anime?

A style of animated TV show from Japan

What's a modern war fighter do without PreCure?

You may know it as Japanimation.

> GDPR is entirely unenforced,

The fact that in the UK/EU no reputable company is now sharing data without our explicit opt-in permission suggests you are talking bollocks.

As for disreputable companies.... don't do business with them!

> ensuring a world-class onsite experience

Bloody liar!

A 'world class' dump can only ever be achieved on the relaxing environs of ones own kazi. Never the workplace bogs.

OTOH, if said dump happens during working (paid) hours...

> In the UK, I just buy from Waterstones or local bookshops

In Blighty, if you can't buy locally, consider www.hive.co.uk

Hive allows you to donate a cut of the profits to a local independent bookshop of your choice, anywhere in the country.

No connection. Just a satisficed customer.

There are big differences between the historical notion of a courtesan and the underage women trafficked by Epstein. The main one being that courtesans played an established and visible (if unwritten) role in society.

> I've always assumed that committed conspiracy theorists are just trolls rolling with it

As a schoolkid, our physics teacher was a flat earther. He drove us kids mad arguing with him that the earth is spherical.

Canny bloke.

> Guess how they lean politically.

I don't know. Tell me.

FWIW, our own publicly funded media tends to get criticised equally from fruitcakes at both ends of the political spectrum, so they are clearly doing something right!

At least from observations in my country, our publicly funded media news is right wing, but get called out by right wingers as not being right wing enough and (falsely claimed to be centrist/left wing because they mention a right wing politician being a pervert).

After enough complaints they manage to move the overton window and the news is slightly more right wing. Repeat.

> Is the number of people high enough to make them right?

The term you are looking for is 'an argument to popularity'. It's one of many such logical fallacies.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Logical_fallacy

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck..... then we have to entertain the possibility we might be dealing with a duck.

You're American aren't you.

There is a reason I can tell. (Hint: It might be something to do with the prison system).