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:cough: "Twins HinaHima" :cough: (Admittedly only about a third of a feature film in runtime, but that's close enough for me. However, I haven't been able to find any English-language information on just how much of the work the AI was responsible for.)

Nope, because he'll just move on to the next lame excuse. He's so ethically challenged that he won't even stay bought.

Actually, there is one other slight difference from your average reincarnation story: they actually tried to depict how it would really, really suck to be an infant with an adult mind . . . but confined to a crib and with no bowel or bladder control. That's something these stories usually try to gloss over.

You're assuming they're doing this in their free time. I wouldn't be surprised if they were being supported by foreign interests hiding behind a gofundme campaign—in other words, this is their job.

I guess "Temporary Housing for Workers is Temporary" doesn't make a sufficiently clickbait-y headline.

You've got a bunch of buildings, too large to be easily moved, in an awkward location where they're not very useful. You can't sell them because nobody wants them. So your options are to bulldoze them or let them decay in place. Period.

The article can't even seem to decide whether the disposal of these buildings is objectionable for environmental reasons or because it's a "waste of taxpayer money". (My guess is that the latter isn't true and that building them to minimum standards with the intention of writing them off was the cheapest thing to do at the time.) Should the environmental issues be more thoroughly considered for future, similar construction? Yes, but that doesn't help with the buildings that are already there.

It's also biased by location: the worst cities for overdose deaths are mostly in the north. In general, it seems Doug Ford would be happier if no one lived north of Lake Huron and Lake Superior. He's been demonstrating depraved indifference to conditions up here for a long time.

While I can't recall ever having seen the numbers, I believe we may have a fentanyl deficit with the US. I demand that Trump figure this into his bizarre and biased trade calculations!

I'm not sure that "to keep the same level of service" is a good metric. Some parts of the country are chronically underserved when it comes to government services, and the nature of required services may also shift over time. The need for government workers in areas like environmental oversight and fighting cybercrime has risen a lot in the past few decades.

Hmm. In the absence of something like bodycam footage, difficult to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there was anything more than a communications screwup going on here. Not pressing charges was probably the correct decision. That doesn't mean there was no wrongdoing (or that there was), just that hauling it into court with no chance of a conviction wouldn't have helped anyone.

The main lesson to be taken from this is that you probably shouldn't run off into the woods in winter without the correct clothing and equipment no matter who or what is chasing you. Ultimately, that's what killed this guy.

Probably the best possible result for everyone involved. I'll bet he was heavily pressured from inside the party as well as outside.

Silly awards time!

• Best dragon award: From Bureaucrat to Villainess. There was actually a decent amount of competition for this one this time, but cute little dual-elemental dragon won.
• Originality in hairstyling award: Zenshu, of course. With The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer as runner-up, because that elf with the afro (elfro?) was . . . memorable.
• Bad CGI horse award: Aparida. Unless I'm confusing it with the very similar Fugukan. The horses in that one episode were memorably bad, but the show itself is not very memorable at all. (And I seem to be using the word "memorable" way too much.)
• Rub-a-dub-dub award: Beheneko. I am in awe of how they managed to shoehorn a bath scene into every single episode, even if it was taking place entirely in a dungeon. Evidence that this is a show that knows it shouldn't take itself seriously, I guess.
• General hygiene award: Possibly the Greatest Alchemist of All Time. I dropped this a couple of episodes in, but was impressed that they directly tackled one of my top-ten reasons for not wanting to be isekai'd into a fantasy world: the flush toilet, or the lack thereof.
• Cognitive dissonance in costuming award: Ubel Blatt. Sorry, guys, but grimdark + scanty women's combat outfits that protect nothing has been a combination that won't fly for at least the past thirty years. Go watch Berserk about a dozen times for some pointers on how to do it right.

The Liberals are centrist, not left. They're right smack-dab in the middle of the Canadian political spectrum. The NDP and Greens are left.