I know I keep saying I'm going to leave but I just have to write this piece because I was inspired by @kaamrev's post about the closing of the Rapport. The truth is I have a shitload to say about journ*lism in general and the South African journ*lism scene but some of it would result in me doxxing myself, and quite honestly, most of it isn't interesting if you've never been in the space. I also have a funny story of how I fricked up so badly I almost caused a long-running newspaper publication to close down permanently, but I'd rather push that memory back to the dark recesses of my psyche.

With that said, I never fricked up as badly as the who we'll be discussing today - Verashni Pillay. This is pretty much South Africa's version of G*mergate, and it caused waves internationally. My post will be organised as such:

1. What is Huffpost?

2. Who is Verashni Pillay?

3. Verashni does a hate speech

4. Verashni is in trouble

5. Conclusion

What is Huffington Post

If you're familiar with online journ*lism, you'll have come across Huffpost. It is a left-leaning publication that aims to be hip and trendy while delivering the news. Not all their content is "news" and it also features a lot of clickbait pop culture slop. It's really a terrible site. The site almost died but it was purchased by Buzzfeed in 2020. It was during this time that the site experienced mass layoffs and the Canadian arm of the business was closed down.

Go on the front page right now and see the slop they post. From experience in the media industry, I can easily tell that it is a content mill that you shouldn't trust at all. I can spot the SEO tricks and the common tactics used to increase engagement and exploit the writers. Take a random article on the front page:

The headline is stuffed full of trending keywords. They had to fit in "elon musk" and "obama" to improve SEO on Google. Secondly, the writer never had to leave their desk to write the article. It's literally a longpost based on a Tweet by Elon Musk. All it does is report on the Tweet and the responses to the Tweet. I can promise you @kaamrev puts more effort into his posts than the writer of this article did.

You can also tell it's a content mill by looking at the writer's profile page.

This is someone pooping out three articles a fricking day. 100% he has a quota to meet and he's grinding away trying to achieve it. There is no way you're going to deliver quality journ*lism when you've got to write three fricking articles every day. The only way you achieve that is by writing slop.

The worst part of Huffpost is the writing. They've been bought by Buzzfeed, as I've mentioned, and they write in that "BuzzFeed" voice. You know exactly what I'm talking about. They use Black People Twitter slang and it's incredibly cringy when you see the author is a generic white dude.

Elon Musk is getting cooked on social media for equating the policies of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany party to the U.S. Democratic Party at the start of Barack Obama's presidency, after Musk recently pointed to the AfD as Germany's only hope.

Yasss! Elon Musk is cooked! Fricking kill me.

Who is Verashni Pillay

For some reason, a lot of young people in South Africa want to become journ*lists. It's mostly young people who know nothing about the job market, are probably above average writers, and are highly opinionated. The truth is that once you're in the business, it's all about SEO and meeting quotas, and most importantly, YOU DON'T NEED A FRICKING JOURN*LISM DEGREE TO DO JOURN*LISM. So many idiots get scammed into a journ*lism degree that is utterly useless when all that matters is your portfolio. Instead of going into debt paying university fees, you're better off freelance writing and building up a portfolio to work your way to a permanent position (jk those don't exist anymore it's freelancers all the way down, journos don't get permanent jobs lol).

If you're in South Africa, for a long time, Rhodes University was THE place to go to study journ*lism. It had a very, very strong reputation for being a good journ*lism university and for anyone who wanted to become a journ*list it was assumed you'd be going to Rhodes.

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Quick Notes from Holly!

So I attended Rhodes University, got my Masters Degree in English there and also wasted 3 years trying to get my PhD only to fail (I'm currently doing my PhD at a different university while working). I was fricked over by my supervisor majorly and I had a lecturer bully me so hard I attempted suicide, but that's a story for another day. Rhodes used to be a fun university. I arrived in 2014, which was right around the decline of the university.

Rhodes has a reputation of being a bit of a party university, and it's extremely liberal. It is also known for the National Arts Festival which is held every year. The university is located in Grahamstown which is a small town almost entirely dependent on the university for its economy. I was in Grahamstown when COVID-19 hit. Students studied from home so the university was practically empty. As a result, several businesses shut down and the entire town was financially crippled.

Fortunately, I don't live there anymore because the town can't even provide water or electricity to its residents, resulting in mass protests. I mean, they literally go weeks without any water.

