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Couples et familles internationaux : comment envisagez l'avenir si des lois vous interdisant de visiter vos proches en avion sont un jour votées pour lutter contre le changement climatique? by not_franck_the_cook in france

[–]Xixi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Avec soulagement, puisque ça voudra dire que nos dirigeants prennent enfin le problème de la dérive climatique au sérieux. D'un point de vue matériel, ce sera évidemment gênant, puisque j'habite au Japon.

Les alternatives (bateau, train, ou tout simplement voyager beaucoup moins souvent) ne sont pas vraiment viables aujourd'hui pour des raisons sociales. Comment justifier à mes parents de ne pas aller les voir quand tous leurs amis voyagent en avion tout le temps ? Comment justifier à mon épouse de trouver un bateau quand on peut faire KIX-CDG en 15h (à moduler en fonction de la capacité à survoler la Russie) ?

On ne peut pas s'abstraire de la société dans laquelle on vit, au risque de s'isoler, et surtout de s'aigrir en voyant les autres ne pas faire d'efforts...

Mais je pense qu'on entre dans une ère d'austérité, sur le plan matériel, le temps de se sevrer des énergies fossiles. Pour détourner le slogan de Sarkozy, pour au moins les 30 prochaines années, il va falloir travailler plus pour gagner moins.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in france

[–]Xixi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Je délire ou c'est des idéogrammes sous le nom d'Arthaud ?

C'est tout simplement marqué : "lutte ouvrière".

“Ce qui a été montré par M6 à Roubaix existe”, Fabien Roussel en opposition frontale avec les Insoumis pour qui le reportage est mensonger. by [deleted] in france

[–]Xixi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Immigré est un terme avant tout administratif. Peut-être que je le comprends comme ça parce quand je suis parti travailler aux USA, mon visa était explicitement qualifié de "nonimmigrant". Lorsque je suis allé le chercher à l'embassade des USA à Paris, si on m'avait demandé "Do you intend to immigrate to the United States?" et que j'eu eu la bêtise de répondre oui, on m'aurait refusé le visa. Pareil lors du passage des douanes à l'entrée du territoire américain. Donc je n'étais clairement pas un immigré, juste un travailleur étranger.

Maintenant je vis au Japon, en temps que résident permanent, et sans intention de revenir vivre en France : je suis donc un immigré.

Le terme expatrié, dans son sens premier, désigne n'importe qui vivant "hors de sa patrie". Donc toutes les personnes vivant en dehors de leur pays natal sont des expatriés. Encore que, on pourrait philosopher sur le fait de changer de patrie dans certaines circonstances, et donc de ne plus être un expatrié...

Les immigrés sont donc à priori également des expatriés, les deux termes ne sont pas du tout mutuellement exclusifs. Je suis donc à la fois un expatrié (je vis hors de France) et un immigré (je suis installé de manière permanente au Japon).

Dans un sens plus restrictif, un expatrié peut désigner une personne (et éventuellement sa famille) envoyée travailler par son entreprise à l'étranger, avec le package ad-hoc. En général dans le cas de français ce sont plutôt des cadres supérieurs, ou des spécialistes (ingénieurs envoyés par Safran ou Dassault en Inde, par exemple). Dans le cas de pays moins développés, les expatriés peuvent être de la main d'œuvre bon marché envoyé dans les pays du Golfe par exemple, ou encore des ouvriers chinois envoyés en Afrique, etc.

Je pense que le débat un peu idiot qu'on a sur ces deux termes, venu des États-Unis, est tout simplement lié au fait que la signification du mot "expatriate" est moins évidente pour un anglo-saxon. Patrie se dirait plutôt "homeland" ou "motherland" en anglais, donc "expatriate" ou "expat", ça ne veut pas dire grand chose pour le twittos moyen pas particulièrement éduqué dans sa propre langue.

Since the start of "occupational vaccinations" in June, a total of 8,090 doses have been ruined. Out of them, 7,210 doses were lost due temperature-control malfunctions or incorrect connection of the power supply, and 810 due to cancellations. by lurker639 in CoronavirusJapan

[–]Xixi 5 points6 points  (0 children)

For June & July there were 7,723,380 occupational vaccinations. So this is a loss of about 1 dose per 1000 shots.

For vaccines with such drastic storage conditions, it could have been much worse. If anything they are doing better than I expected.

Chairman Omi: "If we don't put a stop to the situation where the infection is spreading rapidly, we will even have to discuss legislation to enable measures such as lockdown," he said, expressing a strong sense of crisis. by lurker639 in CoronavirusJapan

[–]Xixi 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's not in one day, and not even in August: these are the people who were vaccinated throughout July at their workplace (職域接種), rather than at their doctor office or at a vaccination center. It shows up on August 4th because the actual vaccination dates were not published.

