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digitalpup444 · 1 month

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how i view bimbo!reader and princess!reader <3

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oookaayyyy, so i feel like dove cameron is the perfect example of what i imagine bimbo!reader looks like! i imagine her to be very bratty and high maintenance, always clinging to rafe’s arm in a cute little outfit that shows too much skin. she gets her nails done every two weeks on the dot, using rafe’s money, she always goes for a classic coffin french tip with an ‘R’ on her ring finger for rafe <3

she’s really not afraid to stand up for herself if rafe is next to her to reassure her, but when she’s alone? you bet she is running off crying if someone says something in the slightest mean tone to her.

she comes from money but that wasn’t always the case, a pogue turned kook basically after her dad got a promotion at his lawyer job. her mom is always wondering how her she got to be so ditzy considering that both of her parents are very smart with good jobs as a nurse and lawyer.

she’s very very small, only being about five foot one, which naturally always has her looking up at rafe whenever she’s talking to him.

megan fox is absolutely without a doubt, princess!reader. but to be more specific, megan fox in jennifer’s body. jennifer just captures the perfect, stuck up, bitchy, attitude that princess has towards everyone but jj, of course. she’s unfortunately a kook turned pogue after her single mother had to file for bankruptcy after her dad very recently divorced her, leaving them to live in a shitty trailer in the cut. she essentially joined the pogue gang after sarah, her best friend, introduced her to them after she asked who jj was at a beach party.

after that, princess just couldn’t keep her eyes off the blonde and fell in love with him at every glance. jj was the first to kiss her while they were out drunk and skinny dipping. he always makes sure she gets whatever she wants because she will definitely throw a tantrum over it but he knows how to shut that down real quick if it gets to be too much.

she is very book smart but acts dumb to make her look innocent and naive, which she uses that as an advantage to manipulate people to get what she wants.

princess has a slight kleptomania problem, stealing whatever she can’t afford. it’s where most of her wardrobe came from. she’s not afraid to take what she wants and it has definitely got her in some situations.

her wardrobe consists of pink, white, and basically anything that she finds ‘sexy’ and ‘slutty’. she’s not afraid to show off her body at all. on her relaxing days, she’s usually in a juicy couture tracksuit with a tight fitting tank top on. her shoes of choice are heels to make her seem taller and more intimidating since she’s only five foot four.

#rafe cameron smut #rafe cameron x reader #rafe cameron imagine #rafe obx #outerbanks rafe #rafe cameron #rafe imagine #jj maybank smut #jj maybank x reader #jj maybank #pope heyward smut #pope heyward x reader #pope heyward #john b routledge #john b smut #john b x reader #outerbanks fic #outerbanks

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mostlysignssomeportents · 10 months

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The Sacklers woulda gotten away with it if it wasn't for those darned meddling feds

The saga of the Sacklers, a multigenerational billionaire crime family of mass-murdering dope-peddlers, is an enraging parable about how the wealthy, the courts, and sadistic high-powered lawyers collude to destroy the lives of millions, profit handsomely, and evade justice.

But there's an unexpected twist to this tale. After the Sacklers procured a sham bankruptcy that denied their victims the right to sue while leaving their fortune largely intact, the Supreme Court – yes, this Supreme Court – saw through the scam and froze the process, pending a full hearing:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/us/supreme-court-purdue-pharma-opioid-settlement.html

The Sacklers basically invented modern, legal dope peddling. Arthur Sackler, the family's original crime-boss, revived the practice of direct-to-consumer drug marketing, dormant since the death of the medicine show, to peddle Valium. An aggressive and shrewd lobbyist, Arthur built the family fortune and, more importantly, its connections:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-the-sackler-family-built-a-pharma-dynasty-and-fueled-an-american-calamity/

A generation later, the family's business company created Oxycontin, and procured misleading and false research about the drug's safety kickstarting the opioid epidemic, whose American body-count is closing in on a million dead. Armed with inflated claims about opioid safety, the Sacklers' pharma reps bribed, cajoled and tricked doctors into writing millions of prescriptions for oxy.

