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I moved further north in Japan from Tokyo. I think we hit 38 as a max last year. So far, I’ve seen 35 this year, but I’m afraid where we might end up. We had weeks without rain at my place finally ending a few days ago. I’m scared.

I bet I could build something that beats 1300m /s

That’s super cool; I’d love to see it

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I’m in my mid-40s but had tons of sleep issues (both because I didn’t stay asleep long and working multiple jobs at another point). I’d be curious to know how much I slept.

Fewer hurricanes out there, and other natural disasters as well. I don’t know how tuscon is seismically, but otherwise it has a lot of lowere risks from nature, probably

Hank Green on YouTube did a good explanation of this on YouTube a day or two ago if you’re interested.

I didn’t like Lemmy at first, possibly because it had this weird auto-refresh thing and other issues. I found mbin instead and have been with it since. I may check out Piefed at some point. My instance recently has been struggling with donations and I can’t really help right now.

I don’t use an app for mbin, just browser. The one thing I will say is that images are broken on mobile (Android) as there is no X to close the image, annoyingly.

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Continued doing bad things, more like. They seem to like supporting nazis from what I can tell.

I’m with “yes”. I hate background sound I can’t control or prepare for a lot of the time. Anything with words fully ruins my hearing and concentration, particularly if it’s right in that range where I can kinda, but not really, hear it.

For high-concentration tasks, it’s noise-canceling headphones with music I’ve heard so many times before there is nothing that could possibly get my brain interested and I can hit flow state on a task.

defenders of freedom?

We’re going through a bit of a far-right thing at the moment, so you may want to hold off on that assessment.

Function > durability > cost > tons of other things > “interestingness”

Well, it would have been if people updated it when making changes; now it’s just all an incorrect snapshot of an older version of wheel that no longer reflects reality.

It’s precisely the gerontocracy in Japan why the nation is heading extremely far right.

Is it 参政党 and their ilk were mostly voted for by the younger crowds whereas the olds stayed with the LDP, at least from the exit polling I saw. I mean, for me personally, the LDP is too far right, but Sanseitou is definitely a lot further off. Some older also split to the DPFTP to show disappointment, but I’m less clear on those numbers.

No. This would have lots of weird impacts. In the countryside, a lot of employees are quite old. A lot also do childcare for their grandkids at least some of the time. A lot of farmers would be gone as well. There’s also a lot of paperwork that suddenly needs to be done grinding a lot of government to a halt. A lot of businesses as well since, from what I’ve seen form friends’ older relatives dying, a lot of people do NOT have their shit in order and Japan has lots of small businesses and sole proprietorships.

Depending upon the wording of the policies and suicide, life insurance companies might have big issues or families might have huge monetary issues. I guess we can pretend they don’t all die at once and clog up the whole morgue and funeral infrastructure which is a whole other thing.

The religious and political implications could be interesting. Bhuddist gravesites in Japan for family graves tend to be very expensive to buy and maintain.

I could actually keep going for a while, but the short version is that, at least in the short term, it would likely do more harm than good. This says nothing of the actual emotional impact on people.

For some single-person or even small group project, I can understand not having time to deal with something. At the point that it is a large, commercial entity and running a lot of the world’s devices, there should be legal implications for such negligence.

I was thinking the gym + meditation/isolation. Expensive and time-consuming? Yes. Does my perceived reasoning for it make sense (gym + mental space)? Also yes.

I don’t know that it is the primary factor, honestly. Jobs keep moving to places like Tokyo where daycare has a lottery system and is super expensive if one doesn’t get into the free one. Add to that that, since corona and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, prices for a lot of things have gone up leading to a cost of living crisis. for many as wages stay stagnant.

Indeed, there was an election yesterday and these were some things that were being mentioned by politicians in the lead-up. In Tokyo, it looks like they are trying to make daycare and school tuition free, which would be a big help. Several schools have even had trouble properly providing meals lately because of the sudden rising costs of food (fees for school are paid at the beginning of the school year so schools have to budget for higher prices and will have worse meals at the beginning to avoid having money for none at the end). Even the far-right anti-foreigner party ran on some kind of payments for kids. Another party talked about getting things less centralized in Tokyo and trying to spread the population out or at least support hose that remain in the countryside.

As for why it wasn’t faster, rules have been on the books forever, but people and culture make it different. People feel huge pressure not to make waves so they will clock out and continue working. The more recent legislation has actually addressed this and put some responsibility on the worker themself in my understand, which may help. Corona also showed people what could be and many were angry when forced to go back to the old status quo (and one can see comments about people’s manners and patience on the train and other places getting worse in the time since). There’s also what is called “power harassment” and the like and lots of old, entitled fuckheads in positions of power at companies who think they are untouchable and, thankfully, are slowly going away.

Worker protections and their enforcement have improved in recent years, but things still aren’t fully there yet. That said, the whole karoshi thing is getting less and less, which is good. The problem now is less in the big corps and more in the smaller businesses since they end up having less oversight. My company even requires I record hours at my other job (my own company) and submit them to make sure they and I are not in violation of labor law for hours worked.

To be clear, I don’t think the choices are a coincidence; I think the general idea is one.