@BudoNick Some of us work remotely for non-Japanese companies and have to adjust our schedules accordingly. Enjoy your rest.

@Elainebks @Scott_Wortley I confess I could not immediately see how to do so. Their website left me none the wiser. I will have another look when I have time.

@DytrykJesionek @davidwengrow @clintballinger @karlfrankjr "...a complete refutation of all the erroneous statements regarding historical linguistics forwarded by Demoule would be a book in itself."

@legalstyleblog @MagnaAulae @2D0XPS It is worth reading the judgment I suggest.

@legalstyleblog @MagnaAulae @2D0XPS That isn't his claim. Ja'far al-Sadiq was the sixth imam. The disagreement is the identity of the seventh and successive imams after that.

@ProfRobAnderson My mother, working as a history teacher, told her students once "I didn't get an O-level in history". They gasped and said "does <headmistress> know?". She had a Geography degree.

@2D0XPS @legalstyleblog No. It means designation. There is much controversy about how it works, eg Ja'far al-Sadiq designated his son, who designated his own successor and then died before his father who himself designated someone else. This is the origin of the Twelver/Isma'ili split.

@Scott_Wortley One reason for my scepticism about law degrees is that I have read many legal textbooks and the authors usually fail to bother to check their sources and produce garbage.

@Scott_Wortley For example, I would not dream of giving advice on the GDPR without having the text open in front of me while I did so, even though I have memorised great swathes of it. That is not good enough.

@Scott_Wortley On this I agree (disagreeing with your analysis of the origins). It is worse than that. There's a systematic failure even to engage with the text of relevant case law (and sometimes that is "the source"). A vague memory of the statute is treated as sufficient.

@Scott_Wortley Another thought: As I recall, I could not have worked as a Parliamentary Drafter because I did not have a law degree, and yet we have the execrable state of primary legislative drafting.

@Scott_Wortley Yet, somehow, I managed to get an LLM despite having "only" done a diploma in law before that. My experience of law graduates is that they do not outshine non-law graduates amongst the lawyers I work with. Maybe the best go into academia?

@Tokyonobo Kagoshima extends quite a bit further South, right into the Pacific, and includes some lovely islands with striking scenery.

@atrupar To be fair, he's warned BRICS not to get out of line (. South Korea and Japan have been criticised as well. It seems that everyone is out of line.

@Ubique2078 @IGMansfield Also worth saying that "equal value" goes back at least 55 years (Equal Pay Act 1970) so is hardly a recent innovation.

@Ubique2078 @IGMansfield I remember a senior engineer telling me that when pay scales were fixed by a point system (as they still are in many places) you would add extra points for manual labour *in order* to make sure men had higher pay than women. Equal pay law was introduced partly to stop that.

@yuanyi_z Are you a CCP agent? You don't seem very on message but maybe that's all part of the subtle plan. Cunning of you to get a job as an assistant professor though.

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@BudoNick I was actually surprised to be called a 外国人 yesterday(*). 外人 and 外人さん are pretty routine here and in my experience entirely affectionate. (*) - I'm guessing they were not from the island.