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Questionmarktarius posted...

Note that "gaijin" cannot own property.
Unless you live on a US military base, you're pretty much fucked for ever getting fucked.

I literally own a house in Japan.

Dude you tried to claim Arisuyama was a real name (and somehow more common, why not do a basic Google search before saying that?). Then tried to pass off Arisugawa as that name. And now you say I am trolling? Are you serious?

Ricemills posted...

Why the fuck this clown still babbling about when the show itself has Arisu a family name.

And is written in katakana so it means it's an adaptation from foreign language, which is Alice, not Arisu.

Also the fuck is this clown insisting that -Yama doesn't exist when people named Shigeyama, Akayama (lit. red mountain), Aoyama (Blue Mountain), etc are names that still used by many living people?

Look do you want to actually address what I wrote or just something else? Yes the kanji name is the protagonists name and is used in the manga and about 10 people in real life. That's why I said it's rare.

You never wrote it in kanji, but since you are bringing up the katakana it's pronounced the same way so I'm not sure what your point is. The series calls itself and it's done for the pun on Alice in Wonderland. The pronunciation is Arisu either way so I am not sure what the point is.

I said you can't just jam Yama on the end of the name two posts on a row now. You tried claiming Arisuyama is a name. Then you tried passing off Arisugawa as if that was the name somehow (and that's also not a family name, but I don't want to get into the historical imperial naming conventions). Now you are bringing up other names. Yes all real names, but missing the point again. Yama isn't like berg because you can't just tack it onto the end of some other name like you tried to do and because it's more common at the beginning.

Ricemills posted...

You're doubling down on not getting the difference between "it's usually a family name" and "it's a usual/common family name".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Arisugawa_Taruhito
Also Yama and Berg both means mountain.

So you're just stirring up shit. In the same post that you're trying to imply that the name is Alice not Arisu, but then deny that you're trying to argue that Arisu is not a Japanese name.
Glad to know you're not worth talking to.

His name is Arisugawa, that's an imperial name and no one is alive with that as a last name (imperial names are complex, but it's not worth getting into), but why would you think saying Arisuyama, which isn't a name, would somehow make that count?

And yes as a given name is more common. So the person doubling down isn't me. And again you aren't wrong because berg means mountain, you're wrong because you think people tack Yama on the end of other names as some kind of thing when you probably just got confused by the name of an actual mountain. As I demonstrated with the name database Yama is usually at the beginning, not like -berg as you wrote.

I didn't stir up any shit. I just pointed out manga use rare or nonexistent names and you started making some stuff up for no reason.

And here are Japanese people with Arisu as their first (given) name:
https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%89%E8%97%A4%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9
https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8A%B1%E5%BD%B1%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9
https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BA%83%E7%80%AC%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9

You won't find a single Wikipedia article of someone with Arisu as a family name. Go ahead and search on there. or any other variant. They don't exist, just the 10 people on that database of family names.

Ricemills posted...

1. I said it's usually a family name, not it's a common family name.
2. You didn't include the common variant, Arisuyama. ( -Yama is equivalent as -Berg in western family names).
And what are you trying to prove anyway? That Arisu is not a Japanese name?

1. Usual isn't a good word to describe it because it isn't common. I guarantee more people in Japan have Alice as a first name, because I can Google it right now and find way more than 10 people.
2. That's not a family name and if you're talking about that's the name of a mountain and it's pronounced Uzusan. Also no Yama isn't like berg. Yama is actually more common at the start of names. https://myoji-yurai.net/sp/prefectureRanking.htm ( all in the top 20 names)

I'm not trying to prove anything. I just said manga often use rare or nonexistent names, which is what this is.

Ricemills posted...

Japanese pronunciation of Alice is Arisu, which is usually a family name.
And it's the same in this series too, MCs full name is Ryohei Arisu.

I don't know if I would say it's usually a family name, it's the family name of approximately 10 people in Japan. Manga and anime tend to use rare or nonexistent names for characters.

https://myoji-yurai.net/sp/searchResult.htm?myojiKanji=%E6%9C%89%E6%A0%96

Rai_Jin posted...

I'm conflicted. I'm not sure if watching the show is going to leave a bad aftertaste after reading the excellent manga.

Show is decent enough. There is actually no shortage of good live action versions of manga and anime in Japan. One Piece only stands out because the Western adaptations have been consistently shit.

I watched this on YouTube in Japan a while ago. I have no idea why it's on YouTube in Japan but it is.

RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...

I think they also made one where he is back in boarderland ir it could be a spin off with other characters.

I really liked how season 2 ended.

Yes there is a sequel manga. But I would recommend reading the original manga as well because it has a lot more games that didn't make it on to the show.

Smallville posted...

Why do the opinions on it have to be from 1998?

