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2018-07-17 00:06:48 UTC [Subverse #general]  

Maybe. Uganda would have a favorable exchange rate on US dollars. A reasonable indiegogo could be a huge spark in Uganda.

2018-07-17 00:07:05 UTC [Subverse #general]  

DBZ (really Pokemon) is the point it started to go mainstream.

2018-07-17 00:07:35 UTC [Subverse #general]  

Bravestarr, He-Man (and the other really campy cartoons of the 80s) were often animated overseas in Japan to save money.

2018-07-17 00:07:54 UTC [Subverse #general]  

But then they took their skills and started making their own stuff.

2018-07-17 00:08:08 UTC [Subverse #general]  

And it took off (because it did things western cartoons wouldn't).

2018-07-17 00:08:22 UTC [Subverse #general]  

That would do it.

2018-07-17 00:09:30 UTC [Subverse #general]  

Speed Racer is Japan original.

2018-07-17 00:10:07 UTC [Subverse #general]  

But the history of how the US outsourced production to Japan and it led to the creation of the anime industry is interesting in it's own way.

2018-07-17 00:10:20 UTC [Subverse #general]  

If only for the irony that many Japanese companies are now outsourcing to Korea.

2018-07-17 00:25:45 UTC [Subverse #general]  

Anime has a huge problem where most of it is just not that good.

2018-07-17 00:26:01 UTC [Subverse #general]  

The decline of the import filter kinda hurt western perceptions, IMO.

2018-07-17 00:26:13 UTC [Subverse #general]  

My favorite (by far) is Serial Experiments Lain.

2018-07-17 00:26:54 UTC [Subverse #general]  

Oh geez. I remember being curious about both of those. Until I watched one episode apiece.

2018-07-17 00:27:12 UTC [Subverse #general]  

I still don't see the charm.

2018-07-17 00:27:44 UTC [Subverse #general]  

Bleach was just a bunch of cutaways of different charcters saying one line a piece for half an hour. It must have been a fairly late season. They had alot of characters.

2018-07-17 00:28:25 UTC [Subverse #general]  

I can back up Shin Sekai Yori. It's a good choice.

2018-07-17 00:29:54 UTC [Subverse #general]  

Alot of people say it was good. But I never got it.

2018-07-17 00:30:08 UTC [Subverse #general]  

I was watching the episodes out of order though, so that may have had an effect.

2018-07-17 00:30:48 UTC [Subverse #general]  

What. some of us watched this stuff on Adult Swim back in the day.

2018-07-17 00:31:27 UTC [Subverse #general]  

Aesthetic is always good.

2018-07-17 00:31:59 UTC [Subverse #general]  

It sometimes works.

2018-07-17 00:32:19 UTC [Subverse #general]  

I mean, I watched Casshern sins out of order and got most of it.

2018-07-17 00:32:34 UTC [Subverse #general]  

You can watch most superhero anime out of order and enjoy it.

2018-07-17 00:32:53 UTC [Subverse #general]  

*monogatari might even be more amusing out of order.

2018-07-17 00:33:11 UTC [Subverse #general]  

Abstract isn't really enough to make it out-of-order watchable though.

2018-07-17 00:33:17 UTC [Subverse #general]  

I'd never watch Lain out of order.

2018-07-17 00:33:57 UTC [Subverse #general]  

Actually, isn't it filmed not in chronological order already?

2018-07-17 00:34:23 UTC [Subverse #general]  

KNK gives you dates and hints though.

2018-07-17 00:34:47 UTC [Subverse #general]  

lol.

2018-07-17 00:36:44 UTC [Subverse #general]  

Where does one find D E E N?

2018-07-17 00:37:15 UTC [Subverse #general]  

I mean, where would one watch it.

2018-07-17 00:37:21 UTC [Subverse #general]  

It's like mythically bad or something.

2018-07-17 00:37:56 UTC [Subverse #general]  

TBH, I didn't like UBW that much.

2018-07-17 00:40:41 UTC [Subverse #general]  

Gits 1995 is a classic and remains so.

2018-07-17 00:40:45 UTC [Subverse #general]  

Worth a watch.

2018-07-17 00:41:12 UTC [Subverse #general]  

GiTS: SAC can be a little slow at times and lacks the atmosphere. But it's still good (possibly better) on it's own merits

2018-07-17 00:41:38 UTC [Subverse #general]  

GiTS: Arise is relatively lacking, but a nice entry if you can avoid spending lots of money to see it.

