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Comment Re:No duh. (Score 1) 162

And extension of that, CEOs smooching off at a tropical retreat or at places of leisure during office hours, while regular workers often be immediately fired if they posted on Social Media pictures of themselves being in another city during workday.

Also employees working two or multiple jobs being immediately fireable offense and Management calling it stealing, but many (most?) CEOs being employed in several chairman/ Directorship roles - on top of 'Full time job that is extremely critical for running of company' - being seen as okay and not stealing?

Comment Re:Made in America, [not tested in Germany] (Score 1) 231

Interesting. Tho to clarify, given the hundreds of kilometres the Mount Fuji area spans it was not in my wager that Mount Fuji can be flattened or even have a significant chunk wiped (If my wager was "flatten Mount Fuji on a nuclear bomb" then you'd have all rights to laugh that 'this isn't Godzilla', lol). However, I opinion remains that even a 2km crater at strategic spots in Mount Fuji - the sudden "uncorking" of pressure built in through eons - has a fair risk of triggering a catastrophic eruption.

Others have also pondered it for fun.

Also, in POV of 1945 - As even Plate Tectonics wasn't well understood till well into the 1960s, I am highly doubtful that given the knowledge+technology of WW2 era that America remotely has the knowledge to even have any risk assessment of PRETTY MUCH ANYTHING in consequence - from possible eruption resulting , to triggering the fault line that is beneath the Mount Fuji(https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fbusiness%2Fenvironment%2Fmassive-fault-found-beneath-japans-mount-fuji-idUSBRE84A0JT%2F) confirmed only in 2012.

Comment Re:Made in America, [not tested in Germany] (Score 1) 231

While I get your drift of NOT using the warhead in high population density first (honourable an idea), I think that probably would be filed in World History under "Well intentioned but out of Depth people causing unintentional world catastrophe" if went ahead. (disclaimer: Not Geologist).

Mount Fuji is still considered an ACTIVE VOLCANO, even if less so this recent centuries. If you scrap the multi square kilometres of cover on Mount Fuji with a sudden, catastrophic blast you'd probably can trigger a geologically unprecedented eruption. That probably has good likelihood to cause massive or total destruction in level of at least 10,000s of Square Km, spanning multiple Prefectures of Japan, and the death & destruction probably would dwarf both the Atomic bombings by order(s?) of magnitude.

Not to mention the aftermath of the unprecedented volcanic+atomic blast on a 3776m high Volcano have a good chance to cause the whole world to go into a Impact winter, that have a chance to top the Mass Extinction event 66 Mil years ago. And even if not, the carrying of NUCLEAR volcanic ashes spanning way across China and Russia likely would expose 9-digit-strong population to radiation.

Comment Re:It should be illegal (Score 1) 102

Well SOME shoes can last over a decade, good leather Military boots often do... Oh perhaps I should be more specific, that I'm not confident that NIKE, and especially Nike sneakers with delicate hardware, would even have a quarter of that line still be in good condition (with the electronics function intact) after 5 years of usage.

Comment Re:It should be illegal (Score 1) 102

On second thought if someone still has those 5 year old shoes with hardware in new/usable conditions, it's quite possible that those are collectors having them mint in the box for some Novelty collection, and they're complaining about drop in Value from orphaned hardware.

The shoes would officially now be in "Mildly interesting history artifact" territory instead of "rare niche and functional (even if NICHE appeal)" collection.

Comment Re:Well duh! (Score 1) 95

>>intelligent interpolation - ie makes it up

If the Samsung AI has added details that didn't exist, I think and is interested to see test on human faces to prove this.

By taking something like a passport photo on a wall from afar, where the Space Zoom made details on assumptions, there is a very high chance the resultant photo would be an AI generated human face of high resolution.....that also NOT look like the original person on photo at all.

Comment Re:And ? (Score 1) 55

Hmm, on a further search, the 5iver stunt he intentionally made to see how much wrong would people be killing to stoop for 5 dollars - which implies that he thinks it's a WRONG and horrible thing by virtue of choosing it as the offensive message (which is exactly the opposite as a legitimate N@z would - they'd say the message out loud, proudly, thinking it's a wonderful thing and they should convince everyone on it ) for which he was visibly appalled and apologized.

The Tseries diss track I've heard it, and as someone Asian I didn't find anything REMOTELY offensive about it. He dissed a channel, not Indians. In fact this and for most of the list given I think whoever wrote it is stretching, like it someone ever calls a girl a pig they'd have spread the rumour that the said person is a woman h@ter, cos that one single person is the same as all woman.

If that's all one has I guess I'll dismiss quite a lot of on the list as "Some people getting enraged on my behalf and trying to convince me I've been vict1mized." The most I get from there is "It's arguable if this person is tasteful as a youtuber.".

