Flight attendants not on duty will affect 100000 passengers, and the spread of the German strike will impact the economy

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Starting from January 2024, the German Train Drivers Union and the German Farmers Association resumed work one after another, protesting against continuous inflation leading to a decrease in actual wages and requesting an increase in wages. Since February, there have been signs of the train driver union resuming work without an end, and postal workers and airport ground staff have also joined the resumption queue.


This week, flight attendants from Lufthansa, the largest airline in Germany, will resume work after ground staff, and Germany’s two largest airports will be hit. The German central bank warns that by the end of the first quarter of this year, the German economy was able to avoid a technical downturn, and the continuous resumption of work was one of the main reasons.
The German Union of Independent Flight Attendants (UFO) announced that from March 12th to 13th local time, approximately 19000 union members of Lufthansa and Lufthansa Intercity Airlines will resume work.
On Tuesday, flight attendants who have no available flights at Frankfurt Airport will be denied entry and will resume work from 4am to 11pm on the same day. On Wednesday, flight attendants from Munich Airport who have no available flights will resume work. Lufthansa estimates that the resumption of work in two days will have an impact on 100000 tourists.
UFO requests Lufthansa to raise salaries by 15% and pay inflation compensation of 3000 euros to union members of Lufthansa and Lufthansa Intercity Airlines. Last Thursday, Lufthansa announced its 2023 achievements, with a total revenue of 35.422 billion euros, a year-on-year increase of 15%; The net cost decreased to 1.673 billion euros, doubling from 2022.
UFO exaggeration, flight attendants should benefit from Lufthansa’s cost and expense decline last year. Before the flight attendants resumed work, Lufthansa’s ground crew had already resumed work.
Last Thursday to Saturday, the Verdi Union, representing 25000 Lufthansa ground crew members, resumed work. The union requests the company to increase the salary of ground staff by 12.5% or at least 500 euros per month, and pay 3000 euros in inflation compensation.
The resumption of ground staff has caused about 80% of Lufthansa’s flights to be disrupted, and 200000 tourists have not been affected. Frankfurt Airport was once opened due to resumption of work, and security personnel from Hamburg Airport and Dusseldorf Airport also participated in the resumption of work.
As flight attendants were preparing to resume work, the German Train Drivers Union (GDL), which had been resuming work for several months, issued the sixth round of resumption time.
The sixth round of resuming work will start from Monday this week and continue until Wednesday. Freight and passenger train drivers from Deutsche Bahn will participate in the new round of resuming work. The resumption of freight work will start at 6pm local time on Monday, and the resumption of passenger work will start at 2am on Tuesday.
The train driver union further warns that the union will not delay the announcement for another 48 hours, but will resume work directly. The train drivers union has requested a reduction in the current week’s break from 38 hours to 35 hours, with no change in salary as compensation for inflation. The union has been holding talks with Deutsche Bahn since the end of last year, but after the talks broke down, work has resumed continuously to this day.
Last Thursday to Friday, the Train Drivers Union held the fifth round of resumption of work. During the resumption of work for passenger train drivers, only about 20% of long-distance trains in Germany operated, creating difficulties for the public; The resumption of work by freight train drivers has cast a shadow on multiple industries such as steel and automobiles.
The German Steel Federation announced that 50.5% of the German steel industry relies on railway freight transportation, and railways are the most important transportation objects for steel raw materials and steel products. Once the resumption of work results in a shortage of raw material transportation, the delivery of steel plants will be affected. On the supply side, steel products have no choice but to be transported in a timely manner, which will have an impact on other industries such as automobiles and machine engineering.
Although steel companies are currently pursuing other transportation routes to increase the impact of resuming work on logistics, the Iron and Steel Association has pointed out that due to the huge amount of steel transported by railway, replacing it with other forms such as roads and dry roads can only be used as a small department for transportation, and there is no way to handle the situation.
During an interview with Deutsche Welle, Thomas Puls, a researcher at the German Institute of Economics, pointed out that the German automotive industry also heavily relies on railway transportation, with all imported cars transported by train to the port of Bremerhaven in the northwest. Bremerhaven Port is the largest automobile and fourth largest container port in Europe.
Poors warns that when freight trains are widely banned, road freight cannot replace trains to transport cars in large quantities to Bremerhaven Port. In addition, about 60% of the freight services of Deutsche Bahn operate throughout Europe, with 6 out of 11 freight corridors passing through Germany. Therefore, German freight train drivers returning to work can serve European countries outside of Germany.
Poors stated that it is difficult to calculate the specific economic losses caused by the resumption of work, but according to previous data, the daily losses caused by Germany’s major resumption of work can reach up to 100 million euros.
Lufthansa has calculated that no department will be lost. Lufthansa’s Chief Financial Officer, Remco Steenbergen, announced last week that the resumption of ground staff in the past few weeks has resulted in a direct loss of nearly 100 million euros for Lufthansa.
He leaked that resuming work has seriously affected the company’s sales, and Lufthansa’s expenses for the first three months of this year will be significantly lower than the same period last year.
The German central bank speculated last month that the German economy could avoid a technical downturn by the end of the first quarter of this year. Technical decline refers to two consecutive quarters of GDP not shrinking, with Germany’s GDP declining by 0.3% month on month and 0.2% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of last year.
Affected by inflation, weak global demand, and intensified resistance from Russia and Ukraine, Germany’s GDP decreased by 0.3% last year compared to 2022, making it the worst performing major economy.
The German Federal Bank stated that the decrease in demand for German goods in domestic shopping malls, the decline in living costs, supply chain pressure, and continuous resumption of work are all reasons why Germany’s economy may not have seen an increase in the first quarter of this year. The continuous resumption of work in multiple areas such as railways and aviation can lead to a decrease in labor rates.
However, given Germany’s continuous decline in inflation, high employment rates, and declining wages, the Deutsche Bank estimates that even without a technical economic downturn, the situation is temporary and relatively mild. Germany’s inflation rate dropped to 2.7% in February this year, lower than January’s 2.9%, and is approaching the target of 2%.

