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Go ahead, if you are from a nation that trades with US, what’s stopping you?

This would make a good movie

Citation?

I’m guessing doing all the things the right way would put Boeing out of business. US doesn’t want that.

I’m talking about a realistic limit much closer that the speed of light. My point being, that perhaps there is an even closer limit that it hard if not impossible to overcome for an intelligent life that’s contained in a biological vessel. Given how things in space are measured in light years, perhaps the time it takes to traverse these spaces far exceeds any biological lifespan. Put it bluntly - everyone could be moving at each other, but given the distance apart they would still die off before meeting one another, because of the time differences involved.

I still believe that the sheer scale of space time is the reason we’ll never run into intelligent life outside of our planet. People seem to assume there is no technological barrier to super fast travel, but perhaps there is a limit? This limit could be far from the type of speed and time required to visit worlds that may harbor intelligent life.

Can confirm. Wife tells me all the time about how shitty Japanese guys are as husbands (heard all of her friends complain), and how happy she is that I’m not Japanese.

Even stay at home mothers without jobs do an insane amount of work here, with husbands expecting home made meals. This is all anecdotal of course, but I hear Japanese husbands almost never participate in any household chores. Wives don’t even bother asking as they are afraid of being seen as incompetent at doing housework. I can only imagine the schedules for working women! Mind you, Japan is not a society where hiring others to watch your kids is a common thing. Women typically do most of the kid raising on their own, with husbands only around on weekends and holidays.

Urban planning in US cities is pretty shit. Even the “well planned” green cities could use a lot of work.

I’ve seen those, they are interesting but not exactly what I had in mind in terms of form. I envision some sort of square set up at 45 degrees angles for each panel, aimed inward like a funnel, but now I’m thinking it’ll probably destroy itself with all that heat generated?

Is there any reason solar installation could not be vertical like a tree with branches and leaves? Is there no angle / arrangement at which efficiency is all the same as a flat set up? Or is it just more expensive to build out that type of infrastructure?

This sounds wonderful, not at all insane.

Sorry to hear about what you went or are currently going through. The medical insurance situation in US is beyond f’ed up. Most people who can afford it just don’t think about how terrible it really is. It takes some serious illness or accident to wake people up to the insane situation that is US healthcare. It sounds like you are well aware of that, unfortunately.

I grew up in a communist country and for all the shit communism gets, I was never denied medical care or could not afford it. In US I made above average income and yet the cost of healthcare was far from unnoticeable, especially with deductibles, excluded procedures and ridiculous billing free for all. I have some f’ed up stories, but for another day.

I now live in Japan. I still pay a fair bit for insurance, but I can feel very confident that in a case of a serious injury, illness or extended hospital stay, I will not go bankrupt. In fact, it’ll be like nothing changed - financially. I used to lose sleep over thinking about insurance issues in US, but now I never think about any of that. It’s such a huge relief to focus on other more important things in life. But, Murcia, they tell you it’s the best place, if you kindly forget about the healthcare issues. Don’t get me wrong, there are many wonderful things about the good ol US of A, but healthcare is not one of them.

I think a much overlooked topic is urban planning. Just thinking about Phoenix and the hundreds of homes and apartment complexes blasting ac 24/7 with little or nothing in terms of tree shade. Trees can provide and immense amount of sunlight protection and reduce the heat in a dwelling. I get that they can also fall on your roof, but still, almost nobody planting anything, especially in large apt. Complexes

There were people in Turkey some thousands of years ago living underground. I’m sure they were doing that for a reason. Can’t recall the name of the place / discovery.

This would be ideal but unfortunately laws are written by corporations that profit from plastic.

It’s not just basics, Amazon has a ton of other brands.

I wouldn’t cal it a handicap. I think a lot of it comes down to confidence. Women can tell when a guy is not confident in himself / his appearance and that’s a turn off.

Lack of public bathrooms is a real shame and a failure in planning. It is a universal human right to access a bathroom in public places, or else be okay with people pissing and shitting wherever. I think the same should apply to water access. If no public access to water, businesses should carry that “burden”.

Newest release requires payment. You can only use an older release if you take a survey.

Having used an older release, I am unimpressed. Half controls don’t work and the universe itself is not as explorable as you’d think. I have yet to figure out how to find a planet without going to one of the bookmarked ones.

.loneliness { position: relative; }

Like all things in life, loneliness is not absolute in origin. Depending on your circumstances, combined with external levers, loneliness is not easy to pinpoint, but there are a few common externalities.

For the blue collar worker you have your typical financial concerns that make you overwork or worry about not having enough work to provide for yourself and or family. Spending time on people is a luxury most people with financial concerns simply cannot afford. If you are lucky you’ll be working too much to be lonely and it’ll only hit you when you have time to catch a breath.

