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I've only read the manga, but I found Dr Stone to be really misogynistic, in a low-key but pervasive way. Nearly all the female characters (especially in the first half) are vapid and highly sexualized. Maybe the anime is better? MHA's female characters are also overly sexualized, but at least they're as well-developed as the male characters.

Also to be clear, Cells at Work: Code Black is a spin-off which is NOT age appropriate (albeit the superior series IMO).

As someone who has watched anime for decades, I personally do not recommend letting anyone under high school age (and even then...) watch any anime that you have not fully watched and vetted yourself. Anime is notorious for pulling a fast one on the audience and doing a sudden genre/maturity shift (from Narutaru which looks like a cute Digimon-type monster battle show but involves a lot of murder and rape, to School Days which looks like a standard high-school romantic drama but ends with the protagonist's head in a duffle bag). These "gotcha!" moments are part of what makes anime unique and fun, however it also makes vetting anime really difficult for guardians. And that's just in terms of violence; anime often feature (what I consider) really unhealthy portrayals of romantic relationships, female sexualization, and sexual harassment in general (the latter of which often is played off as a harmless joke). Even "kids" anime like Naruto, DBZ, etc can be surprisingly mature. You have to pay very close attention to the show's rating, but even that is highly subjective and can change from season to season or even episode to episode, and often doesn't include factors like "does this series promote toxic relationships?" that are important but often overlooked when vetting media for such a developmentally-vulnerable age.

There definitely are anime out there that are appropriate for younger audiences, but your daughter might find them boring and dated by comparison (anime fandom nowadays is all about watching the latest hot series, not digging years or decades into back catalogues for shows that have completed and thus easy to confirm are age-appropriate to the end). Generally, slice-of-life CAN be wholesome (eg Non Non Biyori or The Flying Witch) but your daughter may find them boring. There are also more appropriate action series out there, but you gotta find the stuff that's aimed for really young kids like Digimon. Magical girl anime is also an option (some ancient examples: Sailor Moon, Saint Tail, Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne), but that's a popular "gotcha" genre so you have to be VERY careful.

In summary, having a kid who's interested in anime means either having to very carefully vet each title yourself and praying your kid doesn't gain an independent streak and start exploring titles herself, or giving up and hoping she doesn't stumble across the animated equivalent to 80s/90s kids stumbling across beheading videos and scat porn in the early days of the Internet. Good luck?

In one Hunter x Hunter episode, a guy bites off another guy's head, sucks out the skull, and spits it as a projectile at another character, for a quick two-fer kill. Real kid-friendly stuff.

Yet again, the media has shown itself to completely miss the point: yes improved public opinion of unions is a factor in their recent success, but the bigger issue is how screwed over and desperate employees have become, and how out-of-touch the 1% is to the day-to-day struggles of the common man in 2023. These recent gains are not some big victory, but rather a return to pre-pandemic quality of life norms, when the grocery bill wasn't a major stressor and hosting costs were somewhat manageable. The unions are only gaining what should have been theirs in the first place, had wages and benefits kept pace with CoL.

Possibly a stupid question, but is there anything toxic in the solar panels or their infrastructure that could contaminate the plants or soil below? Particularly if the panels were damaged in, say, extreme weather, but also as a result of general wear and tear. I'm thinking heavy metal dust, carcinogenic liquid components, that sort of thing. As per the article this seems like it could be a good land use pairing, but not if it renders the soil unfit for agriculture due to a buildup of contamination.

I'm not talking about action at the state level, I'm talking about the federal level. The United States is the largest economy in the world, but we constantly struggle to make headway on climate goals primarily because the Republicans in Congress (and back when Trump was president, the White House) constantly undermine those efforts. To be clear, Democrats are no climate champions, but they are at least trying to do something, vs the Republicans who actively try to worsen the climate crisis simply because they think it will piss off liberals. Thus every time Louisiana sends a Republican senator (currently 2 of 2) or representative (currently 5 of 6) or electorate (2020 election: 8 of 8) to Washington DC, they're making the climate crisis worse by helping to paralyze the United States government.

You can be both a victim and a bully: it's called voting against your own interests and it's something red states are notorious for doing.

??? Republicans have a way worse record on climate action than Democrats?

Does Louisiana still vote GOP in House, Senate, and presidential elections? Then they're still one of the climate (and LGBTQ and racial and class and...) bullies.

I posted this list in the other thread. Like you say, SoS is a much bigger deal than Gov in terms of seriousness. I'm unclear where AG would fall... between SoS and Gov maybe?

As of September 13, 2023, 7 states have Election Deniers serving as their governor.

        Alabama – Kay Ivey (R)
    Alaska – Mike Dunleavy (R)
    Florida – Ron DeSantis (R)
    Iowa – Kim Reynolds (R)
    Montana – Greg Gianforte (R)
    Tennessee – Bill Lee (R)
    Texas – Greg Abbott (R)


  

As of September 13, 2023, 11 states have Election Deniers serving as their attorney general.

