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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    It was announced that the Oshi no Ko manga is now entering it's final arc.

    Arcs in this manga can be rather long though, so not sure how close it actually is to ending.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    JJK's will probably go on for another year at this rate.

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  • Moth 13Moth 13 Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I already kind of assumed Oshi no Ko was getting close to the end once they started making that movie.

    Though in retrospect that's been a third of the manga now.

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    This week in Delicious in Dungeon: We're at maximum shenanigans now.

    https://youtu.be/NcApeWq0TwI?si=zKXDURE0Rpi6n7_G

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  • NeveronNeveron SwedenRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    This is the last episode of the season, huh? Well, I guess it's a good stopping point.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Dandadan was very good this week.
    I'm not crying! You're crying! Shut up! *bawls*

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Orca wrote: »
    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/company-heads-hoped-return-to-office-mandates-would-make-people-quit-survey-says/
    Some company heads hoped return-to-office mandates would make people quit, survey says
    1,504 workers, including 504 HR managers questioned.
    A new survey suggests that some US companies implemented return-to-office (RTO) policies in the hopes of getting workers to quit. And despite the belief that such policies could boost productivity compared to letting employees work from home, the survey from HR software provider BambooHR points to remote and in-office employees spending an equal amount of time working.

    BambooHR surveyed 1,504 full-time US employees, including 504 human resources (HR) workers who are a manager or higher, from March 9 to March 22. According to the firm, the sample group used for its report "The New Surveillance Era: Visibility Beats Productivity for RTO & Remote" is equally split across genders and includes "a spread of age groups, race groups, and geographies." Method Research, the research arm of technology PR and marketing firm Method, prepared the survey, and data collection firm Rep Data distributed it.
    Nearly two in five (37 percent) managers, directors, and executives believe their organization enacted layoffs in the last year because fewer employees than they expected quit during their RTO. And their beliefs are well-founded: One in four (25 percent) VP and C-suite executives and one in five (18 percent) HR pros admit they hoped for some voluntary turnover during an RTO.

    Saying the quiet part out loud finally.

    It's the Marissa Mayer strategy, and it continues to be vile.

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] regular
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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    slime isekai is still running? wow

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Dandadan was very good this week.
    I'm not crying! You're crying! Shut up! *bawls*

    Actually, it hit me why this arc is resonating with me so strongly. It's because it reminds me of my favorite scene of my favorite arc of the Order of the Stick, and hands down probably the fictional moment that has most reduced me to a ball of tears. I cannot recommend that webcomic to people enough. https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0001.html

    Quote in question (spoilering it):
    My mother turned the worst thing that could ever happen to anyone into the best thing that could happen to anyone. To five anyones.

    ... every moment of happiness! Every moment of peace and belonging and contentment! Every moment spent with a family who loved me, a family who wouldn't even exist without my mother's pain!

    Reminds me of the police officer's attitude exactly.

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  • CalicaCalica Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    So folks who quit after their companies instituted RTO have a case for constructive dismissal, right?

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  • SonelanSonelan Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Man I am kinda surprised that TsukiMichi spoilers for today's episode:
    Sophia was partially charmed. Tho I guess it was kinda weird how she was treating that empire's hero.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Tsukimichi S2 Episode 23
    It is so much fun to see Cold Makoto make another appearance and terrify the shit out of everybody present as he passive no-sells everything thrown at him. Especially when Rona finally realized that Makoto's "naivety" was born of his overwhelming strength. And she had unwittingly poked the bear in that regard. Can't wait to see her try to explain that to the Demon King when she also realizes that Makoto's army has been busy in the meanwhile and an entire nation has just sprung out up overnight next door.

    Sofia's attitude shift as she realized just how strong Makoto truly is, and how he's not taking her even remotely serious, is a big change from how even after their first encounter she was still gungho about killing him. And now, four named dragons later worth of power, she literally can't even touch him anymore. Also when she realizes that Tomoki's charm spell may have actually affected her after all with Makoto offering to dispell it out of pity.

    Wonder how Lancer vs Shiki will go. Probably a bit closer of a fight, but Shiki's definitely still got advantage.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    I really enjoyed Tsukimichi this week.

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Madican wrote: »
    Tsukimichi S2 Episode 23
    It is so much fun to see Cold Makoto make another appearance and terrify the shit out of everybody present as he passive no-sells everything thrown at him. Especially when Rona finally realized that Makoto's "naivety" was born of his overwhelming strength. And she had unwittingly poked the bear in that regard. Can't wait to see her try to explain that to the Demon King when she also realizes that Makoto's army has been busy in the meanwhile and an entire nation has just sprung out up overnight next door.

