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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 glogla »

bigDinosaur wrote: post #103
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.

They've also had chemical weapon attacks which are scarier than gun attacks. Give me a person with a gun rather than some lethal chemical piped into the subway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack

I'm not sure if it should be scarier - the deadliest terrorist gas attack in Japan killed less people than the regularly scheduled weekly mass shooting in US usually does.

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

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Post by at-fates-hands »

kafkaesque wrote: post #120

A good man? Do people here read anything non-tech related? Shinzo Abe was a world-renown revisionist who tried to turn Japan back into a far-right, ultra-racist country. Look, you guys are super smart with computers, but stop this absolute nonsense. https://jacobin.com/2017/03/abe-nippon-kaigi-japan-far-right

>> Japan back into a far-right, ultra-racist country.

I was under the impression from friends who taught English there and other family members who worked there in various positions, this is how the country has always been - exclusionary to outsiders, racist and very intolerant to outsiders.

Was there a time (I lost track of the country after the first dot com bust in 2001) that the country wasn't like that? I'm genuinely curious.

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

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Post by hunterb123 »

foobaw wrote: post #110
anshumankmr wrote: post #98

This is a terrible tragedy. Shinzo Abe seemed like a good man. I hope he pulls through, though reading the comments here makes it seem less likely.

we should all mourn this tragedy but do not paint this guy as a good man. He is a historical revisionist.

Would you like to expand your criticism?

I see a lot of vague hate for him here and biased links being posted.

What exactly is your issue with him? Without using buzzwords like "historic revisionist" or "far-right, ultra-racist".

- edit -

Mainly people are saying he's racist because he visited Yasukini Shrine that honors the dead from Japan's wars when he resigned to "inform the spirits".

It's not like visiting a "Nazi elite general" grave like another user made an analogy of.

This is all ridiculous and you people are despicable and disgusting for making slanderous claims especially at a time like this. Terrible.

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

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Post by franciscop »

kepler1 wrote: post #86

Pardon me for making an outsider's observation, but it appears to me that in Japan you have either extremely safe and no crime / complete safety and courtesy (most of the time), or 0.1% of the time some guy goes off his rocker and kills many, many people or something like this.

No they don't "kill many people", you do hear about the eventual "knife attack" but the death victims are normally 0-5. In this particular case, which is already an exception because of a handmade gun (apparently) instead of a knife, there's 1 single victim and it's still unknown whether Abe will survive.

Edit: as someone living in Japan. Maybe not living here you do only hear about the once in 5-10 years attacks where there are more victims, but living in here you hear about an attack once-twice a year and they are pretty mild as I explained.

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

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Post by anshumankmr »

kafkaesque wrote: post #120

A good man? Do people here read anything non-tech related? Shinzo Abe was a world-renown revisionist who tried to turn Japan back into a far-right, ultra-racist country. Look, you guys are super smart with computers, but stop this absolute nonsense. https://jacobin.com/2017/03/abe-nippon-kaigi-japan-far-right

I haven't read an in depth dive of Japan's internal politics but he helped my country with some major investments, which has in turn helped some of my close relatives get good well paying jobs. Also, generally I have a lot of respect for Japanese people in general due to having met and worked with some people from there.

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

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Post by jakogut »

zzleeper wrote: post #70
ayngg wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From the alleged pictures I saw, the gun kind of looks handmade.

https://twitter.com/nk55zRXFyFv1zgP/status/15452531252876451... Also see this video.. so much smoke...

Indeed, it looks to be a crude double barrel shotgun loaded with black powder. Such firearms are easier to make, as black powder has lower peak pressures which don't necessitate a very sturdy construction, especially in large bores. Also, black powder can be DIY manufactured from commonly available supplies like charcoal, sulfur, and potassium nitrate, unlike modern smokeless powders, which have a much more complex manufacturing process.

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

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Post by majormajor »

mjr00 wrote: post #148
majormajor wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You'd have a separate 24/7 ops teams instead of every single team being first-responders for their own things. This team would be watching the dashboards and alarms with some first-level investigation/triage playbooks so that if all that's needed is "press this button to reboot the server" or "it's a holiday, or the national team just won the world cup, this is a drop in traffic cause everyone is outside" then nobody…

There are both models at Amazon. Individual teams have their own on-call; if for example an RDS instance is continually failing to boot, someone on-call (edit: from the RDS team) will get paged to look at it. I believe order drops are looked at by dedicated reliability team, because it's such a significant problem. But they don't watch graphs because... why would they? They set up the machines to page them when metri…

That makes a lot of sense.

The ops teams I've worked with watched graphs because (a) sometimes you see interesting changes or trends before they turn into actionable alerts and people can look into them/figure them out before shit's on fire, and (b) it makes it look more like you're doing something when everything is smooth sailing and not actively on fire, solving the "wait why are we paying for this if it doesn't take us long to respond to incidents anyway" naive-meddlesome-exec problem.

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

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Post by plaguepilled »

elefanten wrote: post #141
kafkaesque wrote: post #120

A good man? Do people here read anything non-tech related? Shinzo Abe was a world-renown revisionist who tried to turn Japan back into a far-right, ultra-racist country. Look, you guys are super smart with computers, but stop this absolute nonsense. https://jacobin.com/2017/03/abe-nippon-kaigi-japan-far-right

The irony of lamenting people's reading material and then posting a Jacobin article the reads like a wall of text internet rant with some tabloid scuttlebutt sprinkled throughout. This is NOT a serious take on Abe. Centrist and professional IR academics laugh at the narrative that he's a fascist. A take that lives up to your handle. Edit: example from (center)left leaning academic economist blogger that speaks specif…

Jacobin's tone sucks, but by your logic you should be ashamed to link noahpinion, right? He's an academic but that doesn't automatically obviate him from being scorned for his style.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

elefanten wrote: post #141
kafkaesque wrote: post #120

A good man? Do people here read anything non-tech related? Shinzo Abe was a world-renown revisionist who tried to turn Japan back into a far-right, ultra-racist country. Look, you guys are super smart with computers, but stop this absolute nonsense. https://jacobin.com/2017/03/abe-nippon-kaigi-japan-far-right

The irony of lamenting people's reading material and then posting a Jacobin article the reads like a wall of text internet rant with some tabloid scuttlebutt sprinkled throughout. This is NOT a serious take on Abe. Centrist and professional IR academics laugh at the narrative that he's a fascist. A take that lives up to your handle. Edit: example from (center)left leaning academic economist blogger that speaks specif…

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