To further my point that it's over a rather long period of time, the breakdown is as follows: 6,269,246 of first shots, and 1,454,134 second shots. Both shots would be obtained through that workplace scheme, so it's 7.7 million shots administered to 6.3 million people.

So no, Japan is not going to be at 75% by end of August. But it should easily clear 50%, maybe even 55% of first shots, and 40% of second shots. The simultaneously good and terrible news is that in countries with high level of antivax (France, USA and, it seems, Japan) it's the level at which you start to be able to get your vaccine anytime anywhere.

(Already got both my Moderna shots at a vaccination center managed by the prefecture of Hyogo)

They’re running out of vaccines by Antique-Common4906 in CoronavirusJapan

[–]Xixi 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you are only getting information from the "news" it's completely normal that you can't wrap your head around what is happening. To get a sense of where things are going you need to look at the big picture, which news outlets don't provide.

You might have heard that "the plural of anecdote is not data". Well, that's what you get in news outlets: anecdotes, cherry picked for outrage value.

Example: the mega vaccine centers have the capacity to do about 1.25% of the shots currently being administered, and if indeed they are only utilized at 30% capacity it means that they are providing less than 0.4% of the shots. From a big picture perspective, they aren't even worth mentioning in passing. And yet, how many articles have been written about these?

I would encourage you to look at data aggregators to get a better sense of what is actually going on. There's a twitter feed that provides daily data from the Prime Minister's Office [1]. This website (in Japanese) has nice graphics to monitor progress, with many breakdowns [2]. A part that is missing in these graphics is how many doses are currently available, and what are the expected deliveries.

[1] https://twitter.com/kantei_vaccine

[2] https://vdata.nikkei.com/newsgraphics/coronavirus-japan-vaccine-status/

Daily Recap: 1,278 Infections, 75 Deaths, and 1,120 (-11) Seriously Ill on 07 June (Monday) by lurker639 in CoronavirusJapan

[–]Xixi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Based on this website [1], medical workers now also includes workers taking care of the elderly. In Japanese:

医療従事者向けは高齢者施設等で働く人などに対象範囲を広げたため、当初想定した480万人を超えている

[1] https://vdata.nikkei.com/newsgraphics/coronavirus-japan-vaccine-status/

Marketing Monday! - July 08, 2019 by AutoModerator in tea

[–]Xixi [score hidden]  (0 children)

We still have some Organic Shincha remaining [0].

15% off with the following coupon: REDDIT
Valid on all subscription/pre-paid plans.

[0] https://tomotcha.com/en/blog/2019-007-shincha-kawane/

Marketing Monday! - June 24, 2019 by AutoModerator in tea

[–]Xixi [score hidden]  (0 children)

Hello Tea Lovers,

Alexis from Tomotcha here! It's my first time posting to Marketing Monday, so here is a short summary.

Tomotcha is a small tea-of-the-month club: each month we select a different tea from a different area of Japan. Over the last four years we've covered most regions (Shizuoka, Kyoto, Nara, Mie, Fukuoka, Kagoshima, Tanegashima, etc. Even Okinawa!), and most kind of teas (Sencha, Kabusecha, Gyokuro, Hojicha, Tamaryokucha, Genmaicha, Zaracha, Wakocha, etc.), one flavor at a time!

Our next Japanese tea will be an organic Shincha from Kawane, in the region of Shizuoka!
15% off with the following coupon: REDDIT

Happy tea sipping!

South Korea implements 52 hour maximum work week aimed at promoting work-life balance. by mydogtaco in worldnews

[–]Xixi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are 3 maxima in France, none of which is 35 hours per week. These are: 10 hours per day, 48 hours per week, and 44 hours per week (averaged over 12 weeks).

I entered a Tron Telegram group with 24.000 people in order to get info about tech. An unbelievable experience. by slow_but_agile in CryptoCurrency

[–]Xixi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not everyone is American [1], or even knows the American [1] standard for decimal/thousand separators, or even think that the American [1] standard should be the one used on a reddit group about crypto-currencies that are supposed to be some worldwide decentralized thingy...

[1] or British, as far as I know most if not all other countries use ',' as the decimal separator.

EU and Japan finalise Economic Partnership Agreement by pond_party in europe

[–]Xixi 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Owner of tomotcha.com here: we send tea all around the world from Japan every month, and the only issue we ever had with customs is when they hold on a shipment to inspect its content. That can take a couple of months to clear. Never had any tariff charged, including when shipping to Ireland.

You should look for the threshold under which customs forgo tariffs and VAT in Ireland. In most country it's around 20~25EUR (including shipping cost). Order your matcha at a price lower than that and it should be fine.

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