I love the many faces of our heroine that flow easily from shojo to caricature.
The politics of the Yakuza clans was a little difficult to follow, but it all seems like a good setting for drama and peril for our heroine...
Good episode!
Isagi figures out something about his team's 2 primary members, although I'm not sure how his solution actually works, unless he's got secret burst speed that's being held back by the time he needs to process his thoughts.
One of those "how will he get out of this?" moments where Blue Lock works best.
A good 2nd episode! Good writing with decent twists and turns.
Maou Veltol quickly accepts his current limitations, and redirects his efforts to more immediately achievable targets.
I found Machina's love quite touching.
The scene at the employment office was predictable, and was expecting the guy to declare him insane.
I wasn't expecting the plot to go VTuber...
The Familia mascot is cute though...
That robot guard did seem like an easy gatekeeper for direct access to a treasure room.
I was expecting a whole dungeon to slog through, then having to solve a puzzle on how to use the factory to make what the majikul uporayshun youneet.
Traveler was planning to sneak on board some how, so I don't think that he was eligible to get a ticket anyway.
Endorsi is a Princess Of Jahad (TM) so I'm sure she'll find a way to get on board, or bypass the test entirely.
Although Endorsi doesn't seem to have the influential family connections like flame girl/Yihwa Yeon/Ren Rika
It's all going to be pressed through the AP filter anyway. I don't think it matters where the fines are.
The racing action is pretty good, even though technically it's just a bunch of CG cars bobbing around on the screen...
Interviewing the scantily clad race queen girls about their tastes in men is obnoxious though.
And the underpowered Toyota 86/Celica passing international supercars is "Harry Potter magic"
Ao No Miburo - Boring first episode. The main character's powers of observation are interesting, but the pacing was plodding. The art wasn't great either. A solid meh.
S.F. Chronicle poll: Lurie surges in mayor’s race, positioned to edge out Breed
Breed leads in the first few rounds of ranked choice voting elimination, but falls behind Laurie after Farrell is eliminated.
Cold brew really does need to be forced through an Aeropress though doesn't it?
I tried dripping mine through my usual fine mesh sieve, and it just got clogged.
I suspect that the coffee flavor oils are solid at cold temperatures, and clog up the holes so that even water can't get through.
And I wind up with a thin puck of very fine particles at the end of the pressing. No doubt a lot of solidified oils are trapped too.
Thanks, I wasn't really planning on watching it anyway.
Tracksuit guy has matured a lot since S1. Everyone figured out that getting to the big ship for the next test is more important than all the other b.s.
The last few episodes felt mostly pointless.
As I said in the Weekly post, I feel that there are too many characters at this point. We have the characters from the current S2, we have the old team from S1 returning, Rachel running off with FUG(?), and even Rak the lizard guy is running around somewhere looking for his turtles.
The Workshop Battle is a looooong story arc, at 100 chapters, so I hope the story gets some focus soon.
Torrenting on Android does exist, but it's such a battery suck that seeding is unsustainable unless your mobile device is plugged in all the time. Which makes it not-so-mobile.
And then there's mobile plan data limits.
The preview looks like videogame cutscenes. I'm leaning towards skipping this one.
But trying to fight the RX-78 from the Zeon POV does sound vaguely interesting.
Gen X here. I still use my eMule client! Because you just share whole directory structures, it's great for finding and sharing older obscure stuff.
It looks like there are 2 kinds of brown things.
One type that is a lighter brown looks spheroid, possibly potatoes or dinner rolls.
Another type is a darker brown, looks like fat cylinders, possibly deep fried breaded fish/salmon/crab cakes, as others have said.
The lighter brown ones could also be fish/salmon/crab cakes, but from a different manufacturer, or just shaped differently.
I'm to figure out what "Santa Dodoria" means. It's what the TV station staff and the taxi driver refer to Momo's grandma, and her pseudonym/professional name.
"Santa" is "Saint (female)" in Portuguese, but according to a wiki, it's actually written in the kanji "三太" for which I can only guess "3rd eldest prince(ss)" as in "三太子"
"Dodoria" is written in katakana "ドドリア" indicating a foreign word, or the name of flora or fauna.
There's the Dragonball villain named "Dodoria" whose name is supposed to be a play on the Japanese word for the durian fruit, i.e. "Dorian" but that's about as far as I get.
Another Netflix genius move with dropping 6 episodes at once....
It's like this story is "What's this wacky guy going to do next to overcome the odds?"
Netflix Reaps Rewards of Booming Anime Industry
Me in the future: "Nobody watches anime anymore. It's too popular"
> Ampere Analysis sees that anime has become a mainstream culture in the U.S. and Europe with significant potential for expansion from $31.2 billion in 2023 to $60.1 billion by 2030.
> Spotify (SPOT) also reported an increase of 395% in anime music streams since 2021.
Trolley at Americana at Brand, Glendale, CA
More photos and videos: https://www.daytodayla.com/2019/09/13/trolley-at-the-americana-glendale/
https://www.instagram.com/americanabrand/reel/CzZnfXdRJuW/
Manufacturer's website: https://www.gomacotrolley.com/Resources/pages/glendale_trolleys.html
>Two open-style trolley cars, #1717 and GiGi, are in Glendale, California. They were completed and delivered in 2008, and are being used at a shopping and residential center.
> They are a similar style to the J.G. Brill open-style cars currently in Lowell, Massachusetts, and Tampa, Florida. The first car, #1717, is 33 feet long and battery-powered, and the unpowered second car, GiGi, is 22 feet long and pulled behind the first car. The grand opening for the "Americana At Brand" project was May 1-2, 2008.
