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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Japanese infrastructure is famously anti-tourist. I dont know if thats intentional or a byproduct of their culture’s development. There are extremely limited public trashcans or toilets. You are expected to carry your trash with you until you get home or the hotel.

    Its a very respect based culture but the rules dont work as well when you are a visitor who isn’t following a kind of standard work/school day schedule your average Japanese person is.

    I do think it’s funny that they identified the problems, and yet the solution is cancel the whole thing. Most countries would have installed temporary trash cans and toilets for the duration of the event.

















  • I think the fundamental problem with the AR glasses is something that can’t be overcome.

    I think its easy to see the utility to owning a pair of glasses that look good and provide real time information as desired for what you are looking at or hearing.

    HOWEVER, I think very few people will want the product these co.panies will make. This will be a method to throw ads literally in front of your eyeballs. Enshitification is too big of a thing now and so any new product is tainted by the expectation it will rapidly turn to garbage at a high price to you.

    Also, while we may think we can be trusted, we dont trust anyone else having all that info, I dont like the obvious privacy implications that these can present. Filming with them is also terrifying.