Where’s this exponentially accelerating train of technology and how can I board it? All I see nowadays is this buggy predictive text engine.

Next year Utena turns 30 and I haven’t seen it since it aired. Might be time for a rewatch!

• studio was founded to get away from the ‘manga-to-anime’ pipeline and have more control
• was meant to be a standard children’s show
• nah, fuck that.

Shinzo Abe … humility

Those words don’t go together at all… unless you add a “no” before humility. ‘Poor health’ was an excuse given to cover for him breaking his promise to never resign, and he resigned because of the unpopularity of himself and the party scandals at the time. Wikipedia has a good summary:

Abe’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party suffered great losses in the upper house election, losing control for the first time in 52 years. Agricultural minister, Norihiko Akagi, involved in a political funding scandal, resigned after the election. Additionally, Abe’s rejection of a possible female Japanese monarch, which led to the Japanese succession controversy, diminished his support base.[47][48] In an attempt to revive his administration, Abe announced a new cabinet in August 2007. Support for Abe rose by 10 percent as a result; however, the new agricultural minister Takehiko Endo, involved in a finance scandal, resigned only seven days later.[49]

On 12 September 2007, only three days after a new parliamentary session had begun, Abe announced his intention to resign his position as prime minister at an unscheduled press conference.[50][51] The announcement came just minutes before opposition leaders were scheduled to question him in Parliament and shocked many. Abe had described himself as a “politician who fights” and previously pledged not to resign.[52] Abe explained that his unpopularity was hindering the passage of an anti-terrorism law, involving among other things Japan’s continued military presence in Afghanistan. Party officials also said the embattled prime minister was suffering from poor health.

Just need to find Benjamin Franklin to charge your patented Super Battery, and wash your carriage to ensure precipitation!

Not a requirement, just an accepted norm. There’s plenty of counter-examples on supermarket shelves, too (and why they all have 写真はイメージです (photo is an illustration only) on the box).

The quality and value of pancake mix really varies between countries. I’ve found that Japan, for instance, has really good pancake mix that is cheaper than buying the raw ingredients… Flour is rarely bought for home cooking, and there’s a generally high standard for store bought baked goods. In contrast, Australia has cheap flour and store bought baked goods are generally mediocre at best.

I think the main issue was that Mint doesn’t have good power management tools (so I used a third-party utility). Not a ‘gaming’ laptop but it does have a dedicated Nvidia GPU and I got the drivers working fine, and most games ran better than than they did on windows. I’ll check out CachyOs! Thank you for the suggestion. I haven’t tried Fedora in a decade (and not on this PC, obviously), so I’ll take a look at that, too.

Last time I tried (Mint) the dealbreaker for me was battery management. I tried various utils and settings but I couldn’t get as much juice of of the same charge using Mint and still have good performance. If anyone has any suggestions I’d be grateful!