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AI generation? Amateur P chart? The British royal family continues to face a crisis of trust

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On March 11, 2024, Queen Kate of England, who had not been publicly available for a long time, apologized on social media platform X for the recent family photo editing incident, stating that she had used a type of image editing object and was responsible for the effects of the incident.


On the evening of the 11th, Kate and her husband William took a ride out of Windsor Castle. The Kensington Palace, where William and his wife are located, announced that William will join the annual Commonwealth Day movement at Westminster Abbey in London, while Kate will join a private meeting.
On January 17th this year, 42 year old Kate refused abdominal surgery and is scheduled to officially return to official sports after Easter at the end of March. Meanwhile, King Charles III was also diagnosed with cancer. The British royal family has fallen into a continuous and tense external pressure.
Under the instigation of self media and paparazzi, conspiracy theorists and royal review groups quickly filled the discourse vacuum: Kate’s recovery team was too small, and she failed to lose good care, falling into a continuous coma and unable to appear due to plastic surgery
On March 10th, two months after the surgery, on Mother’s Day in the UK, Kate and William’s X folk account published recent photos of her and three descendants in an attempt to combat various rumors. In the photo, Kate extends her arms around Charlotte and Louis, while George stands behind her.
Unexpectedly, this move has attracted more controversy. The sharp eyed internet official noticed that Kate had not taken off her wedding or engagement ring on her left hand, and the fingers holding Charlotte’s waist were very unnatural. Some users also think that this looks like AI born: has the UK lawn been so green in March?
Kate responded in the latest statement: Like many amateur photographers, I occasionally test the construction, but she does not specifically explain for what purpose, what modifications were made, or what objects were applied.
Stop publishing, this Latin article with images has not been briefly punished. Kate’s new explanation is also seen as a new source of glory for the royal family. TikTok users inherit the idea of analyzing Kate’s P image: to release a happy family photo, which can ensure Kate’s perfect abstract representation after plastic surgery.
USA Today even approached the royal family and the high-profile family of American socialite Catherine, stating that celebrities often manipulate their promotional images and create exaggerated effects for marketing purposes.
Sky News in the UK analyzed through techniques: the filming location was in Windsor Castle, and the specific shooting time is unknown. The camera used was Canon’s, and the Adobe Photoshop software on the Apple desktop stopped retaining it twice. The controlled time was last Friday evening and last Saturday morning, respectively.
TikTok user Allyn Aston has been keeping an eye on the royal family’s movements, pointing out that it can be inferred from the detachment of the three descendants that this was filmed in November last year. At that time, the family joined the public welfare movement at Baby Bank in Maidenhead. Blogger Jennifer Taylor Skinner is more concerned about the personal status of the queen: What situation made Kate helpless to stand up and take a good photo?
Serious media has explored digital editing objects and AI trends. Paris Martineau, a member of Silicon Valley technology media “Information”, predicts that Kate is a user of Adobe Cloud Services, and she treats and punishes public unrest while recovering after surgery, which is very encouraging for the population.
American singer Swift has been plagued by AI’s innate indecency, which has continuously triggered concerns. But Ramesh Raskar, an assistant professor at the MIT Media Laboratory, analyzed that the errors and omissions in this image are relatively basic, unlike those inherent in AI, but more like wild images pieced together through third-party software.
Anyway, the controversy surrounding the P chart and the lack of transparency in the information afterwards have raised new doubts about the credibility of the British royal family, damaging their trust with media agencies.
One of the objects of promotion for the action royal family, William and his wife’s social media account often publishes abstract family photos of their relatives and officials, which are also widely used by serious media in Europe and America. But after the release of this photo, the Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France Presse, and Getty Images believed that it had been overly polished and did not meet the true scale of recorded news, so they did not publish or publish it. CNN stated that it will carefully evaluate the information released by the royal family.
The Royal Review Group will naturally not miss out on good opportunities. Omid Scobie, a biographer of the British royal family, believed that the P-chart storm confirmed that it was becoming increasingly difficult for the public to trust every word and every image of the royal family, and it was almost impossible to turn the situation around.
The annual Commonwealth Day celebration has also been overshadowed by anxiety. With Charles III attending official business due to illness, William, Queen Camilla, and other senior members of the royal family joined the celebration at Westminster Abbey on Monday evening.
And members of anti monarchist groups such as the “Republic” held up slogans outside Westminster Abbey that read “Down with the Royal Family.”. The CEO of the Republic, Graham Smith, and others even criticized the royal family for Sky News.