Screen time is certainly a factor but not a cause. It’s a symptom of a sick society with failed systems, infrastructure, architecture, family structures and communities.

Depending where you are in the world, design of your community or should I say the lack of, will play a large role. If it takes a 30 min drive to see a friend be say a 5 minute walk, it becomes easier to remove yourself from face to face interactions.

The constant rise in cost of living puts financial stress on families, which in turn translates to personal stress, health problems, obesity and so on. This fuels a feedback loop that ultimately leaves little to no room for interaction with anyone. The easiest way to medicate that issue is you guessed it, with a screen.

Then you have your constant exposure to media and the team effect of polarization. People are brainwashed by nonstop streaming of irrelevant crap which makes them feel like crap and further remove themselves from society. Add in social media which amplifies all of these effects. The grass is always greener on the other side and this seems especially true through social media lens. Down the depression hole we go which further removes us from interaction.

We make deliberate effort to improve “mobility” and “accessibility” through roads and infrastructure which alienated public transportation projects. If you are lucky to live in a small walkable community, you might stand a chance at running into someone you know to strike up a conversation, but otherwise good luck talking to everyone speeding down a road. Even small rural communities in walkable cities are getting less friendly to foot traffic in certain parts of the world due to vehicle congestion.

Let’s not forget the convenience of online shopping. As awesome as it is, we simply don’t get as much stimulation as we would going outside and seeing people face to face, whether we talk or not is irrelevant.

For kids there are video games. Can’t play? No problem, watch others play. Society norms have changed. In countries like US, depending on where you live, talking to others outside comes across as odd and unwelcoming. We are so concerned about everyone’s need to be left alone that we ignore their silent plea to have anyone take any interest in their life.

Consumer choices have been negatively shaping people to feel more individual. When everything is customized to your liking, it’s hard to think as a group, for the benefit of the collective. This in turn leads to more consumerism, heightened expectations and disappointments when those expectations are not met.

Information has a large role to play in spread of loneliness. Having to choose from thousands of products online vs just getting one or two choices, shapes our expectations. Before, I’d you wanted to buy some nice bed sheets, you’d go to a store and maybe make a day out of it. Go to the mall, eat out, do things with others, relatives, friends. Now you click a button and spend days or hours looking at thousands of search optimized product titles which may or may not have anything to do with what you searched for. All the consumer choices and information like reviews, while seemingly great, just cause more mental fatigue, stress and ultimately contribute to a host of factors, some of which are tied to loneliness.

This is just scratching the surface. My point being, we are brining this onto ourselves in many different shapes and forms.

There are sushi places that serve live shrimp. Imagine being eaten alive and feeling that first bite crushing you in half.

As a kid I would rip limbs off insects one by one and watch them suffer. As an adult I carefully capture them inside and release outside. With all the insect die offs and all, little critters who stroll into my place get a 2nd chance. Unless they are mosquitoes. Those suckers get a quick death.

Japan is not tearing down any nuclear plants, we are building more. Nobody wants to increase carbon emissions here, it’s just that we have growing demand that cannot be met without importing. A huge chunk of energy in Japan is imported but we are slowly adding renewables and more nuclear. It’s silly to think that a country WANTS to depend on imports for a majority of its energy needs. The energy department has a forecast to 2030 somewhere out there (a pdf) and the goal is to reduce imports while putting more into renewables.

This is my feeling too. I feel that even the scientists doing these studies are not considering all of the positive feedback loops. If we could somehow account for everything we’d see that we are already past the point of no return and things are going to change for the worse much faster than anticipated.

I think he is a fraud. He constantly states he hates the media attention but then does a Netflix show and goes on Joe Rogan. Why would you want the maximum possible exposure to yourself when you stated so many times that you don’t like the attention. Don’t mind the fact that he has presented zero proof towards anything of extraterrestrial nature. He makes many claims none of which can be verified. Ok, so you had a biometric device on base you were not aware of, so what? Just because YOU don’t think the tech doesn’t exist, doesn’t make it true.

We also dry ours inside when it’s raining out. For those occasions we have a dehumidifier. Many newer Japanese homes come with a small clothes drying room for when the weather is not suitable.

Please have your email solution tell me that you are tracking opens, so that I will never correspond with that sender again.

I think tracking opens without notifying the recipient is a blatant privacy violation. If that’s where society is heading, I want to part of that.

Here in Japan everyone dries their laundry outside. It’s a bit of extra work but we save a ton of energy, stuff doesn’t shrink as much, laundry smells like the sun, I like it.

Here, have a hit on me buddy.

It doesn’t add anything to discussion.