I would not recommend anyone go to Rhodes University these days. It's a dead university in a dead town. Also, due to Rhodes's liberal approach to academia, they allow you to mix and match your degree however you want, allowing you to create a custom degree of your choice. I know a couple of universities in the USA like Evergreen do this shit as well. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD NEVER DO THIS. If you're going to university, get a degree with a set curriculum that allows you to specialize in a skill that is in demand. Nobody wants a generalist who majored in Psychology and History, or a weirdo who decided to major in Math and English. Anyone hiring is going to take one look, think "what the frick is this shit", and move on to someone who has clearly specialized in a specific task.

Dear lord if there's any advice I can give it's that university is not there for you to follow your passions. There is nothing passionate in a university setting. YOU'RE THERE TO SECURE THE BAG. Pick a degree that is in demand. If you want to go the artistic route, university is not the place to go. You're better off independently working on a portfolio.

Last point I want to make about Rhodes. The lecturers get paid SHIT. It's actually funny how poorly they are paid. Just look at this shit:

A fricking full-blown lecturer is only netting about $25K. Why the frick would you move to a town with no water to earn peanuts?!?!

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Verashni Pillay attended Rhodes University where she earned her degree in Journ*lism. Verashni quickly proved herself to be quite the ambitious journ*list and she wrote for a number of popular South African publications including News24 and the Mail & Guardian. She has won a number of prestigious awards for her journ*lism. I'm not going to list them all because quite frankly I don't care. All that matters is that she was a journ*list of note in South Africa and she worked her way up to eventually become editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post in South Africa.

Verashni Does a Hate Speech

Verashni's woes began when she allowed a blog to be published titled "Could It Be Time To Deny White Men The Franchise?". You can still find the blog post online. The author's name is Shelley Garland and the author basically argues that white men should not be given the right to vote, and that their assets should be forcibly redistributed.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170414001415/www.huffingtonpost.co.za/shelley-garland/could-it-be-time-to-deny-white-men-the-franchise_a_22036640/

For the sake of stirring drama and outrage, I'll post a few choice quotes here

If white men no longer had the vote, the progressive cause would be strengthened. It would not be necessary to deny white men indefinitely – the denial of the vote to white men for 20 years (just less than a generation) would go some way to seeing a decline in the influence of reactionary and neo-liberal ideology in the world. The influence of reckless white males were one of the primary reasons that led to the Great Recession which began in 2008. This would also strike a blow against toxic white masculinity, one that is long needed.

A withholding of the franchise from white males, along with the passing of legislation in this period to redistribute some of their assets, will also, to a degree, act as the reparations for slavery, colonialism, and apartheid, which the world is crying out for to be paid.

Although this may seem unfair and unjust, allowing white males to continue to call the shots politically and economically, following their actions over the past 500 years, is the greater injustice.

Almost immediately, the article garnered widespread attention both locally and internationally. It got so big that fricking Jordan Peterson commented on it:

Locally, many groups cried racism and attacked Huffpost for publishing the piece. Afriforum, a group focused on the rights of Afrikaaners, accused Verashni Pillay and Huffpost of hate speech.

https://mg.co.za/article/2017-07-31-fake-huffpost-blog-could-see-white-men-pulled-out-of-voting-queues-afriforum/

This did not deter Verashni and amidst the controversy, she fully defended the piece. Thanks to the wayback machine, we still have access to the article.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170414225013/https://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2017/04/14/this-blog-on-white-men-is-going-viral-heres-our-response_a_22039753/

A few quotes from Verashni to make you seethe:

Garland's underlying analysis about the uneven distribution of wealth and power in the world is pretty standard for feminist theory. It has been espoused in many different ways by feminist writers and theorists for decades now. In that sense, there was nothing in the article that should have shocked or surprised anybody (or so we thought.)

It would appear that perhaps much of the outcry derives from a very poor reading of the article -- or perhaps none at all.

So in response she basically shits on her readers telling them denying white men the vote is pretty normal feminist theory.

Verashni is in trouble

Well, a big plot twist emerged. Shelley Garland does not exist! The whole thing was a fricking prank written by a white man! Not just a white man, but a fucing full-blooded Boer named fricking Marius Roodt. That's a peak mayo name! Roodt wrote the piece to prove that there was little fact-checking done in South African journ*lism and so he wrote a piece where he intentionally inserted errors and he got fricking published! He made an absolute fool of Huffpost, and he's not fricking sorry about it.

https://www.news24.com/news24/i-do-not-regret-it-huffpost-fake-blogger-20170525

Eventually, the backlash got so bad that the article was taken down and an apology was issued.

https://web.archive.org/web/20181205145757/https://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2017/04/14/this-blog-on-white-men-is-going-viral-heres-our-response_a_22039753/

But this wasn't just a thrashing on social media. There were legal consequences to face as well. The South Africa's Press Ombud found that the article amounted to hate speech, resulting in Verashni stepping down from her position as editor-in-chief.

