Just be like the French and ban billboard advertising. No need for these stupid gadgets.

French cities are banning billboards - https://www.marketplace.org/story/2023/03/06/french-cities-are-banning-billboards

“Can you explain this 6 year gap on your CV?”

Competition is fierce, but they are not exactly struggling due to government subsidies/incentives. These are so extreme that Chinese manufacturers are over producing and dumping “used” EVs with zero mileage for export.

Similar to US agricultural dumping, this is a terrible policy for everyone, except for the beneficiaries of the subsidies, and maybe the overseas consumers who get cheap EVs in the short term.

China’s Zero-Mile ‘Used’ EVs Are Flooding Global Markets - https://insideevs.com/news/763687/china-zero-mile-used-evs/

AI = Actually Indians

Actually, James is short for Jean Names

Usual suspects

Yeah but people now Google things and look at the AI summary of the top 3 results.

NYC’s AI chatbot was caught telling businesses to break the law. The city isn’t taking it down | AP News - https://apnews.com/article/new-york-city-chatbot-misinformation-6ebc71db5b770b9969c906a7ee4fae21

Madison Cawthorn Says ‘Blackmail Won’t Win’ After Nude Thrusting Video Leaks | HuffPost Latest News - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/madison-cawthorn-leaked-nude-video_n_626d40a7e4b0bc48f57c0a83

We were already there 10 years ago with Google Glass. Despite its failure in the consumer market, it found significant success in enterprise settings in the exact scenarios you’ve listed.

Except, all of these are scenarios in blue collar work. Apple seems hell bent on making this succeed in white collar areas with its emphasis on meetings, which is extremely baffling.

How Is Google Glass Doing in Enterprise and Industrial Settings? - Engineering.com - https://www.engineering.com/how-is-google-glass-doing-in-enterprise-and-industrial-settings/

Eww Reinhart and Rogoff, all my homies hate Reinhart and Rogoff.

TL:DR Reinhart and Rogoff infamously cherry picked their data and had coding errors to support austerity measures that fucked over much of the world, subsequent meta analyses found that austerity doesn’t work.

Growth in a Time of Debt - Wikipedia - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt

Physical Vs chemical changes.

It was typically taught that physical changes are differentiated from chemical changes because they could be “undone” or that they had “no chemical reaction.” Which was very confusing, because you can’t uncut paper, and dissolving stuff in water clearly results in different chemicals being produced, yet both were examples of physical changes (actually the latter is sometimes taught as a chemical change). Furthermore, most chemical changes are actually reversible.

It has since been recognised that this classification is BS, and most changes actually exist on a continuum.

Literally yes. I recall there was a study (can’t find it now) which showed that people who vote for extreme candidates often do so under the assumption that they won’t actually follow through with their promises, and hence the vote is more about “sending a message.” In some sense, it is a sick version of normalcy bias.

For anyone who thinks this is an overreaction, here is an example of a Temu jumper catching on fire, and causing severe burns to an eight year old. She now has to have skin grats for the next decade of her life. Such an incident would not have occurred if it had met fire safety standards.

Temu recalls flammable glow-in-the-dark jumper after 8yo girl suffers burns - ABC News - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-07/temu-recall-flammable-glow-in-dark-jumper-australia-consumer-law/104787390

❌Lest we forget

✅Best we forget

Text Publishing — Best We Forget: The War for White Australia, - https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/best-we-forget-the-war-for-white-australia-1914-18

Shoshana Zuboff really was ahead of its time. So many people who were privacy conscious and therefore thought they were clever by simply thinking that Google makes money by only selling your data completely missed the scale of manipulation and control big tech has (myself included).

Google/big tech doesn’t sell your data. Google/big tech sells advertisers predictions of your behaviour, a highly refined, processed version of your data. Advertisers cannot purchase your data, only “impressions” or “views.” In an extra sinister twist, Google/big tech then uses it’s resources to manipulate you in ways such that their predictions become true.

This is why their predictions are the best, because after making them, they have a financial incentive to manipulate them into being true. It is why we naturally see more and more polarization, because after Google has sold the prediction that you will engage is a specific type of content (e.g. right ring rabbit holes), it is financially incentivised to make that a reality, and therefore further push you in that direction, to make their prediction true.

How to “improve” prediction using behavior modification - ScienceDirect - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169207022001066

Unregistered hypercam 2 + notepad instructions + evanescence is an aesthetic tho

Although by far the eco friendly option, natural (or direct) burials are still quite expensive, at around $2600. Most of this is related to the cost of the plot itself, and most of the savings come from using a cheaper/no casket.

Direct cremation is generally cheaper, being $800 - $3000, with most options averaging around $2000.

How Much Does A Green Burial Cost? - https://choicemutual.com/blog/green-burial-cost/

What is the average cost of a cremation? - US Funerals Online - https://www.us-funerals.com/what-is-the-average-cost-of-a-cremation/

The catch is that rural Japan is a a shithole rife with xenophobia, privacy violations, bullying, and problematic neighbors. And that’s for ethnically Japanese people, so it’s be way worse if you were actually a foreigner.

There’s a reason why people in Japan try so hard to move away from rural areas into cities.

https://youtu.be/fjK1BkpOa8w

Kyocera.

Also Japanese, and plenty of cheap generic toners available online. They even publish Linux drivers.