Notices by Kotaro (kotaro@kotaro.me)

@madeindex One of my co-workers is a pachinko addict who has created a debt to keep playing. I asked him, "Do you owe anyone money?" “Have you ever borrowed money to play pachinko?" When I asked him via line messenger, he was furious and stopped responding, saying, "Don't meddle anymore about my debts.”

Good evening fedi's.
My colleague who created the debt hated me because I persistently questioned him about the debt.
But I don't have a choice. I can't be too friendly with the people who created the debt.

There are fewer homeless people in Japan than in other countries.
This is because people like the yakuza kidnap homeless people and lock them up in small rooms together, apply for disability pensions and public assistance on their behalf, and then exploit some of the money.

Hello, everyone at fedi.
Well, well. The US presidential election is looking grim so far.

I can understand pornography, but I cannot understand romance.

When most men imagine "romance," even if they are old men, they can't start a story unless the partner is a little girl in her early twenties.

That's why I stopped being exposed to the culture of the category of romance.

Can there be no justice anywhere?
Should we set sail on an adventurous voyage to become pirate kings?

If these billionaires are repeatedly dishonest, isn't it like they are encouraging many others to commit crimes?

@FlashMobOfOne Unlike the case in the U.S., most of the recent robberies here in Japan have been committed by someone advertising jobs in media such as X, and those who applied for them were robbed of their personal information and blackmailed into becoming the perpetrators. In addition, some of those who have carried out robberies have turned themselves in to the police.
What does that mean? It means that they are not enough to pull off the heist on their own.

So when I hear reports of these criminals, I don't think of them as strangers.
They surely saw that they were in a position where they would not be rewarded much for their efforts.
They are scoundrels, yes, but they are just surviving this capitalism full of deceit and fiction in a different way than I am.

My family is not rich, including my father, so I am in favor of a wealth tax.

@3dcandy And in the case of Apple products, many suppliers own those parts.

@3dcandy How about ruggedness?
I have never met a machine more resistant to failure than the Apple product line.

I have talked about the appeal of the Linux OS, but when it comes to hardware, Apple products are the best.

@3dcandy Hmmm. Yes, I know Intel machines are easier to replace SSDs and batteries.

Is it true that Oracle's chairman is willing to go for surveillance capitalism?
It's a shame because I was almost becoming a believer in Oracle.
But behold! There are billionaires in the West who are seriously planning to do what China's ruling politicians are doing!

On the other hand, some businesses are out of the mainstream and just throwing money away.
Just like cryptocurrencies and metaverse.
Google doesn't care about those.

I have said it here before, X is “OnlyFans” for Elon.

My vision of a world where diversity is respected is not an X-like ecosystem where all people have to be outraged in some way and spread their impulses.

For example, China is a despotic country, so when we think of ordinary citizens in the suburbs of China, we are likely to have the prejudice that "they are not living a modern life."
But this is not the case. There are ordinary Asians and their normal daily lives.