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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 incr…

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…

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 vi…

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 wr…

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 jus…

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…

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…

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…

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 secre…

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 com…

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 cou…

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 co…

> 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 experienc…

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 misunders…

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 uncan…

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 …