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December 2021 to October 2022. 103 yen to 149 yen.

Sorry for overestimating. It was only 10 months. :)

Food prices have shot up an insane amount. I was getting milk for 130 yen a carton 3 years ago and now it's 230 and up. Wheat is virtually all imported and prices for that are incredibly high. Even when food is produced locally (only about 38% self-sufficiency rate--most are exports[1]), it depends on foreign materials. e.g. Animals are fed imported grains, plants use imported fertilizers, manufacturing depends on imported materials.

The biggest complaint from Japanese Japanese (not expats paid in USD) is that food prices have blown up tremendously. It's literally daily headline news. But yeah yeah, the underclass is only complaining about their Apple hardware prices.

[1] https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/editorial/yomiuri-editorial/...

Japan is an import-dependent company. Fuel and food are mostly imports, so that hurts everyone.

And export oriented companies are making money. But trickle down economics is a myth, so it's not benefitting the workers. The executives are doing nicely so good for them I suppose.

Because it already collapsed a year ago. Look at 5 years.

The Japanese folks I’ve spoken to are pretty grumbly about the weak yen, though.

Your money losing half its value in about a year tends to do that.

I couldn't even get Google Gemini to generate a picture of, verbatim, "a man eating". It gave me a long winded lecture about how it's offensive and I should consider changing my views on the world. It does this with virtually any topic.

I didn't say it outweighs anything else. You're inventing an argument in your head. Settle down.

The article that's being discussed.

I feel like I'm the only person here who read it.

The first paragraph of the article is about doing this to harvest flowers for economic reasons, so a significant amount of the nutrients are being removed from the waterways and wrapped in plastic to be sold. (unfortunately, this experiment was also done on top of beds of floating plastic)

Hopefully someday we can move beyond the desire for grass lawns, since that's where a lot of this waste is coming from.

My biggest worry is the direction Valve will take post-Gabe. I really hope he's got his Tim Cook-equivalent lined up. Someone who won't try to shake up the company too much and just keep things going how they are. All it takes is one (1) MBA to come in and do what they do and destroy everything Valve has built up for short term gains.

Lord of the Rings had a budget in the high millions and took years to make with a massive advertising campaign.

Riots happen due to out of context video clips. Violence happens due to people seeing grainy phone videos and acting on it immediately. We're reaching a point where these videos can be automatically generated instantly by anyone. If you can't see the difference between anyone with a grudge generating a video that looks realistic enough, and something that requires hundreds of millions of dollars and hundreds of employees to attain similar quality, then you're simply lying.

Don't worry. Give it a year or so and this feature will also be removed and all videos that used it silently delisted from search and recommendations.

These were the exact two I had in mind. I never used default wallpapers aside from these two.

I think a lot of these issues could be "solved" by lowering the resolution, using a low quality compression algorithm, and trimming clips down to under 10 seconds.

And by solved, I mean they'll create convincing clips that'll be hard for people to dismiss unless they're really looking closely. I think it's only a matter of time until fake video clips lead to real life outrage and violence. This tech is going to be militarized before we know it.

I find paper to be the best way to keep track of checklists and information that I'm actively working on, or long term continuous work. Digital is best for information I'll need to search through quickly or access large amounts of at any time.

Sketching out ideas for something I'll build over the weekend: paper. A list of things I need to get done and chip away at over the next 2 months: paper. A complicated web of info that I might need just a part of at some indeterminate point in the future: digital.

This man's stories sound fitting of a president.

One thing I miss about high school was being around guys like this. There was always some dude who said he secretly had a top secret mission to Afghanistan over the summer and the military was begging him to officially join when he turned 18. It's interesting how no matter where you are in the US, there's a guy with a similar backstory of being a total badass who chooses to be humble and normal because the world couldn't handle his true power.

Home ownership and prices have no effect on people having kids. Income does. You'll find loads of kids in low income areas but far fewer in middle income areas.

Everyone online complains about wealth being the reason they won't have kids, but it's not the case. Once people make one step up in their career, they want to make another and kids become an impediment. No matter the country, you'll find higher numbers of kids when people (and especially women) are deprived of education and work opportunities. Then you also have eccentric billionaires that have a dozen kids, but they're statistically irrelevant.

If you want families to have kids, cut wages, don't let women work, cram them into undesirable homes, and most importantly, ignore people who say they'd have kids if only they made a little more money. They won't stop once they get a taste of better living. They'll be very stressed out people, but they'll have kids.

Companies don't care about threats to world peace. They cared that China locked down cities, their factories, and exports. If world peace were their concern, there are a lot of countries they'd refuse to do business with. They usually only stamp their feet and whine when countries do things that affect their profit margins, like push for increased wages, environmental regulations, and locking up a factory to prevent disease spread.

