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BBC Trending: Is this manga cartoon of a six-year-old Syrian girl racist?

"I want to live a safe and clean life, eat gourmet food, go out, wear pretty things, and live a luxurious life… all at the expense of someone else," reads the text on the illustration above. "I have an idea. I'll become a refugee."

The image and caption were posted by a right-wing Japanese artist last month. Now, more than 10,000 people have signed a Change.org petition in Japanese urging Facebook to take it down. The petition, posted by an account calling itself the "Don't Allow Racism Group", claims that several people have reported the illustration and demands that "Facebook must recognize an illustration insulting Syrian refugees as racism."

Although the Japan Times reported that Facebook did not take the picture down, saying it did not go against community guidelines, the artist herself removed the picture. But she remains defiant about her motivations for posting it in the first place. Toshiko Hasumi told BBC Trending that she believed the people signing the petition were left-wing activists. "I draw many political mangas [Japanese comics] which are not favourable to them," she said. "This is why they targeted me."

The Barrett Brown Review of Arts and Letters and Prison: Stop Sending Me Jonathan Franzen Novels

Another fun piece written by Barrett Brown from federal prison, this time about Purity.

Here are some older articles along similar lines.

This is a reposted submission with editing.

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Anonymous Coward-28 writes:

Incomplete list.

Overlord. (13 episodes) Too short. Ending yelled "our production budget is too small". Really, felt like an advertisement to learn WRITTEN japanese, and buy the raw manga from amazon.co.jp; to find out what happens next.

Chaos Dragon. (12 episodes) Beautifully dark; at least for the first few episodes. The "happily ever after" ending felt tasteless and disgusting. Doesn't anybody know how to write a good tragedy anymore ?

Normally, I wouldn't submit trash like this; but the queue's empty, so . . .

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AniChart Summer 2015 anime

LiveChart Summer 2015 anime

Original Submission

A little meta-moderating would be nice, regarding submissions. Just thought of it, a minute ago. There is a submission regarding the Zumwalt destroyers. I have things to say on that subject, so if I were able to meta-moderate the submission, I would definitely give it an up-vote.

One person's moderation in that respect might not mean much - but if a number of people took the time to moderate, it could be useful.

Some people may not even look at that queue, but I've gotten used to it now. If something looks very interesting, there is time to do some modest research before the discussion starts. Or, if it only looks moderately interesting, you can at least click the links in the submission. Voting a submission up or down though. Sounds good anyway.

• A London Cereal Café Was Attacked by an Anti-Gentrification Group Called 'Fuck Parade'
• The hipster Cereal Killer Cafe owners aren't the East End's real enemy
• Cereal Killer protest: police investigate threats against cafe owners
• Cereal cafe defended by Boris Johnson after gentrification demo

So - you open a web page, and it takes a while to load. Sometimes, a long while. You get curious about just WHAT takes so long, and start looking at the page code, fire up wireshark, and watch things. Everyone with a little savvy blocks ads, blocks trackers, streamlines the browser, tweaks under the hood settings.

One thing that I've personally not keyed on until recently, are online fonts, or web fonts. WTF? I've installed a boatload of fonts on my system. I only use a few fonts, but I've installed all kinds of fonts, to ensure that I could read stuff that just might require some outlandish font.

But, everytime I load a page, I'm DOWNLOADING a new font? WTF? Time to investigate . . .

So the author demands that if I read his content, it must use some special font, that is hosted online? Really? Oh - it's a PROPRIETARY font. Ahhh, I see. Someone is making MONEY off of this waste of bandwidth. Makes sense now! "Download ze fonts, Old Man, or we'll break the REST OF YOUR FINGERS!"

Fuck them all.

Some of us hate downloadable web fonts so here's how you can stop websites (including techpowerup) from forcing their glorious fonts down your throat.

1) Mozilla Firefox

Open about:config
Set "gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled" to false.

2) Google Chrome
Right Click Chrome's launcher icon, click "Properties".

At the end of the launcher string add the following:

" --disable-remote-fonts" (without quotes).

You're done.

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/disabling-web-fonts-in-mozilla-firefox-and-google-chrome.184198/

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34358380

Los Angeles police said Majed Abdulaziz al-Saud, 28, was arrested on Wednesday and released the following day after posting a $300,000 (£197,000) bond. He is scheduled to appear in court on October 19 to face a charge of "forced oral copulation". Al-Saud does not have diplomatic immunity, police said.

