JA has a tight grip on rice in Japan. Add to that the insistence of JP govt to not import rice in almost all circumstances and you can guess that the rice market in Japan is almost disconnected from the global rice markets
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I know several companies which have stopped paying for stock photos and using AI laundered images or using AI to remove watermarks without any skills in image editing softwares.
Is it replacing jobs? I don't know the economics of this field well enough to know what cut the photographer gets, but I know that there's less cash flowing into this sector due to genAI
A big road having bike lanes is perfectly fine. Moreover it's encouraging to see people talking of putting bike lanes for commuters. But that's a bikeable area, not a walkable one. And these 2 make sense in diff situations.
As long as kids and old people are able to walk or slow cycle most places, unsupervised (in a 20-40 minute radius around their homes), I'm happy with that. A place suitable for these 2 demographics is walkable for almost everyone else as well.
Fast cycling isn't really compatible with walkable culture. It needs some level of infrastructure for separation (lanes, lights, crossings, etc) to prevent collisions. I don't understand the fascination with fast cycling for anything except for sports, exercise or long distance travel.
Slow cycling and walking don't need any such infrastructure and that's commonly considered as a walkable area. It brings roughly 1 km radius in a 5-10 minute zone and that's enough area for at least 60-70% of required facilities (school, police station, fire station, hospital, groceries, bakery, shopping, transit stops).
I feel it's hard to find places which are walkable but not bikeable (outside of the USA)
A walkable grocery store is at max a 10-15 mins from the house (in my opinion). This allows you to just pop in and buy stuff while coming from the public transport stop without having to schedule big trips for the entire week/month.
Top 1% by wealth. Not the 1% of outliers by sexuality/gender identity
For text communication, teams sucks. Channels and groups are weirdly different. Channel and normal meetings are weirdly different. search is f'ed up....
Zoom: yeah that's worse for text communication
The keyboard is epic though. Totally designed in 6th circle of hell
The TV Series or the real estate scam by the rich?
Public transportation in USA sucks, and people from USA often use we on social media platforms, assuming they are the majority :P
Replace conservatives with The Right and liberals with The Conservatives
Democratic Party is not really left if compared at a global scale
We know that, but it's a slow creep of sludge and most decision makers see the cost go down and rejoice