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RFK Jr.'s warnings about sperm counts fuel doomsday claims about male fertility
The health secretary has warned about falling sperm counts in teens. Doctors say the reality is far more nuanced and little cause for panic.
The Republican party is a pedophile cult made up entirely of repulsive parasites that rape children so this is hardly surprising
Rewatched Goncharov (1973) and did a few studies of my favourite scenes
<3 Stunning fanart of an incredible film <3
Oh…. Well, it’s over for Crunchyroll I guess
it gets worse: funi had an option to buy anime outright. but, it was bought digitally, and now CR has said that they're not going to honor that, so if you bought anything from funi digitally, CR are taking that away from you
This is absolutely insane but the part that I find funny is that there isn't a community on earth more dedicated to piracy than western anime fans. For ages the only way to even get your hands on anime and manga in the west was piracy. I literally don't think Crunchyroll could have picked a worse group to try the "we're a monopoly so we can charge you whatever we want" play on. I doubt there's a person over the age of 25 who saw that and thought anything other than "welp, okay, piracy it is then!" like honestly the Crunchyroll executives are out of their fucking minds with this one.
What I think a lot of new fans miss is that... there used to be rules.
I have now run anime cons for 20 years. I got into anime in the period where the internet was rising, and legal access to this stuff was sparse, and generally limited to the biggest titles. I bought Fruits Basket on four. Separate. DVDs. I got each ON SALE for around 20.00. I paid EIGHTY PLUS DOLLARS for 4 DVDs of Fruits Basket.
But most of my early access was on blank DVDs with names and episode numbers written clumsily in sharpie. Handed over by friends, traded at con meetings, mailed to me by a friend via media mail. Fansubs and bootlegs, torrented and copied endlessly.
But there used those be a rule. A covenant. Unbreakable. Once a property was licensed, all illegal distribution stopped. Instantly.
The last episode of Fullmetal Alchemist I saw involved Hughes in a phone booth. The series was licensed right after that, and all access stopped. Fansubbers closed their listings, torrents dried up.
Because the end goal was licensing. We wanted nice, physical copies. We wanted professional, properly coded subtitles. We wanted an English Dub cast. We wanted to make anime a viable industry in the West.
So we bought Fruits Basket for eighty goddamn dollars.
So as I reach bitterly for my DVD burner yet again, it's time to remember. We upheld our part of the bargain. We bought it legally from them. We paid to see this industry grow and thrive.
We didn't break the agreement. They did.
"ohh 00s diet culture isn't back because of ozempic, you're overreacting"
idk i keep seeing previously size-inclusive brands remove plus-sized versions of their clothes from their catalogues entirely, even lines specifically aimed at bigger sizes are cutting their size range down and chopping the bigger ones. i keep seeing mean skinny tiktokers get famous because they said something rude about fat people. when i ask my doctor about weight loss (which my country's gender treatment clinic requires before i can access even preliminary talks about hrt), i'm immediately offered drugs about it - drugs which, according to the doctor, we don't know the long-term effects of. but surely! surely it can't be worse than being fat!
like why are people acting surprised? we've made being extremely wealthy the aspirational aesthetic to strive for, made 'being skinny and having a lot of time and money to stay beautiful' a not only viable but lucrative carreer for people, and then released a drug that is wildly expensive and will make people thin.
of course people are gonna make being thin the ultimate status symbol again - it more than ever before signals wealth and leisure-time.
like, do you think it's a coincidence that people are back to constantly spouting 'nothing tastes as good as skinny feels' again? and pretending being fat is a matter of lacking self-control around cake or whatever? as if people haven't spent decades trying to get these fucks to understand that actually healthy produce and the time to maintain your body are extreme luxuries in our society?
anyway my broke fat ass can't find pants i like and can afford because the size-inclusive lines i'd have shopped at previously have axed anything over a size xl
and like. i'm not even that fat. what the fuck do people bigger than me do. it's really heinous right now for fat peeps.
My cardio is the ten minutes of near heart-attack heart rates when I have to say anything that I know someone doesn't want to hear.
I kinda love the amputee side of Tumblr. My immediate reaction was to feel like shit because I'm not missing nearly as much of me as most of the people over there are missing. Then I was immediately consoled by posts that were like, "Amputation sucks, regardless of how much it took" and that helped. And also found some really funny freaking people there. Kind of like the PTSD side of Tumblr. Now I feel like I did before I found that side of Tumblr, hungover and tired.
With the lack of SNAP benefits in the US hitting in a few days, welcome to No Snitch November. If you see somebody taking food? No you didn't. Taking formula? No you didn't. Taking diapers? No you didn't. When the government turns their back on our neighbors, it's our job to protect them.
Anyone ever have a moment where you're like, "what the fuck even just triggered me right now?!"
I'm fucking putting potatoes into a pot and suddenly it's all visuals of exam room walls and surgical trays, immediately into the really gorey stuff. But like, what the fuck got me just now? Potatoes? Potatoes have absolutely nothing to do with with my accident in any way. It makes me genuinely mad, underneath the intense panic of course.
Protip, don't get your fingers ripped in half, it never stops feeling weird.
I got kicked off Reddit for suggesting we punch Nazis, found out my Tumblr doesn't need two-factor, so I was able to get back in. Howdy-doody, fuckers.
There's an EU initiative going on right now that essentially boils down to wanting to force videogame publishers with paid games and/or games with paid elements such as DLC, expansions and microtransactions to leave said games in a playable state after they end support, or in simpler terms, make them stop killing games.
A "playable state" would be something like an offline mode for previously always online titles, or the ability for people to host their own servers where reasonably possible just to name some examples.
I don't think I need to tell anyone that having something you paid for being taken from you is bad, which is a thing that routinely happens with live service and other always online games with a notable recent example being The Crew which is now permanently unplayable.
Any EU citizen is eligible to sign the initiative, but only once and if you mess up that's it. You can find it here. (https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en)
Even if you're not European or you signed it already, you can share this initiative with anyone who is, even if they don't care about videogames specifically because this needs a million signatures and there is different thresholds that need to be met for each EU country for their votes to even count and could also be a precedent for other similar practices like when Sony removed a bunch of Discovery TV content people paid for.
This would be great. Recommended for my EU followers.
"We, the Iranian Jews, strongly condemn the heinous crimes of the oppressive Zionist regime against the discriminated and defenseless people of Palestine. We express our solidarity with them and call on the international community to help them." - The Jewish community of Yusef Abad Synagogue demonstration in support of Palestine, Tehran (30 October 2023).
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Hey, does anyone else find it emotionally exhausting to see everyone as a complete and full person with hopes and flaws and aspirations? Like, I feel like other people have it easier by being able to dehumanize others. Like everyone talks about going back in time and killing Hitler, nobody ever talks about going and raising him to be a different person and I think that's why I cry at commercials.
