Except Mozilla has declining revenues.

Possibly even less money in the future if the Google antitrust suit bars them from paying Mozilla to place their search engine first.

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It’s weird that this /c !anime@lemmy.ml doesn’t show up on neither Feddit’s Community Browser https://browse.feddit.de/ or Lemmy Explorer https://lemmyverse.net/communities when searching for “anime”

Instead anime@(the-instance-that-shall-not-be-named).social shows up first on Community Browser, and

I’m not sure what to make of that.

Is someone trying to shadow deprecate this /c/ ?

I’d forgotten all about C/FO because it had been such a long time since I’d heard of them.

It was really local groups who organized anime showings on college campuses who kindled me to take a more serious interest in anime.

Tape trading is where those groups from the 70s and 80s got their imported show from, but tape trading happened in all kinds of media, e.g. rock concerts.

Often we’d wind up watching 3rd or 4th gen VHS copies, i.e. grainy, washed out with bad sound, because we were so far down the chain.

…Aaaand the entries from the modlog concerning deleting my thread and post have been deleted.

Wonderful transparency there…

Fortunately, the bookwormstory.social entries are still there, so I could recover my scribblings.

Hahaha, the writer’s joke was on us the viewers!

It starts out as a boring isekai “quiet life” scenario, then things get complicated…

The amount of twists that were thrown in to ratchet up the tension…

This is the best first episode I’ve watched in the new season so far.

Actually according to the modlog, some “mod” removed for “Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete • Gushing over Magical Girls - Episode 1 discussion” citing Rule 3 “No Porn”

I mean the show is risque, but we’re starting to see nipples on Hollywood red carpets these days…

“mod” being in quotes because of the uncertainty elsewhere in this post…

Another villain POV series, but this one takes the form of a gag comedy, with what was probably a 4 panel gag comic, turned into a series of skits per episode.

As in all gag comedies, don’t expect sakuga animation sequences.

The voice actor for the villain is great! And he should be, because he gets the most dialogue, and the story hangs on his character’s POV.

Basically, the theme is “don’t bug me on my day off” that should be relatable to 9 to 5 working people.

I read the manhwa too, and so far it’s being faithful, and it was nice touch to have additional explanations of this world up front graphically animated without being talky.

Good so far.

Yes, I also agree that a double episode premiere would have been more effective, because we haven’t seen what this story is really about.

A promising start so far.

Usato and the other characters seem interesting and likeable so far.

It’s not really clear yet why Healing magic is so bad, but I suppose we’ll find out

There are plenty of crops that have to be tended and harvested by hand: Most green leafy vegetables for example.

This opens those fields to dual use alongside power generation, which might reduce agricultural use of fossil fuels, and provide shade for field workers which is especially dangerous with climate change raising heat levels.

I disagree somewhat.

A lot of high tech development comes with a greed motive, e.g. IPO, or getting bought out by a large company seeking to enter the space, e.g. Google buying Android, or Facebook buying Instagram and Oculus.

And conversely, a lot of open source software are copies of commercially successful products, albeit they only become widely adopted after the originals have entered the enshittified phase of their life.

Is there a Lemmy without Reddit? Is there a Mastodon without Twitter? Is there LibreOffice without Microsoft Office and decades of commercial word processors and spreadsheets before that? Or OpenOffice becoming enshittified for that matter? Is there qBittorrent without uTorrent enshittified? Is there postgreSQL without IBM’s DB2?

The exception that I can see is social media and networked services that require active network and server resources, like Facebook YouTube, or even Dropbox and Evernote.

Okay, The WELL is still around and is arguably the granddaddy of all online services, and has avoided enshittification, but it isn’t really open source.

If you read the article, evidently the IWW’s customer service was better.

An international union actually makes sense if you think about today’s corporate landscape.

Modern large corps are very international, with facilities for production, distribution, and retail all over the globe, so just striking in one country doesn’t make sense because funds and production can be shifted so quickly to a different city, state, or country.

The pandemic demonstrated how tightly connected the supply chains are, so striking just one or a few parts can have ripple effects on the bottom line.

The Internet version of QVC or Home Shopping Network that previous generations used to watch.

Yep, signed up for it next week at Walgreens.

Was part of a team that was sent to Boston for a project. While we were there, the company announced they were changing the meal expense policy from reimbursement for submitted bills to a fixed stipend.

But that policy change was a couple of days away, so the whole team went to this fancy expensive restaurant for dinner, and we ordered expensive food and wines as one last hurrah.

I don’t even remember where or what I ate or drank.

I just remember it was a good time.

Calling a male a “nephew” in Chinese 契弟 kai dai is calling them a male prostitute.

Usually it doesn’t mean target male has actually been used sexually, but commonly used for general belittlement.

This term comes from ancient times: Traveling businessmen who would take a young boy with them for sexual use, but if anyone on the road or destination asked who the boy was, the business man would euphemistically explain “He’s my nephew”

契弟 kai dai is commonly translated as “nephew” but it means “adopted brother”

We don’t hear about them anymore, therefore the aliens have given up on researching or invading or infiltrating the hooooman planet.

Or is it social expectations to wear pants that were developed by subtle marketing by the pants corporations?

E.g. All the marketing you have ever seen shows models wearing pants. Therefore you believe everyone, including yourself, must wear pants all the time, because you believe this the norm.

Toothpaste.

You only need to squeeze out an amount the size of a pea on to the bristles of your toothbrush.

The image of squeezing along the entire length of the brush bristles was concocted by an ad agency, a la Mad Men, to make consumers use their toothpaste faster, hence buy more product.