I was talking to someone recently and he mentioned that he has used AI for programming. It worked out fine, but the one thing he mentioned that really stuck with me was that when it was all done, he still didn’t know how to do the task.

You can get things done, but you don’t learn how to do them.

You could always come up to Canada and get yourself some eggs for the equivalent of a boat $2.50 US. Of course, the prices up here are high because we have a marketing board that limits competition.

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Gaza should forever haunt Joe Biden. FTFY

You are assuming that there will be elections again. I’m not convinced.

Hitting inferiors in the head (especially for doing something foolish) is certainly a common trope in Japanese comedy.

It’s been a couple of decades since I lived in Japan, but I don’t know if they have experienced the same campaign against childhood violence that we have in North America. A few years ago, corporal punishment was made explicitly illegal both at schools and in the home. I’m not sure how much it has changed.

Note that the Wikipedia article actually mentioned over 10% of the working population, not the entire population. That’s a pretty big difference.

I have been pointing out for many years now that humans have been making music together ever since they could bang rocks together and grunt. Every single society in the history of humankind does this.

But a strange thing happened in North America in the early 1900s. People started listening to recorded music, deferring to professionals instead of making music themselves. People started to become embarrassed if they weren’t perfect, and you started hearing people say, “I can’t sing”. And then they didn’t sing.

I was at an international gathering, and people from different organizations started singing their countries traditional songs to each other. The Germans did. The Danes did. The Brits did. When it came to the Canadians, we had no idea what to do, because none of us were used to making music.

My feeling is that the decline in making music together, whether it be around a kitchen table, in a bar, or in a concert hall, is one of the reasons that people in North America especially feel isolated and lonely.

That’s why I encourage everyone to join a choir, pick up an instrument, and just make music no matter how little it sounds like what you hear on a CD or radio (or Spotify). It’s not the quality of the music that matters, it’s the action of collaborating with others to do it.

One of my classmates started having a receding hairline when he was 15. He was always able to buy alcohol (the age is 19 in Ontario).

I am seated in the smallest room of my house, with your letter before me. Soon it will be behind me.

– Voltaire

Henry Kissinger did something similar to delay the end of the Vietnam war, in order to get Nixon elected.

What’s brown and red and sticky?

Another bloody stick.

It’s not too surprising that Taylor does it. Far more shocking to me was proof (on the same YouTube channel) that Cliff Richard and Roger Waters also lip sync and have been doing it for many years.

If I go to a concert, I expect to hear the singers singing and instruments playing live, not miming to a recorded track. I know that Taylor writes, or is at least involved in creating, her songs, and I respect her determination to own the music she created.

The concert tour, however, is an expensive fraud. And if you talk to professional singers, they will tell you that it is ridiculous to expect anyone to sing for so long, so frequently. The human voice just can’t maintain that.

This is Rick Rubin, one of the most successful music producers in history. I very much doubt he is doing his own SAAS programming.

Unless you are a married Anglican priest who converts to Catholicism. They are allowed to remain married and presumably have sex while continuing their priestly functions.

Taylor doesn’t even sing her own songs, for those $5,000 concert tickets.

They are outrageously expensive compared to my hydro Quebec rate of USD $0.05/kWh, or even my previous rate in Ontario of (varying by the the time of day) USD $0.06-0.12/kWh.

96% of Quebec electricity is generated by hydro power, which of course doesn’t require any fuel. The other thing, though, is that power generation and transmission is done through a public corporation, not a private one. The profits go into general government revenue.

But it’s too late… I’ve seen everything!

It seems to me that holding the possibility of dismissing the charges would allow him to own Adams. If he dismissed them all, what would be the leverage then, unless there are additional crimes?