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

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

Astigmatism…

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.

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…

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

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.

Mathematics.

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.

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

Humans make idiotic decisions like helping Musk buy Twitter.

When they get their orders and talking points directly from Russia’s FSB, they don’t have to hire legislative staff to work for their constituents, do research on issues, and solve problems.

They can use the money for political campaigning instead. No wonder they’re successful!

Good thinking! /s

p.s. The Workshop Battle will be in one week on October 6th! Another cours? https://x.com/Crunchyroll/status/1832789063708860708?t=ZJDYO5Lsl0oqrtwrDs7p3w

It is said that this sequence of the manhwa is very long at 100 chapters, so maybe 1 or 2 cours of this…

For reference, the anime just finished adapting chapter 135 of the manhwa.

We’ve all been there Khun…

@rikka@ani.social

So the setup for the Workshop Battle begins…

There’s an odd thing where the team leaves on a ship, leaving Khun and Dan behind, then Wangnan wakes up, and they load on the ship for real to go to the test.

I’m flipping through the manhwa to try and figure out what went on there…

edit: Apparently it just happens like that in the manhwa. After Khun wakes up with the notification that they’re invited to the Workshop Battle, we just see his team on the shuttle home exhausted or asleep, having passed the test offscreen.

I’m not sure how well Superintendent Matt Wayne’s plan for keeping 15% of teachers out of the classroom will work…

A standard vented coffee bag has… a vent. So some smell is expected.

I just keep old coffee bags around if I need to store grounds or separate smaller quantities of beans.

I believe the objective is to reduce beans’ and grounds’ exposure to air, to reduce oxidation and flavor oil evaporation, so a standard coffee bag is the best way. Just squeeze out most of the air as you’re resealing it.

Storing in airtight jars leaves too much air, IMO.

It’s a different brewing method using pressure through a filter, resulting in a more fragrant brew.

I use a recipe that just brews in an inverted Aeropress for 10 seconds, so it comes out faster too, although most recipes call for brewing for longer.

But the quick method is great if I’m in a hurry that morning.

One downside to Aeropress is consuming paper filters, but I also have an aftermarket reusable metal mesh filter, and it works great.

Another downside is the dreaded “inverted Aeropress” disaster, which I recently experienced. I hold it by the plunger now ;-)

I alternate using both french press and Aeropress to keep from getting bored with my coffee.

For some reason, I get the opposite effect. I feel that the resulting brew from my plastic Aeropress loses more heat than my glass french press, so I have to preheat my coffee mug if I’m using my AP.

Giving it some thought, the effect may not be the AP material itself, but the heat loss from the high surface to volume ratio of the droplets as they come out of the filter, as opposed to the stream as the liquid is poured out in a single thick stream out of the french press.

i.e. A glass Aeropress may not reduce temperature loss significantly over plastic.

But my desire for a glass Aeropress is more for reducing plastic use, and risk of shedding microplastics into foods that I consume.

What would a funnel be for? I can’t think of a use for one off the top of my head.

I pour my old grounds out of my storage bag into a small bowl, pour my new grounds into my storage bag, then I pour the old grounds on top of my new grounds, and they should get used first.

I don’t shake my storage bag to mix the old grounds and the new evenly.

That depends on state and county law.

If a recall is possible, the same would dictate what the procedure for a recall is.

In the US, sheriffs are elected officials, i.e. they can’t be fired.