This scam had a natural best-before date. As ODs flooded America's ERs and bodies piled up in America's morgues, it became increasingly clear that something was rotten. The Sacklers pursued a multipronged campaign to keep the truth from coming to light, and to keep the billions flowing.

On the one hand, they hired McKinsey to find novel ways to encourage doctors to keep writing prescriptions and to convince pharmacists to turn a blind eye to abuse. McKinsey had all kinds of great ideas here, including paying pharma distributors cash bonuses for every overdose death in their territory:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/business/mckinsey-opioids-settlement.html

When the issue of these deaths came up in public, the Sacklers blamed "criminal addicts" for their own misery, stigmatizing both people who desperately needed pain relief and the people who'd been deliberately hooked on the Sacklers' products. The legacy of this smear campaign is still with us, both in the contempt for people struggling with addiction and in the cruel barriers placed between people in unbearable agony and medical relief.

But mostly, the Sacklers kept their names out of it. They laundered their reputations by donating a homeopathic fraction of their vast drug fortune to art galleries and museums in a bid to make their names synonymous with good deeds.

The Sacklers didn't invent this trick. Think of the way that history's great monsters – Carnegie, Mellon, Rockefeller, Ford – are remembered today for the foundations and charities that bear their names, not for the untold misery they inflicted on their workers, their crimes against their customers, and the corruption of governments.

But the Sacklers made those Gilded Age barons seem like amateurs. They invented a modern elite philanthropy playbook that Anand Giridharadas documents in his must-read Winners Take All, about the charity-industrial complex that washes away an ocean of blood with a trickle of money:

https://memex.craphound.com/2018/11/10/winners-take-all-modern-philanthropy-means-that-giving-some-away-is-more-important-than-how-you-got-it/

As part of this PR exercise, the individual Sacklers kept their names and images out of the public eye. For years, there were virtually no news-service photos of individual Sacklers. When journalists dared to criticize the family, they used vicious attack-lawyers to intimidate them into retractions and silence (I was threatened by the Sacklers' lawyers).

They also worked their media mogul pals, like Mike Bloomberg, who added their names to the "Friends of Mike" list that Bloomberg reporters were required to consult before writing negative coverage:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/02/29/friends-of-mike-enemies-of-the-people/#sacklerbergs

But Stein's Law says that "anything that can't go on forever will eventually stop." As lawsuits mounted, the Sacklers found themselves increasingly synonymous with death, not charitable works. But like any canny criminal, the Sacklers had a getaway plan.

First, they extracted vast sums from Purdue and shifted it into offshore financial secrecy havens:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-purduepharma-bankruptcy/sacklers-reaped-up-to-13-billion-from-oxycontin-maker-u-s-states-say-idUSKBN1WJ19V

Even as this money was disappearing into legal black holes, the Sacklers demanded – and received – extraordinary protection from the courts, who aggressively sealed testimony and materials presented through discovery:

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-courts-secrecy-judges/

When this gambit finally failed, the Sacklers insisted that were down to their last $4 billion, and, with trillions in claims pending against them, they declared bankruptcy.

When a normal person declares bankruptcy, they are required to divest themselves of nearly everything of value they possess, and then still find themselves hounded by cruel arm-breakers who deluge them with threatening calls and letters:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/19/zombie-debt/#damnation

But for the richest people in America, bankruptcy is merely a way to cleanse one's balance sheet of liabilities for any atrocity you may have committed on the way, without giving up your fortune.

The Sacklers are a case-study in how a corrupt bankruptcy can be conducted.

Purdue Pharma presents a maddening case-study in the corrupt benefits of bankruptcy. When it was announced in March, many were outraged to learn that the Sacklers were going to walk away with billions, while their victims got stiffed.

First, they converted their victims' right to compensation into "property" that the Sacklers themselves owned. This transferred jurisdiction over these claims from the regular court system to the bankruptcy court. A bankruptcy judge – not a jury – would decide how much each of these claims was worth, and then what how much of that worth these victims (now recast as creditors) would be entitled to through the bankruptcy.

