Milky vs Morepork?

How do you expect vegans to vote under these conditions???

Japan is an outlier for numerous reasons, the biggest of which is that housing value there decreases over time (without going into the causes, the result is a feedback loop where housing isn’t built to last because it’s a poor long-term investment, so it depreciates like other semi-short-lived products, such as cars). This isn’t something the government planned, it came about naturally. So I wouldn’t say they’ve “solved” housing so much as their situation has made it a non-issue.

Are you comparing bagged tea or looseleaf? I feel like bagged tea tends to taste pretty similar, especially if sourced from a grocery store vs a tea shop.

Well then, my hot take is going to be that she was miscast and it was to the show’s benefit that Worf took over as security chief.

Star Trek is a franchise about a bunch of nerds striving to find a “better way” to run society

Lemmy is a platform populated by a bunch of nerds striving to find a “better way” to run social media

Not surprising that there’s overlap

Apparently I’ve just trained myself to click around them.

Don’t want to disable NSFW in case I miss a spicy meme

Broken clocks…

The 90s aesthetic doesn’t make the second gen series unwatchable, but damn if it isn’t hella distracting. (It’s the hair. And the wardrobe. But mostly the hair.)

Someone didn’t watch the Star Wars prequels

“thinks the Japanese are evil” needs to be a lot bigger…

It’s not a difficult bar (heh) to clear. Keep a stock of frozen pizzas on hand, have a cheap countertop pizza oven, bam, food requirement satisfied.

Wear a face mask at the airport, and you’ll never get a surprise facial recognition photo again.

Have you never heard of a “career change”?

You are both correct. A decade is a perfectly acceptable time frame by which to judge forex, however the two decade window fills in additional context.

You’re getting downvotes because you’re citing incel talking points.

The article seems a bit scant on details re: why people are leaving. Is it because the youth are unsatisfied with the quality of life available in the country? Are they seeking a more western-style way of life (perhaps one that’s more secular)? Is this yet another case of younger generations getting pushed out because they cannot find success in a place where all the good homes and jobs are tightly clutched by the older generations? Or is there something completely different causing the mass migration out of the country? The article mentions “the economy” but that could mean so many things, especially when much of the world is also still struggling with post-covid fallout in one way or another.

I haven’t seen a TV ad in years; who’s out there talking about Pueblo?

Aspen has been experiencing a deep housing crisis for years. They have to bus in most of their workers from nearby towns because no one who has to work for a living can afford to live in Aspen. Now there’s a worker shortage because no one can afford to live in the outlying towns either.

For NM I’d say Roswell; 5th largest city (48k population) but well known b/c aliens

I think Seville and Pamplona are well known, for the Barber of Seville and the running of the bulls respectively.