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December 2021 to October 2022. 103 yen to 149 yen.

Sorry for overestimating. It was only 10 months. :)

Japan is an import-dependent company. Fuel and food are mostly imports, so that hurts everyone.

And export oriented companies are making money. But trickle down economics is a myth, so it's not benefitting the workers. The executives are doing nicely so good for them I suppose.

Because it already collapsed a year ago. Look at 5 years.

> The Japanese folks I’ve spoken to are pretty grumbly about the weak yen, though.

Your money losing half its value in about a year tends to do that.

I couldn't even get Google Gemini to generate a picture of, verbatim, "a man eating". It gave me a long winded lecture about how it's offensive and I should consider changing my views on the world. It does this with virtually any topic.

I didn't say it outweighs anything else. You're inventing an argument in your head. Settle down.

The article that's being discussed.

I feel like I'm the only person here who read it.

The first paragraph of the article is about doing this to harvest flowers for economic reasons, so a significant amount of the nutrients are being removed from the waterways and wrapped in plastic to be sold. (unfortunately, this experiment was also done on top of beds of floating plastic)

Hopefully someday we can move beyond the desire for grass lawns, since that's where a lot of this waste is coming from.

My biggest worry is the direction Valve will take post-Gabe. I really hope he's got his Tim Cook-equivalent lined up. Someone who won't try to shake up the company too much and just keep things going how they are. All it takes is one (1) MBA to come in and do what they do and destroy everything Valve has built up for short term gains.

Lord of the Rings had a budget in the high millions and took years to make with a massive advertising campaign.

Riots happen due to out of context video clips. Violence happens due to people seeing grainy phone videos and acting on it immediately. We're reaching a point where these videos can be automatically generated instantly by anyone. If you can't see the difference between anyone with a grudge generating a video that looks realistic enough, and something that requires hundreds of millions of dollars and hundreds of employees to attain similar quality, then you're simply lying.

Don't worry. Give it a year or so and this feature will also be removed and all videos that used it silently delisted from search and recommendations.

These were the exact two I had in mind. I never used default wallpapers aside from these two.

I think a lot of these issues could be "solved" by lowering the resolution, using a low quality compression algorithm, and trimming clips down to under 10 seconds.

And by solved, I mean they'll create convincing clips that'll be hard for people to dismiss unless they're really looking closely. I think it's only a matter of time until fake video clips lead to real life outrage and violence. This tech is going to be militarized before we know it.

I find paper to be the best way to keep track of checklists and information that I'm actively working on, or long term continuous work. Digital is best for information I'll need to search through quickly or access large amounts of at any time.

Sketching out ideas for something I'll build over the weekend: paper. A list of things I need to get done and chip away at over the next 2 months: paper. A complicated web of info that I might need just a part of at some indeterminate point in the future: digital.