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Nice. Now she can not produce any hits for another 35+ years.

‘Thank you for your service’ is the US mantra of hollow patriotism. It is as compulsory as the flag decals on pickup trucks. But in the end, the armed forces aren't defenders of freedom, they’re employees of the state. And when push comes to shove, as history has shown from Kent State to Standing Rock, they’ll aim their rifles where the paycheck tells them to. It's not loyalty to the people. It’s loyalty to the chain of command.

Probably a good thing. Her voice has always sounded like a mule trying to do a nimpression of an air raid siren.

It's ironic that the same voices now complaining about the police mentioning the driver's race are usually the first to demand that detail - when the suspect isn't white. If the man had been an immigrant or Muslim, they’d be howling for headlines before the facts were confirmed. The issue isn’t selective reporting; it’s selective outrage. The problem isn’t that race was mentioned here - it’s that some only care when it fits their narrative. Using tragedy to push your politics is just low.

Look on the bright side.

Photographers who take stock photos of worried looking Wall Street traders are making a fortune.

A friend who works in banking said it was mainly Chinese and particularly Vietnamese owned accounts where they have been used for the transfer of funds from illegal activities.

Good luck. They are releasing a Japanese language only version for just under 50,000 yen.

If you want the multi-language system, you need to pay 70,000.

It is probably to stop scalpers and keep a supply for the Japanese market.

With the weak yen they are basically selling it for $330 in Japan. The price is $450 in the US.

Styles like Ghibli’s can’t be copyrighted. Copyright protects specific works, not general aesthetics. If someone generates an image that directly copies Ghibli content, that’s on the user, not the tool.

They trained the AI model on publicly available data to learn patterns, not to memorize or store copyrighted images. It doesn’t contain or reproduce exact works - just like a human artist learning by using mood boards.

It would be like suing Adobe because someone made a forgery in Photoshop. If we start treating style as property, we risk restricting human and machine 'creativity.'

Anyone up for starting a crowd funder to keep her up there without internet access?

One less purveyor of dire music on earth serves the whole of humanity.

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Reducing tourists is the aim. Overtourism is a real problem. Places like Venice and Barcelona suffer from it. It reduces the experience for tourists and affects the quality of life for locals.

Of course they want tourists, but it's a delicate balancing act trying to control a boom-bust situation like this. In some cases uncontrolled overtourism caused way more damage to the local economy than measures introduced to control it.

I'm getting the word...nonce.

I don't think this is a good idea due to the mental anguish caused by onsens.

My first time was a mixed bath way out in the countryside shared with two old women who had some well saggy danglers floating out in front of them

I still have nightmares about those flaccid bouyant teets.

@Mocheake He is the first Osmond to die.

If the only thing to come out of the Expo is another Fujimoto building, then I'm all for it.

His constructions are beautiful and challenging.

だっせー

Hurray! Err...

A huge kick in the nuts for Putin.

It shows how weak Russia is right now that they don't have the resources to support their main influence in the area.

Syria was also their link to Africa and Iran.

Liquor displeases the Lord.

Page 1 of the Nigerian Drug Smuggling Manual - menopausal women make excellent mules.

Education First?

Aren't they a bit dodgy?

The murderer is out of it.

The father is left suffering.

He needs some serious grief counseling.

Losing a child is a horror nobody should suffer, but still feeling like that 20 years later is a wrong. The murderer has killed the father, too.

Japan is only 7th on the list of registered UNESCO Intangibles with 22 - the same number as South Korea. China is way ahead with 43. Followed by Turkey with 30.

Japan! Register moar!

A government should never have a legal method of killing citizens.

It snowed this morning on Fuji. I can see it from my window.

But yes, it is very, very late.

Usually the first dusting happens in early October.

It continues to disappoint me that the climate deniers still can't grasp the difference between weather and climate.

It's on a level with the phrase 'But it's only a theory.'

/facepalm

@Fighto

Yes. And according to the National Police Agency data, knife attacks have been on the decline since the 2000s.

This is an American "event" that does not match with the Japanese culture.

Actually it's an Irish/Scottish event.

What Japanese culture? If you are talking about miserable old oyajis, maybe, but it matches with many, many young Japanese people.

Who actually gives a flying fart about these expos.

No idea.

Harris certainly ripped Trump s new one.

He looked like he was about to cry through most of the debate.