I’m Not Dead I Only Dress That Way

"These two women, they’re trapped in this secret life. And being trapped in these apartments was such a great metaphor that we just mined the hell out of it. So we did all these overheads of them trapped in it, which is standard noir stuff – these overheads of “rats in a box.” People walking down a hallway? Let’s just shoot it from above so we can see the rats in the maze. They cannot break out of this thing. The wallpaper was made of squares within squares within squares. So you’re constantly – subliminally – reminded that these people are trapped in their lives."

The truth is every character in the show would invest in crypto, and none of them would know what it is. The only differences are the ways in which they don't understand it and how they end up investing. Breaking it down:

Dee - Okay we saw exactly how this would go down in Mac and Dennis Buy a Timeshare. Dee is our early adopter. Some guy tells her about his fancy new blockchain coin and she invests right away, taking him completely at his word. She tells the rest of the gang about crypto and they laugh at her and call her a bird, shaking her confidence. She spends the rest of the episode trying and failing to cash out because of convoluted transaction processes and the price constantly jumping.

Dennis and Mac - As soon as Dee is out of earshot, Dennis tells everyone that he thinks the blockchain is a great idea, and Mac agrees. Seeing themselves as "wealth creators," they become cryptominers. They try to build a server farm by stealing computers from everyone they know and following an online tutorial for setting up mining software. Mac brought a pickaxe and doesn't understand when he's supposed to swing it. After a few weeks they think it's weird they haven't made any money, and figure out what they actually installed was malware that used their machines to mine crypto for somebody else. Their electricity bill is $20,000.

Frank - Now you might be thinking "Frank's an amoral businessman who loves scams and hates the environment. Why wouldn't he understand crypto?" And while thats all true, he's also completely tech illiterate. He immediately pegs crypto as a scam of some sort, but doesn't actually get how it works, so he tries to "get in on the action" by making his own money using a fax machine and a wad of hundreds. Through a comedy of errors, the police arrive to arrest him for forgery, but the guy who scammed Dee thinks they're there for him, and he immediately destroys his own laptop to hide evidence of his involvement in black market transactions. The laptop was also hosting his crypto marketplace, so this completely wipes out Dee's investment.

Charlie - He absolutely does not understand crypto, and probably thinks it has something to do with mothman. Frank tries to get him involved in his scheme, but fires him when Charlie puts doodles of bigfoot on all the counterfeit money. Charlie decides he'll sell "his own crypto" by peddling his ugly bigfoot art on the street. Some tech entrepreneurs happen to pass by, trick him into letting them take pictures of his art, and post them online as $100,000 NFTs.

So to summarize:

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Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

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BE UPON YE

I think it's time for my man to have some propaganda since we're in the final stretch! Senshi deserves at least a fair fight.

First, he can be really hot:

Look at those arms. Those luscious locks of hair. WHAT A MAN!

Plus, he can be more explicitly sexy:

Do you like panty shots? He has them!!!!

Plus he's the perfect height:

I'll let your imagination do the rest.

AND HE'S CUTE AND SILLY!!!!

He's the cutiest patootiest of a man you'll ever find.

I believe in Senshi supremacy! He will treat you right!!!!

Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.