I’m agreeing with @[email protected] that it sounds like this is just a framing thing.
Example:
Problem framing = “The rent is too damn high!”
Improvement framing = “Cost of rent needs to be made more affordable for renters”
Those are saying the same thing, but one is framed as a problem while the other is framed as an improvement is needed.
About 4 min. There’s a countdown on the screen after you pay and your order is being prepared.
During his inaugural policy speech in both chambers of the Diet on Oct. 4, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba referred to wage hikes and labor shortages, pledging to realize pay increases exceeding inflation by raising each worker’s productivity, added value and income toward a positive cycle of pay raises and mitigation of understaffing.
This is a good start to improve the lives of what workers exist right now in the workforce. However, with an ever declining and aging population I don’t know if this will be a long term fix for the country. Japanese corporate work culture is famously toxic to the growth of families with obligatory overtime. Even fixing overnight this will leave a generational gap of 20 to 30 years. In that time without replacement workers from somewhere will further damage national economy making a recovery more difficult if/when the population recovers.
He also vowed to promote an improved environment for small to midsize businesses to increase wages.
Some substance around this would be helpful. Does that mean tax breaks? Government subsidies?
Probably easy for them to maintain
Agreed. I made the maintenance comment as to why pizza vending machines aren’t more widespread.
I think you’re joking, but in case you aren’t, the answer is: no. Digestion takes a surprising amount of energy from your body. You can either use that energy for running OR digestion, not both at the same time. If you are trying to full speed sprint after eating a meal, your parasympathetic nervous system would assume you’ve decided that running at top speed is more important and shut down digestion freeing up energy to use your muscles for running. It might also decide that having the undigested food in you may be a risk, and cause you to throw up.
I would imagine the requirement would be high foot traffic. Food has an incredibly short shelf life compared to other vending machine contents. That pizza vending machine likely has to be serviced/refilled/cycled every 2 or 3 days. The cupcake ATM would be slightly longer. Most of the cupcake ATMs are attached to the cupcake bakeries, but allow customers to buy from the ATM outside of business hours or when the line of customer is really long inside.
Bro, do you even vend?
Pizza vending machine in Seattle:
Cupcake ATM in Beverly Hills (and 3 other cities I’ve been in including Orlando FL and Las Vegas):
If they’re indeed peacekeepers, then they failed their job miserably. As it stands, their only usefulness is being human shields for Hezbollah.
How many Hezbollah are you saying were in the UN base when Israeli tanks broke through the gates?
Why are are even calling them UN peacekeepers if they prevent violence from one side, but allow it on the other?
(I take personal issue with how sensitive they are these days, as they frequently find tumors that never would have actually caused a problem because they are very slow-growing, leading to over-treatment)
Is it your conclusion that that detriments of possible over-treatment on you personally are more dangerous than possible continued growth of an unchecked tumor?
what’s the correct number of years between buying new cars
Whatever number you give, there will be someone on the internet to tell you you’re wrong. Its almost like there isn’t a simple boiled-down answer to this and the each of us has different situations, circumstances, and resources so that there isn’t a single “one size fits all” answer, and even if there was, when a large enough population starts following that one answer, resources dry up and the “right” answer is now wrong.
Kia EV6s have intrigued me as an eventual Model 3 replacement.
I like the tech for the EV6, I’m a bit concerned with Hyundai/Kia paint, and the company’s response in washing their hands of it for people that have bought their cars in the past and its is coming off in sheets.
Yeah. Buying a 10 year old civic will always be more environmentally responsible than buying a brand new EV. For some reason all these people that super care about the environment aren’t doing that tho…
I can’t fuel the 10 year old civic from the solar panels on my roof.
Although by now I guess that’s really “10 year old Prius”
I sold my 13 year old Prius to get the EV. If I hadn’t sold the Prius then that would be one less person would could follow your advice to buy an old Prius.
“I will direct the lawmakers under my control as chairman of the (ruling Smer) party never to agree to Ukraine joining NATO,” he told broadcaster STVR in an interview on Sunday. “Ukraine’s accession to NATO would be a good basis for a third world war,” added Fico, who has been a vocal critic of the West’s military and financial support to Ukraine since Russia launched its all-out invasion in early 2022.
I don’t know if Fico is ignorant of history of his own nation or just doesn’t care about the hypocrisy. His argument against Ukraine joining NATO was a similar argument used by the Soviet Union as a justification for invading his own country of Slovakia (at the time part of Czechoslovakia), that being the interactions of the nation in a Third World War.
“On 20–21 August 1968, the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was jointly invaded by four Warsaw Pact countries: the Soviet Union, the Polish People’s Republic, the People’s Republic of Bulgaria, and the Hungarian People’s Republic.”
"The first such fear was that Czechoslovakia would defect from the Eastern Bloc, injuring the Soviet Union’s position in a possible Third World War with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). " source
Or just commit identity theft. That one you could probably do once a decade, or more; just keep a running file of unsolved disappearances of children and teens and pull another one out whenever the age more-or-less fits.
Continue having children throughout your immortality every 20 years or so. Make sure you have an child of the gender equal to your own, and on their 21st birthday, you switch identities with them. You sit for their picture on their newly issued ID on their 21st birthday, and suddenly its your picture that is the one of record for the legal 21 year old. Your child takes over you identity, grows old, and dies. Repeat ad infinitum.
I believe the biggest source of emissions for nuclear actually come from the construction phase,
While construction would be huge for emissions, I would guess the most emissions would come from the mining, transport, refinement, and disposal efforts for the fuel on an ongoing basis.
Lots of good conversation occurring in this post, but I wanted to call out a bit of nuance on the study that is being glossed over.
The study author’s argument isn’t against methane or even fracking per se. Its against the extra pollution from EXPORTING methane by ships.
I would paraphrase the study author’s position more clearly as: “A ship full of coal produces less pollution than a ship full of liquid methane because of all the leakage and energy needed to make that ship full of methane then back to burnable natural gas”
While the study author does call out leaks and inefficiencies in the extraction of methane, the numbers at that point don’t make coal more attractive. His contention on that only comes when you have to do all the extra work and energy to make it exportable, then consumable at the other side.
“Suspicious were raised early when President Milei departed from his typical Spanish and began speaking not only in perfect English, but with a slight New Hampshire accent. Further concerns were raised at the end of the speech where he told waiting reports to refer any questions to his press secretary CJ Cregg.” /s
There are no “good guys” in this, but from a technical perspective that is an insanely successful intelligence coup to get your own agent in the other guy’s shop as the one supposed to be watching yours.
It makes me a bit sick to think about how many of his own people he had to sell out (with the blessing of Israel) to earn a position that high. I would not be cut out for that type of work.
Individualist vs collectivist cultural differences? Lack of a good social safety net is likely another reason. When are you going to protest? People are crazy busy just working enough hours to feed and house themselves and their families. Maybe you can plan your protesting between in the 30 minutes before you need to pick up your kid from school/daycare before you take them home and start cooking dinner for them. Are you going to skip work to protest? You could lose your job and then you can’t feed and house your family.
I’d also say that here in the USA protest need massive involvement by the populace to even get noticed. Very rarely does a single issue resonate with a large enough group of people to get critical mass for outside attention.
I can’t name a single person in my area I’d consider a “community leader”.