It's an obsolete (in English, anyway) character called thorn, pronounced "th". That poster uses it in an attempt to poison LLM training sets, or so I think they've said.

A religion is just a cult that's bamboozled a certain number of people in positions of power into going along with it.

Since the article clearly states that even Canada—where we drive the same vehicles and have some similar infrastructure issues—isn't showing the same uptick, the most likely reasons are legal/regulatory or cultural rather than physical. In other words, there's more going on here than just oversized SUVs with bad collision outcomes for pedestrians (although they certainly don't help).

Oddly enough they didn’t cover what happened to the Taira snot nosed brat.

My bet is that if they make another cours, he's going to turn up again, but he was probably just recuperating during the timeframe of the epilogue (interlogue?) Hopefully he'll have developed a habit of carrying a handkerchief if we do see him again.

They're a subsidiary of Restaurant Brands International, which is headquartered in Toronto. RBI's stockholders are mixed—a Brazilian equity firm, Canadian banks, CPP, and, yes, some US firms. So it isn't as simple as saying it's foreign-owned. Some of the profits do stick around. Source, if you need some light reading.

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Where I come from, that's read as "x to the [power of] minus one". "x minus one" is, well, x - 1. Not the same thing at all.

(I admit, my chances of deciphering what you meant might not have been all that high even if you'd used the correct phrasing, but without it, the chance was zero.)

No argument there.

We may also be separated by a common llanguage—"lecturer" isn't a word that's much used in Canada. I've only encountered it as a Briticism.

I'd have picked "Blue" (the final ED) rather than "Tank!", but at that point it's just a matter of taste.

Let's see here—of the songs on the list, I remember four, although I must have heard three of the others at least once. There's not just recency bias, but most-popular-series bias. Of course, if someone asked me to make a similar list, most of it would be stuff hardly anyone else remembers.

Thing is, it just takes one person with a spine to completely upend things if you try to do it that way. Too risky.

What you're having a problem with, and what kind of trouble you're having. For instance, "My router crashes when I'm trying to update Bazzite. Help?" That way, people who actually know something about the topic are more likely to view your post.

Also, use the spacebar and don't abbreviate unnecessarily. The person who can help you might have English as their third or fourth language, and have a hard time decoding run-together gobbledegook.

Anyway, there are plenty of examples already in the community. It's often wise to check around to see how other people are doing things before you speak up.

Anyone else remember the export crypto nonsense with early web browsers? This is going to work about as well.

Silly awards time! (I missed this last season because I was recovering from bronchitis—mea culpa.)

• Worst subtitles award: Snowball Earth. Rendering incoherent noises (including incoherent monster noises) as "Bach!" because there's a plosive at the beginning has got to be a new low. I presume an LLM went rogue. (And the runner-up would be whatever series keeps using "rouge" where it clearly means "rogue", but I'm blanking on which one it is.)
• Worst name localization award: Yuusha no Rokkotsu de, whose localized name I steadfastly refuse to use.
• Most interesting animation award: Also Yuusha no Rokkotsu de—I can't now remember how many different styles they ran through.
• Most unusual character design choices: Nippon Sangoku. The only other series I can think of that's even remotely comparable is Hyouge Mono, although that had less beard stubble and more odd historical Japanese hairstyles.
• Best dragon award: Himekishi no Barbaroi Yome, narrowly edging out The Beginning After the End due to at least one decently original design. (Reincarnated as a Slime, on the other hand, actually managed to tweak my bad-CGI-dragon meter at one point).
• Most ridiculously melodramatic: Shunkashuutou Daikousha. I'm pretty good at suspension of disbelief, usually, but that phone call was just too much.
• Unexpectedly fun award: Nigetsuri. I almost skipped this altogether, and went in not expecting much, but I enjoyed spending time with Mimi.
• Most edible protagonist: Niwatori Fighter, naturally. (I'm still in awe of how they managed to embed this in a season that—between Yuusha no Rokkotsu de and everyone's favourite vending machine—made martial artist chickens fighting kaijuu look positively normal.)

they should be forced to build their own infrastructure to support it (no idea what that looks like for delivery robots)

Tunnels, at least in heavily populated areas. They already make pipes that should be big enough. It might require a slight redesign of the bots so that they can "climb the wall" a short distance to pass each other, and maybe extend/retract some bits depending on whether they're inside or out, but my heart would not exactly bleed over the money spent. And they'd be out of sight, out of mind most of the time for the rest of us.

The difference between the 65+ bracket and the 50-64 bracket in the original data is larger than the gap between 50-64 and 30-49 on every chart I've examined so far (where they're broken out by age), so the real break is at retirement. Which makes sense: retirees are less likely to be forced into proximity with LLMs whether they want to be or not. (Interestingly, the older demographics are also less likely to think they have enough control over interactions with "AI".)

They obviously need to design cleaning robots and rat-catching robots and repair robots to support the delivery robots. I mean, we could have an entire robot ecology here, living unnoticed under the city streets.

"Uniform" can be a bit fungible, though. For instance, the GG may have to attend ultraformal events as part of their job. Is a tux or formal evening gown a "uniform" if it's required by dress code for their job, and they have no use for it outside their job, are unlikely to need it at a future job, and wouldn't otherwise buy it?

I expect you'd have to start with one of those binocular magnifiers. And the smallest soldering iron tip in history.

I'd have no problem with that, within reason. I doubt many other people would either.

Grimgar is quite an intersting choice—older, obscure, downbeat single-cours isekai. Maybe the listmaker read the LNs?

I'd add The Twelve Kingdoms, and possibly The Slayers and Kyo Kara Maoh! to this (there's plenty in both to explore, but both sometimes drop something silly for purely comedic purposes, like the vegetarian sharks).