Did this ever get talked about after that? Was it a Current Event in 2000 when I made this account? I don't ever recall it coming up.

I don't think anyone posted any opinions on here in 1998.

34% is actually less than what they were polling at before the election (those polls are also in the article I posted). I don't know what the media was saying in America, but we weren't being told about this overwhelmingly support here because it didn't exist.

sauceje posted...

How could anyone claim with a straight face that Mar-a-Lago might be worth almost $2 billion dollars......

Buckingham Palace is considered the most expensive house in the world.

It's worth $1.3 billion.

He already has a majority of the primary voters support. There is no incentive for Trump to do it. However DeSantis desperately needs something big in order to have a chance. So this is entirely to his benefit and for that reason, even as dumb as Trump is, it's not going to happen.

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People don't get the public opinion mismatch for the same reason that guy earlier thought they voted for overwhelmingly for the LDP after Abe was killed. If you only need 35% of the vote for a majority you don't need to do what the majority of the public wants, especially when it's 35% of the less than half that even bother to vote.

When the LDP had a race for prime minister they polled the public. People overwhelmingly wanted center-left Kono. He even got the majority of votes from low ranking LDP party members. Didn't matter, he had almost no support in the actual elected party members. We almost got Abe's pick, a literal neo-Nazi, Takaichi despite the public overwhelmingly hating her. Kishida was a compromise candidate liked by no one.

Japan is way better than America, no doubt about it, I would never want to go back there, but the political situation here is not good and not likely to change because the system allows a small minority to run the show regardless of what the public wants.

She ever live in a tropical or subtropical environment? Because humidity is no joke.

TheDurinator posted...

Imagine thinking the LDP won't have power for the next hundred years at minimum, lmao.

When you only need 34% of the vote to get a majority, it's pretty hard to lose power. Unless Koumeitou just decides one day they don't want to work with them. Then they would need to get like 38% of the vote. Not that anyone else could form a coalition, but it's at least a plausible scenario.

By the way that super majority election he is talking about where everyone was apparently sad and voted for his party?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Japanese_House_of_Councillors_election

34% of the vote. About what was expected before the assassination and enough to get a majority of seats.

He became so unpopular the majority opposed the state funeral for him, which they pushed through anyway. The current government is also unpopular. Kishida has about a 30% approval rating. It doesn't matter, his party, the LDP, will still win big. They only need about 35% of the vote to get a majority anyway. What the LDP does or how unpopular they are doesn't matter much currently because there is no meaningful opposition. Rikkenmin will likely disband after the next election (the Democrats are always disbanding, rebranding, becoming weaker and less effective, because why not) when the biggest opposition becomes yet another right wing party with Ishin no Kai. The problem is that the opposition exploded after Fukushima happened under their watch (even though it wasn't really their fault) and has never recovered. There is no real politics outside of internal LDP politics.

Kradek posted...

Whoa, maybe overwhelmingly voting a certain party into power just because the leader of the party got assassinated isn't a good basis for determining who should control the government, or something.

They were going to vote for them either way. Abe actually got less popular after being assassinated. Opposition hasn't had a realistic shot at governing since Fukushima.

Look man I hate the LDP. I hate them and want them to lose, but they won't. Rikkenmin is so unpopular the next election will have another right wing party become the second largest (but the LDP will still be the largest by far). This particular issue is actually incredibly minor in Japan and not going to affect elections. The main thing people are upset about is inflation and cost of living increases in general. Unfortunately that will not prevent the LDP from easily winning a majority again next election.

https://www.nhk.or.jp/senkyo/shijiritsu/

Opposition is a mess and not sure when or if it will become a relevant force again.

34.1%4.0% 5.8% 2.2%2.3%1.9%0.9%0.4% 480.2% 1.0% 42.8%

Support for parties:
LDP 34.1%
Rikkenmin 4% (center-left opposition TC mentions, former Democratic Party)
Ishin no Kai 5.8% (right-wing Osaka regionalists, somewhat libertarian)
Koumeitou 2.2% (right-wing Buddhist party, ally of LDP)
Communist Party 2.3% (really more of social democrats, explicitly anti-tankie)
Kokumin 1.9% (more right wing nationalist wing of the former center-left Democratic Party)
Reiwa Shinsengumi 0.9% (left wing populist, pretty cool dudes, advocates for the disabled and other minority groups)
Socialist 0.4% (not relevant, not going to get more than one seat at most)
Political Women 0.2%
Sansei 1% (straight up anti-vax far right, immigrant hating, anti-LGBT, Trumpers basically)
No one in particular 42.8% (just LDP voters for the most part who like to pretend they're open to other parties or people who don't bother voting, which is the majority of people)

I think the issue you run into is that he was always saying dumb stuff so it's hard to know if this is decline or just normal.

