Alabasata
4d ago
How broad would you consider 'gig economy' to be? Because as I understand it, gig economy means signing onto an app to become a service provider for some kind of on-site labor. It may be handyman, driving, tutoring - but it is built for "one man shows".
As far as I can tell, winning at the gig economy means securing enough contracted work to regularly delegate labor to someone else. Then (poof) you're a business. A business that's a bunch of gigs underneath a suit, but a business nonetheless. Is this business status still in the gig economy? Or has it transmogrified into something else?
Alabasata
6d ago
Well, since Oxford has standards for admittance, getting accepted there at all is a higher bar to clear than finishing somewhere like Higher Place Christian University. Buying letters does not an education make.
Alabasata
7d ago
Lying about graduating from Oxford? Well, at least it's not quite as bad as buying a degree from a Floridian faith-based diploma mill. Not great, but it could be worse.
Alabasata
18d ago
Considering that many anti-ICE folk I know work in healthcare, it is probable that the culture is actually informed by their profession - not their hobby.
Alabasata
25d ago
Only the DiC version from the 1990s, before introducing the Outer Senshi. It was my first introduction to the big-eyed anime style. I might have seen some Japanese-drawn cartoons before, but Westernized enough that I couldn't tell the difference.
Shout out to Team Four Star for finally making an abridged version of it. Big 2000s energy from the first two videos.
Alabasata
25d ago
Any self-respecting movement bent on expanding its membership is going to send its most attractive true believers out into the wild.
If you're a government bent on creating antibodies against recruitment, it helps to create characters that kinda match the profile of a recruiter: reasonably attractive wordcels. If anything, they toned down how attractive she could be. They could have even made her one of the good Pakis to double down on the "never ask a white supremacist the skin color of their significant other" stereotype.
Governments have had this problem before. For example, some anti-smoking ads kinda actually encourage smoking because of how off-the-mark they get. And TV has tried before to warn about cult recruitment.
I'd guess that in today's environment that enough people would have make waifus out of Sherri for the lulz. Especially if it's for a cause they actually agree with.
Two-way ticket? Yes, I'd treat it like a vacation. I'd have an itinerary & everything.
One-way ticket? Hard no. I think daily life would be different, but I don't think it would be better.
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