Man, she really knows how to pull at our heartstrings.

Something that got me thinking after I’ll Still be Here, and now even more, is that a lot of Holomems (or VTubers in general) usually have a very “standard” first Original Song, with a bit of lore and maybe memes, depending on what you’d expect from them (it’s also good marketing, in a sense) but Gigi, the “chaotic gremlin”, subverted expectations not once but twice, putting out very intimate and emotional songs instead. I could see a lot of people unfamiliar with her being caught off-guard by the choice and maybe discovering her more introspective side, and that’s probably one of the things she was aiming for.

To borrow the theme of the song, she’s both the overexcited goofball that people might find out first from clips and the introverted, insecure and caring girl that she tries not to show too much, but still comes out in more personal talks and anecdotes from her friends. Neither is “a fiction, a fright or a trick of the light”, she’s just “her” and that’s more than enough.

(Even more blatantly in sight from the community post constantly flipflopping between talking about self-acceptance and yuri selfcest lmao)

Also, the library is still out there. You still can ignore the rent-seeking middle men and use it directly with your own natural neural network.

…but you have to jump between a billion hoops to get there because now it’s all buried between AI results and SEO crap.

Assuming it’s even still there and accessible in the same way, if its site was enshittified (did someone say Reddit?) you might need to go through additional hoops even after you actually find it.

The Bau Bau has brainrotted us all. There is no escape, not even in the deep ocean.

I very much suspect he’s going to run for President in my lifetime and win.

Isn’t he born in Uganda, disqualifying him from being a candidate for President?

Unfortunately, these are all young people with a vast following of young people. Not to mention Charlie Kirk, Andrew Tate…

Young people skew left and that’s a fact, it’s not a supermajority like it might seem on places like this.

Genuine question, is the article posted painting the wrong picture as well? Its conclusions for example:

It’s unlikely to fully deliver on its universal promise by 2028 unless funding, staffing, and state-level coordination improve sharply. But even so, the most likely outcome is meaningful improvement in access and coordination, especially in emergencies and underserved areas. It likely won’t be a seamless or fully equal national health service in the near term, but if things go according to plan, there will be improvement.

Still, without sustained increases in public health spending, universal access could become a bottleneck rather than a breakthrough. Mexico also has to improve its labor retention, and lastly, ensure digital execution.

If it works though, it could be a remarkable achievement. It’s a pivot away from the US-style employment-tethered chaos and toward a unified, digital-first “National Health Service” like in Canada, the UK, or Europe (but with more biometric tech).

To me it seems like it raises concerns similar to the ones I’ve seen here, but still has a kind-of-hopeful outlook. Am I missing something?

It’s a play on this Simpsons scene/meme

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I’n familiar with Libertarian Socialism, what I’m perplexed at is a different matter.

…why are you a Libertarian Socialist if you think “Socialism is using other people’s money to solve problems that never will be solved“?

I’m a social capitalist with libertarian socialist views.

Socialism is using other people’s money to solve problems that never will be solved

Excuse me what

It shouldn’t be treated as absolute truth but that doesn’t mean it’s not news or newsworthy. The title should’ve been less clickbaity though, sure.

I mean… I get your sentiment (and admittedly, I’m not really knowledgeable about the situation over there), but if the cartels’ influence is really as pervasive as you say… is there even anything that can be realistically done to address the problem directly? Has any candidate (even minor ones) proposed a plan to deal with them and they got messed with? Or is everyone just too disillusioned to even try?

Genuinely asking, because the way you described it, it sounds even worse than the Mafia situation in the nineties in Italy, and that was really bleak.

I generally hate the principle of subscriptions + ads + paywalling stuff to viewers but not to crawlers, it’s pretty much double-dipping while baiting people for SEO.

On the other hand, I understand that in this day and age keeping a news outlet afloat without “outside influence” requires doing stuff like this. It’s a hard thing to balance but in either case I appreciate the insight from your comment, I admit I didn’t look them up and I figured they were just another money-hungry megacorp-owned outlet.

Unfortunately it seems like the donator specified the usage in this case as well, but the courts are straight up ignoring it.

On July 7, 1999, Bland’s descendants granted 87.97 acres of land to the “Texas Parks and Recreation Foundation, a Texas non-profit corporation, to be held in trust for future use as parkland by Williamson County, Texas,” according to a copy of the deed reviewed by 404 Media.

Not a lawyer either, but the article explicitly says “sold”, so I assume it’s not just leasing

In 2003, the Texas Parks and Recreation Foundation granted the land to another non-profit called the Williamson County Park Foundation. A month later, that non-profit gave the land to the City of Taylor. Five years later, in 2008, the city of Taylor sold the land to the Taylor Economic Development Corporation (TEDC) for $15,000. In 2025, TEDC sold the land to Blueprint, the data center developers, for $10 million.

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Btw if you’re interested, it’s still mostly speculation on his part, but Meika did talk a bit about the problems with IP transfer (specifically from 2:08 onwards)

I still haven’t interacted with anything ENreco because it feels like way too much stuff to try and keep up (also as an ESL I really struggle with non-captioned lives with a lot of people talking over each other).

Boubon Clipper was doing a compilation series but I think it’s still not even halfway through Chapter 1… I think at some point I’ll probably bite the bullet and do what I can with this site (which honestly seems very well done for what it’s worth), but I still think that they should have official compilation videos on the main channel (yes, I know they did it a bit with Chapter 1, but I doubt they managed to fit 394 hours of content in just 2 hours without skipping almost everything)

…being honest I didn’t really understand what the change entails but thanks anyway, I’m sure someone else with more knowledge in US law will find the answer useful!

As someone who doesn’t speak legalese, are the changes significative? Does everything written in the article still apply?