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New comment by tsudonym in "Pilot narrowly avoids 'midair collision' with US Air Force plane near Venezuela"

tsudonym — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:33:21 +0000

Even Iran and Israel filed NOTAMs during their war in June

New comment by tsudonym in "The U.S. needs a shipbuilding revolution"

tsudonym — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:39:51 +0000

Cool. Japan will then not work on US Navy ships because it's a national security threat. Good luck.

New comment by tsudonym in "The U.S. needs a shipbuilding revolution"

tsudonym — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:59:05 +0000

Biden considered Nippon Steel a national security threat so the Japanese are going to raise an eyebrow when the US Navy begs them to work on actual military ships

New comment by tsudonym in "Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy"

tsudonym — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 15:21:43 +0000

I'm extremely pro-rail but Portland is not the city to bash for short haul domestic flights.

Amtrak Cascades is very popular for trips to Seattle.

New comment by tsudonym in "The size of BYD's factory"

tsudonym — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 14:55:54 +0000

Not a great take - those factories are foreign owned ICE car factories. Hyundai basically underestimated how fast China's EV transition would be.

That's good news for China, full speed domestic EV production.

New comment by tsudonym in "Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines"

tsudonym — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 02:23:48 +0000

This will especially useful for struggling rural Japanese train lines in the future. Nice.

New comment by tsudonym in "South Korea: The only middle power of its kind"

tsudonym — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 15:28:24 +0000

Japan has Apple Pay Suica that worked on my US iPhone, Korea required me to keep a physical T-money card at all times.

This may change like next year but Japan has had a 5 year head start. https://www.imore.com/apple-pay-coming-korea-part-k-new-deal...

Japan has updated their taxis since 2017 - roll out has been slow but I've rode in them multiple times as a tourist since then. https://global.toyota/en/jpntaxi/

I love Seoul for it's nightlife/cheaper restaurants, but I can't help but notice that it once tried to be an urban sprawling American city. It's just not as pedestrian friendly as Japanese cities, and I find myself taking more cabs than I would in Tokyo despite the Seoul metro being world class.

The cheonggyecheong stream used to be a disgusting urban highway and I'm sure there are plenty more. https://www.landscapeperformance.org/case-study-briefs/cheon...

New comment by tsudonym in "Investigating why McDonald's ice cream machines are often broken [video]"

tsudonym — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 14:15:14 +0000

Please switch to Nissei ice cream machines. Anyone who's been a tourist to Japan to attest to how good fast food soft serve is over there. This is why. https://www.nissei.nl/en/products/soft-serve-machines