Minisforum, beelink, aoostar and many others all make much more competitive offerings.

No in house NAS OS, but tbh I recommend just taking the plunge to learn how to install your own OS, like Linux.

Persecution fetish

I hate tech companies and the general public’s collective amnesia of functioning digital assistants, so I’m co-opting this as a copypasta.

Google Assistant was great on Android before they dumbed it down for Gemini and then killed it. It gave you daily summaries in the morning and was able to do basic assistant stuff like reminders and simple queries pretty well. Then Gemini came and it became just a shitty web search.

If you see this when your eyes are open then it may be visual snow.

Visual snow syndrome - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_snow_syndrome

The Cider Devs also seem like terrible people FYI

I know everyone likes Cider. But the devs are extremely homophobic, racist, Trump apologists, and deny that Covid was ever that major. Link in post. : r/AppleMusic - https://www.reddit.com/r/AppleMusic/comments/vydyj8/i_know_everyone_likes_cider_but_the_devs_are/

“If you turn a new leaf, it’s the same leaf” - Kandy Muse

Usual suspects

End up? They were already there since at least almost a decade ago.

Supporters defend Roy Moore: “Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult carpenter” | Vox - https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/9/16630464/supporters-defend-roy-moore-mary-joseph

Israeli (derogatory)

Obviously you should try to consider all options, but the amount that this is happening is way exaggerated.

Europe in particularly is diverting a lot of funding away from public sector to defense spending due to geopolitical anxieties.

International organisations aren’t safe either, because they rely on funding from the developed countries who are all cutting funding, i.e. US, Europe, etc.

Denatonoum Benzoate.

Intensely bitter compound used to prevent people from putting them into their mouths. Examples include nail polishes (to help nail biting habits), button cell batteries, and even Nintendo switch cartridges.

Denatonium - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denatonium

Israel strikes Gaza

The move away from passive voice is refreshing, even if very late

Not just “to an extent.” Randomised Controlled Trials (lotteries) are the gold standard for evaluating policy. The political optics for the general public unfortunately aren’t great, but the resulting data will be much more ironclad to refute anyone who argues for repealing such a scheme in the future.

Bloomberg is stock market brained, but more generally China’s extremely high savings rate is regarded as a bad thing, because this is usually due to the combination of high income inequality, low social safety nets, and high housing costs.

Basically, there are too many poor households in China that are saving excessively due to anxieties about lack of safety nets and high housing costs.

Low education/financial literacy and poor regulation of financial markets also make Chinese households very risk averse to consuming, investing, or even taking out loans (credit cards are very unpopular). Everyone is just excessively dumping their savings in assets perceived to be safe.

Once savings are in “safe” assets, they are inaccessible to other productive uses like startups or other loans. This is the exact opposite of a productive economy, and is what the article tried to convey.

China’s high savings: Drivers, prospects, and policy implications - ScienceDirect - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1566014125001049

I fear that this does not cleanly apply to Japan because of their somewhat uniquely active doujinshi (fan work) culture. To give an idea of how big a deal doujinshi are, the largest western convention San Diego Comic Con only draws around 130,000 attendants. The largest Doujinshi convention Comiket drew 750,000 attendants before COVID. These works are explicitly distributed and redistributed for commercial profit (though admittedly usually not at any profitable scale).

Japan copyright law has explicit exceptions for doujinshi, having recognised the immense value to the industry. So many successful artists started by creating and selling doujinshi, which are usually explicitly derivative works of IP.

Doujinshi - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doujinshi

Thee following are more little/no dialogue for the purposes of Immersion, rather than subtitled

Tunica is an unapologetically difficult isometric action/puzzle game

Animal Well is a metroidvania with little/no dialogue

Other similar games are Fez, Hyper Light Drifter

(which they for some reason keep electing)

Japan’s voting system is FPTP for rural seats, but proportional for urban seats. This means that not only do conservatives sweep rural seats, but also split the urban seats, which would usually would otherwise to progressives under a full FPTP system. This toxic mix has been a longstanding issue in their politics.

The existing Euro does not have a proper system for day to day transactions. Transfers are currently handled by SEPA, which are only suitable for things like bills. This means that a lot of people especially in less developed EU nations end up using an international bank card, i.e. MasterCard/Visa for day to day transactions.

Details are somewhat vague, but the ECB’s website seems to have many good assurances. This even includes strong privacy features, such as offline capabilities and cash-like privacy.

FAQs on a digital euro - https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/faqs/html/ecb.faq_digital_euro.en.html#q1

Not to defend the stupidity that does exist on Tiktok, but reputable sources often post their news and extra content on Tiktok, and Tiktok often the only way to access it. “Proper news” in the form of articles tends to be more jargony and needs to confirm to a professional tone. Not to mention, they simply take more time to produce.

Examples of extra content include fact checks, debunking right wing conspiracy theories, longer versions of interviews that didn’t make the final cut, or simple clarifications in the form of Q and As.

E.g. see the Tiktok accounts for the BBC, The Guardian, the Financial Times, etc

You joke but pedophiles use Pinterest to stalk and coerce young girls.

Investigation: How Pinterest drives men to little girls’ images - https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/pinterest-algorithm-young-girls-videos-grown-men-investigation-rcna72469