An enclosure doesn’t have to be fancy, in a pinch I’ve literally used a garbage bag (I don’t recommend this though bc of fire risk and the risk getting caught up in the kinematics)
It’s been ages since I did the glue/hairspray/tape stuff. I just use a pei sheet now. It’s not a great solution, it gets everywhere unless you remove your bed to spray it
Sure, but what if I want milk bread or brioche?
Enclosure, bed temp, bed adhesion stuff (glue stick/hairspray/pei), leveling
It was a good idea to close the mental institutions of the 60s-80s but that led to people with mental illness getting funneled directly into prisons because that was the plan. Despite the big talk of improved funding for community mental health supports that never materialized but funding for the prison complex blew the fuck up under Reagan and his “privatize everything” nonsense
This is a continuation of that trend. Do not ever trust a politician, regardless of party, to reverse this trend. I have worked in mental health for almost 2 decades and a good portion of that was in taxpayer funded programs - residential treatment, community mental health, homeless shelters, etc. regardless of who controlled the state or federal legislature our budgets were slashed year after year.
As we became collectively numb to mass shootings and clamored for mental health services I worked in outpatient mental health clinic serving Medicaid clients. Staff turnover was extremely high because despite being licensed staff with masters degrees (and the associated student loan debt) we were paid $36/hr as 1099 workers. No benefits, no health insurance, no paid sick time or vacation, no retirement, etc. the paperwork demands working within this system were very high too so it was not uncommon to work an extra 10-20 minutes per session documenting (unpaid), more if a crisis occurred which was more common with the high need population.
And the big thing, which I separate into a new paragraph because I know most people reading this will skim it at best, is that we did not get a rate adjustment from 2008-2023. The same rate for 15 fucking years because Medicaid refused to raise rates. Obama (both terms), Trump, and Biden’s presidency going by without a single penny of a raise. I did not work there this entire period but I know this is the case for a fact.
The homeless shelter I worked at closed down. The residential treatment facility I worked at only operates because of donations and has significantly reduced capacity because a key donor passed away without leaving money to the facility. The psychiatric hospital I used to work at is constantly over capacity and desperately needs renovations (that it needed when I worked there a decade ago and its budget was 20-30% higher). Staff salaries are not just stagnant, in some cases they are going backwards. The entry level job I had in the rtf paid $12/hr in 2009, now it pays $9.75
I have seen clients get funneled into the prison system. It is sometimes because of their behavior but even then while I still hold them accountable for their actions I know with the appropriate supports they would have avoided this fate
America is a failed state. Slavery never ended and mental health reform cannot occur because the prison state is contingent on exploiting the mentally ill for essentially free labor (they technically pay them like $1 a day). I truly hope that this rotten system burns to the ground so that something better can start because I genuinely believe it is beyond repair.
Can it constantly be just like slightly warm just out of the oven? If so then some kind of bread. Milk bread, sourdough, brioche, etc. I love a good shockingly fresh bread but making bread is such a chore
Deepseek gonna win the ai race
I bet AI is a factor. Their actions are too little, too late, but they’re probably worried the works they hold copyright for are being scraped through 3rd party access like these subreddits. It’s good content because it’s culturally relevant and it’s clean black and white line art (mostly) with witty dialog that’s easy to ocr. As a result they paywall everything
We all get fucked over because ai bros are unethical shitheads and they’re fighting against “we own a license to some work we didn’t create” bros who will milk a work in perpetuity while the creator gets pennies (if anything). 30 year old comics should be free at this point and copyright is fucking stupid. The AI bros will just use libgen and download the books without seeding, far more efficient than scraping a subreddit and higher definition.
Understandable
I use us rice because I live here and in terms of global warming unless there is a shortage and I have no other option it makes the most sense to use California rice
That said Japanese rice is more aromatic and has lower arsenic content so in a perfect world I would use that. However, I do not want to both contribute to the emissions of shipping rice across the globe when there is rice that is good enough plus I don’t want to contribute to taking Japanese rice away from Japan. It appears that a big contributor to the rice shortage is again capitalistic scumbaggery - both in terms of middlemen scalping with shortages occurring and the export market valuing Japanese rice as “premium”. I don’t want to contribute to that just like I won’t buy a marked up concert ticket or game console.
Tell that to yoshinoya, who has been mixing California rice into their rice for the past year with some locations using entirely American rice, or Matsuya, who have switched to American rice at many locations due to cost. Lawson is also starting to prototype bentos with rice blends. Even if the consumer takes a nationalist approach the invisible hand of capitalism will reject that for profit
And with that there’s data to suggest the consumer doesn’t reject imported rice. Aeon sold the 80/20 blend with US rice and that proved popular enough that they are now selling 4kg bags of 100% california rice due to consumer demand. The 80/20 bags were 10% cheaper, the 100% is likely far more
It is a dangerous game. This is how walmart destroyed American small business. Everyone has ideals and principles until a massive vendor with huge advantage shows up and undercuts everyone in town by 10-30%. Doesn’t matter if the product is inferior. People don’t have money
Agree, and using the rice situation as leverage is shitty tbh. It’s a crisis and while Japan is a developed nation with a relatively good standard of living for the most part it’s also one with extremely stagnant wages and economic growth, fairly significant wealth inequality, etc.
many Japanese are struggling to get by more than Americans. Though it’s hard to directly compare. The average salary in Japan in far lower than in America (~30k vs ~39k) and wages for equivalent positions are much lower (like a computer programmer who gets paid $80k for an American company might get $50-60k from a Japanese company), but the cost of living is much lower in many ways, rent costs are substantially lower (even a Tokyo apartment is like $500usd/month unless you want something crazy extravagant), robust public transit network making car ownership truly optional, healthcare system that is not ideal but has much more managed costs than the us, etc
That’s probably in part why sanseitō (think japanese maga: anti immigration (in a country that barely allows it), super nationalist (in a country that’s already crazy nationalist), anti vaccination, etc) is seriously picking up steam and just picked up several seats in the upper house, going from 1 seat to 14 at the expense of the LDP and communist party who lost seats. They ran on rhetoric similar to trump, a “silent invasion” of immigrants is “taking over Japan”. It captured their youth, who are frustrated by a lack of meaningful jobs and the reality of an economy that has been stagnant for many decades at this point (arguably caused by boomer policy and refusal to break from tradition) but instead of looking inward at what could’ve been done wrong domestically they are looking for a boogeyman to easily shift blame to. Sound familiar?
The right wing shift is not limited to America unfortunately. AfD, sanseitō, national rally, Lega, Orban and bolsonaro, etc. many of these are picking up quite a bit of steam
They will probably buy our rice
Rice situation in Japan is pretty dire atm and probably will stay that way through 2026. It’s a staple crop and prices have gone up substantially due to the shortages
It’s also not doable for me to pay for all copyrighted input so I guess it’s time to just do away with copyright