Greg Lane

ishiba blinked. what an idiot

Also there are exclusions. You can get travel insurance that doesn't cover adventure sports and then crack your skull open on a tree while snowboarding.

I'm not sure if the travel insurance thing would even fix this problem. It still requires the patient to pay up front and then claim from their insurance. I'm sure most of these bills are quite small, so it's either cheap asses or people with cash flow issues.

There could be a big rule change for Kiwis wanting to visit Japan Few countries are quite as ‘hot’ to visit as Japan is these days.

It's hard to argue that travel insurance isn't a good idea, but the non-paymentt rate is 0.6%. why not just prevent them leaving the country until they've paid up

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Interesting to see them using Gen AI images in the article. Not something we'd do as you start to question the whole article. In this case, pretty sure it's just the images though

Ecommerce screen with "Decision" buttons. Presumably for "select"

This is a company whose customers are more than 50% non-Japaneae. ChatGPT would even do a better job than this.

Just floating this idea. Who would be up to join a travel content creator's union? The idea would be to get the scale to be able to negotiate directly with AI thieves/scrapers about being compensated. small companies and independent writers/photographers/podcasters/videographers could join.

I would never espouse violence, but if I ever meet the SmartEX Shinkansen ticket booking app developers, I'm not responsible for my actions.

Billionaires’ wealth surged $6.5tn over past decade, Oxfam reports Real-terms gains of $33.9tn for world’s richest 1% ‘enough to end annual global poverty 22 times over’, charity says The wealth of the world’s 3,000 billionaires has surged by $6.5tn (£4.8tn) in real terms over the past decade, according to Oxfam, equivalent to 14.6% of global output. In total the richest 1% of the global population has gained at least $33.9tn in real terms, which the charity said was “enough to end annual global poverty 22 times over”. Continue reading...

Billionaires’ wealth surged $6.5tn over past decade, Oxfam reports

Jeff Bezos wedding: Venice protestors claim 'enormous victory' after venue change No Space for Bezos activist group tells BBC they are "very proud of this".

This needs to be the norm when dealing with billionaires.
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At 3 million yen a night, the cost of the imperial suite would cover most peoples rent for a year.

Ah, should have read the details. It's a renovation of the Yasaka Kaikan

The Kyoto Imperial hotel, set to open in October 2025. Style is reminiscent of early modern Japanese architecture.

The new Kyoto Imperial hotel is ugly as fuck. So much amazing architecture in Japan and they go for something that looks like it was designed in 1921

Reminds me of a client we work with who insist that we use a certain file transfer tool (not winny) that costs 2,000yen/month so they can send us files. I asked them to send a USB drive in a letterpack instead

Osaka man arrested for selling colorized 'Godzilla' film from 1954 Ippei Miyamoto, a part-time worker in the Osaka city of Toyonaka, has admitted to the allegation.

This wins the prize for most Japanese news story of the year. Selling bootleg DVDs in 2025
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Weird headline

Tokyoites push back against IT giants' encroaching data behemoths - The Mainichi TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Discontent is growing in the Tokyo metropolitan area due to proposals to construct giant data centers in residential areas, with indu

Fuck data centres
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A pizza slice covered in sliced pickles and cheese

Pickle pizza is an abomination, but tasty nonetheless

The living beyond our means narrative has always been bullshit. Look where NZ stacks up.

A view of Mount Myoko with Ikenomori in the foreground

A peak just to the north of Mount Myoko. Don't know what it's called,

Much more snow on the mountains than is usual for this time of year.

Abe Shinzo always seemed keen on the appeasement approach with Putin for trying to get the Northern islands back. I guess she's continuing that.

Thanks for the tips.

Btw, I'm not a reactive anti-vegan weirdo. I'm pescatarian so always interested in finding animal free alternatives

I'm not familiar with any brands. I've bought some vegan shred from the supermarket and put it on a pizza, but the taste and texture were closer to melted plastic than cheese.

Is it good? I've never had a good vegan cheese.

We Went to the Town Elon Musk Is Poisoning YouTube video by More Perfect Union

Wow, what a monumental bunch of arseholes.
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The not surprising issue I had in Tokyo is that the venue only wanted to keep one bill and I had to collect the money, with all the "but I only had 1 beer, why do I have to pay 3,000yen" excuses

I once double booked two beer gardens for 70 people and forgot to cancel one. They were not happy and I likely ruined it for all the other gaijin in Tokyo.

8 years is good. Mine always get brittle in the sun and crack after a couple of years

It's not "renumeration" 🙂‍↔️