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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • Consignment (give your stuff to a shop, they do the selling at their store and give you a portion of the sale) from a Lego shop went missing while the shop changed hands to the corporation from a franchise.

    Corporation stands on the “we never had it, we don’t owe you jack” line.

    Youtuber gets involved and proves they’re wrong.

    Corporation doubles down and uses “nuh uh you’re harassing us” to come after the YouTuber, including sending the local police after them with some seedy connections (“hey cops help me out we go to the same church and I think this guy stinks”)

    It blows up on the Internet and even more information comes out that they definitely had the legos, and they either deliberately lied, or were too incompetent/uncaring to actually look for the legos.

    Now it’s been blowing up in their face because the company basically had a “nuh uh” countered with a “well then explain this” x10 and they look like assholes for trying to shut the whole thing down when they could’ve just gone “oh yep, we made a mistake, here’s your Legos back, our bad”.

    But it’s too late for that now, and they’re in big trouble for it.

    It’s literally the adult-corporate version of the childhood “I wouldn’t have been that mad if you told the truth, but you lied and cheated. Now you’re in serious trouble.”





  • “The report also claimed that US officials had privately told Iran that Trump’s public statements were largely intended for domestic political and media audiences in the United States and should not be interpreted as reflecting the substance of ongoing discussions.”

    Granted, bias can come from any source, but still. Nobody is jumping up to refute it on the US side either. But if it is true, he’s been talking bullshit from the beginning, shocking nobody.





  • Hey now it wasn’t on us (the people watching) this was at a time in the US where everything was about “protecting the kids”. 4kids whole marketing scheme was “it’s safe” so of course they edited it out. People weren’t complaining, they were proactively censoring to get corporations and networks online.

    You can see from this post how many people didn’t know that the shadow realm was actually just death. We assumed it was close but we didn’t know that the losers of the games were getting dropped off a building or sent straight to the afterlife.

    Adult Swim, which was cartoon networks “late night” channel had plenty of death and much better English dubs. But they wanted to market stuff to kids, only way to do that is to show it during the day. You can’t sell trading cards to children if their parents see someone’s legs getting chopped off (look at yugioh, one of the battles had actual buzz saws that would cut off the losers feet).






  • The problem is that you’re not just sending parts out there. You have to:

    • get the upgrade rocket going fast enough to actually catch up with something going very fast with a 20 year head start
    • slow down once you get to it.
    • make the upgrades while floating in space on a piece of hardware that was designed not to be upgraded and built on earth (hope you don’t need gravity for disassembly) that you control on a 30 minute delay.

    At that point we could just launch a whole new satellite with better hardware, going faster, and covering a completely different area of space. Which is what we have done. But we can still make use of the system we have out there. It’s still the furthest out, so it’s still worth using for as long as we can