Category: Money, Work & Consumer Issues
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Ghost Jobs Are Becoming a Legislative Target Across America
Anyone who has searched for work online knows the routine: find an opening, adjust the résumé, fill out an application, answer screening questions, and then wait. Sometimes the rejection eventually arrives. Sometimes nothing arrives at all. But there is an increasingly discussed third possibility: the employer may never have intended to hire anyone in the…
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Stellar Blade: Blood Rain and the Return of Payment Processor Censorship Fears
The controversy around Stellar Blade has never really gone away. From the first game’s character designs to the debates over outfits, fan service, and “censorship,” Shift Up’s action series has been caught in the middle of the larger culture war around gaming. Now, with Stellar Blade: Blood Rain announced, that fight appears to be starting…
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Crunchyroll’s Subscriber Boom Raises a Big Question: Why Did Profit Fall So Hard?
Crunchyroll is still growing, but its latest financial numbers suggest that growth may be getting expensive. According to reports based on Crunchyroll’s public financial filing in Japan’s Official Gazette, the company’s net profit for the fiscal year ending December 2025 fell to 453 million yen, down from 1.239 billion yen the previous year. That represents…
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Did News Get Released?
With the killing if a kady, my question is, has news been released elsewhere? Yes — beyond what you see highlighted in mainstream news outlets, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) publishes a large volume of official material that isn’t always picked up by major news organizations. These include press releases, legal filings, and data…
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At its core, cryptocurrency is money enforced by math and distributed agreement, not by a bank, company, or government. What happens “behind the currency” is a mix of cryptography, networking, and economic incentives. Below is the clean mental model. 1. The Ledger: A Blockchain (Shared History) Instead of a bank keeping one master spreadsheet, thousands…
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Doorman Fallacy
Are you familiar with the “Doorman” fallacy? If not, read the attached because the “Doorman” fallacy explains why you feel so many services and products SUUUUUUCK! Overview The “Doorman” fallacy is the mistake of defining a role only by its most visible, mechanical task—like “opening the door”—and then assuming that task can be automated or…
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Failure of Management
Management is a key part of any major corporate structure as they feed information and instructions down the line to people below to disperse to the people below them or do themselves. When done properly, the corporation keeps clients as service is delivered in a timely and effective way, but they also retain talent that…
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Branch Banking
Branch banking is a traditional banking model where a bank operates multiple physical locations (“branches”) to provide services to customers. Each branch is part of the same bank and shares the same charter, but serves its local area directly. Key features of branch banking Multiple locations: A single bank may have dozens, hundreds, or thousands…
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Fin/Dom Checklist
Here’s a Findom Safety & Awareness Checklist you can keep digitally or print for quick reference.It’s structured for both subs and dommes, with space to adapt to your own dynamic. 🧾 Findom Safety & Awareness Checklist 🛡️ 1. Identity & Privacy 💬 2. Communication & Consent 💳 3. Financial Protection 🚫 4. Red Flag Monitoring…
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Fin/Dom Red Flags
There are some red Flags in a Fin/Dom relationship that one should know. I do not like these situations but, one should know what to look for when in one though. 🛡️ 1. Foundational Safety Rules ✅ Set Boundaries Early — and in Writing 💳 Keep Financial Control in Your Hands 🕵️ Protect Your Identity…