Axate (used to be called Agate) is trying something like this. Popbitch (sue me) use it to charge 0.25 per article or 0.50 for access for a week, but it doesn’t seem to be very widespread

I tried https://popbitch.com/royal-blush/ on firefox with ublock turned off and the microtransaction box after the faded out text still didn’t display so it might have some way to go yet

fair enough. i picked those out as sort of ‘mainstream’ countries that this kind of article doesn’t get published about, while i’ve seen them about japan a few times now. be interesting to contrast immigration rates to countries with similarly difficult language and cultural barriers but that’s a bigger job i haven’t the time for now

to this article’s credit it does end with a couple of paragraphs on the korean government attempts to support “work-family balance, childcare and housing”

this story comes out every so often about japan, rarely if ever mentions (slightly) lower births per woman in italy, china, spain, or the same 1.3 as e.g. poland, finland, canada

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?most_recent_value_desc=false

those are 2022 figures but i doubt there’s been significant change

there’s basically no first world country above the 2.1 replacement rate

tbh even the crowdfunding site

https://www.givesendgo.com/legalfund-ceo-shooting-suspect

linked from the official info site

https://www.luigimangioneinfo.com/pages/contributions/

is fishy as hell, a fundie christian setup with a prayer wall page and funding campaign categories including ‘church,’ ‘evangelism,’ and ‘mission’

see also the citations on its wikipedia page - history of far right stuff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GiveSendGo#References

extremely-mad-on-the-internet copypasta material

please credit the original artist

https://wefail.art/products/saturn-devouring-his-son-ltd-ed-a3

i feel like if i understood anything about this it would be less funny

thank you for enjoying this content

perpetual motion

your discord role play friends are not your family

The bar’s new owner Mark Fitzpatrick

and his business partner, Patrick Fitzmark

obviously not

They have desires, ability to suffer, ability to love, build social bonds and connections. They don’t deserve to die.

True but still not murder. You can use words to mean just what you choose them to mean if you please but murder requires a human victim

Do you have to pay for it or deposit it in the lock? In the UK it’s common in all supermarkets that they need a refundable pound coin to unlock, so many people have a ‘trolley token’ keyring with a detachable part to use just for that

it’s a reasonable reply, fair play to you

For one, you can say fuck on the internet, and for two, who are you to give out such ridiculous orders?

obviously the word was meant to be acting, why act retardant about it

for any foreign powers (i know you’re reading this) preparing to nuke the usa

my wife and I closed on a deal for an apartment in a hilltop town in Umbria

Yes, it’s true! I bought a hilltop village home

wild-boar ragù, anyone?

please spare a bomb for this hilltop

it isn’t that misused buzzword but i don’t see how it’s rent seeking either