        Alabama – Steve Marshall (R)
    Florida – Ashley Moody (R)
    Idaho – Raúl Labrador (R)
    Indiana – Todd Rokita (R)
    Kansas – Kris Kobach (R)
    Louisiana – Jeff Landry (R)
    Mississippi – Lynn Fitch (R)
    South Carolina – Alan Wilson (R)
    Texas – Ken Paxton (R)
    Utah – Sean Reyes (R)
    West Virginia – Patrick Morrisey (R)


  

As of September 13, 2023, 5 states have Election Deniers serving as their secretary of state.

        Alabama – Wes Allen (R)
    Indiana – Diego Morales (R)
    Missouri – Jay Ashcroft (R)
    West Virginia – Mac Warner (R)
    Wyoming – Chuck Gray (R)

  

I once worked in a high-rise office that would get uncomfortably cold (for me) in winter. I thought they were just being stingy with the heating, until I went into the office on a Saturday and found it was pleasantly warm. Turns out all the computers were keeping the office nice and toasty, and they were actively cooling the place during the winter to keep things at a "business temperature."

Not the Akagi women, apparently!

Since the article never actually says which 17 states, here's the breakdown from the original report:

As of September 13, 2023, 7 states have Election Deniers serving as their governor

        Alabama – Kay Ivey (R)
    Alaska – Mike Dunleavy (R)
    Florida – Ron DeSantis (R)
    Iowa – Kim Reynolds (R)
    Montana – Greg Gianforte (R)
    Tennessee – Bill Lee (R)
    Texas – Greg Abbott (R)


  

As of September 13, 2023, 11 states have Election Deniers serving as their attorney general

        Alabama – Steve Marshall (R)
    Florida – Ashley Moody (R)
    Idaho – Raúl Labrador (R)
    Indiana – Todd Rokita (R)
    Kansas – Kris Kobach (R)
    Louisiana – Jeff Landry (R)
    Mississippi – Lynn Fitch (R)
    South Carolina – Alan Wilson (R)
    Texas – Ken Paxton (R)
    Utah – Sean Reyes (R)
    West Virginia – Patrick Morrisey (R)


  

As of September 13, 2023, 5 states have Election Deniers serving as their secretary of state

        Alabama – Wes Allen (R)
    Indiana – Diego Morales (R)
    Missouri – Jay Ashcroft (R)
    West Virginia – Mac Warner (R)
    Wyoming – Chuck Gray (R)


  

IMO since the secretary of state is directly in charge of elections, that's the list I'd be most wary of.

Greg Poole, who has been district superintendent since 2006, said the policy is legal and teaches students to conform as a sacrifice benefitting everyone.

This is clearly about control, as well as conditioning students to concede to authority and "traditional" social standards.

Evangelion at least tried to provide a plot reason for why the pilots all had to be young teenagers. Skimped a bit on explaining why all the support staff were in their twenties except for the two older dudes at the top tho...

My understanding is sugar water is fine for hummingbirds, but the red dye often added to it is not.

If it's a joke about Japanese conjugation, but that's not how Japanese conjugation works, is it actually a joke about Japanese conjugation?

If someone tried to make a joke about English conjugation that hinged on the past-tense of "to run" being "ron" instead of "ran," would that even qualify as a joke? "He has such a sweet tooth, the moment his diet ended he didn't 'ron' to the store, he 'macaron' to the store!" makes no sense. That's what the tiramisu meme reads like, except it also misspells tiramisu, so the English joke would actually be more like, "he has such a sweet tooth, the moment his diet ended he didn't 'ron' to the store, he 'ice cron' [misspelling of ice cream] to the store!" which makes even less sense.

I know enough Japanese to not get this.

Two problems: one, it's tiramisu, not tiramasu, but I'd let that slide as a fudge to make the joke work if it weren't for problem two.

Problem two is that the unconjugated form of tiramasu would be tiraru. Except tiraru would be a "godan verb" because the "a" vowel prior to the "ru" ending, which means it would conjugate as tirarimasu and tirarimasen. At this point we've strayed too far from "tiramisu" for the joke to work IMO. Which left me staring at the meme for way too long trying to figure out if it was an attempt at a Japanese joke or not.

Reference on Japanese conjugation: https://www.tofugu.com/japanese-grammar/verb-conjugation-groups/

On the plus side, it's a refreshing move away from the opposite: videos that are dragged out, padded up, and way longer than they need to be. Remember when YouTube required videos to be at least ten minutes to be monetized or something like that and suddenly every video that should have been less than five minutes was 10:01? Every basic how-to video suddenly had a filler arc.

I too feel nostalgic sometimes for the "turnpike" days...