Apart from a small part of the Seibu Shinjuku line (Nakai-Numabukuro) aren't most track changes planned or in construction ground level tracks being elevated? AFAIK the Odakyu rises again after Shimokitazawa?

There's a few more going down but you're right, sadly, more are going up. That's nice when riding but mostly sucks if you live near them.

CDG in Paris did not need me to take out the laptops, so I'm not sure it's the EU fault for Schiphol

Yeah I was confused, it was the new liquid rules that were a problem. Sorry.

I'm glad the laptops can still stay. I don't travel with liquids so much (I just have toiletries at the places I go to already) but electronics I have a lot.

Yeah, I saw your other comment just after posting. I didn't know there was a movement to increase the volume for liquids. Hope it gets done soon

Well, you might assume that they only get hurt once. Maybe it would make their co-conspirators re-evaluate their actions too...

There are tons of stories of people being forced doing acts they did not sign for, and plenty of unsavory or illegal practices in the industry. Is all porn unethical? No, of course not, but there is still enough that you have a very serious chance of stumbling upon "not-ethically sourced" porn on a regular basis.

> Anyone who served in the IDF or spoke positively of a successful attack of Israel against Palestine is a legitimate military target and not a journalist?

This very specific point is made almost always by Hamas and co to justify indiscriminate firing of rockets into populated areas. "No civilians because everyone has done military time or is a reservist, even women" is a very, very common point.

In both cases, it's post-hoc reasoning to justify something they would have done regardless.

People in France who buy Comics/BD have a completely different aesthetic sense than manga buyers. There is almost no overlap, and manga buyers I know do not even register Comics/BD as an option. Comic artists are also usually very much against the manga aesthetics and seem to go for (imho) ugly designs to differentiate themselves.

I know a lot of people who read both, it’s not some sort of mutually exclusive tastes. It’s just that they are really different products that only share the fact that they are a succession of drawings arranged to tell a story. Basically everything else is different.

Even assuming that is true, I believe that comics could be more successful if they changed their character designs to make them more appealing to look at.

Let's just not forget that the US bombed Iraq (including its civilian infrastructure!) so much during the 13 previous years, and also imposed sanctions that delayed any Iraqi recovery. Ukraine, despite its obvious problems is not in this situation. Russia would have probably been able to decapitate the Ukr gov in a week in 2014, though.

Russians living in London and Paris are already the most anti-Putin/United Russia electorate. We would be hitting at the pro-West and westernized Russians, not to mention that we would have to carve exceptions all the time for political dissidents fleeing Russia. The second main reason is that it would remove the need for Putin to impose capital controls since the main place these funds would go are western banks. I understand the sentiment and why this might sound a good idea, but it would be very counterproductive.

What do you want them to do? Just go rot in Moscow's prisons? You clearly over-estimate the level of leverage the citizenship has over its government, even in democracies. This is not a democracy.

On that note, do you also want to sanction the Syrian refugees? They're not personally storming the presidential palace over Damascus.

We are in such a bind almost only because the geniuses in charge of climate and energy policy in Germany thought it was a good idea to close all their nuclear capacity and replace it with intermittent renewables. The instability was to be plugged with cheap russian gas imports. The solution is not clean wind and solar (which will fail when you get less wind and less sun, as in last September for example), but nuclear and mass electrification of heating systems.

If you don't view any ads, Google doesn't make any money off your personal information. Essentially all data collecting only exists to tailor specific ads to people they think will find them relevant so they can justify charging more for them.

Sure, but they are still collecting anyway despite them having been unable to put an ad in front of my eyes for several years now. I understand they are probably just doing it "in case of", but the more paranoid part of myself is wondering if that's all there is.