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My personal "favorite": When that leading environmental scientist Prince (now King) Charles said that we only have 96 months to save the world.

He said that in 2009, and 96 months is 8 years.

So that means according to His Majesty the Environmental Wizard ... we've all been dead now for 6 years.

No it doesn't.

It means that, if he's right, we passed the point of no return in 2017. Temperature rises are in positive feed back now, so even if we miraculously hit net zero emissions tomorrow, temperatures will continue to rise.

That's entirely possible.

Some animal activists came up with the false narrative that serial killers start with cats

False narrative?

Ian Brady, Jeffrey Dahmer, the Kobe Child Murderer... and they're just the first three that spring to my mind. I'd call that a pretty damning and terrifying precedent.

On a per capita basis, Japan had just 2.24 deaths per 100,000 residents, less than a fifth the US rate of 12.7 per 100,000.

Deaths per capita, per vehicle and per 100,000km driven encourage widely varying conclusions as to which countries' roads are safe or dangerous. The USA comes out worse than Japan on all three metrics though.

CCS compatible.

Meanwhile Japan soldiers on with Betamax. Sorry, "Chademo".

Tip of the iceberg.

Car Convini Club, Autobacs, Yellow Hat, JMs and branded dealers get up to the same shenanigans. But Big Motor were so confident in their fraudulent antics that they even typed a staff manual of how to inflate an invoice!

BTW always, ALWAYS, make the mechanic show you the parts removed from your car any time something is "replaced". Better still, watch them do it.

Many happy memories from that show. It did foster some false expectations though: when I went to the mountains of Korea, they looked almost nothing like the hills of Southern California;-)

Expert (noun) - a person who is very knowledgeable about a particular area.

Gut feeling (noun) - a feeling or reaction based on an instinctive emotional response rather than considered thought.

Nissan, justifiably, gets a lot of stick on this site but their GHQ in Yokohama is a paragon of business acumen and common sense when compared with Jim Farley's loony bin in Dearborn. The 4,500 staff already let go are the lucky ones. There are better places to work.

Harmless eh?

So why are my mechanics banned from pouring engine coolant down the drain?

23 yr old drank till passed out at 4

Groping

Junior High School Teacher

Can't recall what he did

BINGO!

Do I win a prize?

This always seems remarkably easy to do. Do they use face-recognition technology? Is there a law which permits that? A database?

This has become a euphemism for, "Police contacted Docomo, Au and Softbank and got a list of every mobile phone in that cell at that time. They then looked for a cell phone owner the same sex, age and height as the suspect the witness saw flee the scene. Finally they did a bit of old fashioned plod work and narrowed the field down to Hattori." Unfortunately for them, he hasn't done the honourable thing and admitted all charges as soon as he got arrested.

The agency said, following interviews with 89 tourism facilities, that they were able to charge an average of 54.2 percent more for renovated rooms.

So the 89 hotel owners immediately increased their staff's wages by 54.2% right? Right?

Or, let me guess, the (LDP funding) construction company got a barrel full of cash from us tax payers for the renovations, and the corporations owning the hotel chains increased profits, but not wages.

Good grief.

There are essentially only two oil companies in Japan now: Apollo and Enejet.

And they absolutely do rig forecourt prices already.

analysis of street surveillance camera footage

coupled with the location of their SIMs.

Wanderlust is spot on. Add Suica/Pasmo to the list and don't forget you'll have to divulge Your Number when registering a SIM card. The good news is that crime will continue to go down as criminals will continue to carry their phones while breaking the law. Unfortunately this also explains the push for ETC 2.0 (which transmits location several times a second) and why the Highway Patrol have started removing speed cameras recently; they're soon to be surplus to requirements.

Meanwhile Ford is withdrawing from "overserved markets" and will soon only sell cars in the USA.

The tide has turned.

I'm no fan of Mr West, but I'm even less of a fan of paps.

"I know, but Kanye you are a celebrity," Lechmanik replies, continuing to film.

That does not justify hounding these people in their every day lives. Find a better way to make a living Ms. Lechmanik.

The way that one slowly built in intensity brought back unpleasant memories.

Check your grab bags folks.

Criticising Russia for daring to base some of their nuclear weapons in a third country (Belarus) is a bit rich when the US overtly has nukes in Turkey, Germany, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands, and covertly has them right here in Japan.

Reminiscent of the Cuban Missile Crisis when Washington claimed having Soviet nukes on the island would give the USSR an unfair first strike advantage, all the while bold face denying that they already had missiles in Turkey (which they absolutely did).

In other words, "We can only make money in the USA, where our F-trucks have an unfair advantage thanks to the 25% chicken tax, and where future EVs will be protected by a similar lopsided tax on imports."

I've always had a soft spot for the Blue Oval, from Cortinas and Escorts to Fiestas and Rangers, but the management in Dearborn have been less than useless this millennium. Seems Farley at least acknowledges that.

I'm guessing Proxy hasn't spent a lot of time in Libiya.

Good on Kaouther Ben Hania for making this film. I've always found the disparity between the British press's treatment of 15yr old Shamima Begum and 17yr old Virginia Giuffre to be sickening. Hopefully this can convince some that these girls were victims, not traitors.

Harpoon anti-ship missiles, F-16 fighter jets, shoulder-fired Javelin and Stinger missiles and the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System

Clear to see who is benefitting from both the war in Ukraine and all this sabre rattling.

Great news for Mother Earth,

Driving your existing car for 20+ years is far better for the environment than buying a shiny new EV.

So 5.2 is described in the article as 'upper five', but not 'five plus'?

Magnitude and shindo are different things.

The former is the power of the 'quake at its epicentre - so is useless info. without that location and depth.

Shindo is how much things are shaking at any given point due to that 'quake, which is why this one registered "upper 5" in Kisarazu (basically on top of the epicentre) but only 2 or 3 across the bay in Yokohama.

The explosion happened 8 billion years ago.

So much fear of the unknown.

Sunken nuclear submarines such as the Komsomolets emit far higher levels of radiation from damaged reactors and nuclear weapons, yet the amount detectable just yards from the wrecks is negligible.

As Suzuki-san states; education is key.

AS: Not even the Kremlin is claiming the drones flew all the way from Ukraine. They were tiny. No matter who deployed them, they will have taken off close to their target.

The Kremlin realises that having 60,000 new widows and grieving mothers join the Immortal Regiment procession on Victory Day will be a bad look. Recommends not holding processions for fear of "terrorist attack".

60,000 new widows and grieving mothers publically query the likelyhood of a terrorist attack in the heart of Russia.

Drones hit the Kremlin 5 days before V-Day.

The investors are just as guilty of "recklessly disregarding" West's outbursts. They've been widely reported, yet they chose to keep their money in Adidas stocks.

Personally, I'd rather not invest in a company that was founded by a Nazi and supplied the Wehrmacht with shoes regardless.

Japan's police have adopted new advancements in technology to prosecute men who drug women for purposes of rape.

I hope this will not be the exclusive use for these kits. Recently plenty of men have been waking up on Shinjuku streets with no recollection of much of the previous night (and no wallet).