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After struggling to find staff during the pandemic, businesses in Singapore have increasingly turned to robots to help carry out a range of tasks, from surveying construction sites to scanning library bookshelves. The city-state relies on foreign workers but their number fell by 235,700 between December 2019 and September 2021, according to the manpower ministry, which notes how COVID-19 curbs have sped up "the pace of technology adoption and automation" by companies.

‘Robots filling gaps in Singapore's workforce after COVID-19 disruptions’, ABC

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Make something from nothing! A reminder why Conservatism doesn't work.

Written by Ashton Deroy There are some groups of people. Such as Communists that will lump in Conservatives with Liberals. In assessing these people with their ideology. They insist Conservatives and Liberals are cooperating in Capitalist Tyranny. I don’t agree. In Previous statements Socialists Loots has also stated some agreement here. ‘Make something from nothing.” I used to write about how…

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Pakistan minister likely to visit China to quell bomb blast after effects - Times of India

NEW DELHI: Pakistan foreign minister Ishaq Dar is expected to visit China amid the growing safety concern among Chinese firms following the recent terrorist attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which killed 5 Chinese engineers.Dar will make the visit to express solidarity with his counterpart and discuss the prevailing situation, reported news agency ANI citing the Balochistan Post.In the wake of the…

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We need more non-merit based diversity hires also.

Someone should do a compilation of Boeing Jets falling apart with Benny Hill kazoo music in the background.

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Help (not) wanted

New item:

Shelf: 334.41 STR Help (not) wanted : immigration politics in Japan. by Michael Strausz.

Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, 2019. ISBNs: 9781438475516 (hardcover) ; 9781438475523 (paperback)

xv, 197 pages : maps, charts ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-182) and index (183-197). Text in English.

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Subject: A funeral, What is Hamas, foreign workers, Bedouin and the occupied areas 3.11.2023

Subject: A funeral, What is Hamas, foreign workers, Bedouin and the occupied areas

  I slept badly in  spite of having taken a pill and my leg kept cramping up. My alarm went off and it took me a while to realise where the noise was coming from and then I found myself holding the alarm clock and trying to think why I was holding it. It was a very frightening experience. My head feels so wooly and I start doing things and then stop and go to something else. Four more soldiers were killed. Because of the break with Irene I realised I did not know the name of Devorah's  husband and where she lived. I have been  in contact with her and wrote to ask her. When we were speaking, she told me that Irene had not wanted her to invite me to the wedding and she had done so. I have phoned Irene but she was so short with me I realised she did not want to speak to me. There is nothing more that I can do but just pray that the boys and Devorah's husband will be safe. I asked Devorah to keep me informed.

We just came back from a funeral in Tel Aviv. We left at 8am because we did not know what the situation would be on  the road. The funeral was later than we thought it would be. He was in his sixties and died of natural causes. His daughter is in America and it was not sure if she would get here on time. It reminded me of Oscar and that I sat in the plane while the funeral was taking place. We hope she will get here with her babies in time for the shiva. One son could not attend the funeral as, from what I understood, he will be entering Gaza with our forces. But there were soldiers there, though I am not sure from which unit they were. I feel as if I am living in some weird situation. My leg was also giving me such trouble and I was scared I would fall there but for Chaimke I would have taken a taxi if Yehuda had not gone. I know I should go out and walk but I do not have the willpower to do so. We came back past two and though Irit invited me to come to them this evening I do not have the energy to go out again and I have all these translations to do.

