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Essentially that is part the 'male sedation hypothesis'.

Due to the amount of incels or men who aren't really in relationships or even work these days, they should be causing significant social unrest as they have nothing to lose and try and overthrow the current social structure. In reality we hardly see any real violence or trouble from incels other than the odd angry rant on social media and the idea is that things like porn, video games and social media take care of the base needs just enough to stop the angry from boiling over and causing real trouble.

I agree this is an excellent book on the subject of nuclear weapons, also very well written and researched.

The Shinkansen runs the fastest Nozomi service about every ten minutes throughout the day at around 5 trains per hour on the most popular routes like Tokyo to Osaka, then during peak hours there's another 5 added in on top of that as well. Plus there are some other slower, cheaper services that run as well and some trains will be express an others stop at more stops or go to further destinations and so on.

I think altogether they probably come to one train every 3 minutes during peak times, but they are not all the same trains and don't all go to the same place and stop at the same stops. There is generally about one train every 10 minutes per platform at a station in my experience, but of course there are usually well over 20 platforms per big station, it's not like there is one platform with a train stopping every three minutes.

I would say dating apps make it much easier for queer people to find others to date as that was always a relatively limited pool to begin with so location based dating apps would really help make it easier.

However for straight people it was previously not too difficult to find a partner as there was a lot of straight people around you in most places and it was fairly easy to figure out where you stood in the dating market likely only had a handful of candidates to realistically choose from.

Dating apps have instead basically provided an overwhelming amount of choice and there is little in the way of immediate feedback in how you stand in that dating market. Men tend to become less choosy just trying their chances with as many women as possible, which then means women end up with so much incoming attention they start to increase their standards to have any attempt to filter these incoming requests.

You would need to design a system that had some kind of cost for a right swipe for men and maybe it increases in cost for each right swipe basically to force them to become more selective and not spam right swipes and maybe women would need to pay for selection filters or something.

There's different types of work, the on duty time you describe is what I would call being paid to be available to work during certain hours. My work is like this, I do 9-5 or similar hours, any jobs come into during that time, I work on them as needed. Some days are quiet, some very busy, work is somewhat elastic while time and hourly rate is fixed.

This applies to a lot of jobs these days, even from something like retail or hospitality worker or at the more extreme end you have the likes of an on call engineer or firefighter, mostly being paid to be ready to respond to the need to work, but not being guaranteed that it will happen. This type of work doesn't really respond to more hours being more productive. It may to a certain extent that if the shop is open long maybe more customers will come in but it's not guaranteed and there may be diminishing returns as you are paying employees for their time so you need to be making or saving more money having them available to work.

Most people still conceptualise work as something more like factory work or mining or labouring even something like legal work to some extent, where you have a set amount of output each hour and so more working hours should mean more production output to a certain extent. In this case work, hourly rate and time is fairly fixed and not that elastic.

Then there the type of job where the work is fixed, but the time and hourly rate can be very elastic, this is more contractor, startup, even parts of the military, where you need to complete a task or objective maybe to a deadline but the the time or cost can vary significantly depending on what's important. This is more the business owner, sole contractor or equity earning employee where they can potentially get a bigger payout by putting in more effort or else working more efficiently.

Actually it turns out the scammers just use targeted marketing data like any other business to find out who to target with their scams.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-04/scammers-using-system...

No need to have a person on the inside when they can just buy data on people who have ordered something recently and then target them with a scam text about their order.

Just waiting for the world police to go in an arrest them and hold them accountable for their crimes, I'm sure they'll get around to it after they have finished arresting all those Russians for their war crimes.

In Britain at least, a lot of the young men who fought didn't actually have a vote at that time, "Only 58% of the adult male population was eligible to vote before 1918. An influential consideration, in addition to the suffrage movement and the growth of the Labour Party, was the fact that only men who had been resident in the country for 12 months prior to a general election were entitled to vote.

This effectively disenfranchised a large number of troops who had been serving overseas in the war. With a general election imminent, politicians were persuaded to extend the vote to all men and some women at long last."

and this lead to the Fourth Reform/Representation of the People Act in 1918.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representation_of_the_People_A... https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transforming...

I think many police departments already use business intelligence systems to determine where units will be deployed based on various inputs such as intelligence reports, previous patterns etc.

Same in Australia https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-19/global-it-outage-crow...

Banks are down so petrol stations and supermarkets are basically closed. People can't check in to airline flights, various government services including emergency telephone and police are down. Shows how vulnerable these systems are if there's just one failure point taking all those down.

I've seen a lot of conspiracy types speculate that Just Stop Oil is actually a creation of the Oil companies as a controlled opposition group to basically make the climate protesters look so bad that they lose public support.

Personally, I haven't seen any compelling evidence of this, I think they really are just well meaning idiots who have no real idea or strategy of what they actually want to achieve or how to get there.

that's the great male sedation hypothesis

It's worth pointing out that this is authored by Stephen Chen who is a bit of a joke in defence news circles with a never ending supply of articles about how China has all these amazing weapons and technological advances that render the US helpless in comparison and there is one every few days or so. https://www.scmp.com/author/stephen-chen

It's also good for getting heavy metals out of the blood too.

