Very cool map of the slow but steady reemergence of nuclear power in Japan post-Fukushima—12 reactors have restarted, 5 have passed a review to restart, 10 are still under review, 3 new ones are under construction, and 8 are planned for construction
y'all so fucking stupid, the us version is just more detailed, the German ones still got "thiamine hydrochloride" in it's just that they don't have have to specify the fucking PhD name for vitamin b or the fact it has vitamin b in the ingredients at all
a close friend of mine works in the music industry, so I have takes on music streaming 🧵
Spotify has never turned a profit in any year of its existence, this means Spotify's shareholders are already subsidizing artists.
streaming services saved the industry from literal /1
It takes more than 800,000 streams per month to make the equivalent of a $15/hour job, and the vast majority of music artists on platforms like Spotify never get to that number. I introduced the Living Wage for Musicians Act to fight for the fair pay that musicians deserve.
This caller left a voicemail w/ a House office urging them not to vote for the TikTok bill: "Otherwise, you're gonna see me at your House."
"TikTok is my Google," the caller says. "I don't even use Safari or Google anymore... I learn on TikTok more than I learn in school."
In 2020, I voted for Biden. Since then, my state banned gender-affirming care for minors, censored LGBTQ studies, and made it a criminal misdemeanor for me to use the women’s restroom at my college.
We’re done hearing “vote harder.” It’s time to organize:
@Marcjac47016208
Because the issue is that capitalism requires infinite growth and maximizing profits at all costs which will inevitably take more and more from working people. Housing is just a single symptom.
The first shipping vessel to cross the Atlantic carried weapons to bomb Vietnam, while containerization broke US organized port labor. Shipping containers have always been tools of imperial violence, as
@CharmaineSChua
points out here
I think even the most critical of Milei should at least give it to him like Galbraith gave it to Milton Friedman in India: that's the country he's going to do the least amount of damage. place already defaulted 11 times in the past 80 years man, it's ruined already
the fda is INSANE, dumb Europeans just convinced you that our safety regulations are more stringent because "ew we can't have trade with the US or we'll eat your chlorinated chicken by mistake" when we eat chlorinated produce and it's just a protectionist shtick to preserve
it's personal ok, i got a serious infection at 2 weeks old and without the evil modernity in the neolithic around the fire people would have told the story of how i died horrifically in pain
my only explanation is US "progressives" lack object permanence. trump just said Bibi is not tough enough, and wants to deny entry in the country to all Muslims. but because he's not the sitting president, who knows what he thinks, no choice but to vote him in and find out 😔😔
btw in their personal experience, the artists who complain about streaming royalties are bigger, older ones because they were making more in the pre-internet era
Good game Japan. You held out for as long as you could. At least you will have some awesome ethnic food to go with your rapidly rising crime rates and loss of cultural harmony.
collapse caused by internet piracy in the early 2000; music artists were earning much less than today in the early internet era, so insofar as it can be used as a counterfactual, they're better off than if Spotify et similia never existed.
streaming platform (and DAWs, and /2
Javier Milei introduces Cap and Trade in the Omnibus bill.
@CNLiberalism
can't shirk away from Milei now. He is catering to both left-neoliberals and right-neoliberals. Openly the most neoliberal G20 leader currently.
In fact, I'll just say it: Second only to the rise of fascism, the advent of neoliberalism was the worst, most ruthlessly destructive development of the 20th century.
@LinkofSunshine
the year after the BLM protest? so 2021? when the economy reopened? the economy that was 'closed' for the pandemic? the closure that disproportionally affected minorities more than whites bc they are more likely to be in non-white-collar jobs, which can't be done remotely?
Who is the more important trading partner: China (red) or USA (blue)? How drastically the world economy has changed. No wonder US and EU miscalculated how sanctions would "weaken" Russia. Thanks to Henry Hakamaki for the graphic.
the whole american thing that there's nasty chem in your food is because the FDA is an ass about labeling which lead to you complaining about safety which leads the FDA to be more of an ass which leads you to complain and it's a never ending cycle
per stream per platform is misleading)- is because the marginal cost of getting music out is basically zero, otherwise the number of "artists who make less than x" would be much lower because they wouldn't make and share music in the first place.
the main revenue for artists /4
which btw, you do you. if you want to drink 3000 calories a day in milkshakes and sodas and die by the time you're thirty go ahead, I'm not your mother
internet in general) greatly increased the supply of music, with artists producing and distributing on their own; that the "majority of music artists do not make 800.000 streams" -(btw on Spotify alone, but people release music on multiple platforms, so talking about royalties /3
fun fact
the five countries with the highest robot density - the number of robots used in production per worker- are:
🇰🇷 South Korea (2.7% unemployment rate)
🇸🇬 Singapore (2.7%)
🇯🇵 Japan (2.5%)
🇩🇪 Germany (3%)
🇺🇲 USA (3.5%)
some multimillionaire in Tuscany who sells the worst meat ever but we don't know cause it's illegal to import any good meat from somewhere else in the world WAKE UP SHEEPLE
In a major cave-in to Europe’s farming lobby, EU countries overnight agreed to impose restrictions on Ukrainian agricultural sales, dealing a significant blow to its exports.
Brussels Playbook has the details.
Bin Laden wasn't oppressed. he was a Saudi billionaire who trained troops to fight for Saddam against Kuwait.
I preferred when people thought he was funded by the US, at least we agreed he's unambiguously evil
"how can there be infinite growth on a finite planet?" was answered by economists as a footnote in a paper 67 years ago. the only condition is that the reproducible factors of production are a good substitute for the non-reproducible ones. thank you for coming to my ted talk
snitches are good, actually. if you see someone doing something they shouldn't be doing, report them. everyone wants to live in a high trust society but nobody wants to do what's necessary
y'all have no idea how much packed the Italian side of YouTube is with videos of black Americans studying in Italy complaining about the levels of racism they experience here
for the Nth time, 'degrowthers' don't understand growth. growth mainly comes from increases in efficiencies -making more with less- it isn't necessarily opposed to environmentalism. solar panels, wind turbines, and services all add to gdp. rationing is idiotic, just tax carbon
IT'S HAPPENING
4000 tractors and trucks in Dresden as the German farmers are continuing to protest for the 3rd day.
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