Oyster farmers are worried the parasite multinucleate sphere unknown — also known as MSX — will destroy the industry, which has sustained their families for generations, Bob MacLeod, president of the P.E.I. Shellfish Association, told a legislature committee on Thursday.
“We have participated in more than 100 meetings since July, addressing the hurdles, concerns, frustrations resulting from the MSX invasion,” he said. “We have appealed for assistance time and time again, explaining that the longer we wait for action, the sooner we may lose our industry.”
MSX targets both wild and cultured oysters, and typically kills about 95 per cent of affected mollusks within two to three years of the initial infection. It was found in oysters in P.E.I.’s Bedeque Bay and several other areas in July, leading the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to institute quarantines. It has been in Nova Scotia waters since 2002 and has also been detected in southern British Columbia.
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Oyster harvesters on Prince Edward Island have been spending the last year worried about the detection of a disease called MSX, which doesn’t hurt humans but can kill off oyster production in a big way. Now another disease has been confirmed in P.E.I. waters: Samples from Egmont Bay have tested positive for a disease called dermo.
I was looking at Minky Momo and then saw it had crossover episodes and then I see this relationship graph with all these other '80s magical girl shows.
Any chance Trump goes the Netanyahu route and starts endless wars to justify staying in power so he can't get prosecuted? It doesn't matter if the Democrats actually will do it, it only matters if he thinks they'd do it.
Found my bookmarks for what I think I remember was the thing I wanted to link you. I thought I downlaoded some PDFs or books, but it was in my browser bookmarks.
Seriously. They're looking at this portion of the animation and going "hmmm, would have been better in colour". Stupid. It does such a good job representing the physical properties of the space and the (literal) gravity of the situation this way. It's so good.
Watched Gunbuster. Was really good. I do appreciate when stuff of that era just slams sci-fi and pop-sci/philosophy into the story even if it's not accurate or elegant about it. Like the Battle Athletes OVA that seems to have taken a lot of aesthetic inspiration of Gunbuster (and also the first 2 episodes of GB story-wise) and it would randomly have these really well-animated, giant, mechanical, sci-fi contraptions out of nowhere just because it was cool to have and usually fit the story. It seems like post-2000s you mostly just get direct homages taking place of that. I guess there's also just less science and philosophy to pepper your shit with these days. I'm guessing this one has a lot of Star Trek inspiration, which which isn't really that popular for anime from what I've seen. Lots of Star Wars, Dune, Starship Troopers, etc. Toshio Okada is a big Star Trek fan so I wonder if he had anything to do with that, I have no idea if Anno is big on western sci-fi, most of the stuff he talks about as influence is Japanese stuff from the '70s.
Wasn't perfect, but yeah, I liked it for what it was. Looked so good. I really liked the colouring and the little expressions characters made especially. Lots of movement, and yeah a lot of that is boobs. Jung Freud, despite the stupid name, is entering the pantheon of top anime women (can't say girls anymore due to the Epstein-schism of 2025 I guess). Really loved the mechanical animation for the laser cannons where they had optical lenses that moved to change their focus/aim I guess and the detail that they have people polish them presumably to maintain efficiency and buff out space debris wear is cool to me. I honestly liked all the spaceships waaaaaaaay more than Gunbuster's design which was fine, but kinda' plain in terms of super robo designs.
And it has one of the best endings to an anime I've scene, I think. Just really satisfying way to end a short series. I wish it was maaaybe more like Voices Of A Distant Star where it had more downtime on Earth exploring the time dilation drrama/tragedy/phenomenon since the narrative is a little compressed and lop-sides with only 6 episodes, but yeah. I know how OVA production was back then and that was never going to happen. It's crazy how anything ended up watchable at all back then with how many production issues they'd face back then. Also, apparently the debt that Gainax started to accrue started here with Gunbuster and accumulated over their other productions (Royal Space Force, Nadia, NGE, etc.) and didn't get paid off until Kare Kano more than a decade later.
But. What the fuck is wrong with anime fans? Online, how does no one know that it costs basically just as much to colour the cels in grayscale as it does with colour? It's only maaaaybe cheaper if you're starting up a colouring department and might have fewer colours to buy. That's it. I looked online and one interview with Anno said it actually cost more to do episode 6 in grayscale. And it's obvious if you think about it for 2 seconds or have any experience as an artist. You spend maybe more time with grayscale to ensure layers don't blend into each other due to being similar shades of gray and all that.
White collar dipshits who think the food is the most expensive part of the holidays right now. Like, a single video game costs as much as feeding 10-12 people on thanksgiving.
He's a failson that keeps falling upwards. He was pretty disliked by the other teachers at Stony Brook (SUNY) that he somehow got an assistant professor job in the business side (and tellingly not the economics side). Somehow got a job offer to do an opinion column for Bloomberg (again, tellingly not actual economics reporting, but just his feeling on them). I wish I bookmarked the public goodbye letter he left for the school faculty when he got this job offer to Bloomberg. Says the right things to keep failing upwards, I guess, since there's no punishment for being a wrong economist.
It's because Death Stranding 2 did way too much pre-release advertising. Had they kept it to like 1-2 months before launch it would have been easier to realize it's releasing soon, but it's been like years of Kojima advertising his love of his own work that at least I mostly checked out until it was actually released.
Might be climate change-induced disease. Canada, in a different ocean, is having disease-based harvest collapse of oysters right now.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-oyster-retraining-employee-subsidies-offered-9.6985187
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