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WingsOfGood posted...

aerial view

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W

Hes starting to look like Mr. Bean.

At least they got to end the article with an internet ancient quote from a WoW video.

You need to pick up as much of that as fast as you can or you are going to have serious damage.

I really am quite tempted... but Bethesda, the motherfuckers, are on xbox now..

BurmesePenguin posted...

No, diabetus comes from sugar. These are made of chocolate, not sugar.

What even is this post.

BurmesePenguin posted...

Did pubic hair exist in prehistoric times?

Tar pit Brazilians were brutal.

Sticky Please.

Looks like your knuckles are on the wrong side.

They say nothing about how a black hole could be used for quantum computing, or how it would be in any way possible to extract stored information from one... or even how information could be stored in one without destruction or distortion of said information, which would presumably be disassembled at a subatomic level... hence the hawking radiation being ejected.

I haven't seen Lan post in awhile.

The aftermath is 3 dead, plus a lone shooter who offed himself?

I was trying to follow this last night.

#2 is the only logical answer

The Cylons were here before us, hmm?

also seems tc misunderstood the article or was making a joke

Damn, kinda wanted to see that one and was hoping it would be good

wung it?

That was creepy

**looks like I might have been wrong, I haven't read that, just skimmed it

-Read it, yeah he sounds like a bit of a head case who wishes he were howard stern

A book by Dr. Narita that is being translated into English.Credit...Bea Oyster for The New York Times

His detractors say his repeated remarks on the subject have already spread dangerous ideas.

Its irresponsible, said Masaki Kubota, a journalist who has written about Dr. Narita. People panicking about the burdens of an aging society might think, Oh, my grandparents are the ones who are living longer, Mr. Kubota said, and we should just get rid of them.

Masato Fujisaki, a columnist, argued in Newsweek Japan that the professors remarks should not be easily taken as a metaphor. Dr. Naritas fans, Mr. Fujisaki said, are people who think that old people should just die already and social welfare should be cut.

Despite a culture of deference to older generations, ideas about culling them have surfaced in Japan before. A decade ago, Taro Aso the finance minister at the time and now a power broker in the governing Liberal Democratic Party suggested that old people should hurry up and die.

Last year, Plan 75, a dystopian movie by the Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa, imagined cheerful salespeople wooing retirees into government-sponsored euthanasia. In Japanese folklore, families carry older relatives to the top of mountains or remote corners of forests and leave them to die.

Dr. Naritas language, particularly when he has mentioned mass suicide, arouses historical sensitivities in a country where young men were sent to their deaths as kamikaze pilots during World War II and Japanese soldiers ordered thousands of families in Okinawa to commit suicide rather than surrender.

Critics worry that his comments could summon the kinds of sentiments that led Japan to pass a eugenics law in 1948, under which doctors forcibly sterilized thousands of people with intellectual disabilities, mental illness or genetic disorders. In 2016, a man who believed those with disabilities should be euthanized murdered 19 people at a care home outside Tokyo.

In his day job, Dr. Narita conducts technical research of computerized algorithms used in education and health care policy. But as a regular presence across numerous internet platforms and on television in Japan, he has grown increasingly popular, appearing on magazine covers, comedy shows and in an advertisement for energy drinks. He has even spawned an imitator on TikTok.

He often appears with Gen X rabble-rousers like Hiroyuki Nishimura, a celebrity entrepreneur and owner of 4chan, the online message board where some of the internets most toxic ideas bloom, and Takafumi Horie, a trash-talking entrepreneur who once went to prison for securities fraud.
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Hiroyuki Nishimura, center, who owns 4chan. He and Mr. Narita are part of a handful of Japanese provocateurs who seem to enjoy breaching social taboos.Credit...Ko Sasaki for The New York Times

At times, he has pushed the boundaries of taste. At a panel hosted by Globis, a Japanese graduate business school, Dr. Narita told the audience that if this can become a Japanese society where people like you all commit seppuku one after another, it wouldnt be just a social security policy but it would be the best Cool Japan policy. Cool Japan is a government program promoting the countrys cultural products.