Thus tens of thousands of claims were nonconsensually settled without a trial, by an administrative judge with no criminal jurisdiction, not a federal judge who'd undergone Senate confirmation:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/31/vaccine-for-the-global-south/#claims-extinguished

These "coercive restructuring techniques" are not available to everyday people who are drowning in student debt or credit-card bills – these are the exclusive purview of the wealthiest Americans, who enjoy a completely different bankruptcy system that is rigged in their favor.

Three judges – David Jones and Marvin Isgur of Houston and Bob Drain of New York – hear 96% of the country's large corporate bankruptcies:

https://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2021/05/judge-shopping-in-bankruptcy.html

These judges are unbelievably horny for corporations, embracing a legal theory "that casts the invention of the limited liability corporation alongside that of the steam engine as a paradigmatic development in the pursuit of prosperity":

https://prospect.org/justice/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-the-sacklers-purdue-pharma-bankruptcy/

Now there are more than three bankruptcy judges in America, so how do the nation's biggest companies get their cases heard by these three enthusiastic Renfields for corporate vampirism?

They cheat.

For example: when GM was facing bankruptcy, it argued that it was a New York company on the basis that it owned a single Chevy dealership in Harlem, and got in front of Judge Drain.

The Sacklers were – characteristically – even more brazen. They really wanted to get their case in front of Judge Drain, the nation's most enthusiastic supporter of "third party releases," through which bankrupt billionaires can wipe the slate clean, securing dismissals of all claims by the people they wronged.

Drain is also uniquely hostile to independent examiners, "an independent third-party appointed by the court to investigate 'fraud, dishonesty, incompetence, misconduct, mismanagement, or irregularity…by current or former management of the debtor."

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3851339

If you're the Sacklers, hoping to keep two thirds of your billions and extinguish all claims by your victims, there is no better helpmeet than Judge Robert Drain of the Southern District of New York.

So, 192 days before filing for bankruptcy, the Sacklers opened an office in White Plains, New York (a company may claim jurisdiction in a specific court once they've operated a business there for 180 days).

Then they filed a bankruptcy in which they altered the metadata on their casefile, inserting the code for a Westchester county hearing into the machine-readable, human-invisible parts of the documents they uploaded to the federal Case Management/Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) system (they also captioned the case with "RDD, for "Robert D Drain").

They chose their judge, and the judge obliged. UCLA Law's Lynn LoPucki is one of the leading scholars of these bankruptcy "megacases," and has written extensively on why these three judges are so deferential to corporate criminals seeking to flense themselves of culpability. She sees judges like Drain motivated by "personal aggrandizement and celebrity and ability to indirectly channel to the local bankruptcy bar. The judge is the star and the ringmaster of a megacase – very appealing to certain personalities."

Thus, these judges are "willing and eager to cater to debtors to attract business…[an] assurance to debtors that…these judges will not transfer out cases with improper venue or rule against the debtor…"

https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/02870w66d

This kind of judge-shopping goes beyond the Sacklers; the cases that Drain and co preside over make a mockery of the idea of America as a land of equal justice. "Prepack" and "drive-through" bankruptcies are reliable get-out-of-jail-free cards for capitalism's worst monsters: private equity firms.

Whether PE murdered your grandmother by buying her care-home and putting each worker in charge of 30 seniors:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/portopiccolo-nursing-homes-maryland/2020/12/21/a1ffb2a6-292b-11eb-9b14-ad872157ebc9_story.html

or poisoned your kids by filling your neighborhood with carcinogens:

https://www.webmd.com/special-reports/ethylene-oxide/20190719/residents-unaware-of-cancer-causing-toxin-in-air

limited liability wipes the slate clean.

30% of America's bankruptcies are private equity companies using the bankruptcy system to wipe away claims for their misdeeds, while keeping a fortune, thanks to the shield of limited liability.

