zabadoh

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[–] zabadoh@ani.social 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

That first group of 3 photos closely resembles the Galaxy Express 999 from the manga and anime!

Edit: According to a wiki page, the 999 locomotive design was based on the JNR C62 steam engine

https://galaxyexpress999.fandom.com/wiki/Galaxy_Express_999#:~:text=Basis,National%20Railways%20C62%20steam%20engine.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 1 points 16 hours ago

Or combine all of them with Mars to make something approaching Earth’s volume.

 

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.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 1 points 17 hours ago

MAGAts to start smashing windows and beer bottles before the 5G glass can give them COVID-19

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 10 points 1 day ago

What are these paper things with pictures and words? Why can't I get on Facebook and Insta?

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 2 points 2 days ago

I first read that as "...confirmed to run for 2 straight hours. Starting on October 3, every Thursday."

Astigmatism...

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 2 points 2 days ago

This was really good!

@glilimith@lemmy.blahaj.zone described the character dynamics perfectly.

I would only add that Kuroma's name means Black Demon or Dark Demon.

The Kuma (bear) kaijin minions only being able to say "bear" resembles the vocabulary of a Pokemon.

I thought that Chizuko was going to get a sexy villainess costume, but I guess this show isn't going there.

 

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Ukraine has said that its forces have withdrawn from the eastern city of Vuhledar, a defensive bastion that had resisted repeated Russian attacks since Vladimir Putin’s 2022 full-scale invasion.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.

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[–] zabadoh@ani.social 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I wasn't impressed by this.

The art is great and faithful to the manga, and keeping it in black and white preserved the look of the manga, some good framerates in the animation, but...

It felt static and lacking in filmmaking artistry, like they decided to animate manga panels, without zooming and panning and all the other stuff that films do, instead of taking advantage of the animation/filmmaking medium.

Also no soundtrack. Some atmospheric music could have made this a lot more effective, instead of presenting manga panels in almost-silence.

The narrative structure of flashbacks felt distracting: "Oh yeah, my father was obsessed like this..." I'm not sure if this is how the manga story is written.

Cultural note: The wooden tub...

spoilerthat they find the father curled up in a spiral inside resembles a traditional Japanese coffin/burial tub.

Another illustration.

There was a show (that I can't remember the name) where there was a serial kidnapper who kept their victims inside wood soy sauce fermenting vats that resemble larger versions of Japanese coffins.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 2 points 3 days ago

Yes, there's a little black rectangle on the floor of the shuttle, likely a phone or a or maybe a ticket, saying "PASS"

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's not like the S&P500 committee is going to make wild and crazy decisions based on a hunch. It's still very much based on replacing older shrinking companies with newer more vigorous representatives in the same industry.

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[–] zabadoh@ani.social 5 points 5 days ago

The Helsinki Commission is an interesting US congressional organization, consisting of members from the Senate, House and the Executive branch.

Even more interesting, is it's currently chaired by a Republican, Joe Wilson, aka the "You lie!" guy whom you would expect to be MAGA partisan.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 13 points 5 days ago (9 children)

This is why you shouldn't put your money into human-managed mutual funds.

Humans make idiotic decisions like helping Musk buy Twitter.

 

Out of 2316 in SFUSD total...

 

80s anime-style music video.

The song is decent too!

 

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.

 

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.

 
  • KQED channel 9
  • KQED radio 88.5FM
  • Livestream on SFChronicle.com and app

Hopefully Mayor Breed will show up this time...

 

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?

 

As Supervisor, Mark Farrell requested noticeably more "behested" payments from companies that had business before the city than other Supervisors.

 

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

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