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That's not, like, news though. Right? I mean, human trafficking often relies on sedation. Sleeping people are easier to hide in a tiny space, and children are notoriously uncooperative. I would bet folding money that it isn't just the small boat smugglers who do this.

I've worked for not-for-profits. Profit is still a motivator. They need funds to operate. Obtaining funds, controlling budgets, it's all part of the same thought process.

The only way to avoid profit as a motivator is to eliminate competition and provide fixed budgets. You will have X money to achieve Y goals. Your success depends only on achieving Y, and failure does not diminish your budget. Once you let profit in the door, it will seek out the people driven by it and plug them into decision-making positions.

Profit is always a motivator.

Did he say "wash" or "watch" your behind?

I suppose that all depends on your personal standards for beauty on both ends of the equation.

Link is mobile cancer.

Exactly this. Phrases like "in my opinion" or "I think" are on some list of phrases to be avoided that everyone seemed to get at the same time like 15 years ago. Of course everything you say is your opinion or something you think, but you include those phrases to acknowledge that you are aware that you aren't claiming to describe objective truth.

Anakin has grown up a Jedi. He is conflicted, because he knows that Obi-Wan believes the Jedi are good and that the Sith are evil. But Anakin has legitimate grievances, and he knows that his best friend and mentor cannot see beyond the Jedi bias. Anakin has been corrupted by the dark side, but the Jedi indoctrination is an equal and opposite delusion.

Of course, none of that complexity or pathos is explored in the prequels. The dialogue is shit because Lucas is bad at writing dialogue. But if you watch the Clone Wars and Rebels, those concepts are explored in much greater detail.

Nothing wrong with Swift, but she's not a political though-leader. Best I can tell, the conservative vitriol has more to do with misogyny than any particular message she's putting out into the world.

Who's that lady that wrote the folk song "It's not going away"? There are like three or four folk groups and troubadours writing protest songs for tiktok. Mon Rovia with Heavy Foot, Jesse Welles with The Poor, stuff like that.

Taylor Swift sorta got under Trump's skin, but she's not particularly political.

Nazi is racist, more news at 11.

Right, like I get not wanting to fly to London on a Thursday for a show on Sunday. I used to work for a company in Europe, and they flew us out for training annually, and even they didn't book us in middle seats.

But the second video makes me question his sanity and his perception of reality. I lost all sympathy for whatever logistical issues he faced, and I doubt he wasn't the primary source of all his problems.

Shit, man, if he had just stopped after the first bit, I'd probably be like "well, he sounds like an asshole, but he seems to have a legitimate complaint."

It's tough to be an optimist these days. But like, at least they'll flood first, right?

4k tvs existed before the content existed. I think the larger issue is that the difference between what is and what could be is not worth the additional expense, especially at a time when most people struggle to pay rent, food, and medicine. More people watch videos on their phones than watch broadcast television. 8k is a solution looking for a problem.

I stopped reading the article when it said something about the show pulling an epic fakeout. I assume the next line in the article is a massive spoiler that would ruin the effect of the fakeout.

I feel like The Penguin proves that those stories work better as a series. The Batman was OK, but it needed more space to breathe. The Penguin was excellent, and built a world for weird and complex characters to live in.

Let's take the word of an actual nazi.

Maybe the writers didn't like her as a character. She was usually the "straight man" to JD and Turk goofing off. There was the love triangle with Cox, but that fizzled and went nowhere. She sort of became best friends with Elliot, but they didn't seem to have any genuine chemistry or shared interests, so it always seemed forced.

I'm an American, so yes I am privileged and yes that is poverty food in the United States.

She was always billed lowest, and generally de-emphasized in marketing materials despite having the third or fourth most screentime depending on the season (After JD and Cox, and later Turk after season 4).