Hitler loved dogs. And they loved him.

Remember that next time someone says that dogs can tell which people are good and bad.

Maybe soon they'll build deep, underground "silos" that can house closed societies of 10,000 people each.

The animals are getting smart and realizing humans are their common enemy and an existential threat.

I have to agree on #7: it's pretty annoying, especially for series where there's both TV shows and movies related to them. For instance, The X-Files: there's 11 seasons of shows, but also 2 movies. A better example is Star Trek, with a bunch of different TV series, plus a bunch of various movies related to the different series.

You can put these into "collections", but it'd be nice if my library could just have a "Star_Trek" directory and then subdirectories with all those things inside, and have it automatically sorted out by JF.

I'm a huge FOSS bigot, but even I can admit that FOSS frequently has bad UI design. FOSS is usually great for getting the fundamentals of the software right, making it reliable etc., but software experts usually are not very good at UI design.

This isn't that important a feature most of the time, because you can just press the skip-ahead button and skip the next 30 seconds. You might see some of the intro, but big deal

There is one big exception though: if you're watching Star Trek: Enterprise. The "skip intro" feature is invaluable so you don't have to be subjected to that truly horrific opening song.

Throttle-by-wire, yes: any modern car has this. Steer-by-wire or brake-by-wire, no. If the power dies, you can still steer to the side of the road and apply the brakes.

The Cybertruck is steer by wire.

Infinite had it with a backup, but it was bad.

On the good old BMWs with hydraulic steering, you could get Active Steering, i.e. variable steering. They basically introduced a planetary gear set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unL8HpMeVTA

If today you buy a BMW with Active Steering it means you get rear-wheel steering (on top of the standard front-wheel steering, but don't tell the execs, you don't want to need a subscription for front-wheel steering).

On BMWs since the F* (with the electric assist steering) variability was achieved by a variable-ratio steering rack.

Obviously, you haven't visited any colonial American sites. It used to be the normal spelling.

I've also seen the spelling used in old westerns, which I just so happened to be reading in jail.

Non-native speaker here and I learned the word gaol from some fantasy literature only a couple years back.

The place is a desert. Growing crops in a desert takes a lot of water, as you might imagine. A smarter thing to do is to not try to grow crops in a desert where it needs so much irrigation. The US has plenty of non-desert land for growing essential crops.

desert weather is consistent(ly warm sunny). Irrigation being the missing factor means that you can have a nice long growing season, undisrupted by bad weather, or storms or any other number of unpredictable factors.

There are some homeless people living in camps in certain parks. Ueno Park has a bunch of them. Others have camps hidden away in flood-plain areas next to rivers. Some live on sidewalks, like under overpasses, and have a bunch of junk in front of their sleeping bag that they're trying to sell.

Generally, these homeless people want to be homeless. There's options for homeless people to get help, but some people simply don't want to be part of normal society for whatever reason (like mental illness).

Overall, in my experience living here, I very rarely see homeless people. It's nothing at all like the huge homeless camps in US cities these days.