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I don't think we are talking loudly enough about this. Staring this November 2026, there will be a 1 HOUR TIME DIFFERENCE between: * The Greater Vancouver BC area, and * Point Roberts, WA - in the dark red box below. The thick gray line right north of Point Roberts, WA, is the US-Canada border.

Screenshot from openstreetmap.org, showing the area around the boundary between British Columbia, Canada, and Washington, USA. Just south of the Tsawwassen ferry terminal is an area known as Point Roberts, and that is on the US side. There is no boat service nor airport at this peninsula, so residents of Point Roberts, WA, have to enter Canada to go shopping, to travel anywhere.

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高雄病院理事長の江部康二先生の『内臓脂肪がストン！と落ちる良事術』を読んでたら、こんなご指摘が。バカにしてはいけないそうです。先生ご自身が仰るのでしたら｡｡｡でも、これは知人にでも容易に持ち出せる話題では無いですよね。「今朝、勃ったんだけどさぁー、オレ、元気でよかったなぁー」なんて、言ってしまってよろしいんでしょうか。実際には言えません、そんなことぉー🫣🤭🫢🤫

20代の頃と変わらない体型
私は京都にある高雄病院の理事長で、医師の江部康二と申します。
1950年生まれの69歳です。身長167cm、体重57kgは、20代の頃と変わりありません。
身長は、年をとっても縮んでいません。
歯は全部残っていて、虫歯も歯周病もありません。
視力もよく『広辞苑」の小さな文字も裸眼で読めます。
聴力の低下もありません。
毎日7時間睡眠で、夜中に尿意で目覚めることもありません。
定期的に飲んでいる薬もなければ、サプリメントとも無縁です。
コレステロール値も中性脂肪値も、基準値に収まっています。
いんけいぼっき
いまも朝勃ち（正式名：夜間陰茎勃起現象）します。
朝勃ちなんていうと下品に思われるかもしれませんが、動脈硬化、内臓発、うつ病などのバロメーターにもなりますから、バカにしてはいけません。

あと、豪徳寺からちょっと南にある世田谷線・宮の坂駅前には、昔の古い世田谷線の車輌がプチ博物館となって展示されており、戦前に渋谷まで世田谷区線が通っていた頃の写真がみれます。世田谷線の古い車輌は江ノ電でしばらく利用されるのですが、江ノ電で使い切られて完全にリタイヤされたものなので、かなりの年輪が刻まれてます。

東急世田谷線・宮の坂駅前に展示されている、旧世田谷線車輌。2026年6月に撮影。

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【喪中】OhMonkey @ohmonkey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

そして日本史通な人は、井伊直弼のお墓参りも出来ます今年6月に撮った写真です。

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If I am not mistaken, it's the only spot in Tokyo where you can see trainlines with 1500V DC OCS lines near a trainline with 600V DC 3rd rail with a cut-and-cover construction method. The Toden Arakawa Line is also 600V DC but it's doesn't go through a cut-and-cover subway tunnel, so yeah

A screenshot of openrailwaymap.org at Hijiribashi near the Ochanomizu station in Tokyo, showing the electrification details. The pink line going from northwest to southeast is the Toei Marunouchi Line, running on 600V DC 3rd rail. The cyan lines going east-west are the JR Chuo and JR Sobu lines, running on 1.5KV DC OCS. The other cyan line going north-south is the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line, which stops a bit further south at Shin-Ochanomizu station.

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【喪中】OhMonkey @ohmonkey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Also: www.hpacmag.com/features/gui...

U.S. Climate Alliance
Due to the lack of action on the federal level, states are stepping in to push the phasedown agenda. The U.S. Climate Alliance is a group of 24 states and Puerto Rico that pledged to implement policies that advance the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement after the U.S. withdrew. The Climate Alliance represents 55 per cent of the U.S. population and an $11.7 trillion economy and several of these states have included HFC regulations as part of their climate plans. California, Washington and Vermont have already adopted phasedown plans based on the proposed SNAP rules while Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and New York are in various stages of adopting regulatory programs.

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A ban on air conditioning systems (excluding chillers) using refrigerant with GWP greater than 750 GWP by 2023.
A ban on chillers (comfort and process) using refrigerant with GWP greater than 750 by 2024.
A ban on new commercial refrigeration systems with a charge greater than 50 pounds using refrigerant with GWP greater than 150 GWP by 2022.
A ban on servicing existing equipment with refrigerant with a GWP greater than 1,500 GWP by 2022. (This keeps in place the updated Rule 608 that the EPA is currently reviewing). (A potential exemption for reclaimed refrigerant and R-410A remains an option.

