Ok, now I’m inappropriately laughing at work. Thanks 🤣

There’s a version called the One Piece Omnibus Supercut that also eliminates the intros and outros, except for the first time they are shown. It chops the episodes up and stitches them together to make them about movie length each.

Oda said once upon a time that the One Piece is a physical object, not metaphorical or figurative.

But he may as well have said that a million years ago at this point.

With One Piece entering it’s “final chapters”, I wonder if Oda is going to be able to stick the landing.

Two people, in fact. First was a Hell’s Angels enforcer. Had lunch at a Chinese restaurant with him and a few other people from my former Kung Fu school. Apparently he was a former student and credibly accused of murdering a rival biker gang member, but the jury was hung and couldn’t convict.

Second was none other than Shrimp Boy, after he got released from prison for the murders he committed but before he got locked up again for the racketeering charges. Met in in Chinatown literally a few days before the feds closed in on him. Shared a cup of tea with him without knowing his identity and didn’t find out until someone present told me who he was days later.

The situation in Venezuela right now sucks, because on one hand you have Maduro who is verifiably terrible and on the other you have Machado who falls just a hair short of proudly identifying as a United States puppet.

The Venezuelan people are not going to win no matter who comes out on top of this struggle.

You wouldn’t understand…

China will be the dominant world superpower for a while and their standard of living will drastically increase. Middle East will be unlikely to stabilize any time soon. Africa might be put into play as serious economic competitors to fill the gap in skilled labor and services that the United States will leave behind in its wake. South America might finally have a chance to heal from the destructive regime meddling of the USA.

I’m envious. No really, I wish I could pack up my life and move to the Netherlands. It sounds like a fantastic place. I just worry that if so many Americans are fleeing to stable European democracies, that they will eventually become a nuisance and wear out their welcome, regardless of how well behaved some of us might try to be. Our reputation as an ignorant, uncurious and closed-minded people was not entirely unearned.

So I guess that means he won’t mind if he gets shot at the? Since he’s now a soldier in a war, after all…

How does this little dweeb have a reputation at all?

Totally on brand for the Trump clan, though. Mary Trump really is the only one sane enough to wash her hands of the mortal shitstain that is the Trump legacy.

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Dude, me too. I read that quote and knew he talked specifically about pencils and dolls some time ago and thought it was just them adding it in for context on his previous statements about affordability/austerity.

This dude is completely cooked.

“I don’t use social media.”

You can’t prove a negative. Shift the onus back onto them. Any attempt at them trying to connect the dots should be met with “That user is not me, any similarities in their name is purely coincidental.”

Create a bogus email not tied to any social media and they won’t have a leg to stand on.

Not to mention how incredibly difficult that enforcing such a policy would be. Could you imagine the manpower required for people to trawl through 5 years of social media history searching for verboten political speech against Dear Leader? Wouldn’t be surprised if they tried to use AI for this, since they’d have a hard time finding enough die-hard Trump loyalists to pack into the DHS to actually perform the background checks at the rate they would need to happen…

Better yet, just avoid coming to this rapidly declining country in the first place.

So an amalgamation of all the worlds most prolific grifters and con artists? An artist rendering of this “person” of the year would have the most punchable face of all time.

Thought I was in /c/yiff for a sec, lol

Fair enough.

We sadly live in a post-truth, vibe-based political culture. Anything bad that happens is because of the Other Guys™, everything good that happens is because of Our Guys™.

Donald Trump can say whatever he wants and his followers will believe it, because the truth and facts and statistics and other such measurable and objective bars for success aren’t as important as how Trump makes them feel like they are getting everything they wanted. Even if they know they aren’t.

I used to be chronically early to everything because I would set aside like an hour for a 15 minute drive and wonder why I had no time to do anything during the day. Now I’m a bit better at timing appointments and things just right, but I’m usually about 5 minutes late rather than 45 minutes early to things. Typically nobody cares if you are a little late, shit happens.

I’m not typically a betting man, but I would be willing to go all in on that not being the reason they seized the ship.

This administration tends to do what comes natural to them first (do illegal shit) and then search for an excuse later for why it was necessary when confronted about it.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they eventually came to the same conclusion that you did, but only after Trump or one of his stooges brags about doing it for other reasons.

Absurd levels of snacking/grazing throughout the day, copius stimulants and writing/journaling seem to help, although some of those coping mechanisms are self destructive in a way. I need to replace snacking with some gym/martial arts or something so I can feel physically good as well as mentally and I’ll probably be good.