This is why I only watch fansubs
If you're downloading from meow in Japanese, you're mostly going to find the same subs for anything currently airing. CR rips killed a big chunk of the fansub scene.
Considering Gatebox was around 6 years ago, that's almost definitely what will happen.
The original Gatebox, if you haven't seen it before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkcKaNqfykg
Automated drones are all quad rotors
Fixed-wing autopilots came first, and have been available in the hobby space for well over a decade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArduPilot#Early_years,_2007-2012.
I personally flew multiple fixed-wing UAS using that autopilot when it was new, and they were fully capable of autonomous takeoff and landing back in 2011.
Need to specify that this isn't news; this happened in 2020.
So already halfway to the $2 Billion needed to break even: https://archive.ph/il6DD
plex
Use Emby or Jellyfin, not Plex. Plex is pushing too hard into ad-based content, and also relies more heavily on internet access. Emby and Jellyfin can exist entirely on your LAN with local accounts if you want, and have no need to phone home.
BBT and AB are also useful for old and obscure titles, but BBT seems like it's dying, and AB likes to keep the door closed.
Fall '22 was a really good season, but one of my favorites doesn't seem to have been mentioned yet: Shinmai Renkinjutsushi no Tenpo Keiei (Management of a Novice Alchemist).
The story centers around a young orphan becoming an alchemist and starting her own shop, in what's best described as a blend of Atelier and Recettear. If CGDCT mixed with "Capitalism, Ho!" sounds like something you'd enjoy, it's worth checking out.
Minority Report soon, I guess.
Someone that plays Magic the Gathering
That's a much broader group than you might think. Magic has been around for a very long time and has a ton of formats, with each having its own typical player. The guys who play Modern are very different from the guys who play EDH. It's hard to paint everyone with a single brush, when Magic is some 30 years old.
"But I like the kitchen."
This is one of my wife's favorite videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCftJ8Hf0kI
The libraries that look like large mailboxes, you've probably driven or walked by one before: https://littlefreelibrary.org/
Although it's a nice idea, they're used to push the same agenda as everything else.
Honestly it's not really anything different than them selling the "special performance tune"
It's a huge difference. ECU tunes are mostly an aftermarket thing, with the dealer almost never involved (and the tune typically voids at least part of your warranty).
Tunes make power through a variety of means, but generally involve the tuner putting the car on a dyno and/or track to figure out how far the car can be pushed with different combinations of bolt-on parts, while leaving a conservative margin for variation between cars that will use the tune off-the-shelf.
What makes this different is that it's an electric car, and that the seller of the tune is Mercedes themselves. They designed in the extra power from the start, then locked it behind a paywall. This completely inverts the situation: instead of an aftermarket tune cleverly capturing extra power, Mercedes is charging you extra to use power your car had from the factory.
why do you care about a drawing? it's not a person
This is the most critical part from my perspective. The subject matter here doesn't actually matter, whether you hate it or enjoy it. What people need to understand is criminalizing a drawing is criminalizing something artificial. It's opening the door to thought crime, and actual government regulation of ideas.
If you care about freedom of speech, you need to support allowing people to draw whatever they want. It doesn't need to be looked upon favorably by society, nor does it need to be allowed on all platforms. But it cannot be criminalized, because it will lead to subjective government regulation of media.
Many people don't realize that you can leave with as much US currency as you like, but the government requires that you report any amount over $10,000.
You don't even need to leave the country, nor does it need to be a specific dollar amount. Thanks to civil asset forfeiture, simply driving down the road with a "suspicious" amount of cash is sufficient justification for police to take every penny you have on you. They don't spend the time to figure out whether you're a drug dealer or if you're on your way to buy a used car, they just take it and leave you with the legal quagmire of trying to get your own money back.
This happens because they're allowed to use the money to supplement their budgets, and because it costs a few thousand dollars to even hire a lawyer that can (potentially) get your money back. They've taken somewhere around $70 billion this way, over the past twenty years.
Not that it makes it okay, but this is from 2019. It's not something that just happened.
That's 92 year old technology.
