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In the meantime Chinese companies built warehouses in Europe, which are importing the cheap goods en grosse.

They probably weren't, at least for the things being described here, as the article is talking about de minimis.

The de minimis exception basically let low-value packages through without paying import tariffs.

There's some reason to do that

it'd be more expensive to process the (many) low-value packages.

However, this also meant that if someone imported something in small, low-value amounts, they didn't have to pay import tariffs, whereas people doing bulk imports did.

This was a major reason for use of the explosion of Chinese online retailers in the West, like Temu. They'd sell something that was shipped directly from China, which meant that they didn't need to pay import tariffs on it. Traditional importers would import a large batch and would need to pay import tariffs, and then distribute the large batch from within the country in question, which penalized traditional retail.

Also sometimes called "as the crow flies" vs "as the wolf runs".

D&D was optimized for pencil-and-paper-and-dice play. I mean, it has to keep the math simple to keep the game going.

I think that a ruleset optimized for computer RPGs would probably look somewhat different.

12 April 1984: Arson. – The Almirante Brown Station (Estación Científica Almirante Brown) is an Argentine research station located on the Coughtrey Peninsula by Paradise Harbour. The station's original facilities were burned down by the station's leader and doctor on 12 April 1984 after he was ordered to stay for the winter.[18] The station personnel were rescued by the ship Hero and taken to Palmer Station, an American research station on Anvers Island.[19] The stations are about 58 km (36 mi) apart.

Dang. What year did The Thing come out?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(1982_film)

The Thing is a 1982 American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter from a screenplay by Bill Lancaster.

Now imagine that it's 1984. The Thing just came out in the past two years, and then you hear that that happened, that someone just burned down their Antarctic research base and that the survivors are going to a nearby American research base.

It's a little like being an ocelot. Less fur, though.

You can see every hop an IP packet takes at IP level with traceroute or mtr.

James Mabey, a policy analyst at National Energy Action, a fuel poverty charity, said: “The consequences of energy debt include cold homes,

Right now, cold homes would be fantastic.

My guess is that the great bulk of the anti-AI stuff originates with people who are scared of losing their jobs in some way.

has now gone on longer than both the Soviet fight against Nazi Germany and all of World War I.

While it sounds a bit awkward, I expect that the "Soviet fight against Nazi Germany " roughly-approximates to "The Great Patriotic War".

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/f4252dd1-2503-470c-b29f-4192df67d362.png

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/7e1e6b9f-de68-4061-930e-528f0db5fc41.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinecure

Wikipedia has a list for various countries, including the UK and Canada, and the Chief Mouser isn't on there, so I think it's reasonable to assume that he actually does do work.

The Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, on the other hand, does make the list.

An air-conditioned room in a city hall in Paris became a makeshift cooling center on Thursday.

I feel like maybe there's a market for climate-controlled Internet cafes in Paris, if people just want to hang out in an air-conditioned environment and mess around on their laptops and phones. Sell snacks or whatever.

What about movie theaters? Those pack in a lot of people too, and I bet that they have air conditioning.

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https://www.screendaily.com/news/french-heatwave-sends-audiences-to-air-conditioned-cinemas/5218077.article

French heatwave sends audiences to air-conditioned cinemas

Record-breaking high temperatures across France in late June have sent theatrical admissions soaring as local audiences flock to cinemas, among the few places in the country with air conditioning.

Three million admissions or approximately €22.2m ticket sales based on an average price of €7.40, were clocked over the week between June 17 and 23, up 52% compared to the previous week according to figures from Rentrak. That is 54% more than the same week last year when 1.95 million tickets were sold.

“The fact that cinemas are air-conditioned is so ingrained in people’s minds in France now that when the weather gets warmer, going to the movies becomes a natural reflex,” Marti suggested.

The mayor of Paris’ 10th arrondissement has offered free cinema tickets to residents of the central Paris neighbourhood under 25 years old or over age 65, pregnant women and disabled people at three theatres L’Archipel, le Brady and le Louxor. The initiative is called “Ciné-clim” with “clim” being a slang for “climatisation” which means air conditioning in French.

Sounds like they're already on it.