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78k jobs for 2 million unemployed, doctors not doing sick notes, workers being referred to as "lower-value human capital" to sack them for AI I'd invoke a certain historical figure whos name rhymes with cutlery but we can't even do that without getting fucking arrested

yeah it might just be over. like my whole industry I don't really know where to go from here. How do you exist in an ecosystem that takes all your work and gives you nothing in return

It was a ridiculous ad but the fact that that Azur Lane titty skydiving ad is apparently illegal in the EU is very funny

YOU GOT A LICENSE TO VIEW DOCUMENTS OR CREATE SPREADSHEETS?????????????????? CREATING SPREADSHEETS, SLIDESHOWS, OR OTHER DOCUMENTS WITHOUT BEING VERIFIED OVER THE 18 COULD BE ILLEGAL IN YOUR COUNTRY

its kind of awesome that if you write a book or make a comic or a cartoon or a video game or make music or make a movie all human right to privacy is revoked from you immediately

@dadsweb67 In fairness, a lot of learning resources push that. It might have changed, but I know Wanikani used to push the idea that it's an honorific - it's been a minute since I revised that card so I can't remember whether it's only in the mnemonic, but maybe it stems from there?

Just saw a comment that they “love that Japanese call it Mr Fuji” and am non-ironically wondering how many foreigners think the san in Fuji-san is the honorific san and not just “Mt”. It never really occurred to me before

Suddenly feeling like I need to remove all the citations dated after 2022 from my dissertation just in case if things have gotten this bad

Applying for jobs as a neurodivergent person is so wild because what do you mean I’m supposed to apply for jobs where I don’t fit every single criterion they listed for a reason?!

You know, i was about to say "haha it did the FUNNY MOVIE SCREAM!!! Get it??" But honestly, I'm glad steam did this. We need actual whimsy back, not just corporate assimilation of memes.

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This is hilariously cheap btw

My buddy who just started playing was pointing out things like the footsteps sounds on the railroad in Thanalan and the footsteps changing during rain. It was neat to see usually overlooked sound design choices highlighted by a new player like this video shows.

gen z is mostly incredibly immature and obsessed with social media’s perception of every single thing they do, so they consider everything “cringe” by default and exaggerate anything that IS considered “social media friendly” by extreme as a result, instead of actually being queer and “woke”, they do a full circle and end up being just as homophobic and conservative as the previous generations via mockery, posturing, and imaginary self-imposed limitations and shaming, such as “sex bad because capitalism” i’m saying this as gen z btw, it’s really annoying to try to reason with people like this. it feels like they have no personality and have to gather it from somewhere else

I don't care

More generally, "the Internet isn't real life" stopped being true a while ago. That's like saying telephones aren't real life at this point.

The idea is to find a group of people most people regard as terrible examples, use them to make revoking passports a more acceptable form of punishment, then expand it from there.

SYBAU this is, yet again, not about kids, and everyone can see that by now lol whoever supports these dystopian surveillance bullshit should never be in power and no matter what they will never get my vote or support

never been a huge fan of basically lethargic nihilists adopting left-wing language to justify their complete incuriosity about the world

You buy a German anvil. It contains 83 moving parts and requires winding twice a day. It's forged from excellent steel, holds tolerances across all three striking faces to within three microns, includes a beautifully indexed horn-adjustment mechanism nobody asked for, and requires a proprietary 11-point spanner should you need to replace the rebound calibration bushing. It runs flawlessly for years, but one day it starts up in limp mode because the onboard anvil-management system detects that it's overdue for its 50,000-strike inspection. You search AliExpress for a Chinese anvil, and are presented with a multitude of offerings from such household-name brands as DUKXJYIBF, HDBTGMXI, AND UEJQIP. They're all priced to within a few pennies of each other, appear completely identical except for the nameplate, and obviously all came out of the same factory. You text your blacksmith friend to ask if they're legit. He tells you he got one like that from KIXJBU a few years ago, and that it's been great and a terrific deal. You thank him, but KIXJBU seems to have folded so you buy the one from UEJQIP. When it arrives, it feels suspiciously light. You scratch it and realize it's iron-plated aluminum. You buy an American anvil. It's five times the price of the competition, but it comes from a brand that your great-grandfather used to love. It comes boxed with a warranty registration postcard, twenty pages of safety instructions, assay certificate, and a regulatory slip which lists its FCC certification and ITAR registration. It looks just like your friend's KIXJBU. There's a "Made In China" sticker on the bottom. You buy a Russian anvil. It arrives coated in cosmoline, wrapped in newspaper from 1974, and weighing 40% more than advertised. The finish looks like it was machined with a shovel. The face is not flat, but somehow this does not matter. You drop it off a truck, accidentally leave it outside for six winters, and use it to straighten a bulldozer blade. It's fine. You buy a Swedish anvil. It comes flat-packed in a long cardboard box with cheerful Neo-Grotesk lettering and a line drawing of a smiling man assembling it with an Allen key. The instructions contain no words, only pictograms showing the anvil face, horn, waist, feet, and 112 identical-looking fasteners. Halfway through assembly, you discover that the pritchel hole was installed upside down, but only because you used peg B17 where you should have used peg B71. Once assembled, it is clean, stable, and works better than it has any right to. You immediately wonder whether you should have bought two. You buy a Japanese anvil. It arrives wrapped in rice paper inside a paulownia box, accompanied by a certificate bearing three generations of signatures and a photograph of the first production example being presented to the Emperor. The face has been hand-polished by a seventy-eight-year-old master whose family has made striking surfaces since the Muromachi period. You are given detailed instructions for oiling it with a cloth folded in a specific way. It is the most beautiful object you own. You never quite work up the nerve to strike it.