Japanese has a very elaborate cursive system that is part chinese caligraphy and part native. If you're familiar with hiragana and katakana then think of each character as normal chinese caligraphy BUT the chinese characters that were adapted for japanese grammar in the 700-800 ADs get written VERY quickly and lots of strokes are taken out so you need to learn to identify the writers intention and understanding in context is absolutely essential. It takes a ton of practice and memorizing all the different permutations and their changes over time.

the current fundamental model of AI is not and cannot be made deterministic.

I have to constantly remind people about this very simple fact of AI modeling right now. Keep up the good work!

Only the fringe lunatics think it's even possible to disarm a population. Far lefties like myself realize the power that small arms represent in the fight against fascism. Marx said to arm up.

Freedom is a call-sign at best and most likely a constructed illusion.

Other countries have actual middle-class structures, so I can only assume so.

that looks so fucking comfortable

I'm always blown away by how well gaming on Linux is in this era.