As for lip syncing, I have always thought that translation services, particularly for animated works, should be able to adjust the mouths of the characters for the purposes of adjusting lip syncing. Different languages have different cadence, speed, etc.

You could just not care about lip sync, like old Godzilla and kung fu theater type films, but for animated works it seems like the editing would be pretty easy and minimally invasive. It could free up the lip syncing for more accurate translation. At the same time, the facial expression would still need to match the original intention of the character.

I recently watched a series that used some kind of generative AI for lip syncing in the English dub, as the show was originally Japanese, but it was a live action show. In theory, this was a pretty good use of AI, at least to me, but in practice it ended up looking really weird because the mouth movements didn’t match exactly the voices AND the lighting was slightly different. It ended up being really distracting in the end. The technology isn’t really there yet for it to be convincing for live action, but I don’t see an issue for this for animated works.

Eh, its not really that hard, it’s just time consuming and tedious. The work itself isn’t difficult.

In Japan, thats the whole point. The business will do this to make you quit instead of them firing you. They have whack employment laws.

Renting a car? Oh… You mean like, subscribing? The type of payment model where the consumer always ends up overpaying when needing to use the service for extended periods of time?

“They don’t have good manners, so I won’t have good manners” is a terrible way of thinking and living. If everyone did this, it would only take one person to completely eradicate good manners from humanity forever.

People who actually think this are using it as an excuse for their bad manners.

The person employed by the supermarket to gather carts is not employed to return your cart to the cart return near your vehicle. They are employed to gather the carts from the cart return near your vehicle and bring them back to the store building’s cart return.

By doing this, you do not create more jobs (as the cart return employee position already exists whether you return your cart or not), you create more work for an already probably underpaid employee and you also increase everyone’s autoinsurance because when the wind blows the carts damage other people’s vehicles.