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My cousin speaks fluent Japanese. He had another western acquaintance living in Japan that was a stay-at-home dad who spent his days with Japanese mothers. It seems that women speak differently enough from men where the guy was learning female speaking (accent? Structure? I have no idea) and so my cousin had to talk to him privately and tell him he speaks like a woman...

I looked it up in flight radar and it was a private owner with frequent flights to/from Little Rock and Washington.

Is it possible to look up who owned the plane? Curious if it was a charter.

Hermantown is part of Duluth. Everyone in Duluth should have a say in this because it will raise everyone's electricity prices. And if it runs gas generators it will reduce duluths air quality.

Trump got confused and said shithouse (which makes no sense) instead of shithole, his original term for basically any non-white country.

They voted to raise their own electricity prices in exchange for hiring at most a handful of people to work at the data center...

My cousins were raised in Hermantown. My uncle used to be one of the few people that qualified for an in-city hunting license and he would hunt deer in his back yard. Hermantown is above Duluth and has views of Lake Superior. The weather is usually much cooler than 20 miles south of the lake and it's also fogged in a lot which is bad for the Duluth airport that is nearby. I remember laying on the exposed bedrock at night in complete darkness looking up and watching the northern lights.

I'm not against progress and I think it's great that Duluth is growing - people moved there during Covid and supposedly others moved there because of climate change but I'm skeptical of that. Places that used to be kind of gross and full of methheads are now hip and cool with nice restaurants and breweries. It's a much better place now than it used to be - at least it's less depressing.

But I just don't see how people in Duluth benefit from this data center - the revenue goes elsewhere. Google presumably won't be opening an office there.

Many farmers here in Switzerland grow urdinkel - ancient spelt. In the USA most farmers grew it also until around the 1920s but then a new wheat came out that was easier to process. Spelt has thicker hulls and wears down the mill faster so the mills switched to the new wheat and the farmers all had to switch too.

Based on the name I think ur (ancient) Dinkel (spelt) is even older than regular spelt but I'm not sure. All I know is that it makes great crackers but terrible pasta and ok bread but not great.

Very little information in that article. For example I would have expected something about Samhain - precursor to British Halloween in Ireland, Scotland, Celtic areas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain

I tried playing the monster mash on YouTube tonight. It played two ads then started the song but the video had a weird ai avatar performing. It played for five seconds then started playing another ad.

I'm just bitching....

That's where the bus hits you.

Besides Ireland and parts of the UK Halloween traditionally hasn't been a thing in Europe and some people are adamantly against it being celebrated. But here in Switzerland in the recent years it's become the night where teenagers/students go out late and vandalize and be nuisances, start fires, etc.

This year it's on a Saturday and there's also general unrest with frequent protests (Israel/Palestine, Kurds, students, etc etc etc) so it's probably going to be worse than usual.

"...she was pulled over by an officer who claimed she had spent too much time driving in the left lane."

Throw the book at her!

Is this about something on Reddit? Or R programming language? Nevermind I don't care.

I use ai as I program every day and I find it useful. I also use it for tech support for myself and my home server. The other day I used it to make some changes in my server and I felt like I accomplished tons. But when I thought about it in the evening I realized I could have got it done with less time if I had just read some documents - the ai advice was often out-of-date and I notice that while programming too - for example, I use the spring-ai framework which has changed massively between versions and the ai always gives old advice....

So on average I would say I'm getting about as much work done now as before ai.

I thought during the last trump administration they got rid of the helium reserve and sold it all off? Or am I taking crazy pills?!

Politicians are allowed to send spam texts, emails, phone calls. They exempted themselves from all of laws prohibiting it. Just block it.

From the article it's not clear if the problem with the drug-sniffing dogs is false-positives or false-negatives. So don't start hiding your drugs in vegemite just yet.

I looked at the tech specs but I don't see how much ram it has. I ended getting more storage than I needed on my pro because it also gave it more ram.

They also have an execellent iOS app that I use whenever I'm hiking.

So is this DOA? I use IntelliJ for work every day and I have a project that will work for agentic coding but that I want to experiment with...

Shitty ai website with impossible navigation, on iOS mobile at least.

This is great! I never understood the Serbian view of allying with a loser country like Russia. I assume it was all corruption and oligarchs.

It would be interesting if the poor could use these new tools that the rich are giving us to take their wealth from them. There's precedence - the longbow, the printing press, and open source software.

That doesn't really explain the popularity at times of clicks-and-beeps music and some other modern music.

There's always grifters trying to make money off the contra-view of a current fad.

So who will be sued and/or state prosecuted?

We have a wealth tax in parts of Switzerland. It works for normal people like me where you can value my house and bank accounts easily. But it starts to have problems when you're ultra-wealthy and you have to value my artwork - paintings, sculptures, jewelry...

Overall I think it's fine. I think where I live it's .75%. But there's a giant hotel where the fifa executives live and the owner keeps getting in trouble for importing art and undervaluing it.

Move out of CA.

I feel much more at peace now that my sex drive has decreased. Before this feeling it was my primary goal and I was very successful but now I couldn't care less about sex.

So I often wonder about yogis and saints - are they better humans than me? But i dont think so when I read about people like mlk jr and jfk and how they were terrible people when it came to women, even worse than me.

So much stuff is down today for php fixes. I can't even do Duolingo!