Take Millennium Health, JamesS lattery's fake drug-testing company, which promised to help nursing homes figure out whether seniors were abusing (or selling) their meds by testing their piss for angel dust and other drugs. Slattery defrauded Medicare and Medicaid for millions, borrowed $1.8 billion (Slattery got $1.3 billion of that). He eventually walked away from this fraud after paying a mere $256m to settle all claims, and kept a fortune in assets, including the 40 vintage planes his private company ("Pissed Away LLC" – I am not making this up) owned:

https://prospect.org/justice/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-the-sacklers-purdue-pharma-bankruptcy/

For the wealthy, bankruptcy is the sport of kings, a way to skip out on consequences. For the poor, bankruptcy is an anchor – or a noose. This is by design: judges who preside over elite bankruptcies speak of their protagonists as heroic "risk takers" and tiptoe around any consequences, lest these titans be chained to a mortal's fate, costing us all the benefits of their entrepreneurial genius.

PE companies helped the Sacklers design their own bankruptcy strategy, and it was a standout, even by the standards of Bob Drain and his kangaroo bankruptcy court. But now, the Supreme Court has pumped the brakes on the whole enterprise.

The judges ruled that the exceptions the Sacklers took advantage of were intended for bankrupts in "financial distress" – not billionaires with vast fortunes hidden overseas. In so doing, the court threatens all manner of corrupt arrangements, from "the Boy Scouts, wildfires and allegations of sexual abuse in the church diocese — where third parties get a benefit from a bankruptcy they themselves aren’t going through.”

The case was brought by the DoJ's US Trustee Program, which lost in the Second Circuit when it tried to halt the Purdue bankruptcy and argued that the Sacklers themselves had to declare bankruptcy to discharge the claims against them.

Now the Supremes have hit pause on the bankruptcy the Second Circuit approved, and will hear the case themselves. It's only one step on a long road, but it's an unprecedented one. Some of the country's filthiest fortunes are riding on the outcome.

Going to Defcon this weekend? I’m giving a keynote, “An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet’s Enshittification and Throw it Into Reverse,” tomorrow (Aug 12) at 12:30pm, followed by a book signing at the No Starch Press booth at 2:30pm!

https://info.defcon.org/event/?id=50826

I’m kickstarting the audiobook for “The Internet Con: How To Seize the Means of Computation,” a Big Tech disassembly manual to disenshittify the web and bring back the old, good internet. It’s a DRM-free book, which means Audible won’t carry it, so this crowdfunder is essential. Back now to get the audio, Verso hardcover and ebook:

http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/11/justice-delayed/#justice-redeemed

Image: Edwardx (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Serpentine_Sackler_Gallery,_June_2016_05.jpg

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niuniente · 2 months

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I have multiple favorite characters. They're all equally beloved. I don't get to choose which one of them is on the spotlight - they come and go on their own.

Because of this, I have assigned a personal meaning to each character: this character means have more fun; this character means that keep your eyes on the price; this character means a time of transition; this character asks to rest more. Always works!

A month ago, Dragunov from Tekken appeared on the spotlight (this didn't happen with Tekken 7 so we can't blame the new Tekken being out).

Now, the first time he was on a spotlight was 15 years ago. I was in a horrible place back then. There was a legal mess which, if the shit hit the fan, would ruin the rest of my life. Literally. I wouldn't be able to get a rental apartment, make any new contracts like electricity, phone, internet, buy anything with monthly payments, get subscription services, I would lose part of my income. I was THIS CLOSE to lose it all and the worst thing was that there was nothing I could. I hadn't caused the mess but I had no way out of it either. I even went to a lawyer to ask for a legal help but he couldn't help.

I feared for my life and future, hoping it would turn out OK. What kept me sane was playing Tekken 6. I played it hours every day and always as Dragunov. I even did my art school final thesis of fan culture and Dragunov (I had much fun with a Russian fan who drew really pretty pics of Dragunov and gave me an access to her screencapture collection of Tekken 6 for my thesis)

Then, one day I figured what was Dragunov's assigned meaning; you will survive. No matter what the odds, even if it was the 3rd world war, you will survive and come out alive without any harm.

