You can add a human hand with a giant jewel ring and a whip behind the human hand.

I understand a ban on eviction for the most vulnerable people like the elderly and better regulation predatory practices, but a total ban is hard to understand. How do they prevent the obvious abuses this could lead to? What do small owners do when they can’t repay their loan because the renter stopped paying and can’t be evicted?

This PM is very new and those colleagues joined before. Yes, the current one seems more right wing and more aggressive towards China than the previous ones. But as far as I understand her measures against immigration are not targeting much engineering type of immigration, and she has not made working condition any worse, so they are still very favorable compared to China.

I guess I have a different kind of western reference, because for me 50h is still huge. The Japanese standard is 40h. In France, a full time is 35h hours, which is often translated to 38.5h or 40h + additional paid leaves to compensate (on top of the 5 weeks per year minimum).

The frequency of murder is much much lower than the frequency of over work at those giant companies. It’s clearly not the same kind of challenge for a government. They could very easily knock at the door of those companies if they wanted to. But my guess is they don’t because they want to keep growing fast on the international markets. It does sound silly be cause it is a false equivalence.

Well, you should have a check at any Japanese tech company. Japan does not produce much IT professionals, so these companies are made of a majority of foreigners for the tech part and most of them are Indian or Chinese. Rakuten is my example, but you can also check PayPay and Mercari. Japan also has a problem of overworking at the infamous “black companies” but those are definitely not of them. Out of all the shitty stuff at Rakuten, the work hours are actually reasonable and respected, down to 7:45 per day in some parts, if my memory is correct.

How comes it is still happening? According to my Chinese colleagues, there are contracts with even more hours that, and they came to Japan to avoid this culture. I thought this government had the means to impose its laws. Unless it has an interest not to, maybe?

The 996 (9 to 9, 6 days a week) is sadly very common in China. It’s not just in manufacturing, it’s very common at tech giants like ByteDance, Huawei and Alibaba. For a country with a political system that is supposedly based on an ideology that wants to improve workers life… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system

Those benefit from the delusional attitude. If the people don’t get involved, this has no chance to change. Building opinions, sharing them and voting is just the minimum to expect from a democracy citizen. Democracy is a constant struggle, not a stable situation.

The “We Are the People” rally was organized to protest government policies, particularly those related to immigration.

Well, it also worked when we sent them to America. Then we were able to do democratic revolutions, social democracies, European Union etc. The problem is they made a lot of money and they are knocking at our door again to bring back their shit now.

But it succeeded at sending the instable aggressive bros out of Europe to get killed/lost far away?

Aren’t modern missiles and drones also able to adjust?

Isn’t the guard to be able to identify and intercept this platform? Sounds challenging at this scale, but so was air missile/drone interception, and it was achieved. I bet the USA and China are already working on this or even already achieved it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6-7

I guess it should be read as “continental Europe”. Europe has a major launching platform in French Guiana. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guiana_Space_Centre

P.S.: It’s advantageous to be close to the Equator like French Guiana to benefit from a faster rotational speed of Earth’s surface for the rocket launch.

There are millions of professional coders who couldn’t do what you did there.

I’m curious why it seems the time slows down at the end compared to reality? Because more computation is needed to check if it’s a stable state?

Acces to tax free exports to one of the richest stable zone, visa free traveling, EU funded programs (for example to support local agriculture which has its downsides too) etc. They probably already partially benefit from these, so they don’t see enough advantage to invest themselves more in the community.

That’s the origin of the EU, building a shared market for coal and steel. I’m not going to try to convince the Marxists here, but those economical ties did provide shared prosperity, stability, peace and friendships over the decades. Now, I don’t know if it would work out for the specifities of Iceland. They are probably already benefiting a lot from the EU without needing to participate more actively. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Coal_and_Steel_Community

Quite divided but with 82.5 % turnout.

The headline does read ambiguously, they probably did it to create engagement like we are doing, and it’s sad.