Barry casually calling me out in the comments, lol.

I bet you $50 you're wrong.

Username related, but one of the thoughts you see expressed frequently by crypto scammers is that the Trump SEC simply isn't punishing proven scams so there's no longer a risk to doing it and if you don't, someone else will.

So we've got a culture of gambling that starts with lootboxes in children's games and ends with investment scams hinged on betting that you can buy low and sell before the rug gets pulled or that you can leverage insider information on "prediction markets" and now everyone's clutching pearls and pretending they don't see the end of the gilded age approaching at maximum velocity.

The only way a lot of younger people see others make money is through getting in and out of a scam at the right time. It’s more extreme the more recent you look.

I think there’s a direct throughline from the crazy crypto nonsense boom of the pandemic to the monstrously huge gambling industry of 2026.

It’s all them loot boxes as kids!

Somebody's ready for the end times.

So this reporter has done what many others have as this is not a new revelation by any means. I mean the idea that that marketing to pleasure seeking has turned society into just a pleasure/stimulation seeking machine is super old, and it could have porn swapped with alcohol, or whatever.

Geeze, it's an hour forty-five, so the guy that just said no wasn't far off the mark.

I had a few things to say after the first minute where Nilsson says Trump and Tate are a result of our sadomasochistic tendencies. But that's just an attention grabber. This is all part of a book tour for her book Guilty Pleasures, so the description of that should suffice in lieu of a tldw. I'd say have your grains of salt nearby as she's a journalist and not a researcher.

In Guilty Pleasure, investigative journalist and FT reporter Patricia Nilsson turns her attention to an industry few have dared to confront, and tells the story of pornography in the online age. Drawing on more than five years of reporting, Nilsson reveals how the internet turned the business of erotic art into something else entirely: a vast, secretive industry dominated by obscure owners, platform logic and profit at almost any cost. She traces how porn helped to shape the online world, and then spilled far beyond it – restructuring everyday life and saturating society with its logic of stimulation, self-soothing and craving.

Whether we consume it or not, Nilsson argues, we are living in the world pornography made: one in which our desires and anxieties are relentlessly monitored and manipulated by unaccountable forces. And because this industry has escaped meaningful scrutiny for so long, the power to regulate it has increasingly fallen to political extremists and payment companies. The result is a system that has quietly revolutionized everything, while remaining – until now – hidden from view.

Thanks have a nice day

No.

Can I get the tldw?

I saw a giraffe with a really short neck.

That was sad... or a deer.

Thanks for sharing this! I'd forgotten about his channel

This is one of those videos that I enjoyed just chilling out to and watching someone create something amazing out of such a simple resource. It has such a slow relaxed vibe to it and the subtitles are fantastic.

The amount of electricity they're getting to flow with so little resistance through such a thin layer of material for the magnetic fields is absolutely fucking mind boggling. I can't wait to see what happens.

Wow, this is incredible!

Ubisoft just did this the wrong way with HoMM3

thanks

I'm very sorry to hear that. I hope things turn around for you soon

I know. But I never expected finding a job as dev to be this hard. Especially when I apply to jobs that are basically exactly the same thing I’ve been doing for years.
Even had 3 rounds of interviews with a company where the CEO straight up told me they need people who have extensive knowledge of my former employers product and they were hoping to snatch up ex employees only to then be told to fuck off.

It's a very rough market out there atm especially for career switching

I’m a software dev and I’ve recently also thought about switching careers but I have literally no idea what else I could do. Been job hunting for a little over 4 months and I’m just getting rejections.
I’m really desperate and have never been this uncertain about my future…

I'll believe it when the LDP loses an election (and doesn't get replaced by an even further right party). Hasn't happened in 60 years except one blip 15 years ago.

lol.

But Giant Duck mount