Do they not have the hand held baskets there? In most other countries I have been too in Europe, Asia, Australia the supermarkets have both wheeled trolley and hand held baskets or even only baskets for smaller convenience type stores for those needing less items.

I have seen a bit more criticism of electric cars of late in the press and on social media, particularly in the UK, but I think that's just because of more widespread use amongst the general public. They are not electric car haters but just normal people pointing out the issues they have found. This is bound to happen as more people are now using electric cars and finding out firsthand the issues with things like relatively poor infrastructure along with a few of the other weaker points of electric cars, such as poor resale value, range fluctuations based on weather and highway inefficiency etc and a few electric car evangelist types are getting upset that not everyone thinks electric cars are perfect in every scenario.

Pilots chasing down V-1s who shot at them from directly behind would risk immediately flying at high speed into the wall of shrapnel created by blowing up essentially a large powered bomb, often destroying or damaging their own aircraft in the process, which was very dangerous.

To avoid this, some pilots developed the tactic of flying along side the V1 then using their wingtip against the V-1 wingtip they would then flip it over and off course disrupting the primitive autopilot system so it would then spiral out of the control and hit the ground and explode hopefully in relatively harmless field.

They are already doing this in the EU now (https://www.drive.com.au/news/new-cars-will-stop-drivers-fro...), albeit not with actual speed restriction as far as I know, but just bongs a warning instead.

It mainly relies on the OCR reading speed signs which most new cars have had for a while now, although as anyone who has it will know, it's not that always that great.

I have just this in my car and on one road where I live regularly that has a 60km/h limit my speed limit warning would always read 5km/h past a certain point and it took me a while to realise it was actually picking up a speed sign for 5km/h in a small car park off some way to the side.

It also has trouble with mixed speed limits that I have in my area where both speeds are on the same sign, for example some roads are 80km/h in normal conditions but 60km/h when wet or 70km/h for cars but 40km/h for trucks and buses, usually it defaults to the lower limit.

Luckily my car is a bit older so it just flashes red when you go over what it thinks is the speed limit, but more modern cars that will bong or even restrict speed would be infuriating.

There's a growing cottage industry of companies that will take older classic cars and convert them into electric cars. Obviously they don't have the range or safety of a modern electric vehicle but you can essentially customise it to your liking in every way.

Depending on whether the classic car needs any restoration it will be about as expensive as a mid to upper range electric car but as it's a classic car and most of the installs are reversible you don't have the same worries about a modern electric car being disposable junk to be discarded in 10 years, you can probably just get a new battery pack put in after 10 years or whenever and continue driving.

I also just got back from Bangkok and frankly crossing busy streets is one of the worst aspects of the place, it really makes it very difficult to easily get around on foot and you are really placing a lot of faith that drivers are actually paying attention when you step out onto a main road.

They were definitely flying drones over Iran in the recent past and probably still do https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incid...

Also there is the 'RQ180' that has been spotted flying near the Philippines that is most likely spying on China to some extent. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2021/09/07/americas-ne...

Interestingly in Japan their manufacturers all voluntarily agreed to limit their domestically produced cars to 180km/h (112mph), which has been in place for decades now.

As an Australian who did vote in this referendum, this is more or less my take as well. To me personally this one felt like it came out of nowhere, had very poor communication about what anyone was actually voting for. The Yes camp initially seemed to take it as some kind of forgone conclusion that everyone would be for it and if not you were a racist and there was no need to explain it further. When they later did start trying to explain it, they really didn't do any better and the best they seemed to come up with was, vote yes then we'll figure out what the solution looks like afterward.

Essentially this made the 'Yes' vote a vote for uncertainty and the 'No' vote a vote for certainty, which made the no vote an easy sell compared the yes vote.

I think if they had better figured out what the voice to parliament would actually be in practice then it would have been a lot easier to sell or at least deflect some of the criticism and frankly scare tactics from the no side.

Although no state is openly attempting to automate its nuclear weapons systems

What about the Perimeter/Dead Hand system from the Soviet Union/Russia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand

Apparently it was beef wellington pie https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/10/victo...

Something that's pretty easy and beneficial is to regularly donate blood, also helps to clear out things like heavy metal build up, although you might need to be careful of getting low in some like iron.

Not all jobs are productivity based, plenty are response based and you are really being paid to be available to do something within a time period if requested, regardless of whether you actually do get any requests to do something.

FYI they did sell the Volt in Australia as the Holden Volt between 2012 and 2015, they only sold 246 in that whole time though, so not a lot of choice out there on the second hand market.

The closest thing in a new car will probably be the Mazda MX30 R.EV hybrid coming to Australia in 2024, which is primarily electric drivetrain but uses a small petrol rotary engine to charger batteries as a range extender, but that is a very niche vehicle and the rotary engine isn't particularly fuel efficient on petrol use, but it is small and lightweight compared to a piston engine.

Nissans Qashqai and X-Trail hybrids also use a primarily electric drivetrain with the petrol motor only providing power to the electric drivetrain, similar but not quite the same thing as the motor is in use a lot of the time.

Which was actually a Triumph engine, although extensively revised by Saab by that stage.

Do you even swallow upside down bro?