It’s quite a stretch to say banning console mods has any relation with fascism whatsoever.

Yet here you are...

SD3 is on the SD Collection for the Switch.

16 year old trafficking victim gets 51 years for killing her abuser. Exactly what else do you need to know? Do the other circumstances matter at all? Is this not on the surface unjust?

Schools are strange, though. I’ve never worked with schools and don’t have kids, but from what I understand teachers definitely work those sorts of insane hours. Some companies do, too, for sure, but most company workers aren’t putting in tons of overtime (at least not more than what Americans do).

Of course not.  But do you think a Zainichi who grew up in Japan and speaks native-level Japanese looks or acts any different than a “Japanese” Japanese?  We’re not talking tourists here.

What does that mean?  Japanese people look at an Asian face speaking Japanese and they think “Japanese”, not foreigner.  

Terrorist attacks in 2001 lead to 17 years of war and so many total changes in American society, and the problem can simply never be solved. School shootings are right here and a solvable problem yet absolutely nothing changes ever. It’s not even only sad anymore, it’s disgusting.

Do you realize this sound just as racist as the racism you are supposedly decrying?  Nobody but the far right loonies talks like that about immigrants in Japan.  Why do you think Japanese people talk like that?

There are populations of born-in-Japan-but-not-Japanese ethnicities living in Japan who have been there for generations but are still treated like foreigners, like Koreans who have been there since WW2 or beyond.

FWIW, I’m currently on the first day of my 10 day new year’s holiday in Tokyo. The entire office is shut down until 7 January. There’s a big block of holidays every May called Golden Week - next year it’s a full 10 days off for everyone, nationwide. Most people take a week holiday in summer. There’s multiple 3 day…

THIS.  My 3 bedroom apartment in Tokyo is cheaper by a lot than what I would be paying even somewhere “cheap” like Texas.  It’s certainly possible to spend a whole lot of money on a place in Tokyo but there’s tons of decent, cheap housing in the city.

the business culture needs to change to allow women to work and have children

Because of all that, this is the first upgrade cycle where I’ve decided to just stick with the phone I have.

Nah, just use your hand wedge like before

I’d just like to take this opportunity to share pictures of my Vectrexes (Vectrices?) Two of them are the Japanese Bandai Vectrex model.

I found one of my best finds in a porn shop in rural Nara (Kashiba) - a nicely boxed PC Engine Duo RX for like 1000 yen.   Can sometimes find retro game stuff just about anywhere!

I think fires are a lot more common than earthquakes in CA, though?  It seems the risk is higher.

I’m living overseas, and the one thing my American overseas friends all agree on is screw that guy. Actually managed to let out a little whoop at my desk in the office when I saw the little check mark go to Evers name.  

I think there’s just a lot of people in general with abhorrent views, so it naturally shows up in a subset of SF writers as well. Sad to see it in otherwise talented writers like Card, though. I liked a lot of his works before he showed us his ass, though some of his views are pretty apparent in Alvin Maker series or…