That's exactly what happened. Took 2 more years but I got out alive, unharmed. It was horrible time. I'm glad it's over.

So, when Dragunov NOW suddenly appeared on the spotlight after 15 years, my initial thought was "WHAT WHAT, WHAT'S THE BAD NEWS??? WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN?? WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE ODDS ARE HORRIBLE BUT I'LL SURVIVE????! "

Two weeks later, in a span of a week, without any prior warnings:

I got laid off because the company bankruptcy and fell on a social welfare

this happened while the current right-wing government made big cuts to social welfare and housing benefits (so I don't know if I can keep my current home)

while at the same time prices keep getting higher due to inflation

The IUD for anemia treatment came out on its own

Because of that I'm without any help to my iron anemia and the only solution will be hysterectomy in my case; doctors aren't giving those easily (even when needed)

I lost my workplace healthcare which would have been the easiest and the best way to get to hysterectomy

the sudden removal of IUD is causing me horrible withdrawal symptoms

my Japanese friend told me that she's unable to come to Finland this year and has to postpone her trip till 2025 :(((

(which also means I won't get my favorite cigarettes I smoke for fancy treats a few times a year because I can only get it from Japan - ordering tobacco online is illegal here)

noticed that wasps had made a nest to my balcony (that's being taken care off)

couldn't attend a free(!) ice-cream tasting for a feedback and for a free 15€ gift card because of the IUD withdrawal symptoms

found out that trains aren't operating normally and my home station is under construction and causes some issues

So yeah. He wasn't lying. It's been so bad that the first thing this morning when waking up was to take stomach medicine and have a smoke. And I'm not a smoker.

Horrible times are up ahead but I trust that I'll survive out of this phase just like I did 15 year ago.

(:::з」∠)

#sergei gimme strength to get through all this bullshit #niu's life

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zvaigzdelasas · 8 months

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Hui ‘underestimated Xi Jinping’s determination’ to deflate China’s property bubble regardless of the impact on the private sector

Another entrepreneur posted a video to social media on Monday accusing the Evergrande chief of being ‘an enemy of the Chinese people’[...]

[Analysts] pointed out that Chinese authorities had not hesitated to move against the businessman – currently under “mandatory measures”, which means detention – regardless of the potential hit to private sector confidence.[...]

Evergrande [...] filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States.

Although many lawyers and debt-restructuring accountants believe the bankruptcy protection application is procedural and signals the restructuring negotiations are near their conclusion, critics in mainland China have accused Hui of trying to hide his wealth overseas and avoid paying creditors in the country.

One of the most vocal critics was Wong Hongsheng, founder of the television manufacturer Skyworth, who posted a video on the social media platform WeChat on Monday accusing Hui of avoiding his responsibilities.

"It is despicable that Hui has chosen to be the enemy of the Chinese people … by applying for the bankruptcy protection in the US so he can leverage the confrontation between China and the US and hide his wealth,” he said.[...] “All of us entrepreneurs should take this as a warning. When we face difficulties, we should try our best to resolve them on our own. You can’t play a deceptive game to protect your wealth, and let the country and the people suffer,” Wong said.

Yeah this sounds exactly like 2007/08! [3 Oct 23]

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cosmicswan · 3 months

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about my cosmic dr (k girl group)

listen to this while reading !

name: Aisha Diyan

stage name: Noir

group name: Cosmic

positions in group: Leader, Producer, Lyricist, All rounder

date of birth: 19th January, 1997

debut date: 9th February, 2015

fandom name: Cosmos

so this dr is a kpop girl group dr! i made all the group, members etc all up, this group doesn’t exist here.

my face resemblance visualization here

band mates: (they all exist here)

kim chan mi (chungha); 1996

kim sejeong; 1996

lalisa manoban; 1997

kim jiwoo (chuu); 1999

timeline

i was homeschooled all through out primary school, and attended an accelerated course for middle & high school making me a hs graduate at 15 (at this point im a genius in every dr)

in my childhood i had a lot of hobbies and things i do professionally (parental coercion LMAO) like artistic gymnastics, piano, violin, contemporary & traditional dance. my hobbies were swimming, badminton and mixed martial arts (silat, taekwondo etc)

after i graduated hs while i had an offer from a prestigious university i had declined due to a few issues that was happening at the time (daddy issues is my canon event) and went with my mom to korea for gymnastics meets & dance recitals among other things.

