Happened to me yesterday, actually, that a large truck stopped suddenly at the end of an intersection and I, behind them, had to stop in the intersection without knowing when or if we’d move again since I couldn’t see anything ahead of the truck. A good seven or so seconds later and the light turned yellow so I had to cut to the right (mostly parking) lane to avoid gridlock. Went ahead a few cars to an opening to get back into a driving lane, cutting ahead a little.

My “I’m sorry” horn is really just my shy hand wave out my window though. I don’t use AC nor have tinted windows so I think they generally see how I feel, I think. More often than not, it’s a “thank you” horn though, as people often have to let me out of my own driveway since I live on a major street and there is rarely a time there aren’t cars idling outside waiting for a light.

Yeah, that’s good to clarify; my girl attends a special school in the US that originally was designed to keep native Japanese kids up to date with language while living in the US because of a father’s international work, etc., sometimes not even for a full semester. They’ve since had you start accepting US born kids too, so long as they’re proficient in Japanese.

They’re housed within a public school but are ultimately private so they don’t have access to facilities like that.

I mean it’s one of those implicit things. We’ve snuck some leftover pasta in there though, along with a rice ball… hehe

My kid just started TK and the school is serving such a high poverty area that they give free breakfast and lunch. It’s hard to pass up, and isn’t the worst quality in the world but still a little more sugar than I’d prefer. Fruit yes, vegetable no, and loads of dairy (which is a thing thanks to US subsidizing farms, this is where that surplus goes. Corn syrup, too though, unfortunately).

It’s also kind of a lot of trouble for two working parents to prep a lunch for multiple kids every day. Leftovers are great, but they don’t always hold for the few hours they’re in a bag. I’m allowed to bring food to them at 11:30am, but I’m working so it’s a non starter. My daughter also attends a Japanese Saturday school though and prepping a bento box is required.

Plenty of good ones, but I think one that stuck with me was from Beatles Day in the Life. My mom sang it a lot and as an adult… I get it.

I read the news today, oh boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well, I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph

He blew his mind out in a car
He didn’t notice that the lights had changed
A crowd of people stood and stared
They’d seen his face before
Nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords

And so on. It’s also just a trippy, dark song.

At some point their corpses start to smell unbearable and you need to find fresh bodies.

No but really, same with what others said. Make sure they treat you kindly and respect your boundaries and such.

For some reason an Nvidia RTX 5090 and 128gb of DDR5 RAM, because whoever designed this game decided it’d be funny to put a target on my back.

I admit, I’m tempted to read the AI answer when I search something; but holy crap is it a patronizing waste of time. Just now I was searching about a game and the long page of AI answer essentially boiled down to “kill stuff to get stronger,” like brah, I know, I’m trying to look up exact formulas here, you piece of shit.

My questions are never answered by it, and when it tries, it’s wrong even with follow up info. Man I really could live without it, lol.

Edit: oh, and this is a relatively new game but on both Google and Bing indexes, the first page and a half are clearly AI generated. Same boilerplate nothingburger answers. No surprise the search AI isn’t good, it’s regurgitating other AI answers. MAN I could live without it.

Capital -> Dandy -> Swell -> Keen -> Groovy -> Rad -> Slayed (although I’d have picked Bussin’).

I wish I knew more going back even into the nineteenth century. I recently read the Arsene Lupin books (1905), and although that’s French translated to British English, I found the slang charming. Although I think cool was only used in regards to someone being calm and controlled…

The texture certainly was better, sure. I just remember I wasn’t that impressed by the flavor. I’m used to marinated flank steak which is considerably more sinewy but made up for with seasoning and spices.

Also it was pretty small, and I shared it with my partner. I wanna say 8oz? The guy who bought it to treat us was a real Midwestern American though, so it’s possible he was bamboozled.

No, I know the yen is generally weaker but this was like 15 years ago. I had to double check because it’s was usually 100 yen to 1 dollar but somehow it was 90 yen to a dollar that year. They really screwed up after the pandemic though so it’s so much worse now and will probably get even worse under the current admin.

It’s been used in marketing and has lost it’s meaning, but I’m referring to the original is that type where the cattle are given wine and massaged or something.

I think that piece of meat was something like 60,000 yen, or roughly $700 at the time given the exchange rate of the time. But it’s been a while and I didn’t have to pay so… not certain.

Someone once treated me to actual Wagyu steak in Japan. It was good but certainly not hundreds of dollars good; marinades are cheap and makes my usual cheap meats taste wonderful.

When playing with prompts before I realized how stupid this whole thing was (in 2023 lol), I found myself also copying and pasting a lot so… it’s probably not even going to speed things up in prompting, even ignoring the whole thinking part that we’ll omit here since, well, they probably aren’t.

Since having kids, anytime I make a mistake or jump to a conclusion, I try to model for them how to say sorry and make it right.

That said, I don’t make mistakes that often; I’m much more likely to just say I don’t know or I have no opinion. I think it’s most important to teach people it’s ok to not know or have enough information to make a judgement.

About 60" for the living room, but I try to prioritize image quality over size since I can adjust the distance. Since I have young kids, I have to keep the screen higher and farther than I like, though.

Otherwise, that’s it. I use computer monitors if I’m in any other room, and those are ultrawide 30" I think. (And although it’s not the question, ISP panels are my favorite even with OLEDs taking over the world. I just like their color profile.)

And kitchen? C’mon. Get a tablet like a normal digital junky.

We call those foods you mentioned as “junky foods” as that’s still a concept in Japan too. It’s usually pretty clear based on nutritional content, but the main reason is how sick you feel afterwards.

There can be healthier options in fast food as well as better ways to prepare karage and tempura to be less unhealthy. And no, none of that appears more or less healthier than American fast food to us, but fast food also includes chipotle and subway which are not quite as greasy as what you have in mind.

EXCUSE ME human, your pod in block 5S-AA67 is 4 centimeters farther out from the frame than the rest of the pods, we need you to be within HOA regulation of the proper distance of your pod or face additional fees!

I second this; even though their mutated form is terrestrial, they clearly look like it too. Red eared sliders are common gift pets that often get abandoned (I should know, I rescued one!).

Used to be that China was on par in that regard say… 10? 15 years ago? I remember seeing a comparison, it was more neck at neck, but I think they reduced it and the US massively increased it, so it’s high but not US high.

Similarly something about military spending; same US ballooning in the past few decades.