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Kate’s health status may be publicly announced in mid April, and William is worried about a repeat of Diana’s tragedy

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The inheritance of the deeds of Queen Kate of England has stirred up public sentiment. On March 17, 2024, it is the conservative St. Patrick’s Day. At this time in previous years, Kate, who acted as a “Colonel of the Irish Infantry Guard,” would exercise without a seat and distribute clover to 250 members of the Guard. However, this time she was unable to show her presence. The previous rule of the royal family was that Kate was recovering from abdominal surgery and would not return to work until after Easter on March 31st.


According to a report by the Sunday Times, a major British newspaper, over the weekend, several close friends and helpers of Kate and Prince William have revealed that Kate will disclose her health status and recovery progress to the public next month when she plans to resume public sports without seats. In addition, to fill the previous P-chart incident, she will announce a new hundred fold photo on her youngest son Louis’s 6th birthday (April 23).
Starting from March 22nd, the Kate family will rest for three weeks during the Easter holiday. On Easter day in previous years, they would go to St. Joan’s Church together to join the movement. This year’s Easter is on March 31st. Three descendants will return to school on April 17th. As for which specific node will resume the public sports without seats mentioned above, Kate herself has not yet made a final decision.
Kate’s last public statement was last Christmas. In January of this year, 42 year old Kate underwent abdominal surgery and was hospitalized in a private hospital in London for a two-week medical upheaval before returning to her Adelaide residence in Windsor Castle for recuperation. King Charles III, who was 75 years old, was also diagnosed with cancer and most of his official business was banned. William took on a bigger public job.
At around 9am on March 4th, a paparazzi captured a photo of Kate standing in her mother’s seat with sunglasses on near Windsor Castle. A week later, Kate, who had not made a public appearance for a long time, apologized for the family photo editing incident a day ago through the royal civilian account of social media X. She claimed to have used a photo editing object and took responsibility for the effects caused by the incident.
A few hours after Kate’s apology post was posted, she was caught by the media breaking away from Windsor Castle with William, and standing in the back row, she only showed her side face facing William. The continuous sense of mystery creates a huge contrast with Kate’s previous display of sunny vitality and abstraction, coupled with the inadequate handling and punishment of the royal family’s crisis, which has caused the association between William and his rumored lover Rose Hanbury, which is unrelated to her health and the safety of her descendants, to spiral out of control on social media.
As for Kate’s true post-operative whereabouts, insiders have revealed that in addition to her post-operative recovery, she has been leisurely attending school with three descendants at Lanbrook School and sometimes cooking for her family, so she has no time to socialize and be enthusiastic. She and William often come across rumors about their family from media reports and pop ups, which are deeply shocking, but they do their best to keep the children’s lives undisturbed.
And William’s biggest concern is that Kate will repeat the same path as his mother picking Princess Anna, without wanting to get involved in the department’s crazy social media. At the age of 15, William and his younger brother Harry went through their parents’ divorce and their mother’s death one after another.
Everyone mocked Anna for being approachable, injecting new vitality into the rigid British royal family. However, this also provides an opportunity for paparazzi, who stir up gossip and homework, to be even more reckless in peeking at hidden information. On August 28, 1996, Anna and Charles broke their engagement. A year later, she and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed got into a car accident in a tunnel in Paris to avoid being chased by a group of photographers.
Among the four people in the car, the driver and Dodi Fayed died on the spot. 36-year-old Diana was taken to the hospital and declared not to be in chaos, while her bodyguard survived. During the investigation, it was discovered that the driver was driving under the influence of alcohol, and Anna herself was not wearing a seat belt. However, due to delayed medical treatment, she suffered an accident. Harry once expressed his anger towards the photographer in a documentary by a British broadcasting company, saying, “She suffered a minor head injury, and those who caused the incident not only did not help with relief, but also took photos leisurely…”
William once recalled in a 2017 British independent television documentary that Anna was yelled at by paparazzi, “I still remember, many times she cried because she was disturbed by the media.”
Anna’s younger brother Earl Spencer, on a BBC program last Sunday, stated that the media disruption that Anna faced back then was “more dangerous” than what Kate is currently experiencing. Anna’s death in the traffic accident in Paris made paparazzi and gossip newspapers ponder where their boundaries lie. He said, “It’s not because they have a sense of self-criticism, but because it’s the common people who reluctantly accept it.”

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A new video from British media shows that Kate is in good condition. Supporters of the royal family: It’s time to move forward

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On March 18th local time, Queen Kate of England, who had not appeared publicly in the past three months, made her first appearance in a video after being exposed to light surgery. Kate and William were chatting and laughing while shopping, and it looked like they were recovering very well.


