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Don’t call it age verification. Call it centralised personal data collection. And understand that it serves surveillance, not safety for children.

sent this to the team today everything great comes from being able to delay gratification for as long as possible and it feels like we're collectively losing our ability to do that

"V is a letter" i don't think so..

Again?? Okay. Pokémon fell off. They got so comfortable being at the top that they stopped trying. What's even worse is that people are okay with this. -Gens 1 and 2's plot involved a crime syndicate kidnapping Pokémon and selling them on the black market. -Gen 3 involved two eco-terrorists beefing with each other for territory and risking ecological upheaval. -Gen 4 had a man striving to create a "perfect universe" by destroying the current one. -Gen 5 had a man aiming to lay claim to a region using, dare I say, fascistic tactics to install a totalitarian regime. Also in Gen 5, Colress worked with Ghetsis while rejecting his ideology. Colress wanted to draw out the full potential of Pokémon even if it causes casualties. Can you tell which Gen is my favorite? This is when it starts to fall off. -Gen 6 had a man who wanted to rid the world of what he deems ugly by activating a weapon of mass destruction. -Gen 7 had delinquents led by a guy who was upset for losing to the [best] professor. You also had a woman who sought to preserve things she "loved" against their will. -Gen 8 had a VERY preventable plot where Fake Tony Stark wanted to immediately solve a problem that wouldn't happen for another 1000 years. -Gen 9 was about helping a guy find his parents, who were already dead after a freak accident involving time travel. Sounds pretty interesting, but you have to play through the other 88% of the game that doesn't talk about this first. A pointless school plot and a pointless plot involving kids who are misunderstood. Can you tell which Gen is my most disliked? All of this to say the storytelling got bland, and the interesting parts were muddled with blandness. The gimmicks began to replace creativity as the roster additions became smaller. They began to offer less content and replace it with visuals. Powering through processing problems doesn't cut it anymore. Pokémon Violet crashed on me four separate times, more than any game I've played since Fallout 3 on PS3 back in 2010. The worst part? Pokémon's audience. This isn't an attack on the fans, mind you. This is a critique of how the corpos get away with peddling "new thing" and raking in the money. They know they can metaphorically offer low-effort microwaved burger patties as long as it has the "essence" of Pokémon on it and the fans happily will lap it up at retail price. And now we have Pokémon, but it's DQB/AC/Minecraft and doesn't commit to just Pokémon since you're a Ditto cosplaying as a human. It's extremely difficult being a fan of Pokémon. My standards for a good Pokémon game aren't high at all, but they continually fall below that bar. I'm tired, man.

Last year, France sent us 22.6 terawatt hours of (mostly nuclear) electricity, about eight percent of our total. It also sent Italy 26.2 terawatt hours, Germany 23.1, and Switzerland 20.1 Ours and Germany's crazy energy policies would cost us a lot more if France wasn't, kindly, running a reliable nuclear grid, producing Europe's cheapest non-hydro electricity. Thank God for France! gemenergyanalytics.substack.com/p/updates-on-f…

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This is so creative

Yor is insanely strong 💀

This is like calling Christmas "The Holidays". Because non-Christians celebrate it too. Chinese New Year is based on the Chinese Lunisolar calendar, NOT the lunar calendar. These people spend 364 days of the year denying Taiwan is a part of China. But on Chinese New Year, suddenly tries to claim our holiday as theirs, and attempt to change its name.

The United Kingdom is escalating its censorship and mass surveillance. When Mullvad tried to criticise this with the TV ad “And Then?”, it was banned on British television.

The UK has announced plans to fast-track legislation requiring “age verification for VPN use”. The correct term, however, is not age verification but identity verification. A law like this would require everyone to identify themselves in order to use a VPN. This would pose a risk to whistleblowers, violate human rights, and represent yet another step toward an authoritarian society.

NO ONE ASKED FOR THIS FUCKING SHIT

“I like staring at you” 🥹

Juste l’artbook de tous les décors des Ghibli

Miyazaki's attention to detail is so obsessive that the calculations Jiro performs in this scene is real

Some of Masako Sakano's animation assistant work for Howl's Moving Castle (2004), dir. Hayao Miyazaki