Since the incident, Verashni has taken on the role of the victim and has framed herself as a victim of online hate mobs. This is ironic as she tried to stir hate mobs against white men. She is just getting what she tried to dish out to others. When speaking on the matter, Verashni brings up many of the criticisms of modern journ*lism that I've brought up and she confesses that the site is basically a clickbait content mill where writers are stretched to meet insane quotas.

"He targeted a stretched newsroom that was being asked to do way too much with too little resources: we were being asked to publish 30 unique pieces of content a day in addition to wire stories and international content from the other HuffPost sites. We had three junior reporters and were refused sub-editors, despite my warning that we would run into legal trouble given the rate at which we were publishing. In addition, the editorial team was under enormous pressure from management to produce traffic and clicks."

https://themediaonline.co.za/2017/08/verashni-pillay-opens-up-about-her-hate-speech-appeal-victory/

She has also released a Ted Talk about her experience and how she got shamed because of the piece.

Quite honestly, it's an annoying video to watch. She hides behind the fact that she is a female BIPOC and argues that her identity is the reason she was attacked, and not the fact that she published an anti-democratic article arguing that white men should not be allowed to vote.

Conclusion

Verashni was knocked down but she's not out for the count. She currently works at radio station POWER 98.7. I have no knowledge of the station or what it does, and I'm not in the mood to research it. Did she learn anything from the experience? In my opinion, no. I don't think she understands or accepts that she published disgusting hate speech. That blog post should have never been published and it was only possible because

a) THE EDITORS ACTUALLY WANT TO STRIP WHITE MEN OF THE RIGHT TO VOTE

b) Huffpost is a content mill that cares more about clicks than facts.

For this reason alone you should never read Huffpost. It's inaccurate garbage mass produced for clicks. So what do you think of Verashni's story? Do you think she got what she deserved? Or was she the victim of a mean prank?

Henry ford is smiling in heck

why am I here?

quick, interpret this:

the old year's gone

will the new one be any better?

I have my hopes, but then

optimism is in short supply.

still.

there is something.

goodnight.

https://old.reddit.com/r/PlusSize/comments/1hoo1pn/apron_belly_help_please_i_beg/

>my belly itches, lets cake some deodorant on it

https://old.reddit.com/r/PlusSize/comments/1hoo1pn/apron_belly_help_please_i_beg/m4c53is/?context=8

It sounds like it may be some sort of infection like a yeast infection. If go to the dr and see if they can prescribe an ointment. I sometimes fold a paper towel in half and tuck it in and keep it there during the hottest part of the day.

Imagine being so fat you are a hazard to yourself and instead of losing weight as fast as humanly possible, you just leave a paper towel in between the rolls

Can Trump trade India some fatties for their h1b people? They worship cows in India. This is a win/win especially if he is going to push some healthcare reforms.

https://old.reddit.com/r/PlusSize/comments/1hoo1pn/apron_belly_help_please_i_beg/m4c8xzk/?context=8

its usually fungus that causes itching. see if you can get nystatin powder from your doctor. and you can use ketoconozole shampoo as a body wash. wash with the shampoo in the shower, rinse and dry extremely well. apply the powder. you can also purchase a product called interdry on amazon. it looks like a roll of gray fabric. it can be used to absorb moisture and work against fungus. hydrocortizone mixed with an antifungal cream like ketoconozole can cut down on irritation but by itself, can make fungus worse

>just a fungus

Why are they so nonchalant about their disgusting bodies being fertile breeding grounds for disgusting and preventable problems.

https://old.reddit.com/r/PlusSize/comments/1hoo1pn/apron_belly_help_please_i_beg/m4crci2/?context=8

Buy some interdry and tuck that in there. Leave 2" out to wick away moisture

!marseyartists can someone make fatmarsey with wet paper towels hanging out the rolls with some red athlete foot rash on the belly. Marsey should have a face like everything is normal

So girls and gays, today we have learned to trust your gut and avoid fatties. They are indeed infectious.

Celebrating mindless striving culture reeks of Asian chauvinism and begs the question of why the most high impact individuals - from technologists to artists - do not have cookie cutter childhoods that were mainly spent being groomed for the Ivy League.

Contrary to what Vivek… https://t.co/fcaOkeJFC2

— Melissa Chen (@MsMelChen) December 26, 2024

The Rapport had been the premier Afriaans newspaper for over 50 years, but like so many physical media over the world, they've taken a nosedive when confronted with the competition of instant access digital media,

which could broadcast stories instantly, and for no physical printing costs. Newspapers all over the world have also struggled with the competition in terms of people having become used to "free" news sites (with banner ads) versus a weekly/daily paper's upfront cost.

