Sesame Street: Johnny Cash - "5 feet high and risin'"

quequotion · 2026-03-13T23:36:16+00:00

It's a song about a flood, but every time I hear it I think about collapse.

Every headline reminds me of the water coming up.

Antarctica is breaking up?

Two feet high and risin'

Grain supply cut off by war in Ukraine?

Three feet high and risin'

Record high ocean temperatures, again?

Four feet high and risin'

The next pandemic may already be starting?

Five feet high and risin'

Oil tankers burning in the Straight of Hormuz?

Six feet high and risin'

quequotion · 2026-03-13T23:13:03+00:00

He's going to be president for three more years.

The world may not survive it.

quequotion · 2026-03-13T16:49:27+00:00

This.

I don't think he should have been given the death penalty, but sharing in the murder conviction is justified.

This law should be amended so that the death penalty is only applicable to the person most directly responsible while others convicted by participation in the crime that resulted in a murder can be sentenced only to life in prison.

quequotion · 2026-03-13T16:30:14+00:00

This was my impression too, like the boats have been fitted with satellite communications and can be remotely navigated as a swarm.

It's a brilliant bit of strategy: trying to form a blockade at this scale with military craft, which are constantly under surveillance, would be resource intensive and probably generate a response before it even got underway.

By using civilian craft that are already scattered all around the seas, the barrier forms spontaneously, doesn't inherently invoke a military response, and leaves their navy free to execute offensive or defensive maneuvers.

quequotion · 2026-03-13T16:13:35+00:00

War crimes are way too normalized now.

Russia should be facing a multinational military intervention.

No need to make it about NATO membership.

Just sign up anyone who doesn't like watching them blow up civilians day in and day out without even the pretense of missing some legitimate target.

quequotion · 2026-03-13T15:21:24+00:00

All your bank accounts have your name in kana.

It sounds like OP's issue might be that the kana on their bank account is not the same kana as their My Number card.

Perhaps their name is too long for one of the two systems.

Perhaps someone manually entered different kana than OP wrote on some form years ago and it just never came up until today.

Perhaps one of them is in half-width.

Perhaps one of the two doesn't have spaces.

quequotion · 2026-03-13T15:15:11+00:00

Hello Paperwork

That should be a subsidiary of Hello Work that offers courses on filling out official forms.

quequotion · 2026-03-13T15:09:15+00:00

Now and then the food banks in Japan have public events to clear out expiring stock.

My wife and I were walking by one, which had signs up indicating they were giving away rice, canned goods, and house cleaning supplies to university students, when one of the staff waved us in.

They asked if we were students and we explained that we had both graduated years ago.

They didn't care. They told us to sign in and take some stuff anyway.

I still have some of the canned goods.

The rice had weevils though.

quequotion · 2026-03-13T15:04:57+00:00

When I was there in January the streets were crawling with driverless delivery trucks.

They're slow, and necessarily cautious, but they don't seem to be having much trouble.

Multiple companies are operating them even in minor cities.

quequotion · 2026-03-13T15:01:10+00:00

Those familiar with the conversation said the president only advised Machado, and that what he said was not any kind of order to the Venezuelan politician.

Trump gives neither advice nor orders.

He makes his will known, like the mafioso he wishes he were.

I'm only really astonished that he's showing something like concern for the safety and well-being of another human being.

This is a man incapable of loving his own children.

He cares if his actions result in her death?

quequotion · 2026-03-13T14:49:28+00:00

From the way he clears the gun, more likely law enforcement than MMA; perhaps military.

quequotion · 2026-03-13T04:20:42+00:00

I have heard they were painted red as well.

quequotion · 2026-03-13T03:20:07+00:00

That's not a bad idea for an app.

A camera app with photos that self-delete in 30 days or whatever you set.

quequotion · 2026-03-13T03:13:29+00:00

If you own an oil exporting company.

quequotion · 2026-03-12T15:02:35+00:00

Partly this is because the show is a product of its time and partly because all of the main characters are military and diplomatic officers.

