
User name checks out ;)
'k, best I can find right now, from when he was 6 or 7, I'm sure you can work it out :)
This was me until some point in my teens. I also thought "well-wishers" were people who went to a "wishing well" (or maybe fountains if no well was available) to throw coins in, or whatever one does.
I'm just glad I no longer have to commute on the trains regularly.
Going to have to get my son to counter this with a map less biased towards the east.
I may have to rethink my plans for the kotatsu/o-nabe popup dining and sales event in Nagoya this weekend. news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/3f1...
Oh no! I hope you find it!
Bloody millennials.
Fond memories of being a student in the 1990s, some days I would be first off a crowded train and first down the platform stairs, and it felt like I was leading a mass charge of be-suited salarypersons into the day's battle.
That's all very logical and all, but how will the people rise up against an authoritarian government if they have no guns? Oh, wait, I'm just being handed an update...
I am not good with this camera stuff, but I will never tire of wandering through Tokyo in random directions and seeing what I can see. Tonight, as it was kind of not so oppressively hot, I thought I'd see what new vistas Shibuya has to offer, then wandered north as far as Sendagaya.
I am not good with this camera stuff, but I will never tire of wandering through Tokyo in random directions and seeing what I can see. Tonight, as it was kind of not so oppressively hot, I thought I'd see what new vistas Shibuya has to offer, then wandered north as far as Sendagaya.
[*] I will continue to write "JIRA" because your stupid system autocorrects it to "Jira", which made me waste some more time wondering what the hell was going on.
Once again I'd like to thank @atlassian.bsky.social for wasting valuable JIRA [*] screen space and user concentration by pushing pointless extra "smart" and "AI" features, which can't be turned off by the hapless end user (i.e. me).
Allow me to express my sympathy to the entire industry.
I imagine compared to the horror stories I hear about the US system, there's not much to worry about.
If he's a regular employee, he'll have health insurance deducted from his salary, and will need to pay (IIRC) 30% of any bills incurred (up to a certain limit). Health insurance is basically a not-for-profit setup with the government being the insurer of last resort, coverage is uniform.
Well, given that the Anthropic AI's chatbot is powered by a cybercrime spree which is now subject of at least one class action, it's hardly suprising.
It is possible that his coverage is being paid for, e.g. as part of a scholarship or something, but there's no magic free healthcare past immigration. bsky.app/profile/clue...
Well, either he's misunderstanding something or not conveying the situation correctly, as health cover is by default not "free", and certainly not for an "immigrant" fresh off the boat.
LOL, what?
Do please provide details about this.
Henceforth "High Touch Town" shall forever be known as "Hexatree".
Cute but grumpy.
Well if you do, please report on how it tastes. I recall someone saying it was a bit earthy or woody or something.
Can't have all these foreign citizens going to the USA and spending money there, can we? That would be so un-American.
It's the USA so I'm assuming space is not an issue. How this stuff is organised (and safely) is a different question though... Anyway, by publicising this, these people are painting a nice big sign saying "guns and ammo here" for anyone with some detectiving/geolocating skills and patience.
That assumes the kids survive into their teens without domestic firearms accidents.
I for one welcome our new exoskeleton-wearing ojii-chan overlords. To be fair to the Facebook AI slop hucksters, the piezoelectric electricity generation thing did happen, for a brief period, at Tokyo Station about 15 years ago.
Fast-forward a little over a week and the entire rice section consists of two lone bags of Calrose.
Dementia Don said some things, that's all there is.
If nothing else, ol' Akazawa is going to end up with one helluva frequent flier mileage.
Storm over the Daikon Prairie
www.flickr.com/photos/hamra...
It is until you need to track down an intermittent segfault which only occurs on a wet Tuesday afternoon when Mercury is in retrograde and the customer is one of several varieties of terminally unhelpful...
"Peacemaker"...
/me blinks in C (I kid you not, though not sure if cool because every time I try to explain to people what I do, their eyes glaze over and they wander away to do something more interesting like watch paint dry).
Uff. Hope it gets better by itself then...
Ouch. You mean NHS because there aren't enough doctors, or you're not allowed to see one, or what?
Any thoughts on "for all intensive purposes"?
Well, there's a reason why it's not called "gloryhole". Apparently.
"Jane Austen, Tarantula Assassin"
While I'm at it... And while I'm at it, it's 2025, updating an entry in a database should be pretty much instantaneous, or do they print out the request and run it through the baggage retrieval system first?
I'm guessing "Aviation Fuel".
I have a lastname@bigemail.com address where I occasionally get other people's emails, once I got a string of reminders from some hotel to download their doorkey app for some lady's upcoming stay, which could have easily given a nefariously-minded individual access to the room, so no thanks.
Correction: "In a move reminiscent of third world tinpot dictatorships, authoritarian out-of-control president threatens elected officials with illegal domestic deployment of the military".
Let me be your sub-editor: "Convicted felon and failed businessman Donald Trump plans to forcibly part-nationalize US businesses in the kind of move usually seen in third-world tinpot dictatorships".
You want actual apple pie, you go get this: bsky.app/profile/clue...
Jeez, your reporting gets worse and worse each day.
The place where people go to have a pseudo-British pub experience in Japan? You mean HubHub.