Additionally a lot of faith have been lost in mainstream media, of all countries - where the predominant pattern appears to be that ground level plebs tend to be more conservative/right-wing than than the more liberally oriented Journ*list class which had some hand in influencing national or international conversations.

This divide between liberal journ*lists and more conservative/rightoid laymen is hilariously apparent for ALL the fricking races in Safrica, but not in the way you would expect, or as similar as you would think as in Burgerland lol

Examples:

For black peeps, like the Zulus especially ( the largest ethnic tribe/group of the country), there has been decisive differences in public perception between the everyman, and the more liberal Zulu Upper Class.

Foreigners would make the mistake that because of the dominacy of the ANC, that liberalism/leftism is the dominant train of thought amongst black peeps, when in reality the conservative Zulus and Xhosas only support these parties/policies because it benefits them personally, like land grabs and gins, and BEE affirmative action.

But liberal notions like pan+African racial unity gets thrown out of the window 🪟 when competition, when foreigners from middle Africa, like Zimbabweans, Mozambicans and Angolans are often frequently attacked by Zulus in xenophobic attacks, due to the desperation in a country where there's a near 30% unemployment since COVID.

The Zulu king got "in trouble" from the black national newspapers, because he had invited xenophobia and violence unto Zimbabwean refugees and migrants, yet the consensus amongst Zulus, those amongst the majority poor rural class shared in his opinion, stark contrast to the liberal journ*lists who condemned him.

https://www.npr.org/2015/04/26/402400958/south-africas-xenophobic-attacks-vile-says-zulu-king-accused-of-inciting-them

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For the just under 1 million Indians in SA, they are the most self-segregating and anti-black demographic, with their upfront racism towards blacks going relatively unnoticed because majority of social capital spent against whites

For reference, look at @Sneedman's recent sneed about Indian racism

https://rdrama.net/post/321001/south-africa-and-the-indian-question

Oh yes, in Safrica, Indians are upper middle class, and look down on black peeps, the way Canadians look on sexy Indian dudes.

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For Boer whites you guys don't need introduction on how we are out of sync with the dominant global liberal orthodoxy, it's more Bongs in general whom are usually one standard deviation more liberal than average that's interesting 🤔

The fabled harmonious racially peace 🕊️ ✌️ ful Rainbow 🌈 nation of past Mandela's dream, has failed to realize these past 30 years, due to entrenched ANC corruption and even these Bongs on average are now much more right wing than the average than the usual English journ*list.

Additionally English journ*lists have themselves been in the forefront with exposing systemic government corruption

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For coloureds, the coloured dominant Cape Town based media, like magazines and Newspapers, were utterly shocked this year's May 2024 election

When a monumental upset occured, with the ANC losing its supermajority, to the new Zulu Ultranationalist party MP, and the DA getting decent numbers, yet also being similarly cucked in the Cape Town municipality

By losing large blocs of coloured votes to the PA (Patriotic Alliance) a Coloured ethnic nationalist group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_South_African_general_election

Who felt that neither black nor white dominant parties of ANC/DA represented them. They often feel they were too brown for Apartheid and too light skinned for the ANC, as they get shafted by BEE - a legalized affirmative action legislation which can only exist in a nation state where one racial group vastly outnumbers the others.

The breaking and thus weakening of the DA caused intense sneed amongst coloured journ*lists who wanted a unified front against Anc corruption, and that they were surprised by those events are symptomatic of how out of sync their respective journos are with their ground level peeps.

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Point is every conceivable demographic in SA is hilariously more chuddy in some unique fashion, than the journ*list class from that demographic in SA.

As is similar in Burgerland and Europe, but what has made the divide between the global modern liberal orthodoxy even more extreme has been social media, especially Facebook which dominated Southern Africa, compared to twitter in the West.

Many dramatards here are likely more Reddit addicts than Facebook, which has a more boomer/3rd world demographic

In Facebook, even with so much banning and censorship, chudthink rise to whatever counts as the front page, in spite of jannies or Facebook sexy Indian dude mods

In these insane slapfiights, with people often under their ACTUAL IRL identity 🆔, you'll find opinions which make 4chan and 9gag look meek ,and you'll find how decisively the everyman of Indians/coloureds/Boers/sothos/pedis/Khoisan/Zulus/Xhosas are all just one ragebait post away from chipping out and showing the veneer of civilization is a Journos fantasy 😇 😈

Thus trust in journ*lists/Media to represent the interests of every group appears to have eroded away the past decades, as social media proliferated along with cheaper internet and smartphones, allowing the bypass of media orthodoxy

During COVID the death knell of physical papers were sounded, as during lockdown people were prevented from going outside to buy their weekly papers, and even the technologically illiterate were pushed through boredom to buy large internet, fibre, or download news apps and join Facebook news groups

Many peeps were thus in a nation wide scale exposed to the convenience and ease of news on their smartphones or computers, and even when lockdowns lifted in 2021, sales never recovered across the industry.

