Hey you kids, get off my WLAN!
Sounds like both are probably true and the optimal solution is to just swallow some sort of sci-fi-esque nutritious food paste or meal replacement straight through a tube.
But I’d rather take the risk of cavities every once in a while than lose my sanity.
To be fair, they might’ve been expecting the trash, but probably weren’t expecting all of the renegade pooping. Even at Ueno Park in Tōkyō, which is probably one of the most crowded places during sakura season, you’ll see extra trash bins, but not porta-poddies.
I also didn’t go to Arakurayama during the festival. I went in February, and if it was already crowded with literring tourists then, it must be awful during sakura season. Japan has been receiving record overtourism for the past few years (ever since re-opening in late 2022). I saw it mentioned on NHK News like almost every day. Yeah, they might be a little tired of the extra tourists now.
There are public bathrooms at the park. It was packed with tourists and their litter when I went in 2024 though.
As for the streets where people actually live, they shouldn’t need to have a bunch of ugly porta-potties occupying the streets in front of their home. It’s a place where people have always lived, not a place that exists solely to be a tourist attraction.
I guess I wrongly assumed all tourists would have the common sense to not defacate in someone else’s yard.
It’s not your fault. Search engines results have objectively gotten worse compared to years ago. Shotcut was the probably the first thing I found when I searched for something like it in like 2016.
I remember how years ago, I had always kept my Gmail settings on full-paranoia lockdown mode, aside from the auto mailbox sorting feature. However, the first time I had to write an email from that account in a long while, Google’s fucking suggested reply feature that uses all your email history showed up.
The fuck? I never gave permission for this shit.
After doing a deep-cleanse of all the settings on all my accounts again, I deleted all the emails after migrating them to Proton Mail, and keep Gmail accounts only to auto-forward and delete. Or to use the occasional bullshit Google form or document that needs a fucking Gmail login.
If you have the time (an hour to read) or interest, Ed Zitron explains it fairly well.
Maybe something like the plastic balls that are filled with bright orange dye that they have in convenience stores in Japan to throw at escaping shoplifters.
But with piss, of course.
“I am now competing with illustrations that may have been trained on my own work without permission.”
That’s fucked up.
Even the transcription software that is not purely transcription, but actually an LLM that “takes notes” and “summarizes” can hallucinate and add in stuff that was never mentioned. And then AI trained on biased data (i.e., like all of them) tend to give shittier notes for any patients who are of color.
Are you just stating a hypothetical scenario, or are you misleadingly implying this guy arrested his wife?
Because 1. he’s not law enforcement, and 2.
The uncertainty has left the newlywed questioning whether his time serving the country was worth it, he said.
Literally the first thing that came to mind when I saw the article thumbnail
Even with classified information, part of proper control is limiting things to only people who have a “need to know.” This limits spread of information that anybody can use to puzzle-piece together bigger secrets.
But AI is fucking stupid, and will tell you whatever you want to hear if you figure out the right prompt. So it’s just a matter of time before you get some lateral spillage.
The top secret networks are kind of air-gapped, but I don’t know if they can keep this administration’s idiots from connecting to a commercial cloud. At that point, definite spillage.
Both are possible. I got to N2 in one year as a full-time student in Japan by studying (school + at home) around 6-8 hours per day. People outside of Japan don’t get as many chances to actually use the language, so the same amount of study of course might yield less in that case.
Most westerners take 2-3 years (3-4 hours per day) to get to N2, which is reasonable. So my hours are about the same, just I crammed two years into one (because I really needed to).
Whereas many Chinese speakers tend to pass it in less than a year of getting to Japan because they already have a huge head start on kanji knowledge.
The relationship with languages you already know changes things a lot. The proximity and opportunities to use it are really important too, I think.
Practically every European I’ve met has pretty good English, I’ve noticed that. But most people in Japan I’ve met don’t. Many, if not, most of them studied it in school. They also get tested on it as part of university entrance exams. But most of them don’t need it much outside of those contexts, so I don’t blame them for not being able to speak English either.
I’ve finally done it. I ate the Onion for the first time.
Actually, I think what you just mentioned is exactly part of the disconnect we often see between the common people and the ones in power.
The majority of us probably disagree with the cited statements, but then a large chunk of them get convinced to vote for candidates who support the opposite. Like how most Americans will agree with the Affordable Care Act until you tell them that’s what “Obamacare” is.
I had no idea they made an American version of Hachikō’s story.
Full-circle back to the days of buying computer games through the mail.
From what I understand, that’s how a lot of financial exchanges work. Unless you do the work of buying and selling cryptocurrency directly from and to other holders yourself, or transfer it into your own crypto wallet, your assets only exist within the exchange’s own systems.