Just my mom, because no matter how much I try, she just watches mainstream news, and they probably have been doing COVID hysteria in addition to whatever else. I stopped watching the news a long time ago, so I wouldn’t even know what happened without reading it on an article posted here.
Edit: Job doesn’t require it at all, and I wish I had gotten the free flu shot my job’s been offering for a while, and found a way to deal with that record somehow, maybe finding a sympathetic doctor or something.
Thanks. I’m gonna watch that fully later, but I got through the first three minutes and yeah, every NGO working together is kinda just blech in general, but especially on this. Talking with her about it, which I did between posting this and seeing this comment, I’m 99% sure I’m gonna have to end up taking it or else I have to move out without having the money to, so it’s looking not too good for me. I am however going to be taking it slow every day and finding what I can take to flush that shit out, hopefully 4chan has something I can do, because she scheduled that shit for Tuesday.
Haven’t been able to comment myself because busy with work, but just in general, I think that there’s too many things that make this topic so inflammatory the moment, but I will say that I don’t necessarily think it matters that Eri from My Hero Academia has gigantic eyes and is fictional, the fact that Eri is underage means that if people find porn of her, that’s gonna set some people off pretty damn badly, as imo “a human is a human”, as fictional media has a lot more influence than people think, or else the Long March Through The Institutions would’ve been for no reason at all whatsoever.
The original reasons for the players unions were because of pay, unironically, because even certain stars used to have to work during the offseason because of not making enough. In fact, the MLB All-Star game was originally designed to be a scheme to help those All-Stars get more money for their retirement, while the owners just took everything. Considering how sports are how a lot of people still get out of poverty, and most teams are owned by billionaires who wouldn't spit on us to stop a fire, I don't hate that traditional athletes have unions, I hate that esports players don't have unions, because of not taking heed of what happened back in the day.
Also, the entire reason "free agency" exists is because of lawsuits, because teams used to be able to just extend you until they wanted to get rid of you, you had no choice as to what team you wanted to play for.
In MLB specifically, the reason that players want to at least play for ten years is because that's when they're guaranteed a full retirement, as while yes, the stars get paid huge amounts of money, the non-stars are still in the steepest tax bracket.
Team owners being pieces of shit is why players' unions exist.
Edit: https://www.mlbplayers.com/history
https://nflpa.com/about/history
I used to think player unions were unnecessary too, until I learned just how terrible owners were, and a lot of them, still are.
On specifically the gamepass point:
Microsoft pays developers so they can put their games on Gamepass, but it’s literally just base games, so you still have to pay for DLC, which Microsoft makes money off of.
Apparently a lot of people use Gamepass as a demo before buying games, and people do end up buying the games that are on Gamepass (Phil Spencer mentioned this ages ago)
Devs like the marketing that gamepass gives them.
Angel Hernandez probably rings a bell because he sued the MLB accusing them of racism because he’s so bad that they won’t let him call playoff games, and the MLB pulled up to federal court with highlights of all his missed calls over the years, and the judge agreed with MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL.
If this is about how some states decided to allow the age of consent to be 16 and other states have it at 17 or 18 while the age to be able to produce porn is federally set at 18, it’s so that universally, someone who makes porn is legal in every state.
She’s gonna kick me out the house, and I made sure to talk to her about it today so I can think about it the next few days before I actually have to make that decision.
I currently don’t have the money to actually live if I get kicked out, plus the car that I use is under her name, not mine, so idk what legally could be done considering while I’m the main driver of that car, the title is hers and she made the payments.