Also trying out Bluesky, and it is a lot like Twitter used to be, but it has the potential to turn out like Xitter is today, because at the end of the day Bluesky is a for-profit startup corporation.

Sooner or later, Bluesky is going to want to make money for its shareholders, and that means any of: 1) Selling advertisements, 2) Selling your personal data, and/or 3) In a classic tech startup play, selling itself to the highest bidder like: Android, YouTube, and yes, Twitter.

And with commercialization, or in Xitter’s case a fool with too much money, comes enshittification.

Lemmy is nothing like a for-profit startup company, as far as I know, but that doesn’t make it enshittification-proof, but at least it won’t take the commercialization route.

The world’s leading producer of solar equipment, China, loves this, and will happily sell more “dual use” weapon components to Russia, so they can sell replacement solar equipment to Ukraine.

The history of humanity hasn’t experienced tyranny, injustice, and oppression like HOA edicts.

/jk I love my HOA. looks around

Dishes and pans with dried on crud are the pits.

I always try to soak everything before throwing them in the dishwasher, and even then it takes a pre-scrub to make sure they come out clean.

Huh, whaddya mean? Pans go in the dishwasher just fine. Even nonstick stuff, these days.

edit: Unless you mean cast iron or carbon steel can’t go in the dishwasher, yeah I get that!

Sounds like a gadget inventing opportunity!

What’s your enshittification timeline? (Order is approximate)

Mine: Broadcast TV > Arcade Games > Usenet > Yahoo > Saturday Morning Cartoons > Email (spam) > Yahoo Groups > AAA games > Cable TV > Game Consoles > Talk Radio > Graphics Cards > Google Search > Twitch > YouTube > Reddit > Pinball > America

It gets worse:

The IDF is killing mostly Palestinian women and children, about 70% according the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, OHCHR.

Exactly the type of humans you need to rebuild a population.

Hmm, what could the IDF’s objective be…

It’s nice to see all that “devouring each other” that the Blue Lock-ers went through all that stress to learn over 2 seasons resulting in an effective attack that actually works.

See, Isagi likes it!

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I am surprised at how well they’re doing on defense, even though it’s not really a part of their training.

Even “parking the bus” in your own half takes training and coordination.

But ask any forward in a top flight league, and they’ll tell you how important “defending from the front” is in the modern game, even though that’s not what Blue Lock are doing in the latter part of this episode.

The battle of final magic suffered from a common problem in many magic battles in that as it drags on, it all just winds up sounding like bullshit.

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I call it “Dr. Strange syndrome”.

Nobody really understands magic, and the writers just have to make up shit to fill up the pages at the expense of a logical conclusion as to exactly why one side won and the other side lost.

At the end of the day, it’s pretty much who fails to pull something out of their ass that’s more impressive than whatever was last pulled out of the winner’s ass.

Anyway, nice little end credit montage of the surviving characters enjoying daily life after the episode, and the Hero Gram and sword lady sales droid using public transit.

The mechanical jaw motion of his Zoid form was distracting to say the least.

Since this appeared to be the climax of this story arc, I’d have expected better, but Sir, this is a JC Staff production (re: low budget)

Interesting episode in that the technology they’re coming up with to sell flower arrangements on smartphones feels attainable, and might even exist to some degree.

Also no wild stunts from Haru, and Gaku gets a turn to shine.

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Where’s the cavefrenchman’s beret?

Like the Harris Walz campaign still sending me daily emails begging for money…

Like, why?

Marcus talks about it to Machina this episode: They recognize that problem and will have developed an alternative power source by the time they run out of immortals to burn.

Who knows what that’s going to be, and what kind of negative effects that power source will bring though…

I am catching up on Dragonball Daima, and it’s pretty good!

The animation looks clean, but not overly CG, unlike the unlamented Sand Land.

I also intend to watch some Villainess In History since that seems to be a big hit this season.

I really hope anime doesn’t fall into the same trap that Hollywood has in cranking out remakes of old IPs every couple of decades just to renew the copyrights.

It wastes scarce production resources i.e. animators, crowds out the market for new ideas, and even the geezers (like me) who watched this stuff in its time want to see something more relevant to the current times.

During that whole planning sequence, everyone seems to have forgotten about Gluttony.

The whole “let’s split up so we can cover more ground” thing doesn’t strike me as the smart thing to minimize casualties.

5 of them seemed to have a hard time tackling only Lust. How is splitting up into pairs going to work?

The wedding crashers scene was cool though.

Good episode!

Chizu er, General Dante finally gets a costume and a transformation sequence.

They saved money because they already had her magical stick too!

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Chrome holding up the action due to his incompetence…

The patch on Chrome’s coat made me lol

No satellite photos of the ammo depot they targeted yet, so we’ll have to see whether they were successful…

Now if the porn creators leave Xitter for BS/Mastodon, that’ll be the end for them…