Peter Neil comments

OK, so no data to validate that they wear them.

StrangerlandToday  12:42 pm JST

The assumption that a woman is pregnant carries risk. 

You don't have to assume. They wear tags in Japan on their purses/bags so you can see it, and don't need to make assumptions.[sic]

I’m surprised that as a scientist, you would state this as a declarative fact.

Do you have some data to validate it? What is the percentage? Is it regional? Is it age related? What is the n number?

The assumption that a woman is pregnant carries risk. The rule is that you never mention or assume a woman is pregnant until a baby is exiting the birth canal. All it takes is one event where the woman is aghast because she's not pregnant, she's just has a big stomach.

Oh, wait. I forgot that men can be pregnant now. Should we assume a man with a pot belly is pregnant and offer a seat? It's too confusing. Just pretend you're asleep.

quercetumToday  08:06 am JST

If Japan didn’t surrender in August, the Soviets would have invaded. And the Americans would then have invaded too, and Japan would have been carved up — just like Germany and the Korean Peninsula eventually were. 

“You’re only looking at this from the dropping of the atomic bombs. Roosevelt and Churchill discussed with Stalin the conditions under which the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan and all three agreed that, in exchange for potentially crucial Soviet participation in the Pacific theater, the Soviets would be granted a sphere of influence. Russia would take the Kurils and yes they were ready to come down on Hokkaido.”

Truman wrote in his diary that he dismissed the Japanese surrender proposal to Stalin during Potsdam made through the Russians in April, 1945. Writing further that he expected Japan to surrender unconditionally when Russia declared war.

He wrote, “… wait until they see what’s in store for them…” as he learned that day of the successful Trinity test.

In the end, the surrender terms were identical to the terms proposed through the Russians, since the emperor maintained his position. Truman was convinced by MacArthur that the emperor would be needed during the occupation to communicate to the public and quell uprisings.

From the article:

...and the film about Robert Oppenheimer, a physician who led...

Oh my.

25+ years - never.

It’s hard to get around the pesky Second Law of Thermodynamics.

If your goal is to increase capacity and reduce CO2 and particulate emissions, you should support building more of the safest electrical generation source - nuclear power.

Wind energy kills more people in construction and maintenance.

Half or more read the headline and thought the BoJ lost money somewhere. Where did they loose it?

MilesTegToday  10:30 am JST

Mental/psychological illness can have a physiological origin or cause. In some cases depending on the cause, they can be cured.

Great. Show us one clinical case of someone cured. Just one.

I can cite endless that validate mental illness cannot be cured, only treated so the patient may be able to function. You can't cite a single, bona fide example. It would be a Nobel Prize winning event.

StrangerlandToday  12:30 am JST

"Bertie is right. Psychiatry can only treat mental illness. Mental illness cannot be cured."

They only 'treat' cancer as well. By your logic, we can't call oncologists doctors.

Even psychiatrists say they cannot cure mental illness, they can only treat it. A patient can be cured of cancer. No one is ever cured of a mental illness, they can only be treated in the hope of functioning with their illness.

Again, look it up. You apparently did not do that.

wallaceToday  05:52 am JST

Psychiatrists cure people.

See the above.

BertieWoosterToday  05:49 pm JST

The headline says he was a doctor, but he is a psychiatrist. Totally different things! Doctors cure people.

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Bertie is right. Psychiatry can only treat mental illness. Mental illness cannot be cured.

19 people so far have shown themselves to be woefully uninformed. You can look it up to become informed.

People hate two things. They hate the way things are, and they hate change.

From the article:

Though they are filtered to legally releasable levels...

It should read "filtered to far below international standards and Japanese standards that are more strict..."

Humans have corrupted every invention.

SpeedToday  09:36 am JST

No one's accusing country music stars as being highly intelligent. Especially with that Dwight Yoakum hat on.

Yes, he’s rich and not smart like some people here.

"X is the future state of unlimited interactivity – centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking – creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities," Yaccarino tweeted.

Amazon, PayPal and Instagram walk into a bar…

Only an NBC/Universal person could come up with a joke like this.

Look, a ratings war!

There are a lot of kids here, Roy. Not that there anything wrong with that.

I think you can count on seeing a report in the future of a fish being rejected by China/Hong Kong and Korea.

It will be salted, planted or an inaccurate measurement, but the initial report is all they want. Nothing is ever corrected by the media. Websites will eat it up - more clicks.

I’m sticking with the ghastly horror of American food being a major contributor to the ghastly horror of American obesity.

When Frosted Mini-Wheats are considered a diet food promoted by the government in concert with the food lobby, you know you’re in trouble.

If you decide to reduce carbs by eating some luncheon meat instead of a bag of potato chips, cookies, donuts, a 2,000 calorie burger (buy one, get a second for $1), you read the label on ham, turkey, chicken from the supermarket and find they are all laden with sugar.

It’s simple business. Make people fat, because fat people buy more food.

I liked the part where only three US team members placed their hand on their heart and sang their national anthem, while the rest put their hands behind their back or at their side while looking down and silent.

Maybe he didn’t do it.

Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and other companies that are leading the development of artificial intelligence technology have agreed to meet a set of AI safeguards...

Yeah, right.

Every one of them has been caught lying about something.

UK government sent  ₤50 million to China last year as "foreign aid."

But there's no money for healthcare workers.

Japan releases of foreign movies are always delayed. What's the problem?

quercetumToday  07:41 pm JST

China is not going to invade Taiwan. How easily riled up you lot are.

People said the same thing about Ukraine.

I’m a man. I support the right and the fight of women to be free from the anxiety and stress of biologically men in women’s toilets and onsen.

If a trans man can stand to pee, then fine. Go to the men’s room.

But it’s mostly males with a skirt and penis who are inflicting themselves on women, invading women’s bathrooms.

It’s just a fad anyway. Fads come and go.

I think China will move on Taiwan in a couple of years from now. The US will issue stern warnings, but do nothing.

Maybe the US will attack Iraq again in retaliation.

It's probably more difficult to find Japanese-speaking mental health professionals outside of Japan.

VrethToday  10:41 am JST

You can't blame people for wanting to avoid it entirely

But you can’t. Background radiation, naturally occurring radiation, the water you drink, bath, cook with, rain, food, etc.

If you stop eating, stop drinking, and waste away in a full radiation suit, you can avoid it for maybe five days before you die.

There is so much information out there, easily accessible at your fingertips.