Yet you created a new account here just to bitch about that. What does that make you? The petulent teenager?

I don't think you're teaching your kids not to lie. You are teaching your kids the situations the community you're in has decided when it's okay to lie and when not. We package this as this sort of absolute philosophy but it's not. It's very flexible and hard to navigate.

You have probably lied to your kid that you're out of snacks or that you forgot to bring your wallet to buy more snacks. Or that Santa exists. Kids will eventually pick up on these things.

Stop generalizing the US and the West. Is Japan all the same everywhere? I'm gonna say no. Why should an even bigger country be then? Or another somewhat nebulously defined area that's bigger still?

What the average Japanese person would think a rowdy crowd is the average American's idea of enjoying a communal experience. One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist.

If you go see a kids movie you'll have some parents on their phones as well. The bad behavior is creeping in in Japan too. Plus, a lot of the movies arrive half a year or so later than a lot of other countries. And it's more expensive in my experience. Just for some perspective.

I suspect you look at the term "the West" and you think you're not part of that. You're "the East" if anything. If a jihadist screams "death to the West" they include Japan in there. You are a democracy, a developed nation, and you rely on the US for security, and you are not practicing Muslims either. A person in Central Europe could look at "the West" and might include Finland and Sweden in there but maybe not Ukraine or Bulgaria. And what do we do about Russia? West of Japan, east of Europe. Very big and shouldn't be generalized either. "The West" is an empty vessel people fill with lazy assumptions.

Define "worth it." I think Mullvad is a tad expensive but for protection while surfing the web it's a good service. And the fact that they take mail-in cash is unique.

You can just look for a pre-paid credit card wherever you are. You may have to sacrifice your name and number but you don't have to wrestle with the post office.

Just do what all other writers have done and choose a starting point and then increment the numbers a bit every time. That horse has not only bolted, it ran past the horizon, had a fulfilling family life, and died of old age.

This is most Americans, no matter what camp they root for, for most of their leaders. And you have plenty to choose from although recently I imagine the Republicans have edged ahead in this depressing horse race. Thank you for rage baiting with us today.

What they think is wrong and is borne out of laziness and the misguided mass hysteria that this is the future. Other futures are available. Your phrasing of the question led me to believe you have absorbed the bs marketing of the peddlers of so-called AI. There is nothing efficient about it at present.

Don't use it whenever you don't get punished for it in school, i.e. people should know how to use it so it should be taught in schools. Along with how to spot mistakes and general media savvyness. Highlight the mistakes and shortcomings whenever possible. Stay away from people who need to ask a chat bot first before they do anything. Be the fucking salmon that swims upstream past lurching bears to get laid (and let's say not die during or afterwards, to keep it light).

What does any of this have to do with "pure efficiency?" The alleged efficiency of these models is only on the user side of the equation. It can do things for you in milliseconds that would take you hours to do yourself. Except it doesn't do this reliably and you need to double check its work a lot, which often negates any efficiency gains.

On the backend it's tying up resources in chip making with negative knock-on effects for any other products needing chips, wasting drinking water because that's cheaper then building circular cooling systems, cutting into any progress in switching to renewable energy sources and thus putting this planet in further peril, and it's making people dumber overall because they feel they can outsource thinking to some juiced to spell checking algorithm.

Efficiency where?

Es war mal ein Haumann in Limerick, der war in so manche Sauerei verstrickt. Wir hörten von seinem Tod, hier völlig ohne Not. Sprich Deutsch Du Hurensohn.

Pictures or it didn't happen.

And you answer your own question. So I'm going to suspect this post is bravo sierra.

The UK government is giving Apple and Google three months to build on-device scanning infrastructure.

Nothing has gone through parliament yet. That's not to say that a majority of twats couldn't be found there. But crucially I think this is not something a floundering PM can decree on his own authority. So far this threat is about as believable as any statement by the incumbent American president on Iran.

Yes. Even people who speak more than one language don't know all the music in the world. But they are likely to have been exposed to a greater variety.

If hypothetically you wanted to listen to all the music in the world, you'd probably fail because you would need to dedicate every waking moment to the project and you'd die before you finish.