Both. I don’t trust a central authority to make judgments on who to or not to trust on social media and I don’t trust individuals who post anything other then shallow opinions. If I make some heavy claim online, I always post a source when possible.

We’re already seeing how accentual authorizes are demonetizing posts for using words that advertisers don’t like. I saw a discussion on the nazi imagery used for villains in a certain show get autobanned for promoting hate speech.

Breakers work when you draw too much current through the circuit and a metal strip heats up, expands and flips the circuit off. It’s meant to stop you from plugging in too many devices and heating up the wire inside of your wall. It takes a bit of time activate.

GFCI stands for Ground Fault Circuit Interrupt. If any current is detected going across one of the current carrying wires and the grounding wire, it immediately turns the circuit off.

PSA, please, please don’t rip off the grounding prong on your outdoor water fountain pump because you can’t find a grounded extension cord.

You can just rip off the grounding prong to bypass the protection. I keep having to fix cord ends because too many dipshits at work can’t be bothered to look at the at what they’re doing when they plug something in.

Apple would just register Apple@Apple.com. We already know Apple computers owns apple.com. Tim Cook would own Cook@Apple.com for official CEO press releases.

Is there a difference on social media? Unless they cite sources or I independently verify it, how are those different?

I don’t necessarily trust info that claims to have my interest in mind because that how con artists approach their marks. They find a common problem, then confidently proclaim that have the perfect solution.

Sir. This is a Wendy’s.

But how much do I trust the central authority that would be in charge of implementing that?

Personally, we, individual people, should just be calling out others spreading BS. There’s been more then a few times someone has brought me something fishy sounding, I’ve responded with “and did you hear about that on facebook?”

Early on with twitter, I always wondered how people knew that a celebrity account was real or not. I was bothered by how trusting people were in, what was essentially the honor system. At least with bsky and mastodon, you can register a domain or use your already existing domain as part of your username.

Holo and Niji are still very different beasts. Everyone leaving Holo are still doing it on professional terms. No one’s reported abuse, favoritism, or pay being withheld. No one’s ended up in a hospital. No talents have dogpiled on anyone leaving. We also had two graduation notices within two days, so there’s no enforced queue, although I wouldn’t be surprised if the talents are choosing to soften the blow by spacing things out voluntarily.

I’m actually referring to the monstrosity that is Sony-Funimation-Crunchyroll-Rightstuf.

The actual production companies are hit or miss on toxic work culture. I’m limited in my exposure, but Kyoto Animation seems to be a good one and A-1 Pictures is shit(oh, it’s a subsidiary of Sony). Generally, the smaller the better. Smaller gap between the executives and the animators and smaller teams means they have to keep the workers happy because if a few leave, the whole production grounds to a halt. I’m afraid I’m seeing the slow decline of Gainax all over again.

Every video game company and every anime company would disagree. Kiara is still in the company, so her opinion of the company is going to have a bias, even considering she’s been the most outspoken member of Myth. Many of the members who have left have flat out said that they’re leaving because of disagreements with management. Not because they don’t like Idol stuff or streaming. Yuuki Sakana flat out released a cover song when everyone thought she was going to focus on gaming.

I’m adjacent to enough backroom con drama. Some “fan” will try to become the king of the hill. Honestly, if Hololive nose dives, the talents have plenty of examples to follow on restarting their careers as indies or corpos. I think that’s going to be the real legacy of Coco. Before her, no one knew if the fans would follow.

End users really need to just be more skeptical. Big names need to register their own domain and point people to those places.

Fair.

Told you so.

That’s a lot of organizing to try and make a company private again. And there’s no guarantee that the fan run org that would buy Holo would even be able to effectively run it. Unless the fans were completely hands off and put the talents in charge of all decisions, it would likely go to shit in a different direction. One of the reasons people join agencies is because they don’t know how to manage the business side of things. I’m gonna mention Pippa again, but she’s grateful to Phase for managing that stuff. She wouldn’t be able to coordinate her mech deals or organize 3D concerts. Nana Asteria has also said that she misses being part of a company for similar reasons.

I didn’t say anything about fascism, but there does seem to be a correlation between brain injuries and being a conservative. Gary Busey and RFKjr both come to mind. A shoot in the dark, but empathy might require higher brain function then selfishness. Conservative pundits also offer simple answers to complex questions.

That’s still a fuck ton of data just to give out it’s current status.

What exactly do you think we can do? That whole generation has collective brain damage from the leaded gas. They don’t listen or respect anyone younger then themselves that isn’t regurgitating what they already want to hear.