I’m fine, thank you for your concern.

It is by all means a humourous shitpost. The last line in my post is a pun on the rap song 99 problems, which should be the give away.

Pretty nice until the day inevitably comes where one of the RFID chips malfunctions and the fridge keeps insisting that you throw out something that isn’t there and you can’t reset the inventory without downloading an update from some company that doesn’t exist anymore using a profile that your ex has the password for.

Then you’ll wonder why you didn’t use to have these sorts of issues, and your kids will ask how you updated the fridge in your childhood. As an adult you are expected to know this stuff. With your authority being undermined like that they’ll stop listening to anything you say and start smoking crack after school. Now you have a malfunctioning fridge and junkie children. Thanks a lot, dad.

No thanks. I’ve got 99 problems, but a fridge ain’t one.

In threads like this I will always recommend Swordigo. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.touchfoo.swordigo

It’s an old side scrolling platform game. The gameplay is very nicely balanced so you won’t have to grind anything. There’s a few difficult jumps and tactics for bosses, but the difficulty increases gradually so you have a good chance of knowing what to do when you get to it, instead of being frustrated.

It takes a few days to 100% it. I think I’ve done it 3-4 times by now.

While you’re busy using both hands to disarm the one handed gun, your opponent has plenty of time to throw pocket sand.

I know it as Greek Breakfast.

It can be enjoyed anywhere or any time, but it’s best served on a balcony in underwear. Greece happens to be a good place to get it in the morning all year round.

They were part of WW2.

Stolen ashtrays etc. was almost free marketing distribution.

If the couple in bed wanted to talk, they could just call each other.

That was also the period when the introduction of tire pressure sensors created brand new issue that people never had before.

However you probably don’t miss the manual choke valve, double clutching, hand winded starter crank, or even window cranks.

There was really no golden period of car controls. It went fluidly from one kind of shit to another kind of shit.

I’m not really scared of AI becoming more intelligent. I’m more concerned about stupid people giving control to stupid AI. It’s plenty capable of fucking things up as it is provided it is given access to do so.

I think the people who just pick up an instrument and fool around with it might be more tempted to use AI than an actual composer who knows and cares about music theory and sound production.

It’s all about what they want to do. You don’t ask a algorithm to solve your sodoku, because what’s the point of doing it then.

It’s a standing joke that composers actually make their living doing tedious tasks like commercial jingles and background music for radio shows. The AI can easily do that, removing both the tedious work, but also the payment.

Algorithm based music isn’t a new thing. One could argue that it was exactly what Bach was doing. His ideas were mostly simple three note motifs, and the rest of the hourly long concerts were just him churning out all the possible arrangements using strict theory. AI could do that faster than a human, but I also don’t think any human is really interested in doing it like that anymore. It was a huge accomplishment by Bach, but only because he was the first to lay the groundwork. It’s not interesting today.

Composition today is all about conveying an idea or emotion through sound, which would be rather difficult for an AI. It can probably fake it well enough, but it’ll be based on already existing methods, aka slop. There’s already enough human made slop in music to saturate the market for such. AI doesn’t really have an edge in doing it, except it might be cheaper for those that need it.

Sand from Sahara in Africa is sometimes carried by wind and rains down in Scandinavia and even South America.

Fish eggs have landed in tree tops in the Amazon and what not.

I’m sure a mosquito or their eggs could ride the wind to Iceland as well.

Honestly, the bamboo “forest” isn’t worth a visit. I wonder if they post this news just to attract more tourists. The same story has been posted year after year.

It’s just a place where someone once planted a lot of bamboo thinking they’d need it as a ressource. They didn’t need it so they just left it there.

It dates back about a thousand years, so I guess it’s “natural” now, but it’s basically the remains of a human made plantation, albeit old.

The famous path through it is about a hundred meters long and a great spot to take that photo. I didn’t feel immersed in the forest at all, because the entry and exit is visible through the entire “attraction”.

There’s a nice temple with an impressive garden close by and some random rich rock star dude also build a mansion with a garden on top of the mountain next to the forest, and that’s it.

The whole thing felt like the kind of place that you only want to go if you’re a tourist with nothing better to do.

Kyoto is still worth visiting as a whole. The thousand gates on mt. Inari is a much better use of your time.

It needs the most advanced AI and direct access to LinkedIn to reach maximum efficiency. No prompting required and all cookies allowed. I want all 1049 partners to get an instantaneous feed from my butthole.

Japanese working culture is … different.

https://metropolisjapan.com/resignation-agencies/

Tl:dr;

The top-cited reason for using resignation agencies, at 40.7%, was that companies refused to let them quit. Other reasons included fear of backlash if they resigned alone or their work environment discouraged employees from quitting independently.

Not officially. It was removed in 2023.

It would be interesting to have such a statistic. Perhaps there was such a day more recently than we think.

Today’s not that day though. https://www.worldometers.info/

That’s the background for the story: Russia sent their convicts to war in trade of a “get out of jail”-card.

The guy was in jail for killing his wife. He took the deal and was sent to war. He got shot, got sent home as a free man, and immediately started killing people again.

It’s not a single case. It’s likely that convicts are taking the deal, not just to get out of jail, but also so they can go back and get revenge over those that put them in jail in the first place.

Yeah, nothing beats a clean rectum.