2018-07-17 00:44:59 UTC [Subverse #general]  

Rumor is that in the original manga she takes a body based off a "westerner" anyways.

Not only was it a dumb thing to get hung up on to start with, it may have been accurate to the original source.

2018-07-17 00:45:19 UTC [Subverse #general]  

Which would have made it go from banal to simply incorrect.

2018-07-17 00:45:45 UTC [Subverse #general]  

Yeah, the whole point of GiTS is human versus machine anyway.

2018-07-17 00:46:33 UTC [Subverse #general]  

People looking for excuses to get angry.

2018-07-17 00:47:38 UTC [Subverse #general]  

Increasingly, Hollywood can't even do that.

2018-07-17 00:47:49 UTC [Subverse #general]  

And when they do they get criticized for making it.

2018-07-17 00:48:05 UTC [Subverse #general]  

Hollywood needs to be rebuilt, IMO.

2018-07-17 00:48:26 UTC [Subverse #general]  

who?

2018-07-17 00:49:35 UTC [Subverse #general]  

Makes sense.

2018-07-17 00:51:17 UTC [Subverse #general]  

That's very much what it is.

2018-07-17 00:51:37 UTC [Subverse #general]  

I remember as a kid in school we were basically raised to idolize the yuppies and hippies of the 60s liberation movements.

2018-07-17 00:52:04 UTC [Subverse #general]  

So now the young want to make their liberation movement and are instead punching at phantoms.

2018-07-17 00:52:43 UTC [Subverse #general]  

Oh man. That's bad. Which uni?

2018-07-17 00:53:12 UTC [Subverse #general]  

The one nearest me requires all students in the arts and sciences to take a class in race, gender or oppression. And it's an ivy (not Brown)

2018-07-17 00:54:19 UTC [Subverse #general]  

What? I know the new graduates these days are ignorant of history, but opposed to WWII docs? I don't buy it.

2018-07-17 00:55:06 UTC [Subverse #general]  

That's just dumb. Either real life has eaten the onion or you guys are pulling legs here.

2018-07-17 00:55:33 UTC [Subverse #general]  

@JULZIFICATOR ...That's sadly very plausible in my experience.

2018-07-17 00:55:55 UTC [Subverse #general]  

I just wanted to figure out what caused the rise of Trump and made some Facebook posts. Now no one follows me anymore.

2018-07-17 00:56:15 UTC [Subverse #general]  

I think I got blocked.

2018-07-17 00:56:49 UTC [Subverse #general]  

OMG. That's insane. Even the part where no one can decide if it's sexist or not.

2018-07-17 00:58:39 UTC [Subverse #general]  

Yeah, reading primary sources should be the assumption.

2018-07-17 00:58:55 UTC [Subverse #general]  

And that means reading stuff that may be detestable.

2018-07-17 01:01:06 UTC [Subverse #general]  

China, I'm told, has created whole Female-only spaces (like: cities).

And then I'm told they decided to push traditionalism recently and the government trying to push women into the home.

2018-07-17 01:01:27 UTC [Subverse #general]  

Don't have good sources on either of those (take it with a grain of salt) but that's the rumor if anyone wants to confirm.

2018-07-17 01:02:43 UTC [Subverse #general]  

Alot of the traditional divisions make sense.

2018-07-17 01:03:11 UTC [Subverse #general]  

You wouldn't want creepy guys looking for intercourse with a bunch of nude women.

2018-07-17 01:04:47 UTC [Subverse #general]  

LOL. That's actually kinda funny. Who comes up with these things? "women can't park so we're not going to let them park here" "woman parks there and takes a picture"

2018-07-17 01:05:32 UTC [Subverse #general]  

And it's increasingly automated anyway.

2018-07-17 01:05:57 UTC [Subverse #general]  

I will say I see alot of new drivers. They...probably shouldn't park in a space like that.

2018-07-17 01:06:14 UTC [Subverse #general]  

You have to have some low-speed practice to park reliably.

2018-07-17 01:06:38 UTC [Subverse #general]  

That's the point.

2018-07-17 01:06:44 UTC [Subverse #general]  

It's nonsense.

2018-07-17 01:07:17 UTC [Subverse #general]  

and if you aren't you'll find out pretty quick and probably make sure you don't make that mistake again.