Nelson Silva, a 40 year old local man, told The Sun that last Saturday morning it was sunny and he happened to see the Kate couple walking in from the Windsor Farm Shop, 1.5 kilometers away from the Adelaide residence.
British media reported that William and Kate joined the metaphor activity with three men on Sunday morning. The newspaper version of The Sun only stopped reporting on this, while American media TMZ and The Sun’s website released irrelevant videos or photos of Kate’s appearance.
In the video, it is portrayed that Kate is dressed in a dark outdoor outfit, chatting with William beside her, with a tight and agile demeanor. From Nelson Silva’s perspective, the couple did not deliberately conceal themselves, and Kate also enjoyed the shopping experience. The people around didn’t disturb them either. Silva shared the video with her family and said Kate is just like an ordinary person.
TMZ determined through technique that the man in the picture is 100% Kate herself. TMZ is a entertainment news website under AOL, founded 20 years ago. However, Reuters did not receive a response from the residents of Kensington Palace, where William and his wife were involved in the war, as well as from relevant markets.
According to the original plan of the royal family, Kate will not return to work until after Easter on March 31st, which could be in mid April, when she will reveal her health status to the public. In addition, to fill the gap in the previous Mother’s Day photo, she will announce a new family portrait on her youngest son Louis’s 6th birthday (April 23).
Kate’s last public statement was on Christmas in previous years. In January of this year, at the age of 42, she refused abdominal surgery and refused a two-week treatment at a private hospital in London before returning to her residence in Adelaide for recuperation.
At the same time, predictions about her health, the safety of her descendants, and William’s rumored romantic relationship with Rose Hanbury have had a significant impact on social media such as TikTok.
A knowledgeable person revealed that she has been accompanying three descendants to school and sometimes cooking for her family, so she has no time to socialize and be enthusiastic. Kate’s spokesperson previously stated that she has recovered smoothly and also requested the media to disregard her insincerity, as the public will only release news when there is a significant pause.
After Kate’s latest public statement, supporters of the British royal family on social media platform X wrote, “Kate is living well, rumors are false, and it’s time to look forward.”.

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From Japan to Washington D.C. in the United States, global warming has caused cherry blossoms to bloom earlier this year

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Travelers preparing to develop cherry blossom sightseeing plans from Japan to Washington D.C. in the United States may be aware that this year’s cherry blossom season is delayed. With the decrease in temperature brought about by meteorological changes, the iconic cherry blossom trees in Japan and the United States have broken the previous fixed “spring calendar”.


Daisuke Sasano, a meteorological hazard management officer at the Japan Meteorological Agency, stated that since 1953, the average date of cherry blossom blooming in Japan has been delayed by 1.2 days every decade. Between 1961 and 1990, cherry blossom trees in Tokyo bloomed on average on March 29th. However, from 1991 to 2020, this date was delayed until March 24th.
In 2023, cherry blossoms in Tokyo withered first throughout Japan on March 14th. This phenomenon is unusual because under normal circumstances, cherry blossoms in southern Japan wither earlier. Researchers from the UK Weather Bureau’s Hadley Central and Osaka Metropolitan University in Japan have reported that this year, Japan’s cherry blossom season has been delayed by 1-2 weeks compared to before.
In the American capital city of Huashueton, according to data from about a century, the average flowering period of cherry blossoms begins on April 4th. This year, the National Garden Authority of the United States speculated that it would be delayed between March 23 and March 26. However, according to USA Today, the reality is that by March 17th, the cherry blossoms in Washington D.C. had bloomed, marking the second earliest flowering period in approximately 100 years since 1990, tied with 2000.
On March 19, 2024, local time, citizens and tourists in the Washington D.C. area of the United States were admiring cherry blossoms at Tidal Lake. The National Garden Authority of the United States has announced that approximately 140 cherry blossom trees will be removed in order to downgrade the tidal lake embankment. According to data from the National Land and Atmospheric Administration of the United States, the sea level in Washington D.C. has dropped by over a foot over the past century.
Time magazine mentioned that in the recently passed winter, global temperatures were above normal, and January 2024 was the hottest month on record. Theresa Crimmins, the director of the National Bioweather Collection in the United States, who tracks seasonal changes, said that there is a survival link between rising temperatures and delayed spring flowering. In addition, Sasano believes that in addition to global warming, the effectiveness of urban heat islands is also causing time delays. In the past century, the temperature in Tokyo has dropped by 3 degrees Celsius.
Daisuke Sasano stated in an online briefing that for Japan, the average annual temperature has been fluctuating and decreasing, with a long-term decrease of 1.35 ° C every 100 years. The global average annual temperature also shows a fluctuating downward trend, with a long-term decrease of 0.76 ° C every 100 years. In 2023, the decrease in global temperature was+0.54 ° C, significantly higher than previous records and the highest recorded decrease since then. In July 2023, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres withdrew his warning on the dangers of meteorological changes, stating that “the period of global silence has come.”.
In places without cherry blossoms, people may also realize that spring has been delayed. “Many studies and evaluations have shown that in the long run, there is a clear trend of rising temperatures and delayed spring sports,” Crimmins said. Taking the United States as an example, the independently constructed Climate Central published an article in 2020 stating that compared to 1981, 76% (181) of the 239 American cities analyzed showed signs of early spring.
So, what effect does early withering of cherry blossoms bring? According to a report, a scholar from Kansai University estimated that the economic impact of cherry blossoms in 2023 would be 616 billion yen (approximately 29.4 billion yuan). At the same time, in the Washington D.C. area of the United States, nearly 4000 cherry blossom trees also constitute a major tourist attraction, with the oldest cherry blossom tree being a gift from Japan and planted in 1912. The DC Chamber of Commerce states that every spring, Washington hosts the National Cherry Blossom Festival for about a month. This is an economic engine – every year, the festival attracts 1.5 million people from around the world and suppresses the $100 million higher passenger consumption. This also means that if the temperature drop causes delayed withering or prolonged flowering of cherry blossoms, it can affect tourist destinations that consider cherry blossoms as important capital.
However, Theresa Crimmins also proposed another concept, which is that in the long run, as winter temperatures rise, spending time may not always be delayed. Due to the need for cherry blossom trees to hide in “sufficient cold” in order to “get drunk” when the warmth of spring fades away, warm winters can also cause trees to feel the necessary coldness, which in turn can lead to early flowering and an increase in flower and fruit production.