i was scouted by a lot of korean companies after my dance recitals and chose the closest one to my hotel i was staying at (it was big hit) and trained for 3 years before debuting with cosmic

company name: HYBE Music (formerly bighit)

we debuted under big hit in 2015, yes. bts’s company bcs im an army lol

big hit was on the brink of bankruptcy while debuting bts so my group and bts suffered on our early days. in 2016 bts gained interest in korea which follows cosmic’s slow popularity growth. however, cosmic focused more in the western market and finally hit the charts after our comeback in December of 2016 (after zero wins since debut) while bts won the first daesang in 2016 and got tremendous hate, cosmic won their song of the year & hit the billboard chart and stayed first for a few weeks. also getting tremendous hate from k netz, not believing a rookie girl group managed to secure billboard for their first win.

the next year my group decided on each solo comebacks, where other member success domestically my solo album went back to the billboards charts for weeks gaining cosmic its international popularity along with bts. in the end of the year bts won best group in pop while my album won best solo after that bts and cosmic soars in popularity both domestically and internationally.

more about me

my animal emoji is the black cat (🐈‍⬛), numbers associated with my stage persona is 888, 9, 19, i am 5 feet 6 inch tall, i am a poly glot! fluent in indonesian, javanese, korean, fusha arabic & egypt dialect, chinese mandarin, japanese, french, spanish, thai & russian.

hobbies: chess, reading, electric guitar covers, drifting, partying, painting, pottery

likes: adrenaline, fine wine, huge strawberries, private mansions, penguin classics, rain storms, dark cloudy windy weather, fall season, glazed donuts, unique jewelry, classic instrumentals with strings, wide beaches at sunrise, jazz, whispered deep conversations, sexy cars, sleek motorcycles

dislikes: bitter coffee, incompetence, orange artificial flavoring, cheap vanilla, small talk, slow walkers, cowardly book characters

things im known for:

being an activist

being shipped with everyone bcs i know everyone (whats the point in shifting there and not befriending everyone) and getting dating scandals left and right

being athletic

being an intelligent idol

being a trendsetter and hugely influencing korea beauty standards

being the face of YSL & cartier

being the jack of all trades

being a successful idol actress

known for how i learned to produce my own groups music without guidance

my insane career trajectory from an idol to actor to lawyer to ceo of a tech startup

known for my iconic childhood photos

nicknames given to me: some of these are stolen from artist in this reality lolza

hands of midas

bcs everything i wear became trends, everything promote gets sold out, everything i make becomes successful, everything i touch turns to gold basically

IT girl

connected to the previous one, pretty self explanatory. i also have a whole aesthetic named after me; Diyanism or Noir aesthetic

the leader of leaders

femme fatale of the century

goddess of southeast asia

[my cr’s home country] Pride

my country tourism and economy substantially increased bcs of my popularity

aisha stark

bcs i attended MIT and earned double masters on engineering & law. i also started a tech startup after my idol career

woman of peace (this is both serious and ironic)

i am both a huge activist and earned the nickname bcs of my philanthropic contributions and i have ridiculously thin patience

cult leader

yk that lana cult and seokjin cult, imagine that but worse. and my discography is similar to lana’s as well. im just embracing it tbh bcs im agnostic. illuminati scandals go crazy (no fr i can see my antis genuinely believe im the devil)

the villain of kpop / korea’s villain

im just very open on my dislike towards korea’s fucked up hierarchy and toxic culture. exposing many abusive figures in kpop and openly criticizing flaws in korea’s system & society. being a foreigner makes it worse lol

