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I've used ChatGPT for translating and writing purposes and I have found that, in the end, it is much like any other piece of software: a tool to help you out. There is no way I would turn something in without thoroughly going over the text provided. It's just not up to that level. My guess is that AI-produced art is the same way.

I understand that the photo is of him visiting a gravesite, but couldn't Kyodo or JT find something a little more uplifting to capture this trip?

Tsai said she hopes the Japan Innovation Party will continue to exert influence in the Japanese parliament.

What influence? It's LDP (with a dash of Komeito) all the way.

Some are suggesting the kid will be sent all around. My guess is that family, grandparents, aunts, or uncles will come to his aid.

Two years from incident to conviction. That's speedy justice for Japan. I'm just glad that there was no "suspended for three years" included in the article, which, unfortunately, happens a lot here in Japan.

I used to allow students in my university and high school classes to use cell phones. I no longer teach at university but work full-time at a private high school. (I have a teacher's license. I have my own classes, not ALT work.) I stopped allowing students to use cell phones with the current third-year students. I'd say that it was good that I did so. However, starting this year, the school requires all entering students to buy an iPad, so I have to return to using electronic devices. Being an Android guy, I am having a hard time adjusting to the new format. It's been a learning experience for me. I often have to ask my students how to do something. But that's OK. I have two mottos. "Let's learn together." "Teaching is learning a second time." So hopefully as I catch up with them on the iPad, they can catch up with me on the English.

More books, not fewer.

If life evolved here, there is no reason why it couldn't have evolved elsewhere. Whether that life has reached Earth is another question altogether.

I have seen several UFOs. I do not identify them as alien spacecraft, because if I knew they were alien spacecraft they would be identified, not unidentified.

To say one does not believe in UFOs is strange. There are many UFO encounters out there. To say one believes that all or some UFOs are alien spacecraft is where the question lies.

One shouldn't ask, "Do you believe in UFOs?" One should ask, "Do you believe some UFOs are from outer space?"

I have a simple solution. Just abolish the My Number system and card. Problem solved.

"It is important not to view this as a simple mistake but to thoroughly investigate operational systems and organizational factors," a commission official said at a press conference.

They are having a hard enough time in the city of 125,000 that I live in. Not an obstetrician around. My daughter found out she is pregnant. She has been going to her gynecologist for the first trimester, but from now on she'll have to go to a prefectural hospital in a city that is 30 minutes away on the expressway. Never mind that our city also has a prefectural hospital. They don't offer obstetric services. So much for being a "general" hospital. If they can't help people have babies, they aren't going to be able to do anything about depopulation.

I've tried to do my part. We had three children and are expecting our first grandchild next January.

How about Japan restricting visas for Chinese citizens with connections to the CCP? In return, China can restrict visas for Japanese citizens with connections to the LDP.

So an LDP-run commission will investigate an LDP-run agency?

I don't expect much will come of it.

Just get rid of the whole My Number system. It was a bad idea when it started. It's getting worse and worse every time they try to make it bigger.

Just say no to Sapporo, or anywhere in Japan, in 2030 and beyond.

I saw Titanic in the theater back in the day. That's three hours of my life I'll never get back. I'm never going to watch it again, whether on Fuji or any other platform.

I could perhaps go along with this if it meant no gas taxes, period. That is, as a replacement. My guess is that it will be an addition, just so The Powers That Be can take away more of our money.

I live in his hometown. He and my son were classmates in junior high school. He's been great for a long time. Kind of wish he'd go to Atlanta so that I could really cheer for him.

Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!

I don't understand why Komeito and the LDP aren't heckled as much for their relations with Soka Gakkai as they were for their relations with the Unification Church. They're both a couple of cults.

Of course he's going to take another useless trip. He pretty much hates staying in Japan where the people give him very low ratings.

No different from the left calling Trump and other Republicans fascist. I'm so glad I no longer live in the U.S.

The IBA was suspended by the IOC in 2019 for multiple corruption scandals.

With that kind of logic, the IOC should suspend itself.

Sure would like to try this. I'll have to look for it next time I'm at 7-11. I wonder if it's all over the country or just in select areas. My area is rarely selected.

I'll believe it when I see it. Doesn't sound very convenient. 15km? Can't get very far. And how would you get back?

I wonder how many municipalities don't even have an obstetrician. I know the city I live in, with a population of around 125,000, does not have a single obstetrician. My daughter is thinking of having a baby, but I can't recommend it when there is no one to take care of her. The closest obstetrician is 30 to 40 minutes away, if lucky.

Komeito has decided it will not recommend LDP candidates in single-seat constituencies in Tokyo, as the centrist party has become irritated by the conservative party's disregard for the junior partner's desire to secure a seat in a district in the capital.

The two parties are arranging talks to sign an agreement later this month on their electoral cooperation, a lawmaker said.

I thought it was the voters who were supposed to side. Silly me to think that Japan was a democracy.

From Dentsu to China. Out of the frying pan into the fire.

I've heard that the Japanese like foam. I don't get it myself. I prefer liquid to gas.

I usually watch a movie for the story. I rarely go to a movie just to see a particular actor. So, yeah, maybe, if the story was interesting.

O - MO - TE - NA - SHI at its finest. /s

I don't know what the question is about. My Facebook feed is full of Calvin & Hobbes and other comic strips. I don't go looking for hate, and apparently, hate hasn't come looking for me. People should just keep their subscriptions to what they like. Problem solved.