Publications like News24 which jumped ahead with the rapidly changing events were the 1st to rapidly program the best apps and gained a large market share, and thus rode on fire chariots the change from physical to digital media, like Zoom became dominant instantly as the premier online meeting app/program for SA businesses.

Other papers like the Rapport reacted or realised too late the need to have a digital presence to survive in this new world and for the past 4 years have been chugging along on fumes.

The Rapport was hardest hit and most tragic, because it was considered the most impressive and prestigious newspaper in the country, even when democratisation in 1994, when English became the most common tongue, and 10 other languages because part of the recognized official languages.

The Rapport had the intergenerational experience, infrastructure and prestige.

Important world changing events were often sought after specifically in the Rapport, because the best journ*lists wrote there, even Bong journ*lists, because many SA Englishman can speak Afrikaans.

The weekly format actually gave the newspaper credence because unlike daily rags chasing the daily story to make ends meet ,the weekly format allowed the experienced Journos to really do their research and make higher calibre articles.

When the 9/11 attacks occurred the entire nation would wait for the Rapport to a make an extensive and in depth coverage of the events made understandable for plebse

Even English and Sotho newspapers would source or share the Rapport articles afterwards, due to it's influence.

Yet as the internet proliferated, the format of waiting a week to read substantial important news as much as a week later became untenable and unpopular

Independent online news publications became increasingly competitive and competent, and the BEE for forcing it's way into all institutions, meant that white new reporters would seek their fame online instead.

Worsening the cycle of decline was that the Rapport and other news papers became more expensive to make up for the decline in sales ,from 11rand to 20rand, to 30rand, to eventually 39rand, almost the price of a high grade magazine.

But worst of all was that the editors leadership went full r-slur, and began to focus on Daily Mail tier slop, the paper got a reputation as a gossip rag for SA celebrities, which even South Africa doesn't care about, when superior Bong/Burger musicians exist.

Thus the Uber prestigious reputation went to shit. There was a time when the Rapport had special editions with extensive and fabulous resourced articles, with sketches maps and diagrams.

Like their infamous coverage of the killing Saddam or Bin Laden, with extensive details about the special forces involved. Visiting yanks were so impressed, that they claimed the coverage of the events were better than American news networks which were sensational junk news, whilst the Rapport was measured and neutral.

By the time, 2020 pandemic arrived, there was no loyal reader based.

Now this doesn't mean that physical papers will forever be gone, perhaps only that weekly formats are likely in a permanent decline.

Additionally other papers are still going strong, and perhaps only because Afrikaans has declined as a language worthy of catering towards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_South_Africa

After all there's always gonna be peeps enjoying physical media, just like Kindles will never completely replace physical 📚📖📚📚📚📚 books

But the fact remains that physical media is deeply in distress and only continually declining for various complicated reasons.

https://dailyinvestor.com/business/54653/plan-to-close-beeld-and-rapport-newspapers-confirmed/

Earlier this year in June the news went under the radar and most didn't even believe it

https://www.bizcommunity.com/article/beeld-rapport-city-press-daily-sun-and-soccer-laduma-to-close-670291a

A shit load of publications are eating shit

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1033243152150182&id=100063935197932

I need to calculate my odds

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— 10cellphones (@who10cellphones) December 21, 2024

$1,000,000 dollar bond for this video 😳 https://t.co/Rr2R6AMCD7 pic.twitter.com/6S58KG2pQI

— Alex Stein #99 (@alexstein99) December 30, 2024

!linuxchads

I fricking hate motion blur, depth of field, bloom, and lens flare so much bros.

!khive

!blueanon

Seems like sleepy is blaming coconut mommy

It was so foggy here that I couldn't see any fireworks But I could see some panicked birds so I still got to have fun

May 2025 be a better year for you all, and may it bring even more delicious drama

The manga in question is "It's a Little Late, but I've Fallen in Love with My Childhood Friend" (imasara desu ga osananajimi wo suki ni natte shimaimashita).

