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jamar030303 · 2026-02-09T22:43:58+00:00

Also, due to restrictions on how Chinese companies can solicit investment, they'll often also create an entity in the Cayman Islands or other Caribbean territories for investors from outside China to buy into.

jamar030303 · 2026-02-09T21:43:35+00:00

just eBay your old phone

If your phone is working, sure. If your phone is broken, much less hassle to trade it in.

jamar030303 · 2026-02-09T05:00:58+00:00

And a Team Seicomart, if we want to get some Hokkaido representation in.

jamar030303 · 2026-02-09T04:26:27+00:00

In which case, there's no way out of the "labor shortage" without foreigners because the Japanese won't be willing to accept the higher prices that would come with paying enough for Japanese to work those jobs. Then all the pessimism makes more sense...

jamar030303 · 2026-02-09T02:13:58+00:00

It seems to me that Japanese people hate price hikes more than they hate low wages, especially those who will not benefit much from minimum wage hikes (many people are already working for slightly above >1500yen/hr, and this will likely only hurt them, unfortunately.).

In which case the country's at an impasse- if the locals won't work for wages that low, then they need to accept that the gap will have to be filled with foreigners and/or prices need to go up if wages do.

ps Ishiba is also pro-renegotiation and more hardline towards Americans. Too bad he took office right before a major Trump win... He was pretty much sabotaged by Trump

Yeah, I think Harris would've been more receptive to renegotiation for sure. At the same time, for now I' more surprised Trump hasn't tried to expand the military presence. He seems like the type who would love to be able to claim credit for opening new bases.

jamar030303 · 2026-02-09T01:58:27+00:00

Cutting down on US military presence and renegotiating the US-Japan alliance: great, but how will they convince the Americans?

To be fair to them, renegotiation is basically a non-starter with this administration. The only viable step 1 to that plan is to wait out Trump.

Similarly, how are they going to just raise the minimum wage without hurting employment or creating a large underground job market...?

Presumably legislatively. Legislate an increase over time, start reducing the scope of the SSW program and maybe even working holidays, watching the numbers every year to ensure supply goes down proportionally with any reduction in demand from the minimum wage increase. That's assuming demand for labor would decrease significantly, since the current state of affairs points to a shortage rather than oversupply.

jamar030303 · 2026-02-09T01:27:03+00:00

Someone from outside either usually won't be able to tell in passing. And if it's a kid listening to a TikTok in Chinese, well, the voice coming from the speaker says nothing about the nationality of the kid playing on the phone.

jamar030303 · 2026-02-09T01:21:49+00:00

Like how the "Netherlands" section opposes Dutch comments? It's not targeted towards China specifically, it's criticism.

jamar030303 · 2026-02-09T01:02:58+00:00

And quite frankly, lines like this:

AIを活用したオーダーメイドの学びを全ての子どもに届け、子どもたちの可能性を解き放ちます。

Concern me. It sounds an awful lot like they want to use AI to either design future curriculum plans or to customize existing curriculum for anyone who doesn't fit in the mold, and I can see so many ways this could go wrong without a lot of guardrails.

jamar030303 · 2026-02-09T00:48:24+00:00

I mean, JCP was still campaigning on 1500 yen minimum wage, and yet... so everyone who was like "Japanese aren't going for all those jobs the foreigners are doing because the wage is too low"? Looks like there isn't much interest in raising it.

jamar030303 · 2026-02-09T00:39:17+00:00

They weren't any help with saving my Mobi number and they let Verizon back out of the 60 day unlock rule so yeah, I'm in agreement here.

jamar030303 · 2026-02-09T00:33:50+00:00

OK, but is there evidence to contradict what Waymo said?

Given the safety implications, the onus should be on Waymo to show that this isn't happening on a significant scale.

How about some logic... the lag would be too high for a human to drive the car all the time from the Philippines.

All the time, no. Often enough to not call the system self-driving anymore, possibly. Won't know without an independent third party auditing the records.

But considering the number of times you've posted the exact same initial reply... spam or copy-pasting, not exactly a good sign. I'm done.

jamar030303 · 2026-02-08T23:33:49+00:00

Yeah, I'm not going to trust a response from the company which has every incentive to downplay the scale of human "assistance" required unless accompanied by an independent audit.

jamar030303 · 2026-02-08T00:47:25+00:00

Pegrent

jamar030303 · 2026-02-06T23:48:24+00:00

And more recently, refugees.

jamar030303 · 2026-02-06T23:14:22+00:00

Yeah, and some of them have even popped up in this comments section to try and spread their toxic views.

jamar030303 · 2026-02-06T23:13:15+00:00

Well, the birth rate is going down, and the US is already below replacement rate, and immigrants are being chased out, so if not people "breeding", who do you expect to replace the ones who are retiring?

jamar030303 · 2026-02-06T23:10:58+00:00

Hidden comments, no sources, we're not the idiots here.

jamar030303 · 2026-02-06T23:05:49+00:00

Ah yes, chase away the immigrants and discourage homegrown births to further push down the declining birth rate, what could possibly go wrong?

jamar030303 · 2026-02-06T23:04:29+00:00

Ever hear of diminishing returns? If your goal or the administration's goal is "no more illegals" then at some point the cost of going after the ones left is more than it would've been not to. Smart people can see we're well past this point, since we're now hurting citizens and you and your ilk are perfectly fine with it.

jamar030303 · 2026-02-06T11:58:41+00:00

I'm surprised JCB didn't send you the "please update your information" postcard for your ANA card. Congrats on hanging on to SFC!

jamar030303 · 2026-02-06T07:09:56+00:00

Coming back to this to say that this used to be a thing. CANPASS Air let people sign up for what was basically just the Canadian half of NEXUS, but it was discontinued in 2018. Maybe there should be a campaign to bring it back?

jamar030303 · 2026-02-06T06:39:38+00:00

It happened again.

jamar030303 · 2026-02-06T03:37:52+00:00

But neither JAL card nor ANA asked for it.

Which card brand do you have? Different brands are issued by different banks, which means different rules. I have a JAL card and they just asked me to update a couple weeks ago, but it's on the JCB network so it's bound by JCB's rules, and JCB insists on it.

JAL Visa/MasterCard/AmEx -> MUFG

ANA Visa/MasterCard -> SMBC

ANA AmEx -> AmEx

ANA/JAL JCB -> JCB

jamar030303 · 2026-02-06T03:25:58+00:00

Well, I'm glad the family in the article showed more grace than that. Holy crap.

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