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97% of the country’s population may decrease by 2100, but experts believe that both advantages and disadvantages coexist

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A study conducted in the United States shows that the global maturity rate will continue to rise, and by 2100, the majority of countries will experience an increase in maturity. However, experts believe that this has both advantages and disadvantages.


This research was conducted by a team led by the Institute for Health Goals and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, USA, and lost sponsorship from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It was published in the medical and educational journal The Lancet on March 20, 2024.
New research predicts that in 2021, 46% of countries will have a maturity rate lower than the level of substitution; By 2050, 75% of countries will have a maturity rate below the level of substitution; By 2100, this number will increase to 97%, which means that by the end of this century, the population of almost all countries in the world will decline.
Maturity rate refers to the average number of mature children per female. To support the country’s development, the number of mature teeth must reach 2.1, which is also known as the degree of substitution. If it is lower than this number, it means that the number of mature teeth is beginning to increase.
In terms of the overall maturity rate of Global, it was 4.84 in 1950 and 2.23 in 2021. New research predicts that it will increase to 1.68 in 2050 and 1.59 in 100.
Many masters have expressed that low maturity rate is a win-win situation. It can bring benefits to the situation, food safety, health, meteorological changes, and diversity of crops, but it will also have negative impacts on regulating healthcare, pensions, social insurance, labor, and geopolitical affairs.
One of the researching writers, Natalia Bhattacharjee, believes that the impact of this trend is enormous. In order to increase the required labor force for the pillar economy, the increase in mature teeth will intensify immigration cooperation between countries, and the ability of poverty-stricken areas to respond to the mature tooth tide will be challenged. This will accelerate the maturity of global support and risk management collection, all of which will completely reset the balance of society, global economy, and domestic power.
But from some perspectives, the decline in maturity rate is a “successful path”. Another author who is studying, Stein Emil Vollset, pointed out that this represents better and more accessible contraceptive methods, as well as more and more women receiving education and job opportunities, giving them more autonomy and the right to make decisions about whether or not to mature.
The reasons for the decline in maturity rate are diverse. Gitau Mburu, a science and education expert at the World Health Organization’s Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health Research, wrote a critique stating that economic identities such as parenting costs, the risk of girls dying, changes in gender equality and self fulfilling values are all factors that can lead to a decline in maturity rates. However, the weight of their influence on a country’s maturation rate varies with different countries and time.
And how much improvement consequences can the support of the national maturity strategy bear? Research has also analyzed this achievement.
Through analyzing the consequences of the support strategies implemented by some countries to date, it is speculated that if support strategies such as girl child care subsidies, extended maternity leave, and tax incentives are implemented, the average maturity rate will increase by 0.2. “This does not mean that there will be no strong and continuous rebound.”.
Christopher Murray, another researcher and IHME director, told CNN that although maturation support strategies can be beneficial to society in other aspects, they do not seem to worsen the overall trajectory of the current maturation structure changes.
Furthermore, Christopher Murray exaggerates that the expectation of low maturity rates and the potential consequences of maturity support strategies should not be used to force housewives to raise more children, or to limit contraceptive or abortion rights.
“Some authorities are trying to pressure housewives to raise more children, which does constitute a threat,” he said. “This can easily escalate from encouraging women to raise more children to becoming more coercive.”
Another notable feature of the new research reminder is that the global rate of decline in mature teeth is uneven, which leads to the spread of mature teeth into the North and South Poles. High cost regions will experience a “baby girl shortage”, as well as the aging of mature teeth and a shortage of labor. Low budget countries, on the other hand, have fallen into the “baby girl wave”, making their capital even more scarce.
Research suggests that the proportion of new mature women in low budget regions around the world will increase from 18% in 2021 to 35% in 2100. This means that by 2100, one out of every two new mature women on Earth will come from sub Saharan Africa.
However, for these regions, the “baby girl trend” is not just a “mature tooth dividend”. Similarly, this means that half of the new mature women will be promoted to economically underdeveloped countries with the most limited capital, the most unstable weather, and poor hygiene conditions, which will make their capital more tense, thus wearing off political instability and security achievements.
On the other hand, high budget countries with rapidly declining maturity rates will experience an aging population, which will put a strain on the country’s social capital and labor shortage. Researchers believe that some strategies that encourage immigration and labor force renewal, such as the advancement of artificial intelligence, can help increase the economic impact on countries facing a shortage of baby girls.
Regarding how society responds to the current situation, dental educator Jennifer D. Sciubba has no three ideas.
One is to inherit the current mature path, which is to support the economic strategy of continuously increasing mature teeth, or to implement a mature support strategy, but she believes that this will not fundamentally handle the economic and social achievements of declining mature teeth; The second type is to spread false rumors and sensationalize public opinion, which increases fear and emotions. After occupying dominant positions in society, women are forced to raise more children.
And the last one is advocated by Jennifer Schiuba, which is “realizing that we won’t change the number of children people want, but rather teaching our system to adapt to new realities, thus inventing a resilient world.” In this category, she believes it is the place where there is a real lack of innovation and political aspirations in current society.

