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Coca-cola definitely advertises, famously Santa Claus, but did you also know they do more subversive things like trying to shift the blame for obesity onto the victims?

https://investors.coca-colacompany.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/392/exercise-is-the-best-medicine

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.

Maybe if Google asks nicely to make Chrome their default browser…

If you’re writing a novel simulation for a non-trivial system, it might be best to learn to code so you can identify any issues in the simulation later. It’s likely that LLMs do not have the information required to generate good code for this context.

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.

These need to be washable, otherwise every time I accidentally wear them into the shower I’m going to have to buy another pair.

Is anyone surprised by this? Their entire business model is based on tracking people so of course they’ll want to de-anonymize users.

I’m okay wth it if they also provide free Wi-fi on premises. Otherwise they’d be using my data plan for their business.

I’d like to see more non-plastic toothbrushes, personally!

If this really is lossless, it is incredible. I’m skeptical until I see it in action though.

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.

How does heat mitigate the dendrites? Also doesn’t extreme heat damage the batteries? They barely hold up under high temperatures as-is.

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.