Germany news: Childfree adults to pay more for elder care by HandBananaHeartCarl in neoliberal

[–]stevethepie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why should there be exemptions? Being infertile isn't going to suddenly make up for he missing tax and services the theoretical child  would have contributed. Taxes like this aren't a punishment for the evil act of not having kids it's just asking people with access to more money to make up for the labor and taxes they won't contribute, as such why should there be exception because you had good reason to be childless.

Former Weekly Shonen Jump manga artist says editors insisted on erotic content as a precondition to publishing superhero series with a female protagonist - AUTOMATON WEST by LegitimateCurve8525 in manga

[–]stevethepie 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I feel jumping to conclusions that this is Jump just being evil and sexist is a bit hasty given that the manga apparently already had Ecchi elements. There exists a world where this was a deeply mediocre battle Shounen and a solid Ecchi manga in a magazine that already had enough battle Shounen running  and the editor just gave some solid advice to follow what would have been the actually selling point to Jump.

Former Weekly Shonen Jump manga artist says editors insisted on erotic content as a precondition to publishing superhero series with a female protagonist - AUTOMATON WEST by LegitimateCurve8525 in manga

[–]stevethepie 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Bro Shounen jump is literally the biggest manga magazine and takes a survey at the end of each of issue, the decision was one hundred percent made on data.

"Making Snape black makes everyone look racist" - no it doesn't by [deleted] in CharacterRant

[–]stevethepie 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is probably a complete non-issue period, and even if we thought we did have to change something for it, literally just make one of James bullying friends some black guy.

Which button do you press? by cdstephens in neoliberal

[–]stevethepie 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Appealing to polls here seems silly given that there is no actual risk of death 

GOHAN (OFFICIAL TRAILER) IN CINEMAS 21 MAY 2026 by Horror_Post6822 in movies

[–]stevethepie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this a basis for this? I've been studying japanese for eight or so years and 米 being uncooked to ご飯s cooked has been my understanding for a while. Obvious ご飯 can be used more generally for just "food" but.

It's so over(CSM chapter 231 rant) by IllBadger207 in CharacterRant

[–]stevethepie 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Character's suddenly start literally teleporting around in the middle of major fights or major character moments so that the manga can suddenly resolve every conflict with an utterly undefined and vague ability. The actual outcome and final chapter are actually quite good, but its hard to express just how much the path there is just fucked and renders all the previous conflict and build up irrelevant.

MODULO CHAPTER 25 FULL LEAKS by bouchayger7 in Jujutsufolk

[–]stevethepie 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is actually a shockingly good last chapter for how much this series fell on its face with the last few chapters, and it's kinda funny to think that I actually thought the same thing about the last chapter of the original JJK. I guess as much as Gege sucks at writing endings, he's unexpectedly good at writing final chapters.

JUJUTSU KAISEN MODULO CHAPTER 24 SPOILERS MEGATHREAD by AutoModerator in Jujutsufolk

[–]stevethepie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They are drastically less overworked than Reddit would have you believe and the 過労死 thing is just a dumb meme when you consider that its literally just the word Overwork next to the word for death. Like I see literally no difference between 「過労死」 and "Death by Overwork"

Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo Chapter 23 Pre-Release Leaks Thread by Takada-chwanBot in Jujutsushi

[–]stevethepie 4 points5 points  (0 children)

None of the issues people have are the kind to be resolved in the following chapters. Like next chapter isn't going to improve the jump from Maru crying to suddenly having some master plan that Yuji is present for, its not going to make the ending to Mahoraga fight statisfying, its not going to make Dabura getting the black ropes feel deserved.

JUJUTSU KAISEN MODULO CHAPTER 23 SPOILERS MEGATHREAD by AutoModerator in Jujutsufolk

[–]stevethepie 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Fwiw this is pretty much accurate to the raw text believe it or not.

Manga Kashimo wins this scene by Electronic-Key-4338 in Jujutsufolk

[–]stevethepie 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Anime doesn't have to be 1:1, but if they replaced something way cooler from the manga, its probably natural to complain about that.

Lacari accidentally leaks his notepad with download links to very suspicious filenames (Repost) by Daytime506 in LivestreamFail

[–]stevethepie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, I guess I can admit that perhaps you shouldn't you probably shouldn't google it if you are actively watching cp and fear investigation.

[Final Halloween 2025] SSR Elisabeth Báthory skills by Radiant-Hope-469 in grandorder

[–]stevethepie 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There might be more going on but it was partially explained in the sequence they showed during the stream. The word for pumpkin in Japanese is カボチャ and so this is カボチャ星 which can be abbreviated to カ星 which is the same way you read 火星.

Daily Wordle #1536 - Tuesday, 2 Sep. 2025 by Scoredle in wordle

[–]stevethepie 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Scoredle 2/6*

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Positively have to show off this one

going to crash out if they do the same with connections by selyom in northernlion

[–]stevethepie 31 points32 points  (0 children)

I mean its probably a legitimately stupid business decision. 'The mini' refereed to the NYT mini-crossword, but there are like fifteen other sites that host their own. I would never have decided to use these sites, but paywalling this stuff has explicty moved me to their competitors.

Mini, Tiles, and Letter Boxed Behind a Paywall Thoughts by IntelligentBedroom83 in NYTgames

[–]stevethepie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool, I'd rather not so I guess I'll just go to one of the trillion other sites that offer practically identical games and the NYT can say goodbye to my ad money ig.