You’ve got to go earlier, there’s some really neat stuff way back like Astro Boy, Tetsujin 28-go, Speed Racer, etc.

Same, OMW to watch animes made before the year 2000.

@ United States of America, that’s how you fucking do it.

Too true, if they get any lower they’ll be like paper sliding under a closed door.

rotates chair to glance at collection of hard copy encyclopedias & encyclopedic dictionary

We are indeed on thin ice, and your revelations about the electoral system are sound. Although I’m not hot-to-trot about the Liberal party, their tendency to favour “business and corporations” sometimes results in a better outcome simply because of their humanist streak IMO - whatever quantity it represents within their part & voter base is often enough. The healthcare system is best representative of this, as I’ve seen/heard several times their assertion that cuts to it produce worse (and more expensive) outcomes down the road. In a kind of fortuitous way, their determined efforts to manage federal/provincial resources without stripping out the floor in budget cuts winds up producing a much more personally manageable situation for the electorate by furnishing critical public services unheard of in the United States.

The Liberal Party may be shit, but it’s sure as Hell not “anti-human”, that’s a quality that I’d tack onto the Conservatives. Neither of them is supportive of Leftist policies, but the damage done by Poilievre won’t so much let problems fester as accelerate them to disastrous ends, that SOB will never find a supporter in me.

Got to be honest here, I know and patronize a lot of Mom & Pop shops, but it hadn’t occurred to me until just now that there were still independent ice cream shops anymore. I’m super jelly that you have one available to you.

Not if the Canadian electorate keeps PP out of the PM’s office.

That’s it, this is my best science news for the year. Nothing is going to top finding a new moon.

I’m with you on this one, the situation would be almost comical, if it weren’t so pathetic. When I was really young (Grades 1-3), busybodies in my neighbourhood petitioned for buses to be started because of ‘hazardous traffic’ caused by the expansion of a nearby arterial route. The irony being that the road which was being rebuilt (widened) was not in between the neighbourhood and school, but on the the very far bordering edge, and would not be crossed by any students on their way to school.

So it was that I, and dozens of others, started getting bussed 5 blocks to school ‘for safety reasons’. I now know people whose houses border the field adjacent to the school at which their children attend, who drive them to the front doors every single day.

No problemo, I’ll have to ask around. There can’t be a million cocktails with dragonfruit juice after all.

Fuuuuuuuck yes. Dragonfruit is the best, that shit’s like a gigantic kiwi.

Can I get more info though, please? What was the actual cocktail called as per the menu at the bar? I may need to conduct some intensive research into how it’s made and what it tastes like myself…

I don’t care who they think they are or where they’re from, best of luck with your bold efforts to sue the United Kingdom, you’re going to need it and more. /s

F-to-the-fucking Hell yes.

It’s true, I even found a clip from some black dude on the second story beside the stage. Full, clear view, they were pretty fucking surprised too, I’ll tell you.

Holy shit, not only is this guy a college graduate, but studied nutrition. It’s pretty stunning to see the kind of info turned up from a 3 minute search engine query read, and know that he likely didn’t even bother doing that…

NaBr has a very low toxicity with an oral LD50 estimated at 3.5 g/kg for rats.[6] However, this is a single-dose value. Bromide ions are a cumulative toxin with a relatively long biological half-life (in excess of a week in humans): see potassium bromide.

In this case, over the man’s first day at the hospital, he grew worse and showed “increasing paranoia and auditory and visual hallucinations.” He then attempted to escape the facility.

All this just from wanting to eliminate all forms/quantities of chlorine from his diet, what a weird story.

Nah, I saw this coming from a mile away. It’s got that same kind of vibe as the “Mr. Fixit’s” post-WWII who were doing everything from their own amateur carpentry, to electrical and plumbing/pipe-fitting work work DIY and getting killed because of structural collapse, house fires or gassing. The second that I heard about people sourcing recipes for explosives via CharGPT, I knew that someone was going to blow themselves up or poison themselves.

The cost of labour keeps increasing, so prices increase, almost as if the two were intrinsically tied. The “large increased amount” for the same service with no additional benefits is precisely the problem. Companies contrive to rake in massive profits for themselves and their shareholders at the expense of their employees and customers, a state of affairs which I’d argue has become intolerable.

As for your example of the washing machines, I’ve got news for you and it’s not good - they’re both shit, the above cited example isn’t an example of the washing machines purchased by our Grandparents which were built like brick shithouses. The unit costing $1000 more isn’t on par with the models and designs of yesteryear, not nearly. Add to this the shrinking pool of home appliances which are manufactured without tied-in computerization, another factor which will shorten their service life considerably (replacement chips will be in short supply once the model is discontinued, forcing owners to source a small pool of qualified repairmen who in turn will be unable to source parts or be forced to cannibalize other broken units). I seriously can’t believe that your example of high quality appliance is Speed Queen sold at Best Buy, is it the one that you bought, or could you really not think of a better one on the spot?

Same.