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TheWeedNumber posted:Gonna engage in that yakuza style finger cutting ritual because I know about both hentais mentioned. Eh, La Blue Girl was the poster child for "Anime is for perverts!" in the early 00's, and was supplanted by Bible Black as "Anime is for perverts and blasphems Christ!" In the late 00's/early 10's by right-wing nutcases. Having a passing knowledge of "Those are hentai, aren't they?" is nothing worth cutting fingers over.
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Crab Dad posted:He would have La Blue Girl on loop and his door always open. Lemniscate Blue posted:My roommate was cool but one of our headmates was really eager to show us this cool anime called Bible Black. Why the gently caress did I Google these.
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Stultus Maximus posted:Why the gently caress did I Google these. Masochist
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Deep depression, you're only happy when it rains
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Randalor posted:Eh, La Blue Girl was the poster child for "Anime is for perverts!" in the early 00's, and was supplanted by Bible Black as "Anime is for perverts and blasphems Christ!" In the late 00's/early 10's by right-wing nutcases. Having a passing knowledge of "Those are hentai, aren't they?" is nothing worth cutting fingers over. I wouldn’t call it passing knowledge.
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Randalor posted:Eh, La Blue Girl was the poster child for "Anime is for perverts!" in the early 00's, and was supplanted by Bible Black as "Anime is for perverts and blasphems Christ!" In the late 00's/early 10's by right-wing nutcases. Having a passing knowledge of "Those are hentai, aren't they?" is nothing worth cutting fingers over. In the mid 90s it was Urosotkidogi/The Legend of the Over-Fiend, if I remember the name right. You had to find bootlegged copies or order it off of weird catalogs.
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Terminal Internet Poisoning strikes again This time with tentacle demons and sex demons. And not good sex demons either.
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aaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaAAAAAAAAaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAaaaAAAAA https://twitter.com/lizrhoffman/status/1603858959479099392 HAHAHAHAHAHAH
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M_Gargantua posted:Terminal Internet Poisoning strikes again there was a dude I deployed with who, in mixed company and unprompted as we lunched with the AUS Army cats, talked about this anime he is into where the characters LOOK like preteens but they're actually thousand year old demons and also the whole thing is just them having sex. anime people are a plague edit: wow, if only the people who believe in his work and twitter's free speech crusade and saving mankind hadn't gotten ate up on FTX so recently
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facialimpediment posted:aaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaAAAAAAAAaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAaaaAAAAA Even tech investors can’t be that stupid
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Tiny Timbs posted:Even tech investors can’t be that stupid Please don't make me hurt myself laughing. Also, Trump's idiot NFT sold out so Elon must figure there are enough idiots.
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ASAPI posted:I was always under the impression that scurvy was a disease of the past. Like, you have to simply lick a fruit/vegetable once a year or so to prevent. I would imagine that someone would accidently get their vitamin C (or whatever it was the prevents scurvy) via drinks or accidently eating fruits/veg at some point in life. My dude, I got scurvy when I graduated straight into the post-9/11 job market and couldn't find work for two years. I got scurvy because i literally couldn't afford to pay rent and eat at the same time when scraping by on odd jobs and getting paid under the table. I could afford ramen packets. Literally just ramen packets. That was my life. No one was giving me any loving juice boxes for free. Roommates? Sure, I had 4-5 roommates (the number varied) in a 2BR apartment. And this was Seattle in 2001, not New York! And why wasn't I able to find a job? Surely I had no skills, right? loving bzzt, wrong. I originally had a FTE job offer from F5 Networks waiting for me when I graduated, working as a software engineer, after interning there as an undergrad! ...But that offer was retracted in February 2001, four months before my graduation, due to the product I worked on (EDGE-FX, a web content caching device) getting shitcanned. (The rest of the team got laid off.) The dotcom bubble bursting, followed immediately by 9/11, absolutely destroyed the job prospects of people who happened to graduate that year. My whole career suffered as a result. Kesper North fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Dec 16, 2022 |
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lol I bet major shareholders love it when you blame interest rates on your share price sinking like a stone I'm sure Tesla's losses are on par with the general S&P-measured reduction and not greater by an order of magnitude. I'm sure.
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I mean, what major company hasnt lost over half their stock value ytd. That drat interest rate hike.
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Elon is in a perpetual state of "I'm not owned" despite being quite owned.Stultus Maximus posted:Please don't make me hurt myself laughing. How many were there?
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CBJSprague24 posted:Elon is in a perpetual state of "I'm not owned" despite being quite owned. 45,000
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Stultus Maximus posted:45,000 Christ, even after he disavowed it.
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Stultus Maximus posted:Please don't make me hurt myself laughing. This may be misleading, it seems likely the companies producing the NFTs are the ones buying them. https://www.engadget.com/nft-wash-t...175ljF9GSDGKAE0
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Tiny Timbs posted:This may be misleading, it seems likely the companies producing the NFTs are the ones buying them. Its almost always the case, they either wash buy through shell companies or it turns into a rug pull and get legit suckers to buy them.
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https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1603841536999002113?s=20&t=KKjWVCUB9VlTsumn0KmgNQ 100% believe this is true for Shaq
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maffew buildings posted:there was a dude I deployed with who, in mixed company and unprompted as we lunched with the AUS Army cats, talked about this anime he is into where the characters LOOK like preteens but they're actually thousand year old demons and also the whole thing is just them having sex. anime people are a plague Ahahaha that kind of person really exists? Holy cow. That sounds like someone Zack Parsons would have made up to mock in a front page article back in the day. Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1603841536999002113?s=20&t=KKjWVCUB9VlTsumn0KmgNQ Wtf leave Shaq alone not his fault people are greedy. Go after Patton Oswalt for appearing in ads for online gambling that industry is gearing up to ruin far more lives.
