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A friend of mine has been using wigs in cosplay for quite some time, and she has repeatedly drilled into me and all her other friends that if we need a wig to get a good, expensive one, because it's absolutely worth it.

She's not trans though, so her experience may be slightly different.

Could maybe possibly plausibly have something to do with the fact they're in a desperate war for survival against an imperialist domineer where they've been deeply dependent on an Israeli ally for military, intelligence, and financial support? One that would leave them in no place to be criticizing the ones holding that lifeline?

Oh sorry, nevermind, I forgot you're living in a fantasy realm where the war ended in three days and all those Jewish Nazis like Zelenskyy were purged. Or something.

No, that's definitely still deranged. Ukrainian oligarchs engaged in sex trafficking are not "Ukraine", certainly not after the invasion started.

The UAE being on that list immediately screams that this list is horse shit, possibly specifically UAE funded.

somehow I feel like neither of these options are ideal

Speaking of Christmas tree toppers, this has been mine the past few years

(edit: it's supposed to be an owl, it's just not a great artistic rep of one and from this angle it kinda like more like a giant sized up tennessee warbler or something 😅)

You haven't been paying attention to late stage capitalism so far. The landlords simply pull enough housing off the market that the prices for the remainders continue to rise. They'll let entire buildings rot if it ensures the prices for other buildings remain high.

That's what happens when the slush fund is being drank up like a slushie for the administrators.

Could be a US vs Europe thing, maybe a specific to Finland or the Scandinavia thing, but I generally doubt it and think you're naïve to the experience of most people's jobs. Britain is quite famously even more omni-surveilled than the US.

I work management in retail, cameras are literally everywhere (and being at least occasionally watched) that there could ever be a legal liability in any form (e.g. a worker or customer doing absolutely anything whatsoever), which is basically everywhere. Manufacturing is the same, cameras are everywhere. On paper it's mainly for the liability reasons but surveillance is a nice bonus (or the real reason).

My mom worked in corporate telecommunications until last year when she retired, and her job frequently involved discussions about how the networks her company was installing enabled closer employee surveillance. Her stories from work are part of why I care to comment about this, it's almost laughable to me to see someone thinking this isn't common. It's standard. It's everywhere. The world became a panopticon a decade ago and you're running late to the realization.

Seconding Quill here, if you haven't been living this your entire working career you're one of vanishingly few lucky exceptions to the rule. Yes, the factual reality is that most workplaces at medium size or larger employers are in fact actual panopticons. There are exceptions, there always are. But that's the reality on the ground in 2025.

There definitely is an argument here that most modern workplaces are truly dystopian panopticons where some of the methods laid out won't work nearly as well as they once did. And yes, some methods resulting in any amount of damage to equipment could very plausibly result in prosecution. But none of it is impossible and many methods will still work, at least with some cooperation.

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