by folx
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Eltrion 37 points ago +37 / -0

Hey I found a picture of your grandmother's brother, who killed himself, leaving behind a sizable medical debt, after blowing all his money on that weird body modification surgery that was popular at the time.

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Eltrion 6 points ago +6 / -0

SNC Lavelin / Jody Wilson-Raybould

We Charity

Media Bailouts

Whatever the fuck went on with the RCMP and the Nova Scotia shootings.

Canada is plenty corrupt. It's just that no one seems to care.

by Cascade
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Eltrion 25 points ago +25 / -0

This will only get more common as people's internet footprints extend further and further back.

Look forward to politicians being attacked for doing stupid challenges and saying stupid things in a video they made when they were 12.

Sure this makes her look like a dork, but it's far preferable to the groomed from birth plastic people that the likes of Justin Trudeau and Jacinda Arden represent.

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Eltrion 9 points ago +9 / -0

I do need to get back to watching this eventually.

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Eltrion 2 points ago +3 / -1

This is an awful take. PPC needs too keep Right where it is and keep bleeding CPC from the right. The minute they let up the CPC will snap back as far left as it can while still pretending to be distinct from the liberals.

The only reason Pierre is leader is because of the PPC being positioned where it is. I have no desire to go back to Scheer and O'Toole promising to drive the country off the cliff at only 85km/h to Trudeau's 100km/h.

I for one am far more optimistic about the landscape of Canadian politics with the PPC as a separate party.

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Eltrion 6 points ago +6 / -0

On one hand he's the sort of carrer politician that chases poling and focus groups and will say whatever his advisors tell him is popular, so this is largely inconsequential.

On the other hand the fact that his advisors are telling him to say these things speaks more positively of the Canadian citizenry than I've dared hope in a long time.

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Eltrion 7 points ago +7 / -0

Creator of sinfest. A long running newspaper style online comic. In the early days it was funny and sexy and cute, and became quite popular. Then in 2011 about 10 years into it's run, the author became incredibly feminist, ripped all the fun and sexiness out of the comic, and attacked anyone who disagreed. Later it became clear that he was a TERF further limiting his audience.

The sidelining of TERFs over the past two years or so has allowed him to pivot away from preaching about the evils of the patriarchy and toxic masculinity and actually become irreverent and funny again.

Whether he's realized the grim future that wokeness holds for artists, or is just butthurt that his particular brand of wokeness is getting cast out remains to be seen.

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Eltrion 2 points ago +2 / -0

shitty artstyle non-binary furry game character

Because it can't just be regular garbage. You have to really heap it on to stand out.

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Eltrion 7 points ago +7 / -0

Wow, Jimmy Carter is still alive.

I guess my mind subconsciously marked him off as dead sometime around when H.W. died.

by folx
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Eltrion 3 points ago +3 / -0

"Ice Chimps" can I trademark that? I am now inspired to create a brand of overpriced designer "Ice Chimp" goods featuring a smiling geometric chimp head.

Either that or a hockey team.

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Eltrion 2 points ago +2 / -0

Google says fist of the north star

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Eltrion 10 points ago +10 / -0

I was actually reading a book set In the civil war era where this came up. "Uncle" was generally used by the not racist white people in order to be respectful without breaking social taboos.

The actually racist people didn't need to couch their slurs.

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Eltrion 24 points ago +24 / -0

Thos CNN editors are going to have their hands full. At this rate Biden speeches will be incoherent angry shouting about how three-quarters of the country need to die, while he stands in front of pillars of fire and racial-pride flags by next year.

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Eltrion 1 point ago +1 / -0

This is the way. I have a Kobo specifically because I can drop an Epub or text file on its internal drive and it will just read it. Calibre can manage books offline for a number of e readers, but I like that I can just open random txt files

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Eltrion 14 points ago +14 / -0

I'm pretty sure the flags are a power play to prevent getting banhammered.

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Eltrion 40 points ago +40 / -0

Every Democrat bill can basically be summed up as "Let's spend lots of money"

This one is no different.

In the very best case scenario, we are governed by people just one step removed from the stoner saying "what if the government printed a quadrillion dollars, and then gave everyone a million dollars? We'd all be, like, Rich man!"