The story initially starts out as this extremely cutesy story of a highschool girl realising she's fallen for her childhood friend and her subsequent efforts at getting closer to said childhood friend. Now, when I say this starts out cutesy I'm not exaggerating. It's very cutesy and full of fluff . It feels like the type of manga where the MC and her crush holding hands would be treated as a major romantic development.

But come chapter 21, disaster strikes.

It is revealed that one of the side characters had been fricking our MC's object of affection . Yep, this is no longer a manga about two cutesy virgins getting closer to each other. Then the POV entirely shifts towards the side girl and it becomes a depressing story of how this girl is fricking our guy in order to distract herself from her fricked up family situation . This is a complete tonal shift from how the manga was for the past 20 or so chapters.

Suffice to say the fans were not pleased ( as you can guess from 10x increase in comments on mangadex for chapter 21 ). The show gets bombared with negative reviews taking its ratings from an impressive 9 to a 6 with people making accounts just to shit on the author .

Some comments from the chapter 21 meltdown thread. :meltdown

WHAT THE FRICK

Hey, I just said that.

Why would you introduce conflict in an already perfect wholesome series? Wtf author?

Oh wait, it's the same fricking author who did white album 2, no surprise.

Apparently, this author has done it before .

The Maruto classic

Bro, frick this guy

More

Everytime a manga post gets like 100 comments in 2 hours it's either the death of a shonen jump character, someone confessing, or problematic shit suddenly happen outta nowhere lmao

Lmao I saw the post at 3 hours and over 700 upmarseys and thought, "oh shit she must've confessed this chapter." Boy was I wrong

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uhhh, was this really necessary?

The short and simple answer is no. Of course it's a common route for romance to take, though common shouldn't be conflated with good. Fricking heck it just sucks.

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Is she actually a girlfailure if the world (author) actively shits on her?

She is now a girlsurvivor

Put thru the bs of her friends and the author

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Well, was nice while it lasted, will drop it here. What a shit development. Throwing a wholesome story out the window with just an unnecessary love triangle drama. Sad to see.

Exactly. On top of it the premise didn't hint any of this. Rather the premise had been set on a short wholesome romcom. So the drama was really unexpected and this chapter is so sudden.

The seethe continues into subsequent chapters months afterwards.

If the author wanted to write this story why did they bother with the first 20 chapters?

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We've gone off the rails but I'm committed to seeing where we are going

Surely not a train wreck... right?

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I guess joke is on me for expecting a romcom???

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Somehow, it keeps getting worse. I'm hopping off. This isn't even a train wreck I want to see.

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I feel like I've been NTRed out of a wholesome story. I'll never trust again.

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this is some hot trash

Like I've read through a lot but this tonal shift into some bootleg Boy's Abyss (surprising since Boy's Abyss was... something too) is so butt. How do you pivot something this badly.

From chapter 25 discussions .

All these just makes me feel awful for Hikari, darn

She deserves better. Mangaka cooked and burned down the kitchen

Shouldve drawn hentai tbh

Normally I'd be appalled by the suggestion.

But for once I agree completely.

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It's over

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Hikari bros, our cope?

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I genuinely believe the author's intentions partly included setting fans on fire about whom to support.

From chapter 27 discussions.

Author is cooking, but its kind of indian street food.

He's using gutter oil.

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This has turned into a whole different story that the title don't fit anymore

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I'm a little late here but I just started and caught up to this manga in one fell swoop and I'm fricking fuming. somebody, anybody, give me spoilers... there's a light novel right? someone has to have read it right? won't anyone put me out of my misery?

Similar reactions on Mangadex .

https://mangadex.org/title/cf1c93cc-4bb5-4311-b926-0f02ad123ad2

/a/utists react

https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/269799330/#269799330

NTR is the law of the world, simple as that.

heartbreaking, praying she goes postal

I might actually pick up this manga if this happens.

Lmao

Childhoodfriends only exist to get BTFO by the new girl that comes out of nowhere

TRVKE

!anime !kino discuss. Thoughts on NTR in anime/manga ?

Wow. This is an incredibly insular, and empathy devoid take. The author's binary assumption that introversion and introversion are choices are incredible. Go and do some research on neurodivergence, and then go and have a think about how harmful this advice is.

Remember, shyness, like fatness, is totally determined by your DNA, and your choices have nothing to do with it.

For me it isn't just a matter of "I'd rather be in front of a computer", going to a big social encounter is extremely stressful. And the idea of approaching and talking to someone I don't know fills me with terror.