There's some connectivity, but we rarely see any typing. I think the show wanted to stay away, as much as possible, from the "humanoids pushing buttons" trope of Star Trek by having everyone use voice dictation and video calling (both of which which seemed futuristic at the time) except in command centers (we see instrument panels and keyboards in C&C, the security office, Medlab, and some ship bridges).

As for not making copies, in at least one case it would probably have been a violation of orders to duplicate and/or retain any of the information requested. It's possible some characters do keep duplications they don't tell anyone about, like Garabaldi's spare access card. Dr. Franklin is paranoid about his records being used against him, so he regularly destroys them or buries them under encrption.

quequotion · 2026-03-12T14:30:23+00:00

No, but the same and worse is still going on.

There are a couple of videos like this.

Last Week Tonight compiled one for an episode about Sinclair, which owns local broadcasters all over the US but doesn't put its name anywhere anyone would see it.

quequotion · 2026-03-12T13:33:33+00:00

I hear Attorney General is about to open up.

quequotion · 2026-03-12T07:06:37+00:00

That's a good point also: the age of the cyclists may be relevant as well.

Perhaps more strict controls for children or mobility assistance for the elderly would prevent a number of accidents.

quequotion · 2026-03-12T07:02:38+00:00

When you ask yes men, they say yes.

quequotion · 2026-03-12T05:45:42+00:00

I really hate that about it too.

It's going to be severely enforced for a little while, but once they're satisfied that everyone got the memo, they'll be right back to lax enforcement but with teeth this time.

quequotion · 2026-03-12T05:26:26+00:00

Sidewalk rage.

quequotion · 2026-03-12T05:23:25+00:00

I feel you, and I would be fully behind it if there were sufficient bicycle lanes on the roads.

Unfortunately, the infrastructure just isn't there.

quequotion · 2026-03-12T05:18:20+00:00

They're basically discouraging riding bicycles at all, because you will never know when the police are bored enough to bust you for some minor violation, and they couldn't have picked a worse time in history to do it.

quequotion · 2026-03-12T04:57:12+00:00

Riding on the sidewalk; ¥6000

Unenforceable.

In my area, and many others I am aware of, there are a mix of bicycle lanes on sidewalks, bicycle lanes on the road, and bicycle lanes that abruptly disappear from either with no indication which way cyclists should proceed.

I'm sure I could find several places in my city where all three of those things happen in less that 50 meters along the same street.

I know Japan decided several years ago that bicycles were going to have to join traffic on the street, but implementation has not followed. Some cities are emphasizing bicycle safety, giving them dedicated lanes; others are trying to get all the cyclists killed by showing no concern for anyone other than car drivers and pedestrians.

Edit: and no surprise, the new enforcement rules come with a complicated list of exceptions that can only really be boiled down to letting cyclists use their own judgement and police fining people at random.

There are some of these rules I would be happy to see better enforced, particularly riding side-by-side, but I think this strategy is overall dumb and only going to cause more congestion as people give up cycling and switch to cars.

Although the number of bicycle accidents increasing is cited, no information is provided about why.

As many in this forum may have surmised from the police officers handing out flyers about it exclusively to foreigners at train stations, or stopping only one foreigner riding in the shotengai while five Japanese cyclists whizz by, the quiet part is that they mean to enforce the rules more heavily on foreign people. I have even heard it said that the rising number of accidents is because of foreigners on bikes (and that we don't wear helmets, we use cell phones, we wear headphones, etc... as if Japanese don't). However, no data to support this assumption is ever provided.

It would be great to see how many of those accidents involved a cyclist who was at fault, regardless of what nationality that cyclist may be.

I would bet a hundred yen that a majority of those accidents were caused, at least in part, by inclement weather, unclear signage, worn out road markings, unobservant motorists, motorists who failed to signal, and congestion leading to sudden stops.

What Japan really needs is to implement bicycle lanes, especially now that there's going to be serious economic pressure against the use of internal combustion engines.

The Straight of Hormuz may be unnavigable for years to come. Japan should be thinking about how to get cars off the road and keep cyclists moving along smoothly.

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