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Games, Japan, pushbikes, some other stuff. See how it goes.
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Yes but the clients are generally older and have money or ways of earning or borrowing money. They're not vulnerable young women being manipulated into sex work to pay for the fake affection.
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Would very much like this to be put to music by the band Feeder.
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And let me draw a weird little beard on you with a marker pen.
Oooooohhhhh, yes
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Linefeed wanker, of course.
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Yes it happens. Sometimes it's a reasonable response to a change in party stance.
What's perhaps surprising is how often they're subsequently welcomed back into the party they abandoned... but this seems to happen only if they're the *right* sort of person (see top of thread).
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Somewhere in a deep lair under a distant mountain, for just a moment, Chuka Umunna stirs in his slumber.
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Another one?
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Seems like we're forgetting what a shitshow the Trump campaign was: the empty seats and walkouts, the endless rambling, the Ave Marias... The election shouldn't even have been close. For the Dems to lose it has to go down as one of the greatest failures in history, and the leadership need to own it.
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Le Guin's Tehanu specifically, with Tenar raising a child who's been savagely abused by her birth parents.
I also have a distant memory of a child (obviously a divine avatar) called Errand with the party in the Eddings's Malloreon. If anyone wants to hear their thoughts about childcare.
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You, for starters.
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On the bright side, it isn't going to happen. Various governments will pretend to accede and give the emissaries shiny baubles to present to the emperor, but none will make any actual changes that they weren't planning to do anyway.
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I know of someone who's been experimenting with GPTs (as a serious academic exercise) and got one to translate a different, Japanese novel and change the time and setting to 70s New York. That sort of thing may be what's going on.
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ohana.co.jp
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Might be. My first thought was AIDS.
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On the linked website, click "Language" in the top right, select English, and look for the floating vertical "Reserve" button on the right side. I'm sure sites like Jalan and that will have it too.
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Gross negligence democide
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Especially now, with the previous target nation of the world's smartest and best-resourced students turning extremely inhospitable. Let's not waste a catastrotunity.
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Obviously this isn't about elimination. It's about privatizing all the support roles. Massive contracts for their buddies, who will replace all those expensive public employees and systems with the cheapest alternatives.
Which will have no negative consequences at all, no sirree.
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imgflip.com/i/9qgzjr
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Dividing that figure into the figure in the Sankei table gives about 400 people. There are definitely more than 400 US forces in Japan. Are JCP adding in a load of other costs and subsidies?
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Dudes just be wanting to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, and criticise after dinner.
-- Him over there, channeling Karl Marx.
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Please add a clause that it must be pronounced "doggy", like the letters in the actual words, not this cringy "doje" lameness.
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1) Stepford Wives, the movie
2) Kimberley Guilfoyle, the actually existing person
Whether that's an effective combination is for you to judge.
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Also chronic incontinence
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Nah, it's because Warner Bros own the name, which causes all sorts of problems for organisers.
It's flawed but it's genuinely an interesting sport. The brooms look silly but have interesting effects in slowing down fast runners and forcing one-handed use of the ball (err, the quaffle).
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It depends whether you're a Hazelite, a Woundwortist or a Cowslipper.
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It's about a lot of things (including both the Nazis and the USSR) but the core of it is
1. Orwell's concerns (as a mildly revolutionary socialist) about how socialism in Britain could be corrupted,
2. his wartime experiences at the BBC and
3. a load of stuff about language and memory.
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This is the actual reality of our situation. This is actually happening. (Although CO2 is currently around 427ppm and rising ever faster.)
This fact is part of the story.
Stop suppressing it.
#EndClimateSilence
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There’s a lot of things the people in power are doing where if you look at it clear eyed it’s so heinous and evil that you become tired even stating it in simple language.
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Oh look, a nasty blister with pus bursting out.