Unfortunately we all know it's far more likely that there is a degree of intent and maliciouness to this.

by folx
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Eltrion 2 points ago +2 / -0

No idea. I've given up trying to make sense of this until things have settled down.

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Eltrion 7 points ago +7 / -0

"I divide my officers into four classes as follows: the clever, the industrious, the lazy, and the stupid. Each officer always possesses two of these qualities. Those who are clever and industrious I appoint to the General Staff. Use can under certain circumstances be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy qualifies for the highest leadership posts. He has the requisite and the mental clarity for difficult decisions. But whoever is stupid and industrious must be got rid of, for he is too dangerous." --Kurt von Hammerstein

by folx
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Eltrion 6 points ago +6 / -0

Honestly, no. Japanese humor is weird. My gut says he's just messing with Goldlewis, but really there is a degree of uncertainty. But the joke is "girl" "I'm a Boy" "girl" "I'm a Boy" "gir- uh, boy" "I'm a girl" the point being that Goldlewis is wrong about Bridget's gender even when he's right.

The good ending also strongly implies that he wants to "come out" as a boy to the people of his village...

Can't really say to much more than that until more info comes out, and considering the reception this is getting in Japan, (bear in mind Japanese barely has words for most of this nonsense) I feel like the next move will be back towards the "I'm not a girl, I'm a Boy." angle. We'll see if Arcsys is woke enough to go against the truth of Japanese companies only caring about Japan.

He claims to be a boy like half a dozen times, but claims that he's a girl once and all the wiki articles are rewritten.

I wonder how many times he'll have to claim he's a guy before they change them back, if they ever do... Who am I kidding, they'll label him non-binary and cry for death upon those who disagree.

by folx
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Eltrion 6 points ago +6 / -0

There aren't any gendered pronouns in the Japanese text, so it's ambiguous without outside context. Note that this isn't unusual, it's just how Japanese is.

by folx
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Eltrion 13 points ago +13 / -0

https://www.guiltygear.com/ggst/jp/character/bgt/

Key is the end of the first sentence.

男の子である. He's a boy.

by folx
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Eltrion 27 points ago +27 / -0

I've read the Japanese.

It's a bad ending, and even then it's a joke.

The joke being that Goldlewis keeps mixing it up and calling Bridget a girl, and after the forth time, Bridget is like okay, it's not a big deal.

The confusion comes from the construct でいい "de ii" literally "is good / is fine" in comparisons it's often used as "would be preferable" but from what I can gather from native speakers that's not the case here, it's just お嬢ちゃんでいい "Missy is fine"(it doesn't really matter)

That's what this whole thing is based on. Just that. It's been twisted by localization.

The JP bio also explicitly calls him a boy, so there's that.

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Eltrion 5 points ago +6 / -1

Yes, but there are always exceptions like the Shinzo Abe shotgun.

Banning guns Is a lefty fantasy for a number of reasons. Many of them boat accidents.

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Eltrion 20 points ago +20 / -0

Wasn't there one of these where a guy made 30 shitty guns out of steel pipe, then literally used the profit to buy an actual nice gun?

Thus brings up a key point of property law: you can't prevent people from owning things that are simple enough. Hence why no matter how strict you make gun laws you'll still have to deal with a black market of shotguns and blunderbusses and anything else that can be made from common materials. To try and control the materials themselves would be a ridiculous treadmill.

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Eltrion 4 points ago +4 / -0

Well, harbinger is pretty clearly a half-vampire or something. Also probably Shackleford II in disguise.

Seems like the Netori plot is getting played straight with the slight caveat that it's possible that Grant is dead, but let's be honest, he's probably not. Honestly, it's pretty mundane, the focus is clearly on the monster fighting, so Pitt pining over the girl was a mild character motivation at best, and an annoying distraction at worst. Certainly not a romance that defines characters or the book. The characters are still big loud archtypes. Convey exactly who they are and what they are about, distinct from one another, but lacking in detail unfortunately. The rest of the world building makes up for it IMO though. Really sort of a video game plot where slightly one-note characters are dragged through set pieces and encounters.

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