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Possibly. Or it's a timing thing. If you flew business, you would have gotten off the plane first and therefore arrived at baggage claim much quicker than the cattle in back.

I'm always one of the first to the baggage carousel. I use the automated gate.

It seems the spacing between the luggage is much more than before too.

Maybe with new marijuana laws in the US and Thailand Japan is heightening their search efforts for these drugs.

Luck of the draw, then. Must depend on time of day, amount of incoming flights and so on, I suppose. Our final airport was Narita, on a Saturday evening, and that was the half full flight as I mentioned. Economy the whole way.

I am wondering if the introduction of drug sniffing dogs on the inside, before the luggage is put on the conveyor belt, is the reason.

That's a shame. Which airport? My family and I had an international round trip last month, including one domestic transfer, and didn't have to wait longer than 10 minutes at any of the three points we had to collect our bags. Our return flight was only a little over half full though, for full disclosure.

I came back to Haneda last month on a full flight from SE Asia, sat in biz class, and had a priority tag slapped on my suitcase, and waited for about 30 minutes for luggage.

In June, came to Narita from Hawaii and same gig with the priority tag, and waited one hour for luggage.

Other times this year, I waited no more than a minute or two for luggage at Narita.

Hollywood's striking actors fear that artificial intelligence is coming for their jobs -- but for many stunt performers, that dystopian danger is already a reality.

AI taking over jobs in the healthcare industry too.

I have a gas eater too; and love it.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Tuesday sent a ritual offering to the controversial Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo, seen by some as a symbol of Japan's past militarism, as the nation marked the 78th anniversary of the end of World War II, a ruling lawmaker said.

Not so much the end of the war but Japan surrendering.

Great fodder to fuel Trump's campaign.

Russian collusion!

He is likely to be a failure. It’s the fate of all British players who play overseas - and that definitely includes all national teams!

Very well stated.

It does a bit but fair play. That’s their job.

It is reasonably popular though. 

If it continues to grow, it might close the gap on say, women’s football in terms of viewership worldwide. NFL is an inferior product, but good marketing can do wonders.

US ownership is fast taking over teams in the UK. The Premier League overall is basically a foreign-owned league that just happens to play in the UK.

Oh--except this summer, when some Premier League teams played in the US.

Guess since the best soccer player in the world chose the MLS over the Premier League, it wants to capitalize on the growing popularity of soccer in the US.

There is a reason why many of the Premier League teams failed financially under British ownership.

He seemed like a pleasant chap, but I had not heard of him before. The NFL is not that big in the UK.

86, 000 spectators watching an NFL game at Wembley last year.

AI already replacing more jobs in the health field.

Artificial intelligence could help almost halve the workload of radiologists when it comes to searching routine scans for signs of breast cancer, a large Swedish study suggests.

So, when Iran decides to give the legitimate, democratically elected governments of Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria 

Your list of legitimate, democratically elected governments needs to be supplemented with North Korea, just for the funny factor.

Cancer isn't a single disease. There will be no single "cure". There are many different types, each will likely need a different treatment.

Cancer is a disease of the body's cells.

Regardless, with no cure at the moment, someday there will be a cure for cancer.

Also, "treatment" is different from a "cure".

There already are treatments for cancer.

The WHO declared in May that COVID is no longer a global health emergency, but has warned that the virus will continue to circulate and mutate, causing occasional spikes in infections, hospitalizations and deaths.

It's up to the individual country to determine its health policies, as the WHO has no legal authority.

And we've seen the misses by the WHO in the past few years.

As for the vaccines, they don't prevent Covid, as promised.

A global flop on many sides.

Although doctors knew there was no hope of recovery, they often performed excessive resuscitation techniques on their patients, such as artificial respiration and cardiac massage.

Very sad. Until a cure is found, best of luck to this dr.

AI can detect AI writing.

Hurrican Dora is itself affected by climate change, not a cause that replaces it.

It's affected by the earth's rotation. Blame nature again.

NHK didn't give a stuff when this tournament started. Their judgement vindicated as they are only interested in showing when Japan wins.

Very valid point.

Weak, fair weather station.

Russia’s invasion of Georgia in 2008

Almost forgot about this other land grab during the Obama-Biden years.

Bow down to the almost always superior Europeans, ladies.

Perfectly valid point.

Japan had already lost to Sweden in the World Cup several times. Took two decades until the beat a European team in this event.

Facts don't care about feelings.

So it seems that severe droughts must have occurred in Spain before, because it would have taken years to build that stone church in the middle of a lake, only to have it covered by water later on. What was the cause of the severe droughts many centuries ago? Manmade climate change too? If not, how can we believe this time that we did it, but it was something else back then?

Excellent point.

I can see the disappointed faces of Liverpool fans in their Stadium already.

Overall, the US economy is in reasonable shape. 

Certainly in better shape than the one Biden inherited. 

That was a flaming wreck.

Quite interesting to hear from non-American leftist extremists.

A quick lesson-almost every minority group thrived as never before under Trump.

 Black median income growth last year surpassed income growth rates under the Obama administration. 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/11/01/donald-trump-african-american-black-economic-progress-vote-column/6081310002/

Again attacking other commenters instead of using arguments? you do that every time something you comment is disproved so you can get those comments deleted by the mods, it would be much more productive if you did not make those mistaken comments in the first place instead of taunting the mods by breaking the rules of the site.

Again, your trolling is breaking the rules of this site. Why taunt the mods continuously like that and try and hide behind attacking other posters?

The quote is there, the hurricane did not reduce humidity nor made the vegetation dry, only produced the winds, that contradicts your personal claim that it was the main contributing factor, no expert said that only you did.

The experts in the published article coherently maintain the fires were fanned by winds from the hurricane.

Do you have evidence contradicting the experts?

Yes? No?

You tend to attack other people and call them trolls every time you end up mistaken, that do not make the argument a personal opinion.

When someone is being a troll, it is fine to clal them out as such, or do you disagree?

You have not provided any reference that called the FDA a global health authority, and you still contradict yourself by saying it would need to have global legal powers (which obviously it does not have). Those would be the facts.

Provide a quote where I wrote the FDA would need to have global legal powers.

You can't, because you just made that up.

The WHO is a well recognized global health authority. including by the US goverment

Even if your personal opinion were true, this does not prove the FDA is not a global health authority.

What evidence do you have to contradict what even the US government says about the WHO?

Contradict what? The US doesn't say the WHO had any legal authority.

What evidence do you have that the US or any other country says the WHO has legal authority?

Yet you have been completely unable to find even one reference that says so, just your personal claim, which completely contradicts also the claim you make that the FDA would need to have global legal powers to be an authority. Which is it then?

Your personal opinion/trolling does nothing to disprove the facts.

Calling the WHO a global health authority when it has zero legal authority is laughable.

Do you even think before you post your personal opinions, especially the ones way out there?

That is false, the experts quoted in the article do not say the hurricane was the main factor:

Wrong! Forgot to do some research huh?

As I noted, a hurricane was the main contributing factor:

*Maui fires: six people killed in unprecedented Hawaii wildfires* fanned by Hurricane Dora

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/09/hawaii-fires-maui-hurricane

So, once again your trolling is revealed.

This shows the need for human activity to control the effects of natural events.

Still not a global health authority according to your own standards (that would require the FDA to have global legal powers) nor approving something means backing it up.

There is no doubt in the medical world that the FDA is a global health authority. The impact of these types of backing are felt around the world.