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Piroko -11 points ago +2 / -13

They didn't surrender.

Uh, yes, they did.

That's literally what the article is saying, they're waving the white flag and giving up on all their restrictions.

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Piroko 3 points ago +3 / -0

Yeah but you weren't edgy and stupid like a teenager who just discovered Rollo and spent a week marathoning it.

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Piroko 3 points ago +3 / -0

The fuck is wrong with you TI?

You've been declining into a spergy bitter monk over the last couple months.

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Piroko 6 points ago +6 / -0

You're completely missing the point so lemme spell it out for you:

The problem is the generational competition induced by hypergamy. Having a surge of men will skew the arms race BETWEEN men for access to women because older men have more wealth and resources.

The difference doesn't immediately go away with age. As each successive generation ages, the differential gap remains, soaked up by women dating older, wealthier men (persisting even after the initial population skew ages out).

For the CCP this is a very bad thing because it means they will persistently have a group of tens of millions of young batchlors, who's own cohort women are dating up.

How long will that state of affairs last until those young men decide "fuck it, civil war".

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Piroko 9 points ago +9 / -0

Yet more male births is perfectly natural. 105:100 is the usual ratio, backed by years of data.

Yes, and by the time they reach age 25 that ratio has been Darwin awarded down to 99:100.

I work in INSURANCE, TI1. I know firsthand how many young men get darwinned the second they get their hands on something with an engine.

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Piroko 9 points ago +9 / -0

So, because they aren't the majority, this is somehow an issue?

Yes, it is.

A male skewed population imbalance is a recipe for societal unrest and intergenerational warfare.

China has basically two options. They can either expend that imbalance in a foreign war, or wait until the imbalance precipitates a civil war.

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Piroko 0 points ago +1 / -1

All expensive art is

I own a cel from the eyecatch for Kaito Saint Tail.

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Piroko 8 points ago +8 / -0

This isn't news, nor is it new.

China's ratio has been out of whack for decades.

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Piroko 4 points ago +4 / -0

Nobody will ever get the deal Lucas did again. No producer would be dumb enough to sign over ALL the merchandizing rights.

Both sides walked away from that table thinking the other side was a fukkin idiot.

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Piroko 6 points ago +6 / -0

THAT is how you shoestring-budget.

OOOOORRRRR, just be Tatsuki and work for a percentage cut.

"MERCHANDIZING! MERCHANDIZING! WHERE THE REAL MONEY FROM THE MOVIE IS MADE!" -Spaceballs

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Piroko 9 points ago +9 / -0

Merced to Bakersfield

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Piroko 7 points ago +7 / -0

In retrospect we took the wrong side on that one.

we

So that would be the royal we then?

I thought the joke was funny from day one. He wears an eyepatch with the full Billy Mays. Nevermind what comes out of his mouth, the guy just looks shady as fuck.

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Piroko 3 points ago +3 / -0

Incentivize companies to go private

Not substantially more than there already is.

The reasons companies go publicly traded is very simple: selling shares "costs" nothing compared to borrowing. That will never change.

Nor should it change. You only need to look at Japan's lost decades to see what happens when companies decide to lean on debt. In the US once a company resorts to debt it's usually a sign for the vultures to circle.

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Piroko 8 points ago +9 / -1

Idk where the line would be

Publicly traded.

It's a well established line that if you're a private company you can basically do whatever the fuck you want as long as you're not brazenly violating the CRA.

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Piroko 10 points ago +10 / -0

They did it all to get Candy Crush.

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Piroko 3 points ago +3 / -0

The courts have their procedures. That it seems alien to you is simply because you aren't familiar with its workings.

Today was decisive. All that's left is merely the formalities.

I wouldn't be surprised if the case remains on the 6th's docket in some form all the way up through the election; the case won't die as long as the Administration is willing to blow money roleplaying Don Quixote. But after today the ultimate outcome is no longer in doubt.

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Piroko 3 points ago +4 / -1

Seriously?

"War Profiteer Tycoon"?

And the gameplay choice here is what? Do I use inferior grade steel knowing the barrels will explode? (FYI, some northern assholes actually did that during the Civil War.)

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Piroko 11 points ago +11 / -0

It's literally just a stay on it. It's going back to the Sixth Circuit for a ruling where we might have to go through all this again

In the language of court decisions, the wording of the ruling was basically marching orders directly to the 6th on how the court expects them to rule.

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Piroko 5 points ago +5 / -0

The Quick and the Dead was a good movie.

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Piroko 3 points ago +3 / -0

And thus one affects "basically all medical employees", where the other affects "basically everyone".

It's a harder sell to say the government can't and shouldn't coerce medical workers to get vaccinated.

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Piroko 5 points ago +5 / -0

Arcane is pretty damn good.

Love 2 spam AB waiting for CC to proc for AM.

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