In Tokyo, there are agencies who offer project management: You buy a building and the agency will make it into airbnbs. They will kick out current tenants by any means possible just so the "investor" can profit. Im a real estate agent myself, and think this needs to be banned.
Fascinating argument by Bloomberg's top energy analyst Javier Blas 👇: he argues that China effectively saved the world economy during the Iran war by absorbing the brunt of the global oil supply shock on its own, without visible economic damage.
According to his calculations, China "cut its average daily waterborne oil imports by the same amount as the combined oil consumption of Germany, France and the UK."
And, still according to Blas, they "did so without suffering economic harm" because they could rely on many levers: their huge strategic petroleum reserve, a massive surge in EV usage, their remaining coal-fired electricity capacity, and coal-to-chemicals replacing lost feedstocks.
Had China not been ready to absorb that blow, a good argument can be made that the economic damage to the West, and the world at large, would have spiraled far beyond what we saw.
Effectively, China's energy strategy at all levels (petroleum reserves, EVs, etc.) and its ability to withstand huge supply shocks paid off for everyone, not just for them.
It sounds awfully familiar: in 2008 too it was China's stimulus package and continuous buying of US Treasuries that averted a complete breakdown of the global financial system.
So twice in 20 years the country the West loves to present as a "threat" to the global economy effectively saved it from a US-made global economic disaster 🤷
En Senatobia, Mississippi, la policia estadounidense mató a tiros a un bebé negro de 1 año, abriendo fuego contra el coche familiar, después de que sus padres robaran un mísero paquete de pañales de un Walmart, al no tener dinero para costearlo.
Mientras se celebra el Mundial, EEUU fusila niños pobres negros por unos pañales, ni siquiera lo verás en las noticias en Europa.
It's so depressing that women spent lifetimes breaking down barriers, fighting stereotypes, refusing to be put into boxes... only for the freest generation of women yet to say: 'I like those gender stereotypes, actually. Time to chop up my body to conform to the set I prefer'.
@exajoe Oh course soldiers come from poor families. They always have. Everywhere. The rich ones become officers. I think the issue is that Koizumi is such a little prince who has no understanding of hardship that he thinks being poor is some kind of horrible insult. What a fool.
@ksl_live It’s not the worst gaffe in history. Anyway she was right. And the other guy showed his contempt for the poor, for members of the armed forces, and that he’s a little prince who knows nothing beyond the end of his nose.
@KZDeh68055@W4MNinja@kikumaco Of course Dawkins didn’t say that because gametes have no bodies, they can’t affect the sex of the body they inhabit. 🥴
That’s so stupid and nonsensical, I think the person who wrote it should get some kind of comedy award.
may we all be free.
and may no one be free to take the freedom of others.
Islam teaches us that freedom is the natural state of every living thing, though I know few Muslims (or non-Muslims) who truly live by that principle.
@stqamalan@W4MNinja@kikumaco That was the first time I ever encountered the argument that gametes don’t have bodies so they can’t determine the person’s sex.😵💫
Cancer cells don’t have bodies so how can the body have cancer?🫠
We are in the realm of the absurd now.
@shizuyo55 Thank you for doing the right thing. I wish I could phone the hotel and tell them how much I support you and that they should do better in future
@tokyo_shimbun Consult about what? “I’m a girl who feels uncomfortable wearing a skirt and being sexualized by men and boys”? Or “I’m a boy who’s getting beat up in the boy’s toilets”? You don’t need Gender Identity lessons to deal with that. They can’t change sex or use opposite sex categories
Dads: if you care about your girls’ safety, teach them that no man should be in women’s toilets, EVER.
Not even if he’s in there with little girls.
Predators have girls with them for many reasons and those girls CAN’T PROTECT your daughter from a man who wants to hurt her.
@Daemonised@MuskokaCD@terrybythebay@CattardSlim My point is that men shouldn’t be in women’s toilets, even with girls. Girls don’t make men safe- think of all the traffickers and abusers who travel with girls. Also, Dad didn’t protect them from the angry jerk. He should he teach them how to get away from the raging loser asap.
@BobbyR1226@bubbachomps_@Suzierizzo1 You’re so reasonable. I can’t imagine why anyone would NOT want you in the women’s toilet.
Thanks for making my point. I block men who can’t communicate through their rage though.
@bjportraits He is doing the opposite of following the $; he’s walking in a different direction and kicking dirt over the right path. The algorithm loves the “killer wokeness” and “not sexist, just science” posts.
@Butty9696@terrybythebay@CattardSlim Sure the main thing is to assert your dominance and righteousness, not to protect the little girls you’re in the wrong fucking bathroom to protect 🫠