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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I am already paying google enough with my personal information. They will not extract more value from me without putting at least a fight.
I completely understand why people would pay, especially if there is no other option to not get ads, but I don't want to pay Google any cents for a service they would be happy to provide for free for influence.
It has negative externalities (Google "lose" money and free video is... un-impacted in the long run) but I value those infinitely less than my attention span.