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by midoridensha 3y ago
Why is it terrible? The OP said to burn what you can for electricity, so that really should just leave metals. Copper is valuable, so hopefully they'd strip all the wiring and recycle it, leaving just steel and maybe aluminum (which
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by midoridensha 3y ago
Maybe, but the "podunk" towns are frequently where a lot of the produce comes from. I imagine no one is growing watermelons or tea in a second-tier city. Besides, they are encouraging people to move to those second- and third-t
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by midoridensha 3y ago
>If that's your thinking then why have the policy at all, why not just keep the money in Tokyo (which is after all where more people want to live)? As I said before, my guess is that some places are worth saving, others not so much.
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by midoridensha 3y ago
Yeah, I moved to Tokyo from suburban US. It's great here. Far more convenient than living in America. What kind of crappy places did you live where having a car wasn't possible, yet there was no decent public transit? Furthermor
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by midoridensha 3y ago
>but in that case why have this transfer of tax money at all? To save some towns, I presume. Some places are probably worth saving; other places, not so much. >But those towns were already doing fine! Were they? They can probably
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by midoridensha 3y ago
>The most desperate towns gain very little from this scheme because they don't have anything to offer. If a town has nothing to offer, then why exactly does it need to continue to exist? >If the goal was to transfer some of Tokyo
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by midoridensha 3y ago
>and the towns that can't afford that industry or don't have anything particularly commercializable to sell get left in the dust. What's wrong with this? If a town doesn't have anything to offer, then why does it exi
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by midoridensha 3y ago
Affordability ratio is not the reason young people are moving to NYC. Even with the much-higher salaries (assuming you can find similar jobs to compare), you're going to have a very tiny living space in NYC. More likely, the issue
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by midoridensha 3y ago
They might be "trying", but they're failing miserably. I'd say they aren't really even trying to make a competitor to New York City: no place in America looks remotely like it. I don't see any American city a
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by midoridensha 3y ago
It seems like the easy first step with "designer babies" is simply to correct obvious genetic defects. There are many genetic diseases that are the result of very simple genetic flaws, with catastrophic results. Sickle-cell anem
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by midoridensha 3y ago
It's a long story, but it involves the post-WWII economic boom, White Flight from the inner cities to the suburbs and away from the Black people in the cities (along with Redlining to keep the Black people from following them), the con
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by midoridensha 3y ago
It probably depends on where in the US you are: if you live in Buffalo, for instance, you can probably save a bunch of money just driving over the border to Canada and getting some stuff there. If you're that close, you don't nee
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by midoridensha 3y ago
>Well, if you want a checkup, then the American system is fine, right? Not in my experience. They seem to have done away with yearly checkups altogether, claiming somehow they don't work (!). Here in Japan, you get a yearly checkup
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by midoridensha 3y ago
If your test in Tokyo was like mine, the only thing they did was test your actual visual acuity, to determine your prescription. They probably didn't do any kind of eye health-check, which in my experience is normal in the US. However
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by midoridensha 3y ago
I recommend you watch the TNG Season 2 episode where Dr. Pulaski and Data visit a colony that's doing genetic engineering of children, and their engineered immune systems create some kind of virus that Pulaski has to fix on a shuttlecr
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by midoridensha 3y ago
>I think you missed some key plot points in the Star Trek lore Are you talking about the episodes where genetic engineering was illegal? Or the episodes where they completely forgot about that?
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by midoridensha 3y ago
>And they would be coated with pesticides to ensure that there were no insects, or anything that ate them, or that ate the things that ate the insects, etc.. And indeed, returning to the airport in daytime, there was remarkably little wi
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by midoridensha 3y ago
Exactly: look at what happened with the Hippies in the 1960s. They turned into the "Me Generation" of the 1980s.
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by midoridensha 3y ago
>They’ll be too busy scavenging the scorched ruins of our cities for the last cans of refrigerant so they can survive another month on our doomed planet. Don't be silly. Our grandchildren won't need refrigerant to survive a ho
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by midoridensha 3y ago
You completely left out the enormous impact that cars have. How about get rid of your car, move someplace walkable if you have to, and stop driving?
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by midoridensha 3y ago
Fair, but you can probably help save both money and the environment by cutting back on beef, and replacing it with chicken. Chicken is FAR more resource-efficient than beef. It's too bad they haven't figured out how to make it t
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by midoridensha 3y ago
>No matter what the form of government, lots of *Americans* will object very strongly if the solution to climate change is not having central heating, cars, hot water, or beef for dinner. FTFY. Countless people outside the US get along
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by midoridensha 3y ago
This basically allows legislators to force anything into the public domain by simply referencing it in a law. I'd rather see legislators forced to negotiate with copyright holders to make their works public domain, or else have their l
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by midoridensha 3y ago
>If you are concerned about environmental impact of your travels, then fewer long-distance flying would have a much much bigger effect than futzing with clothes packed or not. Since most readers here are probably American, I wonder what
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by midoridensha 3y ago
Exactly. These are obviously the bodies of humans' genetically-engineered descendants from the far future; they've somehow traveled backwards in time to more than a millennia ago where some tragedy befell them and their corpses w
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by midoridensha 3y ago
> take it you're exclusively an apple iphone/airpod pro interpersonal relationship person. He could just be single...
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by midoridensha 3y ago
Why is that weird? The biggest train stations in the world are here in Tokyo, and they don't have any place to sit down either, except in restaurants that usually aren't close to the main pedestrian traffic going to/from the
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by midoridensha 3y ago
If NYC had proper bike infrastructure, it wouldn't be so unsafe.
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by midoridensha 3y ago
I'm happy with my Panasonic appliances.
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by midoridensha 3y ago
Here in Tokyo, we have dozens of different transit system operators, and everything works like clockwork without all the problems you have over there. Many stations have multiple operators' train lines at the same station, even. Even

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