There was a camping anime some years ago that was sponsored by a group of camping and outdoors sites in Japan, and it was a pretty big hit. They even saw an uptick in campers, especially first-timers, after the show started airing.
This was also a period where there was a weird amount of anime that had, like, newlywed couples and couples with young kids, slice of life stuff. People put two and two together and started making jokes about the Japanese government covertly sponsoring anime studios to adapt material that depicted a positive image of family life to encourage people to have kids. Abe, being the Prime Minister at the time, had his face plastered all over the memes about it.
Can't believe it every time I see some county passing a raw milk law and acting like it's some great victory for consumers.
We spent literal millennia trying to find ways to preserve dairy as a safe, edible source of food, be it cheese, yoghurt, whatever, because milk is SO FUCKING CONTAMINATED WHEN IT'S RAW. Milk spoils so fast that it has to be worked around as part of old-time baking recipes! We've used science and industrial infrastructure to make it as safe as possible and that shit still becomes unconsumable like ten days after you buy it, even if you refrigerate it immediately!
Everyone seems to have noticed a few hours later so I think he snuck a tweet out at three in the morning, which I'm taking as a good sign that he's recovering fine.
Oh cool my For You feed on Twitter is doing that thing again where it starts giving me right-wing psychos despite my only follows being left-wingers and FGC dorks that never talk about politics.
Real weird how these unhinged maniacs flood onto my feed every time an ongoing major political event happens. Funny bug there, Elon. Only started once you bought the website and fired all the content moderation people, Elon.
So there's a bunch of people mocking the newest edition of Amazing Spider-Man, and I gotta ask, as someone who doesn't read comics: do the stories ever end? I can't tell if these comics ever actually have definite endings or if it's just a string of General Hospital style twists where brief victory is immediately obliterated by some new crisis. If it's just that they run for a few years with a story arc using a roster of characters, end it, and then start all over, I can get behind that, I guess.
Gonna be completely honest, I have no idea if the RAF sucked or not, but given that every single encounter with West German police either ended in an uncharacteristically escalated gunfight or quite literal "suicide by gunshot to back of the head", I gotta assume that the GSG-9 were given standing orders to just murder them if they got the chance.
Dune in the style of French New Wave. Just a bunch of mundane conversations laden with layers of metaphor and subtext, and a bunch of unhinged, non-diegetic cuts to paintings and ordinary household objects as puns and visual metaphors for the dialogue.
The movie will run four and a half hours and only about fifteen minutes of it will not involve someone monologuing at length.
IT people, broadly speaking, are given horrendously lax access to data, because the nature of their jobs is making sure access and delegation of that data remains proper for the rest of the organization. Can't really delegate access to data if you aren't able to...well, also give yourself access to that data. Back in the day IT admins used to work in pairs that had to authorize each other's actions, precisely because it's obviously a security concern that a lone IT admin has access to basically everything, or can give themselves access to most things they want.
To be clear, you're never getting away with a stunt like that. Someone is gonna hear of a data leak and see the very short list of who's allowed to look at that data, and who has been recently added and removed from that access, and they're going to find you pretty quickly. But, if an IT guy with admin rights wants to do it, there's really nothing other than getting fired or arrested that's stopping them from just doing it.
Everyone in IT knows just how bad security is, and everyone outside of IT is either blissfully unaware, or has an inkling and is desperately ignoring it. It's the same problem every other kind of preventative action plan has, whether it's IT security or climate change: preventing a disaster is expensive, nebulous, and difficult to explain to people outside it's own expertise, and if it does work, nothing ever happens, and nobody can be sure it actually did anything in the first place.
Adage of the IT department: If everything is working, it's "why do we pay you?". If anything is broken, it's also "why do we pay you?".
Once the Japanese zoomers that can't physically tolerate reading a visual novel longer than the LotR trilogy are in control of the anime market, we'll finally get a proper Saber route adaptation of F/SN, I know it. Literally all of the animated adaptations of any part of F/SN to-date are predicated on having an audience of thirty-somethings with prior knowledge from the visual novel.
