Looking through the first one’s content and it seems reasonable? The patent’s abstract is supposed to be as widely applicable as legally permitted, so it’s like a completely different language on top of legalese.

PKD has a novel in the same vein: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Indefatigable_Frog

Left arm tattoo: do you worst. Problem solved.

It’s part of Labour’s platform. Also right now, even for pubs and beer gardens, there’s a license to restrict the number of people that can smoke outdoors.

Happy [object Object] birthday!

“You don’t need to follow anybody! You are all individuals! You are all different!”

In simplified terms, LDP is the center. Its policies span center-right and center-left. It’s basically “the government” since WW2 and swings between left and right depending on the specific PM and their faction.

In theory, methods like nightshades are supposed to poison the work such that AI systems trained on them will have their performance degraded significantly.

A rare shot showing sandworms forming a pattern known as OwO.

Fuck this guy, but getting Trump elected will definitely help him.

Spell out numbers under 10, but not when it’s divisible by three or five.

This is a triumph. I’m making a note here, “HUGE SUCCESS”.

Did they test it on alligators or really hungry alligators?

Bullshit Jobs get bullshit treatment.

J Moore, the Moore in the wildly used Boyer-Moore string search algorithm, has a first name of a single letter, J. It’s not an abbreviation.

It really is like that. I found a report on People.cn from 2015. I guess it’s just the impact range is expanding. Personally I only heard of people experiencing this post-covid.

For people not in public sectors, application for passports are okay-ish.

For others, I can only speculate. Most of the public sector workers already have passports from years ago. I don’t know if they have any kind of restrictions on new applications. To me, the Immigration Administration of the Ministry of Public Safety (who issues passports) feels more like a “routine” type of branch of the central government, but I could be wrong.

It’s been that way since 3 or 4 years ago. The way it works is that you’ll hand in the passport and if you want to use it, you’d have to apply for it. The party branch (党委) usually has quotas for each year and therefore will seek excuses to reject the application.

Unless you do something special depending on the day (like going to church on Sundays), aren’t the two options the same? They are both 4 up 3 down periods.

Haha, but it’s really a pack of tools, more like a toolbox.