Tsundere Season
Low temperature yesterday: 19°F.
High temperature Sunday: 78°F.
Solo Leveling manga tease
The recent volumes of the SL manga have been labeled “side stories”, and are the bridge between the original series and the sequel, Ragnarok. They include snapshots of Our Hero’s post-victory life, but also a brief glimpse of A Brighter Future.
I’m referring to Best Girl Esil, of course.
Wokalizing Gushing 2?
There are reports that the translation for the upcoming second season of Molesting Magical Girls will be done by one of the opinionated woke localizers who’s been butchering other series. Really hope that doesn’t happen; season 1 exceeded all rational expectations.
Summer: Retired Soldier With Horny Waifu
I read enough of the source material to recognize all the characters in the trailer, and while he definitely acquires a white-haired dark-skinned teenage oni waifu, there’s a touch of bait-and-switch in the setup, as the story gradually adds past events that make him more and more important. I mean, his feats in the present were enough to win the girl, and what more can a man ask for?
(unrelated Best Horny Waifu… and Other Best Horny Waifu)
Workday failed to pass the buck
They argued that the hiring discrimination they got caught doing for their corporate clients was just “the algorithm”. A federal judge just called bullshit and said they’re on the hook for illegal discrimination against protected classes (in this specific case, over-40 applicants).
Given that I’m one of the many applicants who would apply on a Friday evening and be rejected before sunrise on Saturday, I hope this decision holds up and eventually restores some slight sanity to the job market.
Also, cancel all H1B visas and eliminate the program. It’s a clear case of regulatory capture, overwhelmingly benefiting Indian nationals at the expense of American citizens.
(I suspect that eliminating H1B would also end the careers of a lot of Indian execs and senior managers, far too many of whom are reported to be taking kickbacks from their visa-hostage workers)
Learn from my fail!
Something that I hadn’t seen on previous trips to Japan is places advertising curry as カリー (“karii”). The more common romanization カ レー (“karei”) is used for Japanese-style curry, which outside of restaurants is generally made with solid blocks of commercial roux; I can usually find Vermont or S&B blocks at US groceries.
The other is for Indian-style curry, which is not what I want to eat when in Japan. Actually, not a big fan of it anywhere, although I will usually order curry in Thai restaurants.
My plan for this weekend is to make a relatively thick Japanese-style curry with finely-chopped ingredients and bake it into my dinner-roll recipe, using the technique from Alton Brown’s recent sloppy joe bun video. I’m in the habit of buying curry bread at Japanese bakeries, but those are usually deep-fried, and most of the ones I had this trip had too-flaky crusts that made terrible hand-held food.
Illegal Truckers Of The Amazon
While driving to Chicago for the flight to Japan with my sister, I passed a jackknifed semi carrying an Amazon trailer, which had failed to navigate a quite generous highway onramp in broad daylight in good weather. In the distance, I could see the Amazon warehouse it had just left.
Given what we’re (finally) hearing about grossly unqualified illegals getting commercial drivers licenses and “operating” big rigs with no qualifications and no ability to understand English, and Amazon’s notorious cheapness, I strongly suspect that the notable increase in broken delivery promises is directly tied to shipments being scattered across the landscape when their “drivers” crash.
In other news, the item that was promised for same-day delivery on Tuesday by 10 PM was last seen on the other side of the state on Tuesday at 4:15 PM, and no longer has an estimated delivery date.
Interestingly, this is one where I don’t have to wait a week to cancel, and in theory, I could do so and reorder the product with the promise of next-day delivery…
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