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May I suggest a very public trial and then seizure of all assets from this family, and then high security South-American prison?
Who would conduct that trial?
Iran could do it
Naphtha shortages in Japan
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It is an international water way according to current rules. Iran is trying to change that.
No according to current UN maritime law it’s not international waters: territorial waters extend up to 12 nautical miles from the coast line. Iran could have always done this, but Trumps use of perfidy (luring Iran into negotiations to murder the negotiators) and assassination of the heads of state and military leadership of Iran have permanently erased that good will and shared use of the Strait. Stupid hogs are rui…
The Strait had long had a different status from most other waters.
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
Japan can package up all the snacks they want, they still use far less oil per capita than the USA. Japan: Approximately 28% of all passenger kilometers are traveled by rail United States: Rail travel accounts for only about 0.25% of passenger kilometers Remember: when you drive your 30mpg car to work, 20 miles down the freeway, alone in your vehicle by yourself, you are burning over a gallon of refined petroleum pro…
There’s something to be said for the amount of microplastics that end up in the environment. And also that the comparison isn’t only against the US, there are other countries that lead the way in plastic reduction.
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I think you are overly optimistic and forget a few key facts here. According to wiki, 8% of males and 0.5% of female suffer from colorblindness. That means for the rest of the people, the color is part of the information that our brain use subconsciously when we go and grab a bag of Calbee. Will it affect the Japanese general public? Minor inconvenience for sure. Will it affect sales? Probably for area popular by tou…
FYI, those 8% of males / 0.5% females stats are not about complete colorblindness, so almost all of those people use color in their life
Yes for men mostly it’s red/green colorblindness. It’s one reason traffic lights have a uniform order and why you might get tested on which light means stop and not what color on a written test in the US.
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You're greatly misunderstanding that second link: that's the breakdown of what happens to collected municipal waste within each country (notice they all add up to 100% for each country). That says nothing about total amounts of plastic waste collected or recycled. See Table 1 here and its sources: https://circulareconomy.earth/publications/how-japan-is-usin... Japan recycles about 24% of its used consumer plastics in…
Thermal recycling is a classic Japanese euphemism for burning plastics. Yes, for energy, but it's still misleading https://www.mitsui.com/solution/en/contents/solutions/circul... > it produces CO2 and toxic substances when it is burned.
Yes, the bin for general waste is even labeled “burnables,” and in my experience that is where non-rigid plastic films go.
(Films are very difficult to sort automatically; we landfill them here in SF.)
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> Nobody outside of America and Israel were ever remotely bothered by Iran That is not true. Saudi Arabia has been fighting a proxy war with them for years. The EU and Uk have had sanctions on them for years. Lots of people care about their treatment of religious minorities, gays and women.
> Lots of people care about their treatment of religious minorities, gays and women. I'm really not sure which country you're talking about here. Saudi Arabia? Because Saudi Arabia is even worse than Iran in this respect but they're not being bombed. Should they be bombed?
I am aware of that. Its a list and those people are a different item to Saudi Arabia. I mean people in lots of countries as a counter example to 'nobody'
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My first thought was “boy, an American company could copycat this and stand out immediately in the color mess of snack aisles”
Unsurprisingly, XKCD has already contemplated this: https://xkcd.com/993/
British supermarkets had this long before the XKCD, though they've since reverted to more traditional design.
Search Tesco Value or Sainsbury's Basics for the 1990s version.
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#128As someone who grew up eating Calbee snacks, I think they’ll be fine. People from my generation aren’t buying Calbee because the bag is colorful. They’re buying it because it’s Calbee and they already know what they’re getting. The packaging could be black and white and I’d still recognize it instantly. The only people I could see being briefly confused are younger consumers. Japanese packaging tends to be very color…
Your response shows how much trouble the west is in, you are completely missing the fact that this is the leading edge of a petroleum supply shortage that is going to have significant and painful effects on all those who are not prepared.
At this point the United States is the least prepared country in the world and Americans are going to be the hardest hit, simply because we have the most to lose.
Papering over the canary in the coal mine never saved the coal miners.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
I never made that argument. I just tend to thing bullies should be crushed rather than appeased.
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> You don't just get to kill the ones you don't like.
I mean ya kinda do.
That’s how it’s always worked, that’s how it still works, and that’s how it will probably continue to work probably indefinitely, or at least from time to time, more or less so during different periods over time.
The only issue is that there will invariably be consequences, but the leaders of nations are, to varying degrees, immune to a lot of that, themselves personally.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unsurprisingly, XKCD has already contemplated this: https://xkcd.com/993/
British supermarkets had this long before the XKCD, though they've since reverted to more traditional design. Search Tesco Value or Sainsbury's Basics for the 1990s version.
Canada too, with all yellow No Name products at Loblaw's.