Happy [object Object] birthday!

0 * 1.25 = 0, so why not?

“You don’t need to follow anybody! You are all individuals! You are all different!”

In simplified terms, LDP is the center. Its policies span center-right and center-left. It’s basically “the government” since WW2 and swings between left and right depending on the specific PM and their faction.

Encouraging. However, there seems to be a question missing in the discussion: why aren’t more people taking the reduced hour offerings?

According to the report itself, after the first stage of trial, 86% of the working population started to negotiate for reduced hours, of the people surveyed, 51% were offered reduced hours and only 14% took them. It’s an unprecedented large proportion, but still less than one would expect given the benefits. There are other factors preventing people to do so. I hope there will be a follow-up research to find out why.

So the endorsement ban publicized their stance even more widely. I don’t even know whom any other newspaper endorsed.

A rare shot showing sandworms forming a pattern known as OwO.

This is a triumph. I’m making a note here, “HUGE SUCCESS”.

Bullshit Jobs get bullshit treatment.

J Moore, the Moore in the wildly used Boyer-Moore string search algorithm, has a first name of a single letter, J. It’s not an abbreviation.

It really is like that. I found a report on People.cn from 2015. I guess it’s just the impact range is expanding. Personally I only heard of people experiencing this post-covid.

For people not in public sectors, application for passports are okay-ish.

For others, I can only speculate. Most of the public sector workers already have passports from years ago. I don’t know if they have any kind of restrictions on new applications. To me, the Immigration Administration of the Ministry of Public Safety (who issues passports) feels more like a “routine” type of branch of the central government, but I could be wrong.

It’s been that way since 3 or 4 years ago. The way it works is that you’ll hand in the passport and if you want to use it, you’d have to apply for it. The party branch (党委) usually has quotas for each year and therefore will seek excuses to reject the application.

Now don’t look at the lamp next to your sofa too closely.

Your money at least.

// TODO: Leave the code cleaner than you found

Yeah, I mean platforms accessible without so many hoops to jump through.

It’s believed that Glassdoor’s business model is to charge companies for removing bad reviews. So how much value can the rating provide is questionable in the first place.

Personally, for big companies, there are always people writing their work experiences on an open platform. For small companies, it’s unlikely to find a relevant review, if any, on Glassdoor anyway. So I never bothered to use it.

The true fediverse: in JPEG we trust.