Totally agree. Constantly amazed by the number of people that don't realise that data is routinely generated for every individual system. If the gov wanted to know who has left the country more than 4 times per year, it would be trivial. To answer some of the questions raised by this video would just be a more complicated & expensive query, presuming they had access to all the databases, which is just a matter of "I need access to that database". It blows me away how much people read into the dystopian view without stopping to realise nothing has changed except the hype machine is turned up louder.

Great idea... not gonna happen 😆 Just left Japan, can't wait to get back, might buy a house there?, digi nomad visa was great step, but none of those things are happening annnnnytime soon. Which is such a shame, cos yeah, they have so much to loose, it would fix shit for a while, buy they still have the worlds worst spending problem, thats what they actually have to fix first.

Not hundreds, thousands. Bit trickier to work the catch and release policy, but they won't nest in the room, more likely in a roof vent or something. Doubt a second friend makes much of a diff, there will be a dozen in or under the house. Play on!

Rad university. I was doing some work there just the other day.

Betteridge's law will help here.

Argentinians will immediately recognise the problem here. Stickers over menu prices means inflation. Seeing this in Japan? That’s a red-flag, for all of us, everywhere.

In Australia the entire east side of the country is a network that has a spot price mostly un-tampered with except for some inter-state fees the governments charge each other for their energy investments. We have a ton of solar (and wind) and in summer our prices regularly go negative during the day (paid to consume). Solar farms get kicked off the grid to prevent over-voltage (I'm sure they mine when that happens). There is no more economic incentive to put in more solar, but there's growing incentive to add batteries for the peak in electricity consumption that comes just after the sun goes down. Australians are lucky that the majority have their own roof (and lots of sun), rather than another apartment above them and a lot of Australians have put their own solar systems up as a solution to their own energy costs. There was a good effort by the state governments to install smart usage meters on each house for accurate billing and now that we experience huge price spikes in the peak periods that are measured and billed accurately, battery installations are rapidly gaining pace. It's got its merits. I'd like to see us continue with solar as a default addition to our housing infrastructure development instead of a substitute for major energy projects.