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That's a lot of the advantage of getting all of these chapters at once. As I noted, I was already following this, but wasn't really sold on it. And part of the problem was that it was out to 30 or so chapters, and we still hadn't really learned much about Ri-chan.

But the thing is that this one's moving slower and going into much more detail, so instead of suddenly slapping us with a condensed version of the history of her trauma, and with virtually no context, we're getting things slowly fleshed out. And yeah - I think it's better execution in the long run. It just needed enough chapters to really get moving.

Another notable difference is that this one has introduced more characters, and I think that's going to be better in the long run too. We've already gotten glimpses into Ri-chan's relationships with both of her parents, and seen clues to how she came to be who she is. And we've already seen that her mom is apparently not as cold and distant as she initially appeared to be, and I fully expect more revelations about them.

Glad you liked it.

Yes - he must face whatever penalties are appropriate and justified.

Exactly as the Jan. 6 participants and organizers must face whatever penalties are appropriate and justifed.

Pleased (if surprised) to see that we're in agreement on that, Donny.

I've been following this one for a while and was sort of undecided about it. It's a page-a-day webcomic, self-published on Twitter. Or more precisely, it's two pages a day, with the main story pages on Twitter and bonus pages on Fanbox. It was apparently partly inspired by Zyugoya's When I Returned to My Hometown, My Childhood Friend Was Broken and is a similar set-up, though there's no sexual content (even in the Fanbox pages) - this childhood friend was broken by a different chain of events. So it seemed sort of derivative, and the translations were apparently machine and sort of iffy. And slow. So I just wasn't sold.

Then, yesterday, a scanlator called fettyman posted 119 pages - 60 regular chapters and 59 corresponding bonus chapters, starting from the beginning. And with quality translations and enough pages to get a grasp on the somewhat disjointed and sprawling story, I can say I think it's actually pretty good. It still sort of feels like a freshman effort and the gimmick of alternating every main story page with a non-story bonus page makes it sort of awkward to read straight through, but it has heart, and some great moments. And Ri-chan is an intriguing character with an interesting history.

It doesn't matter how much money he has - every time I visualize Musk posting to Twitter, I see him as a teenage edgelord in a shabby suburban tract house, hunched over an off-the-shelf desktop PC in a room with green shag carpeting and fake wood paneling, lit only by the glow from the screen, giggling to himself.

Even without any details concerning the cases, I can entirely confidently predict that they're going to fuck us over at every turn.

Most people seem to miss the fact that it's a paradox, even though it's right there in the name.

And I dream of a world in which, instead of merely wishing to oppress and murder this group of people instead of that one, people don't wish to oppress and murder anyone.

It's as if the people who talk about it the most don't actually have the foggiest idea what a "ruling class" actually is or how it comes to be.

There is a lot of backwards ideas that get accepted as “leftist,” when they’re really statist.

This is my objection too.

All too many people here don't seem to even begin to understand the inherent threats of institutionalized authority, so in their rush to head off the recreation of the Third Reich, they're basically advocating for the recreation of the Khmer Rouge instead.

The bottom line, in my view, is that the shutdown strategy is more about creating drama, publicity and campaign fundraising for certain lawmakers than it is about seriously reducing the deficit.

My plan, when I started reading this article, was to treat the author's explanation of a better way to budget as just a speculative mental exercise, then respond to say that that was all well and good, but it didn't matter because this isn't really about budgets and deficits and fiscal responsibility, but... pretty much exactly what they then said right here.

I'm not sure how to react to that. I was expecting the author to be just another naive policy wonk, so wrapped up in plans that they never noticed that the politicians who would have to enact it are just a bunch of lying, self-serving sacks of shit who are only interested in privilege and self-aggrandizement and couldn't care less about actual policy. But apparently they know that and... went ahead and laid out a strategy anyway?

Good.

It's reached the point (or had a couple of years ago, which was the last time I went to a wiki hosted there) that it's virtually impossible to even read an entry, since there are so many ads that the actual text of the article spends more time off the screen than on it.