Lots more computercel cope in the thread

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Freedom of speech exactly does mean freedom from consequences for this speech, the opposite is a pretty dumb statement. By this logic, you can say that incarcerating people for criticizing a politician is in fact a freedom of speech, just not from consequencesRecent ban of gaming memes was for being unmoderated, and the following for a new sub was for recreating the banned sub, it wasn't ever banned for hate or anything of the sorts (19)

1) the freedom of my arm is limited by your personal space, while I'm free to move it if I move it to you I am no longer free to do so since it becomes your problem. The creation of a hatred echochamber radicalizes people towards acts of hate to the minorities they ridicule.2) being banned for being 'unmoderated' is sometimes used by Reddit to ban subs without letting slip the actual reason. Gamingmemes was a rather large sub so I imagine Reddit doesn't want to actually state that it was due to the hate speech. You are correct about the second one tho. (-12)

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when a private entity behaves or seeks to behave as the public square they should be restricted by the same rules of enforcement and freedoms of the public square. (2)

R/gamingmemes was not attempting to be the public square (-1)

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And then a new sub was made that had moderation and that was deleted too for reasons unspecified. (8)

"Reasons unspecified"Why lie?The reason was ban evasion. (-1)

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Freedom of speech exactly does mean freedom from consequences for this speech, the opposite is a pretty dumb statement. By this logic, you can say that incarcerating people for criticizing a politician is in fact a freedom of speech, just not from consequencesRecent ban of gaming memes was for being unmoderated, and the following for a new sub was for recreating the banned sub, it wasn't ever banned for hate or anything of the sorts (19)

1) the freedom of my arm is limited by your personal space, while I'm free to move it if I move it to you I am no longer free to do so since it becomes your problem. The creation of a hatred echochamber radicalizes people towards acts of hate to the minorities they ridicule.2) being banned for being 'unmoderated' is sometimes used by Reddit to ban subs without letting slip the actual reason. Gamingmemes was a rather large sub so I imagine Reddit doesn't want to actually state that it was due to the hate speech. You are correct about the second one tho. (-12)

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Here, I also screenshotted it.https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOdysseyHadAPurpose/s/yiVxptZPKu (1)

Are you illiterate? I'm saying that it's a waste of time to call people names on social media just because they have a differing opinion.This is totally non related to calling your trash mates names or trash talking your enemies in a game.Who tf would go out of his way to go to a comment on the internet and start wasting your time to insult somebody. I'm trapped in the game either way, I can't change my mates, there's nothing left besides clutching up and insulting them.Also, I'm saying it's stupid to insult people. Which is true for this as well, it shouldn't be banned though.Edit: Fixed two typos. (1)

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"Reasons unspecified"Why lie?The reason was ban evasion. (-1)

old sub was deleted for "lack of moderation", new sub had moderation but was deleted anyways, what about this is ban evasion excactly? stop being so dishonest and bad faith (4)

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Young Chinese men's views were not much different from those of older men, whereas young women's views were far more egalitarian than their mothers'. Claire, a market researcher in Beijing (who uses an English name to preserve her anonymity), says she wants a partner who will treat her as an equal and share the housework. "I think most Chinese men would fail that test," she sighs. Dr Qian notes that when Chinese parents go to "matchmaking corners" in parks, they brag about their sons' jobs and degrees, but hide their daughters' achievements, fearing they will put off potential suitors.

Apparently is a thing in China as well

But they do, starting with education. Although the men at the top are doing fine, many of the rest are struggling. In rich countries, 28% of boys but only 18% of girls fail to reach the minimum level of reading proficiency as defined by pisa, which tests high-school students. And women have overtaken men at university (see chart 4). In the eu, the share of men aged 25 to 34 with tertiary degrees rose from 21% to 35% between 2002 and 2020. For women it rose faster, from 25% to 46%. In America, the gap is about the same: ten percentage points more young women than men earn a bachelor's degree

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The dating scene can also be bleak for men who did not go to university. Upwardly mobile women reject them. Michal Pazura, a young Polish dairy farmer, takes a break from inflating tractor tyres and recalls a girlfriend who "didn't like the smell" of the farm and left him to live in a town. "I wanted a traditional, stable lifestyle. She wanted fun." Male farmers have such a hard time finding spouses that a reality show called "Farmer Wants a Wife" is one of the most popular on Polish television. "It's hard to say what young women want in a man these days," says Lukasz, the Polish fireman. Previously, they just wanted a man with "a stable income, who could fix things in the house…and who had a driving licence", he recalls.

When you go into a gym to work out and a woman's in your line of vision, you look at her and all of a sudden you're famous on TikTok for being a sexual harasser or something," says Kahlil Rose, a 28-year-old conservative man in Atlanta. This has not happened to anyone he knows. But he has seen it on his phone, so it looms large in his consciousness. Benjamin, the student in Washington, offers a similarly gloomy perspective: "Men my age are afraid to get married because they hear a cautionary tale: woman cheats, files for divorce and takes everything he worked for."

