justworkout

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by justworkout 3y ago
December 2021 to October 2022. 103 yen to 149 yen. Sorry for overestimating. It was only 10 months. :)
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by justworkout 3y ago
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 incredibly high. Even when food is produced locally (only a
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by justworkout 3y ago
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, so it's not benefitting the workers. The executives a
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by justworkout 3y ago
Because it already collapsed a year ago. Look at 5 years.
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by justworkout 3y ago
> 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.
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by justworkout 3y ago
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 views on the world. It does this with virt
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by justworkout 3y ago
I didn't say it outweighs anything else. You're inventing an argument in your head. Settle down.
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by justworkout 3y ago
The article that's being discussed. I feel like I'm the only person here who read it.
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by justworkout 3y ago
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 wrapped in plastic to be sold. (unfortunately, this experiment
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by justworkout 3y ago
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 just keep things going how they are. All it takes is
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by justworkout 3y ago
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 to people seeing grainy phone videos and acting on it immed
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by justworkout 3y ago
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.
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by justworkout 3y ago
These were the exact two I had in mind. I never used default wallpapers aside from these two.
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by justworkout 3y ago
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 mean they'll create convincing clips that&#x
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by justworkout 3y ago
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 search through quickly or access large amounts of
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by justworkout 3y ago
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 secret mission to Afghanistan over the summer and the milita
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by justworkout 3y ago
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 complains about wealth being the reason they won't ha
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by justworkout 3y ago
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 countries they'd refuse to do business with. They usu
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by justworkout 3y ago
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 country of Vietnam. Vietnam has loose regulatio
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by justworkout 3y ago
> 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 experience is not.
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by justworkout 3y ago
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.
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by justworkout 3y ago
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 misunderstanding.
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by justworkout 3y ago
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 uncanny valley feeling to me. That's not to say th
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by justworkout 3y ago
Macaroons and macarons are both cookies. They're both desserts as well.
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by justworkout 3y ago
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 the rest of the world, but to be fair, they were enslav
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by justworkout 3y ago
A lot of people, including young people, throughout Asia don't have computers. A large number of working adults our age (however old you may be) don't touch desktop or laptop computers at all on their day to day. A huge number of
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by justworkout 3y ago
I think for "power users" or people who buy/receive devices often, it's easy to have way too many chargers. A lot of other people buy a new phone every 3-5 years, and by that point, your cables are probably worn out and
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by justworkout 3y ago
Who knows why they're on those lists. A lot are their for starting fights in airports and other stuff. Whatever it is, being banned from an airplane is better than being arrested and serving several years for liking a facebook post say
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by justworkout 3y ago
> consider what ideas, events or people your own democratic state considers illegal to "defame, insult, or threaten" For Americans at least, such a concept thankfully doesn't exist. Threats can be a crime under certain cir
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by justworkout 3y ago
It always blows my mind when the people who most complain about other countries for restricting freedoms (not that they shouldn't complain--they should) always give Thailand a free pass and praise it thoroughly. Of all the places I&#x2

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