One thing to keep in mind: a few years ago, South Korea with North Korea to allow corporations to do manufacturing in North Korea. [1] The result: mega corporations like Korea's Hyundai and Japan's Family Mart flooded in to take advantage of cheap (probably even slave) labor. It closed not because companies felt morally wrong about it--it closed because the governments forced it to close.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaesong_Industrial_Region

A lot of the "it's time we moved away from China" corporations are moving their manufacturing from the authoritarian communist country of China to... the authoritarian communist country of Vietnam. Vietnam has loose regulations due to being undeveloped and seeking business just like China was 30 years ago. In a decade MBAs will be amazed when they find out Vietnam exerts total absolute control of their businesses just like China does.

Manufacturing hubs are shifting hands, but globalism isn't ending. Companies can still get away with paying $10 a day or less to people in some countries and they're never giving that up.

but they make native apps for everything else.

They do. But it's difficult to call anything they make "smooth." Google does some decent backend stuff but their frontend experience is not.

If that were to be the reasoning, the least they could do is provide 2 ports on phones so nobody needs a dongle to listen while charging.

You're correct. The other poster is thinking being one of the safest forms of transportation in terms of disastrous accidents == safest state of existence, which is a big misunderstanding.

The creepiness is something nobody ever seems to mention about The Far Side and that's my biggest lasting impression of the comics. They're deeply unsettling and have a weird uncanny valley feeling to me.

That's not to say they're bad. But something about them always has a tinge of horror to me.

Macaroons and macarons are both cookies. They're both desserts as well.

488 people for a country of nearly 1.5 billion is a pretty slim number. The US has 6x the death row inmates despite having less than 1/4 the population.

India is pretty far behind the rest of the world, but to be fair, they were enslaved for centuries then dropped and left to build a society from scratch less than a century ago. There are going to be problems, but on many fronts, India is doing better than a lot of countries in some aspects. Instead of comparing them to Western/Central Europe, it's better to compare them to other countries in their class. Countries in Central America, Subsaharan Africa, etc.

As someone who just visited a few weeks ago, one thing really impressed me about India: government hospitals provide free service. I had a medical emergency, a total foreigner who pays no taxes, and they helped me without hesitation in my time of need and refused to take a single cent. That's something I can truly admire about their country and something the world could learn from India.

A lot of people, including young people, throughout Asia don't have computers. A large number of working adults our age (however old you may be) don't touch desktop or laptop computers at all on their day to day. A huge number of people only have phones in their home and only use phones for their work. Plenty of companies also use tablets with specialized apps in places where a western company would use a PC. Finding 20-30 somethings in Asia who are educated and employed who don't know how to use a mouse isn't uncommon. I've encountered it loads of times with new employees in various offices.

I think for "power users" or people who buy/receive devices often, it's easy to have way too many chargers. A lot of other people buy a new phone every 3-5 years, and by that point, your cables are probably worn out and your charger might even be broken and some of them lost. Older chargers also operate at a much lower wattage, and with batteries getting bigger, charging time will be dramatically longer for people still using old ones (assuming they're even compatible, since not everything used USB3 a few years ago).

Who knows why they're on those lists. A lot are their for starting fights in airports and other stuff.

Whatever it is, being banned from an airplane is better than being arrested and serving several years for liking a facebook post saying "king dum thums up if u agree" as actually happens in Thailand.

consider what ideas, events or people your own democratic state considers illegal to "defame, insult, or threaten"

For Americans at least, such a concept thankfully doesn't exist. Threats can be a crime under certain circumstances, but being a specific individual doesn't really make it worse and they're only a crime when it's something fairly tangible. You can say you hate the president and you're going to kick his ass. Lots of people say this daily. Secret Service only shows up when you threaten to kill him because there are plenty of people who actually make efforts to do it--and even then, you could probably be an idiot and jokingly post it without any problem so long as it doesn't seem like a tangible threat. Other police will stop by if you threaten to do the same to non-political individuals for the same reasons.

It always blows my mind when the people who most complain about other countries for restricting freedoms (not that they shouldn't complain--they should) always give Thailand a free pass and praise it thoroughly.

Of all the places I've been in Asia, Thailand was the scariest. Police are more than happy to screw over people, especially foreigners. Other countries give small slaps on the wrist or just kick you out if you're a foreigner. Thailand is a country that literally arrests people for posting negative hotel reviews. Aside from North Korea and Myanmar, no other place in the eastern half of Asia comes down so hard for minor stuff (and that includes the big totalitarian neighbor to the north).

I always advise people to avoid the country entirely. Not worth the risk.