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Very interesting read. I've come to realize that - I already knew it but hadn't internalized it fully - I have not read or watched any Japanese entertainment for so long that even the stuff that was just coming out when I was on the cutting edge of consuming it has been animated, wrapped up, etc. And that now, if it wasn't for the fact that the Japanese animation studios have been scraping the bottom of their barrels for so long they've finally been forced to animate Korean manhwa and all the popular stuff they've been animating I've already consumed years ago, I have pretty much zero knowledge of anything Manga, anime, or novel related of the current era.
That in mind, the Japanese section of analysis is novel to me because a lot of that was outside of my wheelhouse during the time I was reading it. The Korean side however I fully understood. One Manhwa that I think full fits what you described, one that I've enjoyed reading for a while now, is Death Is the Only Ending for the Villainess with its rather cruel family dynamics of an unwanted adopted girl in a sort of chaebol / nouveau aristocracy Korean family of a distant and cold father with two sons that really dislike her hot/cold style before getting spirit-blasted into a video game she was playing as the villain adopted daughter of a ducal family composed of adistant and cold father with two sons that really dislike her hot/cold style but with the added threat that her life could be terminated if she makes the wrong move. Its in roughly a similar vein to The Villainess Turns the Hourglass and they came out roughly similar times as well.
She kept giving him political materials that would get him worked up when he was directly tasked by the politburo to do nothing that would put risk to his post-stroke, post-assassination frail health.
Stalin was tasked by the politburo to oversee Lenin and ensure the directives to rest were followed. Krupskaya went against the will of the party and was admonished so.
yep sounds about right for shitty flavored gruel
throw the tack in water and make a shitty gruel out of it. throw whatever else on hand and it'll be a shitty flavored gruel.
Wow and I thought MREs were fairly dogshit
It is 2026 and the protestants are fomenting to start another religious war with the catholic church
Could've been a Whiskey bottle that was used to make the Molly. That was filled with alcohol at some point
I know a lot of well-to-do old people will own retirement homes in hot states and their old homes in their home states and they'll bounce between them during summer-winter.
Snowbirds they're colloquially known as.
That user was on our instance. It'd be worth saving yourselves the hassle and cutting ties.
That said I do understand the opposition to the motion and would ask one question pertaining to that instance and whether or not ( if I was a member here) I would vote for or vote abstain. That question is whether or not the grail-ran instance has open registration or if accounts have to be approved by the instance admins. If it's the former, I'd be in favor ( if I was a member here) of defed as a means of preventing additional bad actors alongside the original crew of bad actors from entering the scene through an open door. If it's the latter, I'd obstain and suggest others to simply utilize the block function as they see fit.
The outer hair is coarse and scratchy. Kind of like touching those tiny fiber optic plastic lines they used for those cheesy light up Christmas trees. Inner fur is super soft though. 10/10 petting experience
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Workers have been falling behind dramatically in the tug of war between capital and labor, stoking serious concern about the trust holding the economy and society together.
What trust?
Diane Swonk, chief economist and managing director at KPMG, highlighted troubling data on corporate versus workers’ earnings that were included in a report she recently authored.
Western economist finally figures out the obvious, shocks the rest of the financial elite, more at 11.
It showed corporate profits as a share of U.S. GDP have soared to 15.85% from 8% in 1982. By contrast, employee compensation as a share of GDP has tumbled to 61.9% from 66.6% in 1982.
While labor’s slice of the economy has previously been lower than it is today, the overall trend line has pointed down, and the gap compared with corporate earnings is now at a post–World War II record high.
That record high was when the profits to pay was inverted, as in people were actually being paid well under the post-war social-democratic system to the point corporation profit margins were slim as oil on a
dipstick. Obviously Capital really didn't like that.
“This chart from my recent Economic Compass still haunts me,” Swonk said in a social media post last week. “A friend refers to it as the ‘revolution chart,’ which [is] disturbing but telling. Inequality fuels social and economic instability.”
Don't believe for a second all the priests of Capital that is the neo-liberal economist are all high off their own hogs. There are enough among them who actually know capitalist economics to analyze and comprehend the critical flaws of capitalism leading to its own ruptures
She added the divergence helps explain how the economy looks on paper versus how it’s experienced by most Americans.
What I said above. They're not all tools.
Indeed, while aggregate data show cooler inflation, steady income gains, and resilient consumer spending, the details reveal a sharp divide. For example, the richest 20% of households account for nearly all U.S. spending growth since the pandemic, while the bottom 80% have merely kept up with inflation.
Today, Americans grapple with an affordability crisis that has stretched across a range of basic expenses, including food, electricity, insurance, health care, childcare, and housing.
Observe carefully the key wording used, the acknowledgment that "food, electricity, insurance, health care, childcare, and housing." are all basic, as in first line, expenses. That the overwhelming majority of Americans are walking a razors edge from financial ruin. That the economic numbers being put out by the lying capitalist press are only representing the 20% of financially stable Americans with surplus wealth - and of course not counting all the bullshit moneybag passes that are done to artificially create the image of financial growth - and reality is growing starker and darker by the day for the working class. The enemy is aware.
“It gets to the multi-decade erosion in trust—there is an undercurrent of betrayal,” Swonk warned. “Something in our economic narrative is broken.”
In her report, she explained this loss of trust extends globally and across multiple decades, but especially in developing economies over the past year.
At the same time, the generative AI revolution and President Donald Trump’s tariffs have stirred more economic anxiety about job safety.
“CEOs are citing AI as a reason for hiring freezes and layoffs, before the productivity associated with AI is realized,” Swonk wrote. “That could prove penny-wise and pound-foolish; it stokes public backlash to AI, which is intensifying.”
To be sure, there are still some tailwinds that should benefit workers and the overall economy. Trump’s tax cuts will deliver a temporary lift; the World Cup will help ease a tourism downturn; inflation will continue to gradually cool; and massive AI capital expenditures will keep propping up GDP growth.
On the other hand, investors are nervous; uncertainty still hangs over the direction of economic policy; and the housing market remains in the doldrums, she said.
“The result is an economy that appears resilient but feels increasingly fragile,” Swonk concluded. “Growth has held up, yet the connective tissue that supports labor markets, investment, and global cooperation is fraying. Workers are more anxious, investors more herdlike, and markets … more vulnerable to shocks than headlines suggest.”
Her warnings echo what Nobel Prize–winning economist Daron Acemoglu has been saying for years about the origins of economic and political decay.
In a recent interview with Fortune’s Jake Angelo, he said the U.S. is headed for a grim future and outlined two shifts relative to AI development he sees as critical to avoiding deeper decline: cracking down on economic inequality and tempering job destruction.
“If we go down this path of destroying jobs [and] creating more inequality, U.S. democracy is not going to survive,” Acemoglu said.
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Folks how would you answer the question?
Genuinely a good gut-buster of a sorta podcast-styled stream if you want to have some funny background noise. (Watch it, it's great)
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Every day I wake up for work
(thelemmy.club)
Also stretching. Or massaging my feet instead of putting on socks
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