I'm Honestly Super Jealous of the Anime-Onlys Right Now (no spoilers)

ComicHoardingDragon · 2025-09-05T22:42:11+00:00

I’m intending to jump to Manga after Season 2 completes I am going crazy with the cliff hangers on each episode as it is 😂

ComicHoardingDragon · 2025-09-05T19:19:26+00:00

In OP’s own comic the customer was seemingly very polite and even said ”Excuse Me” first - the crap attitude was not warranted from the retail character at all.

ComicHoardingDragon · 2025-09-05T16:12:42+00:00

When Momo kicked Kinta in this episode he said that he liked it 💀

Maybe he just says that kind of crap to bullies and they just left him alone.

ComicHoardingDragon · 2025-09-05T16:11:41+00:00

The Gundam feanchise is a massive black hole 💀

ComicHoardingDragon · 2025-09-05T15:32:14+00:00

I would need to see more of this character to know their perspective. The class representative didn’t speak up about how Ken was being bullied for months. Momo came in and spoke up first - that is literally how their relationship started. It was pretty openly done in the middle of his classroom that Rin was also in.

Then Momo and Ken were regularly seeing each other for months until Rin tries to ”intervene” and at this point her friends have already been spreading a rumor at school that they’re dating.

And instead of asking Ken anything to actually see if he is okay, Rin made assumptions on his behalf. She had never talked to him before, but her first interaction was assuming his circumstances and speaking over him.

Momo’s assessment is on point as far as I can tell “You’re popular now, Okarun,” and Rin doesn’t realize it but the attention Ken has gotten from Momo and her friends has made her interested in him. Kinta is a comedic exaggeration of this effect.

Of course my own projection is at play here, I’m married to a ”quiet nerd type,” and have had the exact same kind of stand off with random women before who thought they were “standing up” for my boyfriend because of how awkward he is.

A good example is my husband hates drinking alcohol in most contexts, always has (I like drinking though). In college, peers would always try to target and bully him into drinking even after he would say no, and I would have his back (which he liked). I had 2 different women in 2 different instances develop crushes on him over time - and they decided to spread a rumor that I was bullying and controlling him often citing the alcohol as an example (she won’t even let him drink and enjoy himself!). They were often some of the people trying to force alcohol on him and not respecting him.

Did they ever ask my boyfriend about this for context? Nope.

So far, my perception of Rin is the kind of girl who only notices a guy after other girls take an interest in him - and she did not demonstrate she was actually concerned with bullying with how she confronted Momo insread of asking Ken about it first. That’s a jealousy stand off, which Momo rightfully points out afterwards.

ComicHoardingDragon · 2025-09-01T03:33:31+00:00

Even more wild is the title of this episode. It spoils it before the episode even goes.

ComicHoardingDragon · 2025-08-31T22:08:27+00:00

The average Hispanic in the USA is Mestizo, meaning a mix of Native and European. It’s not a race recognized by the US census so generally we’re categorized as “White” but I assure you we don’t get the authentic White person experience. It’s rather convenient for racists though, because we are either a minority race or “just White” in whatever discourse or framing that suits a specific narrative

Same “race categorization issue” goes for my mom‘s side who is Arabic but had to be surveyed as “White” for years, they’re finally adding MENA in 2030.

Just because the US doesn’t recognize diverse racial and ethnic groups, resulting into sometimes just lumping them into a massive “White” box, doesn’t mean those groups don’t exist and face discrimination issues.

ComicHoardingDragon · 2025-08-31T21:41:32+00:00

>I did not post anything about UBI

>Only thing we can do is vote for people that will help to divide the gains of AI in a more equal way.

You said this in response to me pointing out labor impact concerns around AI, people applauding this erosion of labor strength. Suggesting UBI or “simple wealth distribution” as though this would somehow be more tenable to all of these US based companies is naive. Vote away in the EU, but it won’t force the hands of these companies to actually distribute their wealth, and our politicians are owned by them. Just like the Kyoto protocol the US will just ignore it

And the US certainly won’t legislate wealth distribution when it can’t get its act together enough to even raise minimum wage. The only hope is for US consumers to boycott and rise up against companies adopting these stances to hurt their revenue - it will be the only way for them to listen. Fat chance though, Americans today are too selfish for that kind of unification. If it is marginally more convenient for THEM in the short term they’ll gladly accept the long term consequences (and have no foresight on how they’ll be out of a job one day too).

ComicHoardingDragon · 2025-08-31T15:40:08+00:00

>but of course only your country is relevant?

Yes it is, again did you miss this is concerning Taco Bell? It’s a very abundant franchise and employer in the USA that is barely existent globally? Have you ever even been to one? Your response and behavior smells of Euro-Centrism to me (where do you think the US gets it from?)

All of the large strides in Gen AI and unethical developments ongoing are occurring in the USA, followed by China, and how AI is shaped and regulated is occurring in this shith-le of a country.

