For sure, Tokyo and Hong Kong are incredibly walkable cities but not at all accessible. Though maybe it’s gotten a bit better in the last decade or so.

A disability activist in Tokyo used to document how it was nearly impossible to use basic public transportation in a wheelchair: no ramps onto buses or subways, no elevators, scary big gaps between the platform and subway car that his wheel could get stuck or fall in, et cetera.

Breaking News:

• crowd was full of people from Portland and surrounding areas, unconfirmed reports that a small handful were from Idaho.
• Felix pronounced “Oregon” incorrectly, and was jeered loudly for it.
• there was a somewhat expected extended riff on the Oregon Trail video game, and a very unexpected extended riff on the Portuguese.
• for reasons I will not divulge, Matt got incredibly excitable about fast food and made an absolutely ludicrous claim about the regional fast-casual Italian chain Fazoli’s.

All in all the experience completely exceeded my expectations.

I could potentially see a “strike” in the future against one of the uninhabited disputed island territories–not Diaoyu, one even smaller and obscure.

That’s it.

In one of my Chinese classes I learned the term dandao daodan 彈道導彈: ballistic missile. Quite a tongue twister!

It’s absolutely insane to claim that China doesn’t have the military capability to execute either an amphibious invasion, carpet the island with ICBMs, or both at the same. But why would China ever do something like that and have the entire international community turn on them when they can just opt for cold war proxy brinkmanship instead?

If I have time tomorrow I’ll give you a full report, no less than three full sentences. Watch this space!

ahh gall darn it, that just tears it doesn’t it :deeper-sadness:

should I make an announcement first–something along the lines of, “stop the show! everyone stop the show”?

clearly I’d then have to wait until the confused spotlight operator swivelled to me before making my strike.

so simple, and yet only a genius could have thought of it :sicko-beaming:

done and done

what currency are you making that offer in? I can accept clams, moola, smackers, or labor vouchers.

I know I’m almost wilfully missing the point to say this, but it’s pretty much common practice in reporting to say a given crime is at an “all-time” high without any statistical evidence. Gotta keep that suburban anxiety ramped up to justify those police budgets. It just so happened that it came back to bite them on this one.

Also, not even two decades?