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If you live in an authoritarian system, it’s not just the government you’re worried about.

This is a bad thing unless the digital currency is also privacy preserving.

Unfortunately, having so much wealth means they can buy the people who decide who gets charged.

But, of course, when China sails two aircraft carriers through Japanese EEZ, it’s Japan’s fault for flying their surveillance too close by.

EVs won’t be cheap for long if there’s no competition.

You generally don’t want to incentivize the practice of dumping since its goal is putting competition out of business.

Unfortunately, the people working in the animation studios are underpaid and overworked.

I’m sorry he put the words “free market” into your mouth when there was none of that in your post. FWIW, Japan would be worse off if cheap rice flooded the market and eradicated domestic rice production.

I’m not sure patriotism is the right word, but nationalism in an autocracy? For sure.

Snitches get stitches.

So what does it mean in the context of Japan, where employees cannot be fired except under exceptional circumstances?

The phrase “quiet quitting” really grinds my gears. Are you fulfilling the terms of your employment contract? Yes? Then you’re working, and haven’t quit.

It’s very unlikely that a non-domestic cultivar would be the most popular variety in Japan. Anecdotally I hear Koshihikari mentioned often, but I don’t have actual hard figures on what’s the most popular.

The needles do smell pretty good…

Making the oppressed say they aren’t is unfortunately standard practice for China, so I agree, take anything the workers say with a grain of salt.

It’s Cryptocurrency, therefore it is totally bad.

Narrator: The ship did not, in fact, return.

All of us should lead this fight, chrissakes.

I’m sure the Russians are savvy and use VPNs like China. It’s much less simple than just geofencing.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/18/china-economy-slow-growth-yuan