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Tiny Timbs posted:This may be misleading, it seems likely the companies producing the NFTs are the ones buying them. Trump participating in a pump & dump? That just doesn’t sound like something that he would do.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Wtf leave Shaq alone not his fault people are greedy. Go after Patton Oswalt for appearing in ads for online gambling that industry is gearing up to ruin far more lives. Seriously the insidious spread of online/from the phone gambling is going to ruin a lot of people.
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Platystemon posted:Trump participating in a pump & dump? But enough about Eric…
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Arrath posted:Seriously the insidious spread of online/from the phone gambling is going to ruin a lot of people. Oh for sure it’s so so bad. It’s been common in the UK for a long time and you see articles like this about how they microtarget their marketing to ruin lives: quote:Gambling killed my husband. We must stop this predatory industry claiming more lives quote:This time last year, my husband Luke and I had everything we wanted: each other, a lovely house and two wonderful children. Three months later, this life was shattered. On 22 April 2021, Luke took his own life. quote:But in 2020, Luke was furloughed because of the pandemic. He began gambling again in secret, reopening his old accounts. I remember him often commenting on how relentless the marketing emails he was getting were; he was concerned about the impact they would have on people who were already struggling with money… quote:They track their habits and patterns and vulnerabilities online to find out when best to advertise to them and what kind of emails they are most likely to open. They could, if they wanted to, use this information to help people, to block their accounts; but often they use it to drag them further into addiction. When people like my husband try not to gamble, they are targeted more aggressively. One gambler who got his data back from an online gambling company and shared it with the New York Times found that as someone who had given up gambling, he had been profiled as a customer to “win back”. https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/18/gambling-killed-husband-predatory-industry-free-bets-marketing-banned
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I have to say I don’t quite understand how people get addicted to gambling but I understand enough to know that it seems like, short of heroin addiction, it’s the quickest way to get to “so you’ve ruined your life” status.
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Very timely video from earlier this week. https://youtu.be/Pm5bTZRhncY As relevant to this discussion, the more accessible gambling is, the more likely people will engage in addictive/destructive gambling tendencies.
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you can get there WAY FASTER with gambling than heroin. heroin you have to build up a tolerance and habit, but gambling you can YOLO the life savings in, like, a week. you try to go big you go to the morgue with heroin. anyway both are not good, namaste
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pantslesswithwolves posted:I have to say I don’t quite understand how people get addicted to gambling but I understand enough to know that it seems like, short of heroin addiction, it’s the quickest way to get to “so you’ve ruined your life” status. Excitement, the thrill, the rush, more more more, endorphin explosion There is absolutely nothing logical about it and everything is tied into making your Lizard brain scream I AM SO ALIVE
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pantslesswithwolves posted:I have to say I don’t quite understand how people get addicted to gambling but I understand enough to know that it seems like, short of heroin addiction, it’s the quickest way to get to “so you’ve ruined your life” status. heroin at least has a physical form. gambling is one of those psychological things that certain people (myself included) are predisposed to and they try very very very hard to push every button they can to get you excited to throw money away. have you ever played a video game? have you ever gotten the good feelings and dopamine hits when something good happens and you get the nice audio jingles and visual stimulus saying "good job!"? now imagine that, but specifically tuned over decades specifically to tickle your brain, always getting flashier and more obnoxious.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Ahahaha that kind of person really exists? Holy cow. That sounds like someone Zack Parsons would have made up to mock in a front page article back in the day. These days it feels like 90% of the ads on the DC metro are for sports betting. The exceptions being a few select stops that are all military industrial complex or infosec.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Excitement, the thrill, the rush, more more more, endorphin explosion And like many addictions, some people are super susceptible and others are not for completely mysterious reasons. I have the same zero desire to gamble as I do to skydive. Thrill seekers I guess?
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I love playing $4 in lotto a week. Dream big pay small. My odds simply won’t get any better by playing more so a ticket will do.
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Stultus Maximus posted:And like many addictions, some people are super susceptible and others are not for completely mysterious reasons. I have the same zero desire to gamble as I do to skydive. Thrill seekers I guess? Skydiving loving owns though
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Skydiving loving owns though Having done it once I can say it was pretty rad. Enough of a rush to hop back onto a plane and do it again? Naw. Diving down from the cool air into the sweaty ballsack that is Taft, CA, however... yeah get me back in the air, please.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:I have to say I don’t quite understand how people get addicted to gambling but I understand enough to know that it seems like, short of heroin addiction, it’s the quickest way to get to “so you’ve ruined your life” status. You put $500 down on a horse and you made $2000 out of it for doing nothing but following your gut/brain so you throw $3000 at the next horse and you lose it all but you know what, you just gotta get a big win like the first time and you're almost back to even
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Skydiving loving owns though One day I'm going to try skydiving, just like in a Coleman Francis film.
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The gambling industry is one of a variety of openly predatory industries that just need to be nuked from orbit, targeting the purveyors rather than further victimizing the sad saps in their thrall. Same goes for payday loans and the plethora varieties of pseudoscience.
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