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Takaichi's government accused Calbee of a "publicity stunt" when they announced they would switch to black-and-white packages due to Naphtha shortages, saying "the media coverage will make other companies anxious". There's a large gap between government perception of supply and reality
This is pathetic.
I don't give a shit what Calbee do in their marketing campaigns.
It's pretty fucking obvious that companies engage in "publicity stunts", because that's what their marketing people do.
But this is really not the kind of bollocks that the government should be concerning themselves with, because it eats up time that can be better spent on making companies pay their people properly.
Kind of. At my last place, I was there as a result of an acquisition. They were a little bit afraid of having such an untamed wildcard around, apparently, so didn't really know what to do with me at first.
So I learnt C# and wrote a Windows application for a learning project.
I've never had to actually use C# for anything else, or write any other Windows applications. But it was an interesting exercise.
Eventually, their webmaster found out that I knew what he was supposed to know. And he asked for help once or twice. The poor guy had been parachuted in to that role, but outsourced most of his work to that guy who builds every single website for Japan Inc.. Sometimes I wonder what happened to him when we got laid off "due to COVID."
Yeah, I know what you mean.
I've no problem using IDEs and other tools to assist with programming, but I'm worried that reliance on AI will make me stupider.
It's difficult enough staying on top of moving goalposts as it is.
It's an interesting technology. But the whole thing just has a bad feeling about it, both ethically, and in it's potential to induce stagnation in the long run.
Why not simply send one guy to knock on the door, and see what's up?
If it's a fake call, then all that happens is someone gets woken up for a bit.
If the cop gets turned into Swiss cheese, then that's a better outcome than an innocent dad of two getting executed for no valid reason.
They will also then have a reasonably good idea that they've probably got the correct address. Maybe.
Of course, they might have the wrong address still, with the occupant thinking that it's a home invasion by a violent gang of heavily armed men trying to rob, murder, and then rape them.
How did this swat thing even start, anyway? Stuff like that is pretty rare here. They usually just send a bike or a car with their truncheons set to "intimidate."
Why do they always use the stockmarket as an indicator of how fucked up things are?
For example, when the share price goes up, it usually means that thousands of people have just been laid off, or something has just been further enshittified.
Is there not a different, more realistic metric that would be more suitable. Something that the common scum there can actually relate to?
Not American.
Yet again, if these idiots were as smart as they claim to be, then they'd be working both ends of the problem, like what Leonardo did.
For example, UBI is obviously a naïve fantasy. However, they have completely overlooked the opportunity to sell woodchippers to the government, at scale. To help facilitate efficient culls of surplus livestock. The fools.
Is it because they're psychopaths?
I mean, in hindsight, they should probably not have marketed the clankers as replacements for the fleshy ones. At least, not at first.
It's funny though. If these CEOs were as hot shit as they claim to be, then you'd expect them to have hired interpreters, to translate human sentiment into whatever it is that's going on inside their brains.
To be fair, I did actually have a crack at solving a recent batch-oriented business problem with the old GNU version of COBOL, but was driven completely insane.
Rust uncovered the weakness of my flesh...
Eventually, I settled on banging it out in Go. It's not too bad, very compact and bijou.
I hear that there's a new and improved edition of GNU COBOL, but we have no more goats left.
Not American.
Do the Americans actually send their SS overseas, for people like the orange twit who flee I mean retire overseas?
I don't know what he did for security before, but I kind of suspect that stiffing private security would be right at the top of his TODO list.
He would make an excellent target for all sorts of interesting people. Probably one or two of his own country's agencies too, I bet.
Start empire building.
Book meeting rooms. Have meetings.
Send faxes. To the talking clock.
Requisition a passing OL and arrange for tea and chocolate biscuits to be delivered to the meeting room. The sharks will sniff them out, and join the meetings.
Make charts.
Have a different OL photocopy the charts.
Then have another OL securely shred the charts.
Walk around the office speaking on your phone with the talking clock. Grrrrrrowl, if necessary.
Furiously wrestle with NetHack, like you're hacking the mainframe.
Actually install Hercules and MVS, and learn mainframe COBOL programming.
Make cells different colours in Excel, like that guy who painted the Mona Lisa in Excel97 or some shit like that.
Read 1984. But in Japanese.
Invite people to nomikais, but make it look like it was FROM: someone else (to ensure they come). Then ask them what they thought of the charts. Don't forget to expense the drinks.
I'd add something about AI too, but I don't know what.
Good luck!
For the last part, I think that what you're seeing with the ultrawealthy folks is their transformation into nobility.
