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So everyone's favourite slime wasn't even worthy of an image this week. Alas, Rimuru . . .

Building out transit and infrastructure takes time. In the meanwhile, people still have to get places.

Unfortunately, all utilities are kind of slippery that way. They have a funny habit of overestimating your usage, then refunding you when they finally get around to actually reading your meter. Guess what they did with the interest on their ill-gotten gains in the meanwhile? This case is utterly ridiculous, though—usually they're skimming less than a third of the normal bill.

Hero Academia is embroiled in a season-long final showdown battle with the main baddies, so I'd expect it to thrash around a lot in the ratings.

Actually, he doesn't, since he's removing the duck (and shipping it off to DuckDuckGo for reuse, no doubt).

The important part is not building it, but convincing the world, alas.

That’s like being a die-hard Wonderbread fan.

Terrifyingly, I'm told those also exist.

I don't know why Wistoria is rated so highly here—I mean, it isn't awful, but it isn't terribly brilliant or original, either. Then again, nothing else I'm watching is on this list at all. So it may just be that my tastes overlap with the voters' even less than usual this season.

Speaking as someone who suffers from both conditions, captchas are not a significantly worse problem for depressed people than for others—they're impersonal, and while irritating, they set a fairly low bar for effort. Dealing with machines being machines is comparatively easy if you're able to make the effort to fill out the join-up form at all.

Asking someone for something, on the other hand, is high-effort for many depressed people for a couple of reasons:

1. It requires you to feel worthy of help, because if you're certain you're going to be refused, why bother trying? Depression and low self-worth tend to go hand in hand.

2. It requires you to risk refusal. Even if the other person's reason for refusing is neutral ("I no longer do that for anyone," for example), it can feed back into the depression and make it worse. Since this can hurt one hell of a lot, you learn not to ask.

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It's true that some people won't be able to scrape together enough interest or effort to pass even the captcha, but this alternative is much worse.

The issue with the group network version is that a few large corporations would end up taking it over. Again.

Must be the only cat in the world that wouldn't drop the needle and make off with the thread (or eat it and give you $$$ in vet bills).

Yeah, but you have to ask someone to do you a favour. That can be a major psychological barrier, especially for people with social phobia or depression (no joke).

On this planet, it seems that there is nothing so stupid that you won't find someone doing it, alas.