I start the season super pessimistic on must of the anime based on title and then end up heavily invested. Generally, it’s a romance.
Warrior Princess and Barbaric King. It’s not bad, but I feel like they are too focused on world building to tell the titular characters.
Watari-Kun’s ******* is About To Explode. I was pleased by how well the characters developed.
Pass the Monster Meat. It was not exactly what I expected.
I got about halfway through episode 2 and decided it wasn’t for me.
That’s the fucked-up thing, though. Their subscriber count has almost doubled since 2024—yet they are hemorrhaging money like this. Smells like hookers and blow in here.
I though it was Azumanga Daioh for a second.
Just checked this out and caught up in a day. I’m so glad I did.
It’s true, 80% of the people who have retired from my workplace over the past year never showed up again.
That’s two WoT references references practically back to back. Something must be twisting the weave.
I like the idea, but how to handle authentication in a decentralized system?
We use fission+fusion! We randomly divide our genome, providing the information we have accumulate over Eons, then fuse with another to combine our knowledge. Family group animals are weird because we need to perform additional learning, vs most other animals that run mostly off instinct.
I’m a straightforward kind of person.
That’s probably what it is. When you specifically say you have a beef with the Watchtower, they will nope right out. If they stick around, they have doubts and are rebelling.
Read about the Watchtower.
Form several critical opinions.
Explain to them that they are in a cult, the Watchtower is harmful, and provide your opinions.
They are not allowed to consort with people who criticize the Watchtower, so you will both plant seeds of doubt and never be bothered again.
The conversation around these memes are super therapeutic for those of us raised in fundie households.
The science is finding how and why the superstition works.
It’s not that you don’t have a point. Any approach blindly will miss nuance. I had to reread the article to make sure I had not missed a conversation about existing smokers. I’m not sure where the policy addresses existing smokers. The article expressed hope that the government will provide cessation support, but not much else.
Not exactly worded as such, but my comment is saying that raising taxes will affect both new and existing users.
I think my biggest concern with making it illegal is brought on by the USA prohibition era. Taxing it into the ground without providing a direction for people to go will most likely do the same.
Maybe a more clear path would have been to both restrict access AND increase taxes. I have seen some places increase the smoking age further. Maybe increase the age every other year. Leave synthetic items alone for now, pushing people to zyn, vape, gum, mints and patches. Later, increase on items that are now for cessation.
The reason I bring up the taxation is because it can go directly to public health funding.
People born after 07 are not yet 21. This bill is explicitly aiming at new smokers.
Increasing the tax will force people away from nicotine products. Making it illegal to purchase just creates a black market. It makes more sense to me to crush the market itself. People will smoke, but keeping smoke free zones and making it difficult to distribute tobacco products will reduce it significantly.
I think it’s better to significantly increase taxation on these things. Tax it at 1 pound per cigarette/gram/ml. Continuously increase the tax until the only way to get it is from someone who grows some in their garden.
They also had fishing line going to his mouth and pulling on it caused him to flap his gums.
I’m not connected enough not to go down with everyone else using polymarket.
It’s an interesting equivocation. It was just considered copying. I think nobody but studio execs and jealous exes thought about it.