An increasing number of Japanese companies are adopting “health management” strategies that prioritize employee well-being as a core business objective to boost recruitment and improve workplace wellness.

A national cap on overtime hours has come into effect on Japan’s trucking industry, with an outsize impact on the challenging environment of Hokkaido.

Have they violated any state laws? If they committed crimes against people of countries governed by the international criminal court, can they be tried in the Hague?

This is why I don’t like reading romance.

RFK Jr is not a physician. Not a scientist. He’s made a living profiting off of lies and fear.

But now he’s in this unearned position of power, so it’s important to have a pediatrician you can trust. Plus a good primary care doc for grownups. And please follow trusted medical/science accts here. 💙

It’s really not much we can do about it, especially with all the (figurative) fires we have to put out here

I just wanted to check and see if I was mistaken, but you’ve confirmed I was right. No parrots for me.

Thank you for confirming the conclusion I already made. I don’t have the kind of life conducive to a parrot well-being. And it’s questionable whether they should be in captivity at all.

With perhaps the exception of unlimited grains of Ukrainian lead

Is there a parrot species that makes a good pet and can talk but doesn’t require huge amounts of human attention? I know that cockatoos, for example, are so social that even given food and water if left alone for a couple days, they can die of grief.