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im not sure how true that is considering that they can always just open a gate for fish to pass

That's not how that actually works. Damming has huge impacts on downstream, now much drier, ecosystems. Even if there were a way to "open a gate for fish", that wouldn't solve the problem that their habitat is now gone. This is among reasons people have fought for dam removal. This also ignores the flooding of the environment that becomes the reservoir.

Over a certain percentage, I bite into chocolate and it just sucks all the moisture out of my mouth and is just terrible bitterness. I think 86% was the last one I tried, but even 50% is getting to be too bitter for me. I was always super sensitive to bitter compounds as a kid, though, so that may make sense. I do actually like black coffee of some beans/roasts, but it doesn't have nearly as much bitterness.

One of my teammates used AI (our company heavily encourages it) to write code. It did what it was supposed to and the tests passed, but it was the most ugly and unmaintainable shit ever. For one example, I don't want to have to untangle a for i = 0; i++; i <= len(foo) {} that has multiple ifs inside that separately increment and decrement the loop counter i when trying to troubleshoot an issue.

Constantly sold out here in Japan. Even the discounted Japan-only version that was meant to stop foreign purchase and resale with more restrictions such as Japanese-language-only

A friend told me about rust around 8 years ago and this was very much my first experience (at least with &str and lifetimes and borrow errors).

You have to file federal taxes. Maybe state taxes. You don't necessarily have to pay depending upon how much (in USD) you make. Things also depend upon per-country tax treaties. The shitty part, at least for me, is that I can't use the ISA and similar programs here in Japan for retirement because the US considers them all passive foreign investments (PFICs) which require copious paperwork and punitive taxes wiping out any tax-advantaged retirement savings. Also can't just invest non-taxed income in many things in the US either.

Voting being at the state level also just fucks all kinds of other things up with taxes and the like.

I moved to Japan back in 2015. If I had it to do over, I might do Finland or Norway.

Humans required tribes and close-knit communities to survive up until extremely recently in our evolutionary history. The last few hundred years massively shifted how where and how we see our identities and tribes, and what information is available. Modern social media and algorithm-based content has taken advantage of this in a huge way. People are not taught proper critical thinking and are not immunized against disinformation. Our ancient brains still think losing our tribe as being sentenced to loneliness, danger, and death. The opinions and actions of many are now more public than ever and there is more pressure there as well.

Many parts of the internet. I won't pretend there were never trolls (Usenet, BBS's, etc. all had them), but things have definitely shifted. A minority of people have essentially weaponized various things in this system as well.

Octopus lady is great!

In my case, in the sense of "hearing" then yes. I still have thoughts and my mind wanders and whatnot; it just doesn't need something else overtop of that

... Are you suggesting we are incapable of thought? My mind wanders just like anyone else's.