You’re asking me to put forward arguments against my own thesis? That’s your job if you disagree. So far all you’ve contributed is “ackshually you can’t speak Japanese, so you don’t know anything”.

For your information, I’ve spent hundreds if not thousands of hours split across several years learning the Japanese language and culture, because in the past I was genuinely interested in moving there.

I thought the topic here was quality of life, not economic output. And there’s simply no comparison to be made. Westerners like to fantasize about Japan being very cultured and civilized, unlike us barbarians. However, reality couldn’t be further from the truth.

No hate towards Japanese people, but the country itself is pretty much a dystopia, close to South Korea. Japanese society is filled to the brim with erotic and pornographic content, to the point where reading/watching hentai is sometimes considered a regular hobby.

They study more, work more and have less free time. “* Full-time workers in Japan typically work 44.9 hours each week.” (Source: https://electroiq.com/stats/japans-workforce-statistics/). This is considerably more than all of Europe.

This, and more, contributes to extremely high suicide rates among young people, breaking records every year (Source: https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20251027/p2a/00m/0na/005000c).

Recommend watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUJaRHQhec8. I wouldn’t call it amazing, but does a good enough job of highlighting some of Japan’s pressing issues, most of which are unheard of in the EU.

As a European, I find a comparison to Japan a bit offensive. Have we fallen that low?

Not at all surprising for anyone who followed this company for a while. They’ve pretty much been all marketing. The phones are far from what they are advertised to be. Hell, it’d be great if they at least worked properly.

Personally I think it’ll be one of the bigger Chinese OEMs. Their phones have gotten a lot better recently, and security is pretty much the only thing they’re lacking. A move like this would perfectly fit some of their strategies.

We’ll see what happens. I’m enjoying analyzing the market to speculate which company it may be.

Before reading this, it would have never occurred to me that anyone even considered this possibility. And thank God it’s not happening. Their phones are abysmal dogshit.

Wikipedia says:

In the United States, a recession is defined as “a significant decline in economic activity spread across the market, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales.” The European Union has adopted a similar definition. In the United Kingdom and Canada, a recession is defined as negative economic growth for two consecutive quarters.

So technically, looks like there isn’t a recession. Though a huge chunk of US GDP is just imaginary and doesn’t represent any value, so realistically probably yes.

Not European, but also not American and not Tesla. I guess that’s progress. Not like we have serious European options unfortunately.

Americans are taught from early ages that everywhere life is considerably worse than in the USA. Plus, half of them can barely afford food. How are they supposed to buy a plane ticket?

Can you show us an example for reference?

I mean, wouldn’t you be depressed after slaughtering several clearly unarmed families?

I guess it’s to be expected. Boomers were raised in pure bliss, spent half their lives relatively stress-free. Everything was easy and cheap. When you live an easy life, you get used to being dumb, uninformed and lazy. The same would have probably happened to all zoomers in the same situation.

Note that this is mostly specific to North America, Western Europe, Japan and maybe a few other countries. Pretty much everywhere else boomers aren’t all that different from zoomers, save for regular intergenerational differences.

To be fair, a lot of jobs in capitalist societies are indeed pointless. Some of them even actively do nothing but subtract value from society.

That said, people still need to make a living and his piece of shit artificial insanity is only making it more difficult. How about stop starving people to death and propose solutions to the problem?

Unless you calculate it using the Nintendo formula, in which case you owe them $3 million.

Why would your ISP do that?

More like “EU leaders and US puppets” divided. At this point, you literally have to be an American asset to not see that relying on the US is a road to nothing but ruin.

The US economy is basically just a handful of oligarchs. AI seems to be doing wonders for it. The actual economy has been stagnant or in decline for a while.

A typical phone battery is rated for about 500 (you can massively improve this by not charging it beyond 80%).

This 80% thing is incredibly simplified and not even always accurate. Personally I charge to about 95% and my phone batteries remain at 98-100% condition after 2 years of everyday use.

Limiting yourself to 80% doesn’t really make sense. You’re losing 20% capacity instantly, instead of losing it slowly over a few years. To be fair, a lot of people treat their devices so poorly that they may hit the 80% in less than 12 months, so I guess there’s that.

So you’re telling me it’s all good if I do it only once or twice? Sign me up.