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Oh yeah, which one gets you going?

The substance affected bleach blonde answering the door in a towel then trying to entice the guy a couple of years younger than her with some transactional sex?

Chunky "straight" bear trying to get some strange off the straight & unimaginative delivery driver while his wife is out of the house?

Or the attempted blackmail after sexual misadventure with a meth-head?

I mean I can see all of those scenarios cropping up in different porn films, I'm not trying to yuck anyone's yum here.

Speaking from experience, the pizza delivery thing is weirdly plausible. I was propositioned twice while delivering Pizza, once by a very drunk lady who really wanted someone to take her to a particular club (about twenty minutes away) the other time by a guy who really wasn't my type, but apparently I was REALLY his. I politely declined on both occasions as besides the relative sobriety levels being a dealbreaker my girlfriend wouldn't have appreciated me taking up the first offer and I wouldn't have appreciated the second.

Plus another driver I worked with got invited in for some hanky panky at a remote house. The scantily clad woman rubbed up against him and stripped his clothes off, while her partner in crime stole all the cash he had on him. They then followed up by snapping a Polaroid and threatening to send it to the store if he told anyone. Obviously he didn't let that stop him and they never sent I'm the photo. Early stages of Meth abuse seem like fun.

Well that's embarassing, is it bad I felt compelled to immediately go fix that?

Yeah, just look at Discord. Not only harvesting data, by sharing it with "trusted partners" I was told the Esafety commissioner can bring legal action to find companies up to $850k per offence for improperly storing Australian citizens data, but I haven't heard anything about hundreds of millions in fines against Discord yet.

Just repaying the excess fees is "taking shareholder money". No fines or penalties, just making the original customers whole.

Just make the entire executive team pay the money to the shareholders, problem solved. If they aren't good for it I am sure they can get a line of credit extended to them, pretty sure they know some people in the banking industry.

So sick of people treating "white" as a racial group. I'm presumably about as white as you get (my father was adopted so no idea about his ancestry, but his bio mother appeared pretty damned white). I don't identify with any of these little, insignificant man-children who are desperate for their hatefulness to make their lives just a little more important.

Plus if they could pull their heads out of their arses for a couple of minutes they would clearly see their grievances would be better directed along class lines, would make a far bigger difference in their lives than trying to pretend anyone with skin darker than weak custard is somehow oppressing them.

I especially liked this section from the ABC news story ( https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-17/verify-neo-nazi-rally-participant-visa-revoked/106018130 ) about this dickhead:

When ABC NEWS Verify asked Mr Gruter about the bracelet, and other matters, he responded: "Since when is it a crime to love and advocate for your own people?"

If he is so passionate about his own people, maybe he will get a warmer reception when he fucks off back to South Africa to rejoin them. Somehow I doubt it though.

Think, if they started from the top they could retain talent and remove the easily replaceable dead wood. Based on the chairman apparently having a $1.1 billion net worth, I'm pretty sure he doesn't need any further income for instance.

Not sure how my experience stacks up but I have been getting performance equivalent to the Bambu PETG out of the Elegoo I have been buying recently on my P1S. A little bit of stringing but that seems to have a lot to do with recent humidity as a pass through the filament dryer has been rectifying it. Just ran 2 rolls of the Red PETG Rapid through for my mates packout accessories, and before that I did a bunch of cleats for his tool wall in some Black PETG.

Did a good enough job that he rather kindly bought his wife a P1S for her birthday when the Black Friday sales hit. She has turned that around and run the printer non-stop since it arrived and only about 40% of that has been prints for him. 😆

So to maintain AI supremacy the US will now phase out all climate targets and begin the great AI vs Climate Collapse race.

People around the world will be on tenterhooks as they see AI get out to an early lead as politicians fire anyone who can call out the ever so subtle "Unprecedented Events".

Gaze in wonder as climate strikes back by disrupting society with apocalyptic weather events to attempt supply chain disruption.

Watch in rapt disgust as the AI instructs the puppet like mouth pieces to pay lip service to citizens while doubling down on supply and logistic support while restricting the publics access to the same.

AI vs Climate Collapse: No matter who wins we lose

So I ask out of serious curiosity, when you say over regulation, are we talking safety, environmental, financial?

I ask because the willingness of companies to pay workers in another country to engage in practices that are prohibited in the first country seems like corporate exploitation.

If it's due to environmental regulation that seems to be a case where often an environmentally friendlier way of performing a lot of processes exists, but it costs more money, so companies choose to exploit weaker regulation somewhere that hasn't caught up to not poisoning the planet to benefit companies. Plus a lot of companies hate being told to clean up after themselves and would prefer to simply leave an area once they have extracted maximum value from it.

As for financial, look, I am Australian, here we have historically benefitted from a strong labour movement that has granted us livable wages, paid sick leave etc, however our rich people are doing everything in their power to roll back and undermine that.

In each case the problem seems in my opinion to revolve around a class of extremely wealthy shitheels who want to make all the money and they will take the path of least resistance to make that happen. Perhaps, Internationally we need to view the existence of billionaires as a critical failure of our systems and either legislate to prevent them from occurring, or find some way to drastically increase the hazard levels associated with trying to gather that much wealth in the first place.

I personally doubt that Tariffs will meaningfully change the manufacturing landscape internationally, I think Trump tanking the US economy will however increase desperation and lead US citizens to compromise on the conditions they will work under, in effect lowering the expectations of US workers to the point they will be willing to compete with off shore workers.

You and I define mixing pot radically differently.