Most haven’t been around for 25 years yet, but here’s a study on german panels at 16-20 years showing they’re just fine.

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/05/16/researchers-assess-degradation-in-pv-systems-older-than-15-years/

You can simple google it. It’s considered common knowledge at this point.

Solar panels have been out for a long time, they definitely last more than 6 years. You can easily look this up.

The warranties are usually 25 years at this point.

Maybe do some research instead of using your feelings to make every decision, you’ll get a better result.

It depends on what it is.

Role playing games are often such a form of entertainment.

It’s honestly probably better putting that amount of money into trying to get a better job over that time period via education, or taking time off to apply for new positions, or something similar.

$6000 total investment over 10 years even with decent interest on top would be made up in less than 2 years with a $5k raise.

From my time living in Japan and speaking Japanese.

Living on the west coast of Canada, where we talk about Tsunamis fairly regularly, I’ve never heard anyone add a T sound to Tsunami at the start. Only Sue-Nah-Me

It’s not at all like the T sound in Japanese followed by the S sound. The normal T sound in Japanese is pronounced by putting your tongue behind your top teeth and flicking your tongue down a bit. Tsu on the other hand starts with your tongue below your top teeth, and your cheeks pulled together a bit.

It’s also nothing like the TS in Mats in english.

Strange conceptions?

Tsunami doesn’t start with a T sound, It’s just a strange artifact of the romanization of the Japanese sounds. It’s not exactly a S sound either. The sound it’s supposed to be just doesn’t have an english equivalent at all, so they made up something close-ish but it does a poor job of communicating that.

The one Japanese mis-pronunciation that bothers me is that Tokyo only has two Syllables, To-Kyo, not To-Ky-O like almost all western people pronounce it as. Kyoto has the same problem, It’s Kyo-to, not Ky-O-To.

Some governments can do it for some industries.

Public healthcare in most developed countries is generally pretty decent, though obviously not without flaws the allocation is clearly better for society than the US private healthcare system.

For allocation of food, it’s pretty shit. Too many people want too many different things in that scenario and it has never really worked in practice.

I’ve advocated for LVT in the last couple of weeks even.

Sure, but apartments at 1000 square feet shouldn’t be unaffordable in north American cities, but they are.

Yea, the technique of the government simply owning all the land and doing all the development does work. It just can’t really be applied to any western country without a massive revolt when they confiscate all the land from private owners. The government could never afford to pay for all of it, so it would have to be seized without payment.

Vienna is not as good a situation as it may look. Their public housing stock is only great if you can’t get into it. There are waitlists years long, and you have to live in the city already to be eligible to get on the waitlist. Private housing is still expensive.

This is both false and true. Japan has a few things happening that are keeping rates lower, but the primary thing keeping costs low in Japan is the fact that the units are tiny. I’m not talking a little on the small side, I’m talking 200 square feet or less per person in a family home. No yards either.

If you compare Japan to the dwelling sizes of other nations, it’s just as bad or worse per square foot.

The end goal for solving housing should not be to make the rooms as small as possible. Especially in countries where land space isn’t the limiting factor.

This is actually a great question, but it doesn’t have one answer.

Usually people learn their first “dancing” at home from their parents or siblings, or maybe even at school at dances. Most of these are just simple movement to music, like a slow dance, or just a step back and forth kinda thing.

Usually people then pick up some sort of “moves” by seeing other people do them, often in popular media like tv shows, movies, music videos, etc.

This is where most people stop.

Then there’s the people who want to DANCE. And a lot of those go to dance studios or join a dance club as kids or youth, or even as an adult, and learn both different moves and full choreography for entire songs where there’s intentional patterns of moves in series.

Like most things these days, you can also do that alone with some youtube videos in your bedroom. If they need more space, they may go practice outside. Pick a move, learn it, pick another move, learn it. String them together into your own choreography, or copy the choreography from a video you found.

As you get a bit into the dance scene and are confident enough to do it in front of others, there start to be times and places you can go to show off. I’m not just talking about competitions, but even parties hosted just to cater to dancers. Often with specific music types for a specific type of dancing.

Dancing is awesome. I never got very good at it, but it’s very healthy.

How can someone who’s technically aware enough to be using lemmy have no awareness of what a SSD is.

Also, “what is a ssd” in Google would have answered the question instantly.

I’m not saying it’s a stupid question, it’s a good question for a lot of people who don’t know much about computers, I’m just confused as to how it was posted here.

You’re advocating for something that isn’t realistically possible, that neither side even wants, from the comfort of a country where you all but exterminated the locals and stole 99.9% of their land and now all you want is “equal rights”.

Bare minimum, the American way.

A one state solution is a pipe dream, even Ireland couldn’t figure that shit out and their differences are much smaller.

History is littered with failed one state solutions, from the USSR to the Roman empire.

America is a settler colonialism project started by British imperialism.

Equal rights and reparations for native Americans? Give me a break, how is that in any way acceptable after slaughtering them to take an entire continent?

If that’s all that’s needed, then maybe Israel should just eject all Palestinians entirely into Egypt, Jordan, etc, then send them a gift basket for a housewarming in their new location. They wouldn’t even need to kill anywhere close to the 95% of native Americans that died during the takeover of North America.