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LOL I wish to nominate him for this year's JT Idiot Criminal Mastermind Award.

The reason people are deciding not to have children is not more women opting to work rather than staying home. It's financial reasons and bad economy.

You'll find that the number of children a woman has across her life time has not changed much at all, for those who have children.

What has changed is the number of women who remain completely childless. And it's an accelerating trend worldwide.

But speak to most young women and they actually want children. Only in their 30s after they have got their careers started. That's leaving things a bit late.

Could be. Although I think the part indicates the real problem: a fall in subscribers across the industry. These conglomerates are going to have to consolidate and make their services more affordable and offer better content, unlike the slop they offer now. Most people are sick and tired of the money grabbing subscription model. There is a reason piracy is back with a vengeance.

Ms. Sasaki, unfortunately your local constituents are actually statistically correct. You're 27, shinle and childless. Keep focusing on your career and you probably won't have the time to find a husband and have a family. It's called biology.

I think your constituents worry about the reality that in a few years places like Iwate won't have any young women left, since they all basically leave to go to Tokyo to focus on their careers.

They probably shouldn't have been so "politically" correct and told it to your face though.

Pretending climate change is not real, so there is no cost to absorb is a deeply antiscientific irrational position.

Yeah, Michael Mann has a few peer reviewed papers for you to look at.

Didn't bother reading it, but can answer the question:

Our modern life requires the use of fossil fuels. Society as we know it would cease to function without them.

Good. The U.S. and her allies can mine and process their own rare earths. They are not so rare and it's simple enough. Meanwhile, China's economy is in sharp decline and headed for complete collapse -- just a few of the narratives we have been sold now for the past couple of decades.

Let's play a game called Spot the Woman in the Cabinet.

Only need to look at the last 2 decades to see the enormous deterioration in creativity.

My parents were saying the same thing years ago, and I remember my grandfather saying the same thing about how creativity peaked in the 1940s-50s. Now I am saying it myself. Ask a young person though, and they think the crap that is released these days is just the bee's knees.

These dinaousars need to just give it up already. And who actually regularly goes to the movies these days anyway?

Mr Kipling - you’re right, it’s all his family’s fault

You guys are assuming he has a family. So many elderly here have no immediate family and end up dying alone.

Imagine in the near future trying to see the world on a budget and having to apply for each little country.

Don't actuallly know many places you can go to now without having first apply online for ETA , which if we are being honest, is just a visa under a different name.

Why not Japan? Might as well cash in while you can because good things don't last forevee. I actually have fond memories of the not too distant past, before social media and influencers and all that, when numbers of foreign tourists were below 5 million per year.

Hopefully the incoming Takaichi coalition regime take some more concrete steps to solve the rice crsis which was completely manmade by LDP ineptitude over the years.

The following countries have done just that.[snip]

Ummm it was supposed to be sarcasm.....

Might as well just kill off all of the bears because it's their fault for being around and causing problems for humans. The final solution.

What the hell are they suddenly wanting to use AI to analyze passengers needs while they're on the train for? And what might these 'needs" be? Sounds like an excuse to bring in full surveillance in the near future. Actually, I'll rephrase that: It's definitely an excuse, and in the future AI will watch your every movement from.

Nah I lose enough umbrellas already. I'd definitely lose a summer one. Just not for me.

Hopefully not one of those, "I just wanted to kill somebody" kind of cases.

Having a tracking device somewhere hidden in the vehicle really helps tracing it in case of such incidents

Now, yeah, then, nah. And the power of hindsight. But yeah you'd be foolish these days not to have an airtag attached somewhere to your Ai-Sha.

On course for 10% increase this year. If keeping this pace will be doubling in 7 years baby. 2035 should be around 8%. Massive changes coming to the structure of japanese society.

Article stresses legal foreign residents. Wonder how many illegal foreign residents reside in Japan?

According to the article: 71,229, as of the 1st of July.

No, Sanseito have already declared that they have no intentions to govern with LDP. That's the thing with extremist populist parties

And you believe what these politicians say? Patience, little caterpillar, patience.

Warnings are not enough; just ban them already. People don't follow warnings or "urges".

But they won't ban them will they? It seems that they are instead wanting us to be switched on all the times so that we are trackable. And don't forget those digital IDs and digital currency will require people to have battery power at all times.

All this is going to do is to push Sanseito into a position where it will be holding the balanced of power after it increases its number of seats in upcoming elections. People here are fed up with nearly 40 years of stagnation. You just watch this space.

Yet China will continue to be blamed for the the world's woes, even though she has taken the lead on all things renewable, including electric cars. Just wait for upcoming restrictions on solar panels/wind turbines produced there. In the name of national security.

Might be time to invest in Nissan.....

The new media landscape has implications for not only traditional journalism, but Japanese democracy, observers say.

Yes, RIP traditional media, and let democracy (people power) thrive. Oh, wait, are they saying we can't have that? From the general tone of the article, it seems that those that control the populace through manipulation of the media are starting to panic.

And you think prices in Japan are expensive now? And might have to start using the yen as toilet paper since will be cheaper.

Couldn't put in a photo of the actual drones flying over the airport? Meaningless having a stock photo in this instance.