As an aging anime fan… I tend to agree with Miyazaki’s take that anime is made by weird people for weird people.

Sometimes being a bit of an outcast gives you perspective and you take that and make someone great.

Sometimes it turns you into an incel who creates characters that totally aren’t pedophile bait, no sir, they’re 2000 years old! They just so happen to have the body of an 8 yr old.

The conservative anti-woke scum of the Internet who love anime can’t tell the difference between the two. It’d be funny if it weren’t so sad.

Well, I think this is twice in the same thread where my intuition was considerably off base. Lesson learned, I suppose.

Just read that, and it says they’ve only issued 453 million numbers so far. Huh. I really thought it would’ve been a lot more than that.

We have 335 million people in this country literally right now. I don’t think “350 million born since 1933” makes sense. There gotta be a lot of churn just from early deaths alone.

Edit: number fixin

We have over 300 million people in the US right now. Social security started in the US in 1935 with just over 127 million people then.

Yeah, we probably have gone through 999 million options by now.

Well, I think we’d have to give some of the Eastern seaboard to the UK. But some goes to France, some to Spain. And tbh a lot could be reallocated back to American Indian groups and councils. Oh, and a bunch would go back to Mexico, too.

YouTube may be a mental illness, but it’s my preferred mental illness.