I keep meaning to make sticky rice at some point. I also tend to eat rice with chopsticks at Chinese restaurants, but anywhere else the rice is too loose

One complimented my bladder, so I guess that spleen seems mighty good about now

Oh shit, you are a goddess among mortals! Carrot cake is one of my all time favorites so I keep trying it despite being disappointed every time that someone put raisins in it. It’s just mean.

Last month, Elon Musk’s AI company xAI acquired the social media platform at close to the same sum that Musk originally paid for the company in 2022.

Unless that is a private company owned wholly by Musk, there’s got to be a case of fraud here

I hear she wore a tan suit just like Obama

This is a few years old but gives a lot of reasons, plus clarified it would help a lot if people

• https://www.epi.org/publication/why-america-needs-a-15-minimum-wage/

Even If you’re trying to be coldly logical, ignoring the health and wellbeing of those millions of people and their children …. Take a look at the section near the end about how much states pay in poverty assistance to people making near minimum wage. This is effectively a subsidy for those businesses paying low wages. Why should state governments be subsidizing those companies? A higher minimum wage means more people can support themselves and the government pays less to support them, less to subsidize those conpanies

Think of how many pieces of Avocado toast you get for $763/month: these people are living the life!

Fwiw - subjunctive verbs are key to your intended meaning

• https://www.grammarly.com/blog/grammar/subjunctive/

Even if everyone there was were a gang member

Change to subjunctive to describe an imaginary situation

TIL: Ohio as slang is quite appropriate for Ohio the state

US street signs are standardized so you can see at a glance without reading. I understand the EU does similar but with a different standard.

But street signs are not the only signs. There are place names and ads and directions and telling you where to line up for what and how much the subway costs and how to get from one part of Paris to another and directions for the theater, etc, and most of those are localized

No advice but you’re not alone.

My teen has been having sleeping issues recently and exercise seems to help quiet his mind so I’m he can sleep. The other day he got up at 2am and ran 8 miles before he could sleep.

But I’m the opposite. Any activity, any eye focus, any organized thought, and I’m likely up for good

How about gps directions to navigate an unfamiliar location?

Or for travelling: there already is a phone app to translate signs but it would be so much more to have that live

Yes, I swear that’s the biggest benefit of the Apple Watch. For the things it does, it’s so much more convenient than dragging a big old phone out of your pocket. From reading texts and notifications, to payments, to exercise and health data, to 2fa,to using a voice assistant, even checking time and weather.

Then again that’s a high bar of convenience for ever lower marginal improvements for the goggles to try to build

AR goggles and AI: two hot technologies that go great together. They need each other

Arguably just gps instructions and step tracking superimposed on reality would be a great use of AR

This could also be the breakout app for AI. While AR glasses obviously need shape recognition and manipulation, the real world has many many more things than likely to be codified. How do you deal with that? AI. How do you do arbitrary summaries of whatever you’re looking at? AI. How do you interact with the glasses and the real world? Speech recognition and AI.

You heard it here first, folks. Two hot new technologies with no real use yet will find each other and turn into something useful

Maybe it’s as simple as the next big product. When smartphones were new, nobody foresaw just how huge they’d become. Nobody could have foreseen what a force they’d turn Apple into. But now improvements are simply iterative, the market is nearing saturation, there’s not much room left to expand what’s next?

Maybe AR. It’s a really cool technology just now becoming practical to implement. Think of them as where smartphones were 15 years ago. Maybe they won’t go anywhere but imagine if they did! Imagine being the company most associated with the next hit tech product!

Apple risks stagnating if they don’t find a next hit product

Yet. Reduced trade is a leading edge metric while most economic indicators are trailing edge. Just because it hasn’t yet filtered through to trailing edge indicators, doesn’t mean it hasn’t already happened. Everything is still in stock at normal prices but shortages are looming. And we’re riding the bus with no brakes down a steep road leading to a cliff …… just because we haven’t died yet doesn’t mean we’re not doomed

Your argument is similar to one against climate change. Greenhouse gas levels are a leading edge indicator, or cause. Just because you didn’t see global warming doesn’t mean it hasn’t already happened. And now it is visible to all. And we’re riding the bus with no brakes down a steep road to the edge of the cliff.

The great thing about trumps first term was the rule of law generally held, and constitutional checks and balances weren’t entirely worthless

Every speech was full of promises to. Whoever he was speaking, even when the next speech completely promised the oppisite