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Constantly sold out here in Japan. Even the discounted Japan-only version that was meant to stop foreign purchase and resale with more restrictions such as Japanese-language-only

Humans required tribes and close-knit communities to survive up until extremely recently in our evolutionary history. The last few hundred years massively shifted how where and how we see our identities and tribes, and what information is available. Modern social media and algorithm-based content has taken advantage of this in a huge way. People are not taught proper critical thinking and are not immunized against disinformation. Our ancient brains still think losing our tribe as being sentenced to loneliness, danger, and death. The opinions and actions of many are now more public than ever and there is more pressure there as well.

Octopus lady is great!

In my case, in the sense of “hearing” then yes. I still have thoughts and my mind wanders and whatnot; it just doesn’t need something else overtop of that

… Are you suggesting we are incapable of thought? My mind wanders just like anyone else’s.

We have a lot of non-management whom are all-in and drinking the kool-ade. I’m still highly put off for a number of reasons, but an outlier.

Well, if you have to build all kinds of stuff to win (or even survive) things like environmental regulations go out the window. You can expect factories, many not meant for it, to start running 24/7 and producing all kinds of pollution. People will need to get to those factories and it’s also all using more power. All of those things also need to be shipped around, both to temporary storage and to staging areas for wherever they’re destined.

During WWII in the US, a lot of old mines were also re-opened to get what was left of lead, copper, zinc, etc. and mining can have a huge environmental impact. I suspect we’d see that again along with rare earths mining and refining which is not great for the environment. I suspect we’d see more coal mining, facking, and other things as well to meet energy needs at home and abroad.

There will be tons of fires pumping carbon and I’m sure plenty of nasty materials into the atmosphere as well. Lead is going to end up all over the place in some areas and probably depleted uranium as well (you can see what that’s done over time in various parts of the Middle East).

… why on earth would anyone want emails in their notifications to begin with?

Mosquitos: jackpot!

I live in rural Japan where it’s 04:30-05:00 instead (it’s quite light out already in east Japan by then). Trying to work past like 11am in the heat and humidity is miserable and dangerous

This has nothing to do with speaking. This is just the government deciding which system to use (or at least favor) for transliterating things into English when writing (street signs for example). If you want to speak/learn Japanese, skip romaji altogether.

Dajiro did a decent video on this (in Japanese) going over the changes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEYo0Sf9kAI

I’m mostly a fan of the changes since things like sya never sound like sha in my mind and ti doesn’t look like chi AND conflicts with ティ

I wish AMD had something like CUDA that my video rendering software used so I could stop using nvidia.

I’m on a 2080 or 2090 (I forget which). I thought I’d upgrade to the 40xx now that 5090s are out. I looked at the prices and absolutely not. The 5090s are around 500k JPY, and ordering from the US would work out to about the same with exchange, tax, and any possible tariff that exists this week. Salaries here are also much lower than in the west as well on average even for those of us in software.

4070s are still around 100k which is cheaper than last time I looked at 250k ish.

Price aggregator site in Japan if you want to play around: https://kakaku.com/pc/videocard/itemlist.aspx?pdf_Spec103=500 On the left, you’ll see the cards to select and the prices are obvious on the screen.

I’d expect to see this with humanoid robots too as they take over more and more human jobs.

I have the feeling that humanoid robots are only really a good fit in places designed for human(oid)s. We might see things change to be more optimized for the optimal form factor of machine for that job. I suppose it’s possible for maintenance/health/safety reasons we don’t but I don’t see health and safety being important to the people doing this.

I have at least one family member who definitely believes that there are foreigners coming over, stealing opportunities, and getting free rides. I nope’d out of the conversation before it could go any further but, unless they suddenly changed, they believe whatever newsmax says.

Well, not being a very-much-finished space program would be a good start.

Admin is out of their area due to work and the firewall server or something died completely preventing them from remotely accessing anything to bring it back up and also preventing using their backup (per a post I read a few hours ago).

I think the hangup is why is there an “it” that’s doing the raining. My wife had trouble remembering that as well since we would either just say ‘rain’ or ‘rain falls’ in her language

Most languages don’t need a dummy subject to do the raining. Whilst “it’s raining” may seem natural to people who grew up speaking English (or indeed several Germanic or romance la guages) it’s far from universal.