This is clearly demicgate.
Oh no, a politician is addressing the concerns of a large voter-base. Sound the alarms. Run in panic. Oh no.
Gaijin get out reeeeeee!
Chicago's Frankfurt School Of Business is in Chicago, which is in America. It never hurts to be more specific, but best to be very clear.
When it's being used as a money launder scheme, someone does get stuck, but it doesn't matter:
"A" makes a painting. "B" buys it for $1000. "B" then gifts the painting to Dickish "D", who is trying to launder money. "B" THEN pays "C", an "art Critic", $1000 to say the painting is worth 5,000,000. "D" could also do this step, skipping "B" entirely, but obfuscation is nice to have. "D" now sells the painting to an Enterprising "E" at "market value". This is where your scenario stops: "E" never pays "D", and is some $100 numbered corporation that just dissolves into thin air, but "D" notes that the laundering-needed money came from "E", and now is a legit source of funds.
But the more advanced version has "E" be a large megacorp, easily able to eat a 5Mil purchase. "E" then has their own appraiser re-check the value of the piece, since it has appreciated so much in such a short time already. Wow, wouldn't you know, it's now valued at 25Mil. Now, this WOULD be a problem, since you need to recognize appreciation of assets as income when realized... But it is never realized. Instead, it is donated to "F", our Final stop, a hospital or a university, or even a political party, that is a registered charity. "E" is down 5Mil, that's rough. But it just donated 25Mil to charity, lowering their income by 25Mil (and their tax burden by about 5Mil), AND gives them a charity deduction of ANOTHER 5Mil off their tax burden! By buying and ditching that worthless piece of art, their coffers are 5Mil heavier.
The non-profit, of course, has a painting probably not even worth the original $1000. But it got it for free. Source of funding, plus 25Mil... But they're a non-profit, they just raffle away the painting for a piddling fundraiser amount and mark down the loss.
He... asked me, without consent, who my favorite character was! The toxic harassment and bro rape culture of the hobby needs to be cleansed! Thxy can't just put such gatekeeping quizzes on the entryway to thxxr hobby!
The final donation in the chain is to a non-profit, usually a hospital, who puts the art up in a wing somewhere for a month or two, then quietly discards it. Since they're non-profit, it doesn't matter if they were holding a high-value asset or not.
White people can't even be half as cunning as their OWN stereotype. Remember white people, don't be the you that you are, be the you that Yakub created in Nation of Islam lore; the most genius and powerful and cunning masterminds ever to grace the Earth. Masters of deceptology, immune to explosions, more powerful than divine emissaries, such is the lot of each and every white person as per a glorious PoC fancy pseudo-middle-eastern religion.
You're too late on that one. Britain already has "common sense knife legislation", you're gonna need to have a loisence to have a noife over a certain length. And it's pretty short too, most of my basic chef knives would be naughty naughty items across the pond.
A drug-addled homeless man made his nest in front of a bank in the downtown core I frequent. The bank's solution was to use their tiny employee entrance side door on the side of the building as the main entrance, and just keep the main entrance locked. And by extension close access to all their ATMs outside banker business hours. Not as a "one day" solution, but as a "forever going forward" solution.
It's hardly just France that's putting bandaids on broken arms. The West as a whole is so terrified of offending someone that they're breaking themselves.
Most places define shrubbery as part of the public walk or park that it grows upon. Unless you're implying the shrubbery was locked away inside a private building?
All the French live in Quebec and Lousiana. None left over there.
Didn't Canada just a few months back say India's spies killed a Canadian politician who held anti-Indian views? Or something close to that effect? Was in the news for a while with tensions raised. If a nation like Canada is saying things like that, I can see other, weaker, less alliance-protected nations being overzealous in their safeguarding against the such spycraft. More than likely they're just being murderous for the sake of being murderous, but they have a clear example they can point at as the reason for their actions.
So... Asians aren't people of color this week? But the moon is a waxing gibbeous and Saturn is crossing Pisces! I thought that was a clear indicator they were pocs!
Wow, you've found real footage!
Woman was out in the sunlight for two hours: Clearly black.
