I know someone with a vinyl collection, that’s even worse. Though at least vinyl sleeves don’t feel as cheap as those plastic CD cases. And noisy vinyl is probably nicer than skipping CDs, though they both suck in their own way.

For me the bulk would be music CDs. Those aren’t even that nice as physical items …

For me, the issue tends to be that while I don’t mind listening to music where I don’t understand the lyrics, I do mind listening to music that might be outright anti-LGBT, misogynist etc.; I mostly stopped listening to Jamaican music because of that - not saying that it’s all like that, but the chance of a given song being like that is higher than I’m comfortable with. Also, Rastafarian is whack.

Israel being part of Eurovision isn’t a new thing. The only difference is that they’ve been going mask off on their genocide aspirations lately.

I really like physical media. Thing is, I don’t have the space for shelves upon shelves of physical media.

I rip them from youtube, that way I don’t have to log into anything first.

Let’s hope the new owners won’t destroy it.

TBF English is an extremely common second language, so listening to English-language music as a German or French person doesn’t have quite the same impact as an American listening to German- or French-language music.

Rightwingers don’t usually care about whether immigrants have citizenship or not.

I’d like to point out that I’m european, not american - this is the opposite of calling each other hypocrites.

It’s not like most european countries are in a good position to justifiably point fingers here …

With the low level of detail that’s used for most anime faces and the wild (by Japanese standards, anyway) hair colors, it’s usually pretty much impossible to tell without context whether a character is meant to be asian or european.

On a more ideological level, Japan was allied with Nazi Germany and committed a lot of atrocities back then, and they always had strong anti-immigration policies and an advantageous position to enforce them (island nation, difficult writing system etc.).

I guess apathy is slightly better than hate, but it’s kind of hard to be proud that so many people see all this hate and chose to not vote.

There’s a German word for that, Machtergreifung.

Being moderately well-off doesn’t mean anything when the government decides to deport you or otherwise deny you rights (abortions, anyone?). USA is also the country with (one of?) the worlds highest prison populations per capita, which is seriously fucked up. They even made inmates do firefighting in the LA fires, without proper safety equipment.

I go back and forth between lamenting that corporate propaganda created this state of things, and lamenting that so many people are dumb enough to fall for it. Calling voters dumbasses doesn’t solve anything, but I’m definitely thinking it a lot lately.

we don’t know how those boobs are made and they may not cave and be more resistant to denting given the extra room for reinforcement

That’s going to increase the weight by quite a bit, which is a critical issue for armor. It would be much more useful to reinforce an efficient shape.

No, it’s pronounced fow-veh!

If you hit the outer part sure (though they’ll dent and cave in very easily, which would quickly negate any advantage), but if you hit between the boobs you’ll actually get more purchase than if you hit someone with a flat-chested armor.

Is it though? The whole “contoured torso” design is quite detrimental to protection, you want it bulging outward in a wide arc. And you don’t want your neck expossed like that, either. Though the person to the right of him with considerably less slutty armor has very similar design issues.