HR. Supposed to mean "human relations" or some such a thing. Bullshit.

I just came from a "meeting". I've never liked that broad, but I'm beginning to really DISLIKE her. The presumptuous creature has the nerve to talk down to me. She presumes to tell me how to type out a memo or letter. "Some people are offended by what you write." I called her on that - "Show me what is offensive!" She points to a couple words that I typed in caps for emphasis. WTF? Someone is OFFENDED by a word highlighted in caps? WTF? Sure, I can choose to use italics to draw attention to a word. I can choose to use bold print. Fuck that - I've been typing for about 40 - uhhh 44 years now. I didn't grow up with italics or bold on my typewriter. You could choose to use red ribbon to highlight something, but that was REALLY frowned upon. Red means a hell of a lot more that bold, or italics, or CAPITAL LETTERS. Red was reserved for very special purposes.

This is age discrimination. As well as discrimination against military veterans. USING ALL CAPS WAS ROUTINE, AND REQUIRED WHEN I TYPED OUT VARIOUS REPORTS IN THE NAVY. Not all of the report of course, but there were fields which were expected to be all caps.

This ditzy broad uses the word "inappropriate" - one of those damned SJW code words. "I don't like what you're doing, so it's tantamount to criminal conduct!"

I'm offended. I'm offended that busy body women who have no real work to do can call working men and working women into their offices, to whine and snivel about some imagined slight. And, I'm offended that these women have the AUDACITY to pretend that their way is the only way.

The broad doesn't like old bastards? Tough shit. I've been on the verge of quitting for some time now. Supid assed "human relations" may be the straw that broke the camels back. Hell, I'd rather talk to the camel . . .

http://www.cnn.com/ (right on the front page, no Fox BS)
Or an audio stream.

Starts at 5:10 PM PT, 8:10 PM ET.

Wikipedia:

The undercard broadcast took place at 3 PM PDT, while the main card broadcast will occur at 5 PM PDT. The candidates in the main debate are Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Mike Huckabee, Chris Christie, and John Kasich. The candidates in the undercard debate are Bobby Jindal, Lindsey Graham, Rick Santorum, and George Pataki. Rick Perry suspended his campaign on September 11, effectively ending his candidacy. The two-tiered CNN broadcasts will be consecutive, with the primetime debate planned to immediately follow the second-tier broadcast. The moderator is Jake Tapper of CNN, with side-by-side participation by Hugh Hewitt of Salem Radio.

Other stuff:

• NYT live coverage
• PolitiFact
• Republican Party presidential debates, 2016
• Twitter live

Pushing To Attract Millennials, Taco Bell Will Offer Beer And Wine

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On Tuesday, Taco Bell announced it is launching a new concept that "redefines fast food experience." The first of these "experiences" will open in Chicago next week, and another one will follow later this month in San Francisco.

In a statement, the company says:

"Taco Bell Cantina restaurants will be the first and only Taco Bell restaurants to serve alcohol to customers who are of legal drinking age. The San Francisco restaurant will serve beer and wine only, while Wicker Park will serve, beer, wine, sangria and twisted Freezes. Cantina restaurants will also feature a new tapas-style menu of sharable appetizers — including nachos and rolled tacos — during designated hours each evening, in addition to the standard Taco Bell Menu."

These new cantinas won't have drive-throughs and will have open kitchens, according to a press release. They will also have digital menu boards, television monitors and an option for customers to use a mobile app to order and pay for their food.

[...] As USA Today reports:

"The company knows that its Millennial customers increasingly are attracted to urban areas, where real estate is pricey. Company officials think that selling a stiffer drink might pad the receipts — the typical Taco Bell receipt is in the $7 range — and in turn help make their urbanization push more doable.

" 'To put in a drive-thru you need land,' Neil Borkan, the Taco Bell franchisee who will operate the Chicago test location, told USA TODAY. 'Can you imagine buying an acre of land in a neighborhood like [Chicago's] Wicker Park? You couldn't afford it. As real estate becomes more and more expensive, this kind of concept makes more sense.'

"Taco Bell is treading carefully into booze. While quick-service rival Starbucks recently announced it would accelerate its push of its beer and wine program and has applied for liquor licenses for hundreds of stores across the USA in recent months, Taco Bell spokesman Rob Poetsch said the company could potentially open 10 locations selling hard drinks next year."