Shocking or not, some lawmakers say Dr. Naritas ideas are opening the door to much-needed political conversations about pension reform and changes to social welfare. There is criticism that older people are receiving too much pension money and the young people are supporting all the old people, even those who are wealthy, said Shun Otokita, 39, a member of the upper house of Parliament with Nippon Ishin no Kai, a right-leaning party.

But detractors say Dr. Narita highlights the burdens of an aging population without suggesting realistic policies that could alleviate some of the pressures.
Hes not focusing on helpful strategies such as better access to day care or broader inclusion of women in the work force or broader inclusion of immigrants, said Alexis Dudden, a historian at the University of Connecticut who studies modern Japan. Things that might actually invigorate Japanese society.

In broaching euthanasia, Dr. Narita has spoken publicly of his mother, who had an aneurysm when he was 19. In an interview with a website where families can search for nursing homes, Dr. Narita described how even with insurance and government financing, his mothers care cost him 100,000 yen or about $760 a month.
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Dr. Narita at home in New Haven, Conn. His extreme positions have helped him gain hundreds of thousands of followers on social media in Japan.Credit...Bea Oyster for The New York Times

Some surveys in Japan have indicated that a majority of the public supports legalizing voluntary euthanasia. But Mr. Naritas reference to a mandatory practice spooks ethicists. Currently, every country that has legalized the practice only allows it if the person wants it themselves, said Fumika Yamamoto, a professor of philosophy at Tokyo City University.

In his emailed responses, Dr. Narita said that euthanasia (either voluntary or involuntary) is a complex, nuanced issue.
I am not advocating its introduction, he added. I predict it to be more broadly discussed.

At Yale, Dr. Narita sticks to courses on probability, statistics, econometrics and education and labor economics.

Neither Tony Smith, the department chair in economics, nor a spokesperson for Yale replied to requests for comment.

Josh Angrist, who has won the Nobel in economic science and was one of Dr. Naritas doctoral supervisors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said his former student was a talented scholar with an offbeat sense of humor.

I would like to see Yusuke continue a very promising career as a scholar, Dr. Angrist said. So my main concern in a case like his is that hes being distracted by other things, and thats kind of a shame.

His pronouncements could hardly sound more drastic.

In interviews and public appearances, Yusuke Narita, an assistant professor of economics at Yale, has taken on the question of how to deal with the burdens of Japans rapidly aging society.

I feel like the only solution is pretty clear, he said during one online news program in late 2021. In the end, isnt it mass suicide and mass seppuku of the elderly? Seppuku is an act of ritual disembowelment that was a code among dishonored samurai in the 19th century.

Last year, when asked by a school-age boy to elaborate on his mass seppuku theories, Dr. Narita graphically described to a group of assembled students a scene from Midsommar, a 2019 horror film in which a Swedish cult sends one of its oldest members to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff.

Whether thats a good thing or not, thats a more difficult question to answer, Dr. Narita told the questioner as he assiduously scribbled notes. So if you think thats good, then maybe you can work hard toward creating a society like that.

At other times, he has broached the topic of euthanasia. The possibility of making it mandatory in the future, he said in one interview, will come up in discussion.

Dr. Narita, 37, said that his statements had been taken out of context, and that he was mainly addressing a growing effort to push the most senior people out of leadership positions in business and politics to make room for younger generations. Nevertheless, with his comments on euthanasia and social security, he has pushed the hottest button in Japan.
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A nursing home in Japan. The country is grappling with growing numbers of older people who suffer from dementia or die alone.Credit...Ko Sasaki for The New York Times

While he is virtually unknown even in academic circles in the United States, his extreme positions have helped him gain hundreds of thousands of followers on social media in Japan among frustrated youths who believe their economic progress has been held back by a gerontocratic society.

