Which makes you wonder what’s the actual motive here

Personally, I’m fine with Google giving money to Firefox to be the default search. Keeps my browser in business and I just change the search. I don’t see a problem here.

O_O

Oh don’t worry, we’re all keeping score. But past a certain point, I suppose they don’t matter anymore.

I’m not really sure if that’s a lot of money nowadays

D:

Can you imagine getting pumped by musk? 🤮

What about things like earthquakes, house fire, flood, volcano, tornado, hurricane, crashing plane, theft, nazis, shitty kids, anarchists, or rain?

That’s a pity they haven’t changed. I know a lot of Japan has gotten better, but I also know that they still have a prevailing homophobic purity culture.

Rant:

One of my favorite animes is one piece, and as much as I love it for it and some personal connections in my head around it, there’s just so much hurtful and thoughtless stuff in it.

Generally, Oda does a good job of keeping it harmless and goofy, even when using racist or sexist or homophobic tropes. He generally keeps them colorful and just for the sake of having weird shit. Which I have always loved.

But… Every once in a while there’s like an ice cold bat to the face, be it something that is just old (I’m rewatching it) and at the time may have been trying to bridge an acceptance gap, or just downright mean spirited.

Like for example, I’m in the whitebeard war area of the story, and there’s the crossdresser stuff and the king(queen?) of them. Fat, Giant Head, lingerie all the time even outside, giant chin and jawline, crazy makeup, and when he attacks, he winks at you. Like. Come on. That’s so shitty. And I would say that the character is a drag queen, but he LITERALLY USES HORMONES TO CHANGE HIS AND OTHER’S PHYSIOLOGY. Like a military guard is about to attack him, and he injects him with hormones and turns the guard into a woman, who then gets embarrassed, mews, and collapses in heat and embarrassment. He’s not a drag queen, they’re a transgender non binary, genderfluid troll that everybody calls an okama, which, to my knowledge, is basically a sissy or maybe even a slur, >!faggot or fag!<.

And all the hyper stylized femininity toothpick waist girls and barrel shaped boys. Like come on, if you’re gonna do that style, give me those waify boys, tough girls, and sexy and confusing enbies at least.

All the people in queer land are just manly crossdressers. Where are the femboys!? Where are the gorgeous women who just happen to be assigned male at birth?

Maybe one piece gets better over time. Maybe there are anime that are better. Maybe there’s “Western” media today that’s more realistic.

/Rant

Remove the word “out” and that’s how I initially read this and went D:

Probably years of passion. Possibly a career related to this stuff.

Jfc please make sure that’s hazard proof and don’t get raided. People like you legitimately make the world go round.

Watched it for the first time last year. It was incredible. Absolutely holds up to modern stuff… Except for some absolute creep moments around Bulma, various sexism… The overall purity culture weirdness… Some really homophobic things… Some really racist things… …

Okay. It has issues. Lots of really big issues. But the music is amazingly fresh and the visuals top notch and it’s always entertaining, minus the glaring problems. And that they did Lunch so dirty for some reason.

<3

I’m a huge fan of the golden era of anime fansubs. I know a lot of people still have the files, but they’re probably squirreled away on an offline hdd or a bunch of dvds, not being shared. It’s quite sad and frustrating. It’s completely lost culture in many instances.

What about his children that hate him but are still his children?

I don’t know what those two letters mean. I wish they had written out the name. I’ve avoided buying Adobe stuff because it’s stupidly expensive, but I’m still aware that in some industries, some of these have been industry standards at one point or another. Being able to tell wtf their names are, or even what they do would be helpful.

Pay gurry forn

Are you kidding? You do know that basically anything is hackable, right? And that’s why old people put tape and stuff over their cameras if they don’t just outright unplug them, right? It seems silly, but like… They’ve always been right, with their insane passwords and avoiding using their real names and stuff.

It’s probably bypassable too. And, anytime the microphone is used, you have no idea the multiple extents that data is being used for.