    Sofia's attitude shift as she realized just how strong Makoto truly is, and how he's not taking her even remotely serious, is a big change from how even after their first encounter she was still gungho about killing him. And now, four named dragons later worth of power, she literally can't even touch him anymore. Also when she realizes that Tomoki's charm spell may have actually affected her after all with Makoto offering to dispell it out of pity.

    Wonder how Lancer vs Shiki will go. Probably a bit closer of a fight, but Shiki's definitely still got advantage.
    Yeah, probably a stomp. There's also Mio playing games with the other demon commander because she's just trying to steal his technique, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's resolved off-screen at this point.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Working on clearing my backlog, so I'm advancing through Frieren now. I just finished the episode where...
    ...29 years after the death of Himmel the hero, Frieren realizes that he essentially had proposed and given her an engagement ring.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lars wrote: »
    Working on clearing my backlog, so I'm advancing through Frieren now. I just finished the episode where...
    ...29 years after the death of Himmel the hero, Frieren realizes that he essentially had proposed and given her an engagement ring.
    There's a reason she's in the running for Most (Socially) Dense Object Known To Anime Fandom opposite Catarina Claes and Laios Touden.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_C7J4P0q6w

    Cells at Work live action movie trailer, interesting

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Okay, the twist in chapter 152 of Oshi no Ko was legit great.

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  • ElaroElaro Who am I? What do I want?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lars wrote: »
    Working on clearing my backlog, so I'm advancing through Frieren now. I just finished the episode where...
    ...29 years after the death of Himmel the hero, Frieren realizes that he essentially had proposed and given her an engagement ring.
    There's a reason she's in the running for Most (Socially) Dense Object Known To Anime Fandom opposite Catarina Claes and Laios Touden.

    Frieren
    She's only dense from a human perspective. A thousand-year old having spent the last 10 years of their life working with a specific team is proportionally equivalent to a 25 year-old being a teammate for 3 months. Or 4-ish months for a 35 year-old.

    I personally would not expect a proposal in that length of time.

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  • CaedwyrCaedwyr Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Some good local news

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/uber-lyft-door-dash-minimum-wage-1.7233199

    Starting in September, gig workers in BC are going to earn a minimum wage of $20.88 an hour.
    CBC wrote:
    Starting Sept. 3, anyone who accepts work through these and other gig-based apps, such as ride-hailing and delivery services, must receive $20.88 an hour from the time they accept an assignment to the time it is completed, the province says.

    Under the new rules, this is known as "engaged time." The pay standards are not applied to time spent waiting between jobs.

    The $20.88 figure is 20 per cent higher than B.C.'s minimum wage of $17.40 an hour in order to address the gaps between gigs, the government says. Like the minimum wage, it will be adjusted annually to keep up with inflation.

    Tips from people receiving the service do not count toward the earnings, and platforms will be required to pay any gaps in earnings that impact workers...

    Minimum pay is one of several new measures coming into effect in B.C. Other rules being introduced include:
    • All ride-hailing service and delivery workers will be covered through WorkSafeBC.
    • Companies will be required to see the location and estimated pay for a job before it is accepted.
    • If workers are suspended or deactivated from an app, companies must tell them why.
    • Companies must make sure 100 per cent of the tips paid by customers go directly to the worker responsible for the service.
    • Establish a 35- to 45-cent minimum per-kilometre vehicle allowance to help workers cover expenses.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    https://x.com/battleupsaber/status/1800930476808613983?s=46

    haven't seen anyone else mention this yet

    all the episode titles of the Sentai Daishikkaku (Ranger Reject) anime are all references to Sentai OPs or EDs

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    !!

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Delicious in Dungeon season 2 is now officially confirmed, as foretold by Senshi's panty shot.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I always get confused by these 2 cour seasons that get treated like 2 seasons running consecutively while the airing, and then called collectively "season 1" afterwards

    Spy X family for another example

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    It's even more confusing when it's a split cour and still referred to as a single season. Didn't Witch from Mercury do that? I think it's also rumored that Loser Ranger is going to do that too.

    At least consecutive cours harken back to the 24-26 episode series from when I was younger.

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  • Moth 13Moth 13 Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I just assume that if a "second season" airs six months later it's actually part of the same season and had to be split up because anime production is a trashfire right now.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    I will admit to also being generally confused by the concept of cours as different from seasons, because this isn't something that exists in Western TV. Like, an American show will frequently have a "mid season finale" and take a break before resuming, usually over a holiday, but those aren't two cours, they're just a scheduling break. The whole season was ordered at once

    I assume it's basically the same thing, just that anime is usually aired in blocks of ~12 episodes so they fit into the quarterly TV scheduling blocks and they call those blocks of 12 weeks cours

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    is the etymology of cour from "quarter"? I guess I assumed it was some french word they adopted

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    So will Delicious in Dungeon S2 air next year then? I only ask because my notion of seasons/release dates has been flipped head over heels by my recent return to the world of anime.

