The people in this sub didn't read the article, they're just reacting to the headline

I mean, so am I.

So on that note, maybe the Kin clan has been constantly giving Reirin these "gifts".

I think it's not the Kin clan in the same way it likely wasn't the Kin clan that made Leelee do what she did with no one knowing Gayou. The 2nd one coming from Shu, makes me suspect the 1st one also came from her and also that she's Gayou, or someone under her.

I think she's quite a bit more ruthless than she looks.

Maybe it's my English, but I don't read this as NYT defending the current US medical system

Afrekenen met die perfectiewaan lijkt me sowieso wel gezond

Idd, maar om daarom te gaan roken is wel een van de slechtere keuzes die je kunt maken. De tabakindustrie zal blij met deze "rebellie" zijn.

It feels like it's skipping a lot of things this episode... Like, a whole friend group got added off screen and they kept talking about off screen events

Why do people still use Crunchy Roll or centralized media distribution/streaming sites?

Simple: it's much easier and requires no effort on your end. Also, because people want to pay for media.

You can build a better library with a VPN, some good Torrent sites, and about 2 TB of storage.

This requires quite a bit more effort, especially if you just want to watch on your TV or phone.

Good torrent sites are pretty annoying to find tbh. There are online resources, but they're harder to find compared to streaming, especially private trackers.

Storage is very expensive. A 2 TB NVME SSD is like 4-5 years worth of annual Crunchyroll subscriptions. About 2-3 years for HDDs.

2 TB might also not be enough if you want the quality Bluray rips.

You'll have better quality

Only if you download the Bluray rips, sure, but these take up quite a bit of space and don't exist yet when you're wanting to watch the current season or previous 2 seasons. Those rips are at best the same quality as the streaming service. I have my own Jellyfin server (mostly for my own Bluray rips), but I still have a CR subscription for this reason. And if physical media will really stop, you're own library will be the same quality or slightly worse than the streaming services, since the source of the better quality is gone.

won't get ads

If you use an adblocker or pay for a subscription you won't on streaming either.

Not sure what internet circles you were in, but I've hardly ever seen people be positive about NFTs in mine

That's the wild thing, they actually get less money that way. There are like 4 cases:

1. You have both a CR subscription and buy the Blurays (that's me).
2. You pirate the simulcasts and buy the Blurays.
3. You only stream.
4. You only pirate.

Cases 3 & 4 remain the same. Case 2 will not suddenly go to a subscription and case 1 already has a subscription. So cases 1 & 2 simply become cases 3 & 4. There is no extra money to be made, only less.

Technically there is a case 5, where you only buy the Blurays, but that seems very much an edge case or only theoretical.

WHY AM I NOT ALLOWED TO PUT SUBTITLES ON WITH THE ENGLISH AUDIO‽‽‽ IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO PROVIDE CAPTIONS I NEED SOMETHING)

My guess: because the English subtitles will not match with the English dub. I can imagine that would be even more confusing/distracting.

Considering Sony's/CR's near monopoly on both streaming and physical anime, this leaves me very somber for the future. I hope parties like MVM and AllTheAnime can license some of the titles to release physically...

You might want to keep watching then. At least in the manga (havent seen the anime yet): ::: spoiler spoiler for general themes as it goes on The ethical implications of the witches keeping magic to themselves is addressed more and more as we see what keeping it locked away from the general populace means, including their hypocrisy in using forbidden magic to make people forget things. It has become quite central to Coco's motivations. The witches are not shown to be the paramount of good, including Qifrey. :::

I never bought directly from CR, because they don't sell it here either and are the wrong region for my player, but they do a lot of releasing here through other sellers. But if they don't sell through their own shop, I doubt they will through others..

I've never watched a single episode of Naruto, so I'm only going off your post here.

Yes, in-universe it is going against societal norms, but by going along with real-life societal norms. That matters. What is the message there?

Having your women be on equal footing with the men in terms of career path only to then have them follow real-life patriarchal standards as a way of "going against societal norms" seems... odd. It essentially reinforces real-life patriarchal standards in that way.

I don't think you can always view a story purely in its own context. The mangaka created that universe in the context of the real word and his beliefs. He has control over what their universe looks like and how going against the norm looks like. Here it does sound based on less-than-stellar views on women (which was more common at the time).

So, are our governments finally going to see US software as a risk? Because this can shut down entire governments

Fucking hell. When does it stop? It's gotten shot down multiple times, so why do they keep trying? Do they see more of a chance now that we're getting more conservative views in the EP? It's good to see my country opposes it, but man.

These types of Christians always immediately jump into some persecution complex once they get some push back. Like it's a sign of the end timds. Real cult behaviour

When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

What? This sounds way too broad, as if everything we do can be used by Mozilla to do whatever they want.

So, these men took action—using malicious compliance to prove their point.

Is it malicious compliance? They went to the restroom they were told to go to. It's more a demonstration of what Kansas law actually means.

That's pretty excessive, yeah. Especially if you're a paying user, which you are.

That the democrats don't stand for the little guys anymore is something I agree with, but to then say the republicans do is wild