Do note, that any "satellite trains" you see are from freshly launched satellites. The "trains" are from still relatively densely clumped satellites that are still separating from each other. After they separate, they re-orient which makes them almost invisible from the ground. You need long camera exposures or a telescope to see them at this point. They then start gradually raising their orbits to a parking orbit. After they reach a parking orbit they begin to drift the plane of their orbit so as to separate a single launch's satellites into multiple different planes, after which they then raise their orbits again into the operational orbit.
No half-baked products? Have you ever tried using the translation feature in the book app? That is the most infuriating, dumb piece of software I have seen in a long time.
I went jogging in Brooklyn (Williamsburg) and stepped on a huge rat. Poor dude was just having breakfast in one of the garbage heaps on the sidewalk. Never experienced that in Europe before.
In Utrecht The Netherlands it's common for bars and restaurants in the old town to have cats that stay with the location. Locations would change hands, and the cats stayed at that location.
I used to live there and the rodent problem is real. There was a great book about it a few years back where they wrote up a little piece on each cat at each location. And yes, I had a cat in my house because without a cat you get mice.
Paris is also notorious for its rat problem. To say that Europe doesn't have rats is just silly.
WallStreetMillenial on Youtube just had a nice explanation why comparing risk for self driving cars and human drivers is not that simple. At least for Tesla, the answer is "hell no".
To add another source, the Atlantic had a piece on birthrates in South Korea last March: https://archive.li/Fm93M
Quoting from the article:
> There are a lot of reasons people decide not to have a baby. Young Koreans cite as obstacles the high cost of housing in greater Seoul (home to roughly half the country’s 52 million citizens), the expense of raising a child in a hypercompetitive academic culture, and grueling workplace norms that are inhospitable to family life, especially for women, who are still expected to do the bulk of housework and child care. But these explanations miss a more basic dynamic: the deterioration in relations between women and men—what the Korean media call a “gender war.”
Unfortunately, there seems to be little commonality in how men and women see the issue. Hard to imagine any solution at all.
"Another economic factor in the falling birthrate is the rising price of real estate and a resulting increase in unmarried or late-marrying people. The tradition in Korea is for men to prepare a family home before marrying, and the rising cost of housing in recent years has thereby triggered a decline in marriage rates."
Not only the marriage rates. A much bigger property is needed for three children than for one, so even if poor old husband manages to scrape together enough for a one-bedroom apartment, there is a strong disincentive incentive to have two more children...
