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Honestly the idea itself, as insane and barely disguised a fetish as it is, isn’t even that bad, to me.

It’s the planned aftermath that is pretty horrendous?

The idea that they would need that for their relationship to evolve in a positive direction when they’re already basically a couple by Shindig is genuinely sad, if they wanted that grim a story beat they should probably place it after they’re already an established couple and Mal has gotten over his shit about companions, then there’s some good meat on the bone in terms of character dynamics to explore.

~ Man who never did drugs, 2025

Right, I should’ve said “accidental byproduct of non-consensual experimentation on the population” but yeah, still beyond the pale.

• Given how Serenity turned out, firefly’s cancellation was probably for the best, making the reavers the intentional by-product of alliance experiments completely destroyed the nuances of the factions in the war of independence.

• Inuyasha ran out of ideas 10-15 tankobon in, and Takahashi just kept milking it for the money.

• Every fandom that accepts the “x is for everyone” motto is accepting enshittification and casualization with open arms. Air and water are for everyone, even bread has people who dislike it, for something to be unique it necessarily will have haters. The right word is anyone.

• Archer had a bit of a dip when Adam Reed left the writing team but it recovered and had one of the best endings possible for a series that long lived.

Because it does not fit the definition.

It would probably fit reckless endangerment, but murder requires the intent to cause death specifically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Dallas_ICE_facility_shooting

I dunno where the others are but they better be at the range, cause this guy did the opposite of helping.

That would imply they agree with your definition of right and wrong.

It’s definitely affecting it, yes.

For most people being sexually desired and knowing they are is a very important part of a relationship.

No? Https is just the connection protocol? You can do it over LAN only just fine?

You’re appealing to definitions as if they matter in real world contexts.

If I created a group called “the bad people killers” and started killing people would that “by definition” mean everyone I killed was bad?

Communism may be defined as a wheelbarrow full of monkeys for all that matters, in the real world every self-sufficient communist regime was a shitshow of state capitalism, coercion, censorship, and state violence. All the drawbacks of capitalism and none of the perks.

That’s what communism, descriptively, is. The day you figure out a way to manifest reality by sheer will alone without having to deal with the real world I will be interested in what something is “by definition”

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Authoritarian State Capitalism

Yeah exactly, communism.

Yes but you should write that by hand on clean paper

The only streaming services that make sense to me are the niche ones that focus on original content.

Wrestling streaming services like njpw world, trillerTV, or wrestle universe, specialised libraries like Shudder.

Generalised shit for mainstream content is not worth the money.

My brother in Christ you need to take a break from politics. People are allowed to make wrong assessments and come to wrong conclusions, it’s not a moral question.

Unless you think the vote was to legitimately attain immoral ends, as in done intentionally to cause people to suffer, for instance, this is a person who mishandled her duty to the country, not a zealot or a monster. Just be chill.

Depends, lots of churches welcome lay members of the community to the ancillary activities they organise. Catholic churches in my experience are much more embedded in their communities in southern europe regardless of the status of the people participating.

My father has been lapsed for 40+ years, never shows up for church and doesn’t participate in any of the religious aspects but he still runs free arts and crafts workshops in the parish buildings, for the local kids whether they’re part of the congregation or not.

It’s the fact that church comes with an actual presupposition that it isn’t optional, while de facto being optional.

Going to church (in contexts where denomination shopping isn’t a thing at least) means going to a place where a person is not there to validate your particular perspective but instead often to tell you and everyone else in the group to do better, publicly, not because they’re better but because they appeal to higher principles whose correctness is taken for granted buly the congregation.

See also: the absolute brain lottery winners on the internet bitching that the pope isn’t a real catholic for telling them they’re bad catholics (arguably bad christians in general, definitely bad people) for dehumanising poor people and immigrants legal and illegal.

I’m far from a catholic (that is, I’m actually a lapsed catholic if you ask the church, but I was never a believer, just born into it) but there just isn’t a space where you’re going to participate, respect the ethics and morals, still fall short of them, be chastised, and be forgiven, that doesn’t involve some religious aspect.

Growth and constant growth are not the same.

Obviously growing a business is positive in some circumstances, the point is that growth for growth’s sake becomes the name of the game once you go public, whereas when privately held the company can decide whether it makes sense to grow in that moment or focus on other goals in the short term to benefit a long term strategy.

Then they collectively forgot about that last part.

It’s not “companies”, it’spublicly traded companies.

And the answer is quite simple really: the moment you become publicly traded your stock becomes your product, and everything else becomes a means to deliver better stock prices to your investors.

Not all companies are publicly traded, I patronise privately held companies wherever possible because as a client I’m still at the core of their business strategy, and I’m wary of the alternative.

At the end of the day, bad strategies result in bad products and services. Vote with your wallet, it’s very possible.