Imagine having the gall to not only say you won’t fix your problems, but then call on others to go and fix it as well.

Americans really are the laziest people.

Clearly someone in polka-dot with a hat on

Gotta say though, water pistols in the hot Spanish summer is a weird choice of repellent.

This should be an awareness post on some tech communities

I really need to translate “Birds of a feather flock together” for the Finns.

They’re not used to a country with commercial competition. They think only giant companies can exist and it’s inevitable everything eats each other, because their government has no regulations, so cut them done slack I suppose.

I thought the AI thing was going to be rolled out only in the USA?

Yeah, buying a car, not a Neo Nazi Symbol.

Didn’t know that exists, and that needs more marketing. I literally have a “Daily Wikipedia Article” thing and never came across it. And maybe a different name, like Simplified Wikipedia, because I thought you meant something different.

Problem is they can’t read Wikipedia articles in the first place. A lot of it, in particular anything STEM, is higher level reading.

What you’re advocating for is the same as dropping off a physics textbook at an elementary school.

Same person who saw most American adults have a 6th grade reading level or lower?

Honestly that’s the reason I thought it was a good idea at least. Might actually give them a place to start learning from and improve.

Never expected the place known for nude beaches and a president who married a pedophile to be one that implemented this kind of block.

That there’s this just opposition must mean quite a decent chunk of politicians and wealthier people may have used this service.

I think it’s just ancestry

2020 since the pandemic shut everything down. There was a one year respite.

Basically at this point the only thing that might make things go down would be something on the scale of covid but deadlier that would make the ultra wealthy scared enough to keep things shut down long term.

…if he made it worse, then how is it incorrect to say he is part of the reason the yen is doing worse this year? That is in fact fully his blame. Everyone here has been primarily talking about the current cheap rice shortage in Japan after all, not about the Yen’s performance last year. What is happening currently is in part fully because of Trump’s market manipulation.

Something can be bad but still become worse

A huge currency reserve of Japan is the dollar, which is why there’s now some economic instability, as the dollar has lost a lot of value due to Trump’s market manipulation.

It doesn’t mean the yen is weak, it means the commodities markets will be in flux, as that’s what things tend to fall back onto when things like these happen.

It’s also why cheap rice specifically has a shortage, and why Japan has found itself in a catch 22 for the importation of rice. What they could do is go from importation restriction to tariffed but allowed if they want to increase the rice supply and stabilize the price of domestic rice. But that would require some flexible legal framework that’s hard to write because you can’t keep rice imports opened now while deflation is still strong without killing most domestic production. Best solution is to allow import from somewhere where rice isn’t as cheap but still competitive, plus a very small temporary tariff that could over time be dissolved slowly, in my opinion at least.

There’s a whole lot of cascading effects happening right now because of the unstable US economic policy and much of the world having their currency either pegged to the US dollar or having it as a primary currency reserve. Some major economies like the EU are benefitting, but the closer the economic ties are to US the worse the effects are.

Deflation makes currency stronger, not weaker. That’s part of the issue with it when it comes to a domestic economy, because it means this start becoming drastically cheaper over time, but it’s only a problem if people keep waiting for prices to drop. It also devalues stocks, so large corporations don’t like it either, and if you have a lot of money, it’s not as competitive anymore locally with the average person’s money either. Landlords also lose out because real estate value stalls (btw this is part of the reason for why Japan’s mega cities exist - deflation has made it so nearly everyone can afford to live in the main city rather than needing to spread out to cheaper areas because inflation causes rent prices to increase via real estate value also increasing).

Buying overseas helps prevent deflation, but Japan has a protectionism type economy in general. Currency reserves from other countries buying exports heavily is what keeps things stable.

In the rice case, it’s purely to protect the local rice economy because deflation has made the yen strong, and allowing cheaper rice from a country with a weaker currency would make local rice unable to ever have the hopes of competing for any profit whatsoever, probably not even at break-even.