Yeah it hasn’t aged well and after watching Perfect Blue it seems kind of damning how much was ripped from that. Perfect Blue btw is an absolutely amazing film if you haven’t seen it.

This is a loyalist area if I understand correctly. From what I’ve read this town has been home to hateful bigots for a good while. Apparently loyalists tend to be much more xenophobic in general which I guess shouldn’t be surprising: https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/02/15/sharp-divides-in-attitudes-to-immigration-within-northern-ireland-and-either-side-of-border/

What about Los Locos? They seemed pretty scary in Short Circuit 2.

Very proud of my shark kinfolk today

Correct me if I'm wrong, but pharma tariffs from the US don't seem all that scary from the EU perspective since the cost is just gonna get passed onto health insurance companies and therefore patients, but they don't seem likely to lose that market. It's just going to make life worse for people in the US who depend on those medications. On the other hand, China is a 1.4 billion person market which seems like it would be pretty hard to pass up.

The pharma companies have also been front-loading anyways, in preparation for this:

CSO data published on Tuesday showed there was a more than five-fold increase in pharmaceutical exports to the US in February compared with the same month last year, up from 1.87 billion to 10.45 billion euro.

Exports to the US in general were up 210%.

EY Ireland partner and chief economist Dr Loretta O’Sullivan said: “This bears all the hallmarks of a pre-emptive strike.

“The pharmaceutical sector was not alone in frontloading in February; the drinks industry also took steps to get ahead of policy shifts by the Trump administration, a smart move now that whiskey and other products have been hit with a 10% tariff.

This reminds me of a discussion I once saw on Reddit where someone gave a very poor explanation of how a completely decentralized economy might work.

Maybe this is the reason for the sudden flood of US military posts I saw before? If they could get the app to ban American accounts for them, then they could just blame China without having to go through the steps to ban another app.

I agree and I appreciate you posting this. I usually don’t talk about weight stuff with anyone anywhere, because I don’t think the discussion would be handled well, but maybe I/we should expect more when it comes to a site like this.

I agree. These new users coming in are all pretty fantastic and will be great to have on the site

Somebody correct me if I’m wrong, but I swear the article said this pistol requires manual clearing, yet you have a cop quoted in the article saying “his gun jammed? Does it seem like the cops have no fucking clue what they’re doing here?

Sounds like you were an awesome kid and it makes me happy you’re now a super awesome adult