For example, I saw the news about the Trump family essentially receiving immunity in perpetuity. Is that correct? If so, that is essentially royalty.
Don't forget that the nobility started out as rich folks who awarded themselves titles to differentiate themselves from the common people. That would be the next logical step for your new noble classes too.
Also do not forget that the king is only the king due to the lords putting him there. Trump may be the king, but the true power is behind the throne. Only an idiot would actually choose to be king, given the choice.
Heh, it's definitely basically just a respectable form of gambling :-)
But not as random as the lottery. Actually, that's a part of the problem, a good deal of the fluctuations are based on feelings and moods; which is where the insider trading can come in, by manipulating those feelings and moods with endorsements, comments, TOTAL WAR, and a variety of good/bad news, at the appropriate moments.
Personally, I only have a bit of savings in there. Mostly ETFs, because I'm a pretty crappy gambler :-)
Even then, the nominal value is up and down like a whore's drawers; multiplied up, I can see how the insiders make mad mint when they know the best time to place their bets.
Hm, that's not good.
I'd already left the country by the time that it rolled around, but I strongly suspect that's how we ended up with Brexit. There would be millions of others who never learnt how the government works either.
Without education on how stuff works, the only things that people can really base their decisions on are whatever's in the media they consume, and personal feelings.
The basic stuff about government needs to be covered in school. By university, it's too late for most.
I can see why the nobs are big fans of killing education.
I don't knowingly use AI.
Just out of interest, when that AI thing is "watching" video, is it actually ingesting the video/audio stream, and adding it to whatever it's training is, or is it basically clicking the play button, and twiddling it's robotic thumbs until the video's finished, without actually doing anything?
Uh, you know those prince and princess display things that they flog in Aeon every year for the kids?
Well, those would have to have exactly the same design as usual, which would cause a great discombobulation, because there is only one old guy in the entire country who makes those for the entire country, and he's really old, and would probably have a myocardial farting at just the thought of such a tradition being traditionally unchanged for no reason at all.
Hm, from his 18th birthday until 77, he should have had about 21,549 days. Including about 14 leap days.
Although that doesn't take into account Christmases and public holidays.
Doable, but there'll be a lot of chafing.
Anyway, not American, who is this guy anyway? Is he like the Jimmy Savile of their country, or something? I mean, if he's still banging in his 70s, then some of them might also be old enough to not be alive anymore too.
That's what I'm saying, if they simply made this legal, then it would no longer be illegal, and would also enable normal people to get in on the action.
But yeah, it's definitely illegal.
Obviously I'm not an expert in anything at all. The way it was explained to us is that when someone has inside knowledge that the rest of the market does not have, and uses that knowledge to make advantageous trades before that knowledge is made public, then it's illegal.
Basically, the stockmarket is supposed to be "fair", otherwise it destroys what little trust there is, and just fucks everything up.
Hm, reading a bit more, it does actually claim that he was fairly well-like by the nobs, and only sort of caused one guy to be tortured and then executed. Although that probably wasn't his fault.
There's no mention of how he interacted with the common scum though. So there's still room for some typical nob assholery in there.
Hm, I expect that the formation of the Shin Kempeitai will be in the works soon :-(
But yeah, it's very strange, isn't it. It's as if these people imagine that they'll be in power forever, and that this tool will never be used against themselves.
Folks seem to forget that one of the main hobbies that Nazis had was trying to figure out how to assassinate each other.
Not American.
Isn't their entire country based on that principle, though?
For example, the rich old gits who were upset that they had to pay taxes somehow managed to convince regular jackoffs to die for them a couple of dozen decades ago.
The exact same thing appears to be happening right now, where the rich old gits have somehow convinced a good chunk of regular jackoffs to die for them over taxes.
It seems like it's the rich old gits are the common denominator.
This is why school field trips to the local immigration office should be mandatory.
Shit, office field trips too.
The lovely OL at my old old company had to accompany me for something or other to the Shinagawa immigration office one time. He was pretty surprised at how everyone was basically Asian in there.
Actually, quite a few folks would probably be shocked to discover just how cosmopolitan Japan actually is. Yet folks still pretend to be surprised when they encounter another person.
So what they're saying is that construction companies are using the wrong visa type to hire overseas workers?
Wasn't the technical trainee visa originally supposed to be like an international relations type of thing, where Japan would demonstrate it's benevolent superiority by helping nearby developing nations to develop, thereby securing future good will?
If what the construction companies actually need is not that nonsense, but actual proper construction worker visas, where any training that they bother to actually give their employees is retained, then that sounds like one solution. The time limit bollocks needs to go too.
Alternatively, they could simply pay people.