Mr. Popo:
It's all still Slaanesh, but the colorful costumes usually hide the hideous bodies of those entombed within.
But the obvious answer is that it is gay, because it is having sex by yourself, who is male, therefore a male is pleasuring you, therefore: Gay.
A hundred is a fair amount, even with inflation. My office's secret santa limit is 30 bucks, Canadian mind you so, like, 15 quid, and while co-workers are not nearly as important as your own kids, that's the upper limit, not lower. Especially for a kid, a hundred quid is a lot of money.
I'm assuming they mean for gifts, of course. If they're some maniacal accountant, and counting room, board, utilities, food, beverage, amortized education expenses, etc into that 100, then yeah, I can see how it might dwindle fast, but in terms of gifting? 100 quid is 2 NICE toys, or 3 decent ones.
When I get cash, I try to make sure to toss a message with a picture of something nice I purchased for myself later on in the year. Like, I bought a new chair, and tossed messages to three family members with a picture, saying "thanks for the birthday gift of a portion of this chair you gave me a bit back, it's really comfy, I appreciate it.", that way they get the pomp and circumstance they might actually want in gift-giving activities, but also, I just get proper cash.
Then leave. Please. I don't want a censorious dictator, even if it is one that agrees with many of my views. Collectivism and authoritarianism ALWAYS lead to horrible results. ALWAYS. So take your collectivist authoritarian ideology... And leave! Just like that. Close the window. Little "x" in the corner. Done. And when you next advocate for collectivist authoritarianism, ask yourself, 1) is this measure necessary? 2) Will it ever be used outside its current scope to oppress the innocent? 3) CAN it ever be used outside its current scope at any point in time, even just as a precedent for something else? (the answer for 3 WILL be the same as for 2. Always is. Not once in history has it not been so.).
*Citation needed. Because most studies state the exact opposite: Violent video games are negatively correlated with violent criminal actions, and while not as heavily researched, the general consensus is the same applies to most other urges, too.
Or in other words, if you could save a million children from harm, but have to admit you're wrong one single time, would you do it? Most politicians won't. It's one of those contrary things, like how increasing the added-penalty zone area around schools for drug crimes, increases the amount of drug crimes around schools. You'd think it would lower it, but no. And you could save lives and livelihoods by reducing the area around schools that are more heavily policed and penalized, but no politician in their right or left mind would ever advocate for LESS area on that regard, no matter the guaranteed, well-researched, well-established, proven good it would do.
Save living, real people, or protect the fictional CG ragdolls from video game violence? It's a tough choice for many, apparently even here.
I miss it too, but I also strongly believe my preferences are colored by both nostalgia and a lack of other choices at the time. Not every anime is an Irresponsible Captain Tylor. Like, objectively, Negima was bad. I own ~40 Negima manga, because I liked the show so much, and it was POPULAR back in the heyday, but.. It's not a good show. Like, at all. And the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is... confusing at best as to its popularity. It relied on gimmicks and slight of hand to improve its own ratings, they literally pulled an Augmented Reality AR stunt back before those were a "thing", but Haruhi is still an idol of the anime community.
Chrono Crusade is a fun oldie, though, with the unique prize of "better ending than the source material", since they went past the manga and just started making things up leading to a beautiful ending, while the mangaka went bonkers and off the rails. Still holds up to this day, mostly.
Sola, though? Weird fantasy romance animes back then were... not great. Good concept, but... Wow, that show is mid at best now, one of my favorite romance anime back when, but I cannot re-watch it. A lot of my favorites are like that: They're better in my memories.
.Hack did "trapped in the MMO, if you die in the game you die for real" genre way better than many modern contemporaries. Id_Entity is a fun take on that genre (manhwa only, not anime), though, unlike Aura in .hack or Yui in SAO being mostly just a plot element, it goes all-in on the AI character being a major story component, and the FeMC.
Anthony "Better To Let A Million Gays Die Than Risk Making A Cure That Might Help Them" Fauci is possibly acting evil? But I thought he was based! He made sure so many homosexuals died when they could have been saved! He actively fought against any research occurring to help with HIV or AIDS treatment! He commands and rules a nation without being elected!