The mechanics of torpedo guidance and control are fascinating too. With nothing but a pendulum, a hydrostat, and some clever linkages, torpedoes were able to manage their depth over 100 years ago. In WWII the same mechanism was refined to maintain depth with an accuracy of just 6 inches. A radio controlled boat might as well be a step backwards in comparison.
This, and it isn't even a new idea. I first saw a stand like this over a decade ago, with exactly the same price structure.
It actually started out as a commentary on college admissions and student aid, but is now used to parody the system we've created on a national level. You're supposed to make some sort of angry comment to them, which they then use to start a conversation with you. Looks like it's still effective after all this time too.
For anyone who isn't aware, the EPA has seriously increased their enforcement actions against "emissions defeat devices" over the past 5 years.
The case that put the issue on most people's radar was Evan's Tuning, which was a major dyno tuner for import cars. Not only did EPA cite 298 violations of the clean air act against the owner (with a net penalty of about $1 million), they also demanded all customer data and sales for the previous 3 years. Just prior to this, Cobb Tuning and a few other similar tuning outfits were raided by EPA for the same reasons.
In all cases, this enforcement action isn't against large shops, dealers, or marques. Instead, EPA is going after small tuners and builders that sell enthusiast products to a niche market. Products in this realm are always advertised as "off-road use only," but rather than placing liability on anyone who misuses them, EPA is simply going after the source and shutting down the manufacturers, one-by-one.
Like most government action, this isn't accomplishing anything other than an attempt to justify EPA spending. Tuned cars, or in this case V8 Miatas, aren't fleet vehicles and aren't going to do many miles in a year. They're going to get driven on a track, to a car meet, or on the occasional sunny day. It's nonsensical enforcement that lets EPA pat themselves on the back, and it's slowly destroying what's left of auto enthusiast culture.
There's a logical reason for this one though. His opponent was far-left even by Democrat standards, Queonia "Zarah" Livingston of the Green Party.
A vote for Livingston would give her the seat, but a vote for DeLuca means a special election will be held to determine who gets it. Although I'm sure some people didn't know he died, the push to vote for him was to get the special election outcome, especially since he died too close to election day to update the ballot.
For entirely anecdotal evidence, as a PA resident, I have absolutely no idea how this was the outcome of organic voting. Turnout was decent, but seemed reduced compared to the last election; I didn't even need to wait in line when I arrived at my polling location.
Of people I know in life, the overall shift in preference has been toward the Republican side. The people I know who are hardcore Democrats are still hardcore Democrats, and the stalwart Republicans are still Republicans. But of the people in the middle, I know several who shifted from Democrat to Republican this election, and zero who went the other way. Every fencer-sitter I know who watched the debate came away with the conclusion Fetterman is incapable of doing the job, and his only defenders at that point were the "blue no matter who" Democrats.
I've seen Fetterman signs in a few surprising places across the sate (Potter county is one), but even in my suburb closer to Philly, there are more Oz signs by nearly an order of magnitude. There are usually few signs on yards in my immediate neighborhood, but there were a huge number this year, and exactly one in my development was for Fetterman.
The watercooler talk today (with those on the red side of the aisle) is mail-in ballots. At least in my workplace, there seems to be a strong consensus that this is the result of mail-in ballots, combined with either an uninformed and lazy electorate, or leveraged for fraud. Even those who were previously moderate (including one who switched sides this election) have mentioned fraud, which strikes me as a fairly dramatic shift in view. Unlike what I've seen people from out-of-state say online, not one person has said this is the result of Oz being a poor candidate (many think he was a fair compromise), and not one person anywhere on the political spectrum has mentioned abortion. I think anyone boiling this down to a single issue rather than pointing at our voting process or the voters themselves is being dishonest.
Isn't this from a primary, and not today?
I love how everyone is starting to catch on that there's no magical event that removes people when they die or move out of state.
I used to live in NJ, 7 years ago. I'm still a registered voter there, and still receive sample ballots at my old address. There's absolutely nothing stopping me from showing up to vote if I want (not like they'll check my now out-of-state ID), nor is there anything stopping someone else from voting under my name.
I even went through the trouble of calling my old county and asked to be removed after the 2020 election. In a completely unsurprising turn of events, a sample ballot was again mailed to my old address for today's election.
I'm glad we exist in a world where roles like these exist.