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For more, visit https://www.hpacmag.com/features/guide-to-refrigerant-regulation-and-policy/

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【喪中】OhMonkey @ohmonkey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

However, as indicated in the Mar 2025 Google Street View image below, that street has NOT been upgraded in anyway. The only change seems to be that the sign is gone.

A screenshot of the abruptly ending sidewalk at 705 S Pleasant Hill Rd, Warner Robins, GA, from Google Maps Street View, taken in March 2025 . This angle looks north on S Pleasant Hill Rd towards the towards the Primitive Hill Primitive Baptist Church. The SIDEWALK ENDS sign is no longer there.

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【喪中】OhMonkey @ohmonkey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

However, that sign got UPGRADED ? to the green sign that was shared by Karen above. The August 2019 image shows that version of the sign:

A screenshot of the SIDEWALK ENDS sign at 705 S Pleasant Hill Rd, Warner Robins, GA, from Google Maps Street View, taken in August 2019. This angle looks north on S Pleasant Hill Rd towards the towards the Primitive Hill Primitive Baptist Church. The sign is now GREEN with WHITE lettering.

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【喪中】OhMonkey @ohmonkey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

n April 2016, that sign was a white sign with black letters:

A screenshot of the SIDEWALK ENDS sign at 705 S Pleasant Hill Rd, Warner Robins, GA, from Google Maps Street View, taken in April 2016. This angle looks north on S Pleasant Hill Rd towards the towards the Primitive Hill Primitive Baptist Church. The sign is white with black lettering.

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【喪中】OhMonkey @ohmonkey.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is more like what I was looking for: neurolaunch.com/psychology-o... Sociometric popularity is just sociometric popularity. But we usually conflate with other metrics like high status, attractiveness, etc. That’s all on us, but it’s another set of social metrics that get arbitrarily linked.

Key Takeaways:
• Psychologists distinguish between being genuinely liked (sociometric popularity) and being seen as high-status or dominant (perceived popularity), and the two often diverge sharply.
• Physical attractiveness, social skill, and even aggression can all boost perceived status, but only warmth and cooperation reliably predict being liked.
• Popularity that relies on dominance or relational aggression tends to become a liability in adult relationships and workplaces.
• Social media has added a new, quantifiable layer to status-seeking that appears to affect mental health differently than in-person popularity does.

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【喪中】OhMonkey @ohmonkey.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

🔑: “Yet FDR’s central lesson still holds: there is no way to fight off the fascist threat without combating the true material crises that make it harder for people to resist strongmen and scapegoats.” Also the screenshot below is too good to hide behind a paywall. This ought to be THE way.

People are already pushing for these kinds of solutions. We can see it in the rapidly expanding movement demanding democratic governance over AI, and winning freezes on data centre construction until it is in place; in the global campaigns to tax billionaires, and even impose a cap on wealth; and in the historic number of US politicians voting to stop arming Israel, and opposing the widening conflagration in Iran. It’s there, too, in the renewed focus on climate action coming from insurgent Democratic Party candidates who support a Green New Deal, alongside Medicare for All.

There is a long way to go before we have responses on the scale of the crises we face, but a growing number of ordinary people and political leaders understand something simple and urgent: that the best way to help their neighbours resist the allure of end times fascism is to make their lives better in the here and now.

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【喪中】OhMonkey @ohmonkey.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Same actually Or, wut 😮 I grew up on the other coast, so how I don’t believe this test.

Your dialect map
Redder areas talk more like you; bluer areas least.

You talk most like someone from New York — about 56% of your answers match a typical resident.

MYDIALECT — STANDARD

Cities most & least like you

MOST SIMILAR
Philadelphia, PA (53%)
Baltimore, MD (53%)
New York, NY (53%)

LEAST SIMILAR
Omaha, NE (45%)
Minneapolis, MN (46%)
Kansas City, MO (46%)

What gave you away
Answers that point most strongly to New York.

almond
ah-mond (no l)

What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
sunshower

What is your *general* term for the rubber-soled shoes worn in gym class, for athletic activities, etc.?
sneakers

What is your generic term for a sweetened carbonated beverage?
soda

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【喪中】OhMonkey @ohmonkey.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I haven’t looked but I would imagine a geopolitical thriller novel was written based on this story as an intro!

