Not just “to an extent.” Randomised Controlled Trials (lotteries) are the gold standard for evaluating policy. The political optics for the general public unfortunately aren’t great, but the resulting data will be much more ironclad to refute anyone who argues for repealing such a scheme in the future.
Bloomberg is stock market brained, but more generally China’s extremely high savings rate is regarded as a bad thing, because this is usually due to the combination of high income inequality, low social safety nets, and high housing costs.
Basically, there are too many poor households in China that are saving excessively due to anxieties about lack of safety nets and high housing costs.
Low education/financial literacy and poor regulation of financial markets also make Chinese households very risk averse to consuming, investing, or even taking out loans (credit cards are very unpopular). Everyone is just excessively dumping their savings in assets perceived to be safe.
Once savings are in “safe” assets, they are inaccessible to other productive uses like startups or other loans. This is the exact opposite of a productive economy, and is what the article tried to convey.
China’s high savings: Drivers, prospects, and policy implications - ScienceDirect - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1566014125001049
Thee following are more little/no dialogue for the purposes of Immersion, rather than subtitled
Tunica is an unapologetically difficult isometric action/puzzle game
Animal Well is a metroidvania with little/no dialogue
Other similar games are Fez, Hyper Light Drifter
Except that as part of its enshittification Spotify has intentionally changed its algo to push people into more and more homogenous “beige”, nothing music. It has become so prolific that Spotifycore has become a term to describe what happens when you let Spotify autoplay.
With the rise of AI, Spotify is now producing and recommending beige music that is produced on an industrial scale, at the expense of actual artists.
Mood Machine go brrr
Mood Machine by Liz Pelly review – a savage indictment of Spotify | Music books | The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/05/mood-machine-by-liz-pelly-review-a-savage-indictment-of-spotify
(which they for some reason keep electing)
Japan’s voting system is FPTP for rural seats, but proportional for urban seats. This means that not only do conservatives sweep rural seats, but also split the urban seats, which would usually would otherwise to progressives under a full FPTP system. This toxic mix has been a longstanding issue in their politics.
Not sure of your specific needs, but I feel that self hosting (i.e. setting up a proper server) is unnecessary. Just pick a local first program and use it with syncthing.
The usual trio (which may be overkill) are Obsidian (admittedly not open source), Trillium, and logseq.
FYI logiops is smaller, and simpler daemon for Logitech devices. In my experience, it has more features and is less prone to breakage. Downside is no GUI, and everything is done via (a fairly simple imo) config file
Logiops
https://github.com/PixlOne/logiops
Solaar Vs Logiops
The timing is worse than that. The study was only released in 2014, but it used data from 1981-2002, nearly 3 decades ago.
Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/abs/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B
Slow cookers are terrible. The long drawn out cooking process destroys the texture and taste of food and turns everything into a homogeneous slop. So much time and energy usage for such mediocre payoff. And fundamentally not different to just baking stuff in an oven for a long time.
The real tip is to get a pressure cooker instead. Almost every slow cooker recipe can be easily adapted to a pressure cooker, for a significant savings in time, energy, and improvement in taste and texture. Even if you get anxious about pressure cookers, most pressure cookers have a slow cook function as well.
Usual suspects
South Korea is infamous for very high cost of living, especially considering the very low salaries.
You can check numbeo for more specific comparisons, but Seoul and Busan are only 20% and 30% cheaper in terms of cost of living compared to Atlanta GA, respectively. Not nearly enough to make up the salary difference.
The fact there there are migrant workers already tells you the situation. People’s behaviour generally follow economic incentives. There’s a reason why South Korea is struggling with emigration.
Because money, sadly.
An automotive factory worker averages around $25/hour in the US, or an annual salary of around 50K.
An automotive factory worker in South Korea averages around 17,000 KRW/hour, or an annual salary of around 36 mil KRW, which is roughly $12/hour or 25K annual.
No need for any new extensions. Just add a new uBlock filter for AI slop.
Date rapists in shambles
For context, these containers are really popular for storing drugs like GHB
Ben Garrison’s comic of Greta Thunberg getting spanked (spoiler for your protection):
Get diagnosed, and if applicable, treatment ASAP. In a very loose way, early intervention can “cure” ADHD.
Children’s brains have much higher levels of neuroplasticity, and can therefore “learn” and rewire their brains’ reward systems to be similar to those of neurotypicals. There is evidence that with early intervention and treatment, this is sufficient enough that children with ADHD can grow up into adults that are well functioning enough to no longer require as much treatment/medication, if at all.
If your online content is audio or video then you can replace the default subtitle track with nonsense. This is because AI scrapers generally only check the default subtitle track to understand audio or video.
The process would be more difficult with text or image content, but you can still apply the same principles.
Poisonining AI with “.ass” subtitles:
Someone (allegedly) fucked the principal’s dog
Immich users flag Google sites as dangerous