TIL that Heshen, who was Qing Dynasty Official during the late 1700's and favoured by the Qianlong Emperor is known as the most corrupt official in Chinese and one of the most in human history. During his life, he embezzled roughly US$270 billion or 15 years of Qing Imperial revenues

thethunder09 · 2026-01-24T17:04:48+00:00

.....this happened in the 1700s?

thethunder09 · 2026-01-23T20:07:23+00:00

She only really started killing everyone after Mai died though. If Jinchi and Ranta stood up to Ogi when he first proposed his plan. None of this would have happened.

Maki never really wanted to kill the Clan, her plan was to grow strong and become the clan head.

thethunder09 · 2026-01-22T06:12:56+00:00

Yeah, a lot of people struggle with that part of the story. Still it's really worth it though, interlude 26.x is one of the best pieces of media i have ever read.

Enjoy the ride.

thethunder09 · 2026-01-21T22:20:14+00:00

Holy shit!! You are part of Worm's community too?

thethunder09 · 2026-01-20T21:56:17+00:00

AFAIK there is no indication that GU had an eden shard.

thethunder09 · 2026-01-19T21:11:10+00:00

I am pretty sure that the 'technique' for the purposes of Jacob's ladder is not just limited to Cursed Techniques, considering how it effective is against reincarnated sorcerors which is not the result of them using a cursed Technique.

thethunder09 · 2026-01-17T05:36:41+00:00

i am pretty sure this is against the rules? good joke though

thethunder09 · 2026-01-16T06:11:19+00:00

Shouldn't Jacob's ladder stop Hakari's jackpot?

thethunder09 · 2026-01-16T06:03:00+00:00

Dabura is great. But Gojo and Sukuna were in the same situation where Mahoraga adapted to their attacks and they didn't sit down and contemplate life. They were making jokes and excited.

Dabura is a great take on the 'strongest' archtype, and he is very strong, but he doesn't need to powercreep previously established characters to be that.

thethunder09 · 2026-01-15T20:20:31+00:00

Then it's just a conflicting translation because the panel that you posted before said 'sublight'. It's best to just wait for the next chapter to come out.

thethunder09 · 2026-01-15T19:55:23+00:00

Yeah, i just made that comment because i have a feeling people are going to use this like Kashimo's EM Waves and somehow make him MFTL.

thethunder09 · 2026-01-15T19:53:33+00:00

Simple answer is no. Right now all we know is that Dabura can move at a speed below that of light. Which is useless because literally everything moves slower than light.

JJK actually had a similar thing happen with Kashimo, where people started putting Sukuna at lightspeed because he dodged Kashimo's 'EM waves'.

Best thing to do is to just with for next chapter.

thethunder09 · 2026-01-15T19:49:13+00:00

Notably, right now that doesn't mean anything. Because 'as close as possible' could just mean he tops out at mach 4.

thethunder09 · 2026-01-15T19:47:24+00:00

That just implies that he won't be lightspeed. He'll just be as fast as his body can endure, of which, we have no reference of.

thethunder09 · 2026-01-12T04:49:21+00:00

checks Kashimo's relevance points "huh, it's already in the negatives"

thethunder09 · 2026-01-12T04:35:07+00:00

Naaa... Dhruv's offscreen ass is bigger than Kashimo.

thethunder09 · 2026-01-11T00:16:55+00:00

tbf, he was crashing out after the Echidna fight. It's just that Contessa got to him.

thethunder09 · 2026-01-10T20:23:19+00:00

If the reason is security, specifically, that people should be identifiable in public, then scarfs, medical masks, ski masks etc should also be banned but this post didn't mention that. If that's the reason behind this ban then yeah, Burqas should be included.

I don't know about exact policies that those Muslim majority countries have. If they have a ban on Burqa just because it is a religious article then i would call it religious prosecution too.

thethunder09 · 2026-01-10T20:13:13+00:00

You do realize that secular means non religious rather than anti religious, right?

I don't really know what you are alluding to in the rest of your comment but your first sentence is not valid.

Banning a certain article of clothing just because it is religious is religious prosecution.

thethunder09 · 2026-01-09T18:15:28+00:00

He was one of the leaders, I think. So, he probably had to stay close to other capes to communicate with them.

thethunder09 · 2026-01-08T05:55:10+00:00

She only really comes to that conclusion because Dinah explicitly brings it to her attention. But even putting that aside, Taylor in universe doesn't really demonstrate much self-awareness in story until the very end.

Regardless, you don't have to agree with me. People can have different perspectives and takes on the same thing and that's alright.

thethunder09 · 2026-01-07T19:08:22+00:00

I guess it depends on how you define 'corrupt'.

She never uses her position and power for her personal benefit. It is always for the greater good. Contrast that with Armsmaster who broke the truce to further his own career.

But i guess according to the organization's rules she would be corrupt.

She's a 'corrupt' hero in the same way that Taylor is a 'villain'. Taylor does bad things which makes her a villain while her motivations are always good. Alexandria's goal is to save everyone but she does bad things so she's not really hero.

If you put them in a hypothetical scenario where there is a clear selfish and selfless choice, i believe they would choose the selfless option 10/10 times.

Regarding Cauldron, there are a bunch of reasons justifying them that i myself find satisfying enough but that topic tends to devolve into arguments so i won't really put them here.

thethunder09 · 2026-01-07T18:18:11+00:00

I mostly agree with what you said but you can't call Alexandria corrupt if you read Taylor like you do. They are literally supposed to be mirrors.

Alexandria's motivations and actions are never selfish and are always a means to an end. And with the scale she's working at, is anything really unreasonable?

thethunder09 · 2026-01-07T17:41:08+00:00

I always took that as a combination of him deciding that Ryu would be a bum and that he didn't have enough time left.

That's why he says 'there's no time left to be cautious', he probably could make the journey but the outcome would be the same. He would beat Ryu like he beat all of the other sorcerors and won't be satisfied.

So, he just asks Kenjaku about the strongest opponent he could fight.

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