>>719133874
You can thank dropshipper faggots for this. They were basically importing a bunch of stuff to sell. They weren't collectors or enjoyers of Jap stuff, they just wanted to profit off of it. That's why the rules have changed, to stop people from worming their way out of paying duty fees on items they intended to sell and profit off of.

>>513652446
Everyone over invested in AI when it turns out the applications aren't that fantastic. So the "bubble" will either pop when everyone divests at the same time, financially ruining a ton of people, or gradually shrink as people slowly divest down to a reasonable level and it will just be a fad. AI isn't going anywhere. Its cool. It has its uses. But its not going to change the world as drastically as every "luminary" said it would

>>513240181
>guy is 76 years old, from New Jersey
>starts messaging with chatbot created by META that has Kendall Jenners appearance but is named Big Sis Billie
>eventually the chatbot tells him she wants to meet up
>gives him address in New York
>he goes to the address, brings suitcase with him like they're going to shack up together
>rushes through parking lot
>trips and falls right on his head
>they declare him braindead at hospital
>family decides to pull the plug
Apparently these "Dark Forces" are just picking off the retards

>>213382060
Its the 1000 year period before the movies start. They had a bunch of books, comics, I think a cartoon and that Acolyte show that were set in that era. Basically they did the same thing that Star Trek did with Discovery and pushed the focus to a different era so they could make up their own bullshit without tainting the canon of the movies that people actually like. And so they didn't push it so far back to taint and step on the toes of already existing Old Republic stuff already made and to be made in the future. Just a woke little bubble of shit wedged right there in the middle where they experiment with how far they could test the hardcore Star Wars audience and seem how much bullshit they would put up with. Now after 5 years its being brushed under the rug

>>212964544
>How'd he avoid prison?
A technicality. Basically a friend of the armorers father brought in a box of bullets to a police station. He said they MIGHT be part of the ammo the armorer had at their offices/workshop and that it MIGHT be related to the case. The workshop/offices were in a completely different state. So they had no chain of evidence for where these bullets might have come from. They might have come from the armorers, the guy might have taken them from his own supply or he might have just bought them. Either way it seemed to the detectives working the case that this guy was trying to muddy the waters to help the armorers daughter get off. So the detectives logged the bullets as evidence under a separate case number to investigate later. As the trial was progressing the defense found out about this mystery box of ammo and brought it to the judges attention. The judge had a shit fit suggesting that the prosecution was trying to hide evidence from the defense. The prosecution argued that there was no way to know where the bullets came from, and that the guy who brought them in was likely trying to tamper with the case. The judge was basically tired of how long the case was going on and decided to throw the entire thing out based on that one box of bullets that could have come from anywhere. He basically skated because of one guys interference

>>5922705
>not picking Smack My Bitch Up
tsk tsk