Trevaylin

Which is worse board conduct, not including a picture of a young attractive girl friend ,,,,,,,,,,or not including a copy of the entire social media post.

You could add some metrics to explain where Japan has struggled and make this a useful thread.

Japan's economy is strongly tied to the world energy market, Minimum natural oil/gas produced internally, and shut in Nuclear generation following earth quake disaster.

Strongly tied to export market for machinery type stuff which was facing increasingly competitive Start ups from other asian suppliers.

Population declining births, leads to an aging workforce, that strict immigration controls affect.

I lived there with my family for a year and thought it was a pretty nice environment

I do appreciate the level of moderation with TD. Free expression is supported allowing all viewpoints to be expressed. Outliers run the immediate risk of being called out for BS.

at age 80, I have been alive for 1/3 of the 250 years since the nation was born. I have gone from slide rule to chatgpt. Knowledge is no longer a deficiency, except no one understands the basic science behind the answer and thus can no longer choose the right answer.

We had the golden rule, Ten Commandments, Boy Scout oath, all forming our value system at school , church , work and play. Folks today are excited about the absence of value systems. Can't even define a women at the supreme court level.

Marketing is no longer concerned with selling goods/stuff. It's all about the magic pill, insurance, contributions to charities, safety, looks, words, games.


Values will come back some day, and it will be hard to accept

Harbor Freight does well.

that's a good one. not many folks understand that outliers are not the norm

you guys are all talk no cahones. 1987 Easter I was winding down a job in Jubail Saudi Arabia, and decided to strike back on the muslim 4/day prayer stoppage. I loaded the wife and kids in the car and inserted a copy of Handle's Messiah in the cd player. Rolled down the window's turned up the volume and stopped in the street out side the noonday mosque prayer. Them guys heard about the Messiah that day. That could work with much less risk in New York, Minneapolis, Dallas etc.

as a logistics officer, there is opportunity for kick backs and court marshal. Getting arrested for standing up to the man is likely a defense objective

many states have laws written to allow motorcycles to pass in the middle during a sustained traffic stop. Got to do it carefully however.

what does it matter?