In a matter of minutes, Japan acquired four problems: the exposure of serious vulnerabilities in its defenses, an armed Soviet officer seeking passage to the United States, one of Moscow’s most secret military aircraft sitting at a commercial airport and an angry superpower demanding the immediate return of both.

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【喪中】OhMonkey @ohmonkey.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I also need to be activated. I wish it was as simple as purchasing a license and entering the license key to get myself activated.

Activate Windows
Go to Settings to activate Windows.

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【喪中】OhMonkey @ohmonkey.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

大学三年あがりの男子5人組が、自分の高中正義コレクションを中古のSanyoのデッキで聴きながら、チョコレートクッキーを焼く日曜日の図。

高中正義のカセット4本コレクション。左から、

• Super Guitar Session: OTTOTRIO
• Hot Pepper: Masayoshi Takanaka
• Gaps!: Masayoshi Takanaka
• ドラマチック極東探偵団: Masayoshi Takanaka

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【喪中】OhMonkey @ohmonkey.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

From www.thecollector.com/how-kalining...

In December 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed, and many of its constituent republics became independent states. This was also true for Belarus and the Baltic States. Since Kaliningrad had been part of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, it remained part of Russia as an exclave, separated from the Russian mainland. Traveling from one to the other requires transit across two countries.

Given Germany’s history and the fact that Kaliningrad is populated by a vast majority of Russians, Germany does not intend to promote any claims on the territory.

According to an article published in Der Spiegel in 2010, in 1990, Russia offered Kaliningrad back to West Germany, but the West Germans did not accept the offer.

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【喪中】OhMonkey @ohmonkey.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I am also guessing there are well over a billion people who have not forgiven Google Maps for this atrocity, but if I said that to a Japanese person, they would give me a puzzled look and say something like "what are you talking about"

Screenshot of Google Maps, displayed in - get this - SIMPLIFIED CHINESE. The body of water east of the Korean Peninsula and west of Honshu in Japan is labeled "The Sea of Japan (East Sea)". The label is basically the same in all other languages. I do understand Google Maps differentiates labels by the user's geolocation, which I have permitted. If I spoof my location, it might be different, but the fact is that the names of bodies of water are geopolitically charged, and it all depends on which point of view you are looking from.

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【喪中】OhMonkey @ohmonkey.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

フランクフルトのデータセンターだそうで。ハッカーじゃなくて良かった、なんて言ってられない事態ですね。

Aug 27, 2026

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【喪中】OhMonkey @ohmonkey.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

She left this world 2 weeks ago… www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/a...

Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese artist whose polka-dot covered paintings, phallic sculptures and public performances caused a stir in New York City and Europe in the 1960s, and whose mirrored “Infinity Room” installations became selfie sensations and blockbuster museum and gallery attractions in recent decades, has died. She was 97.

Her death was announced in a joint statement by the Yayoi Kusama Museum and the Yayoi Kusama Foundation on Thursday. A statement posted to the museum’s website said she had died on Aug. 14.

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【喪中】OhMonkey @ohmonkey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Taking that a step further are sites that teach and practice law. This page is interesting, especially the text highlighted in the screenshot below: www.splcenter.org/learning-for...

Roles and Responsibilities
The United States is a global power and one of the world’s strongest economies. Therefore, the president has responsibilities domestically to the people living in the U.S. and internationally in shaping relationships with other countries and international organizations. The president’s actions can affect people’s daily lives and individual freedoms as well as the common good of the nation and its international reputation.

The president wields both formal and informal powers that help them to carry out their duties as head of state and head of the government. As the only elected official who represents everyone in the U.S., the president is expected to be a unifying leader for the whole nation — not just for their political party or supporters. The president should, therefore, exemplify the highest leadership qualities and honor the values of democracy.

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【喪中】OhMonkey @ohmonkey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

実は、テキサスって、リニューアプル・エネルギーの開発パーミット許可が下りるまで最速の州なんだそうです。環境保全に取り組む人たちにとっては冷や汗ですが、電力網としてERCOTが（善かれ悪かれ）独立していること、そしてアメリカ国内で太陽光・風力発電に一番向いている西テキサス地区は人口が非常に少ないことが貢献しているようです。 gem.anl.gov/tool/r/conus にてマッピングすると、西テキサスからニューメキシコやコロラドにかけて、色の濃い当たりが多いのがわかります。パーミット許可時間がとても長い州（それは民主党の強豪地区）は、このあたりに見習うものがあるのではないでしょうか。

Screenshot from https://gem.anl.gov/tool/r/conus showing areas in the USA suitable for utility-scale photovoltaics (PV, or solar power generation). The dark blue areas, concentrated around west Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and the California Central Valley, show the highest suitability for utility-scale PV.

