关于暴行或纪念地的旅行报道应将伦理与量化风险并列：美国国务院的“Do Not Travel”名单包含所提到目的地中的7个——阿富汗、伊朗、伊拉克、朝鲜、南苏丹、叙利亚和乌克兰。仅在阿富汗，至少仍有4名美国人被不公正拘留，而在该年度获释的美国人平均被关押523天，显示出长期的绑架与错误拘留威胁。

对2021–22年中立争端的研究描述了“战略性脱钩”，其中可见的消费品进口被压垮以进行政治示意，而工业品进口随后反弹至创纪录高点，即使言辞仍然好战。另一些来信称，台湾在2024年和2025年的发达经济体排名中均被遗漏，尽管其增长率几乎是2025年赢家葡萄牙的3倍，且新加坡也以较小幅度跑赢该榜单。

在出行方面，网约车的历史表明，伦敦、洛杉矶和迪拜等城市的汽车拥有率在按需出行更便宜的情况下仍保持稳定甚至增长，因此当机器人出租车在每英里成本上达到同等时，更可能是类别模糊而非拥有率崩塌。就家庭财务而言，一则关于“AVOCADO TOAST”的描述称，在64%的综合边际税率下转为兼职工作。

Travel reporting on atrocity or memorial sites should pair ethics with quantified risk: the U.S. State Department “Do Not Travel” list includes 7 of the cited destinations—Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, South Sudan, Syria and Ukraine. In Afghanistan alone, at least 4 Americans remain unjustly detained, and Americans freed during the year were held an average of 523 days, illustrating a prolonged kidnapping and wrongful-detention threat.

Research on the 2021–22 China–Lithuania dispute describes “strategic decoupling,” where visible consumer-good imports were crushed for political signalling while industrial-good imports later rebounded to record highs, even as rhetoric stayed bellicose. Separate letters argue that Taiwan was omitted from developed-economy rankings in both 2024 and 2025 despite growth at almost 3× the rate of the 2025 winner Portugal, with Singapore also outperforming the list by a smaller margin.

On mobility, history from ride-hailing suggests car ownership in cities such as London, Los Angeles and Dubai stayed steady or even grew despite cheaper on-demand trips, so robotaxis reaching cost-per-mile parity may blur categories rather than collapse ownership. On household finances, one account of “AVOCADO TOAST” reports shifting to part-time work under a combined marginal tax rate of 64%.

Source: Letters to the editor

Subtitle: Also this week, Chinese diplomacy, robotaxis, the office kitchen, parents supporting students, idle chatter

Dateline: 12月 30, 2025 05:48 上午