Arguably blackpilled folks are less problematic than incels since they have given up looking and perhaps developed a better attitude toward women (paradoxically) while incels hold a shred of toxic hope that their tradwife will swoop in and save them and that hope eats them alive. Note: I am not a scholar of either community's worldview

Pretty sure it's Mushi-Shi. I generally ain't an anime guy but that series is good.

Despair is also a key party platform. The more hopeless someone is, the more likely they are to invite catastrophic change like Trump promises.

It's definitely worth your time, not like Kings other books, more dark fantasy adventure than horror. I enjoyed the first few books in high school and finished the series as they came out in the following decade. Quite a trip and very original and deep worldbuilding.

I'm not on Bluesky, what downsides are you seeing in their app?

Non-compliant patients who “do their own research” on the internet.

In the US they advertise drugs directly to us, we're expected to do our own marketing-guided research to speed along the transaction.

I was picturing a graphical map with circles for the communities at different sizes for the amount of traffic. It could be based on proximity for how much overlap there was in user posts and comments, and also by category, color the circles by instance maybe too? Like make it waaay more visible and accessible than Reddit. Somebody must have the chops to make something like that here, right?

Fair and kind words, thank you. Pleasant days to you, friend.

This similar church was the one that Varg Vikernes from Burzum burnt. It was rebuilt. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantoft_Stave_Church

3.8 ounces? Yikes, that does seem low.

They moved against the gays when abortion stopped being such a wedge issue, which itself replaced school integration to turn out the bigot vote.

Are the Dharmic faiths particularly inclusive of queer folks? Or just by comparison? I don't know about Buddhism but China is somewhat antigay, and it's not like the Kama Sutra had any gay stuff in it, and with all the erotic Hindu temple art I've never seen any gay stuff going on. Happy to be corrected if I'm wrong in my amateur assessment here