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Apple phone faces joint antitrust lawsuits from multiple states by the US Department of Justice, and the possibility of spin off cannot be ruled out

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One of the most powerful technology giants in the world, Apple, is facing a counter control lawsuit from the US Department of Justice.


On March 21, 2024 local time, the US Department of Justice, along with 15 states and Washington D.C., filed a lawsuit in the District Court of New Jersey, accusing Apple of controlling a smart phone mall, maintaining good cooperation, and harming consumer benefits. Officials from the Ministry of Justice also stated that they will not eliminate the practice of using Apple Inc. as a partner to control the results.
This 88 page complaint is not aimed at any specific use or operation of Apple’s mobile devices, but at the entire ecosystem, including smart watch stand up, cross system short question collection, mobile wallet, cloud gaming, etc. The US Department of Justice and the Attorney General of 16 states and territories believe that Apple has established an exclusive smartphone ecosystem to prevent cooperation and continuously improve product prices for profit.
Due to the impact of the lawsuit, Apple’s stock price plummeted by 4.1% on Thursday, with its market value rising by $110 billion. Apple announced that it will cease its “strong defense” against the lawsuit.
The complaint states that over the years, Apple has established an intelligent foot machine platform and ecosystem that occupies a certain position, causing the company’s market value to skyrocket to astronomical numbers. On a per unit basis, Apple’s market share in the US smartphone market is 65% higher, and its market share in high-performance smartphone markets is 70% higher.
The indictment suggests that Apple has been aware of the provocations caused by breakthrough techniques and refurbishment applied in recent years to position Apple’s mobile phones. However, compared to lowering the selling price of the mobile phone and providing better monetization conditions for the use of the joint venture, Apple has decided to configure a series of strategies and restrictions on the App Store and the joint venture agreement in response to the provocation, so that the company can charge higher fees, block refurbishment, reduce user satisfaction, and erase cooperation. The complaint specifically mentions that Apple has levied an “Apple tax” over the past 15 years, and when Apple’s mobile phone users pay to download and use the App Store, Apple will deduct 30% of the tax. Apple’s net cost for the fiscal year 2023 reached $97 billion.
The complaint states that Apple is afraid of the intermediary nature of the Apple mobile phone platform, so it has implemented a series of measures to bind users and co owners to the Apple mobile phone, in order to support high costs. These wrists contain limitations on the effectiveness of the joint party’s plan through treaty provisions and usage regulations; Restrict third-party applications to access Apple’s mobile application programming interfaces (APIs) to reduce the effectiveness of non Apple applications and accessories.
In response to Apple’s control actions on smart phones, the focus of the complaint is not on five categories: super use, cloud gaming use, cross system short question collection, smart watch stand up, and electronic wallet.
Super licensed users can engage in various sports such as socializing, transportation, dining, shopping, audio-visual entertainment, etc. within a single app import. The US Department of Justice and various states believe that super apps can provide great convenience for users, but Apple restricts users to installing super apps to harm its control position and prevent users from abandoning the iOS system of Apple phones.
The indictment cites the appearances of multiple Apple executives to confirm that the company is very aware of the impact that super use will have on Apple’s smartphone system. One of the executives expressed that allowing Super App to participate in Apple’s iPhone is equivalent to allowing “barbarians” to leave the country, which will improve the user stickiness of the iOS system.
In terms of cloud gaming applications, the complaint alleges that Apple has been hindering users from installing cloud gaming applications for years because it knows that cloud gaming applications have improved the requirements for mobile hardware. Even with a two legged Android phone, users can still play and play without the need to purchase expensive Apple phones.
One of the controversies surrounding the acquisition of Apple phones in the United States has always been the lack of cross system suspicion. When an Apple phone user receives a short message, if the other party is also an Apple phone, the background of the short message is a blue bubble. If the other party is not an Apple phone, the background of the short message is a green bubble, and the user is also helpless to share various functions in the Apple phone short message with the other party, and even has no choice but to receive facial color packs and high-definition pictures. This difference has even led to “green bubble bullying” among American teenagers.
