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session6 OP t1_ja7d8ld wrote

This is a photo taken in a smoking room in a Japanese bar. The top left says 'Do you know the ways tobacco taxes are used?' bottom right 'tobacco raises 2billion yen (~$20b) it is used by the government to enrich the lives of the people.' underneath that is the logo and name of the national tobacco association.

N.b: I have paraphrased theranslation to make it fit better.

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CmdrSelfEvident t1_ja79zns wrote

This is a just a computer failing to boot because the hard disk has at least an error if not completely failed. This is actually rather common for embedded systems. Most people and companies don't realize how crap disks are over the long term. They will all die sooner or later especially if they don't take specific measures to limit their use, eg read only.

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