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I think he meant that work should not be compensated. Just tune your life to maximize both (?) is his message. Of course, the reality doesn't allow that and we need a trade-off. They live in a cave or something.

I don't know in what illusion they are, but we do work to make money. It's in the contract. I never signed to make a better company. Hell, companies operate to make money. Who are they to tell us otherwise? Just give us the money we deserve and f off.

Bezos also called the concept of work-life balance "debilitating" because it hints that there's a trade-off.

What, there's no trade-off!? Were these people that stupid? I never guessed even.

"comfort women"... are very specific sex slaves

That Japanese people recognize them as sex slaves. The government, media and commoners.

This means that I want a FORMAL source from the government. And news articles explicitly stating this. And some scholarly articles that analyze the perception among the commoners.

No god-damn Wikipedia.

If I don't reply the next time, regard it a failure on your side.

Why on the hell did that person think they don't get caught...

Since calving off West Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in 1986, ...

Holy hell...

This is why I hate school rules. Too many random stuff to constrain students for no good reason. Hire a fucking law expert if they want to go farther than "be nice".

Also, we are talking about brainwashing. Aum Shinrikyo successfully turned medical doctors from the best university in Japan into cult religion leaders to join the leadership that killed, injured and disabled subway passengers with sarin, among others murdered in different ways.

From that point, it's like I've started a new life. I learned about a non-partisan group called Citizens' Climate Lobby, which advocates for climate solutions. I led their North Georgia chapter for a while, and I still volunteer and lobby with them.

I'm also part of the National Center for Science Education, using physical science concepts to teach climate change to my teenage students.

Always worth reading the article before writing a comment.

That's true, but if you get enough people involved, you can't exclude those who are greedy. You'll learn it in your life if you haven't yet.

The thing is, this doesn't end by paying that amount. If you have a historical dispute of this complexity, no amount of payment is enough to stop the court cases and national sentiment.

Actually, businessmen of South Korea and Japan do have good relations. There's thus enough lobbying in Japan to make a deal with South Korea.

Caveat: I said yes because in the past they have reported, and I don't see a reason not to. If I check the internet, though, I don't see an article. Yet.

Now. The atmosphere here is somewhat complicated. The Japanese internet space is a solid ultraconservative shit hole. They are openly racists who spew hate speech. Even Yahoo Comments, the biggest news website here with user comments, have absolutely no moderation.

Accordingly, 99.9% of the net space is full of denialism. They also point at the JPN-SK agreement Abe made, which declared that SK will not demand money from Japan for the comfort women problem.

In reality, the agreement apparently had flaws in wording etc., and we also need to take into account that SK Supreme Court is sometimes criticized by news media for being influenced by national sentiments. Don't get me wrong – I don't say that's necessarily a bad thing given that the Japanese tactics on this issue has been insincere.

Outside the internet space, it's even more complex. Ultraconservatives say media are pro-South Korea. But they'll say that unless they get their racist way, so it's not credible. It's so sensitive it's hard to find a balanced analysis on this one. My feeling is that they are rather neutral. They just report and silently move on without taking sides, in my eyes.

The LDP... they are a mess. A mixture of right-leaning centrists and, again, ultraconservatives.

If I look at the general public, I don't see any group or person siding with south korea. It's kind of understandable. Most people here distance themselves from politics. Ask them what they think, and they'll just say "it's too difficult to me", and they're just being honest. They don't think comfort women were sex slaves. They also don't think they were voluntarily cooperating. These people just don't have an opinion. They never read up on anything political. Just watch TV, work and sleep.

I'm a Japanese. Can you point me to your source now?

Edit:
Here are mine. I should've put these before all this nonsensical nightmare with this person that follows after.

Government denies that "comfort women" were coerced by the Japanese military.

A scholarly article
explaining how Shinzo Abe's government denied coercion in 2007.

Here's the formal Japanese record from the congress.

Yes.

Exactly!

I don't buy it. From what I read the other day, even the original article didn't clarify the cause-effect connection between this claim and the ousting of the CEO.

Also, what was said was basically LLMs with math capabilities was around the corner. It solves the weakness of the current LLM, namely lack of logic in the model. That's not a threat on its own. It's just a personal anecdote yet. This employee might even just be a manager who has no idea how AI works. (That's my impression as a scientist).

To prove that it's a threat to humanity, that employee would have to do experiments because it's science. Note that ANY AI achievement has been hypothesized to be a threat to humanity by laymen. So far there's nothing to indicate that this employee analyzed anything deep to reach the conclusion.

Edit: it's also next to impossible for a language model with math capabilities to destroy humanity. It's popular fantasy unless you replace the US President with ChatGPT, for example.

AFAIU Japan uses this term for a different reason. The government (at least domestically) does not recognize these people as slaves. When they reported on their investigation on whether the sex labor was forced, they purposefully used a language that can be taken both ways. I don't know if Abe's cabinet changed the stance, but the word comfort women is still in use because Tokyo can refer to them without classifying them slaves.

If you have a source for that alternative fact you argue, you are welcome to share it here.

I like the rhyme

I think it's fortunate that win results in minority seats. In my country, you can get 50% of seats by winning mere 30% of votes. No, it's not Italy. Japan.