FriendOfDeSoto

You could get yourself an espresso and enjoy a good article.

They struggle with what they call AI still so not any time soon. Welcome to the hockey stick.

I would sooner invest into a really long, reasonably well insulated hose to hang out the nearest window. If you can manage that sub 3 yards and the hose doesn't dip too much below it's exhaust vent height, I think this solution might beat DIY ice pack dehumidifiers.

Get a video camera to film you while you write and screen record what you do on your laptop. That way you have proof that you didn't use models. And I'm only half joking.

As much as I loathe to suggest this: maybe you should try to prompt some models on topics you write on. Just to see what it spits out so you can avoid sounding alike. Same for visuals it would come up with.

Or you could see if some industrious fellow student has found a copy of the software the faculty use to do a trial run. It may have fallen off a truck somewhere. Happens all the time! Just make sure you protect yourself.

The "zero occupant problem"

The fact that this has a name is such an indictment of failures in urban planning. I'm going to assume an American coined the term because a lot of other places have not fought the idea of public transport as much as the American automobile industry.

There is an argument that a connected Borg collective of self driving cars would be capable of running vehicles with smaller gaps in between them, thus reducing congestion and improving efficiency in traffic.

Yet you created a new account here just to bitch about that. What does that make you? The petulent teenager?

I don't think you're teaching your kids not to lie. You are teaching your kids the situations the community you're in has decided when it's okay to lie and when not. We package this as this sort of absolute philosophy but it's not. It's very flexible and hard to navigate.

You have probably lied to your kid that you're out of snacks or that you forgot to bring your wallet to buy more snacks. Or that Santa exists. Kids will eventually pick up on these things.

Stop generalizing the US and the West. Is Japan all the same everywhere? I'm gonna say no. Why should an even bigger country be then? Or another somewhat nebulously defined area that's bigger still?

What the average Japanese person would think a rowdy crowd is the average American's idea of enjoying a communal experience. One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist.

If you go see a kids movie you'll have some parents on their phones as well. The bad behavior is creeping in in Japan too. Plus, a lot of the movies arrive half a year or so later than a lot of other countries. And it's more expensive in my experience. Just for some perspective.

I suspect you look at the term "the West" and you think you're not part of that. You're "the East" if anything. If a jihadist screams "death to the West" they include Japan in there. You are a democracy, a developed nation, and you rely on the US for security, and you are not practicing Muslims either. A person in Central Europe could look at "the West" and might include Finland and Sweden in there but maybe not Ukraine or Bulgaria. And what do we do about Russia? West of Japan, east of Europe. Very big and shouldn't be generalized either. "The West" is an empty vessel people fill with lazy assumptions.

Define "worth it." I think Mullvad is a tad expensive but for protection while surfing the web it's a good service. And the fact that they take mail-in cash is unique.

You can just look for a pre-paid credit card wherever you are. You may have to sacrifice your name and number but you don't have to wrestle with the post office.

Just do what all other writers have done and choose a starting point and then increment the numbers a bit every time. That horse has not only bolted, it ran past the horizon, had a fulfilling family life, and died of old age.

This is most Americans, no matter what camp they root for, for most of their leaders. And you have plenty to choose from although recently I imagine the Republicans have edged ahead in this depressing horse race. Thank you for rage baiting with us today.