Is hair (and eye) colour common on official US documents? We don't have that at all, is it based on current or natural colors? Would it be changed if I dyed my hair?
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My company just had a web conference for upper management where they talked about how sad workers were that they couldn’t see each other when remote working. They didn’t even try to frame it as a productivity thing, they just wanted to make it sound like an employee well being effort.
Of all the issues raised to me during the pandemic, not once did “I’m sad I can’t see my coworkers” come up.
"Even Paul Krugman has defended child labor" Is that supposed to be a defense of the practice?
"author has 12.5k answers".
I am not a quora user (thank god) but does that mean he has 12.5k posts or 12.5k top-level questions answered. Because good god, the average redditor probably sees more grass.
Shit, I am sorry comrades. I am not frothing at the mouth angry at everything, I will turn in my lemmygrad membership card.
I guess I have to go back to being a liberal and making incremental progress by checks notes drone striking and/or couping more countries.
Excuse me, it is a FACTbook. We all know facts are true by definition so it is an irrefutable source for all information.
It really is; they wrote the entire thing and now are the biggest advocate for us to change it.
The people of Ryukyu (Okinawa), which are already occupied once by Japan, do not want the US there. This is a regular subject of protests in the region, and the single largest defining aspect of politics. The current governor of Okinawa is staunchly against the US occupation of his territory because they cause endless hardship for the locals. US soldiers continue to kill and rape innocent people here on a regular basis.
You will be hard-pressed to find people here that are excited about the US military bases, outside the US lapdogs in the government. If we held a referendum on the topic tomorrow, it would probably be the biggest voter turnout Japan has ever seen.
South Korea is basically the same, albeit with even more sexual assaults than we have to deal with.
Oh man, imagine if 50,000 JSDF troops were stationed in the US or something.
They are largely in Okinawa. As a resident of Japan, from my observations:
Assaulting the locals, murdering the locals, sexually assaulting the locals, getting very loudly drunk and doing one of the previous, getting very drunk and driving in local towns, dropping things from helicopters on local schools.
They also do joint drills with the Japanese Self-Defense Force, but a lot of those drills are not functionally very useful given Article 9 of our constitution. Technically we changed our position towards collective self-defense (to allow it) a few years back, but it has never come up in an actual engagement.
They did some assistance during the Fukushima disaster to be fair (about 20% of the troops stationed), but the vast majority didn't. Many of them were focused on evacuating their own families stationed in Japan, which accounts for another 7000 people not included in that 50,000 number. Those that did assist explicitly did not go anywhere near the areas that needed the most help (like Fukushima itself).
"145 members of special units called the Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF) were dispatched to Japan, but their activities were limited to outside the 80-km radius from the Fukushima nuclear power plant; they went back home after staying for three weeks without doing anything other than waiting at the far area from the nuclear power plant."
Short Answer: Nothing Useful.
The 50,000 we have here is actually all US troops, nothing UN-related about them. We just are that heavily occupied. It is consistently the single biggest topic for Okinawan politics because of all the problems they cause locally.
Their example of a free country is one that still practices slave labour, I think we have very different working definitions of free.