I worry for those of you overseas with all the anti-semitism that is breaking out all over the place. I wonder if the day will come that this will feel like the good times. At Nofim yesterday we had a meeting  which was very nerve wracking. The committee which we had before left us in a bad financial situation. The previous head of the house committee gave all sorts of benefits to people he liked and, though he was ousted, he and some of his supporters have tried to make problems for the new committee. But our new director, Shlomit, dealt with it so well. I was going down in the lift with some of the women whom I always disliked and they started saying they were not happy with the new company that we have taken to deal with the problems of cleaning and the kitchen. They started saying how they did not want Arabs working here. I and another woman shut them up. I told them that they should not in that case go to the streets where Arabs are cleaning them, they should not go to the supermarkets and the chemist and the hospitals where Arabs were serving them.That they should clean their own apartments and cook their own food. The owner of the company is himself a religious Jew and he said he has complete confidence in his Arab staff. Yes I know we do not know what can happen. But if somehow we are going to come out of this situation we have to live together though I don't know how. Read the PDFs I send.

And I have no words for what is happening in the occupied areas. If I have the energy I will send some of the posts which are awful. I do not know what will happen tomorrow night when  there is one demonstration for those kidnapped and then another which is against Netanyahu. I am convinced there will be violence both from the police and those on the right.  I know I am not writing coherently but my thoughts come one after the other. And this is what is happening with the Bedouin communities who do not have safe houses. 

 Rahat, a Bedouin community mourns its October 7 losses away from the public eye

21 Bedouins were killed and 6 were abducted; while families of some hostages have launched campaigns, Bedouins have no representative on world stage - and don’t seem to want one

I am sick at what is happening in Gaza but their own leaders have not allowed them to leave. After thousands have been killed there, I do not know what else we can do. Friends who left for Germany have already experienced anti-Semitism there. My heart aches for them. 

And then there are the foreign workers. Leni says she cannot leave Ziva at such a time but her little daughter is begging her to come home.

 Thai workers face dilemma: Stay and endure war, or flee but lose vital wages

7,000 Thai laborers left Israel after 23 were kidnapped to Gaza, 32 killed in October 7 massacre; others stay to keep earning salary 8 times higher than in Thailand

And people are beginning to remember 1967. I remember walking with Rayle Shimone with sacking to sew into bags to put the sand in which the municipality brought. I heard that in  Nofim we are asking for an armed guard to be put at the entrance. I know I speak for myself as I do not have family here but I think what a waste of manpower.  

The whole world is grieving for Gaza but I wonder if they think at all of what happened in those few days.. I  wonder if in England, Germany, France, all the countries realize that one day they may also have to stand against Hamas. |This is no longer a matter just of Israel or the Moslems but also the Hamas. Maybe they will see the same massacres. I will send a video which I just received by whatsapp and maybe think of what is being said. And remember that this is Hamas

Israel accuses Hamas of using over 100 women and children as human shields in Gaza https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-accuses-hamas-of-using-over-100-women-and-children-as-human-shields-in-gaza/

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This feels like Logan’s run meets Manchester By The Sea.

I wonder if it’s already dated and makes the wrong prediction as well. With the advent of AI and robotics, maybe we are extrapolating the result of population decline and an aging population wrong. Maybe a human AI/robot-help prompter can do the jobs of 5 or even 10 of his predecessors. And an aged prompter can do the jobs of 3. And not in a demeaning way either. But that’s probably 1 or 2 generations away. The future can’t arrive fast enough!

Plan 75 is a 2022 Japanese drama film directed by Chie Hayakawa, starring Chieko Baisho, Hayato Isomura and Stefanie Arianne.

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Merienda.

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I just updated this article for 2023.

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“Charge C.N.R. Shops Favorable To Aliens,” Toronto Star. May 19. 1932. Page 2. ---- Suggest Seniority of Foreigner Should Be Revised ---- Ottawa, May 19. - Charges that C.N.R. shops in Winnipeg, Montreal and other points had given alien workers preferred positions over native-born Canadians and ex-soldiers were made at a conference here yesterday.

At the invitation of Hon. W. A. Gordon, minister of labor, representatives of the Canadian Legion, C.N.R., and railway labor unions discussed the matter. Lieut.-Col. L. R. LaFleche, who spoke for the Canadian Legion, suggested that seniority of foreign-born railway employees should date from their naturalization.

Col. LaFleche, at the conclusion, said further action to secure recognition of the point raised would be considered immediately.