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Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody

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Re: Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody

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Post by actuator »

eurasiantiger wrote: post #20
tyleo wrote: post #4

I imagine this will be front page. It would be nice if the link could be changed to a non-paywalled site. I recommend The Guardian though I’m mostly indifferent: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/08/shinzo-abe-for...

The Guardian’s reporting has had a distinct lean as of late. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/may/14/poisoned-legac...

Guardian's reporting always had a very left lean, I am not sure if this is new.

There is a section in left of environment activists which sees nuclear as very dangerous.

Re: Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody

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Post by ojbyrne »

refulgentis wrote: post #71
phnofive wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A dip in the rate of orders being placed, often signifying some part of the checkout flow having slowed or broken.

So OnCall is mandatory for Amazon engineers and you will literally get paged just because some stat drops, not that it goes to 0? And there's no human in the loop for a basic sanity check? Sounds awful

I think the human in the loop is the on call engineer.

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Post by kafkaesque »

tjpnz wrote: post #69
kafkaesque wrote: post #62

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>Please stop posting if you have never interacted with the biggest minority in Japan. Then perhaps you should amend your original statement about "most" crimes being swept under the rug.

How do you reconcile intersectionality and systemic racism with low crime rates in Japan?

Re: Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody

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Post by chii »

wirthjason wrote: post #84

And after debating gun violence all week with my friends in the wake of the 4th of July shooting in Highland Park I made an example of Japan and it’s low gun violence. Now this happens. Crazy stuff still happens in Japan but it’s usually a knife or ax. But guns and Abe are on another level.

My take is that gun violence has several different categories, and gun control only helps some of them (such as accidental, or emotional, spur of the moment shootings), but doesn't prevent any premeditated ones.

It will not stop people like the one at 4th july, nor those school shootings. Unless the gun control laws completely outlaw civilians owning guns - which i dont think will fly.

The root cause of gun violence is societal issues, not the guns themselves. Solve those societal issues (hard, and likely almost intractable unfortunately), or gun violence will persist.

Re: Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody

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Post by [deleted] »

wirthjason wrote: post #84

And after debating gun violence all week with my friends in the wake of the 4th of July shooting in Highland Park I made an example of Japan and it’s low gun violence. Now this happens. Crazy stuff still happens in Japan but it’s usually a knife or ax. But guns and Abe are on another level.

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Re: Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody

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Post by 2143 »

iratewizard wrote: post #57
tjpnz wrote: post #21

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Japan's justice system has it's flaws just like everywhere else, but they absolutely don't sweep crime under the rug.

There are regular efforts to discredit Japan, and I think it has to do with them being the model for "done differently and to better success". Better birth rates, very very few cesarians. Far fewer health mandates, better health outcomes. Cash-based economy, fully functioning without being subject to mass surveillance. Even better litter outcomes despite no public trash cans. They're testament to the successes of a h…

Don't Asians tend to live longer and have better health in general?

I don't know if it's due to something genetic, or because of something Japanese people do after they're born.

FWIW, Asian Americans in USA also tend to live longer than other ethic groups.

Now that I think about it, I realise USA might be a good natural setting to study these kinds of differences because there's a lot of people from a lot of places over there, unlike other countries where the population is more homogenous. Or maybe I'm wrong (I'm not from USA, but when I visited there I was astonished by the number of people from all over the world who were there).

Re: Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody

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Post by ncallaway »

refulgentis wrote: post #71
phnofive wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A dip in the rate of orders being placed, often signifying some part of the checkout flow having slowed or broken.

So OnCall is mandatory for Amazon engineers and you will literally get paged just because some stat drops, not that it goes to 0? And there's no human in the loop for a basic sanity check? Sounds awful

> And there's no human in the loop for a basic sanity check?

I mean, I'm not going to go to bat for Amazon's worker practices, but... how would you get a human in the loop for a basic sanity check without someone getting paged?

Like, you have to alert someone so that they can do a sanity check.

Re: Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody

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Post by [deleted] »

Legogris wrote: post #90
cyphar wrote: post #79

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You're quite right, though the police said that he was still conscious and responsive when he was put into the ambulance and the government is only saying his condition is "severe and he's lost consciousness": > 警察当局によりますと、安倍元総理大臣は、救急搬送される際には意識があり、呼びかけにも応じていたということです。 > 政府関係者はNHKの取材に対し「意識はなく容態はかなり悪いという報告を現場から受けている」と話しています。 But if he still hasn't reached hospital, it seems pretty dire. It seems very possible he's alrea…

From NHK World, "no vital signs".

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Re: Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody

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Post by lolive »

algoatecorn wrote: post #61
kafkaesque wrote: post #46

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"Safest countries in the world" is casting a pretty wide net. Yes, there are hundreds of countries worse. What is your point? Remove those worst countries and the US and it is pretty average compared to richer countries in the world.

My goodness, what is your point? Japan is unequivocally one of the safest countries in the world. This is a well-known fact and you can look it up yourself if you need a source. Top 10, there ya go. I mean, really, what an odd opinion to stand beside.

Japan is safe. But Japan TV IS NOT safe.
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