HYBE’s secret weapon

i was basically last on the line up and no one knew about me outside the company (the other members were pretty popular predebut)

black swan

given after the producer of black swan mentioned i was the embodiment of black swan and wanted me as the main lead if black swan was ever recreated

kpop’s siren

bcs of my siren like vocals and eerie ethereal vibe

brands i am an ambassador of or associated with

cartier

yves saint laurent

vivienne westwood

gentle monster

jco donuts

leviev diamonds

apple

redbull

diyan enterprise

habits i have (brace urself this a long one)

yapping about my hyperfixtation at 2 am on live, raising one eyebrow (🤨) at anything and everything, going live and giving the most unhinged advice and problem solving to cosmos, doing the pen spinny thing when im thinking, cursing in any language other than korean (a habit developed bcs of the korean broadcast cursing ban) tilting my head when confused or listening intently, driving like im a main character on fast n furious, walking hella fast, going to luxury hotels when im overstimulated, shopping when im stressed, unrestricted expressive facial expressions, staring ppl down & intense eye contact (my rbf making it worse)

sleeping only in my under garments no matter the temperature (pants are itchy), my ability to finish anything a day before (procastination beating my ass), starting a hobby or a business after every minor inconvenience, my habit of not sleeping rather than sleeping for 4 hours or less, cold tic, deadpan sarcastic responses to stupid questions that interviewer asks.

my habit of overdressing to events and small errands (being iconic not overdressed tbh, habit of using something extremely expensive untill its beat tf up (hermes kelly that i got from my dr mom i used untill it physically cannot be put together anymore), winking, spidey sense & quick reflexes, sarcastic responses, fast reading , fast typing, cracking joints, foot tapping, cig breaks☠️

wooh i’ve been yappin’ that’s all for now! any questions pls do send me asks on my inbox <3

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vintagegeekculture · 11 months

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There is another section from the song "Gamers", and I'm curious if it refers to a specific incident.

I'm a live-roleplayin' gamer, I used to play out in the woods. Twilight 2000, Shadowrun, I'd play whenever I could. I'd put on my costume, shoot tin cans, and make firecrackers fly. Then my front door got kicked down again -- This time it was the FBI.

They stole my guns, my video tapes, every book I’d ever read, And a couple of bags of fertilizer out of the garden shed! They told the press I was a terrorist, who planned to blow up half the town. They called me a right-wing militia nut, and a neo-nazi clown.

The details are not the same, but I think this is a reference to a well known incident in 1990, where Steve Jackson Games, best known these days as the maker of the Munchkin card game, were raided by the Secret Service under suspicion that their game product, Cyberpunk, a roleplaying game, was actually a manual for computer crime. Agents literally walked out of the building holding the game company's computers.

Because this story is so well known to gamers, and spread at a time when word of mouth was so potent, there are many details that are altered by the telephone game. Many say it was the FBI instead of the Secret Service, for instance, or it was Cyberpunk 2020 that was raided (which was put out by R. Talsorian Games, not Steve Jackson).

To quote Steve Jackson:

In the course of that visit, it became clear that the investigating agents considered GURPS Cyberpunk to be "a handbook for computer crime." They seemed to make no distinction between a discussion of futuristic credit fraud, using equipment that doesn't exist, and modern real-life credit card abuse. A repeated comment by the agents was "This is real."

"Careless, illegal, and completely unjustified," the raid happened because author Loyd Blankenship ran an irreverent, anti-authority computer USENET BBS dedicated to computers and yes, hacking, and Steve Jackson was struck through guilt by association. It's exactly the kind of overreach that happens when the malevolent Eye of Sauron that is federal law enforcement fixes itself on you. In the course of investigation, the Secret Service justified its own warrant by saying that they would find evidence to justify the warrant, which is circular reasoning.

Due to the raid, Steve Jackson Games had to lay off half the staff and was close to bankruptcy fighting the charges. However, for once, they were able to countersue the Secret Service, because several committed technology lawyers, partially in response, formed the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

This is not the first time this happened. In 1980, a decade earlier, TSR was raided because of the spy game, Top Secret, due to suspicion of aiding international terrorism in Lebanon (!)

