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Most recent in a long tradition. The feline world record holder for mousing worked in a distillery.

Unfortunately, having no civics knowledge does not disqualify a person from voting. If it did, Ford would have been out a couple of elections ago.

And as usual, nearly nothing I'm watching is here—the only overlap is Kowloon Generic Romance. Given that I'm currently following, um, around 20 series, this is impressive in a bizarre kind of way.

Not understanding the larger context or who any of the referenced characters are is what kept me away. I gave it one episode and couldn’t understand what was happening so I bailed. It needed more narrative training wheels for folks like me

It backs up and fills in some of the background in the second and third episodes (in fact, episode 2 is pretty much entirely a history speedrun about Gundams, Char, and the Zeon/Federation war), and I can understand wanting to start the first episode with the characters of the current story rather than with the history, but while the combination was enough to get me mostly up to speed, it's seriously clunky in the way it plays out, and it's unsurprising it lost viewers (it came within a hair of losing me, too). They could have done better.

Why would you inflict that guy on a poor innocent kitty?

Much of the animation takes place outside Japan these days. If you watch enough recent anime end credits, you'll see a lot of what look like romanized Vietnamese names. And there was a scandal . . . about a year ago now? . . . when some material for an anime then in production was found on the server of a North Korean studio (probably because a Chinese studio to which the anime had been outsourced then outsourced it further without paying attention to little things like international treaties). And I don't think the teams remaining in Japan have any shortage of recruits.

This issue, as with any business, is "can AI produce more for cheaper at an acceptable quality?" If it does make real inroads, it'll be the outsourcing studios doing the less-important scenes that get replaced first.

We'll stop sending messages when it's clear that they've been received. That would require Trump to not only stop threatening our sovreignty, but officially apologize for it. This would not be difficult if Trump behaved like an adult, rather than a playground bully.

Most people aren't willing to pay extra money or do extra work for something they themselves don't need or use. Unless there's a massive marketing campaign behind it, or the law requires it. This has been the case throughout history, pretty much.

Compared to the alien species in this show's universe, we seem to be mayflies. 🫤

So Ponko is a university graduate, and it took 70 years to build the rocket without visible change in the tanuki. I guess this confirms that their human character designs don't reflect their actual aging.

I was running a laptop of this sort (HP from 2008, 2GB RAM, Athlon64x2 processor, 100GB HDD, nvidia card of the NV40/Curie generation, originally shipped with Vista) as a secondary machine up until a few months ago, and never had any serious issues with it under Linux. However, I was running Gentoo with TDE and no display manager (qingy doesn't count), and didn't try to use it for CAD or anything else that I knew was out of its league. It did okay at email (with a native client, not webmail), word processing, 720p video playback, and native games with low requirements (like Simutrans) I retired it in the end because it takes forever to compile gcc on a machine with those specs, and updates started hitting too frequiently.

Its replacement is only about 4-5 years newer, but has much better specs (quad i5 (or was it i7?), 16GB RAM, etc—it would have started life as an expensive business-grade machine, I think), so not useful for comparison.

My primary browser profile allows only whitelisted cookies. It also allows only whitelisted Javascript, so I don't see the popups. If this breaks a site beyond usefulness, I seriously consider whether I really need that site (and if it falls into the <2% where the answer is "yes", I either whitelist it or open it in the window for the other profile that functions on a blacklist basis).

That's a lot more manual management than most people want to bother with, though.