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Meron35

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  • Ireland plans to make a $1,500 a month basic income for artists permanent

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  • Not just "to an extent." Randomised Controlled Trials (lotteries) are the gold standard for evaluating policy. The political optics for the general public unfortunately aren't great, but the resulting data will be much more ironclad to refute anyone who argues for repealing such a scheme in the future.

  • Believing misinformation is a “win” for some people, even when proven false

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  • As uncomfortable as it may be, research suggests adopting an empathetic, non judgemental, but firm attitude, without any expectation to actually change their mind.

    This is an attitude broadly similar to that of a professional providing advice (e.g. accountants or lawyers).

    How to speak to a vaccine sceptic: research reveals what works - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01771-z

    Unpaywall:

    How to speak to a vaccine sceptic: research reveals what works - https://archive.is/1gn2g

  • China’s Rebound in Household Savings Poses Risks for Stock Rally

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  • Bloomberg is stock market brained, but more generally China's extremely high savings rate is regarded as a bad thing, because this is usually due to the combination of high income inequality, low social safety nets, and high housing costs.

    Basically, there are too many poor households in China that are saving excessively due to anxieties about lack of safety nets and high housing costs.

    Low education/financial literacy and poor regulation of financial markets also make Chinese households very risk averse to consuming, investing, or even taking out loans (credit cards are very unpopular). Everyone is just excessively dumping their savings in assets perceived to be safe.

    Once savings are in "safe" assets, they are inaccessible to other productive uses like startups or other loans. This is the exact opposite of a productive economy, and is what the article tried to convey.

    China's high savings: Drivers, prospects, and policy implications - ScienceDirect - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1566014125001049

  • They weren't afraid to tell it like it is ... In a private group chat

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  • "I love Hitler," Republicans, probably actually

  • Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World

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  • I fear that this does not cleanly apply to Japan because of their somewhat uniquely active doujinshi (fan work) culture. To give an idea of how big a deal doujinshi are, the largest western convention San Diego Comic Con only draws around 130,000 attendants. The largest Doujinshi convention Comiket drew 750,000 attendants before COVID. These works are explicitly distributed and redistributed for commercial profit (though admittedly usually not at any profitable scale).

    Japan copyright law has explicit exceptions for doujinshi, having recognised the immense value to the industry. So many successful artists started by creating and selling doujinshi, which are usually explicitly derivative works of IP.

    Doujinshi - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doujinshi

  • Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language?

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  • Thee following are more little/no dialogue for the purposes of Immersion, rather than subtitled

    Tunica is an unapologetically difficult isometric action/puzzle game

    Animal Well is a metroidvania with little/no dialogue

    Other similar games are Fez, Hyper Light Drifter

  • And they mocked me for my WoW subscription 😗

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  • Except that as part of its enshittification Spotify has intentionally changed its algo to push people into more and more homogenous "beige", nothing music. It has become so prolific that Spotifycore has become a term to describe what happens when you let Spotify autoplay.

    With the rise of AI, Spotify is now producing and recommending beige music that is produced on an industrial scale, at the expense of actual artists.

    Mood Machine go brrr

    Mood Machine by Liz Pelly review – a savage indictment of Spotify | Music books | The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/05/mood-machine-by-liz-pelly-review-a-savage-indictment-of-spotify

  • ... the good ol' days?

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  • Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Bank Analysis Finds

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  • What other great opening lines do you know?.

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  • It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.

    The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

  • Anti-foreigner sentiments are on the rise as Japan faces a population crisis

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  • (which they for some reason keep electing)

    Japan's voting system is FPTP for rural seats, but proportional for urban seats. This means that not only do conservatives sweep rural seats, but also split the urban seats, which would usually would otherwise to progressives under a full FPTP system. This toxic mix has been a longstanding issue in their politics.

  • Oh dear

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  • proper gander

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  • This is only true because companies didn't consider autistics a valuable enough demographic to bother with. Now you can see companies like Loops market their overpriced shitty earplugs towards autistics, which actually seem to be popular.

  • Recommendations for Note taking app with simple needs

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  • Not sure of your specific needs, but I feel that self hosting (i.e. setting up a proper server) is unnecessary. Just pick a local first program and use it with syncthing.

    The usual trio (which may be overkill) are Obsidian (admittedly not open source), Trillium, and logseq.

  • European banks to launch euro stablecoin in bid to counter US dominance

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  • The existing Euro does not have a proper system for day to day transactions. Transfers are currently handled by SEPA, which are only suitable for things like bills. This means that a lot of people especially in less developed EU nations end up using an international bank card, i.e. MasterCard/Visa for day to day transactions.

    Details are somewhat vague, but the ECB's website seems to have many good assurances. This even includes strong privacy features, such as offline capabilities and cash-like privacy.

    FAQs on a digital euro - https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/faqs/html/ecb.faq_digital_euro.en.html#q1

  • Covers the bases

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  • Not to defend the stupidity that does exist on Tiktok, but reputable sources often post their news and extra content on Tiktok, and Tiktok often the only way to access it. "Proper news" in the form of articles tends to be more jargony and needs to confirm to a professional tone. Not to mention, they simply take more time to produce.

    Examples of extra content include fact checks, debunking right wing conspiracy theories, longer versions of interviews that didn't make the final cut, or simple clarifications in the form of Q and As.

    E.g. see the Tiktok accounts for the BBC, The Guardian, the Financial Times, etc

  • Solaar | Linux Device Manager For Logitech Devices

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  • Sinclair ends its Jimmy Kimmel boycott | CNN Business

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  • Jimmy Kimmel supporters continue their Sinclair boycott