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ncoca

@ncoca@social.coop

Asia-focused (🇯🇵🇲🇾🇮🇩 & #Tibet) global #journalist covering #environment, #energy #sustainability #HumanRights & supply chains. DM for Signal 🔑

Location: Usually #Japan, sometimes California or #Indonesia. searchable via tootfinder.ch

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ncoca, to microsoft
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Does #Microsoft #Word no longer allows people to open .ODT files? Have, a few times, had to safe .ODT files as .DOCX via LibreOffice so that Word users could open it.

.ODT is an open source file format, so its a deliberate choice for Word to not be compatible.

Why do people pay for a shitty product that lacks such basic functionality?

ncoca, to random
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Absolutely insane - only 10% of American men eat enough vegetables. Being unhealthy is somehow "masculine"

ncoca,
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@BMBengtsson I think its this - https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7101a1.htm

ncoca, to Japan
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The worst type of in are the westerners who complain about tourists (quite often, actually , or but they don't know or care to tell the difference) and don't realize that it's actually them who are the most annoying.

I see way more bad or stupid behavior, especially in , from western tourists than Asian tourists.

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@skinnylatte wow, really? One of my first SE Asian memories is how, back in 2006, when volunteering in rural Thailand, the Korean in our group was, by far, the most popular with locals, as even then Korean dramas were huge.

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@Blf_tpe Indeed! Especially and - the relationship between them has really improved in the past ~5 years. Koreans alone were 30-40% of inbound tourists in March (Asian countries were 8 of the top 10).

Asian tourists also travel to more parts of , while westerners mostly go to the same 4-5 places.

ncoca, to Japan
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Tourists and expats always complain about how cash-dependent is, but after visiting and for the first times in years, noticed that both countries are similar. Stark contrast from and where digital payments have taken over the markets.

Is it a cultural thing that differentiates these countries from others?

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@bikejourno Interesting! is my missing country in SE Asia. Though now that I think about it, when in Sulawesi last year () it was also mostly cash, unlike QR-code crazy .

ncoca, to climate
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Stunning. 34% of the population in Chinese prisons are , who make up ~1-2% of the population.

China has a top-down strategy to, basically, criminalize an entire ethnic group and, with time, eliminate their unique cultural, religious, and social identity.

Partnering or working with the Chinese government means supporting these genocidal policies. That includes & groups, too.

https://uhrp.org/insights/uhrp-analysis-finds-1-in-26-uyghurs-imprisoned-in-region-with-worlds-highest-prison-rate/

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@gwit from the body "Uyghurs, Turkic and other non-Han people’s account for 1% of the overall population of China, but comprise 33.7% of the national prison population;"

ncoca, to Bangladesh
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In additional to being able to respond to emails and not being entirely dependent on Bangladeshis also don't constantly misspell my name (unlike North Indians.)

gombang, to random
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Learning another Austronesian language should be easy. Or maybe not.

I have been exposed to sundanese for years and still don't speak it.

ncoca,
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@ton @gombang Was that Mandarin or Hokkien they were speaking? I was impressed to find Hokkien still so widely spoken in Medan when there!

ncoca,
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@ton @gombang They're actually quite different - almost as different as Japanese and Korean.

ncoca, to chinese
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The idea of any democratic government essentially an app or platform for political reasons is deeply worrying $ hypocritical

Yet, I strongly freel something has to be done about TikTok, and its potential as a tool in state-led campaigns. But there's a more fundamental problem. Why should TikTok have access to the US, Japanese & European markets when platforms like , , & can't be used in China?

https://thediplomat.com/2024/04/reciprocal-access-how-to-deal-with-tiktok-and-other-chinese-apps-fairly-and-democratically/

ncoca, to China
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Am I surprised that the its a far-right party who, via a middleman, was getting money from the ?

Not at all. The and 's rulers are natural allies - patriarchal, hyper-nationalist, ethnocentric, Han/Aryan-supremacists.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68880086

ncoca, to China
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A reminder: this is what #China considers a "#crime" in #Xinjiang. #Islam #Uyghurs #human rights

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/butcher-released-04222024164401.html

ncoca, to TikTok
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I've dipped into the debate, with a unique proposal. No ban, instead, mandate reciprocity.

Liberal democracies should restrict TikTok and other Chinese apps like and from accessing their digital markets until allows foreign platforms like , , , and equal and fair access to the Chinese market.

Read my entire piece in The Diplomat 👇

https://thediplomat.com/2024/04/reciprocal-access-how-to-deal-with-tiktok-and-other-chinese-apps-fairly-and-democratically/

ncoca,
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@gombang to me, the bigger question is - why haven't tech giants pushed/lobbied for this?

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@gombang i guess not! It's truly perplexing how different physical and digital goods are treated in international trade.

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@hope1640 Doesn't have to be the US - why not Europe? Or Japan? Both face the same issues - lack of fair access to China's digital market.

ncoca, to Japan
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I'd always wondered why it seems like, despite their limited size, environmental in would all put out basically the same report, or press release, on the same issues, leaving so many others untouched. Why not diversify a little and broaden, instead of all pushing the same message?

Now I've figured out why. Because they're getting funding from the same sources, who's pushing that issue.

(the one exception seems to be https://www.renewable-ei.org)

ncoca,
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@BMBengtsson Welcome! I'm enjoying it here more than Twitter, and hope to see the Japan community here grow

ncoca,
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@BMBengtsson the science community is strong here, lots of great, active, climate/sustainability experts.

ncoca, to workersrights
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Amazing to see the finally taking forced seriously. Knowing what I do about the organization, this is a huge shift and one that, I imagine, only happened due to the dedicated work of academics and activists on this issue.

https://jamestown.org/program/updated-ilo-forced-labor-guidelines-directly-target-uyghur-forced-labor/

skinnylatte, to indonesia
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This Indonesian urban planner in NL is doing walking tours of Amsterdam, of places that have connections with Indonesia

https://vev.co/amsterdam-den-haag-indonesia-tour-nl

ncoca,
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@skinnylatte dang, which I knew about this when we were passing through amsterdam a few months ago!

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