workingdog

>>Also, if time and energy permits, please, learn the language.

My opinion: Even taking ten hours to learn a few polite phrases makes a Japanese trip infinitely better. It signifies to Japanese people that you're trying to understand them and they very much love it.

I'm an AI pessimist, but even I see the value in the current large language models. If we can do it for the price of a few cracked atoms, that would be better.

We've failed as a culture.

We're going to blackmail you, or we'll do crime.

I share his views on many things, but I won't work for him as I need time to be with my family. Eighty weeks aren't for me.

I don't want him to fail, however. I'm happy we live in a world where some people work hard to advance our technology.

I'm ok with this nutball going to Mars. The world has enough boring billionaires.

We're business casual. It helps weed out the chronically independent.

On those who step into the same rivers, different and different waters flow

- Heraclitus ~5th century BC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus

When I learned my fellow passengers had escaped, I knew this game was for me. I love a bit of fun without ghoulish death.

We should ban them. /s

You can, but it's a pain to setup: https://woshub.com/rdp-session-shadow-to-windows-10-user/

>>model minorities

I'm starting to suspect that "minority" really means one group of people. Model minorities are just everybody else.

I would urge you to consider therapy.

Indians do better than white people in the US.

You're next for the two-minute hate from the far-left. Watch for the 'caste' system being brought up like a boogeyman.

I'd rather my kids go with me to Japan than spend a week learning that a new gender just dropped.

You're not allowed to be happy unless you're doing the "current thing."

We can't have heathly dense public housing when some of us act like feral animals.

He's having to hide in his own country from violent foreign colonizers.

Please tell them. They probably got a huckster in there who sold them the QR code madness by promising them increased sales.

I asked for that... I should have specified 'meaningful'.

The first sentence of your link:

"First opened in 1933, the White Sea-Baltic Canal was built on the backs of gulag prisoners. By the time it was done, more than 25,000 laborers had lost their lives."

What a triumph!

No amount of music can make up for a lost life with a son.

I'm waiting for the socialist-built canals

London historically is a nice city. It's too bad that rampant criminal enterprise has been imported into it.

The Community Notes are generally trustworthy. They've given me reasons to change my perceptions as I know they're not one-sided.

The Vietnam war was unjust and unwinnable.

JRK got us into it, and Nixon got us out of it while navigating the complexities of China, the cold war, and a potential WW III if we appeared too weak.

Ahem..his name is Billy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bladerunner

"In January 2008, the voter-approved San Francisco Health Care Ordinance went into effect, requiring any business with more than 20 employees to set aside money for their workers' health care."

It's ok for business to tell their customers why prices are increasing via line item.

Labor is becoming a liability. Expect much more automation, outsourcing, and shipping jobs overseas.

France treats women with hijabs very well. Giving them food, housing and money all at the expense of France's own people.

If you a dude seeking a bit of help but are more of 'liberal' I can recommend Iron John: A Book about Men.

Whoever wrote this is a trying to get me upset that a company is being more cautious than it needs to be.

Instead, we should be encouraging companies to be cautious, rather than use the evidence of their cautiousness against them in a sad attempt to get rage-clicks.