$8.6 million Seems like a paltry amount for buying politicians in several governments when you consider the amount of money wealthy people have.

I am not sure what point you are trying to make, or how it relates to my comment/the article?

Even if we’re talking about someone who simply lacks basic or any morals, that would make them even more susceptible to Greed.

Especially when using a system specifically designed to provide them with vulnerable people who are mostly hidden from public and given less wages and rights, don’t know local laws, and are incredibly desperate.

What a convenient coincidence, heartless Greed finds itself flush with unlimited desperate workers. Again.

Indifference is just a tool they use - the root cause is Greed.

They hate immigrants, but love slave labour. Then use immigrants “taking jobs” (what the farm owners actually want, because slaves are very profitable and locals would never do that work at that wage) to rile up the population to vote for Conservative governments, who often don’t change the influx of immigrants but who does love to lower taxes and turn a blind eye to labour abuses.

Exactly what I was thinking, this pupper was 100% chalked

Samurai champloo is a classic and contributed a ton to anime style, but maybe doesn’t hit as hard with plot as more recent creations. Fun and campy meets dark and gritty

Inuyasha is another classic feudal Japan and magic environment

May as well mention Afro Samurai if I’m gonna have a string of feudal Japan anime

Most people look like they mentioned Cowboy bebop already

I’m a huge Neon Genesis Evangelion fan, but originally watched it in the early 2000’s as a teenager with divorced parents so there’s probably a big nostalgia factor

I absolutely loved cyberpunk edgerunners, but it’s only 10 episodes (watched this probably 5x already)

The animated witcher movie + Castlevania (not nocturne though) were really good.

Arcane + DOTA I found to be really enjoyable as well.

You forgot my favorite of sleep-hating-brain internal dialogue!

"Why would you need to sleep until your alarm goes off when I can wake you early and you can be anxious about not sleeping! Or all the stuff you feel you should now start but are too tired to do even though you know I won’t let you sleep!

Wouldn’t want to sleep through that! Why do you think I kept you up so late??"

Have you seen the state of reality recently?

“how things work” is, and always has been a suggestion. It used to be enforced, and recently enforcement has been entirely up to the opinions and personal beliefs of the enforcers. If there ever is an issue with this selective enforcement, there is unlimited wealth shielding selective enforcers from consequences.

Trump personally may not be technically able to do anything as president elect for Ukraine support, but multiple cogs in government may suspiciously stop working preventing anything from getting done.

Democrats believe in “how things are done” vs Republicans who believe “who is going to stop us when we’re in power”

If you think you’re going to stop a Republican from doing what they want by pointing to pieces of paper, you haven’t been paying attention to the last decade.

Evangelion at the beach!

You’re previous, brief, comment literally mentioned media fear mongering - apparently it was imaginary media fear mongering tied to an imaginary scenario involving millions of interactions between men and woment and only two rapes (not sure how media fear mongering ties into an imagined hypothetical.)

You are all over the road bud.

I’m saying that it’s not media that’s brainwashed women into believing some Rape bogeyman exists - Imaginary scenario or not.

It’s that every single woman personally knows someone(s) who has been raped/roofied/sex assaulted/groped etc. and they don’t need media hype to come to the conclusion that being raped in any environment is always a possibility. This is a very sad fact that women live with every single day.

Not sure how you perceived that as an accusation that you don’t believe in Rape

Most of the “fearmongering” is actually women talking about their experiences.

When media fearmongers Rape, it’s mostly by informing the public about rapists being sentenced to very light sentences, or rapists facing no jail time, or violent rapists being released.

Either that or they outright victim blame and discuss what someone was wearing, where they were, who they were with etc, basically inferring that if she was safely at home under a man’s protection, it wouldn’t be possible for her to be raped - so look at all the safety she threw away to be reckless (outside without a male partner) and have fun (literally existing while being a woman walking sex organ waiting to be claimed).

So where exactly on the internet are you that’s bot free?

News articles are pumping out AI stories, websites chat help is often AI bots, social media is literally a bot farm with human spectators.

Unless you are reading blogs from people you know who aren’t familiar with chat GPT, or you’re entirely online for small/niche discussion groups, I’d say you’re exposed to far more AI content than you realize.

I’m not suggesting everything is fake bot content with some people mixed in yet, but in 5 years it probably will be.

Much harder for people to organize, or even get exposed to reality, if their digital experience is a walled garden of pushed bot content.

Go to any of the “question” subreddits (AITA, TIFU, AskReddit, Two Hot Takes etc etc) and tell me that 95% of the content isn’t posts by LLM. Claiming its a throwaway is an easy way to hide the fact that it’s a new user with no post history, only difference is now they interact with users to get better understanding of where social lines are drawn.

Every single one has a username like danger -skyscraper-1376 and is obviously a chat GPT scenario asking obtuse questions that normal humans wouldn’t need guidance on “my wife slept with the entire office, but we’re illegal immigrants with 15 kids and divorce isn’t an option. AITA if I want a PS5 pro that I don’t share with anyone but my alternate Partner??”

The internet isn’t “dead” but it is a corpse marionette that tells people whatever they want to hear, gives them straw man enemies made of everything they love to hate, and convinces them everything they think and feel is absolute truth.

My dystopian expectation is we’ll probably settle on all plastic should be white so it can reflect light back into space, replacing albedo effect we got from all the snow we used to have

Don’t worry if you’re Canadian - wages don’t go up here unless you’re in a good good union, or crack upper management.

There may be a few industries where job hopping is worthwhile, but there’s a kilometers thick crust of nepotism to crack if you don’t have connections

This is my first time seeing them in meme format, and I’m happy it’s for LOTR

Fun fact, in South Africa they are often referred to as a Dassie

Sure, it’s just “good worker raises” that no other worker gets must be super difficult for the law to determine what is normal employment and business, and what is a bribe.

Would be nice if they could force the trump org to justify why only these few, specific people are getting huge raises or sweetheart deals/bonuses.

Chances are they have similar education and competence/accomplishments as non-bribed employees. Since everyone is working at similar levels they all should get double salaries and multi-million dollar severence, or have their families get high paying jobs simply for being related.

If he didn’t bring enough bribes for everyone, than nobody gets any!

Is it just me or are the first and third pictures of the same incident?

Definitely has a melted box of crayons aesthetic

I didn’t look very close at the growing medium, so the “spill” looked like deer poops and I imagined a deer was tricked onto water and literally all the shit was scared out of 'em when they fell in

Happy to see your garden was salvaged and improved, but a little sad that my deer theory wasn’t accurate

She’s definitely the one!