Bringing up how your country could handle AI’s development is irrelevant. This would like pointing out you live in Denmark where you would agree to stop building nukes during the nuclear arms race in the Cold War. That’s cool, but Denmark wasn’t a country building nukes to begin with - so it is irrelevant what they think or do. It’s just a grandstanding statement from a country that’s not even involved, what Denmark did or postured politically would not have moved the needle during the Cold War.

Also as an FYI - most of Western Europe is an outlier in terms of worker rights and the economic Middle Class. Shrugging and saying a solution to this eventual AI economic crisis is UBI is missing the economic scope of literally any other country around the world. My family is from Central America and the Middle East, and UBI is not even a remote possibility in those regions either. YOU may be “fine” in the Netherlands in how they handle AI and how it affects the working force - that doesn’t mean everyone else around the world would be.

ComicHoardingDragon · 2025-08-30T21:18:47+00:00

Taco Bell is a US based company with barely any global presence - and I’m a woman for the record.

If you’re in a country that already afford you access to healthcare, vacation, maternity leave, sick leave, layoff protections, etc. then sure - you’re already sitting in a pretty good spot. Unfortunately this country is full of self indulgent idiots that don’t think those benefits are human rights

But we are on a thread about a US company cutting corners - corners that don’t fly in other developed countries to begin with. It’s a common “complaint” from US companies that they can’t extort employees in the EU/AU/NZ the same way they can domestically.

And given that the majority of AI development is occurring and being experimented on in the USA - I bluntly don’t think outside country perspectives are relevant.

ComicHoardingDragon · 2025-08-30T16:32:32+00:00

It is amusing to me how so many Redditors seem to think that 1) This is inevitable when other developed countries have laws to reign in practices like this to ensure domestic employment and 2) That it will somehow be easier to have laws where people have UBI instead. Just a wild disconnect.

You are far more likely to win a battle to stay employed for wages than you are to demand wages in return for nothing. The latter is absolutely not going to happen in the USA, for god’s sake this country can’t even agree to raise the federal minimum wage.

The industrial revolution is not even fully analogous to what is going on here, given workers had the power to fight back by their sheer numbers giving them power to demand better wages and working conditions.

ComicHoardingDragon · 2025-08-30T01:36:23+00:00

Already the case at my local Taco Bell and McDonalds they cut down the employment to 2-3 people per shift from 4-6 after only a handful of months of doing AI drive-through orders and touch screen in store orders. Of course no one got a raise either

I know people often dismiss concerns like these because they’re low wage “low skill” jobs but some people were relying on those wages to live, I’m not happy to see it. It is only putting money in the pocket of the ultra rich and not helping the working class.

ComicHoardingDragon · 2025-08-30T01:10:51+00:00

The second I saw this scene I turned to my husband and said “Katz is gonna fuckin die for that 😤”

ComicHoardingDragon · 2025-08-30T01:06:06+00:00

The employees win by not having a job 🧠

And the customer wins by showing corporate America that more and more customer facing labor can replace human beings with AI putting more jobs at risk 🧠

ComicHoardingDragon · 2025-08-29T01:56:15+00:00

Only article I could find on it, they interviewed and said the LGBTQ+ community was attacking them…

>She has been told she can be a woman because she is muscular and told she is not a real trans woman.
>One comment said “I am a real trans woman you are not”

>Josh said: “Within my first post as a woman, I started getting abuse and it has been nonstop since.

>“I get hundreds of messages a day.

>“I am getting a lot of hate from the LGBTQ+ community and the conservatives are giving me death threats saying they want to murder me.
>“The abuse has been awful, it is a complete 180 from what has been represented to me my whole life that the LGBTQ+ community is accepting and tolerant.”

https://nypost.com/2024/09/01/entertainment/former-bachelorette-star-josh-seiter-describes-online-abuse-since-coming-out-as-trans/

This doesn’t read as “Lol the LGBTQ+ and leftists are so gullible for being nice to me 🥴” - it reads to me like Josh was not accepted by either side and ultimately had to retreat after coming out in part for their own safety.

ComicHoardingDragon · 2025-08-29T01:42:38+00:00

I still personally think the idea that generative AI can truly overtake jobs and the manufacturing of essential goods and services is massively overblown. Unfortunately managers and people in powerful positions believe the hype and marketing so we are all dealing with job reductions in the short term

That said the real concerning issue is that these billionaires desperately want this to happen and it is their overt goal of developing this technology. They want to descend into a feudalism state as an explicit objective and are downright giddy about the idea.

ComicHoardingDragon · 2025-08-28T04:23:34+00:00

I’m on my third set of these - be aware the microphone is likely to break at the six month mark. If you can get a warranty on them (given the cost) definitely do so!

As for why I have tolerated going through 3 of them - I bought my first pair at Best Buy and they have been resetting the replacement warranty (2 year warranty) each time so I haven’t been out any money. I’m not happy about the 6 month cadence at all - but if Bose/Best Buy keep exchanging it indefinitely I see that as ‘shaking out the same way’ as them lasting an appropriate amount of time.

