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One problem with these is that using them breaks things like file open/save dialogs for modern apps which use some (DBus-based?) way of invoking those and expect a modern desktop environment to provide one.

Possibly the XDG portal nonsense. I've never had it break anything entirely, but I'm also used to no two file dialogs looking the same.

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Thing is, punishing children for stuff their grandparents and great-grandparents did ~50 years ago isn't a good look either.

We have to be the grown-ups in the room, alas. That means no exporting of oversized birds that are probably infected with avian flu, even if we would be sending them to the US.

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.