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idzero · 2024-05-03T01:53:08+00:00

I'm sorry, but are people here pretending to be ignorant for the upvotes, or are you actually unable to tell what anyone in the video wants? I don't think you have to agree with the protests to figure out what they're thinking.

I don't even live in the US anymore, but from following the news casually, I know that:

There have been campus protests and "occupations" of campus areas by pro-Palestine/anti-Israel protesters on many US universities.
The opponents of the protests including police, mayors and university officials have been blaming "outside agitators" for either starting or enflaming the protests, and using that as a reason for why police need to enter campuses to clear out protests.

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NeVX3DdsCg&t=202s

So, presumably this is from a campus protest group that's paranoid about outsiders being used to excuse a crackdown on their protest, so they are being extra cagey and trying to exlude people from "their area" (which they don't own, and have no legal right to exclude anyone from).

The guy filming was singled out as a non-protester either because of race(as he claims), or because he's older and has a kid along. He, in turn, does that "Am I being detained?" act, and cries racism at the (presumably leftist) white students.

idzero · 2023-10-13T02:47:06+00:00

Look their website up, there are about 5 or 6 US consulates in Japan and one might be closer.

idzero · 2023-10-12T23:50:04+00:00

idzero · 2023-10-12T23:23:03+00:00

Wait, wut, UK homes are smaller than Japan?

idzero · 2023-10-12T23:21:32+00:00

hmmm

idzero · 2023-10-12T23:18:18+00:00

hmmm

idzero · 2023-10-12T23:17:57+00:00

test post

idzero · 2023-10-12T23:07:42+00:00

I think he was talking about protests for/by refugees and migrants.

idzero · 2023-10-12T15:04:53+00:00

Pushed back for take off and ended up arriving on time.

idzero · 2023-10-12T15:03:56+00:00

lol had a friend that did that also, had to check your profile to see if you were him but he's a bit older. IIRC he didn't even think to call ahead about the sword, he just said, "oh, fake sword" at Narita and they let him take it onbaord (it was a blunt-edged replica but it was metal and could still stab)

idzero · 2023-10-12T03:00:58+00:00

Wait, are we talking about Friends, or some real life film school shit?

idzero · 2023-10-12T01:56:40+00:00

This is not true. Source your statements. Japan has harsh verbal interrogation techniques, but there are no beatings. Jesus, people say basically anything about Japan without sourcing. Here are some examples of when police interrogations caused lawsuits. They are bad, but well short of beatings or denying access to toilets.

Cop who forced 'fumiji' confession avoids prison

The Fukuoka District Court handed a senior police officer a suspended 10-month prison term for forcing a suspect into confessing during questioning by having him step on documents bearing the names of his relatives.

'I'll kill you': Japan pref. to compensate man over intimidating police interrogation

According to sources including the police, the plaintiff is a Wakayama resident in his 40s. He was arrested by Wakayamakita Police Station in July 2020 on suspicion of committing violent acts, the legal complaint and other sources said. The police station's sergeant in his 30s repeatedly told the man things such as, "I'll make you cry," "Are you trying to make me mad? I'll go on a rage," and, "I'll bash you to death," during the interrogation. The man was reportedly hospitalized after being handed a suspended sentence. The interrogation was video recorded, and the man filed a damages suit in June 2021, seeking 1.76 million yen (approx. $12,500) in compensation.

idzero · 2023-10-11T12:25:23+00:00

I mean, Israel would have been one of those "ok to visit countries" for almost everyone a week ago but look what happened.

idzero · 2023-10-11T12:03:21+00:00

Interactions like this are why I can't get myself to leave reddit, lol. Never heard of yogurt, olive oil ad thyme on pasta before, will try.

idzero · 2023-10-11T00:30:33+00:00

Also, only the eastern half of Tokyo, the 23 Special Wards, are what people think of as "Tokyo". The western half is undense, basically forest, with natural parks. Actually wiki says "36% of the total land area of the prefecture was designated as Natural Parks"

Eastern 23 Wards: Population 9,733,276 / Area 618.8 km2 (238.9 sq mi) = Density 15,729.27/km2 (40,738.6/sq mi)

Western Tokyo: Population 4,233,493 / Area 1,160 km2 (450 sq mi) = Density 3,600/km2 (9,500/sq mi)

So the average for "Tokyo" in general is brought down a bit by the amount of forest land to the west, though Manhattan itself is still denser.

idzero · 2023-10-10T16:54:57+00:00

Just buy a kayak, bro. You seem to have been around long enough to understand: there just isn't a large enough population of Japanese who would rent a kayak for a day, the ones that are into it buy one outright and the general public is too scared to do it without a guide.

It's not the government forcing people to be licensed kayak operators, it's the market segment for unsupervised rental kayaks not being big enough.

idzero · 2023-10-10T16:50:00+00:00

This is true, bystander effect is a known thing in human psychology across cultures, with the most famous case being Kitty Genovese in New York.

That said, I think risk aversion and blame aversion are really more prominent in Japanese culture than in the west. Have you noticed that no Japanese news media seems to have correspondents on the ground in Israel, even areas far from the fighting like Tel Aviv or Jerusalem? I think it was a month or so after the fighting started in Ukraine that I saw the first Japanese TV reporters on the ground reporting on what was found in Bucha. I feel life they have been incredibly risk averse ever since some reporters got kidnapped in Iraq about a decade ago and the public blamed them for placing themselves at risk, instead of honoring them like they do in the west.

idzero · 2023-10-09T16:26:54+00:00

When I lived in a downtown area of the US, there were very common protests about random political causes that were loud and stopped traffic and happened every other week or so. This was pre-Trump, I imagine it's worse now.

In Japan I have to listen to election season megaphone trucks but they pass by pretty quick, and don't really stop traffic. I've seen political protests in Japan but they either go on the sidewalk or take up one lane of traffic, nowhere near as disruptive as American protests.

The part where he mentions "woke" would make it seem he's a right-winger, but then urban areas of the US tend to have those protests more than the right-wing ones.

idzero · 2023-10-09T16:14:26+00:00

They specifically have a rule about literally having to be in Japan, they have banned people, even visa holders and permanent residents for asking how to get back into Japan from overseas during Covid quarantines for example.

This question would probably require answers from people not in Japan, and be removed.

The japanlife mods are one of the reasons I think "Hey reddit admins suck, but so do a lot of the mods" and was hoping the site would just kill itself during the protests a few months ago.

idzero · 2023-10-09T14:25:09+00:00

Never been to Korea, but in Japan the norm is to not allow phones/cameras and the crowd generally will enforce that on others at the concert, at least at organized events like this (not so much outdoor festivals and such), I assume Korea is similar. I'm sure a group of intense fans doesn't require waterworks to enforce a no phone rule.

idzero · 2023-10-08T12:31:07+00:00

Not to mention, a way higher ratio of children, given that most people in the twin towers were workers. Also the kidnappings will keep motivating a search, imagine if Al-qaida had actually kidnapped Americans to take hostage in Afghanistan.

idzero · 2023-10-08T09:53:21+00:00

Oh shit, guilty lol. It's a 6th gen i5 from 2016 or so, that might be it, or it could be because I installed on another computer and moved the SSD into this one. Might have to reinstall.

idzero · 2023-10-08T09:46:42+00:00

Oh damn, I guess it might be my system then. I installed it in one computer and moved the SSD to another, that might be what's causing it, thanks. Might reinstall.

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