They obviously need to design cleaning robots and rat-catching robots and repair robots to support the delivery robots. I mean, we could have an entire robot ecology here, living unnoticed under the city streets.

Anyone else remember the export crypto nonsense with early web browsers? This is going to work about as well.

Silly awards time! (I missed this last season because I was recovering from bronchitis—mea culpa.)

• Worst subtitles award: Snowball Earth. Rendering incoherent noises (including incoherent monster noises) as "Bach!" because there's a plosive at the beginning has got to be a new low. I presume an LLM went rogue. (And the runner-up would be whatever series keeps using "rouge" where it clearly means "rogue", but I'm blanking on which one it is.)
• Worst name localization award: Yuusha no Rokkotsu de, whose localized name I steadfastly refuse to use.
• Most interesting animation award: Also Yuusha no Rokkotsu de—I can't now remember how many different styles they ran through.
• Most unusual character design choices: Nippon Sangoku. The only other series I can think of that's even remotely comparable is Hyouge Mono, although that had less beard stubble and more odd historical Japanese hairstyles.
• Best dragon award: Himekishi no Barbaroi Yome, narrowly edging out The Beginning After the End due to at least one decently original design. (Reincarnated as a Slime, on the other hand, actually managed to tweak my bad-CGI-dragon meter at one point).
• Most ridiculously melodramatic: Shunkashuutou Daikousha. I'm pretty good at suspension of disbelief, usually, but that phone call was just too much.
• Unexpectedly fun award: Nigetsuri. I almost skipped this altogether, and went in not expecting much, but I enjoyed spending time with Mimi.
• Most edible protagonist: Niwatori Fighter, naturally. (I'm still in awe of how they managed to embed this in a season that—between Yuusha no Rokkotsu de and everyone's favourite vending machine—made martial artist chickens fighting kaijuu look positively normal.)

The difference between the 65+ bracket and the 50-64 bracket in the original data is larger than the gap between 50-64 and 30-49 on every chart I've examined so far (where they're broken out by age), so the real break is at retirement. Which makes sense: retirees are less likely to be forced into proximity with LLMs whether they want to be or not. (Interestingly, the older demographics are also less likely to think they have enough control over interactions with "AI".)

they should be forced to build their own infrastructure to support it (no idea what that looks like for delivery robots)

Tunnels, at least in heavily populated areas. They already make pipes that should be big enough. It might require a slight redesign of the bots so that they can "climb the wall" a short distance to pass each other, and maybe extend/retract some bits depending on whether they're inside or out, but my heart would not exactly bleed over the money spent. And they'd be out of sight, out of mind most of the time for the rest of us.

"Uniform" can be a bit fungible, though. For instance, the GG may have to attend ultraformal events as part of their job. Is a tux or formal evening gown a "uniform" if it's required by dress code for their job, and they have no use for it outside their job, are unlikely to need it at a future job, and wouldn't otherwise buy it?

I'd have no problem with that, within reason. I doubt many other people would either.

I expect you'd have to start with one of those binocular magnifiers. And the smallest soldering iron tip in history.

Grimgar is quite an intersting choice—older, obscure, downbeat single-cours isekai. Maybe the listmaker read the LNs?

I'd add The Twelve Kingdoms, and possibly The Slayers and Kyo Kara Maoh! to this (there's plenty in both to explore, but both sometimes drop something silly for purely comedic purposes, like the vegetarian sharks).

Is that because fingerprinting protection “works to good” or is broken? You tell me!

Speaking as a user of a different minority browser, if a check that is designed to pass ordinary human beings using ordinary browsers in a non-abusive manner blocks one instead, it's broken, and Cloudflare should be pressured to fix it.

Definitely an Ignobel Prize contender.

Might not be quite what you want, but I'll throw in a rec for Zipang: A modern (well, modern twenty years ago) Japanese SDF patrol boat is thrown back in time to the Battle of Midway in World War II. They're eventually forced to take sides whether they want to or not, with the additional issue that their weapons are advanced enough to take out anything on the ocean during that time period, even as they're trying very hard not to change history. (This series has two problems: first, it has a case of Unfinished Manga Syndrome and so ends in the middle of the story, and second, it wasn't negative enough on Japan's behaviour during the war for some non-Japanese audiences.)

There are also some less-regarded mecha shows like Argento Soma that might fit.

What do you mean by this? Not enough light on Japanese’s atrocities ?

Might have been that (as far as I can recall, the characters were never in the correct place at the correct time to see most of the evilest stuff), might have been just that the original mangaka was trying for a more nuanced view of the war and so didn't depict the higher-level Japanese officers as monsters. To be honest, I don't remember exactly—most of that discussion took place around the time the series first came out.

They've been up here since the 19th century, mostly at the larger universities, but they aren't in the news much because they don't cause the level of trouble the American ones do.

It's niche hardware: a smartphone in a flip-phone formfactor (with a headphone jack). Of course they're not producing them for <$100. Ars Technica costed out other phones in a similar market category ( last paragraph here ) and by that standard it's middle-priced, or a bit above.

I suspect they're jumping on your use of the word "retarded", since some see using it as an insult as a slur against people with intellectual disabilities. (They also can't spell "casually" and substituted a word with quite a different meaning, which makes it even tougher to decode what they're saying.)

The word "University" is visible in the blurry type at the top of the badge. So he can probably wear just about anything—he'll merely be mistaken for a student most of the time.

Well, it probably doesn't pay very well—just room and board.

The site formerly known as Twitter would be more respectable these days if it were a porn site.

Would everyone who is surprised by this please raise your hand? . . . That's what I thought.