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And then she started paying for facials and stuff as part of her necessary legal fees or something.

"But your honor! I need to look presentable to the jury when they're convicting me of rampant fraud!"

Affordable to everyone.

And yet many people continue to choose to live in the US or actively try to immigrate here. "Most livable" is highly subjective and such rankings are but one lens to evaluate where to live.

Unfortunately there is no such thing as utopia and there are always pros and cons.

I think OP must be in their early 20s and has not experienced much of life yet.

And there's nothing wrong with that.

Plenty of American cities have this. I have three big grocery stores within a 2-7 minute walk. Myriad restaurants, bakeries, and cafes literally on the same block and within walking distance of me.

Vancouver is great, just wanted to call out the bias and massive overgeneralization in your statement.

One key difference that jumps out at me between various cities in Japan and Vancouver is that the COL seems significantly better in Japan. When I visited Vancouver I couldn't afford to stay in or even near the city, I had to find a place about 20 minutes away and even then it was pricey. Whereas in Japan I had no problem finding affordable stays in city centers in all of the major cities I visited, including Tokyo.

I will admit my ignorance here however and acknowledge there are likely myriad other variables at play here that I'm not considering.

Guess I'm not taking out a second mortgage on my house anymore to invest in $GOOG.

My opinion is that you're reading way too much into this. Talent is obviously first. Without that you have no products worth speaking of.

Probably a country that lost to Norway in the World Cup.

Super strange. It feels like something a stalker would do...

Please forgive my naivety, but are world models (once they are in a consumer-ready form) expected to outperform any currently existing LLM on these sorts of tasks (i.e. of the physical world)?

There have been some good alternatives mentioned in the comments here, like Affinity or Photopea.

Does anyone happen to know if there is a similarly good alternative to Lightroom?

Is it De Cecco though or some inferior brand like Barilla?

> These companies should be fined/prosecuted for this.

What exactly should they be fined or prosecuted for?

Just sneeze in the right direction, bro.

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Not everyone has a yard lol

For some reason I wouldn't exactly feel safe knowing there is a huge battery under my house that may combust at any moment.

Unfortunately, I think we all know how this story ends.

The company will settle for a slap on the wrist, a paltry fine that is but a fraction of the profit that was made as a result of the infraction.

The company will not admit to any wrongdoing as a result of the settlement.

The company will continue their behavior but in a stealthier, more obfuscated fashion.

I'd like to think I will also boycott any future generations of these gaming consoles, but the fact is that we'll get used to this as the new way of life at some point.

Our collective desire to play GTA 6 will outweigh our desire to "stick it to the man".

Fair point.

There is diminishing importance of ownership as time passes though because there is less and less desire to own such assets as they get older and newer titles come out.

There are exceptions to the rule, but I'd imagine less than 1% of the population cares about owning/emulating PS3 or even PS4 games at this point.

So yes, there is an eventual vector for "ownership" (though illicit, at least in this hypothetical) but I doubt that moves the needle much if at all.

Current-gen console jailbreaks may exist but are inaccessible to the vast majority of the public so I really doubt they will factor into any decisions made by Sony, Microsoft, etc.

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I don't think it's really helpful (nor possible) to get into this level of specificity.

Generally, just apply sunscreen and limit prolonged sun exposure when possible (particularly when UV index is high).

Avoiding sunburns (i.e. prolonged sun exposure, particularly when skin is unprotected) is probably the main thing to focus on as I believe studies have shown there is a high correlation between getting burnt and developing skin cancer.

Not everyone.

You've illustrated exactly why Sony is getting rid of physical media.

Money.

"Spoken like" was a phrase before Rick and Morty lol they didn't invent the English language.

Great news for mice everywhere.

This is a clever idea.

Unfortunately, UV exposure is cumulative. So your skin is still getting damaged by the UV rays even if you're not getting burnt.

Couldn't you just use tmux for the remote access?