I’ve seen them occasionally in Japan hotels as well, but it’s pretty rare

Ray Stevens went a long way from that song in 1987 to his one about how dems get dead people to vote for them in 2012

https://genius.com/Ray-stevens-grandpa-voted-democrat-lyrics

How many eggs can you get for 2 jets?

Assuming this AI shit doesn’t kill us all and we make it to the conclusion that robots writing lies on websites perhaps isn’t the best thing for the internet, there’s gonna be a giant hole of like 10 years where you just shouldn’t trust anything written online. Someone’s gonna make a bespoke search engine that automatically excludes searching for anything from 2023 to 2035.

Swinger parties are getting weirder

Yeah maga place looks like it’s up to 21 idiots sharing a brain cell now, whereas I think it was 12 a couple weeks ago. Wonder if there’s a critical mass for those fucks or if they’ll find lemmy too progressive to stick around. I guess they could just circlejerk on their own instance.

Great story. I’m glad I went looking for it (haven’t read it in 25+ years) because I got to discover that London wrote a slightly different version 6 years earlier.

Oops, typo–I meant cat 4. I live in rural Japan.

I never knew they used the “suffering work” kanji for that phrase

Trying to learn a FSI category 5 language when you don’t have a dedicated language class is an ongoing and frustrating experience, but the cost of living is low, the countryside is peaceful, and going back to the states right now seems crazy.

https://www.state.gov/foreign-service-institute/foreign-language-training

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

Jack London’s husky survived, the guy didn’t make it

Eh, Death of the Author is a thing for a reason–we don’t have to take authors’ thoughts as the end of discussion about a thing. Richard Adams is quoted as saying he didn’t put any meaning into Watership Down, and they were just tales for his daughters. Bradbury said that Fahrenheit 451 was mostly about people becoming isolated in society and watching too much TV rather than censorship.

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

I always find it interesting when comparing cuisine between cultures of stuff that exists in different places but only eaten in one (or a few) of them. Like ok, I get that if you’re not used to much seafood in general you maybe will eat some grilled salmon but you’re not gonna be eating the guts out of crabs or lobsters or whatever. But then there’s something like burdock root, which grows in the US, doesn’t have a strong taste, and is just like various other root vegetables we do eat (although not as sweet as something like a carrot). But the US doesn’t eat it while east Asia does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctium#Food_and_drink

Like 40 hours I guess, ate lunch on a Thursday and then breakfast on the Saturday. Needed to make a weigh in on the Saturday morning that for some reason I can’t remember I was unprepared for–I think it was early in the season. That practice on Friday wasn’t much fun though.

Going to bed hungry isn’t nearly as distracting as trying to sleep when you’re thirsty though.

He had the shits iirc

Oh noes, people are hating fascists! We shouldn’t let those fascist haters run the government, much better to let the fascists do it. Go lick some more ICE balls, you fucking rusty spork.

There was a law professor on a podcast talking about how courts traditionally lend credibility to the government as a default position, but it might have to change because of all the shit this admin is pulling

https://trumpconlaw.com/89-bad-faith-president

but if their fascist government fails, then they can go back to normal society of no one knows who they are.

It should be trivial for a theoretical subsequent competent government to identify these people, but I’ve just about lost all hope that anyone will face consequences for doing fascist shit.

Perfect, time for the nobel!

Does that mean a bloated orange with alzheimers somehow failed to achieve something again?