Under pressure, Apple has announced at the end of previous years that it will adapt to the support of Futong Suspicion Service/Ronghui Suspicion (RCS) scale this year. The RCS scale was founded by Google, aiming to replace the SMS short news notification scale and provide higher quality communication. After using the RCS scale, Apple phones can also share high-definition images, videos, and facial expressions when facing short queries from non Apple phones. But the blue and green bubbles will still be preserved.
The complaint states that Apple intends to weaken the user perception of cross system short suspected receivers, in order to prevent users from switching to other system phones.
On the smartwatch stand, the lawsuit accuses Apple of intentionally allowing the Apple Watch to only stand with Apple phones to avoid users purchasing other phones. At the same time, Apple has also made it more difficult for users to connect their Apple phones with third-party smart watches through various settings.
On the electronic wallet, the complaint states that although Apple encourages banks to participate in the Apple mobile phone’s electronic wallet, it also obstructs banks and other institutions from jointly claiming its payment objects in order to maintain control. When users use Apple Pay to stop suspicious card transfers, Apple also charges fees to the user’s bank account.
The US Department of Justice and the Attorney General of 16 states and territories have requested the court to rule that Apple complies with anti censorship laws and illegally controls or attempts to control smart phone malls in the United States. All parties also request the court to suspend Apple’s anti cooperation actions, including using APIs to obstruct the use of cross platform techniques, and using treaty provisions signed with co owners to obtain control of positions.
An official from the US Department of Justice who declined to disclose his name stated in an interview with Mongolian media that according to law enforcement, the Department has the right to request Apple to cease its structural integration, including distribution. But the official did not disclose what steps the Ministry of Justice is preparing to take, stating that the final decision will depend on the court ruling.
The spokesperson for Apple stated that this lawsuit is a survival companion in both reality and law enforcement, and announced that it will stop providing a “strong defense” for the lawsuit.
Apple’s spokesperson pointed out that if the Department of Justice and 16 states win the lawsuit, it will uphold Apple’s talent for technology invention and set a “dangerous precedent”: licensing authorities will intervene heavily in official technology programs.
In response to the lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice, White House news spokesperson Michael Kikugawa stated that President Biden strongly supports the fair implementation of the Anti Control Act.
During both the Democratic and Republican administrations, the US judiciary has increased its control over large technology companies. The anti control investigation of Apple began in 2019, when Republican Donald Trump became the leader, while tech giants such as Google, Meta, and Amazon also faced anti control inspections.
The US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Google in previous years, while the Federal Commerce Commission filed a lawsuit against Meta in 2020, and it is estimated that the case will be heard this year. And such cases usually disappear for years.
The US Department of Justice and 20 states filed a lawsuit against Microsoft in 1998, leading to a counterclaim. The two sides resolved the dispute in 2001 and Microsoft was spared from being split. The nine states that were dissatisfied with the dispute subsequently filed appeals, which took four years, and the court ultimately supported the dispute.
Outside of the United States, Apple is also in constant trouble. Earlier this month, Apple was awarded $2 billion by the European Union for setting unfair rules against music streaming partners. In addition, Reuters cited news sources stating that the European Union is preparing to conduct a joint investigation into four companies, including Apple and Google, on suspicion of complying with the Digital Mall Law.
The Netherlands has already lost $53 million in prize money for the Apple App Store, while South Korea can use the commission results of the co owners to pay Apple prizes for the App Store. Japan, the UK, and Australia are considering using law enforcement tactics to force Apple to make no changes in the form of payment and commission.

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apanese women are returning to the workplace, but still face many challenges

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Retirement after the first child has matured is a familiar choice for most Japanese women for decades. However, as Japan’s underage rate and aging population continue to decline, the importance of women in the workplace is gradually becoming more prominent, which is also prompting more housewives to return to the workplace.