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  • Andy JoeAndy Joe We claim the land for the highlord! The AdirondacksRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    is the etymology of cour from "quarter"? I guess I assumed it was some french word they adopted

    The French "cours" is actually singular, but when English-speakers started using the word it was hypercorrected.

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  • PLAPLA The process.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Wikipedia suggests french "cours", german medical treatment period "Kur", or a misreading of english "qr.".

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Most people agree it likely comes from the French, but there's also an argument that it comes from 'qr' (English pseudo-loanword for quarterly) which is standard abbreviation in Japanese medical stuff.

    As for why it's like that, the answer is sitcoms, and that the stations have a much deeper control and investment over show production in Japan than in the US. Japan's broadcasting was on 6 month schedules. There was a first half of the fiscal year season, and the second half, and shows were typically reorged and whatnot between them. But soap operas/dramas got ultra popular in the 80s that the stations got super possessive about their popular actors jumping ship to another station, so they changed their format to lock them in for longer, but with breaks in within seasons for them to hit up the variety/talk show circuit, which also exploded around that time. They also generally stopped announcing how many episodes a show was going to run for in case it was canceled because cancellation was seen as a black mark.

    And anime's mostly aired at around midnight and the money it brings in is what the producers themselves pay the studios, not advertisement. It's not the money maker for any station, so they're going to be going by the production rules and setup of the big dogs in the TV industry.

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  • tinwhiskerstinwhiskers Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Companies will be required to see[show???] the location and estimated pay for a job before it is accepted.

    This one makes a lot of sense, but with stuff like that I always wonder if the end result will be good luck getting a ride to or from *select the minority areas of your city*.

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  • CaedwyrCaedwyr Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Companies will be required to see[show???] the location and estimated pay for a job before it is accepted.

    This one makes a lot of sense, but with stuff like that I always wonder if the end result will be good luck getting a ride to or from *select the minority areas of your city*.

    BC has a human rights tribunal that tends to come down pretty heavily on this type of discrimination, eventually. It isn't perfect, and there's still discrimination for sure, but generally this isn't as large of a problem as it is in other areas.

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  • CalicaCalica Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Caedwyr wrote: »
    Companies will be required to see[show???] the location and estimated pay for a job before it is accepted.

    This one makes a lot of sense, but with stuff like that I always wonder if the end result will be good luck getting a ride to or from *select the minority areas of your city*.

    BC has a human rights tribunal that tends to come down pretty heavily on this type of discrimination, eventually. It isn't perfect, and there's still discrimination for sure, but generally this isn't as large of a problem as it is in other areas.

    How would that work for gig workers, where it's the individual employees who are discriminating and the company can't really do much about it?

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  • CaedwyrCaedwyr Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Calica wrote: »
    Caedwyr wrote: »
    Companies will be required to see[show???] the location and estimated pay for a job before it is accepted.

    This one makes a lot of sense, but with stuff like that I always wonder if the end result will be good luck getting a ride to or from *select the minority areas of your city*.

    BC has a human rights tribunal that tends to come down pretty heavily on this type of discrimination, eventually. It isn't perfect, and there's still discrimination for sure, but generally this isn't as large of a problem as it is in other areas.

    How would that work for gig workers, where it's the individual employees who are discriminating and the company can't really do much about it?

    Essentially, employers are responsible for the behaviour of their employees. Based on previous cases, what would happen is there would be a judgment against Uber for example, and then it would be on Uber to deal with their employees.

    https://www.bchrt.bc.ca/human-rights-duties/services/#discrimination

    For a somewhat similar example under the Remedies section on the same site:

    https://www.bchrt.bc.ca/human-rights-duties/remedies/compensation/service/
    Belusic v. Yellow Cab of Victoria, 2018 BCHRT 81 ($7,500)

    Area: Service available to the public
    Grounds: Disability
    Discrimination: Taxi fare cancelled
    Expenses: $1,000 for expenses related to the complaint process

    The discrimination: Mr. Belusic is blind and requires a guide dog. He and his wife called a taxi and were waiting outside. The taxi arrived, but, contrary to company policy, the driver did not stop because he did not want a dog in the car.

    Vulnerability: Mr. Belusic is blind and relies on his guide dog for basic daily travel.

    Effect: Mr. Belusic had to wait for another taxi to arrive, but the discrimination had a huge impact on him. He felt publicly humiliated. Because of the incident and previous taxi service denials, he experiences anxiety when he calls for a taxi. He no longer waits outside for fear a driver will see the dog and drive away. It affected his confidence to travel independently.

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