Comment Re:And ? (Score 1) 55

Can you point out what exactly did he said by " a bunch of stuff that excites and emboldens naz1s ", to "caused a bunch of them to mark [him] as a friend", instead of just random naz1 just liking the same fastfood brand or Movie as you do due to the your favourite brand/Movie's popularity?

Comment Re:Anecdotal stories have anecdotal themes (Score 1) 166

Firstly the guy in question is 20 year old and most of his friends likely late teens. When I was 18 years old I'd say half my friends couldn't fork out an equivalent of USD $200 spending power.

Also almost every friend he otherwise had physical access to would have the same problem as his, and that's before even considering that many of his friends might either have fled before him or missing for a myriad of reasons in a war.

Think of how much (little) you have access to on your feet and almost no public infrastructure (and no car or no fuel) left, and it's not far fetched.

Lastly, given the allegations that Ukrainian army is yanking young men off from the border back to the army (even a RUMOUR that Army yanking young man off the streets to fight would suffice, even if not accurate) there's also good reason why - unless he's sure of access to money - be it ATM of friends - he may not want to risk walking tens of kms on the street. Not to mention the very basic risk of becoming cannon fodder.

Comment Re:Not enough white babies! (Score 1) 243

But to my best knowledge the "Feminism" of India and Pakistan is nothing like the nonsense crusades on manspreading an such (personal account from my Indian English teacher), they're talking about very basic welfare and survival of woman like helping victims of acid attacks or survivors of "Cooking accident", so Feminism have actual use for normal women there. Also at least according to her many married woman has less beef against their husbands that against their Mother-in-laws, those types that are raised in the 1960s and treat their DIL like illiterate servants (which was doubly infuriating to University-educated types like my teacher that illiterate women is bossing them around, and demanding that things be done in the wrong or outdated ways, cos it's her house.)

In places where the where in some rural areas the system and judges are so infuriatingly out-of-date that many judges had make taunting remarks to r@pe victims; including nonsense like a rural judge musing that a strangled victim should have just pretended to struggle a little against the male assaulter to protect her name, that her struggling fiercely to protect her chastity and being a pain was why the assaulter strangled her.

In India Even the Chief Judge of Supreme court thinks that a r@pe victim should have just married her assaulter to protect her name, and that's an assaulter that doused the minor girl in petrol and threatened to set her alight. Some rural judges are even more out of touch, so personally I think it's actually within reasonable caution for woman in that kind of society to be fearing man where a society doesn't protect them nor them have recourse for any harm and loss suffered.

Also, many woman over there now thinks the culture of the needing to give the Groom family a large sum of dowry, when the bride herself is well-educated (unlike in bygone era) and expected to earn a living for life and also "serving" the guy's family, is way too much of an unequal arrangement. And while decreasing nowadays, if the Bride's family gives too little dowry, it increase the risk that the angry guy's family just douse the woman in kerosene, set her alight and calls in a "cooking accident" that killed her. (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBride_burning) Then the guy can remarry another woman and bilk and other family for dowry.

Comment Re:Not enough white babies! (Score 1) 243

A lot of people like to lump India with the poorest parts of Africa as if they're still breeding like rabbits but their fertility rate has fallen very sharply (and look slated to continue falling sharply) these recent decades to just a tad above replacement rate at 2.179 last year.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.macrotrends.net%2Fcountries%2FIND%2Findia%2Ffertility-rate

Honestly speaking, a search on quite a few African countries seem to suggest that the amount of children born in the past decades often overlaps in years where foreign aid increased.

Comment Re: Hmm... (Score 1) 58

Not always of malice though. I think there was an Indonesian guy that is also claimed to be near 130 in the past but never verified, as it was highly suspected that he just took over his Dad's ID card when he went to look for work in Jakarta. Re-using relatives' IDs are not unheard of in bygone era, as they want to save money and not pay for charges (and transport fares) to governmental bureaus get Documentations done.

The old man in question never agreed or denied the claim of being the oldest man alive, but just gave non-answers about him losing count, which may be dishonesty or just actual cognitive decline as he'd still be well into 90s even if speculations of him being the son is true.

Comment Re: really (Score 1) 72

"Usually" you can, though there had been many instances the more reputed party is wrong.

I remember there was an instance where even the reputed Khan Academy produced a wrong mathematics video that was not removed quickly even then the internet discussed it widely (quite a few years ago). I think People shouldn't be made to fall back on "believe the larger establishment" (e.g. How many times has mainstream media been wrong?) or "follow internet clout " and would be better if users' right to judge each video on its merit is protected.

Comment Re: really (Score 1) 72

Many people treasure their time more than you do I guess, plus many a times people watch videos not to "kill" time but to research/reference on an area.

If I have an assignment on Trigonometry, a explanation video with "11k likes 40 dislikes" is way more likely to be error-free than another with "15k likes 2k dislikes", which I can no longer judge if there's only a "like" and the Like amount is just largely correlated to channel subscriber size.

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