Appearing frequently on Japanese online shows in T-shirts, hoodies or casual jackets, and wearing signature eyeglasses with one round and one square lens, Dr. Narita leans into his Ivy League pedigree as he fosters a nerdy shock jock impression. He is among a few Japanese provocateurs who have found an eager audience by gleefully breaching social taboos. His Twitter bio: The things youre told youre not allowed to say are usually true.

Last month, several commenters discovered Dr. Naritas remarks and began spreading them on social media. During a panel discussion on a respected internet talk show with scholars and journalists, Yuki Honda, a University of Tokyo sociologist, described his comments as hatred toward the vulnerable.

A growing group of critics warn that Dr. Naritas popularity could unduly sway public policy and social norms. Given Japans low birthrate and the highest public debt in the developed world, policymakers increasingly worry about how to fund Japans expanding pension obligations. The country is also grappling with growing numbers of older people who suffer from dementia or die alone.

In written answers to emailed questions, Dr. Narita said he was primarily concerned with the phenomenon in Japan, where the same tycoons continue to dominate the worlds of politics, traditional industries, and media/entertainment/journalism for many years.
The phrases mass suicide and mass seppuku, he wrote, were an abstract metaphor.

I should have been more careful about their potential negative connotations, he added. After some self-reflection, I stopped using the words last year.
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dameon_reaper posted...

It says "mass suicide" and then "including" the ritual disembowelments. I was joking about the wording as in "its not going to work if they just kill themselves, they have to do the whole shabang. I mean...they cut out their guts and get their heads lopped off as part of samurai ritual. Geeze

I wasn't talking down to or insulting you, I was saying that should be a tip that perhaps people here aren't looking at this in the right way... but what do I know.

dameon_reaper posted...

Will it not work unless there's ritual disembowelments?

...who says the users here aren't very bright?

Ys VIII is great

@ veggy they also are trying to rescind liability which is truly fucked

I worked as a dish washer starting at 15 in the local restaurant. (Maybe 14? I remember it was technically illegal)

I was able to get any game I wanted and bought a 100cc Honda dirt bike while the other kids were dependent on birthdays and Christmas for like one game.

I liked it.

A lot different from coal mines mind you.

VeggetaX posted...

OG Zero's sword looks like a real lightsaber. New Zero's sword look like a plastic attachment.

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One on the left looks lame.

They seem like the white bread of rpgs to me.

Its weird, I love jrgs but I find the three dragon quest games Ive tried (including 11) boring as hell.

I started phantasy star IV on switch and am having more fun with that even though I dont know what half the attacks and spells are supposed to do.

Tom_Joad posted...

But if you can generate an artificial black hole in front of a ship, it will pull the ship towards it a rate greater than the speed of light.

That would also take care of any pesky particle strikes you might encounter, handy.

Depends on what you mean by harmful, I liked the idea of going around and telling different versions of the aristocrats joke to people.

For some reason this brought to mind one of Pis gameboy art threads seems like something he would draw, I can just see the little snake heads peaking out over the panty line.

Etna posted...

Early onset dementia from years of Benadryl abuse has entered the chat

Huh, does dxm have similar effects?

Im only 5 9 and playing the switch for too long starts putting my fingers to sleep from how I have to curl them up to play Ive kinda wanted to hold a deck to see how the fit is.

DrizztLink posted...

Bike testicles, no less.

A product designed for the single worst human being on the planet.

I'd be insulted.

Cyclists truly are terrible.

wooosh I guess

never seen that one before

You okay bro?

I read, and thats extremely tough man. I would say try to hold out until you can line up another job if you possibly can.

I hate to be that guy, but gaps in employment and trying to explain how you just walked off a job can be difficult to handle. Switching to a better position is pretty much always acceptable though.

Hope you knock the interview out of the park.

Im still wating at the low karma account comment

They killed Harpie anyway didnt they?

Done

Pipotchi posted...

I think its like 1/8128

Changed in gen six to half that, so 4000ish.

Huh, seen plenty of bars and or restaurants have Super Bowl parties and specials etc guess if they arent national chains they just arent big enough fish.

1/5000ish iirc

__starsnostars posted...

What is a Mahones.

A guy with a gimp leg.