You really think white police officers would want to break up a crowd of knife-wielding maniacs shouting "we're here to stab white people"? Much safer to just oppress the peaceful white nearby.
A country must have an official currency. Tax-wise. It needs something that it can say "you owe this much". You can open the floodgates of barter, but at the end of the day, everyone involved needs to be able to say "I earned seven gold dubloons, and thirteen pieces of silver. That was worth X venuzuelan pesos at their transaction dates, the value of which I must remit to the government."
Saying the Venuzuelan government will accept USD as tax payments is de-facto making it the official currency of the land, whether or not Venezuelan pesos are also still allowed, since it's the more powerful currency: If everyone needs to pay taxes, they'll need to collect enough currency to pay it in one of the acknowledged forms, and if they've no faith in the Peso, they'll charge USD, making it the default dollar country-wise.
(And to those thinking "the farmers might just barter in wheat and cattle entirely, they could just exchange them for USD at tax time to pay off the tax debt"... That's literally called selling the product for money.)
Managers at least have some theoretical value in, well, managing their departments. I think the core rot is the fact they've got entire departments that are unnecessary: Fold HR's core duties (payroll, payroll taxes) into Accounting, fire the diversity studies departments in their entirety, and you're probably looking at halving your employee expense already.
If you use Windows, at least use a Classic Shell overlay of some kind. Eww, default Windows.
Actually, inputting propaganda into artwork is a generally a communist tactic, historically. The ability for individual people to be allowed to own and amass wealth on their own has little to nothing to do with including propaganda in pause screens, even "advertising" propaganda.
I love the title, "suspect was previously arrested for knife possession", minimizing the crime. You'd look at that and go "oh, that's not even a crime where I live, I can own a knife, they're over-reacting!", and then get to the news and the prick slashed up a car. With an editorializing title like that, I'd hope this site is archive-linked in the future.
This is just a theory... But maybe China should look into some kind of public sanitation promotional measure? Part of their culture is spitting on the ground. And mysteriously, almost every mass disease from the Spanish Flu (despite the name) onwards seems to have come from there.
I'm not ruling on the veracity of the Malinballot Pneumonial variant strain, but... It's always China, whether it's true or false flags.
Isn't "decentering" just tokenism?
Okay Mexi-boy, you go in the "center" while all the lefties surround you and pretend to be your friend but actually are terrified of you showing up in their neighborhoods.
Honestly, I preferred when it was called "Battle Royale".
In the interest of inclusion and equity, we should drop the "storm" from all such statements.
That could be bants, given prior interaction. I could see two people riffing on each-other mock-voicing themselves in faux-posh-british. The actual study's quotes look like ChatGPT spat them out on a bad day.
Hotter take:
The world should just use Earth Standard Time. If we're to expand, we can't be splitting hairs over that. People will figure out real quick that 12:00 is sunrise where they are, or sunset.
To be fair to the anti-"it's advanced sci-fi, this doesn't fit" argument, Darth Vader's suit canonically didn't work very well because of budget cuts and corner-cutting, and Amidala, with the wealth of a princess and nation behind her, died of sadness apparently. Their medical tech is REALLY bad.
That stated, they're clones. They have the same brain. So is the argument that trans-ness isn't biological, but social, and can be taught out of just like indoctrinated into? Because otherwise, being clones, they should either ALL be trans, or none of them.
It ain't America. There ain't no first amendment.
Pettiness? Hire one singular autistic fansubber (gotta rep that diversity, after all!) to work in shadow tandem to all of Treehouse, and slip into Treehouse's contracts that when the game is published, if people liked the random lone fansubber's translation better, they don't get paid.
Oddly enough, strictly speaking, not the first time in FF you'd fight the final boss, while standing on their massive chest.
Fire Emblem has a recurring theme of two highly questionable gay incest brothers being throwaway villains. Like Anna, they seem to transcend space and time, and exist in multiple realities at once. They're reliably two berserkers or warriors, make creepy comments about each-other throughout their stage, and often have some kind of weird pick-up line for the protagonist if the MC is the one to kill them.
For our younger gamer crowd, they might be most memorable (in that they weren't like a stage 3 random minor boss) in FE: Awakening, as the DLC bosses invading the swimsuit competition level that was distributed for free for a while.
Eastern devs usually don't need to pander to them, because they'll do it themselves: See all the Deku x King Explosion Murder shipping in MHA, in example. There's a reason they're called fujoshits. Ignore their delusional shipping, and move on.
Western devs, though, they do pander to them. And that's an issue. Because they aren't really a buying force, just a marketing force.
It's truly a gatedemic.
Noticing things is against the rules.
God is all-knowing. God knew you'd act this way when you were first conceived, and God knew your mother wouldn't abort you, and God created all existence knowing this exact set of events would come to pass, and had within His power the ability to NOT have it happen, with no drawbacks, for He is almighty. If this person's actions are somehow on a surface level "against" God, then perhaps your existence is meant to serve as an example to many others on what not to do, a predetermined noble sacrifice.
God is Greatest. If I am to be predestined for Hell, it must be for some nobler higher purpose. That purpose will come to pass whether I know of it or not, after all, my knowledge existing or not does not supercede God's power, but it can't hurt to brush up on my philosophy if I seem to be headed that way, to maybe glean a slight insight into the plan. Though of course, my doing so would also already be part of the plan.
Sinfest was libertarian-left for a while, but then went HARD in on "leftist" SJW left for a good while. Pulling back away from them, well, as they like to crow, "sometimes losing your privilege feels a lot like being attacked".
But he courted that audience, cultivated it, for quite a while. So it isn't unexpected that they're lying around there in particular. I feel bad for him, but it is, strictly speaking, his own fault for going full SJW. He should probably just discontinue the comic, and start a new one, a clean slate, if he wishes to shed those dregs hanging off him.
GTA5 is "classic gaming" these days. Thing's like a decade old, isn't it? Anything that has existed for 20% of gaming's history is pretty old.
The better question is why isn't there much new stuff? Back in the day, a new product meant people were going to be buying it. But now it's all trash, and people are falling back on old standbys like TF2, CSGO, GTA5, Minecraft and whatnot.
I thought it was for laundering US senator money.