Same shit happened to the swastika. It comes from Hinduism, still widely used there, in the West it also used to be a symbol of good luck before the 30'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
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I thought it came from 4chan, but it actually comes from Myspace. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepe_the_Frog
Imagine he tries and fails, like the last who tried.
There are a lot of people and organizations that are just slow to move and don't really know where to go.
slowly divert my work to different people in the company
So you've been promoted to a management position.
If we ignore the actual stress of a manager suddenly finding out and asking you to report what you have been doing. Probably still possible to bullshit long enough in a big company to recover a normal situation or find another job.
Probably the two IT nerds who manage the Vatican systems.
I'm worried a failing economy could actually motivate them to get into war to divert the people's attention and stay in power, I think it's a common political tactic.
Does it also pull support for old Linux distributions?
Ok, so now you have a clear plan to work on your attractiveness.
This article says 8 to 11k yearly. https://horserookie.com/average-horse-cost-by-state/
While cost of owning a car is between 3k and 9k yearly according to https://www.move.org/average-cost-owning-a-car/.
I would have thought that a horse would be much more expensive, like 10 times a car cost.
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cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/6354297
They contain a sweet honey that you can taste by sucking the bottom, a friend made me taste. I just did some research about it for this post. It appears some are actually toxic, and it's very hard to tell the difference.
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Source infographie : https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2022/02/28/audiovisuel-les-biais-politiques-passes-a-la-moulinette-statistique_6115591_1650684.html
Source scientifique : https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4036211
Je cherchais plutôt une carte comme celle-ci pour les médias des USA, mais je n'ai pas trouvé. https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart
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An illustration of the "ultra free" market in Japan, is the insane amount of ways to pay at the cashier. It seems every financial group thought they could do better than the other, and for some reason I don't understand, they didn't eat each other, they just coexist.
The main categories are: bank card, payment apps connected to bank account, transportation cards, electronic money. They may work through card reader, no-contact, bar code scan or QR code scan. For the last two, you are either scanned or you have to scan them.
Also, Japan loves "points". If you know the cashback system, where you get something like 1% of your bill back, in Japan they usually get points back, which are of course limited to shops accepting those points. So on top of payment methods you also have a dozen of points system, either specific to the shop brand or from a different company that may have agreements with different merchants.
Despite that, cash remains essential, it's very common to end up in a restaurant that only accepts cash, even the convenience of paying your house bills at the konbini requires cash.
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I'm not super convinced by the water jet. It can make a mess, it requires a lot of paper to dry if you don't want to wet your pants and if you don't have soap, are you really cleaning?
Heating seat feels like overabundance (a common thing in Japan).
But the sink to clean your hands and reuse this gray water for the next flush is amazing. I think it should be made mandatory in every region with water resources issues. It's still not clear to me, however, if using soap there will cause more maintenance issues or not.
For the record we did get it down from 65 to 64, but we still got +2 years.