motionlessveloc

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by motionlessveloc 6d ago
They increasingly don't (much of rural China is depopulating rapidly, with only the old folks left) and "pack up the village and ship them to a city" is not a thing, unless it's being demolished for a dam etc.
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by motionlessveloc 6d ago
There are over a million legal immigrants in China, plus an unknown but sizable number of illegal immigrants, mostly from Vietnam and Myanmar. Of course this is not a huge number compared to the overall population, but it's still a siz
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by motionlessveloc 6d ago
So where's Snowden in all this? The article talks at great length about everybody he gave copies to and how they've all gone silent, but obviously he holds copies as well and is not beholden to the US on what he does with them. (A
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by motionlessveloc 6d ago
This is part of it. Previously governments felt the need to hide skullduggery, but the Trump admin doesn't even bother to pay lip service to this, so to the public revelationa about whatever the Obama admin was up top don't really
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by motionlessveloc 6d ago
The laser is there specifically to shoot at the drones and missiles.
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China's 6th-Gen J-36 Fighter-Bomber to Feature Combat Laser(en.defence-ua.com)
9 points by motionlessveloc 6d ago|5 comments
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by motionlessveloc 7d ago
Non-video story: https://thedriven.io/2026/09/16/australias-cheapest-new-car-... TL;DR: AUD 19,900 driveway (means taxes, registration etc included), or about US$14k. The main limitation is the 220 km (135 mi
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by motionlessveloc 9d ago
Singapore residents are not limited to one car. There's a lot of regional ultra rich in Singapore, and it's not unusual for them to have half a dozen or more cars, all of which count against the total cap.
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by motionlessveloc 9d ago
Due to its aging population and lack of mass immigration, Japan has a desperate labor shortage in many fields. I don't think taxi driving in Tokyo is one of them (because, as noted, the qualifications needed are pretty minimal), althou
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by motionlessveloc 9d ago
Almost certainly.
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by motionlessveloc 9d ago
Named after monaka, a traditional Japanese confection of sweet red bean paste sandwiched between two wafers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaka It's not terribly popular even in Japan, since it's dry, bland
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by motionlessveloc 10d ago
From the friendly article: "Somewhere, some rationalist-brained person is reading this and saying I'm a "low decoupler", and that whether they run a sex cult has nothing to do with whether they're correct."
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by motionlessveloc 11d ago
> and no media or journalists, and not even Indonesians are allowed to enter West Papua. Uh, no? There's an active tourism industry particularly around the Baliem Valley and the Raja Ampat islands. You can fly into any of the larg
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Australian insurer to recognise Tesla's FSD technology in calculating premiums(thedriven.io)
1 points by motionlessveloc 12d ago|1 comments
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Immiserizing Growth(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by motionlessveloc 13d ago|0 comments
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by motionlessveloc 14d ago
In Musashi's era, meaning the late 1500s, kendo (sword fighting) was absolutely about being as "productive" (read: lethal) as possible. As it happens, this was also the era when firearms had just been introduced to Japan. In
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by motionlessveloc 15d ago
And many of those Cyrillic systems had in turn replaced previous Arabic/Persian-based writing systems.
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by motionlessveloc 15d ago
As someone intimately familiar with this topic, the article here is mostly correct but gets a lot of the small details wrong. Probably the most important missing part here is the reason non-Hepburn systems like Kunrei stuck around for so lo
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Rage Against the Machine(milelion.com)
3 points by motionlessveloc 15d ago|0 comments
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by motionlessveloc 15d ago
All mushrooms are edible, but some mushrooms are edible only once.
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by motionlessveloc 15d ago
Grapes are commonly peeled in Japan, and people will look at you strangely if you eat them skin on. However, Japanese grapes are huge and have a thick, astringent skin that peels off easily. Likewise, when Japanese people go overseas and st
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by motionlessveloc 16d ago
NATO membership notwithstanding, I don't think anybody in Finland expects the US to ride to rescue if Russia invades.
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by motionlessveloc 16d ago
Google already does this at their existing Hamina data center. The building is also a repurposed paper mill. https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/around-the-gl...
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by motionlessveloc 16d ago
TL;DR: for some biomarkers, "sprint-interval exercise" (SIE) bursts as short as 5 min can be as effective as much longer periods of "moderate-intensity exercise" (MIE). Specifically: MIE consisted of 90-min of continuous