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by logifail 4y ago
> That's a question for the 4 Day Week Campaign, not for the Guardian Umm ... I don't think we get to give media outlets a free pass like that. Reporters used to ask these questions and get answers before they published. Gu
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> It isn’t a gotcha to say the Guardian don’t do it, unless you think it’s a gotcha that they reported on the invasion of Ukraine but have not also invaded Ukraine. From one of their articles on this topic, from June 2022: "More tha
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Dozens of articles but no genuine explanation of the employer's end of this issue. If the Guardian newspaper were to let all its staffers take every Friday off without any reduction in pay, I wholeheartedly agree that the staff would
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> I think it's a gimmick that some businesses will use for publicity purposes and nothing more Google "theguardian four day week" and you'll see this outlet has form on the topic. Q: Can you work a four-day week at fu
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> This doesn't need to be "norm" worldwide or even company wide for you to start doing it. All it takes is for you to have the will to decide that this is something you want and are going to do. If the (overwhelming?) majo
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> I would love for you to experience the boarding process so you can get a feel for it, and the social stigmas around it too which is where I think you could get an answer to that question. Maybe watch an FPV youtube video of a traveller
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> That's only if you have a single through ticket for your whole journey, which is often not possible to buy. If you don't purchase single through ticket for air travel, you aren't protected if you misconnect either!
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> That would be somewhere you might expect half the passengers (or more) to change, like Berlin or Madrid (From experience) I would suspect it's more about train crew changes, restocking the restaurant car, and/or allowing extr
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> Why add a logistical nightmare and delays when you don’t have to? I just moved from Japan to Europe and the difference in reliability of the schedule is night and day. I'm still struggling to understand why accepting bicycles for
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> So within 5-10 minutes, your train has arrived, people have disembarked, you have boarded, and your train has left Isn't this pretty standard SOP for how long-distance trains stop at intermediate stations around the world? I'
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> Maybe you're trying to find a firm technical requirement for such tight timing, but they don't need one. In a sense the above comment is right, they (JR) just want it. What happens if someone in a wheelchair wants to travel?
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> In Europe, when taking international trains, they take no responsibility if you miss your train because of a delay, unlike airlines Source? If you are ticketed across one or more European borders I believe the train operating companies
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> generally due to the high amount of trains that run on a single line, being late or early even by a few seconds can cause other trains to be delayed even more How many trains per hour run on a single line? EDIT: "At peak times, th
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> Because everyone wants to arrive on time I don't believe this requirement is specific to the shinkansen, to Japan, or even to travelling by train.
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> The timing is critical on the shinkansen Why? Is this about needing to be on time primarily because there's a reputation to maintain, or would bad things happen if one runs late?
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Our eldest (just turned 13 :eek:) walks down an "average sidewalk" to the railway station, rides a train (alone) into town, and walks an "average sidewalk" to his school, and back. Every weekday. He commented on drunks
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by logifail 4y ago
> It's pretty simple - don't tolerate this sort of behavior around public transit stations (I hope it's not seen as outrageous to suggest this, but) perhaps one shouldn't tolerate this sort of behavior anywhere, ever?
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> there is a base of support for change from above, outside, and below I'm sorry, I have no idea what that statement actually means. How do you quantify "a base support for change"? Would you ask staff if they'd pre
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> One thing I learned was that new, individual, and fresh leadership psychology often brings new logos into being Could it be that new leaders feel they have to demonstrate they're in change, and initiating a logo replacement is unf
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> Is bourses crypto jargon Much older than that, it's more general finance jargon. The relevant definition[0] is: "A stock exchange. (figuratively) Any place, real or imagined, where the value of a thing is settled." [0
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> What we don't need any more of is web cruft and CRUD apps, social networks, and people figuring out more ways to mine our data and shove ads in our face (No snark intended, my background is in science...) The fields that would ben
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> I wouldn't worry too much about safety once its small, there is minimal amount of harm caused by ultra cold or ultra high vacuum In a previous life I worked with NMR machines, the ones with superconducting magnets cooled by liquid
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> - People with money/power are not much better than average I think it's way worse than that, the only things that people with money/power are better at ... is getting / hanging on to money and/or power. They&#x
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> It's not just someone else's opinion, it's agreed upon opinion Q: Agreed upon by whom? I'm reminded of this quotation: "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know
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Except that since 1 March 2011 anyone who has visited Cuba is no longer entited to enter the USA on an ESTA, they need a visa: "The vast majority of UK visitors to America enter through the Electronic System for Travel Authorisation –
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> Every single Eu rule and initiative must be approved by the European parliament I'm not sure what good that does. When did your MEP last initiate a piece of legislation? The EU is as far from a direct democracy as it's poss
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So 1) MPs declined to support any Brexit proposal at all, because the house was majority Remainers who thought if they refused to act for long enough Brexit might never actually happen? Even the softest of soft Brexit was too much for them
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I'm not sure it's wise to believe the headline claims about UK GDP (or lack of it), particularly if those stories mention Brexit. There's more to it, and there's an awful lot of Brexit-related bias in play. "For 202
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Would Boris have won that election if the UK Parliament had not spent quite so long dragging its feet in refusing to support any form of Brexit? "Brexit: No majority for any options after MPs' votes"[0] [0] https:/&#x
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> they've weathered the recent crises worse than the EU has. Is Covid not a recent crisis? The UK response to Covid, specifically to sourcing vaccines and vaccinating the vulnerable and elderly population, appeared to be significant

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