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Yup. 16 million acres burned to date, 150km long fire fronts raging out of control, whole regional towns obliterated, and our governing party is publishing Trump-style 'DONATE NOW' (to the party, not the bushfire efforts) ads on social media lauding their late and inadequate response. It's infuriating.
It is impossible to buy a filtration mask anywhere. Any place that would normally sell them has eitehr sold out or shipped them off to support firefighters somewhere.
Our air has been utterly filthy this week. Everyone I know is feeling some effect from the smoke which has now made it all the way to Chile leaving a dirty coating on New Zealand on the way.
You try importing one from another country? I suppose the fires are causing chaos with the mail though.
Gee, I wonder who wrote Japan's constitution...
I would have done the same thing. So corrupt...
But they've got a 99% conviction rate! You can't argue with results! Well, you shouldn't anyway. Especially if you're in Japan.
It’s not even just as bad as people being falsely imprisoned, which as what I assumed at first. The prosecution will also pass on cases where they think success isn’t guaranteed just to maintain their 99% conviction rate. So, not only are innocent people jailed, criminals are going free.
Going back to the original point:
Railroaded: One Woman’s Battle Against Japan’s “Hostage Justice”
https://www.nippon.com/en/people/e00...
Ace Attorney’s depiction of the Japanese legal system isn’t as fantastical as you might think!
But they've got a 99% conviction rate! You can't argue with results! Well, you shouldn't anyway. Especially if you're in Japan.
This is the much larger problem with japan justice system. An acquittal is interpreted as a personal failure on the part of both the judge and the prosecutors, and can have very serious career implications. That sets up so many perverse incentives, not the least of which is an attitude of "If you weren't guilty, you wouldn't be on trial"
It’s not even just as bad as people being falsely imprisoned, which as what I assumed at first. The prosecution will also pass on cases where they think success isn’t guaranteed just to maintain their 99% conviction rate. So, not only are innocent people jailed, criminals are going free.
Going back to the original point:
Railroaded: One Woman’s Battle Against Japan’s “Hostage Justice”
https://www.nippon.com/en/people/e00...Ace Attorney’s depiction of the Japanese legal system isn’t as fantastical as you might think!
So the dystopian legal system in the Phoenix Wright games is basically reality?
Think the culture minister even knew? Unless there is a history there I bet it was just some speech writer copying or remembering phrases and the guy giving the speech didn't even know of the connection.
Reminds me of The Office episode where Jim gave Dwight one of Mussolini's speeches and all of upper-management loved it.
Makers of Plague Inc. ask people not to use their game to learn about the coronavirus. But I already booked my trip to Madagascar.
But even with these advantages, Japanese women — whether single or married, full-time or part-time — face a difficult financial future. A confluence of factors that include an aging population, falling birthrates and anachronistic gender dynamics are conspiring to damage their prospects for a comfortable retirement. According to Seiichi Inagaki, a professor at the International University of Health and Welfare, the poverty rate for older women will more than double over the next 40 years, to 25 percent.
Anachronistic gender dynamics, the economic anxiety of sexism.
Makers of Plague Inc. ask people not to use their game to learn about the coronavirus. But I already booked my trip to Madagascar.
Morroco and Greenland should also be top of your list.
Rat Boy wrote:Makers of Plague Inc. ask people not to use their game to learn about the coronavirus. But I already booked my trip to Madagascar.
Morroco and Greenland should also be top of your list.
Nah, it's been Madagascar since 2008.
Since the incubation period for symptoms is measured in weeks and it is contagious before symptoms appear, I expect we'll see an explosion of cases in the next couple of weeks.
I really wish people were this concerned about Influenza, which is staggeringly more virulent. Thus far the CDC reports that in the USA alone there have been 13 million influenza illnesses, 120,000 hospitalizations, and 6,600 influenza-related deaths. In contrast, China has had only 4,500 coronavirus infections and 106 coronavirus-related deaths.
If something changes with the virulence factor of the current novel coronavirus that suddenly ups its lethality, then I would agree that we need to take it more seriously. As it stands, it's a freaking cold with good marketing.
Well google tells me the fatality rate of the new virus is two percent, much higher than seasonal flu although lower than SARS. This could be exaggerated by where the majority of cases have occurred so far and the quality of healthcare there. The fatality rate is likely to be lower in Europe I presume.
Anyway, as someone who gets a flu vaccination every year and practices preventative hygiene, I’m also concerned about this outbreak.
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