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【喪中】OhMonkey @ohmonkey.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If they are "dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity", can they and other tech companies please slow down and create safeguards for this tech before more damage to humanity is done? Also, can they please be better stewards for sustainability?

A screenshot from a job posting on LinkedIn reads:

About the company:

OpenAI

11,457,171 followers

Research Services • 1001-5000 employees • 10,240 on LinkedIn

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit.

To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership.

At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

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【喪中】OhMonkey @ohmonkey.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Maybe if you live in one of the coastal cities but for folks in Eastern WA, southern BC, many parts of OR, ID and beyond, the AQI is still unhealthy.

Air quality map as of 10am PDT on August 8, 2026, showing AQI (US) in the western half of North America, with current reading for Seattle (54) and Denver (131), and with dark red and purple areas spreading from southern British Columbia to Oregon, Idaho, Montana and even Wyoming.

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【喪中】OhMonkey @ohmonkey.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It’s absolutely perfect that these two posts — about the deep concerns regarding(negative) impacts of the use of AI in tech and scientific advancement — lined up next to each other on my timeline. Cc: @emilymbender.bsky.social and @bettycjung.bsky.social

A screenshot of posts by Betty C. Jung and Emily M. Bender, regarding the impacts of AI. The post text read as follows:

Post by Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social

It's the first time scientists have used A.l. to create new kinds of viruses. It raises hopes for medical advances while also raising the disturbing possibility that the technology could someday be used to invent dangerous pathogens.
Of course, it would come to this. Al's endgame is only Al wins.

Post by Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social

Ready for some more Mystery Al Hype Theater 3000?
Join me and @alexhanna.bsky.social for the next livestream, where we peer into what the tech companies say the impact of "Al" on labor is and what they are actually doing with their mathy maths:
Monday, August 10, noon Pacific
dair_institute - on the Twitch account for The Distributed Al Research

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Here's Tokyo station. The pink 600V DC line is the Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line (Japan's 2nd oldest subway, standard gauge, similar to the Ginza Line). The 1.5kV DC lines are the various JR commuter lines (Yamanote, Keihin Tohoku, Ueno-Tokyo, etc.). Then you have 25kV AC lines - 50Hz and 60Hz!

Screenshot from openrailwaymap.org of the electrification status around Tokyo station.

From the south, you see 25kV 60Hz AC lines for the Tokaido Shinkansen, which ends at the Tokyo station.

Going to the north, you see 25kV 50Hz AC lines for the Tohoku/Joetsu Shinkansen lines, which start at the Tokyo station.

See the post for details on the various other lines.

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16-2/3Hz, 16.7Hz, 25Hz, 50Hz, and 60Hz. It's really fascinating. I find it interesting that AC frequencies change mid-span in some sections simply because the overhead catenary lines were electrified at different times in the course of history. e.g just east of NYC Penn Station, in Queens:

Screenshot from openrailwaymap.org, showing electrification details of the Amtrak Northeast Corridor just east of NYC Penn Station. As you go north on this stretch of rail, there is a segment of rail that runs on 12kV 25Hz (light yellow), then 0V! (pink), followed by 12.5kV 60Hz (darker yellow). You know there's SFC circuitry there.

今、こんな感じ。黒線が国境です。

2026年8月5日、午後3時前のair qualityマップ。ワシントン州北東部から州の南西方面、そして北に至りカナダの国境を超えたあたりまで、放火の影響がかなり広まっているのがわかります。最悪の空気汚染を示す紫色の部分がTonasket周辺から何とTacoma周辺まで広まっています。その一段階下の赤い部分がワシントン州、オレゴン州、カナダのBC州全体を覆っています。

【喪中】OhMonkey @ohmonkey.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Yeah, even the AQI at SeaTac is 122. Where I live is much higher. Nope, sorry.

