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Comment Re:"problematic plastic products" (Score 1) 16

The worst polluters are the Chinese and Indians. The amount of plastics pollution flowing out of either the Ganges or Huang He dwarfs the rest of the world combined. This doesn't even get into the industrial pollution coming out of the Ganges which is in a decade or two going to turn the majority of the Indian Ocean into a giant dead zone.

Comment Re:Cheating on your wife is a bad idea (Score 1) 153

More importantly, the HR bitch had a long time subordinate who acted as her right hand through multiple HR positions at different companies buy the tickets using company funds and the subordinate went with them to the concert to cover for the affair. THAT was why they were fired. Not the affair.

Comment Re:good value for money (Score 1) 76

Biden tossed the agreement, and any requirements therein, aside within weeks of getting into office. Notably, the May 2021 Taliban offensive would have been a fatal breach of said plans. Then when he did withdraw, Biden did so abruptly without destroying any equipment that could not be taken out. He also gave up Bagram AFB, which under the original agreement would have remained in US hands. Had the US kept Bagram, it would have made extracting the Afghanis an order of magnitude easier.

Comment Re:2fa / passkeys - mandate or suffer (Score 1, Troll) 93

There's something to be said about the assumption of carelessness without evidence by a poster on Slashdot. Namely get the fuck out of here and go back to Wired. There is a single incident that can be traced to one of his devices being hacked and no mention of how the device was hacked, whether from social engineering, a careless download, or a zero day that didn't require anything more than an internet connection.

Comment Re:What is the purpose of Government? (Score -1, Troll) 249

Now how much did costs increase due to more usage to get the same effect(Length of showers, multiple washes in dishwasher to clean dishes) and how much did they increase due to higher failure rates and lower lifespan? Energy Star certs destroyed dishwasher and washing machine capability and reliability.

Comment Re: In other news... (Score 1) 212

If by every historian, you mean Lockley and one japanese historian who even admits that he was never given a family name, which all individuals raised to samurai status were given but he is suuuper sure that Nobunaga would have gotten around to that any day now, then yes every historian. In reality prior to 2010 the idea that Yasuke was a samurai was entirely apocrypha.

Comment Re:Wikipedia on the story (Score 2, Informative) 212

That wiki page's primary, secondary, and tertiary cites all circle back to the two-faced bastard Lockley. As such, it is completely worthless.

Here is his scholarship presented to the media in english.

Yasuke was in the temple with Nobunaga when he performed seppuku. “There’s no record, but tradition holds it that [Yasuke] was the one who took Nobunaga’s head to save it from the enemy,” Lockley said. “If Akechi, the enemy, had gotten the head and he’d been able to hold up the head, he would have had a powerful symbol of legitimacy.” Lockley explained that an act like that would have given Akechi credibility as a ruler. After the attack on Nobunaga, Akechi did not get much support and was soon defeated in battle. “Yasuke, therefore, by escaping with the head, could have been seen and has been seen as changing Japanese history,” Lockley said.

Here is a translation of his scholarship as presented to the japanese media

(1)
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Translation:
According to the family claiming to be the descendants of the Oda family, Yasuke took Nobunaga’s head and sword out of Honno-ji to prevent them from falling into enemy hands. The anecdote about Nobunaga’s is based on the claim that a death mask, which is not a Japanese tradition, was made with Yasuke’s help(1).
There are several issues with this claim. First, no documents mention what happened to Nobunaga’s head (whether Yasuke was involved or not). The only document mentioning Yasuke’s participation in the battle is Frois’ letters, which do not mention Nobunaga’s head. If Yasuke had taken the head to the Nanban-ji, Frois would have mentioned it. Secondly, escaping from a burning temple surrounded by many enemy soldiers, —even without the additional task of carrying their own weapons along with something as astonishingly large and cumbersome as a human head—, would have been extremely difficult.

Notice how it goes from the generalized 'tradition holds' to 'this one family claims to be descendants of Nobunaga and has a mask which they say totes shows that Yasuke came back with the head and used it to make the mask but this is both highly unlikely given no such japanese tradition and the logistics of him doing so would be a bitch'.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjapanese-with-naoto.co...

Comment Re: In other news... (Score 2, Informative) 212

No, he was not a samurai. He was a court curiosity with zero evidence of blade training who Nobunaga had playing caddy with his swords because he found him funny. There are no contemporary sources showing otherwise. That you cite a wiki page which still cites that two-faced bastard Lockley is evident of this. When I say two faced, I am not in any way kidding.
Here is his scholarship presented to the media in english.

Yasuke was in the temple with Nobunaga when he performed seppuku. “There’s no record, but tradition holds it that [Yasuke] was the one who took Nobunaga’s head to save it from the enemy,” Lockley said. “If Akechi, the enemy, had gotten the head and he’d been able to hold up the head, he would have had a powerful symbol of legitimacy.” Lockley explained that an act like that would have given Akechi credibility as a ruler. After the attack on Nobunaga, Akechi did not get much support and was soon defeated in battle. “Yasuke, therefore, by escaping with the head, could have been seen and has been seen as changing Japanese history,” Lockley said.

Here is a translation of his scholarship as presented to the japanese media

(1)
————

Translation:
According to the family claiming to be the descendants of the Oda family, Yasuke took Nobunaga’s head and sword out of Honno-ji to prevent them from falling into enemy hands. The anecdote about Nobunaga’s is based on the claim that a death mask, which is not a Japanese tradition, was made with Yasuke’s help(1).
There are several issues with this claim. First, no documents mention what happened to Nobunaga’s head (whether Yasuke was involved or not). The only document mentioning Yasuke’s participation in the battle is Frois’ letters, which do not mention Nobunaga’s head. If Yasuke had taken the head to the Nanban-ji, Frois would have mentioned it. Secondly, escaping from a burning temple surrounded by many enemy soldiers, —even without the additional task of carrying their own weapons along with something as astonishingly large and cumbersome as a human head—, would have been extremely difficult.

Notice how it goes from the generalized 'tradition holds' to 'this one family claims to be descendants of Nobunaga and has a mask which they say totes shows that Yasuke came back with the head and used it to make the mask but this is both highly unlikely given no such japanese tradition and the logistics of him doing so would be a bitch'.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjapanese-with-naoto.co...

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