Related: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/japanese-adoption-rates-majority-adult-men-a7524301.html

98% of all Japanese adoptions are employers adopting the adult men on their staff, not children

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Some of Japan’s most famous companies have remained a “family-run” businesses because of “mukoyoshi,” such as carmaker Toyota, which was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda in 1937.

Suzuki is also famously run by adopted sons — in fact, the current chairman and CEO Osamu Suzuki is the fourth consecutively adopted son to run the group.

I work at a big company. We have tons and tons of problems to go solve that are getting little attention in addition to having a lot of redundant and/or “what would you say you do here” type positions. Most of this happens by accident, but it’s nearly impossible to unwind and redeploy those teams. My guess is that the big reasons why is because of leadership not wanting to look bad - a mix of “why did you staff this to begin with?” and “why did you let this go on for so long?” When these groups are eventually found during a reorg they tend to be let go vs redeployed, which makes it even harder for the remaining groups to do anything. The cycle is truly silly.

How complex are the things you’re looking at modeling in CAD? I bought a used Dell Latitude 7400 with an i5 to putter around on when I don’t want to sit in front of my fixed position tower. It’s truly not a very impressive device from a specifications perspective, but it runs fusion 360 well enough for basic CAD work (single, non-complex components). Fusion 360 has given me warnings about the computer specs, but I haven’t run into any performance issues.

You’ll want an external mouse, but that’s not a big deal.

I haven’t tried loading a larger model on it though. I suspect it would work, but it would struggle a bit more.

If you’re going to get a laptop, I suggest buying an “enterprise” model. They’re generally better built than the consumer models.

Samsung phones are largely assembled in Vietnam. It looks like they’re one of the few phone companies not relying on China though.

Having kids of our own did change this for us some, but when Mom/Dad/MIL/FIL asks you to do something you’ll still do it. There’s also nothing like goofing around with people you grew up goofing around with.

Certification to be a bartender? Where at? I worked in the restaurant business for a decent amount of time when I was younger. The restaurant I worked at had a training regime for bartenders so they would learn how to pour accurately and learn the recipes for a ton of drinks, but it wasn’t mandated by the government. Front of house staff from several establishments in the area would hang out and our restaurants were far more lax.

Haha, I was trying to post a summary vs rehashing one of the million recipes you can find on the Internet. Let me try restating them a bit more explicitly:

1. Start softening your desire amount of butter in the bottom of the stand mixer. If you don’t have a stand mixer, put the butter in the bottom of a large bowl. Set aside
2. Optional: add minced rosemary and/or roasted garlic and such to the bowl
3. Add cold water to the pot you’re going to boil your potatoes in. Large pot = good. Add salt to this water if desired
4. Get a cutting board, a potato peeler (optional), and a knife. Chef knife = good
5. Peel potatoes with a knife or a potato peeler. The only exception I make for this is for red potatoes, but even then I peel half
6. Dice the peeled potatoes using the knife and cutting board. Add to the pot from step #2
7. Put pot on stove and bring to a boil using high heat
8. Boil the potatoes until they cleve cleanly with a fork. You’re not going for mush/butter soft, but you also don’t want a crunch as you slice them
9. Drain the potatoes and dump them in the bowl from step 1. Let rest a few minutes to soften the butter.
10. Mash some to make sure the butter is melted
11. Add milk as necessary and mash. Don’t overdo the mashing!

Anything you need to do beyond Rufus or the like for installation? How did activation, auto updates, etc work?

It’s also CPU generation, unless that’s changed since the last time I looked.

It looks like I’m the odd person out: I cut my potatoes before boiling and use a KitchenAid stand mixer for the mashing. My mashed taters are usually soft/fluffy/yummy.

For mashing, less is more. If you know this going in, there’s no harm to using a stand mixer.

Put your desire amount of butter in the bottom of the stand mixer. Peel, slice and add to cold water. Salt if desired. Boil until they cleve cleanly with a fork. Drain, dump on butter, let rest a few minutes to soften the butter. Mix and add milk as necessary. A little minced rosemary with the potatoes when they go into the stand mixer is 👌

Volt owner checking in. I do one pedal driving 95% of the time and you’re right. My brake disks are in rough shape because they see so little use.

What industry/retion do you work in? I’m over the Midwest and was in the office today in jeans and a graphic tee.

I subscribed to the communities I care the most about and sort by subscribed and new. That said, across 20 communities it’s probably something like 10-15 new posts per day so after I get through those and interact it’s off to all.

But I do try to engage in the communities I want to see grow.

But but but… I want the little offshoot niche community to grow! I also want content to get seen by more than 5 people.

In reality there just isn’t the user mass to make small/niche communities viable right now, so you see more general communities filling the void.

An easy example is 3D printing. There are two 3D printing communities in the lemmyverse. There’s also a ‘fix my print’ community that’s a ghost town and a few printer specific communities that are also ghost towns. Posts in these more specialized communities tend to get a consistent level of votes, but very few comments.

I’ve intentionally been trying to seed more content, but it’s hard without literally posting the same thing in two spots.

Things are generally cheaper when you buy more of them. It’s true that once you pass a certain threshold this isn’t as significant, but that threshold can be pretty high.

Then you get into things like commodities trading (eg buying and maybe even selling futures), which is something Starbucks engages in. It would be very hard for a small shop to participate in commodities trading (barriers of entry due to size, time in the day, etc), let alone do it well.

There’s also a bunch of little things that ar a “do it once for all stores” or “do it once for a single store”. At a mom and pop that usually means that they won’t be able to do it as well as a bigger store because of time and resource constraints.

Their fillings are freely available on their website and will give you some insights, but they don’t get anywhere close to their unit price for coffee.

That said, their most recent 10-Q says things like

Depending on market conditions, we may enter into coffee forward contracts, futures contracts and collars to hedge anticipated cash flows under our price-to- be-fixed green coffee contracts, which are described further in Note 5.

They do the same for other commodities. It would probably be difficult for a small scale player to participate effectively, if at all, in reading commodities to try to minimize commodity cost.

https://investor.starbucks.com/financial-data/sec-filings/default.aspx

This thing looks very slapped together. I agree that there is potentially opportunity, but I would be very cautious of the structural integrity. It’s possible the person who did this was short on funds but knew what they were doing. It’s also possible they were just winging it.

Surprisingly, they’re still in the top 10 most visited websites. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-visited_websites

Our closest store is exactly like that and the staff found out a week or so that the location is going to be closing in like a month.

Different people can have different cycle lengths, durations, and intensity/pain/flow during ones period.

All those things can also vary for the same person month to month and it can get even more variable as you move between life events (having kids, getting older).