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Airlines pollute the environment in a big way. They also don't give basically any ways to survive should one of their prescious sky busses have a malfunction or something. If you have a problem with them, they are protected by tax payer money funded cops who will shove submachine guns in your face and do deep cavity searches and probing patdowns just to mess with you.

They're also heavily connected to the 'military industrial complex', or actually are part of it (Boieng, etc.).
 
Cimmerian Nights said:
womp womp waaaaa.

How do you travel overseas or any considerably long distance? Steam powered paddle boat perhaps? Dirigible?
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I'd love to cross the Atlantic in a Zeppelin.
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Motherfuckers had style.
Well, of course the old ocean liners were also classy as fuck.
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Make intercontinental travel decadent again.
 
Zeppelins also don't make you irradiated since they're flying in lower altitude than modern airplanes. The amount of absorbed inonizing radiation in one long airplane trip is around 10% of radiation absorbed yearly from natural sources. (i.e. ten trips irradiate you as much as one year spent on ground.)
 
Too bad helium is getting more and more expensive; with modern materials and construction methods it should be possible to make much more stable and safe airships.
 
Ordered Persona 5 from the other side of my country week ago with a courier.

Still no sight of it, I hate my country sometimes.
 
playing through rachet n clank and silent hill 2 on the ps4 atm while I wait for prey to come out.

I am undecided whether to get it on ps4 or pc. My pc is getting older nowadays and while it can still run most games on medium sometimes high it will be out of date by next holiday. So it might look better on a PS4.

However FPS games are generally better played and more fun on PC so..
 
Ok, so I was recently in Japan, actually I just came back to my little hole in the ground on monday. I promised photos on Tuesday but I have been mostly asleep the past 2 days because I underestimated jet lag.

So here they come, in Imgur so everybody can watch them:

Umeda Sky
http://imgur.com/a/UedsR
Nara Park
http://imgur.com/a/eKHNl
Those damn deers are sold to you as "very friendly" but if you don't have a deer cracker for them they will fucking turn their back to you, I like them.
Zen Temple, Kinkaku Castle, Sukiyaki, etc
http://imgur.com/a/pWxM6
And Hakone
http://imgur.com/a/XzSaa

I will post more later, the albums might even get updated, Imgur is kinda upping stuff really slowly.
 
I am thinking about looking into immigration programs, maybe for 2020, maybe spend a year there altho I am guessing it must be really hard to apply for those.
 
Walpknut said:
Nara Park
http://imgur.com/a/eKHNl
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I like that "ancient face palm - statue".

On a tangent, and I'm not trying to stir crap here, I recently watched a documentary about the war crimes trials in Japan after WW 2 and how the Americans basically botched those trials in comparison to the Nurnberg trials and the guilty ones including the emperor got away. Lot of bad blood remains between Japan and China.
 
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Walpknut said:
I am thinking about looking into immigration programs, maybe for 2020, maybe spend a year there altho I am guessing it must be really hard to apply for those.
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I'm not too much help there, I had a work visa that was fairly easy to renew, or now I just go on 90 day travel visas. Brutal flight, expensive, jetlag is a mofo coming back.

MutantScalper said:
the guilty ones including the emperor got away. Lot of bad blood remains between Japan and China.
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China is not alone in that regard, pretty much all of east Asia was occupied, err "liberated from western imperialism" and shat upon unmercifully by the Japanese. Even still, never underestimate the need for repressive regimes like China an N Korea to make political currency of a perfect scapegoat like that for their own ends to distract from how fucked up they themselves are. It's not like it's the same regime in power in Japan anymore, same as Nazi aren't running Germany.
And as far as the emperor goes, it would've been catastrophically counterproductive to the reconstruction effort to hang him in the town square like Mussolini.
 
The flight isn't so expensive if you are willing to take a flight with 2 transfers like I did.

WWII saw some real atrocities from the Axis, Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany were full on villains.

Nowadays both countries are very different, hell Japan can't even have an actual army other than their Self defense force and they keep away from playing international military games like the "Heroes" of WWII have been doing for the past decades. Japan isn't perfect and there are lots of social problems but digging up more than half a century old history is kinda stupid, none of those people are even in power anymore, let alone alive.
 
But the hypocrisy in both Germany and Japan is still strong with some. Like the story of Distomo in Greece, a small village that was exterminated by the Waffen SS, as revenge for partisans. Distomo was never acknowledged by German authorities as war crimes, so they could avoid any reperations to the surviving civilians. A couple of years ago the German Federal President visited Greece and appologized for all the crimes, and made it again clear that he was not there to talk about 'reperations'. I know people hate it to be reminded about shit that happend 70 years ago, but for some people that shit is still a reality even today.

Four relatives of victims brought legal proceedings against the German government to court in Livadeia, Greece, demanding reparations. On October 30, 1997, the court ruled in favour of the plaintiffs and awarded damages of 28 million Euros. Eventually in May 2000, the Areopago, the Greek High court, confirmed this ruling. The judgement, however, could not be enforced in Greece because, as necessary under Greek law, the execution of a judgement against a sovereign State is subject to the prior consent of the Minister of Justice, which was not given.

The plaintiffs brought the case to court in Germany, demanding the aforementioned damages be paid to them. The claim was rejected at all levels of German court, citing the 1961 bilateral agreement concerning enforcement and recognition of judgements between Germany and Greece, and Section 328 of the German Code of Civil Procedure. Both required that Greece have jurisdiction, which it does not as the actions in question were sovereign acts by a state. According to the fundamental principles of international law, each country is immune from another state's jurisdiction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distomo_massacre#Legal_Proceedings​
 
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