These were all for sale! The statue of The Major, which was nearly life-sized, and the screens cost 1 million yen! The statue of the tank, which is from the first movie, was over 200k yen.
Last one, I promise! I took a ton of pics.
A few more.
More pics
I went to the Ghost in the Shell exhibition in Tokyo when I was visiting Japan. It was amazing. I've been binging all GitS since getting back.
The comic book industry probably falls into this category of occupation, too.
I had no idea there was a Purdy,WI. I grew up near Purdy, WA, and am close in age to Josh. So I was just wondering if we grew up together 😆
I'm currently carrying around an extra kilo, at least, from food like this.
Wouldn't the agent-specific programming language needs millions of lines of extant, well-documented, well-written examples so the agents could be trained on it first? As is the case with every programming language AIs use?
On my way to Japan tomorrow from Sweden. Enjoy Europe!
As someone currently battling cancer, I love it!
Sounds like it was a great experience!
Oh, that's cool!
I had been living in Asia for 10 years, decided to go back to school, and my sister lived in Alaska. It was also cheaper than other universities.
I was a student. I went back to school when I was 36 years old and got a Computer Science degree. My first 2 years were at the University of Fairbanks.
One person I knew worked 1 summer at a fish cannery and paid off her student loans. I couldn't ever do that. If you're an electrician or something like that, though, where the working conditions will be better, then it might not be so bad.
They are. The daily work can be really intense, might be 7 days a week, but only lasts for 4-6 months, depending on the job. Some people only work during that time of year. Sometimes there's nothing to do outside of work because of the location (deep in the Arctic Circle in the middle of winter).
Alaska is huge, but only has about 1 million people. There are very small pockets of people living in very remote areas. There isn't much industry, too. Most people don't want to live so isolated. So getting people to travel there and work for a few months a year is sometimes all that's possible.
You mean why is so much of the work seasonal?
Does @jesawyer.bsky.social answer questions posted on Bluesky? Or is it only Tumblr?
A lot of jobs are seasonal or are done in shifts that last a few months at a time. A lot of the work is also manual labor/trades, the fishing industry, or oil related. Even doctors and nurses will work in 3-month shifts. So they'll fly to Alaska, work 3 months, then fly home.
The large imbalance in genders is because women tend to leave Alaska, but men tend to stay and more men move there, I think. The only cities are Anchorage and Fairbanks. Both are small cities without much going on. There also isn't a wide range of work available.
Maybe! 😂
It's a unique place, to be sure! The male to female ratio is also something like 3 to 1. So women tend to have an especially good time there 😁
Slightly west of central Alaska. Based on the amount of precipitation it gets, it's technically a cold desert, which is weird considering it doesn't look like a desert! It's too cold to snow most of the winter, and doesn't get a lot of rain in warmer months. A unique place!
It's an interesting place. In many ways it's kind of America², so weird Libertarian politics. I wouldn't want to live there again, but the nature is pretty amazing. I was in Fairbanks, which, despite being on a similar latitude to Stockholm, has weather more like northern Sweden (-50C in winter).
I will! I haven't seen the Northern Lights since I lived in Alaska, which was several years ago. Thanks!
Well, shit. I probably missed it last night 😑
Mariestad. It's been super gray and cloudy all day today, but I don't know if that was the case last night.