Mackorov posted...

sure, explain more then how DNA is more likely formed out of pure inorganic randomness since you have a 'degree in cellular molecular biology'

It isn't inorganic. Do you even know what organic means? If you want to mock my degree, you should at least know what organic chemistry is.

Okay, as a guy with a degree in cellular and molecular biology that's weird because DNA is neither complex nor well engineered. That's a really weird take. Never heard such a thing before. Usually creationists talk about the human eye or something, which also isn't well engineered, but is at least complex.

Mackorov posted...

Because what else is there? This IS the only other alternative.

You only suggested the third alternative, some matrix-computer-simulation, but that one is actually pointing back to intelligent design as well, isn't it? LOL.
Someone has to be running the matrix.

That's what it is all about. Either life formed completely out of random, and out of meaninglessness and this whole universe exists purely out of nihilism.... or life formed out of an intelligent creator's intention.

Uh, I posted a bunch of options of varying levels of absurdity to present why lack of evidence isn't a good argument. Maybe it's all a dream like in the GB Zelda game. Maybe an alien didn't even intend to make life but just left some cells behind here when they were on vacation and it became life. If we say no evidence everything becomes possible. You already want to say a creator, specifically the Christian God, did it because you have faith in a religion and want that to be true. So you aren't actually open to all possibilities, you are feigning to be in order to support what you believe.

Mackorov posted...

Yet we all seem to only lean toward abiogenesis. Why? That's my question.

Well you only present God as an alternative and until recently explicitly the Christian idea of God. So my question is why was that presented as the only alternative?

GiftedACIII posted...

Sparkling water is common in a bunch of European countries.

Japan too. Unsweetened sparkling water is a pretty popular drink. For some reason they like to advertise how insane the amount of carbonation is.

Equiprobability isn't a good argument because there are way more options than God did it or abiogenesis. There's everything is a computer simulation, aliens did it, extra dimensional beings did it, some other religion's god or gods did it, everyone is dead and this is a test and if you believe in God you failed the test and the demon that is running the test will torture you forever because he's evil, etc.

Saying there's no evidence doesn't just allow only one other no evidence explanation. It allows all of them.

Make sure you check out the castles while you are in Bavaria.

mustachedmystic posted...

@ssjevot, or maybe, a person can criticize another country without implying theirs is perfect.

Tell that to the original post. And I am all for criticizing Japan. Especially the LDP and other right wing groups. The problem is he is making up a problem based on a meme and laughably suggesting Japan is worse when the data doesn't remotely support the narrative.

pinky0926 posted...

Maybe the reason for that is that they hold you hostage until you confess to a crime?

Why are the vast majority being released without charge? Shouldn't they be convicted, shouldn't Japan not have one of the lowest conviction rates? Shouldn't you have done some basic research instead of basing your views off a YouTube video?

pinky0926 posted...

1) I'm not American
2) The american judicial system has many problems but being indefinitely detained and not having any right to a lawyer and being forced into mandatory questioning is not one of them

The fact japan has like a 99.7% conviction rate should send alarm bells

Guess what happened to all those people at Guantanamo? Indefinitely detained, for years, and tortured.

Already explained that. They don't bother pressing charges against people they don't think will be found guilty. Just look at the incarceration rate data. Again the most likely result of you being arrested in Japan is released without charge. You have to at a minimum understand the basics of how the Japanese system works before posting the 99% meme. The actual problems in Japan with the justice system are not related to that. Most people don't want a legal lottery where the jury might convict an innocent person if you put on a good enough performance for them. The US system incentives plea bargains even for innocent people because the court system is a clown show biased against the poor and for the rich that rewards prosecuting people even if you think they're innocent.

Sufferedphoneix posted...

Where in my post did I make out like Japan was worse.

I am talking about the literally opening sentence of this topic. Not your post:

pinky0926 posted...

You think it's bad here.

This is typical American behavior where they ignore the shit that is literally uniquely bad there and post some YouTube video or social media post showing some other country is worse.

Sufferedphoneix posted...

Doesn't excuse shitty practices being implemented.

Its weird cause on paper if cops here do the job by the book it wouldn't be so bad.

Over their the policy sucks they just I guess are nice enough to not abuse it as much.

I live in Japan, it has problems, but it's not even remotely as bad as the US where I grew up. I was treated worse in the US by cops for having Reservation license plates than I ever have been in Japan. And you can find no shortage of black Americans and others talking about how much better it is here with the police. It can get much better of course, but it's hilarious how you get Americans who don't know jack shit about another country talking about how bad it is on things that they are literally the worst on. You have the highest incarceration rate in the world, by far the highest drug addiction rate in the first world, an awful homeless rate, a joke of a healthcare system bankrupting the poor (income inequality also abysmal by the way), education outcomes are terrible, the list goes on. But somehow we get topics like this where you somehow pretend a country with among the lowest incarceration rates in the world is somehow worse than yours, the one with the highest (oh and prison labor, prison rape, plea bargains, the wealthy pay for a powerful lawyer to get out of trouble, etc.). If we want to talk about problems with the Japanese justice system you might want to do some basic reading on it first and then talk about the actual issues. Thinking it's somehow worse than America, the country where you can literally execute an unarmed person and not get in any trouble if you are a cop is laughable.

pinky0926 posted...

