The heat index has been above 110 F every day I’ve been in Tokyo.

It’s very hot.

How hot is it here in Tokyo? So hot that multiple times walking around yesterday I had to take my phone out of my pocket and out of its case to cool enough that I could use it. Screen brightness was near zero, and the phone was constantly complaining of overheating.

At one point I had to go into a store and look around just for the air conditioning to cool the phone so I could see the map.

Insanity.

Up at 2:30am to leave my house at 3am to make it to airport by 5am to make my 7am flight that will, eventually, land me in Tokyo.

Here we go.

Welp, there's another company that I liked and ordered from regularly down the drain. Seriously, Stickermule? This is a wacktastic take on a marketing email.

It does not surprise me that this exists.

I am still enraged at the entire concept.

As an author, I am far, far more enraged at this than I am someone using my words to train an LLM.

@alexcox Why you show this to me? I did not need this level of rage in my life.

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