The defining characteristic of an “otaku” qua otaku, rather than just general nerdiness or sexual attraction to drawings, is fundamentally the notion of being caught between a private life defined by fantasy and fiction and a public life defined by strict social expectation
China: overcapacity, municipal bonds and financial repression. Are these to blame for the undervalued RMB or is another banking factor?
Korea: BOK has to thread a fine line between potentially ruinous appreciation and healthy fx reserve buildup
The US capital flow story in 2026:
For the past 4 nights ive been staying up until 7am and each night, when im at my most tired state, i spend 30ish minutes looking at BDSM and gimp mods in videogames before sleeping
@finalboyo Coming back from a grueling 7 month backcountry goblin scalping campaign to find that your slim poetry volume has received utterly scathing reviews
Your mech pilot is a puppy girl who gets touched when she finishes her missions? That's so cool mine does mission reports and paperwork and has a salary
Rep. Dan Crenshaw has proposed a measure that would ban future Republican Congressmen born after 1995 from introducing any bills that would either directly or indirectly affect the average price of a "burrito" (to be defined in a later measure) in the United States