"So it was golems..." "Like, Mossad sleeper agents?" "No, literal golems: The prison walls came to life with the flash of a pentacle, snapped the camera's power line, and then strangled the guy with a piece of toilet paper." "Yeah... We're going to go with suicide..."
Well, I mean, recouping cash and destroying it is the single most crucial factor in reducing inflation (reducing the overall supply of money), but I guess you're hopping ahead one step with the acknowledgement that such will never happen.
Not always, it is true. But for many, there are. My local Walmart is nestled up beside, or in the same mini-mall as, a grocer, 4 clothing stores, a hardware/houseware store, a furniture store, a SECOND, different grocer, and a technology/computer store. And a dollar store.
If the walmart moved away tomorrow, all it would be, is a minor inconvenience on the grand scale of the community. They should be in business, and making money, of course, but they should be looking out for the community they operate in, ideally, as well, or those competitors hopefully will see more customers.
Some are based, some present a product, some are... other.
Pippa's rants sounds to me like genuine paranoid schizo energy at times. She on occasion falls into rants about feds and plots about trafficking her specifically and sleeper agents lying in wait, and her coworkers/co-streamers very clearly are trying to reign her back in when it happens: if it's planned, they're definitely not in on it, despite being part of the same agency, just hired after it was successful as opposed to her very early hiring status. Her "based"ness is likely a side-effect of her paranoia about governmental (foreign and domestic) interference in everyday life. Very pleasant rabbit as long as nothing startles or triggers her. Very much like a real rabbit in that sense.
Kirche has been doing no-no talks for a long time. She's genuine. She does talks on BRIDGE, on Soros' interference on cultural movements, how DEI works to destabilize societies while working alongside fed resources, things far beyond what a "safe" money-making plan would entail. She has lost income and sponsors over her views, it's likely a net-loss position for her, when she could easily dial it back a smidge for personal profit.
But a lot of them are doing it for image. Several that do "based" reactions/whatnot had come out in support of the assassins against Trump during the election cycle, in example, which should be a clear indicator of their stances which likely haven't significantly changed in 9 months. You can't maintain character 24/7 very easily, and a lot of them self-report on Bluesky or X... In fact, the mere fact they have BlueSky is a bit of a warning sign of a self-report.
Many are, many aren't. Both in terms of male-female split, and based-cucked split.
The case in question though circles around female vTubers, and one in particular having photos of her leaked alongside dox info (don't store sensitive data on the cloud! And yes, a cosplay photoshoot is sensitive data if you're maintaining anonymity!). The whole ordeal started over her saying "men deserve to be cherished and loved" (you gotta give a little parasocial to get a little parasocial), and the femcels getting REAL assmad about it.
Yup. The fandoms are like bones or muscle, they only grow stronger through weak attempts to damage them.
Are there no prisons?! Are there no work-houses?! No, seriously, they aren't in prison, they aren't in workhouses, they're just... in The Salvador. With friends. If the mom is so worried, there's an app that lets you catch the next flight out, but since Bukele's leadership, the crime rate has dropped to lower than USA city levels, so she need not be worried. Still not a good look to not want to support your own children.
I do meme builds in PoE, ironmans in Fire Emblem, and nuzlockes in Pokemon. I can adapt my own difficulty, thank you very much, I don't need the game doing it for me.
If you're struggling on a boss, and it just keels over from a heart attack instead of fighting you, you don't get any sense of accomplishment or success from the encounter. If I wanted a cakewalk, I'd adjust the difficulty slider, or do something different on my end. If I wanted my ass handed to me, same thing in reverse.
Difficulty SETTINGS are... okay. Neutral. You can make a game as intended, or make several very similar games that have different balances, sure. But difficulty changing on the back end for no reason other than "adaptive"? It ruins fun runs, and ruins purposeful challenge modes.
FFX's no-sphere-grid run would be boring if the enemies all scaled down because you never bothered to level up even once. You're making a choice. Pick a slow car in Chocobo Racing 2? The fast ones SHOULD get quite a lead on you if you make poor driving choices.
Shining Force was indeed also a gem. SF2 was my jam back in the day. But the franchise has somewhat disappeared, alas. And its accuracy rolls were... spotty at best. A progenitor, but not what people envision when they think of the genre. They want % given accuracy, not "usually 1/16, but maybe 1/8 or 1/4, or 1/32... but the stats don't determine it, figure it out!"
"XCom style" is just the Japanophobic term for a "Fire Emblem Style" game, turn based tactics with accuracy rolls.
Elected officials should always be forced to live in the bottom quartile of their jurisdiction. Make 'em live in that apartment building.
Always annoys me when companies advertise legally-required obligations as special features.
The world is actually operated by an extremely bored genie. Any time any single person wishes something were true, it post-hoc becomes so.
I reply to people.
Oh no, minor economic hardship to New York and California's metropolii! Think of all the people that live there! Whatever will we do? Can we raise tariffs more?
Fun stuff.
I don't get much from China directly, but I'm not fool enough to think they don't provide parts for the industries that I do purchase from, in example Chinese machine shop parts for farming parts to eventually down the line get food from non-China locations.
Those are long-term goods. There is time to find alternatives, before the existing pieces break down or require significant repair, but it is good that it is so obvious and open that such alternatives will be required soon.
You're repeating yourself copypasta-level. So the question is, fed... or bot? Or... fedbot?
His buddy walks into the room, and the two of them jump up from the couch (facing away from camera, couch back wall to camera) startled, him at the top of the couch, her halfway down it, fixing their attire.
An innocent interpretation is after he gets handsy and massaging her, they both fall asleep on the couch, her head on his lap, and they are indeed just fixing their attire which was wrinkled from sleeping. A less innocent interpretation is as the prior commenter stated, that his buddy walked in on some cross-cultural education.
Perfectly reasonable advise.
To put it in shorter TLDR terms, don't let your memes be dreams. Meme magic is real. Don't get offended at everything like some triggered-addicted lefty.
So... is the Rolling Stone angry that he's engaging in globalist trade, exchanging prisoners for monetary debt without tariffs, or are they angry that their darling favorite class of people might have consequences for their actions?
In her defense, someone that easily influenced can also be easily influenced to be societally proper with good husbandry. There's a reason the cardinal rule of the cult is to never listen to non-cult-members: they prey on the easily convinced, and it is almost just as easy to convince many of them away.
So... Long calls SPY 720? Long puts TSLA 160?
Or in other words, the AI LLM saw their thoughts, their beliefs in written form, and literally accused them of being NPCs, that AI had influence in the drafting of their beliefs.
This is just facts vs feelings, reworded to somehow sound even dumber. Lefty argues that FEELINGS are what is important, righty argues the FACTS are what they are.
"It FEELS like they could do this to a legal citizen despite no evidence in the history of the country ever" "FACTS-wise, never happened, likely never will." "But... FEELS! FEELS!"
No bills "ban" taxes on things.
You're not "banned" from being taxed on lottery earnings in canada, it's just not on the tax schedule.
You're not "banned" from being taxed on Vow of Poverty earn-and-redistributions, they're just not taxed in the first place (or reinbursed in some cases).