Construction photos: https://www.gomacotrolley.com/Resources/pages/construction_glendale.html
(Judy-Lynn Del Rey) revolutionized the fantasy (and science fiction) genre is finally getting her due
A woman with dwarfism, Judy-Lynn del Rey founded the imprint that put out fantasy hits such as ‘The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever’ and ‘The Sword of the Shannara.’
She's the namesake of the Del Rey Books publishing imprint.
The article links to a PBS documentary, Judy-Lynn Del Rey: Galaxy Gal from a series "Renegades" which "highlights little-known historical figures with disabilities"
S.F. may build a gondola (to Laguna Honda Hospital)
Because of the steep walkway and staircase to Laguna Honda, the SF County Transportation Authority (SFCTA), consisting of the Board Of Supervisors, is looking into constructing a gondola system, presumably from Forest Hill station, to improve accesss.
The City is also looking at the LHH site, which is mostly woods, as a site for affordable housing, including 250 units for seniors.
It’s going to be a lot harder to pull off massive protests.
Reddit is requiring manual admin approval to make /r’s private, eliminating the main mechanism for the last sitewide protest agains changes to the API.
Eastern city had resisted repeated attacks but Russian troops are close to ‘encircling’ it in Donetsk advance
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/30196137
> Ukraine has said that its forces have withdrawn from the eastern city of Vuhledar, a defensive bastion that had resisted repeated Russian attacks since Vladimir Putin’s 2022 full-scale invasion. > > The military command in Kyiv said its troops left late on Tuesday. They had retreated in order to preserve personnel and combat equipment, it said, adding that Russian combat units had attacked from three directions and were close to “encircling” the city. > > The fall of Vuhledar is a boost for the Kremlin and comes as Russian troops advance across the eastern Donetsk oblast. In February they captured the city of Avdiivka, outside the regional capital of Donetsk, occupied in 2014. > > MBFC > Archive
Two men stood in front of the autonomous vehicle, operated by ride-hailing company Waymo, and literally tipped a fedora at her while she told them to move out of the way.
Asshole douchebags.
I hope they get doxxed.
Around 350 San Francisco Unified School District teachers have been found to lack an active teaching credential, according to a Friday press release from the district.
Out of 2316 in SFUSD total...
Another day, another mayoral debate (Mission Local coverage of Unity Council debate at the Gray Area)
Four of the five major mayoral candidates came out to the Mission on Saturday, talking policing, housing, billionaires, and more.
Mark Farrell didn't show up.
In a sleepy Calif. town (Lodi), there’s a shrine to a 105-year-old fast food chain (A&W)
I love articles like this about obscure and interesting places with local history!
Justice – Neverender (Starring Tame Impala) (Official Video)
80s anime-style music video.
The song is decent too!
The news came just hours after the SFUSD's top leader narrowly avoided termination.
> San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced Sunday that she’s lending some of her own staff to help the city’s troubled public school district, whose top official narrowly avoided termination just hours earlier.
> Hours after the San Francisco Unified School District’s governing board wrapped up a meeting in which it considered firing Superintendent Matt Wayne, accepted the mayor’s offer.
> In a news release Sunday afternoon, Breed said she’s carving out $8.5 million for the School Stabilization Team to help SFUSD overcome its dysfunction.
> Money for the mayor’s effort comes from a 2022 measure that unlocked city money to help SFUSD with so-called Student Success Funds for urgent needs. That’s on top of the $100 million the city already provides annually to its K-12 district.
The number of people sleeping outdoors in San Francisco dropped to under 3,000 in January, the lowest the city has recorded in a decade, according to a federal count.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/29507311
> The number of people sleeping outdoors dropped to under 3,000 in January, the lowest the city has recorded in a decade, according to a federal count. > > And that figure has likely dropped even lower since Mayor London Breed — a Democrat in a difficult reelection fight this November — started ramping up enforcement of anti-camping laws in August following a U.S. Supreme Court decision. > > Homelessness in no way has gone away, and in fact grew 7%, to 8,300 in January, according to the same federal count. > > But the problem is now notably out of the public eye, raising the question of where people have gone and whether the change marks a turning point in a crisis long associated with San Francisco.
How to watch or listen to tonight's (9/19/24) Mayoral debate at 7pm
What to expect and how to tune in for tonight's San Francisco mayoral debate, co-presented by the San Francisco Chronicle and KQED.
- KQED channel 9
- KQED radio 88.5FM
- Livestream on SFChronicle.com and app
Hopefully Mayor Breed will show up this time...
Mark Farrell asked (SF mayor's office) for favor to rush his home renovation permits, mayor claims
Mayor London Breed told The Standard that, after he left the mayor's office, Mark Farrell asked for a special favor to speed up his home renovation permits. Farrell called the allegation a "bold face lie."
Farrell's response regarding this incident doesn't make sense.
If he was purely interested in how long the issuance of the permits would take, why not call the DBI directly instead of Mayor Breed's office?
It’s beginning to look a lot like Nuru with a pattern uncovered during mayoral candidate Mark Farrell’s time on the Board of Supervisors, as a report details how he got $1.2 million in donations directed to a nonprofit where his wife serves on the board.
As Supervisor, Mark Farrell requested noticeably more "behested" payments from companies that had business before the city than other Supervisors.
Athletes Go Super Saiyan for Anime - NY Times gift article link
Young professional athletes are increasingly broadcasting their obsession with anime like “Pokémon” and “Naruto,” upending preconceptions about kinds of fandom.
More and more high profile athletes are displaying their love of anime.
p.s. That's a closeup of My Hero Academia's All Might's eyes on the NFL player's visor