It's insane that a property that fucking popular has no functional telling of the groundwork version of its story that actually makes sure the audience understands how everything functions and establishes character motivations that you're expected to have prior knowledge of in UBW and Heaven's Feel. Telling people "read a fifty-hour visual novel before you watch any of the anime" is such a no-sell proposition lmao
Show that was very well received years ago either got enough source material to make a new season, or the studio that owns the rights whiffed on multiple other adaptations in a row, and are looking to cash out on an established property. Extremely likely to be underwhelming or only fun for prior fans of the property, but on occasion causes an explosive second wind for the property at-large.
This lady made a post in 2020 that has now surfaced of her...inserting her fingers into a woman's cadaver in front of her father. She was apparently medically abused by her father and his surgeon friend as a teenager because of the appearance of her labia and has clearly internalized a lot of trauma about it. Doesn't excuse her behavior, but she's definitely got some serious problems she needs professional help to work through.
You know for like the first two lines or so, I thought the reply was going to be a clever put-down about how the world is collectively starving North Korea of its ability to transition away from its current socioeconomic structure, but no, it's just epic lib posting about how backwards North Korea is.
If we actually did things like lifting sanctions and embargoes and sending free supplies for infrastructure, yeah, North Korea would be doing a whole lot better, but whatever.
Yeah the only reason I have one is because I have some beyerdynamic 250 ohm headphones, so I need something with a dedicated power supply to drive them. The one I have does just fine, I'm just idly looking at newer models and seeing if there's anything worthwhile in getting a moderately better one. Probably not.
If I were using balanced headphones/IEMs (the ones with one headphone jack for each ear) then I'd be able to justify it, but since I use a headset with a single standard 3.5mm jack, that balanced headphone feature is kind of meaningless. Even though my headphones are high impedance, they're also not really that difficult to drive otherwise, so just having any amp/dac combo is pretty much good enough.
Keep telling myself I don't need a new DAC but those Fiio desktop DACs are looking tempting. I mean, most of them are comically expensive, but a couple of the mid-range models seem reasonable.
As much as "booba vtubers" attract their own brand of bellyaching and discourse, at least it's usually about the comparatively banal back-and-forth of fanservice/simps/coomers and not "hey is this person pandering to pedophiles?"
Disclaimer, just my two cents with how I understand this stuff, which is pretty surface level, all things considered.
The alienation described by Marx and Engels comes from the Hegelian master/slave dynamic within a capitalist context of wages and profit-seeking, where the value of labor is divorced from the product of the labor in such a way that the maker/bondsman/worker does not receive the compensation his creation demands (the value of his labor). In this way, class-consciousness of labor is a collectivized equivalent to the self-actualized fulfillment that Hegel describes. Both outcomes result in the destruction of the position of the Master (Capitalist) in the social hierarchy.
Put broadly, whether you're talking philosophical or economical, the Slave exists just fine with or without the Master (as the Slave would produce for his own needs, even if the Master did not exist to demand production), while the Master cannot exist without the Slave beneath him in the hierarchy, no matter what the Master does otherwise. Slaves do not need Masters, but Masters need Slaves to observe their superior position in hierarchy. In a more pithy way, for the Master, Hell is Other People, and their only two options are to perpetuate the hierarchy forever, or witness the destruction of the self as the Master, and lower themselves to equal footing with those they once demanded reify their superiority. Obviously, that's an incredibly difficult thing for basically anyone in that position to accept without being forced to do so.
It's been doing that to me as well. It's pretty obviously looking at topic tags for my most recent videos and trying to give me channels related to those tags that are getting sub-1k view counts. When most of my viewing was of Jerma VODs, I was getting small-time gaming channels. After binging Dankpods and his related channels, I'm getting a bunch of very small channels of people reviewing niche electronics and demoing their new cymbals/drum kit.
There was a camping anime some years ago that was sponsored by a group of camping and outdoors sites in Japan, and it was a pretty big hit. They even saw an uptick in campers, especially first-timers, after the show started airing.
This was also a period where there was a weird amount of anime that had, like, newlywed couples and couples with young kids, slice of life stuff. People put two and two together and started making jokes about the Japanese government covertly sponsoring anime studios to adapt material that depicted a positive image of family life to encourage people to have kids. Abe, being the Prime Minister at the time, had his face plastered all over the memes about it.