Rumor: I remember back in, ohh 2004 or so, Anime fans were CONVINCED companies like ADV were purposely making their DVDs look worse to prevent people from Reverse Importing in Japan. I've always wondered if that was true, or if Japan only sent America Shit transfers on purpose. Never found out.
I googled after that and apparently they all close at 11 pm now which is dumb lol.... but that sucks they don't have garden departments
I was going to say walmarts have garden departments... but I don't even know if there are 24 hour walmarts anymore.... the ones near me aren't and I am FOREVER SAD lol
I seriously went to walmart at like 4am all the time lol
I don't think people took me seriously last time... I told you they're getting married. Koisuru Boukun has arrived lol
It shouldn't fall to trans people to explain to cis people why creating laws that effectively amount to "If you have or ever had a penis, you must behave this way; If you have, or ever had a vagina, you must behave this other way" is horrifically dangerous for everyone's rights.
What!? All cultures have the same norms as mine!!!
cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch
www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...
I can't speak for anyone else, but knowing she was a transphobe made me not want to support her continued work. But learning the degree to which she was funding anti-trans lobbying made me not want to engaged with her past works too.
There's also the fact that Rowling has been fairly explicit that the money she earns through Harry Potter she's putting into anti-trans lobbying efforts.
There's a difference, IMHO, between an artist with a shitty private life, and an artist using their money to fund regressive social change.
Like fundamentally Hasbro is making a business decision that Harry Potter fans will love the IP and not be bothered by the anti-trans stuff.
I get it. I don't love it but I get it.
American businesses in 2026 are often immoral.
But to make them stop you have to stop consuming her shit.
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As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
NO NO NO YOU DON’T
GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA
federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL
tell everyone you know
www.freetaxusa.com
If you're wondering how bad things were at Pixar for women, the answer is pretty horrifyingly bad.
I'm not that means I have to go to school earlier and I already barely make it lol
“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit
yeah black is hard to get out... especially if you use certain types... black box dye is notorious for this lol
RT if $3000 would literally change your life
you manifested it
It's so nice to read a book written 25 years ago featuring a truly flawed and reprehensible protagonist knowing the author never had to come online and spoon feed the story to readers incapable of not treating fiction like a book of manners
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
My ears are still fucked up and I hate life
BTW it is EXTREMELY common for academic papers to declare Lara Croft the first playable female game character (a very easy fact to debunk). As a grad student I wrote a paper that traced every appearance of this "fact" to a single paper, which is why you don't only engage with academic texts!!
Ah, interesting gambit, let's just check how pivoting from reliable software people actually use to an AI focused subscription service is going for Adobe real quick
Over the past year, every single time one of the apps or services I use suddenly became less reliable and more buggy, I never have to look far for the "Claude is amazing and now writes most of my code" post for the devs involved.
with A/I translation it's also like. why the fuck should anyone pay premium prices for english releases that are just machine translated when you can pay less and support the author more directly by buying the original and machine translating it yourself at no extra cost lol
I mean yeah they seem out of touch in general, but all the press releases (on their side, not seven seas side) about this acquisition mention AI translation lol
that's a nice way to put "wants to force AI on everyone" lol
Every professional translator I know has the same position on this and can easily explain the reasons for it when asked. The fact that executives don't even bother to ask and force translators to work on AI/MTL slop regardless makes it clear where their priorities lie: money trumps quality.
Anyway, pay your manga translators (and everybody else involved) a living wage and give them royalties, for fuck's sake. You're bigger than ever and can afford rates many times bigger than the 90s on the bestsellers topping the fucking NYT charts. Embarrassing you refuse to take care of your own.
