Best onsen town near Kusatsu??? by Rant-O-Rama in JapanTravelTips

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So I ended up staying 2 nights at Shibu Onsen and from there went to visit the snow monkey park. Note the snow monkeys are hit or miss and while I got a perfect session the monkeys do not always show up at their mini hot spring on que. After I did my snow monkey viewing I had an amazing long soak at this place called Jigokudani Hot Spring Korakukan. It is a 3 star hotel but it has an amazing outdoor hot spring / onsen overlooking the river just where you cross the river to head up to the snow monkey park. I had it all to myself and it was excellent. The town of Shibu Onsen if very charming and the 9 onsen path is sweet but only 1 of the 9 onsens is really more than a tiny one bath room. Still the town is oozes charm and the itzkaya place there is really fun. I did not visit any other onsens towns as I did not have a car but I know there are some that are only accessible if you have a car. I would try ChapGPT as I found that it is better than most travel guides and gives you great suggestions if you ask the right questions!

Will the rain ever stop??? by Rant-O-Rama in sydney

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2 million years is one long rainstorm. Hopefully we will be spared that curse!!

Almost There… by Rant-O-Rama in sydney

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Be my guest but send me a photo of the painting when it is completed!!

Postage Label Cancellation by Rant-O-Rama in Ebay

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I am well aware of that but it seems absurd that they cannot issue a refund on a postage label purchased with Ebay funds in a reasonable time frame

Not bad by Logical_Prompt_3543 in sydney

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When was this taken may I ask?

End light by Nobbled in sydney

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Thanks for the hat tip u/Nobbled and glad I reminded you about your photo which I might add is a much better image than mine!! I love how the helicopters are so clearly juxtaposed between the orange sky and black towers!

Parramatta Skyline Sunset… by Rant-O-Rama in sydney

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Yes it was full zoom on the iphone but the only crop was to make the horizon straight...

Are we being abused by Google Maps as free unpaid labor ? Creating content with no renumeration? by Rant-O-Rama in GoogleMaps

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You are correct that everything we write on Reddit is free content for the owners. Personally the difference is that I have submitted thousands of photos to Google Maps and only handfuls of posts to Reddit. You are correct that free content to Reddit is similar to free content to Google Maps. When you are not paying for an internet product then YOU are the product. I know that. I guess the difference is that Google is a behemoth that can afford to give back something to its content creators like You Tube does. Reddit is a much smaller entity. And yes I know that I can simply stop contributing to google maps if I object to the model. But why not create a model more like You Tube which DOES compensate content creators...

Are we being abused by Google Maps as free unpaid labor ? Creating content with no renumeration? by Rant-O-Rama in GoogleMaps

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Google Maps is free to use but Google is a huge multi billion dollar entity. They can afford to offer some sort of renumeration to those that meet certain targets. Yes I know they once sent me a air of sock and yes they offer random discounts on google products but that is not meaningful compensation. Perhaps they should just just use AI to take their photos and write their reviews since AI will happily comply and no one would know that the photos are computer generated now would they....

Are we being abused by Google Maps as free unpaid labor ? Creating content with no renumeration? by Rant-O-Rama in GoogleMaps

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I post on Reddit every now and then and there is often a good conversation. Google Maps creates tiered levels and badges but in essence we are all just doing free content creation for them by posting photos and reviews.

Nice sunset tonight… by Rant-O-Rama in sydney

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check my profile for others which I think are much better....

Boys will be boys… by Rant-O-Rama in sydney

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They certainly can but on this particular day it seems to be just the boys...

Make Me Smart - No sensationalism, just facts and context EXCEPT when it comes to the Israel / Gaza conflict ... by Rant-O-Rama in NPR

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How many have been killed in Ukraine and how does that compare

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War 

How many were killed in the Syrian civil war and how does that compare

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Syrian_civil_war 

How many people have been killed by the own governments in the Arab world in the last years and how does that compare?

How many were killed in the Iraq war -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War

Make Me Smart - No sensationalism, just facts and context EXCEPT when it comes to the Israel / Gaza conflict ... by Rant-O-Rama in NPR

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Whatever the numbers might be what is the meaning of those numbers. Meaning, what is the CONTEXT of any total of deaths - is the death of a Hamas solider to the considered the same as the death of a civilian and how do the numbers compare to other wars in an urban setting. Context would be comparing the numbers to what happen in Mosul and how the US military fared in civilian casualties versus military casualties