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I mean, chickens are tasty and all, and there are probably billions of them in the world right now... but do you call living in a cage with your beak cut off "prospering"? From a purely genetic propagation point of view they are prospering I guess... but at what cost?
See the whole Unidan saga a few years back for how the mighty can fall once they get busted using sockpuppets
This masterfully illustrates the relative risks of various sources of radiation, something that the typical person on the street knows almost nothing about but thinks they do
I live in Japan and read up on this topic after the Fukushima disaster
"Mobile" (however defined) is obviously not going anywhere. I think it's just a click-bait headline
This doesn't mean you can't or don't behave in ways outside your preference; we all do, everyday. It just means that, all other things being equal, you will lean toward extraversion or introversion.
Also, please note that MBTI E/I does not equate to extraversion/introversion as it is known and understood by society at large.
There are several competing services and they seem to be spending a lot on advertising right now if the amount of TV commercials is anything to go by
Even an "attack" (something short of an invasion), consisting of surgical strikes (and what, nukes?) would be prohibitively costly in every way possible and would also be 100% guaranteed to bring the US in to the conflict.
The Chinese government likes having Japan around as a useful lightning conductor for public anger, which redirects protests away from them. They are Japan's biggest trading partner. They are not going to invade any country this useful and valuable to them.
Please don't use a word like "invade" lightly; it's very, very far from ever being a reality.
https://www.contiki.com/six-two/wanderlust-gene-travel/
Little bit different to what the article is talking about, but pertinent to the discussion in the comments
No one in Japan is afraid of the Japanese military.
Utter fiction
You have this idea that the Japanese military will become a runaway juggernaut subjugating Japan under its will, and this is simply ridiculous. No signs point to it.
I could almost accuse you of fear mongering
Also, your accusation that most Japanese are "very uneducated when it comes to politics/history" is anecdotal and incomplete at best, comically reductive at worst. Do you even read Japanese? Do you not see the amount of considered, deep analysis and discussion on TV and in the newspapers? Do you not see the huge numbers of books on history in the bookshops?
In any case, it is ridiculous to claim that "most" (or even some) Japanese people live in fear of the SDF. You'd be laughed out of the room for claiming that in front of anyone with even a passing knowledge of Japan.
Dumbphones were better in this regard
It's entirely replaceable with other services and software now
If this is the future, I don't want it.
This is the big issue. Ideology, bias and self-interest creep in and you can easily end up blaming whatever it is that you personally disagree with.
And that's to not even mention the "unknown unknowns", which by their very nature cannot be factored in to a "5 Whys" process, no matter their real world relevance to the problem at hand
It's here, it's happening. It's going to start driving up prices of fruits and vegetables, and impact other economic activity very, very soon.
It's not "if" but "how much" it's going to effect us
Blockchain in a nutshell
Like the commenter above you, I am very suspicious of Americans with only tenuous connections to a far off land claiming expertise/knowledge/understanding of that culture
Should be the kind of thing that is in new hire orientations and onboarding training (especially for new grad hires) but basically never is
The problem is that Watson was sold as a kind of "AI Doctor", which is pretty much ludicrous