Tokyo’s storm water drainage system is insane, and handles typhoons without any trouble. I’m not sure if it would handle a tsunami or not, but I’m betting they designed it with those in mind as well. Obviously won’t help with earthquakes, but at least flooding is less likely.

There’s been an update since, it notes:

300 foot slide, plenty of time to be banged against rocks on the way down. She could have been knocked unconcious, then buried under a foot or two of snow. Quite possible that she never regained consciousness before she died from lack of oxygen. She could have been in a situation where she could have gotten free if…

Actually, we already have lost things. Just one minor example: Back in college I used to play a MUD a lot. Eventually I got tired of it, but would check back in occasionally. The MUD was moved to new servers a few times, ending up in an entirely different country even. But eventually it vanished. Not only the server,…

Sounds like a game that’d be vastly improved playing in an emulator, just for the ability to use save states anytime you wanted.

That also ignores the fact that their “sharp dressing” has become forever tied to fascism and murdering Jews. Hollywood uses that style of dress as a go-to “these are bad guys” thing all the time. It’ll forever be associated with that. So even if they were sharp dressed at the time, they ruined that entire style of…

The police department’s still dragging their feet, but he lost his EMT job. He’s also made life harder for all law enforcement at the hospital, as they will no longer allow law enforcement in patient areas, or to even talk to the nurses. They have to deal with supervisors only.

That’s been my general experience too, but then you get an exception and it’s a wonderful suprise. I bought some cute socks from a seller in China and they arrived within a week, two weeks before the estimated deliver by date. I was amazed.

And let me tell you, having uninsured motorist coverage is worth every penny if you end up getting hit by one. My dad had that happen a few months back. The other guy was driving without a license, or insurance, and ran a stop sign to plow into the side of dad’s truck. The road dad was on has no stop signs, and this…

I saw a commenter on another site responding to a troll, pointing out that advocating to allow people to not sign up for healthcare is freeloading, pure and simple. See, those people will wait till they’re desperately sick, or in an accident and need health care. Then they show up at the ER and can’t pay the bill.…

It’s incredibly easy to fail a polygraph. I’ve been in that situation, and the examiner felt that I was truthful, but the machine showed a reaction. What they don’t tell you beforehand is that the machine measures reactions, and those reactions can be caused by many things: guilt, fear, worry, etc. So when they ask…

The article doesn’t say whether she voted for Hillary or not, only that she volunteered for Sanders based on healthcare. You’re jumping to a conclusion with no evidence to back it up.

Yep, she was involuntarily committed on June 29th, but released early on July 3rd after a psych evaluation. This shows one of two things: 1. She’s not insane and is doing this all quite deliberately for reasons known only to herself, or 2. The US’ joke of a mental health care system has failed yet another person. My…

Given the situation, he’s trying to say that people like living at the circus. And no, no one does. The circus doesn’t run 24x7, even the circus performers need time away from it.

Google may put a stop to her attacking Youtube videos. She’s already gotten a warning from them that abusing the DCMA can get her account banned. If she keeps this up much longer they will ban her. Hopefully Twitch wakes up soon and does similar.

As others have pointed out, there IS plenty of hard evidence Mauer is incorrect here, and even plenty that she’s flat out lying about a significant amount of things. To be fair, it’s clear she’s having some serious mental health issues at the moment, and desperately needs help for those. She’s made multiple death…

Oh people would be able to afford some of the options. It’s just they’d be paying for policies that covered almost nothing and would be completely worthless when major illness hit. Then they’d either die because they couldn’t afford the medical care out-of-pocket, or they’d end up going bankrupt due to the medical…

The individual mandate is required for insurance to work. Insurance works by creating a big risk pool where there are many people paying into it that don’t use it much, or at all, which offsets the sick people who are using it a lot. Without the mandate, people would wait till they were sick and then sign up. That…

It’s not unusual for the surviving spouse from a long-term marriage to feel lost and alone. So much so that it’s not terribly unusual for the surviving spouse to die not long afterward. (They basically give up on life.) It sounds like he wasn’t ready to die, but didn’t know how to handle the huge hole in his life, and…

Japan in general has gotten better about releasing some things quickly, but (and this a HUGE but) it took westerners to get them to this point. It was Crunchyroll, now the anime streaming powerhouse, to get the simulcast streaming started. Nowadays you have Funimation and others doing it too, but Crunchyroll was the…