Polkadot Stingray

And anything else on my Japanese music playlist :D

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1qp2kWRqMd77nsVXr2jG5um4DpMWNn5Y

Yes, he has a consistent record of voting in line with the arms manufacturers’ lobby interests. He does not believe gun violence should even be researched.

Dead kids changing a Republican’s behavior on a politicized issue???

Cool, now do guns.

If you like that, look up “Blendo” from the Robot Wars era (before BattleBots). Created by Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, it was also a spinner. And insanely effective. And outrageously dangerous

“A question: Would the flesh-beings like some tea?”

“I’m making an interjection: oopsie woopsie, HK made a mistake!”

🤢🤮

Meatbags?

I’m all seriousness, this is just another in a long litany of horribly oppressive actions taken by China’s government. Not looking forward to the US moving in that direction

FiveThirtyEight, specifically:

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-benchmarks/

Sense & Sensibility 🤓

Get it? Because it’s a period piece?

I’ll see myself out

Hahaha I figured something like but couldn’t resist the opportunity :D

For those following along: SEAWATER IS NOT SALINE EITHER. Just making sure we’re clear on everything

Wait you actually thought Boy and the Heron had a plot?

My wife literally has multiple limbs covered in Miyazaki tattoos and even she walked out of that movie going “WTF was that mess?”

We’ll just have to agree to disagree here. Clearly we have different opinions of what makes for a good story

HARD disagree. You don’t have to enjoy it, everyone is free to like what they like, but all three films are critically acclaimed and adored by fans worldwide for a reason. And no, not all popular media is good media, but these are not popular enough to fall into that category.

Miyazaki’s movies are more in the “visually stunning but mid” status IMO. Like, Howl’s was great, everything else is meh to me. But I also know that many people love them - including my wife - so I respect that they are good movies.

Koichiro Ito was the producer, NOT the director who is famous for creating those movies. He collaborated with the studio, he did not write or direct the films. Please do not destroy and undermine these beautiful works of art over a single credited contributor who did not create the films.

Further, he was only arrested in February of 2024 so the studio hasn’t even had an opportunity to turn down future collaboration with him.

This is a trash headline and complete click bait

Tourists are not being banned from the geisha district

Tourists will be FINED if they enter PRIVATE STREETS that are not meant for or prepared to handle the tourism industry

The geisha district will remain open to tourists. Full stop.

Sky News is garbage

“According to SAMHSA, 38% of homeless people abused alcohol while 26% abused other drugs.” (These are overlapping statistics)

“Most research shows that around 1/3 of people who are homeless have problems with alcohol and/or drugs, and around 2/3 of these people have lifetime histories of drug or alcohol use disorders”

This means roughly 11% of homeless people started their abuse as a consequence of becoming homeless, while 22% of homeless people may have become homeless due to their substance abuse.

So you’d essentially be proposing that we don’t help 78% of all homeless people because the other 22% of them would misuse the money.

And that’s without even discussing the fact that many of those 22% could be rehabilitated if they’re provide with appropriate healthcare on top of the monetary benefits

Unsurprisingly, when people are given enough money to make immediate, material improvements to their life, they do.

If you’re homeless and miserable, suffering psychological and/or physical pain, and someone gives you $20, the most immediate relief for that suffering is often escapism into things like drugs and alcohol. In situations of extreme distress, humans tend to favor solutions that immediately, if only temporarily, remove the stress. We see this behavior all across humanity.

So the thing you spend money on in that situation iis typically the thing that will, in your belief, most improve your short - and medium-term condition. Give them $20, they’ll get alcohol. Give them $500, warm clothes and other durable QOL improvements. $7500? A car. $50,000? Long-term shelter.

Sadly, this study isn’t telling us anything that psychologists and social workers didn’t already know :/

I’m happy to talk about antitrust and breaking up conglomerates. But that needs to be a big conversation across many industries not just “Google bad, grrr”.

If you’re referencing WEI, btw, it is one of the topics people have been most misled about. Can link you to my Mastodon thread where I break down all the misunderstanding if you’d like

Unpopular opinion here but service providers should be allowed to enforce whatever conditions they want (within the law) for accessing and using their service.

There are plenty of other video hosting services. If you don’t like what YouTube is doing, don’t use their service. Not sure why people feel entitled to free content AND the ability to keep them from earning revenue.

The expectation of free content with no revenue stream attached is unsustainable. Pay for the content, or let them monetize it

And this is coming from someone who runs pi-hole on their network for security reasons.