Shit is getting CRAZY!
Um⌠What?
Huge train derailment in Taiwan. 20+ dead, nearly 200 injured. Cause as yet unknown. Trains arenât meant to zig zag.
US companies might take some flack for how interns and trainees are treated, but boy do Japanese black companies (companies that have especially bad working conditions) put them to shame, especially when the workers are from one of the âlesser countriesâ (read: Vietnam, the Philippines, etc.).
The company thatâs making the news rounds says the interns: arenât allowed to have romantic relationships (or even be alone in their room with a member of the opposite sex), arenât allowed to sleep anywhere but the company dorms, canât go outside in groups larger than two without permission, and have to pay a heft fine if they get pregnant. An trainee from Vietnam got pregnant, but she still hadnât paid off the money she borrowed to move to Japan for work, so the company told her, âGet an abortion or get deported, you choose.â
Well, it happened.
Well, one less place in the world Iâd like to live if I had to make the choice.
That said, and Iâm probably preaching to the choir here, this wonât stop criminals, whoâll just put open source crypto software on their devices instead.
Airport completely shut down due to drones flying there.
PSA: If you have Oral-B dental floss, throw it out.
Dammit, now I need to find a new floss that can actually handle my gnarly maw.
So this Gearbox lawsuit is getting pretty weird.
Several hours after the publication of this story, Ars Technica tracked down a magic podcast on which Pitchford had appeared last year. Around the same time, a Gearbox spokesperson also e-mailed the podcast to Kotaku. In an episode that went live December 22, 2018, the day after the lawsuit was filed,Pitchford told his version of the USB stick storyâfor the first time, he said. Pitchford described his enjoyment of âcamgirlâ pornographyâin which a woman streams live erotic contentâand explained that he had saved a porn video of a camgirl on said memory stick before it was lost.
âItâs a woman who is masturbating,â Pitchford said, âand when she has some experience that appears as if sheâs having an orgasm, a huge amount of fluid comes out of her vagina.â
âThis is not a sex workerâthis is a fucking magician,â he added, saying he had purchased one of her videos and put it on the USB stick. âSome kid, an employee of the Medieval Times, discovered this memory stick, took it home, and accessed it because it was before we were password-protecting, and discovered secrets of my company and future games in development, and also discovered the pornography. And it was barely legal porn. This girlâs handle was âOnly 18.ââ
So, I guess Gawker made a silent comeback earlier this month, and itâs already a failure.
Not really. A rich right-wing asshole bought them and tried to re-spin a right-wing propaganda outlet with a thin veneer of popular culture under the same branding. Itâs failing because they kinda failed to take into account the alt-right and similarâs almost pathological obsession with shitting on Gawker, which basically lead to a massive own goal from both sides.