Blaming the foreign workers for this is pointless. Because they have no control over immigration policy whatsoever.
Ah, don't worry, it doesn't need to be logical :-)
Mostly, I hear folks talking about being worried about inheritance taxes. But inheritances are really just money moving from one place to another, so it stands to reason that if a tax is incurred when receiving an inheritance, it's a little odd that the opposite doesn't happen when the antiinheritance takes place.
Obviously the parents don't usually have to pay the inheritance tax, because they're more often or not dead. But the living are not dead, so it's a bit of a bum deal that they not only lose a lot of money, but don't even receive a tax rebate on it ;-)
I can only speak from personal experience. I don't know whether companies bother with awarding employees stock options anymore.
Anyway, in my old old company, when we had stock options, we (and our family, etc) were subject to insider trading rules. UK, but basically the same.
So when results rolled around, we could exercise before/after for a bit. And in the event we were somehow caught trading real shares, then I expect that The Fuzz would feel our collars; not sure, actually. Anyway, it was naughty.
So, regular jackoffs don't necessarily have the some juicy inside info that the regime's folks do, but there are still myriad opportunities for inside folks to make mad (currently illegal) mint.
For the common scum, they're probably only going to have inside info for maybe one or two companies. Maybe more, if their families are in on it too. Whereas the regime's folks have inside info on a wide variety of companies, so they'll still feel like they're fucking over the little man.
It's a win/win really. Albeit somewhat morally dubious.
Just out of interest, have schools there actually taught how government works? Government, as in the actual structures of, not the ephemeral politics side of things?
Personally, I'm GenX. We were taught absolutely zero about how our UK government actually functions. It's a fucking mystery. From what I gather, only rich kids got that.
Anyway, with regards to your parties, they should be abolished. You used to have more than two teams, the Whigs I think?
New parties can be built from the ground up. And a new constitutional entry should include something about it being illegal to only have two parties. You need at least three, ideally five; seven or even nine would be too much.
Money in politics should be completely illegal. If a half-dead dude in Cuba can be elected to VP before the telephone was a thing, then current politicians can simply go door to door during campaigns. Individuals and corporations found purchasing politicians, as well as the politicians themselves, must be destroyed.
Obviously folks need incentive to become civil servants when there's no longer money in it. Perhaps build a statue of them after they're dead, or name a library after them, or even a supermarket.
Basically, where one does something like buy a house for their broke boomer parents, with ownership later transferred to another family member.
I read something in the news once where inheritances are normally the other way around.
It stands to reason that if the government charges kids money to receive stuff from their parents, then the reverse should happen when it goes the other way. Kind of like a refund, I suppose.
The weird thing is, wars are changing quite a bit.
The Americans are good at killing a lot of people, but they're not very good at actually winning anything.
With threats like Russia, it would probably make sense to just use the SBS to take care of their leaders while they're bathing. There's no need to end history.
Not American.
One thing that I don't understand, is why doesn't their current regime simply make stuff like this not illegal?
That way:
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It won't be illegal.
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It will no longer be unethical.
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The common scum would be able to exploit it, without getting banged up in pokey.
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Their regime can free up time spent on not doing anything about this, and concentrate on the Trumpstein Network investigation again.
Yep, we live here. In the white hot center of Kanagawa :-)
No worries, but thanks for the offer! I'd need to check, but I think ours is a Sharp, I forget the size.
Mostly, it's just that these things all look the same now, so it'd be useful to know what to avoid when in the store.
I have no idea whether yours is fixable, but that's a fascinating failure condition. Is the cable still attached? Actually, does it still switch on? Some clear tape, and it might still work :-)
Absolutely :-)
I think that some of the Shinkansens here still have a Trolley-san go back and forth with snacks, drinks, beer, etc. Although I suspect that that's mostly in the Green Car now. I think COVID fucked some of that up, and it didn't return. We haven't used it much recently, no money.
Some have vending machines on the train.
Normally, folks would bring their own entertainment. There are often power sockets for charging.
Um, that's partially who I'm basing this valuable business insight on. Them, and all of the other railway companies.
Shit, one of our local rail companies even runs the supermarket at the end of the road, just in case we need to purchase some groceries before taking their train.
Compared to British Rail, back in the old country, they had a chocolate vending machine on the platform, but it stole my money :-(
Fuck the AI bollocks!
The real money is in MERCHANDISING!
At the stations, you provide myriad purchasing opportunities for food, gifts, amusements, etc. Same again on the platform. Same again on the train, if possible. And same again at the destination.
The actual train ride is irrelevant. It's just a loss leader for flogging shit.
