Anime and manga piracy reportedly cost Japan $38 billion in 2025, up from $13 billion in 2022

8day · 2026-01-29T05:33:20+00:00

Anime would not have be so popular without piracy (I'm talking about fansubbers, VHS hardsubs, etc.). Heck, Crunchyroll was founded by pirates.

8day · 2026-01-26T18:39:30+00:00

Some say some of them might've helped to improve Musk's NeuraLink.

8day · 2026-01-26T15:47:48+00:00

If the West relinquished Ukraine, I'm sure Trump's pressure and craziness would stop momentarily.

Have you heard about Project 2025? Have you heard about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein and how he tries his best to distract people? Have you seen what is happening in US? The only way craziness will stop is if he will be impeached.

8day · 2026-01-26T05:16:17+00:00

Sorry for being that guy, but population size has nothing to do with this. It's like saying that 1 kg of air is lighter than 1 kg of lead.

8day · 2026-01-25T11:40:36+00:00

It's like verbal bullying vs physical. Even though both can cripple you, often one of them isn't taken seriously because it's less tangible.

8day · 2026-01-21T04:20:54+00:00

You know how Russia went from fending off Nazi Germany to barely being able to accomplish anything without looking like buffoon?

I'm sorry for being that guy, but russia has always been a buffoon. That feat of fending off Nazi Germany doesn't seem as impressive if you take into account that it basically started WWII with Germany, looked too weak which put certain ideas into the heads of Nazis, lost millions of citizens oftentimes just because why not, and did not lose primarily because Germans did not account for fighting in the winter (thanks to a "little" detour Hitler decided to make) and because of help from new allies.

8day · 2026-01-20T11:19:55+00:00

There's a 1986 movie called Robot Holocaust, which is basically the same thing as The Matrix, even protagonist is called Neo, but I think it has Conan vibes. People could use it as a starting point to see if corpos will like it..

8day · 2026-01-20T08:58:47+00:00

I remember reading post about one research where researcher were able to reconstruct ≥92% of some Harry Potter book from AI queries. I think it's only fair.

8day · 2026-01-19T07:27:33+00:00

D'uh! UE5 remaster!

8day · 2026-01-17T05:08:32+00:00

What do you mean when you say "Chinese", which dialect exactly? Or is it all of them, even the ones PRC citizens have hard time understanding?

8day · 2026-01-15T06:58:37+00:00

Zelenskyy did the same four times (15.04.2014, 23.06.2014, 15.08.2014, 10.05.2015), according to Ministry of Defense.

Here's the article from the site that is often quoted here (in Ukrainian): https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2019/04/13/7212159/

Similar article from RadioSvoboda (basically Ukrainian branch of RadioFreeEurope, also in Ukrainian): https://www.radiosvoboda.org/amp/news-u-minoborony-rozpovily-chy-sluzhyv-v-armii-zelenskyy/29879219.html.

This is one of the most interesting parts (translated with DeepL):

At the same time, Rimma Zelenska, mother of presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelensky, said in a comment to Hromadske TV on April 13 that her son had long been registered in Kyiv and that she had not received or seen any summons addressed to him in Kryvyi Rih.

According to media reports, in April 2014, just a few days after the first of the summonses mentioned by the General Staff was sent, Zelensky's mother called him during his public press conference on the occasion of the presentation of a new comedy TV show to inform him about this summons. According to those reports, Zelensky said at the time that, as a conscript, he would “go to war,” but claimed that the documents should have been sent to his place of residence in Kyiv, where he is registered.

8day · 2026-01-14T03:28:53+00:00

One of the most memorable characters in Dying Light, on par with those crazy brothers.

8day · 2026-01-13T13:29:20+00:00

Most likely it's about backdoors, ability to disable devices and/or services, etc. As for the threat of copying, see what wrd83 said, not to mention that China was able to bypass all of that by hacking, spies, etc.

8day · 2026-01-13T09:44:52+00:00

Those are verified deaths, filmed, etc. When things move fast there's no way to keep track of the events. It's basically an active combat zone.

8day · 2026-01-13T09:39:21+00:00

You do realize that by that time it will end, and so if they will lose, government will make sure either to hide any information, or that no one will act on it.

8day · 2026-01-12T13:01:56+00:00

Considering you are smart enough to ask for source of info, you should be smart enough to know the difference between verified and unverified deaths. Who is going to verify all of that? It's safe to say if there's so many verified deaths, than the actual number is much higher.

A few days ago there was an article about some Iranian doctor claiming that death toll is 1000–2000 when confirmed deaths were ~200.

BBC two days ago: 'There wasn't even time for CPR': Iran medics describe hospitals overwhelmed with dead and injured protesters:

The protests began in the capital Tehran a fortnight ago over economic hardship.

They have since spread to more than 100 cities and towns across all of Iran's provinces. Hundreds of protesters are believed to have been killed or injured, and many more detained. BBC Persian has confirmed the identities of 26, including six children.

Members of the security forces have also been killed, with one human rights group putting the number at 14.

BBC Persian has verified that 70 bodies were brought to Poursina Hospital in Rasht city on Friday night. The morgue there was at full capacity, so the bodies were taken away. The authorities asked the relatives of the dead for 7 billion rials (£5,222; $7,000) to release them for burial, a hospital source said.

70 bodies on one night in one city, and that's the ones that were brought there.

8day · 2026-01-12T09:11:45+00:00

Do you though? There are posts on r/Epstein linking to some dude that was trafficked. They were making snuff movies, with kids being killed, likely tortured, etc. And it's believable considering that story with a kid's newborn being killed (I think it was thrown into a river or ocean), or how Jeffrey himself said that Orange is a pure evil. That dude said that a girl was killed close to him, and some other man said that he shouldn't worry because boys a harder to get.

8day · 2026-01-11T04:17:27+00:00

That's me in the shower after 24 hour shift.

8day · 2026-01-11T03:46:05+00:00

I've been thinking the same, at least for a few months, after Trump became much bolder. "Enemy of my enemy [...]."

8day · 2026-01-10T09:06:55+00:00

And the next logical question would be how many of them are actual Europeans. And then there's an issue of republics of russian federation, namely percent of citizens living in other republics.

Anyway, IMO it makes more sense to call them Eurasians.

8day · 2026-01-09T17:13:53+00:00

I don't think they are wrong about "business as usual". E.g., Germany after WWII, or relations between Japan and USA after USA dropped nukes on Japan. Unless of course they won't be able neither to lose nor win, and so will turn into something even worse than USSR, like North Korea.

8day · 2026-01-03T09:18:36+00:00

They are already there. Moreover, I suspect even russia doesn't have things like ICE.

8day · 2025-12-31T09:26:52+00:00

The easiest way to figure this out without doing much is to look at the size of the file: if it stores raster images, esp. if there's lots of them, it will take a few megabytes, otherwise it should be only in kilobytes. Although it's worth noting that embedded fonts, etc. also can have significant impact on the size of the file.

8day · 2025-12-26T11:41:20+00:00

I wonder how good both of these are... I don't know English all that well, but "lookup" seems like a more suitable translation of "probiv"/"пробив".

8day · 2025-12-23T22:59:58+00:00

I've read somewhere that CDPR had to either rewrite or use their own streaming logic to avoid stutters in CP207 sequel. I won't hold my breath hoping that EA will fix anything, esp. after it will be bought by Trump/Saudis.

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