The political left has done a fair job of persuading women that it cares about their problems. But it has not figured out how to talk to men, argues Richard Reeves, a liberal scholar, in "Of Boys and Men". Progressives often assume "that gender inequality can only run one way, that is, to the disadvantage of women". And they apply labels like "toxic masculinity" so indiscriminately as to suggest that there is something intrinsically wrong with being male

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It is also worth noting that there are many data centers located in rural areas often due to cheap land and available grid capacity. Hillsborough Oregon, South Bend Indiana, NSA data center in Utah, rural PA, etc. If some of those spots start seeing lots of activity then easier to draw a correlation (64)

Also worth noting a lot of these have been proven to be planes (-20)

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I work for one of the largest data center companies in the U.S. It's not hard at all to locate and find these places. Most are marked on Google maps. (53)

Data centers have what? Highways have what? Data centers have flow of atoms at the speed of light, along circuits, similar to highways. Highways have what, atoms moving at a smaller speed, the speed of a car along a set path, straight. These atoms on a highway inside of cars, and the atoms in bodies, are not following a natural organic crystalize flow are they, so in a way you can see that flow of electrons protons, and atoms in the people on the highway like a electronic circuit from a higher dimension right?So a data center has what, same thing a high flow of particles along set routes, which do not follow organic rules. So you could say those computers are energetically disrupting the sub atomic world with a false pattern right, just like a highway.So we would have to see things from their perspective to know exactly what they are up to, in how they see matter and energy, and why they might be interested in the data center. Maybe they are recharging from the atomic flow, lik... (2)

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Ah, not really... Most datacenters are identified by googling for hosting or shared hosting or Colo sites or data center Racks for rent etc etc.. Very easily found. Never mind good maps and web crawling and other OSI...And for power and cooling for AI?... Have you seen a datacenter? Have you googled renting servers for AI?LLLOOOTTTSSS if datacenters are doing and offering AI compute. Like, a wild pile friend...ME thinks you don't know what you're talking about.... (23)

Lol you have no idea, friend. Nobody is advertising their ai locations, only the colos. I've worked in the industry for 30 years. Sit down when adults are speaking. (-14)

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No.The tech used currently with AI is a danger, but it's because of the horrifying environmental costs and the ramifications of the people pushing it and their positions of power and how they're desperately trying to entrench their power forever. (In the process, accelerating the current climate crisis and doing reckless shit like their push for nuclear power without caring very much about the long-term ramifications of that idea.)It isn't Skynet. A sci-fi concept, like all concepts found in fiction, are not obliged to actually work in reality. They only have to work insofar as the writer needs it for their tone, setup, themes, and such.To put it bluntly, this tech is absurdly inefficient compared to biological life when it comes to processing power and complexity compared to resources expended to make it happen. Researchers mapped out a cubic millimeter of a human brain and that slice is equivalent to 1.4 pentabyes (over 1 million gigabytes). A single human brain mapped out into da... (1)

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It is going to sound stupid but I was given a "download" and in it I saw a snapshot of a plane, but it wasn't a normal or even functional plane. It was completely nonsensical, it had a very surreal quality like this thing his was built by a computer which didn't fully understand what it was building, only that it had the essence of a plane.An AI doesn't understand the "why" of it. And we cannot even remotely guarantee that it even could behave ethically. And we ourselves cannot even be trusted to do so, so why are we doing this? What frightens me is that we have zero concept of consequence projection. Like, we thought we could use the mujahideen to fight the Russians and that led to Al Qaeda and ISIS. We just can't forecast the consequences of our actions so it is terrifying that we would try to bring about AI to solve current problems without understanding the future problems, or even that we are willing to risk manifesting those problems and just pushing some unforeseeable horror ... (1)

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This is the most fascinating theory I have heard....are they ET and if so what are they doing? If they wanted to prove that they are here they are intelligent enough to know they need to show physical abilities beyond what we can do, to quell the army of debunkers and skeptics, but they are just little blobs of light hanging over the same area night after night....are they a project blue-beam type Psy -op to scare American citizens and make them afraid of alien invasion ? Are they testing for the many new drones being made for war? Are they disarming Nuclear weapons? Why not do it in the 60's and 70's and 80's, when the threat of war was much worse... Seems unlikely because the world does not seem poised for nuclear war, just more of the same type of warfare happening now.....nothing seems to make sense , but they do seem to have their own very specific agenda/intention and that's why I lean towards this theory....it seems they are doing something other than just being seen (2)

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