2018-07-17 01:07:31 UTC [Subverse #general]  

And you'll get a nice fat, expensive, reminder.

2018-07-17 01:19:14 UTC [Subverse #general]  

Where is this?

2018-07-17 01:21:13 UTC [Subverse #general]  

I'm not looking forward to the demise of cars.

I like the freedom of just leaving.

2018-07-17 01:21:26 UTC [Subverse #general]  

And fixing and maintaining them is a nice distraction on the weekends.

2018-07-17 01:25:57 UTC [Subverse #general]  

That's actually scary. Imagine what a motivated third party could do tot he neural net before you reformatted your mind?

2018-07-17 01:30:20 UTC [Subverse #general]  

*sigh* does Mother Jones still claim to be the paper for the journalists?

2018-07-17 01:34:52 UTC [Subverse #general]  

Does anyone care about spelling in forums anymore? I still remember when intentional misspelling was a meme.

2018-07-17 01:37:43 UTC [Subverse #general]  

In other news, I had some videos queued up and saw Tim's video on Minds. Is anyone on it and have an opinion?

2018-07-17 01:42:12 UTC [Subverse #general]  

It's too dangerous for major issues in my opinion.

Too easy to potentially manipulate.

2018-07-17 01:42:31 UTC [Subverse #general]  

And if there's anything of value at stake, interested parties WILL find a way to compromise the process.

2018-07-17 01:42:51 UTC [Subverse #general]  

At the very least, in person voting is a small barrier to some forms of manipulation.

2018-07-17 01:44:03 UTC [Subverse #general]  

You could make a similar argument for voting by mail, but that's got a bit more control involved because ballots are usually mailed by the sec. of state, which helps limit potential abuse.

2018-07-17 01:46:14 UTC [Subverse #general]  

Personally, I think most US elections are too easy to vote in already. And there are districts where the number of registered votes exceeds the number of residents already.

2018-07-17 01:46:30 UTC [Subverse #general]  

One proposal I've seen is to mandate that electronic voting machines require physical tickets as a record.

2018-07-17 01:46:36 UTC [Subverse #general]  

Which seems like a good idea to me.

2018-07-17 01:47:17 UTC [Subverse #general]  

And when the potential to manipulate elections presents itself, people will manipulate them. Heck, 4Chan manipulates online polls just because it can.

2018-07-17 01:51:03 UTC [Subverse #general]  

SSN would be very easy to compromise, IMO. In the US we don't have government IDs beyond that either.

I've seen government security. I wouldn't trust it to get a ballot to everyone who needs it and still be robust enough to not be compromised by some intelligence service somewhere.

2018-07-17 01:51:10 UTC [Subverse #general]  

Offense > defense.

2018-07-17 01:52:57 UTC [Subverse #general]  

You'd have to do something better.

2018-07-17 01:53:10 UTC [Subverse #general]  

If it's cards you could easily start by intercepting the cards or reverse engineering the numbers.

2018-07-17 01:53:37 UTC [Subverse #general]  

You might make an argument if you had RSA tokens or something.

2018-07-17 01:54:08 UTC [Subverse #general]  

But I've seen enough stuff get compromised I wouldn't trust 300 mil RSA tokens to be a workable defense against a determined opponent.

2018-07-17 01:54:44 UTC [Subverse #general]  

And you match the numbers to the records. Yeah, but how are you making the numbers.

2018-07-17 01:55:00 UTC [Subverse #general]  

There's going to inevitably be a pattern (the people who run these things tend to be lazy)

2018-07-17 01:55:07 UTC [Subverse #general]  

And you just have to figure it out.

2018-07-17 01:55:28 UTC [Subverse #general]  

It doesn't even have to be 100% decoded, just enough to flip a couple strategic locations.

2018-07-17 01:55:59 UTC [Subverse #general]  

If you talk with people in digital security they'll tell you to assume you've been compromised from the start.

2018-07-17 01:56:26 UTC [Subverse #general]  

And you have to keep things simple enough non-technical people can figure it out.

2018-07-17 01:57:37 UTC [Subverse #general]  

And credit card information gets leaked all the time from various hacker collectives and rogue agents.

2018-07-17 01:58:31 UTC [Subverse #general]  

Maybe. But what's the difference between that and electronic voting machines?

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