neku

neku wrote (edited )

Reply to Japan has too many trees, so we turned them into crayons by I_got_killed_one_time

yeah this is crazy to me, too b/c we have intermittent timber shortages here in new zealand. to be like "well we have all these trees, but it's cheaper to import them from elsewhere rather than knock em down" doesn't seem right to me. the labour of chopping a tree down and processing it is the same in japan as in china, or canada, or wherever. i want to attribute it to differences in regulations and labour costs, but canada is the #1 exporter of wood, and i can't imagine that their lumber industry has fewer regulations and labour costs than japan's b/c they're both first-world countries... maybe it's just a matter of existing infrastructure supporting industry logistics like how in china its easy to manufacture things because all the factories who make your materials are in the same city or region as you are rather than across the ocean

e: also i like the genre of youtube video thats like "watch these japanese men, the only people in the universe who still make stuff The Traditional Way instead of being made in lots of 50000 in a factory, where they sort of mill around and relaxedly make their shit by hand and it turns out amazing and beautiful

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neku wrote

Reply to comment by devtesla in Apple Vision Pro -- The Jstpst Review by twovests

i imagine the people who are so into pornography that they would want a $3500 head mounted screen for watching pornography either A: already have a VR porn solution or B: are absolutely not solvent enough to purchase a $3500 device to watch porn on

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neku wrote

Reply to Healthy childhood development through outdoor risky play: Navigating the balance with injury prevention | Canadian Paediatric Society by hollyhoppet

tentatively, i agree with their conclusions, but the paragraph about "watchwords" reducing the confidence of children and their interest in play is totally unfounded based on the article that they cite, which is just a proposed experimental protocol! based on that and the article's tone in general, i do get the impression that the authors aren't quite impartially weighing up the risks and benefits of risky/unstructured play in the way that i would hope to see in an academic article

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neku wrote

Reply to Adopting rightwing policies ‘does not help centre-left win votes’ by Moonside

after the failure of sanders and corbyn somehow i doubt that the point of ostensibly "left" parties "adopting" rightwing policies is to win votes but rather guarantee the profits and ideologies of the donor class. they have no incentive or interest in actually governing or delivering even the weak progressive policies they claim to support because they do quite well off of donations, insider trading, "speeches" for the private sector, etc

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