Russia and China entered into a defense cooperative with Iran without any requirement to go to war on the others’ behalf so it’s likely Russia and china supplying intelligence to Iran.

To be fair K8s was created by the Borg creators as a public version of Borg.

The program I use with WINE requires network access to authenticate and because it was for audio production, it had access to my filesystem for samples.

Ten bucks says you downloaded a compromised VST.

Perhaps most strikingly of all, he warned the worsening climate crisis appears to be on track to destroy capitalism.

See guys? It’s not all bad. /s

I guess that means those cheap SoC boxes we’ve been seeing all over are gonna double in price.

I have like a 10 minute walk from the station to where I live and every day it drains like half a liter of sweat from me in that time period.

Hoping somebody invents still suits soon.

Sure, but they just get replaced by a sycophant then it won’t make much of a difference

Oh good he’s obviously talking about the Marshall Plan. I look forward to the US shipping millions of tons of food and goods to Gaza post haste. /sad sarcasm

After the trump admin said it had “secured” 600B from Japan when the finance minister that negotiated it himself said nothing was finalized I knew the EU deal was also likely mostly hot air.

Not necessarily, but I’ve had acquaintances with criminal records have an innocent situation like that get blown out of proportion by the police because of the record.

At this point I’m kind of assuming she is both lying and the situation was worse than what she’s saying, and yet it likely still didn’t warrant an arrest for criminal negligence and the police are blowing it out of proportion, if that makes sense.

I don’t want to defend fucking Boebert or her ilk but to be fair:

“miscommunication on monitoring my young grandson that recently led to him getting out of the house.”

Assuming this is true, kids after three getting out of the house one time and scaring their parents half to death is a pretty often occurrence. Kids get real clever real quick when they get to 3, 4, and 5 and that’s usually when parents suddenly have to re-evaluate the locks on the doors after a jailbreak.

It’s funny because I was thinking the exact same thing of you, lol. I’ve lived here for 10 years, 3 of that in Tokyo.

Had the police pull me over one time in Tokyo and they checked my bike and didn’t say anything about insurance.

You mean to cover the inspection fee? The inspection sticker doesn’t have an annual fee.

You don’t need anything else other than the inspection sticker.

Are you talking about the TS-mark? You get it when your bike is registered and inspected. If your bike is registered and inspected the inspection fee covers the TS-Mark, you don’t need anything else.

I don’t know who sold you that crap but it sounds like you got scammed.

There are very few bike lanes in Japan, big reason is the edit I made a minute ago.

Actually, yea, kinda.

One of the things you’re taught early on in driving school in Japan is to “close the gap” and pull to the side that you’re turning into in order to prevent bicycles and mopeds from fitting between the sidewalk and your car and tboning you if you pull into a right or left turn.

If you pull into a left turn (left handed driving so similar to a US right turn) without checking that a cyclist is coming up behind you on your left side and they slam into your car you are 100% at fault.

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The thing you gotta know about japanese roads and the law is that all roads unless explicitly marked otherwise are primarily for pedestrians and cyclists. As a car driver you are borrowing their roads. The law explicitly states that you are not allowed, while operating a motor vehicle, under any circumstances to impede the progress of pedestrians or cyclists.

The only time the law says otherwise is on highways and roads marked exclusively for motor vehicles.

Old lady walks in the middle of a four-lane street, shutting down traffic? Yea man too bad, you gotta wait, the most the police will do is set up a road barrier to help her cross easier and ask her nicely to use the pedestrian crosswalk.

No, that’s covered by the “TS Mark” that you get when you buy and register the bike.

The general traffic rule is that unless indicated otherwise, roads are primarily for pedestrians and cyclists, so you’re the one borrowing their roads, not the other way around.

No, they’re not.

Not sure where you heard this, at most you need to register your bike with the police so they know who to fine if you leave it overnight somewhere it’s not supposed to be

In Japan the fault for accidents is always assumed to be the larger vehicle. If a truck hits a car it’s on the onus of the truck driver to prove he wasn’t doing anything wrong, and if a car hits a cyclist, the car driver has to prove their innocence etc.

I think to most Americans that seems appalling (what if the stupid cyclist was doing something reckless?! Etc.), but it definitely makes people in Japan drive much safer in areas where there are potential cyclists, and thus makes it safer to cycle places easily.