anachronist

Tactical nukes aren't real. They start an escalation ladder that gets you to global thermonuclear war in a few hours. Using a "tactical nuke" is just laying naked your intent to have things go nuclear while giving your opponent a chance to respond.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis Kennedy wanted to nuke Cuba. The joint chiefs told him that if he wanted to do that he would also have to nuke Russia in a massive fully committed first strike.

The way this has worked is that the Japanese economy has bifurcated with the graduation-to-retirement employment being available to a ever smaller group of white collar workers called salary-men. To become a salary-man you have to go to college and get hired the year you graduate through campus recruiting. If you miss your "window" then you can't become a salary-man and will be stuck in contingent work for the rest of your life.

The people quitting in this case are not salary-men (a salary-man quitting would be pretty unthinkable) but their bosses probably are, hence the cultural divide.

Sometimes salary-men do lose their jobs due to bankruptcy of the organization for instance. Typically the solution if that happens is to jump in front of a train.

My understanding is that the employer side of this contract quit getting honored religiously during the lost decade and employment in Japan is increasingly contingent and precarious.

It’s just a suggestion.

Quebec is also where I learned the phrase "No cop, no stop."

But I think they were arrested for not saying arrêt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iHr0Hytrls

Some of them are flying the Confederate flag in Alberta!

Historically Europe (and the British Empire) sided with the confederacy because they saw a united USA as a potential industrial rival, whereas the south was more of a resource colony. Interestingly there was a major class divide in Europe where the working classes were anti-slavery and therefore anti-confederate wheras the upper classes saw the confederate cause being in their interest. There's a book about this called A Cause for All Nations by Don Doyle.

My understanding is that nowadays the confederate flag is used by people outside the USA who are on the fascist end of the spectrum for whom Nazi or fascist symbols are too extreme (or just illegal) in their countries.

He's made his bed with the Silicon Valley elite and now he has to do their unpopular things. All that money comes with strings.

It's enjoyable watching it happen to somebody I don't like for once.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro

If they said they didn't find any, then everyone would know it was a whitewash. So they decided to "find" a small amount and then pat themselves on the back.

Reality is about to get all melty and people are gonna have six fingers.

But Obama said don't let the perfect be the enemy of the horrible.

US Chamber of Commerce doesn't exactly seem like the most impartial source...