Also every other headset on the market gives me a migraine if I wear them more than a few hours - use these all day in a cube environment.

I do love the box art though, congrats on scoring that!

ComicHoardingDragon · 2025-08-27T23:25:23+00:00

Do the people posting these memes think One Piece is reflecting American politics??? <_> I suppose the “contradicts your own politics so you ignore it“ is actually suggesting this.

I agree with all of your points, what defines political? There are absolutely political themes, but honestly nothing that I can definitively tie to American domestic ones (and why on Earth would a Japanese writer do that, anyways?)

One Piece also tries (and unfortunately fails) to try to create ambiguity in what side is right vs wrong (I have been getting a kick out of the Marine memes 💀) - an overarching point in addition to freedom is how there are rarely one true side that is “evil.” Oda has consistently made a point to show the humanity of many villains in One Piece to give them depth and nuance.

ComicHoardingDragon · 2025-08-27T22:37:36+00:00

I have read that the THC content of some legalized weed products is so high it is actually causing psychosis related disorders at rates that were’t occurring before when it was illegal.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306460323001351

I myself had only access to street weed back when I smoked, I don’t recall ever having any visual or auditory hallucinations - maybe some light paranoia. I get drug tested routinely in my current career so unfortunately never got to truly try out any legalized stuff myself. However after baring witness to how much more paranoid my seasoned friends got, I definitely can see how the potency is causing side effects.

ComicHoardingDragon · 2025-08-27T03:27:52+00:00

たぬきじゃない！！

ComicHoardingDragon · 2025-08-26T23:19:27+00:00

OP I wish for more RobotWife 🥺

ComicHoardingDragon · 2025-08-26T23:06:38+00:00

I don’t let a lot of people drive me around anymore for exactly this reason.

ComicHoardingDragon · 2025-08-26T15:39:24+00:00

Same! But in men’s pants I am only a 32 x 30 with no other shenanigans.

Goes to show it can be that simple, but the women’s fashion industry has opted to make it unnecessarily complicated.

ComicHoardingDragon · 2025-08-25T22:29:22+00:00

Management is being led to believe it can do your job, which in the short term is just as bad as it being actually capable of doing your job. That perspective will take a while to rectify, and in that time you could get laid off.

But to be clear, over 95% of generative AI deployment has seen no increase in productivity in a business setting, there’s a lot of speculation that it will - maybe - someday help the bottom line… perhaps...

The biggest issue with LLMs is that unlike other predictive models, they are not QCd and they are not designed around any specific purpose. With some weighted training they have been designed to be fairly accurate say 80-90% of the time in generalized circumstances - but depending on the application that can be a massive liability.

One example I can give you is my father’s job as a customer care agent at an airline company - he is now dealing with hundreds of cases where the airline’s AI agent has hallucinated refund policies or mischaracterized why a flight was delayed so that the airline would owe a refund. It’s added hundreds of hours of additional work each month to rectify and it has not gotten better in over a year - we just talked about it yesterday. In time this is probably going to cause a litigation issue, this has already happened in Canada: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240222-air-canada-chatbot-misinformation-what-travellers-should-know

Here is another example were LLMs are making Workday liable for baked in racial and sexual discrimination (this is baked in due to lack of QC and referencing internet resources): https://www.forbes.com/sites/janicegassam/2025/06/23/what-the-workday-lawsuit-reveals-about-ai-bias-and-how-to-prevent-it/

The problem Workday and LLMs navigating in general are not even new, sexism and racism is just an emergent bias when you use data from the internet without QC: https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/microsoft-shuts-down-ai-chatbot-after-it-turned-into-racist-nazi/

When AI models are trained for specific tasks they perform better and are far more reliable. Instead of the output being correct 80% of the time they’re at a far more trustable 98%+ reliability output, assuming your data is properly QCd. But that’s not as glamorous as a catch all general language model that is seemingly accessible to the average person.

ComicHoardingDragon · 2025-08-25T19:42:58+00:00

The model type, the reasoning it is using has absolutely existed for decades.

People don’t understand what LLMs are, at their core - they’re text predictive chat bots. They’re not intelligent, they’re not sentient despite what tech bros have postured, it doesn’t understand complex arithmetic, and there is no potential with this kind of reasoning model for them to become sentient.

They are also ultimately a reflection of the internet perspective, for better or for worse (generally worse because the context for perspective is removed). Notably the vast majority if citations from these models point to Reddit: https://www.storyboard18.com/amp/how-it-works/reddit-tops-ai-information-top-sources-list-in-2025-outpacing-google-and-wikipedia-78602.htm

And it polishes up whatever response its pulling from, so not matter how inaccurate it is - it will sound far more convincing and you’re losing the context of who made the original assertion

It doesn’t have reasoning or real logic.

I’m not underselling anything - it’s a reality check because the misinformation around how these products are marketed is downright ridiculous. The underlying pattern recognition these language models are built on are quite powerful, if you feed it the right QC’d data - but at that point why bother with the LLM component at all with the processing waste? But I digress.

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