You think giving away ChatGPT for free isn’t distorting a market ?

Tokyo. All over Shinbashi

Japan is probably the highest trust society in the planet. You regularly walk into Lawson’s or 7-11 in tokyo that have no employees visible and very few cameras if any. You self check out and are on your way.

Meanwhile in the bay area more and more regular goods in supermarkets and drug stores are locked in boxes you need to find an employee for to unlock.

Trust in society makes everything more convenient and easier, it’s an invisible tax multiplied into every daily transaction and the US is in the “close to critical failure” state with almost nobody trusting anyone. No experts, no government, just snakecharmers like Don who change trust for blind faith. And make no mistake, people who have to question every interaction every day eventually are so worn down, the snakecharmers can pick them up by selling hope that you only trust them and all will be ok.

This is no coincidence. Common narratives in the west, through the GDP lens declare Japan a depression ridden shithole doomed by demographic decline - But the GDP lens misses an entire variable.

Quality.

In the west, we have sold quality to growth. A phone that breaks every year sells a new phone. A dish made with lower quality ingredients makes more profit. Quality of life and convenience in Japan is incredibly high. Stuff works. Reliably. Your train is never late. Our escalator doesn’t break down. Your power doesn’t go out. Your food is generally high quality. There a small convenience store every 50 meters - no trips to large walmart megastores requires.

Yes Japan has issues, this isn’t about otaku fawning here - this is about the fact that we sell quality in the west for profit which does not fly in Japan and if you visit Tokyo in 2023 from SF or Seattle, … the contrast is stark. Somehow every car got replaced with electric or hybrid versions. The trains running on Yamanote are new. The connectivity 5G. Shit just works. The food is highly affordable and it’s quality hasn’t declined.

Of course people visiting from low trust societies without social compact to not fuck shit up are going to behave like barbarians. Especially when this behavior is incentivized by views / engagement or monetisation.

I’m with Singapore on this one. Someone who uploads a video like that should be caned and their social media accounts force wiped to start over to disincentive any possible gains

Been running the docker on unraid for years in a HP slimline. Rock solid.

I thought we defederate Lenmygrad, why is the tankie being spread here

I see someone has an Endlösung in mind. It’s hard to escape the impression that maybe it wasn’t intelligence community incompetence that invited this “perl habor”. And the plans for this do feel like they’ve been in some drawer for a while.

Nothing justifies Hamas but likewise, nothing justifies doing this to the many innocent, the children, the babies, the people just happened to be born in the wrong spot. The average age in Gaza is, iirc, below 18

Yes the bigger model is quite good

Whisper is perfectly fine as a subtitle generator you can run at home and subtitle a movie in minutes

This will lead to fines and settlements and then the executives will get off scot free. Just modern day absolution writs

cloudflare, 10 years. Prices are not going to not move for 10 years

It’s great if your country doesn’t force the young to finance the old.

Proxmox with alpine containers or Unraid are both painless

no remain identifiable, etc. Putin doesn’t gain anything, but the dude presumably knows he was on the kill list so disappearing would be in his interest

Typical case of being so far right you come out on the left again

People seem awfully quick to accept the narrative - it seems to me this would be the easiest way for him to disappear on his own terms.

go cloudflare, renew for 10 years. nobrainer.

No, this is called letter of Marque, distinct from piracy 🏴‍☠️

He’s a tankie, he keeps telling tales about poor Russia being forced into war and that we should make peace with them. Just ignore the white noise, typical German cosplay tankie.

Exactly, how ever would we keep our own tribal community safe from people who want to learn /s

Meanwhile in Asia we moved lessons to zoom for a few weeks and that was it. But Germans think giving kids a tablet or notebook is exposing them to the devil