You think it's bad here.

If here is the US then yes, it has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Japan has among the lowest. The vast majority of people in Japan who are arrested are released without charge. They only bother with a trial if the prosecution is convinced it will get a conviction.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate

Most RPGs these days have extensive tutorials and difficulty options. There are even story mode difficulties where you cannot lose in some. This is by far the friendliest era of RPGs for someone new to the genre.

mybbqrules posted...

SNES. It was clearly the better system, across many comparisons, like franchises, graphics, hell even sound quality.

This one is tricky. Technically the Genesis has superior sound on a technical level, but if you aren't specifically designing your music for the FM synthesizer it has, it likely won't sound good. Meanwhile the SNES can use (low quality) samples, so it can do a low fidelity version of basically anything (technically you could do higher fidelity but the file size would be a problem). The result is most cross platform games sound much better on the SNES and even a lot of Genesis exclusives sound like shit due to not knowing how to use the FM synthesizer. But you have stuff like Streets of Rage, Shinobi, etc. that really used the technology well.

PballDepot posted...

The one with the CD add on

It was way underutilized. The PC Engine had more great releases on CD. Makes me sad because there are some really great games on there, just not nearly as many as there should have been.

ModernPost posted...

I'm not pretending I don't know Animal Farm, what I'm saying is that it's an introductory text. For babies. Animal Farm is what you assign to 14-year-olds. That's why I found it funny that it was brought it up in this context. However, none of this matters since Animal Farm doesn't have anything to do with the definition of the word "tankie."

Animal Farm explains why "Marxism-Leninism", a term made up by Stalin to justify his dictatorship, is not communism. Tankies are right wing authoritarians using leftist talking points as window dressing. Look at what their heros did and are instead of listening to whatever nonsense they type online.

Heineken14 posted...

I see WAY more people saying Biden is finished and he should step down and.... "person" should replace him than I do saying Biden is easily going to win.

I mean absolutely he should step down and they should put someone popular in. But man Democrats love playing with fire. It honestly feels like they try to lose sometimes. A political party's foremost goal should always be to win. If you don't win you can't pass any legislation or stop your opponents from passing theirs. Therefore that should always be the number one goal.

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Yeah I don't get why everyone is doing a repeat of the he can't win thing we all did the first time. His cultists are super motivated and Biden is very unpopular.

Dark_Arbron posted...

I'd argue that the press being free to lie without consequence has only helped the GOP.

I think fake news benefits bad actors in general. We saw it during COVID. Probably need media literacy and critical thinking classes but considering how abysmal the US education system is I don't think that's realistic.

I watch NHK every day here (Japanese national broadcaster, kind of like PBS for Japan). The amount of trans and LGBT content in general would cause these people to be in a permanent meltdown.

So many people think I'm talking about progressives when I say I don't want to deal with the political situation in America, but it's the conservatives and religious people in general. Just makes American society intolerable along with the crime rate, cost of living, and poor education system.

OriginalPlain2 posted...

thinking while drinking wine yesterday I had a feeling to question if humans and yeast are related and found out yes humans and yeast share a common ancestor from billions of years ago

Everything on Earth has a common ancestor if you go back far enough. That isn't really a revelation.

ModernPost posted...

You're confused about something. Tankies are authoritarian communists. They think hating the US is cool, so they're cool with anyone who hates the US. But they are ideologically MLs.

That is an ideology made up after the fact to justify authoritarianism. Read Animal Farm. They have no interest in establishing a communist society. It's just window dressing for their authoritarianism and as Russia demonstrates so well, you don't even need the window dressing.

ModernPost posted...

LMAO

This world, homie.

A classless, stateless, moneyless society. Places tankies worship.

Pick one.

ModernPost posted...

"Tankie" and "authoritarian" are not synonymous.

Tankies worship authoritarian regimes. And the only real defining factor is anti-West. Because you can't possibly argue Russia or Iran are even pretending to be communist but they are still worshipped by tankies.

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In what world are tankies communists? Their favorite people are the dictators Putin, Xi, and Kim, some of the most socially conservative people around in societies with massive wealth inequality. What is communist about that?

Tom_Joad posted...

iPhones are really just an American thing.

The rest of the world uses Android.

Japan is like the most iPhone dominated market in the world.

ellis123 posted...

Yes. I use a proxy server that blocks basically every ad on Android.

I use Android. I am asking about iOS.