…and that means retirees will literally starve and live on the streets? I don’t think it will. It will just be less luxurious.

you might think that japanese boomers have generational wealth in form of real estate. this is not really the case, especially for rural population. houses aren’t built to last, lose value like motherfucker and are commonly demolished after 20-30 years, in part because people don’t like second hand, in part because there’s no point of building anything sturdier if typhoon or earthquake takes it. there is some newer construction that is intended to last longer, but it’s not a very common thing. so a reverse mortgage type thing won’t exist there, and yeah lots of people will get shafted by these conditions

this is an effect known for almost 60 years now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect

that’s no news, that’s China’s final warning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China’s_final_warning

landlord beige

you realize they had one in the past?

milei? bukele?

wouldn’t that add resistance to ground path (avoidably)

color-coded screws? wtf

Yea, but at this point multiple things are seriously wrong

Even worse. Orientation of pins like this is used in 240V circuit which means it has two antiphase live wires. This means that after shorting them, if one trips but not the other (if these two have independent breakers - idk if code requires otherwise) 120V is sent to device ground, and this one can be cut off by GFCI if used, but i hear it’s uncommon

If it was normal 120V circuit, breaker would cut off live and left neutral connected to device ground, which still can be some 20V depending on conditions

hot wire is in the socket, assuming it was wired correctly

this shorts live and neutral, ground pin is not even present (different shape) otoh if you need help wiring a plug, you probably shouldn’t

Radio transmission doesn’t require state-level capacity (yes there are other barriers like cost or skill) and waves don’t care about borders. Receiving foreign radio was a big thing and it doesn’t require special equipment

you don’t put these SIMs in phones, these go into dedicated devices with very limited functions that pretend to look like phones to operator, dozens per. it can work like a proxy with massive number of outputs

stuff like this https://www.vice.com/en/article/video-ukraine-busts-alleged-russian-bot-farm-using-thousands-of-sim-cards/

also, presumably lots of these cards got burned quite fast, so not all were active at the same time, and some were spares

yet another thing to blame Blavatsky for

beats lignite i guess

for gun people they surely don’t get trigger discipline

New-ish EU national IDs have NFC capability and certificate in them so you can probably sign something with that if you figure out how

ah yes that’s what 10x programmer must mean