it’s actually just a relatively small thing which won’t negatively affect anyone in power and is generally considered popular.

It’s only popular because of the publicity gained by assassinating the country’s longest serving Prime Minister though. I don’t think a pop song would have hit the mark.

It absolutely has affected people in power, as there were more than just him linked to the UC church (which his association with was the reason he was the chosen target) and they were removed from their positions. Thise still in power have cut ties.

It is indeed an uncommon response though.

After a wiki binge I can try to answer: it seems that the “Unification Church” is a religious movement popular in Japan and Korea and pressures members into massive donation as well as bringing new members to the church.

The assassin was acting in revenge for his mother’s donations to this church ruining their family. Shinzo Abe, the assassinated president, was a high profile member.

So the bill basically sets up a bunch of rules on how donations can be solicited and offers a right of refund if there’s anything dodgy about the way the money was donated, or if the victim was deemed to be “brainwashed” into it.

That’s not how GDPR works. You’re legally allowed to request your data and request that it is deleted by the entity that is collecting it and in both cases the company is obliged to act on it.

I Googled them because I was interested. The answer is yes.

Sony failed to sue them, hoping to force them to block copyright breach adjacent DNS resolvers. That feels like a badge of honour.

It’s also not generally a great idea to go all out attacking the people who cared to look at your post about your new community.

I enjoy that this rant started out like we should all know that you have a wing restaurant.

Don’t forget the curry. The bananas always must come with curry, but the cardamom goes in the pastries.

One of the worst creations ever.

Are you talking about the sadly deceased genius, or the globally popular creation of his?

It’s a slightly longer process to extract tea from a British émigré.

More people that partake in alcohol also drink water you know. Beer is just barley flavoured water!

I don’t think there’s that sort of age restriction, you can start any time!

I understand most of your point, you do you. But tastes rotten? Only my really bad batches of homebrew have truly tasted rotten. There are many delicious alcohols!

Get yourself one of them Elon chips.

I tend to put bread or crepes under mine.

How can you even pick up butter with Nutella on?

Cookies aren’t good? I feel like that’s a spicier take than Marvel movies.

Have you been eating them like apples?

I see a lot of covid misinformation going on around this story which is extremely worrying. Just because the human race not currently at risk of imminent extinction from it doesn’t mean it’s not still a serious illness. Some people get long term complications from it. Some people are extra vulnerable to it. Some people are still dying from it.

“Just get the vaccine” is the worst kind of uninformed handwaving response to the concerns and worries of other humans, it’s upsetting it is becoming the norm.

Yes. Well, some saying we shouldn’t tax billionaires more and others saying that the money is better off with one private individual setting up companies and charities, rather than leaving that to governmental entities.

To me, someone paying only ~25% tax when earning millions per year is obscene.

It’s interesting as a thought experiment because there’s no real world example of this. Which I guess is the gotcha OP was going for, but kinda fumbled.

Arguably hoarding the wealth for yourself (and even your immediate family), never mind how you accumulated it, is still not “good”. It’s indirectly oppressive to collect a bunch of money, while many suffer, and say “noone else is touching this, it’s mine”.

Very true.

I was just trying to draw attention to some of the comments that are defending them. You’d think from some in here that a little smidge of philanthropy in retirement makes it all okay that one person can hoarde enough personal wealth to feed millions.