My recommendations for anime that don't have any of the creepy sexualisation to the best of my memory:

• Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (no creepy sexualisation stuff, but it does have gore and very heavy themes related to genocide, oppressive governments, body horror, general death and loss. It is very lighthearted and wholesome at times, creating a tonal whiplash effect that a lot of fans love it for)

• Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (probably one of the most wholesome animes out there. There's one scene where a character tries to gift another character a "potion that dissolves clothes," but it's treated as inappropriate by the other characters and it doesn't end up getting used for creepy fanservice)

• Attack on Titan (like FMAB above it has gore and very heavy themes related to genocide etc. but unlike FMAB it's almost never lighthearted. I honestly don't recall anything related to sex even being mentioned in this one aside from characters telling each other raunchy jokes or alluding to relationships they have. The tone remains tense and serious for nearly the entire runtime)

• Cowboy Bebop (just an incredibly fun space western)

That's what I can come up with off the top of my head, but there's loads more I'm forgetting for sure.

If you think people suck if they don't behave like perfectly rational, unemotional robots 100% of the time and vote strategically for the sake of harm reduction after being insulted and told their lives don't matter directly to their face then you must have a very cynical and bleak view of humanity as a whole.

When the message from Dems is "No, your family in Palestine has to die because AIPAC gave me a fat check. Vote for me or else Trump will be even worse, and if you don't everything he does is your fault," I can hardly blame people for responding irrationally, and blaming them is pointless anyway because it won't change anything. When there is shared responsibility for something it's your choice where to assign blame, and you should assign it somewhere useful.

No nukes yet, but there's still 4 months left in the year...

I don't think capitalism is new, even if the word itself was only coined in the 17th century. Private property has existed on small scales throughout nearly all of human history, but our current state of affairs where it is the dominant force in the global economy and the basis of nearly all trade is relatively new. Prior to the 16th century most commodity production was done by artisans, guilds, and subsistence farmers, not wage laborers. Agrarianism changed the property relation to land from one governed by custom and feudal obligation to one governed by market forces, and Mercantilism led to merchant traders forming corporations and becoming a power that can influence and rival that of monarchs. Even in the age of Mercantilism commodity production was still mostly done without wage labor, but the new companies that arose from that era eventually took over commodity production themselves through the enclosure of the commons, marking the beginnings of modern capitalism.

Stock markets are not fundamental to capitalism and that is most certainly not "the only correct definition," given it's not even a correct definition. The only element fundamental to capitalism is private ownership of the means of production, and that can exist and has existed without stock markets. A capitalist economy is one in which private owners make a claim to a farm, factory, or any other means by which commodities are produced or service is rendered, employ wage laborers to produce commodities or provide a service (using tools, equipment, or even just a space that is privately owned), and collect the value of their labor in the form of profit while returning a small fraction to the workers in the form of wages. Stocks just divide ownership of the means of production into shares that can be bought and sold at prices tied to the speculative value of the corporation.

Alarm clocks are unfair to window knockers.

All LLMs should be FOSS. They are created from everyone's data, and should therefore be free for everyone.

The reality is even worse. They're going to "learn" all the wrong lessons. They will shift further to the right, like they always do.

They don't like electoralism, prefer to LARP revolution while doing nothing to actually lay the groundwork for one.

The main character starts the game literally giving himself a traumatic brain injury by drowning himself in alcohol. It's not really the kind of RPG where you can play a self-insert, the player character is an actual character with his own backstory. Not being able to make good choices because of the player character's personal trauma and limitations is part of the story that the game is telling.

historically humans aren't usually burning down libraries on purpose.

How on earth have you come to this conclusion.

The fact that annas archive exists despite how fucked up everything is right now gives me hope. Every time I start to feel cynical about the future I remind myself that there's people out there working to preserve the art and culture of our modern era with all the most powerful corporations and governments working against them, and they're succeeding.

Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

The corporations that took control of the Internet don't want us to remember.

Were there not an Israel the USA would have to invent an Israel to protect her interest in the region.

• Joe Biden, 1986

There have been so many lawsuits against Valve recently from so many different angles. I'm not usually one for conspiracy but I wouldn't be shocked if this is a coordinated campaign to unseat Valve from their monopoly on the PC gaming market so that other games industry corporations can move in. They've been trying and failing to break into this market for years because Valve has built so much consumer loyalty.

This is not terrorism, it's industrial sabotage, which in the context of the coal industry is based.

When I was young growing up Southern Baptist there was one time where the pastor preached about this verse, and the whiplash I felt when I heard family members bad-mouthing immigrants the moment they stepped outside is partly what led me to read the Bible myself, which led to me losing my faith.

Science is just the method by which technological advancements are achieved, it doesn't decide the priorities. That privilege falls to capital, and by extension, capitalists.

So they're trying to stop him from calling a vote on a bill that would create a pathway to citizenship for foreign workers. It's xenophobes resorting to force because they're afraid they can't win democratically. Makes sense given how conservative Japan is and how low voter turnout is among the youth.

I would suspect this is an intentional dark pattern. They're probably hoping most people will get tired of waiting and click cancel, which sets it back to the default of allowing all cookies.