A screen of the air quality in western Washington state for the evening of Tuesday, August 4, 2026. A dark red and purple band stretches across the entire eastern half of this map from Abbotsford, British Columbia, all the way down to Longview, WA. AQI reading for SeaTac airport, shown in the middle of the screenshot, reads 122, which is in the unhealthy range.

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You have to read into this article to leave behind the attention grabbing headline. But in this day and age in which the internet + social media has destroyed our ability to have meaningful conversations, this is a movement that might be necessary, and I wish more would share at least in spirit.

Besides, even more so than during the AOL years, international communication can now be mediated by technology, translated instantaneously via app and aided by the ascendancy of English as a de facto lingua franca. But for Esperantists, none of this comes close to solving the fundamental problem of human disconnection. “If our aim is only to buy a hamburger, then [those tools] are enough,” Petro Baláž, a prominent Slovakian Esperanto publisher and educator, told me. “But it’s something totally different … to speak about the meaning of life, to travel through the world, to have really deep conversations.”

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【喪中】OhMonkey @ohmonkey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

なんか、わかんないです

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【喪中】OhMonkey @ohmonkey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

「ごま塩」と翻訳されました

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【喪中】OhMonkey @ohmonkey.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

That’s why individualism and collectivism are on opposite ends of one of the scales. I suppose the people who speak up loudly don’t want to get along, but feel threatened enough to speak up, and when they do, their fears compel them to speak combatively. Just a pre-validated hypothesis.

Individualism

Individualism is the extent to which people feel independent, as opposed to being interdependent as members of larger wholes.
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Individualism does not mean egoism. It means that individual choices and decisions are expected. Collectivism does not mean closeness. It means that one "knows one's place" in life, which is determined socially. With a metaphor from physics, people in an individualistic society are more like atoms flying around in a gas while those in collectivist societies are more like atoms fixed in a crystal.

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【喪中】OhMonkey @ohmonkey.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I can’t get to the yellow parts of this chart. My brain is running back and forth between blue, red, purple and green. openemotionwheel.com/wp-content/u...

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【喪中】OhMonkey @ohmonkey.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Just looked this up on the map. Granville between Georgia and Helmcken includes the intersection with Robson. I just took this screenshot minutes ago, showing the street is closed to car traffic. Yeah, this should just be permanent, IMO. Well done, Vancouver!!!

A satellite view of Google Maps shows showing the car access closure on Granville Street in Dow town Vancouver BC, between Georgia Street and Helmcken Street.

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【喪中】OhMonkey @ohmonkey.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

君たち、ニューヨーク🗽に行きたいかーっ？！罰ゲームが怖くないかーっ？！この名セリフは、今は亡き福留アナの声じゃ無いと、じっくり来ません。もう。

令和のウルトラクイズは

知力
体力
時の運
さらに
知識を超える推理力
そのすべてを兼ね備えた
真の勝者を決めます！
かつてウルトラクイズに熱狂した
世代の方々はもちろん、
まだ見ぬ興奮を味わいたい若い方々まで
新たな歴史の主役となる
皆様の挑戦をお待ちしています！

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【喪中】OhMonkey @ohmonkey.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I learned about John Rawls in a grad school finance course taught by a strongly Progressive professor. When I learned about his Principles of Justice as Fairness, I believed it was rather difficult argue against it, especially the Difference Principle, hence this question: bsky.app/profile/ohmo...

4.3 The Two Principles of Justice as Fairness

These guiding ideas of justice as fairness are given institutional form by its two principles of justice:

First Principle: Each person has the same indefeasible claim to a fully adequate scheme of equal basic liberties, which scheme is compatible with the same scheme of liberties for all;

Second Principle: Social and economic inequalities are to satisfy two conditions:

They are to be attached to offices and positions open to all under conditions of fair equality of opportunity;
They are to be to the greatest benefit of the least-advantaged members of society (the difference principle) (JF, 42–43).

【喪中】OhMonkey @ohmonkey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Dear Uniqlo US marketing team: Please have your Japanese marketing team review any marketing emails with Japanese on it, ESPECIALLY when it's vertical text. This is kind of embarrassing. Thank you, Japanese expats in your target market (US)

A screenshot from a Uniqlo marketing email, on the top left corner of the email, featuring the red Uniqlo logs (in Japanese Katakana and in English), plus vertical text - on the right, rotated 90 degrees to the right "LIFEWEAR COLLECTION", and on the left, in Japanese vertical text, "shintempo open", except that the vowel extender line is typeset horizontally instead of vertically.

That's just wrong.