bluGill

Sometimes it will, but I’ve had a few times where it didn’t.

When I was in Germany nobody tried to talk Spanish to me. When I was in sweden they didn’t either. nor did they in India. If you are to be well traveled you quickly learn to find English speakes everywhere - because that is the language of travel it is enough. A second language is only useful if you limit your travels to the area they speak it.

many kids in foreign countries take years of english but they can’t speak is. Those who thy speak it well and they stick in groups thus not knowing how bad the rest of the class really is.

Really frsterating when I have an idea that seems good and ai says it is good - but in real world testing we discover it doesn’t work and can’t be made to work. I want someone to push back when I’m wrong - ‘yes men’ are not helpful

I haven’t triee others extensively enough to comment.

Firefox doesn’t always generate a password for me. I have never figured out when/why but sometimes it won’t

A 20% jump in something that is only 5% of costs is not a 5% jump. It will hurt but not kill most.

Fuel is a tiny cost of restaurant meals. It isn’t zero, but it is much less than 5% of the costs. So even if prices are going up, it is easy to hide them in the profit margin in the short term. Long term of course it affects more and more things indirectly and eventually something will give and raise prices forcing something else to give.

those contract workers will be eating at the local cafe for the duration of construction. 200 staffers seems high, but 70 sounds about right - data centers need a few people to replace old racks, clean the walkways (bathrooms…), maintain the HVAC systems (in a data center this is a full time job) and other tasks, and 70 is the number I hear. Though maybe this data center is bigger than the ones I’ve heard of.

China has been planing to reunite with Taiwan for decades, and they are clearly building a military capable of that. The US has committed to protecting Taiwan. That is the US has been planning war with china since not long after WWII. It hasn’t happened yet, it may never happen, but it is planned for and one of the more likely wars the US could get involved with.

If your country doesn’t have a plan to go to war with every other country in the world (separately) your military leaders are incompetent. Most counties far away are very low risk and so the plans don’t have to be well thought out, but you should have at least the start of a plan. The more likely war is the better you plans should be.

Anyone can say anything. What are you going to do about it? (Hint: nothing - this was a waste of time and money for everyone involved)

No we can’t. We try, but kids are not 100% of the time in our sight. They are sitting in their chair “doing homework”, but when they see us coming they switch apps - who knows what they are doing. They are getting up at 3am when we are a sleep, again doing who knows what. Even if we put controls on, anytime there is a way to bypass the control (often a website that looks good enough to fool the automated approval system school has set up) that will spread to the entire school and all kids get access to that for a week in school before it is shutdown.

If you want age verification to work, you need a strong legal effort (international!) so that anyone who makes something online that gets kids (intentionally or not) faces a strong enough legal issue (read years in prison) that it is really stops this. Part of that is enough money for investigation so that it is a given you will be caught. I don’t think you can do this, and so the whole effort is pointless.