Probably because all the companies mentioned are Japanese and Japan is where anime comes from, duh. You can just write an article about how you like the ads because you’re an anime fan. Near rhetorical questions are unnecessary.

So are we spending billions to go to the moon for nostalgia’s sake or is there some actual point to this mission? We’ve done it a few times and all we have to show for it is some silly low gravity footage and some rocks that the government is very protective about. Wasn't the first time just a dick measuring contest…

I was thinking that the part where they scrub the underage Tweets is probably legally required but I don't know about the ban. Maybe they have to ban an account before it can be altered by the admins? Either according to their rules or as a technical issue.

Happy hours are set times and prices. As it’s usually practiced surge pricing is based on demand rather than a timetable. The lack of predictability makes a difference. When the price variable can increase because a school field trip showed up for lunch the potential loss versus going to a restaurant without such…

I'm guessing they're legally required to do this as part of the legislation that makes an age limit for social media. Otherwise they wouldn't bother.

A new Shyamalan would be an infant, not an adult woman. Thankfully Hollywood nepotism hasn’t gone so far that actual babies are helming productions these days.

There isn't any within the bounds of our society. The only thing we can do is to append an asterisk after their achievements and make them aware of it.

Same with Spawn. 

Back in my younger and wilder days I drove drunk and benzo’d out in a manual. A lot. At least once only by the light of the moon just to see if I could. I was all over the road but never missed a shift or stalled out. Because shifting is muscle memory but steering and braking aren’t. You don’t have to pay attention to…

Eh, I’m not blaming Biden for Hunter so I’m not blaming Boebert for her son. Plenty of other things to blame/mock her for. Sometimes kids turn out shitty no matter what you do so without very clear evidence that they fucked up the kid I’m reluctant to blame parents for the acts of adult children.

I may try this on my work van. On large job sites there's usually a sea of white Expresses and Econolines that are basically identical. I've almost gotten in the wrong truck more than once. I'll use a black one just so I can see my employee's faces on the off chance someone asks if that means our crew is down for a…

I haven’t seen the newest seasons. Not because of Roiland, the VA change, the serialization, the stabs at character development or even the weird incest baby episode. I got off at the Story Train. It was fitting that one of the most self-involved, meta yet myopic sequences of intellectual masturbation ever animated…

It’s entirely possible human artists create things in an analogous way. We don’t know. It seems hubristic (and scientifically unsupported) to assume that computers will never be able to replicate the phenomenon. What is the fundamental difference between a computer made of semiconductors and one made of neurons?

So exactly the same as a K-pop hive?

Well this makes me think the movie could be terrible if this guy likes it. Let’s be realistic, the original novels aren’t good they’re “good for sci-fi” and they get worse as they go along. Also, barely even sci-fi. And the continuations make them look like bonafide literature. Dune is beloved because of the…

So where did he get the money from?

God I hate rich weirdos whose income should be taxed to benefit society as a whole rather than their own pet projects. “Rich weirdos” apparently including the daughter of a Union president. Shouldn’t ‘UAW Royalty’ be an oxymoron? What kind of blatant corruption do you, the representative of the worker, have to perform…

Huh, ham-handed fixes to keep these tools from being used for racist purposes sure do make for some odd outcomes. The bots are going to spit out racist stuff even when unprompted because they are trained on our data. The data of a racist society. Throwing in a few lines of code here and there to skew the proportion of…

It's not free at all when your bosses, the people who made you famous, arrange an interview and give you a script. In those cases shutting up can be quite costly.

The ability of the police to directly read your mind and force you to hallucinate an alternate reality is a slight technological advance?