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nihonthrowaway··on Fujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known "from the start"
As a Christian, I have learned to be in my guard when business partners tell me about their Christianity.

Or any other way of signaling their self-proported ethics.

nihonthrowaway··on Sports Illustrated's Publisher Lays Off Entire Staff. Future Unclear
Swapping out your customers for people that are will never be customers doesn't seem to work.
nihonthrowaway··on The teen mental illness epidemic is international (2023)
Malmo has some now
nihonthrowaway··on Japanese TV Reconstructs JAL A350 Evacuation From Passenger Footage
This would have been a disaster in the USA with a few plus sized people blocking the whole operation and everybody taking their overhead bags.
nihonthrowaway··on America Is a Republic, Not a Democracy Is a Dangerous and Wrong Argument (2020)
It's dangerous, because many immigrants reflexively vote for the Democratic party because "America is a Democracy"

Mentioning that "America is a Republic" may cost votes.

nihonthrowaway··on Homicides in U.S. set to drop by record numbers this year
Now do fentanyl overdose deaths.

Policies of letting crime run rampant are killing us.

nihonthrowaway··on Meta's new Threads, a rival for X, is now Apple's most downloaded app
Xbox - prototype name for ActiveX game box.
nihonthrowaway··on US Visual Approaches: Lessons from the LH458 Incident
ATC doesn't have time to fuck around.

This whole thing is Lufthansa fault for mandating that they so special that they get an ILS approach while everybody else can do a visual approach.

Their drama, their problem.

nihonthrowaway··on Why Life Does Not Really Exist (2013)
I don't needlessly kill bacteria, only when they threaten someone I love more than them do I kill them.

So yes there is a hierarchy, but they are on the list of things that are alive.

And if I first found bacteria in Mars, I would probably dedicate my life to preserving them depending on how abundant they are.

nihonthrowaway··on A map of ATMs designed to scam tourists in Europe
For London: A map of mosques that don't allow women is a good contra indicator.
nihonthrowaway··on A homeless man built a life underground Hampstead Heath (2020)
It also requires decent morality Living in close quarters is impossible if someone insists on smoking fentanyl and using their Bluetooth speaker at 11.
nihonthrowaway··on [dead]
How the GOP stopped Government and Business collusion on political messaging.
nihonthrowaway··on Shinzo Abe's Assassination
They don't get to either. The English speaking world can't handle almost every Vietnamese person being Nguyen.
nihonthrowaway··on When the natural gas industry used the playbook from Big Tobacco
As a gas enjoyer for wok cooking, having a crazy burst of power would solve this for me.
nihonthrowaway··on Shinzo Abe's Assassination
As someone who speaks Japanese to be polite, and will dutifully follow all honorifics while in Japan:

Japan doesn't get to change English naming conventions in English speaking cultures and civilizations.