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In fairness, USA and Russia both committed geopolitical suicide, China’s got its own problems, and a united Europe is far from a sure thing. Japan might win by default entirely by accident.

submitted 11 days ago • 12 comments

While he’s at it, Trump should officially change the name of the language from “English” to “American.”

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

The Asahi editorial board out with a banger yesterday. It ends with a question every single news outlet should be asking themselves: "I wonder what's in store for us?"

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

the next time an originalist says anything about the Constitution, the appropriate response is: You're implying that the Founders would support what you're doing. How do you know? Did you hold a seance? It is all well and good to think WWTFD (What would the Founders do?) but we really have no clue.

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

This cannot be constitutional. The idea that the American Bar Association cannot enjoy the participation of federal officials in events but the Federalist Society can is absurd.

submitted 27 days ago • 45 comments

It’s a sad case but this woman was basically trying to commit child abduction. She needed to get full custody through the Hungarian system before taking the children across international borders.

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This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

submitted 32 days ago • 1164 comments

Did some quick digging on the NIH website. NH stands to lose about $30 million this year in funding as a result of the 15% indirect spend cap. That's about 20% of the total allocated to the state. reporter.nih.gov/search/JbRgA... #NHPolitics

submitted 33 days ago • 9 comments

“By The Economist’s count, 70 countries have now officially endorsed both China’s sovereignty over Taiwan and, just as crucially, that China is entitled to pursue “all” efforts to achieve unification, without specifying that those efforts should be peaceful” www.economist.com/internationa...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Prepping to teach Yick Wo today and came across this passage from James Bradley Thayer's "Cases on the Constitution" in 1894 (four years before Wong Kim Ark).

submitted 35 days ago • 6 comments

What's funny is that my wife's company in Japan has been focusing on DEI efforts consistent with Japan Inc.'s reputation as woke radical Marxists

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

I thought I’d be in DC this morning. Instead, with DCA closed, I’m on the LIRR headed to Penn to take Amtrak… Love these seats.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

The same people wailing about DEI literally can’t spell their own job title.

submitted 43 days ago • 4849 comments

About to board JL4 in business — my first A350-1000 experience! Pulled JA06WJ, their sixth.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

At Shinsei Bank they did a similar thing post-Lehman called the Voluntary Early Retirement Program or “VERP.” (This was coincidentally also a word that Tim Allen coined for a burp accompanied by a little bit of vomit.)

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Japan to introduce overnight buses with bunk beds next month.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

The burnt-out area (approx 1 sq mile, mostly near Ueno) of LeMay's second trial incendiary raid on Feb 25, 1945, rendered all the starker by the foot of snow that then blanketed Tokyo. From the March 19, 1945 issue of Life

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

JCAB’s test plane doing donuts over Tokyo this morning.

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I think this is the first time I’ve seen a copy of the Kojiki presented alongside the New Testament and The Teaching of Buddha in a Japanese hotel room - guess it’s nice to have Shintoist representation!

submitted 46 days ago • 7 comments

This is Orwellian (first time for me to ever invoke that term). Trump administration is calling people in the country "unlawful" who are: immigrants who signed all the paperwork, entered the country legally, and have remained here documented and lawfully. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...

submitted 48 days ago • 115 comments

Keisei Skyliner introduced facial recognition check-in yesterday. Kinda nifty, but I have no idea how this is supposed to save time or reduce crowding.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Due to the way the schedule is arranged, it looks like JAL will have to down-gauge Haneda-Chicago to the same 787-9, meaning no more first class to Chicago, but another lucky route will likely get up-gauged. (Helsinki is getting 777s in April, switched over from the Singapore and Sydney routes)

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Saga Airport installs self-service karaoke box for up to 4 people. 100 yen per song.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

New interview: I talked to @chrislhayes.bsky.social about how attention became the new oil and gas, and how you can wrest it back from extractive oligarchs who are Trump’s new BFFs. the.ink/p/pay-attent...

submitted 48 days ago • 9 comments

New acting U.S. attorney in DC seems to suggest federal prosecutors are the “President’s lawyers”

submitted 48 days ago • 184 comments

McDonald's Japan already cutting orange juice due to citrus greening disease in Florida... just wait until all the fruit pickers are deported...

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments