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To tell you the truth, this is more serious than other issues.

Now, I hear that some young people can make a reports by a smart-phone, however, they form only a small part. I think I need time to reach the level.

For example, what time should we have waited for starting even the email emergency service at my daughter's element school ?

Because we cannot start the service even if one person cannot use a email system.

It cannot be helped, concerning the service nature.

Our nation is proud of the high literacy rate, so we can bounce out with "it is your own responsibility"

However, we cannot say "what you cannot use e-mail is your own responsibility" because our nation doesn't have the high quality IT literacy, (Especially for elder people)

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Thus, my daughter should wait for the time that pencils, brush-pens and notebooks become things of the past, in order to submit her homework written on WP.

She must throws up it.

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Now I assure that there is no possibility that companies need a person who cannot use WP or spreadsheet on PC.

It is likely that a company tries to hire an "illiterate people",

I hear the story that more and more students become not to be able to use PC.

However, young people can use smart-phone easily, so I think I don't have to worry about the above problem. (I remember that my upper generation's anti-PC-lsm was really tremendous)

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"Sunk-Cost Fallacy" is that,

(1)even if there is no method and expectation to resolve a problem that stares their in the face, in the future,

(2)they will do at the risk of their life against a lucky that even they don't know, and

(3)the continues the present situation thoughtlessly

And as a result

(4)They might come to be ruined. for example, loss of face, bankruptcy and suicide.

Anyway this is absolutely tragedy.

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Though there are some categories, for example, "public and private", or "trivial or severe", the world is made with a lot of "Sunk-Cost Fallacy".

We are destined to not be able to escape from this tragedy.

No matter how big the sunk cost is, we should not go beyond the cost the tragedy (bankruptcy, suicide) "logically"

On the other hand, we can not look at the result (the total amount of damage) of "sunk cost" directly.

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Therefore,

Only two solutions that the heroin "Suzu" could accept, are

(1)Japan would win in the Pacific War

or

(2)She was killed by the War

I thought that.

(To be continued)

(Continuation from yesterday)

To change the subject, I was asked from my family about the change of smartphone.

Basically, I could accept to change them because of the hardware damage and degradation of performance, however I was very surprised to read the bill of estimation of the major carrier.

"I wasn't born yesterday!"

When I read the price, I almost said that

I use a discount smartphone, so I thought that was more than two thousands yen per month than that I expected.

"Can you explain the significant of two thousand yen, and totally twenty-four thousand yen per a year?"

When I asked my wife, she answered,

"Yes. that is for a shop that works as a collaborator for my smartphone trouble"

Certainly, about "discount smartphone", we have to make a contract with a carrier company by ourselves by the Internet. Even if the trouble happens, "self-help" is principle.

The means, we are expected to help ourselves by our efforts, and to tell you the truth, Quality of Service is extremely low.

Therefore, they can provide us with the discount smartphone,

Ebata:"The two thousand yen the insurance cost pays for you ?"

"Pays for me"

She declared.

(To be continued)

(Continuation from yesterday)

I am going to show you to a mail from a reader of my diary, by the person's express consent.

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Dear Mr.Ebata

There are two colleagues who have a car with the level 2 of automatic driving certification.

Both of them has been impressed by the automatic driving on a high-way.

"No fatigue, after all"

The cars should run on the slowest speed lane, because of the legal speed.

However, they have been satisfied with the functions perfectly.

They cannot feel tired at all.

"Run faster? passing lane? What is good for ?"

I heard that the auto driving functions make them do some rethinking themselves.

In conclusion, you are right, I think,

From the viewpoint of fatigue, setting someone's nerves on edge against speed, is in vain.

I hope you will buy Nissan Reaf by royalty on a book, and must try the car.

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After reading the above mail, my first impression, is "Why can I get royalty because I have not write any book".

Anyway, I am afraid that "auto driving cars will kill people at first".

However, I think that it is far less than the number of people killed by "tailgating" or "driving by the elderly".

(To be continued)

I've completed registration for all of my family's Miner Points(My Number card-based cashless payment services) (\5,000 per person) (only my senior daughter seems to be working hard to make it through on her own).

I'll take whatever "my country gives me".

I have a card reader on my home PC, characteristically masterful

However, it was rather troublesome that the points for the family could not be thrown together into one credit card. Well, I think it's "natural" from the point of view of security and fraud measures.

Therefore, for families other than me, I threw them on a commuter pass (PASMO).

However, PASMO needed preliminary registration in advance and I didn't notice it, so it was pretty wasteful.

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Nevertheless, "the administration is working hard to make this system easy to use,

But, unfortunately, I'm a systems engineer, so I understand that, I think.

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My senior daughter had something interesting to say.

"In short, the government is training the people to improve their IT literacy."

Certainly, if all the people can use My Number Card freely, the current administrative window work can be less than half (intuitively).

This is a bright future, where we can expect a dynamic change in the social security budget.

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Even so, if "the government is training to improve the IT literacy of the people," I would like to say, "First of all, what should I do with IT education?"

There still seem to be a lot of stupid schools that ban smartphones from bringing them to school (yes, they're surprisingly close to me).

"It's the opposite isn't it?"

I think that it is really dangerous if we do not immediately start the educational curriculum that uses smartphones as "teaching materials" during classes.

From my point of view, it is clear that the administration (MEXT, etc.) is turning in that direction.

However, useless old without IT literacy(on-site teachers and PTAs) are hindering it.

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As I said, it is certain that I will eventually join the useless old

In the near future, I will be treated as a nuisance by society, which will be incredibly inconvenient and extremely unpleasant.

Still, at least I'm prepared to "put up with them" so as not to "get in the way of the next generation".

My senior daughter completed her second dose of the new corona vaccine today at the Self-Defense Forces Tokyo Large Scale Vaccination Center in Otemachi, and the entire Ebata family has completed its vaccination mission.

At this point, she seems to have "no" adverse reactions.

She said, "Sometimes I notice palpitations".

Well, I think the reactions will start tomorrow, and I have no intention of relaxing the Ebata family's measures against household infection.

Vaccination can only reduce the probability of infection or illness (especially severe illness), and low resistance to mutant strains is also a concern.

Still, I feel a bit "relieved".

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I remember that when my wife and I were both getting our second dose of vaccinations, the woman sitting next to us was acting strange.

Her face was bright red, had a scared expression on her face, and she tightened her body, so I thought, "Anaphylaxis is coming?" I was about in a position to support her body.

However, I noticed, that

"Huh? She is not injected yet, isn't her?"

I don't know if the woman was afraid of the shots or the vaccination, however, she was terribly afraid.

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Anaphylaxis can also be triggered by psychological factors.

I just did a search on one of the reports for "anaphylaxis" and "psychogenic" and found that 22 out of 44 reports were determined to be "psychogenic reactions".

I can't judge the whole case by this one, but I was surprised by the large number, 'still 50%'.

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The mind and body are inseparable entities.

I remember being shocked when I actually calculated the number of young women dying from mental illness (anorexia, etc.) on my computer.

Anorexia is killing more young women than coronavirus (at the moment).

That aside.

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-- "Dispelling fear" is needed to increase vaccination rates.

I came to confirm that this was the case.

But I also know that science and logic have a hard time competing with emotions like fear.

I'm thinking, "What can I do?

My weekends are sometimes busier than weekdays.

The reasons are for a deadline for column, and for programming, with the ease of not interruptions.

So, the peak of my fatigue comes to Monday morning --- it is an "exhaustion".

So recently, on Monday morning, I go to a super public bath, taking a sauna and fixing my stiff shoulders.

Remote work, hurrah!

In the restaurant of the super public bath, the dishes are delicious. I enjoy eating "Soba" at the restaurant.

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"Taking a bath, and eating soba"

However, I don't want to pretend "Edokko".

Soba is delicious in Kanto area.

This may be because I am from a rural area.

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Udon is delicios around Nagoya city where my country house is.

However, I don't know of any 'good soba restaurants' around my parents' house -- or rather, I can't think of any soba restaurants around my parents' house.

Then, how about Kyoto when I was a student?

Yeah, when I was a student, I only ate ramen, beef bowls and ginger-yaki set meals, so neither udon nor soba noodles come to mind.

In contrast, in the Kanto region, even the standing-only soba restaurants are delicious enough.

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Speaking of food -- I had a really hard time getting "natto" in the U.S., and in the landlocked state of Colorado.

For the first time in my life, I had to rely on the power of the "Japanese community" in a foreign country.

I had to be prepared to "give up my isolation" for the sake of "natto".

This is "living in a foreign country" in a sense.

Now let's return to the main subject.

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As a matter of course, good soba is expensive.

I want to eat delicious soba, but I am not willing to pay exorbitant prices for it.

However, I will not be making my own soba. Because anyone who gets into soba making (as far as I know, without exception) becomes a jerk.

If they start talking about "the water," "the temperature," or "the way to make", I'm going to cut them off in zero seconds.

Anyway, I like soba.

With the death of the president of a company that trains idols and offers them to the market, his "sex crimes" have been revealed -- I will refer to them as "sex crimes" because the term "sexual assault" does not feel right to me.

It is often said that if a person in power does not die, the crimes of that person in power will not come to light.

Because to defy them during the lifetime of those in power puts one's social or physical survival at risk.

However, the dead authority is not otherwise disadvantaged, only disgraced.

Only the victims are left behind.

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There are many worlds where not only those in power but also those in authority have to die before they can move.

One of these is the scientific community.

Science is a process of hypothesis, experiment, verification, and evaluation, which seems to have nothing to do with the secular world, but this is not so.

The ones I know of, geocentric theory, evolution, quantum mechanics, and the cosmic Big Bang theory, can be raised.

It is challenging for someone considered a significant expert in their field to advocate new theories unless they have died.

"If you go against the landlord's opinion, you will be hung out to dry in that field."

and

"If they dry up, they won't be able to eat."

If Darwin had not been an unearned (rich) man who fed on his parents' wealth, the theory of evolution might never have been published to the world.

Even science, whose "selling point" is "objectivity," is this secular.

It is no wonder that people in the entertainment field are disciplined by those in power.

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Well, if one asks what is the significance of revealing the actions of those in power who continued to commit such sexual crimes daily and thoroughly criticizing them, I think

"Preventing the creation of a second authority who does the same (uses privileged position to repeat sex crimes routinely)"

Let me put it in one word.

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Well, that aside, I have no idea why a corporate entity that had such a routine sexual predator at its head is still in existence.

Normally, I think the only option is 'voluntary closure of the business' by the corporate body itself -- am I missing something?