I was better off, but this was an average government subsidized day care, a neighborhood Hoikuen (保育園). Everything else was just normal stuff. In fact, we didn’t qualify for the few thousand from the city office because we were ex-pats. Medical is free for Japanese. So where are the costs?
My first two kids were born in Japan, and they were actually pretty cheap. The local city gives you some money (a few thousand) when your child is born, and day care was good and super cheap, like $10 per day because it was subsidized.
It really wasn’t very expensive.
I actually bought a sex toy on Amazon a week ago and I was pissed that they asked for my driver’s license to purchase it. WTF? What a screwed up country we live in.
He didn’t mismanage Twitter. He realized that he could spend 44B and gain control of the ruling political party of the US. He said “Twitter’s value isn’t in it’s advertising, but in the public manipulation I can do with it!”
Sure, but sexuality is a spectrum, and if it’s more expected I would think more people would experiment and move farther away from the norms.
I’m rather shocked that it’s so low. Back in the '90s, the estimate for gay people was 10%,. Here we are 30 years later when it’s perfectly fine to be out of the closet and love someone of the same sex… And the numbers haven’t changed? I would have thought it would increase with the acceptance of being gay.
Good. There’s just about nothing useful that comes from the White House press brief. It’s all propaganda as far as the eye can see.
This really smells like something that directly stems from Trump Putin talks. Trump is basically going to come up with a shitty deal for Ukraine, and then try to strong-arm Europe and Ukraine into going along with it. This is just a way of saying " hey Europe, this can affect you too! You should totally pressure Ukraine into taking this shitty deal… cuz you wouldn’t want something bad to happen, right? (Hint hint)"
I kind of think this was intentional, because the picture everyone used before this was the dorky one of him jumping at the Trump rally. I’m sure he prefers this one.
I’m honestly surprised that the Congress isn’t flipping their shit over this. I know the Republicans are trump lap dogs, but this directly undermines their authority and sets a new norm on executive power. I expected more self preservation from those cowards.
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I wonder how Tesla sales in Israel are going?
That’s awesome! I didn’t know you could download an LLM and run it locally! That’s what I’m really interested in is something that’s on my side and not a conduit to Google, MS or other.
I’m so glad Hawley proposed this bill or I wouldn’t have known that deepseek was open source and downloadable! I’ll have to go look for a download.
So from the conservative viewpoint, what is the rationale for the tariffs? Are people really supposed to believe it has something to do with fentanyl? Like do conservatives actually believe that or is there some other narrative besides Donald Trump is looking to flex his power?
“The Trump administration has passed a resolution saying that Mexico will now be called ‘America South’ and Canada ‘America North’. Google said it will follow the government’s lead in changing the names on it’s maps app.”
It was probably part of a cost cutting plan too show they were trimming costs in order to get more funding from investors. It clearly didn’t work.
I’m a little surprised that most countries don’t have laws that make it a crime for non-citizens or people outside their country to influence elections. For any country, but the biggest and wealthiest, this seems like an obvious thing. Nobody wants their larger richer neighbor coming and interfering with their elections.
If you consider Twitter like a newspaper or other media outlet, then the owner of the media outlet using Twitter’s megaphone should violate all sorts of laws. At least that would be my expectation…
I actually like Tesla. I just hate Elon more. We came close to buying a Tesla once or twice, but now it’s totally off the table.
Sure. If RFK were President then it could possibly happen… But just imagine one big pharma company handing Trump a check… You think for one second this would pass?
They say he did what “appeared to be a nazi salute”… or “he did what critics say was a nazi salute”. Both of those are journalisticly accurate and a better description of what happened.