I would translate that as, “The people who fought harder to get into higher education value it more and actually want to learn, so they’re more likely to do their own work. The ones who are just there because it was kind of expected of them don’t care about learning and would be happy to just get handed the piece of paper.”
It’s kind of a shame that it’s the 407 and not the 402 that’s the toll road. Of course, even fewer people would get the joke there.
Standard procedure would be for the bill to go through several rewrites until the PM decides to do the Cabinet shuffle (the most boring dance in history) and the current Public Safety minister is moved to a different portfolio. Without a champion, the bill will then linger in committee until Parliament is prorogued (or dissolved for an election), which will then kill it. Or at least, that would be the ideal outcome at this point.
For example, Logseq has a fancy text field that can bring up a submenu if you type two left brackets. Something like this is pretty specific to Logseq (or at least certain notes apps) and this would be much harder to replicate in a native app.
Not something I would consider terribly hard to implement, but it would depend on the toolkit. A function for getting the text in a textbox and a callback to alert you to the fact that the user is typing is something I would expect to find in any modern GUI toolkit.
Or, to put it another way, supply chains. Our current technology was built up by making stuff to make stuff to make stuff to make stuff etc. If we suddenly lost access to modern factories, we might be able to hold on to late 19th/early 20th century (~WWI-era) tech. Move much past that, and you can no longer bootstrap yourself up in a reasonable time by starting with a talented blacksmith, a pole lathe, and some gumption—you need complex machinery, an electrical grid, and so on. (In the case of the Saturn V, we’ve lost just the last couple of layers of stuff-to-make-stuff. We could probably recover it if we really, really needed to, but it would be prohibitively expensive, and that’s without considering environmental controls and the like.)
It’s remarkable how much small stuff is vital and nearly impossible to make in reasonable amounts without a mechanized process (and perishable enough that you can’t keep them on shelves forever). Things like ball bearings and transistors. We don’t think about them much, but they’re vital for (respectively) modern mechanical and electronic technologies.
Plus, Japan isn’t exactly the most mineral-resource-rich country. They have little oil, no aluminum ore, only small amounts of iron and copper, and what’s left of their coal apparently isn’t of the best quality. It’s difficult to maintain much technology without at least some resources.
They’ve maybe regressed a little further than strictly necessary in this show, but not by much.
(What bothers me more is that they have food supply issues, and yet they apparently reserve a fair amount of land for growing . . . tobacco. Not exactly the smartest decision.)
Sounds kinda fishy? :rimshot:
Seriously, though, I don’t think we’ve yet had an instance of cross-gender reincarnation in this. Whether that’s just coincidence, or it’s an actual law of the world, I don’t know.
Although, to be fair, there are likely some costumers among Bambu’s customers, since 3D printing cosplay props is definitely a Thing.
Stein’s;Gate—talk about a slow starter (and I was watching it when it first came out, meaning I was waiting a week between episodes). I came pretty close to dropping it before it finally picked up the pace.
Even the main character now thinks there are too many meetings. 😅
Unfortunately, human beings really can be that heartless (see: all of human history to date). We’re very good at convincing ourselves that people who don’t meet some arbitrary standard are less than human. It all depends on how dark they want to take this.
They really should have specified “high fantasy” or something here, to justify excluding urban fantasy, steampunk, and the like.
It would also have been nice if they’d specified which version of a couple of the older series—Lodoss OAV reasonably belongs on such a list, but Lodoss TV not so much, in my opinion. And we won’t even get into Berserk.
Just what did you do this time?
We’re unlikely to find out until he recovers his memory, alas, and that’s going to take several episodes (at a guess).
A lot of people hate winter, so I could imagine people hating on someone who’s able to summon it.
The most likely general reason seems like it would be internal power struggles, though. We’ve already seen the ones at the Spring village, and they probably exist elsewhere as well. Don’t like the current Envoy or their factional relationships? Kill them and take another spin at the roulette wheel. Maybe it’ll come out in your favour this time.
Pretty sure you can be charged with something if you do it on purpose and just leave it there. Littering, maybe.
Actually, it would probably be more appropriate for the municipal website to display the location of any vehicles he owns, and what speed they’re travelling at if they’re in motion, at all times. Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, and all that. Automated software that watches the page and tickets him every time he exceeds the speed limit is optional, but recommended. Additional intrusive software on his phone that tickets him if he uses it while driving is also optional but recommended.
Well, yeah, that goes without saying. Also, he was wearing a dog mascot costume when he died in the first ep.
Faraway Paladin comes to mind.
That was the thought that also crossed my mind. The happy-go-lucky personality seems like a perfect match.
Mouretsu Pirates, AKA Bodacious Space Pirates, I think.
Hmm. A couple of older suggestions, then. First, The Slayers, which is a comedic fantasy series. Second, Kyo Kara Maoh, an isekai series that ran a decade or more before the term “isekai” was coined, also on the lighter side. Be warned that one of the gags is that the (male) protagonist ends up accidentally engaged to another male character, although nothing much ever comes of it, so if that kind of thing bothers you, give that one a pass. Those should keep you busy for a little while—I can’t remember how many eps KKM ran to, but Slayers was 104 plus OAVs, movies, and miscellanea.