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Just pointing out the obvious here, but the problem isn't organizations like Collective Shout. And there has been a rather worrying development of this issue where people seem to focus on these organizations rather than the actual problem.

Payment processing is a utility. Credit card companies should not be allowed to pick and choose who they allow and who they block. That's the job of the government. Anything illegal can be blocked, but blocking anything legal such as the delisted games, or the Japanese manga sites that visa and MasterCard killed, should count as discriminatory practice and antitrust violation.

Japan is on track to force credit card companies to allow all legal transactions indiscriminately, and we need the same thing to happen in the EU and US. Once we have this fixed, organizations will be forced to instead try to outlaw the games, which is a million times harder.

If we bully organizations like collective shout out of existence, new ones will pop up to take its place, and the cycle repeats, but if we regulate credit card companies, we essentially cure the disease.

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Straight into the tissue

You could pickle it with vinegar and salt

Use Anubis. That's pretty much the only thing you can do against bots that they have no way of circumventing.

The material can be used like regular plastic when coated,

Coated with what? If you say PFAS, this is worse than microplastics.

Somehow it always boils down to reduction in sugar intake and switching it with a ketogenic diet. At least now we know that 40s-50s is where it is the most crucial for the ketone, so sugar intake must be reduced here, or you better start taking ketone supplements (though I wonder if taking such suppliments might have side effects other than making you lose weight).

Either way, better start having that greek yogurt with nut muesli in the morning. It is really delicious to begin with.

Uh, Christmas is not American, and the concept of Santa is originally Scandinavian. KFC is a corporation and its Japanese branch is Japanese. China has way more cultural influence on Japan than the US to the point where they aren't comparable.

Some companies like Microsoft have started buying old closed down nuclear power plants like Three Mile Island in order to use them to power their AI, so hopefully it can offset a large portion of the energy demand.

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/nx-s1-5120581/three-mile-island-nuclear-power-plant-microsoft-ai

Pretty much what AI already was doing on the internet.

Chinese culture was, just like US culture, normalized until they started claiming land and ocean, and committing genocide. Now both cultures are frowned upon.

Is KFC for Christmas even a thing in the US? As far as I know that's a unique thing in Japan and the result of a marketing campaing, not cultural exchange, and the rest of the world was just as much affected by the coca cola campaign that made santa's clothes go from green or brown to red.

And it makes sense. Japan doesn't even really celebrate Christmas and it is still today vastly overshadowed by the japaneae new year celebration following it.

I live in Japan and don't see much resemblance to the US anywhere. Maybe that they are the only other country than the US where people care about baseball, and that people like Disney. Japan is very conservative in its own culture.

Hexbear is that way, sir.