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Cake day: August 12th, 2023

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  • Authorities in Japan have raided six of the country’s largest ice-cream firms for allegedly colluding to raise the price of their products, provoking anger from frozen snack aficionados as they face a cruel summer ahead.

    Officials from the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) on Tuesday carried out searches of the corporate headquarters of Akagi Nyugyo, Ezaki Glico, Lotte, Meiji, Morinaga Milk Industry and Morinaga & Co due to suspicions they had violated antimonopoly laws.

    Akagi Nyugyo was the ice cream company that publicly apologized for raising the price of their ice cream ¥10. Hopefully this humbles them again.








  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    2 days ago

    There is something between this and redneck engineering where a piece of plywood has ATX holes for a mobo cooled by a standing fan. The electric guts hanging out in the open, a danger to me and itself. Mounted to a wall like a warped portrait of a landscape that no one sees. The future is not shiny and chrome but it works.


  • The drivetrain doesn’t have a place to live. The nose of a truck holds the guts, freeing up space for load in the other half. Moving the guts to a cab-over would shrink the available engine size. Having all the power train to one side would require entirely new engineering to have 2 double length axles with no counter spinning force, so torque on the frame would twist the chassis up at the far point like a lever.

    Or it would be underpowered to prevent it, effectively a kei truck engine in a full sized truck body. It is going to work much harder in some way to be as successful as existing trucks.