A Random Encounter

"you have to use separate draw/inject because your needle will be dulled after piercing " wrong. here's a 31g needle after piercing a vial stopper six or eight times that I took with a microscope

so a few weeks ago i reported a very obvious terf. a new account otherwise entirely empty at the time, the most terfy terf to ever terf, having terf in the username, and being openly transphobic, transmisogynistic, and saying slurs: (there's more to the post but you get the gist)

they said the same thing to me when I reported a terf community with terf in the name consisting of nothing but posts mocking and dehumanizing trans women and they said the same thing to me when I reported multiple people making explicit death threats towards my friend

"Yet there’s an upside to piracy that few in the industry care to openly discuss: The information gleaned from illicit streaming and downloads can give a glimpse into consumer tastes, and potentially guide streamers to new audiences or programming. And since streamers tend to keep their own viewing figures closely guarded, piracy data can be one of the few ways to get a broad view of what people want to watch."

this applies across-the-board, but HBO in particular is notorious for being so much better at fighting against piracy than any other company. I've been pirating shit for nearly two decades now, the one and only time my ISP noticed was because I was seeding a torrent of an HBO show.

Here, this should make it clearer:

It's so "cool" (not really) how one of the main openings to the official wotc 5e Curse of Strahd module is a "gypsy" (their words!!!) explicitly modeled off of real-life Romani people enters a tavern and tricks the players into going in to the cursed vampire land at the request of his master, the main evil vampire. The "Vistani" (the fictional Romani who are coincidentally called the actual real-life slur) are all travelers who can mutter curses and serve the evil vampire. I do not play 5e (i prefer when ttrpgs are good) but I've only heard good things about this module, nobody mentioned the fact that it just directly transplants real-life Romani people, makes them all actually for real nefarious magical wanderers, and calls them the actual real-life slur