#cyberpunk #tabletop rpgs

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The Daily Dad — May 25th, 2024

Things you might want to know:

In 1926, women bred like livestock to claim a demented tycoon's fortune ❝ A twisted Toronto lawyer's will in the 1920s sparked a competition where women vied to give birth to the most babies to inherit his fortune.

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Do We Live in an Infinite Nesting Doll of Black Hole Universes? ❝ Kurzgesagt is back with another video about black holes; it has the innocuous-seeming title of The Easiest Way To Build a Black Hole. But the main topic of the video is the speculation that universes (like ours!) might exist within black holes.

New iPod-like device turns strapless Watch into click-wheel ‘phone’ 💭 This is actually pretty damned cool. A strapless, cellular Apple Watch in a click-wheel enclosure effectively becomes an itty-bitty smartphone that can keep you connected without allowing you to engage in-depth.

An Interview with Robert Woodhead, Co-Creator of ‘Wizardry’: The Remake, M&Ms, Ninjas, and More – TouchArcade ❝ Hey, everyone! The spiffy new Digital Eclipse-developed remake of Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord is out now on a variety of platforms. It's very good! It also gave me a chance to speak with one of the people behind the original game: Mr. Robert "Trebor" Woodhead.

The other self-funded American epic with a years-long production debuted at Cannes yesterday 💭 For someone who is not in any way a Kevin Costner fan, I’ve still managed to see a lot of his work. It would be easier if he were incompetent rather than limited… then I could just ignored him. But he’s at least capable of making something worthwhile, so I keep giving him chances.

Read This: There’s yet another exposé on Love Is Blind's toxic environment ❝ A new piece delves further into the allegations about the twisted psychological experiment of Love Is Blind

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#news

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Are you... a lawyer? A legal historian? An amateur enthusiast?

You seem to know a lot about law and think a lot about law.

I wish I understood law, like, at least in some general sense. It would be cool to be able to read about important court cases and so on and be like "oh, these are the implications of this", as you seem to do.

Do you have recommendations for how a person such as myself with a passing interest in this but not a whole lot of time to dedicate to it (it seems very time consuming a subject to learn) can learn more about it?

An amateur historian at most, law is just something I'm currently learning about and one of the best ways for me to learn about things is to talk about but it, trying to reason through it etc., so I'm naturally in my 'annoying amateur' hour on this. I did similarly for Haskell and want to thank everyone who stuck around through that, as my position naturally receded from "omg best thing ever" to "real neat".

Mostly it came about as I was trying to find podcasts that weren't annoying talk-radio-replacements as most politics podcasts end up becoming, and I found National Security Law which did a good job of "discussing the controversy" on various things (surveillance, int'l drone strikes, etc.) and even deeply discussing individual cases in their Deep Dive series (Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer aka the Steel Seizures Case is my favorite of them, if you want a place to start). I mentioned this show at a party to @xhxhxhx and he told me about a show I've come to like even more, called Divided Argument, which got me to start listening to the actual Supreme Court arguments (Oyez does the Lord's work in packaging them as podcasts).

After that, I picked up some casebooks for cheap to read, got about halfway through each and ended up bored, although I cannot recommend that enough as a way of understanding accepted modes of legal reasoning.

I don't really track legal academic work very much, but Will Baude (co-host of Divided Argument) has smashed it this year with fascinating papers covering the ineligibility of Trump for President under the 14th Amendment and the scope of the Privileges or Immunities clause of the 14th Amendment, both from an originalist perspective.

The Federalist Society has a YouTube channel where they put up a bunch of different videos each week from various chapters of the Society, which I find to be often quite informative, although these days, more and more, I use it for understanding the bases of legal-political positions I strongly disagree with, but occasionally they have some neat deep-dives into e.g. the developments in bankruptcy law which have led to the recent controversy over the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy and opioid litigation.

#i could be better at displaying my complete lack of qualifications but its time consuming & annoying to hedge in such a way #im hoping i can go to law school if software doesnt heat up in the next year

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