Eternal Zero (the "unofficial" prequel to Godzilla -1.0) gives the entire kamikaze backstory from the director's perspective. Hayao Miyazaki said it was a ton of disgraceful, jingoistic BS. Most Japanese people will be aware of the previous work, so while non-Japanese won't perceive as much of the nationalist rhetoric in Godzilla -1.0, it is still very apparent within Japan. Kind of the definition of a Dog Whistle. Also, the "scientist" archetype in Godzilla -1.0 looks a lot like the guy who is the top search result for "Japan WW2 Scientist" on Google, and that is not someone you should be portraying as a hero.

Hate to tell you, but Godzilla -1.0 is also kinda preachy, it's just less obvious from a foreign perspective. It hits very hard on the "government/military is bad, but the soldiers were good" drum. This is the same sentiment that gets Japan in trouble frequently for denying war crimes and generally being insensitive about WW2. As for the quality of writing, Godzilla literally doesn't show up unless he can directly mess with the main character. The first time is maybe acceptable, the second time (in the middle of the ocean) becomes questionable, the third time was just ridiculous. And, of course, the fourth time Godzilla is beaten because he can't focus on anything but the main character. They really should have just called it a sequel to the director and composer's previous work, Eternal Zero, which is 85% the exact same movie as Godzilla -1.0.

So, the family founder of Nintendo has been fighting an increasingly heated war with Toyo Construction. Nintendo is trying to buy the company and Toyo is REALLY not happy about it. Construction companies in Japan are an incredibly fascinating subject, but the short version is "untold decades of corruption." Toyo also has lots of ties to sea ports, and criminals have to import things somehow, eh? So the question is this: who is most interested in making Nintendo miserable right now? The fact that they're taking this so seriously also suggests it may be more than a slightly disgruntled gamer.

I wanted it to fill a rectangular coordinate plane with X number of circles with a randomized range of radii distributed semi-evenly throughout the plane and all it was able to do is provide X number of random coordinates. My meat-mind solution was to divide the plane into rows and columns to make sure each cell had at least a couple circles.

Carbon is actually closer to a 1:10 split between what's excreted (shit/piss/sweat accounting for ~6kg/yr) vs exhaled (~60kg/yr in a healthy adult, though we both know all /. users sequester plenty in the belly and between the ears). This ignores the fact that you were gonna be breathing one way or the other so there is still a NET decrease from eating seaweed, whereas if you ate BEEF, that cow was also creating mountains of carbon along the way. And if you were eating land-based vegetables, those required watering, machine-based labor and the opportunity cost of the land itself which could have contributed to carbon sequestration. I was simply refuting (admittedly hyperbolically) the bullshit claim that all the carbon you eat is breathed out, which is clearly not true but I don't see you correcting the other guy. Congratulations on your nitpick laser focus on a detail so far removed from the point itself.

What a massive failure to understand basic biology and common sense. Increasing human consumption of seaweed won't increase the number of humans and thus will have ZERO impact on biological CO2 production. Eating seaweed produces SHIT, which still contains the majority of the carbon you first put in your mouth. That then goes in the toilet and makes its way back into the environment as sequestered carbon. In fact, if the carbon footprint of seaweed production is lower than that of whatever you would have been eating (spoiler: it is), you will be guaranteed to be reducing carbon not just through sequestration but also through reducing demand for more carbon-intensive food.

Right? Don't sequester it in the sea, sequester it in me!

Seaweed is delicious. Why not just grow a bunch, harvest it and eat it? I imagine it'd work fine for feeding various forms of livestock as well.

In Japan I go through multiple terabytes every month for about $30. As a former Comcast cable installer, I can stay with authority that the company should not just be broken up, but also ground into a fine dust and buried at the bottom of a mine.

The deliverator in Snow Crash received the pie in a locked box with a countdown timer on it. No cooking occurred in the car.

Unless we're in a simulation, in which case an admin can just turn on noclip and throw a few zeros on the velocity modifier.

Would Senor Alien never get to the end from his own perspective, or just ours? That's a cabesa-scratcher.

You left out "formation" of the universe because it invalidates your argument. Nothing says something couldn't have existed before the universe and come from without. At best, you can (maybe) say it's unlikely we'd encounter anything that evolved from WITHIN our universe.

Wait, Slashdot doesn't support Japanese characters? Are we sure nerds are actually involved in this site?

I've always found walking and hiking help focus my thoughts without the need for energy drinks (which is nice for someone with ADHD).