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@_Controversies_ Defa Lucy only does preorders for collector dolls, and honestly 3 months for a preorder is pretty short. I mean, Mattel just opened a preorder for a doll in January that isn't scheduled to ship until December.

Yea i have nothing nice to say about them

Defa doll finally got a label to ship scanned...not actually dropped off lol. Meaning SHE AINT EVEN BEEN DROPPED OFF AT UPS FOR 3 MONTHS

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it. Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying. Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence." Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter." Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter. They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created. One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility." Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies. That's the metered intelligence business model. And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

I’m 43 now. I’ve worked 50-70 hours a week my entire adult life. I’ve lost years of time with my children and loved ones just so we could afford to live. This life is not only cruel, but unnecessarily cruel. A better world is possible.

The mechanism is specific and worth reading carefully. Able-bodied adults without dependents must now document 80 hours per month of work, training, or volunteering to maintain SNAP. Job searching - actively looking for work - does not count. Miss the threshold over any three-month period: ineligible for three years. The exemption that previously protected former foster youth from this time limit has been eliminated. A population already more likely to face housing instability, academic disruption, and unemployment now runs the same clock as everyone else. The average SNAP benefit is $6 per day. That is what this policy fight costs at the individual level. The bill that built this requirement cut $187 billion from SNAP in the same legislation that extended tax cuts for corporations and wealthier Americans. That contrast is in the record.

SHEESH

If you poured a gallon of poison in a CEO's pool, you'd be arrested, for attempted murder. They pour 10,000 gallons into your drinking water, that's just business.

@este_n13 @sibert1m @TheRealZephryss She's attractive, wearing makeup, has a good figure, AND is showing leg and cleavage like wtf are they even talking about???

@sibert1m @TheRealZephryss If you can’t tell she’s a woman head to your local ER now and tell them you are going blind. This is serious I’m not even joking. Worried for you

Here's an official look at the Anne Bonny cutscene from Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced

My wife spent an entire year taking on extra work and smashing all her targets so that she could ask for a pay rise, they actually gave her one and then literally 2 days later our landlord put up our rent by more than the raise because he decided it was time to be paid more money

@marmolaade I ain't buying one, I've just never seen them irl. 👀 Might stop by and take a peek.

@404lucknotfound Yes it is! I like looking at their selection, but the pullips are so overpriced here.

The place with the azone doll also has pullips now!!! That’s crazy, seeing a Pullip in the US in the year of 2026

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I just learned that Florida has a “Free Kill” law where if you die due to medical malpractice and you were 25 and older, unmarried, with no children, your family cannot sue for wrongful death. My mind is blown. I thought it was bs. I had to go look it up

The same people telling you that you should eat ramen noodles and white bread sandwiches everyday to save money while working overtime are the same people that will be telling you you should’ve just taken better care of yourself when your body is broken and you want healthcare.

A reminder that if you shop on bookshop.org you can select your favorite indie bookstore and all of the profits of your purchase will go directly to them! They frequently run different sales (including free shipping) with a massive selection of books to choose from !!

Google announces it will now prioritize AI-generated answers in search results over human-written website articles. A move that could make it significantly harder for independent websites to gain organic traffic starting next Tuesday.

Capitalism has ruined people's perception of the world and made them think it's normal to be extremely selfish and greedy when it isn't. It's not natural to think human beings should go without shelter, food, and healthcare simply because they have no money. It's disturbing.

Can't raise minimum wage because it will kill jobs. Can't raise taxes on the bourgeoisie class because it will kill jobs. Can't ditch oil because it will kill jobs. But when these companies replace 50% of their workforce with AI, it's "sorry, that's just the way it goes."

Friendly reminder btw:

My hot take is US Senators should be paid whatever their states minimum wage is. That’s how you represent your constituents, you live like them.