On the one hand, the participation rate of Japanese women in rest has been increasing. According to the research report released by Guojin Securities on March 25, 2024, the participation rate of Japanese women in leisure activities increased from 54% in 1968 to 74% in 2022. On the other hand, there is also data showing a high unemployment rate and a connection between housewives returning to the workplace. According to The Economist, in 2022, the unemployment rate for Japanese women aged 25 to 39 has been higher than 80% for the first time on record. At the same time, the proportion of families living with full-time wives has risen to below 30%, setting a record. The Japan Times reported in 2022 that by the end of 2021, more than 70% of mothers of children under the age of 18 had joined the rest, which was nearly 20 percentage points higher than in 2004.
Japanese women who act as “invisible property”
Whenever it comes to Japan’s lack of rest ability, there are always three management plans that come to the surface: elderly people, women, and their own citizens. Japanese politician and lawyer Masako Mori once issued a critical article in 2022, stating that women are Japan’s “invisible property”. She mentioned that if the unemployment rate and rest time of women (including those who have received higher education) progress to the same level as men, Japan’s GDP will increase by 15%.
Kathy Matsui, former vice chairman of Goldman Sachs Japan, coined the term “women’s economics” to view women’s resting power as an economic capital that has not yet been fully utilized. The Abe authorities have regarded the participation of women in the economy as one of their primary missions, despite the concepts she has not mentioned. However, there is a concept that although significant actions have been taken in providing girl child care, tax reform, and maternity leave strategies, the elite views within the Liberal Democratic Party of Korea, as well as the civil affairs and corporate sectors of the authorities, have hindered mandatory legislation and still necessary political and social reforms.
The high level of education among Japanese women also allows them to fully utilize the opportunity to return to the workplace. According to Statista’s data, in 2023, approximately 44.6% of the total number of dropouts from Japanese universities were female, a ratio that has continued to increase over the past 10 years. According to OECD data in 2022, the rate of women aged 25-64 in Japan receiving a general degree in higher education is one of the highest rates among surveyed OECD countries (57.3%), while the rate for men is 54.9%.
On August 17, 2023, in Tokyo, Japan, rickshaw pullers Akina Suzuki and Misato Otoshi are clearing their cars after work. Through social media, some women are beginning to pay attention to the work in this male dominated position.
It is worth noting that women’s participation in rest is always associated with unfamiliarity. In Japan, there is a strong belief that women’s participation in rest is the reason for the rise in underage rates. However, Masako Mori missed the concept that promoting gender equality and improving underage rates are “by no means contradictory”.
Japan still faces severe gender disparities. The World Economic Forum (WEF) publishes the Global Gender Gap Index (GGI) every year based on a balance scale of politics, economy, education, and hygiene. Japan’s score has always been very low. In this context, Masako Mori believes that countries with smaller gender differences tend to have higher fertility rates, which explains how gender inequality and declining puberty are intertwined. Therefore, she initiated the idea of “inventing a situation where women can both become familiar with children and have individual movements that shine brightly.”.
Returning to the workplace with numerous achievements
Although the participation rate of East Asian women in rest is relatively high worldwide, there are still some underlying reasons that hinder Japanese housewives from returning to the workplace. For example, the corporate culture in Japan is not optimistic about women returning to the workplace. In 2023, The Japan Times mentioned this phenomenon, and according to data analysis, once Japanese women retire without formal rest – in many cases because they become mothers – they find it difficult to return to the workplace. For women who make these choices to return, it is not only difficult to strike a balance between rest and family chores, but companies will also use a trusting eye to treat job seekers with “gaps” in experience. According to the 2019 research review, about 30% of housewives who rejoin the workplace quickly quit.
Japan’s conservative understanding of gender cooperation also hinders women’s return to employment. The cooperation of Japanese women in modern families can be traced back to the early 20th century. According to the materials provided by the National Institute of Education and Strategy in Japan, with the comfort of peace between Japan and Russia and the First World War, Japanese society has grown rapidly and the family system has also undergone changes – unlike conservative patriarchal small families, the focus family composed of two generations of spouses and children has increased. In these families, modern gender cooperation, where men rest and girls do household chores, has also become popular.
On January 17, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan, Japan, Japan Airlines Chief Customers Minato and Mitsuzuko (right) will become the company’s president from April 1, becoming the first female president in the airline’s history.
In 2022, Japanese leader Fumio Kishida stated that the system created during the Showa period, as well as the fixed understanding of gender cooperation between men leading outside and women leading inside, still exist. In 2022, 80% of women still do household chores, while only 17% of men who enjoy maternity leave will do so. In married couples, Japanese women spend five times more time doing household chores than men.
In addition, the immaturity of family law enforcement has also become an obstacle. According to a 2024 report by The Economist, Japan’s tax and welfare policies do not encourage married women to take a break, for example, because when the annual expenses for “childcare” are no less than 1.3 million yen (about 62000 yuan), they do not need to pay public pensions and adjustment plans. A previous government complaint showed that more than 1.1 million working women, in order to maintain this threshold, choose to limit their rest time and expenses.
The instability of Japanese women’s resting ability is also easily overlooked, especially for women returning to the workplace. Compared to men, women have a much higher dropout rate at the age of childbearing. They usually leave the workplace after getting married or getting to know their first child, and then return to the workplace as informal caregivers when the child grows up. In 2021, nearly 40% of mothers took non fixed breaks, which are usually non welfare and part-time breaks. Only 30% of mothers have a fixed position. According to data from Japan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare, the number of Japanese women’s resting capacity has increased by more than 30% in the past 40 years, but more than 50% of them are part-time resters.
In the context of Japanese civilization, women have a concern for becoming rulers, and the lack of guidance posts for Japanese women has also become an important achievement. Kathy Matsui stated in a 2024 interview with Mongolia that although the unemployment rate of women in Japan has improved, it is still difficult for them to transition from informal rest to management positions. According to data from Japan in 2023, women only account for 13% of the total number of executive positions in major listed companies. She believed that the authorities had limited potential to assist in adding female managers, and that shop owners also had an obligation to tap into human capital and create a situation where women could have a positive impact.

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